Cannot grow without It?
The Christian faith is the only religion that increases by persecution and we see this from the first one that occurred in Jerusalem, after Pentecost. It may have been a terrible time, but from it the Church spread to Damascus in Syria and to Antioch in what is now south-east modern Turkey!
During the work of the Apostle Paul new Churches were established in Asia, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Rome and both Macedonia and Spain. Within fifty years there were Christians in Iran, N-Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India.
It is terrible today to see Chinese believers being attacked by the state, others driven from their home in the Muslim world and restrictions still placed on them throughout Roman Catholicism, apart from our own new secular humanistic societies were sin is justified as equality and human idealism?
Matthew/Levi 5:10-12, Acts 6:7, 8:1-3, 22:4, 26:11, Galatians 1:13, Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4.
Showing posts with label Paul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul. Show all posts
Monday, 6 May 2019
Monday, 12 March 2018
Disibility? Part-One.
Is not a Limitation!
Many people today forget that to be disabled is not a loss that it once was to an individual? We are seeing this with the Para-olympics and in many other sports fields, but there are as many people working daily across the professions that are disabled in some way but they are not limited to what can be achieved?
The Bible tells us about many conditions that people were able to live with, such as lameness in the case of Mephibosheth and the leprosy of Job.
In the New Testament even Paul had a nagging problem!
But there are other disabilities that have to be addressed in relation to mental illness and their was Saul and Herod, who due to their power led to thousands being killed! So their is a time and place for disability and not all people can work or should because they could be a danger to others?
2 Samuel 4:4, 9:6-7, Job 2:7-9, 2 Corinthians 12:7.
Many people today forget that to be disabled is not a loss that it once was to an individual? We are seeing this with the Para-olympics and in many other sports fields, but there are as many people working daily across the professions that are disabled in some way but they are not limited to what can be achieved?
The Bible tells us about many conditions that people were able to live with, such as lameness in the case of Mephibosheth and the leprosy of Job.
In the New Testament even Paul had a nagging problem!
But there are other disabilities that have to be addressed in relation to mental illness and their was Saul and Herod, who due to their power led to thousands being killed! So their is a time and place for disability and not all people can work or should because they could be a danger to others?
2 Samuel 4:4, 9:6-7, Job 2:7-9, 2 Corinthians 12:7.
Monday, 9 October 2017
False Believers. One.
Wolves in sheep's Clothing?
The Apostle Paul tells us than in his travels he met many false believers and we to will also meet them! We see many false Christians in the media, in government, even in Christian programming and we need to be vigilant!
Because these are the people who will deliberately lead us astray into other teaching that sound justified, but if they do not match up to what God and Jesus His son has to say we would be wise to avoid them?
The Bible warns us about wolves and peoples in the last days disobedient to God and wanting to fulfil all their desires! It is hard to be a follower of Jesus, we have the victory despite sometimes it can be very hard!
Matthew 7:15, 24:11, Acts 20:29, 2 Corinthians 11:13, 26, Galatians 2:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Timothy 1:3.
The Apostle Paul tells us than in his travels he met many false believers and we to will also meet them! We see many false Christians in the media, in government, even in Christian programming and we need to be vigilant!
Because these are the people who will deliberately lead us astray into other teaching that sound justified, but if they do not match up to what God and Jesus His son has to say we would be wise to avoid them?
The Bible warns us about wolves and peoples in the last days disobedient to God and wanting to fulfil all their desires! It is hard to be a follower of Jesus, we have the victory despite sometimes it can be very hard!
Matthew 7:15, 24:11, Acts 20:29, 2 Corinthians 11:13, 26, Galatians 2:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Timothy 1:3.
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