Resurrection...

 Not Reincarnation!

Jesus died and rose from the grave with the same body, yet for the 19th Century many evangelical clergymen accepted a Hindu concept that implied that the risen Jesus was a copy and not the one who died?

This still exists today in the many false concepts about the resurrection and  many cannot accept this historical fact, beyond that of the atonement?

If Jesus did not rise from the dead none of us can be saved, since the Holy Bible is very clear that He did!

John 4:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:12-13, Philippians 3:10-11, Revelation 20:5-6.

Day Two! Part-Two.

Burial Preparations!

It was the traditional custom to prepare spices to keep the flies off the dead body and this was a legal requirement. Much of this hearkened back to the time when the Hebrews were living in Egypt and was an art in itself?

The woman were His mother and Mary Magdalene the whore who was delivered of evil spirits and some other woman, but next morning when they got yo the tomb it was empty!

Meanwhile the religious leaders of the day plotted to undermine His Disciples and followers that there was a resurrection!

In today's world there are many who are trying their hardest to discount the truth about Jesus, but we must make that choice for ourselves, wither we believe that He died for us or that we reject Him and face the consequences of Eternal separation from Him in Hell?

Luke 23:56,   24:1,   Exodus 30:25-37,   1 Chronicles 9:30,    2 Chronicles 16:14,   Mark 16:9,   John 20:14-18.

Fatty Issues. One.

Later in life Illnesses?

Weight is a serious problem in the western world today, but it nothing new accept now it is more widespread than before and more children are obese?

Everyone is talking or reporting, but no one is dealing with all the social issues that cause these problems! Work hours, depression, addictions, social disruption, greed, and laziness are some of the problems that are causing the further breakdown of the family unity?

The other factor is that we are bombarded with media advertising on both TV and radio, if not the mobile phone and the Internet?

The bible talks about fat people too and it also encourages one to exercise both physically and mentally!

Psalm 36:8,  Judges 3:22, Proverbs 13:4, 1 Timothy 4:8.

Easter. Part-Three.

Risen from the Dead!

Jesus said that he would die and rise from the dead on the third day, and he did! He was seen by well over five-hundred people between His resurrection and His Ascension back to Heaven, over a forty-day period.

Doubting Thomas is one proof, the broiled fish is another that he returned to us in the same body and was neither a ghost of some lofty Spirit! Jesus was the same flesh and blood as He always was, both fully the perfect, sinless man and God!

Now we come to the facts of faith-trust in relation to the resurrection of Jesus, because some cannot believe this to be a truth? Without understanding this key area of our salvation, we will not be delivered from the darkness of sin! In it we died with Him and rose with Him into the Eternal New Life!

John 11:25, 1 Corinthians 15:4, 12-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 1 Peter 1:3, 8.

Sinning. Part-Two.

Lead us not into Temptation.

Jesus said, 'That it was not what we eat makes us dirty, but what is conceived in the human heart!'

Satan/The Devil knows all about us, since it was He who deceived our mutual grandmother Eve in the Garden of Eden so long ago! He knows that sin binds us to wants, food, pleasure, lust, power, money, all the weaknesses of the human nature.

Jesus was no exception to being attacked by His arch enemy Satan, when He was tempted out in the desert! But Jesus leaves us this example and knowledge along with that bases of prayers to build upon, that we can stand up to His evil devices and his various agents who seek if we are believers to lead us astray?

Genesis 3:1-5, Matthew 4:1-18, 6:13, Mark 7:15-20, Luke 11:4, 2 Corinthians 11:14, James 5:7, 17.

Peer Pressure. Part-One.

Hey Join Us!

When you are young you hear it all the time from mates, 'lets do this, lets try that?

When we are changing in our bodies from teenagers to adults there are a variety of new things to be tried and we will get pressured by others to join in.

But we don't have to join in anything that we do not want to do, wither there is pressure or none.

God has given to all of us choice, we wear what we want, go here and there and so we have the choice to say Yes or No.

Genesis 43:11,  Proverbs 8:10,  10:20,  Acts 15:7.