Living in the Age?

 When the religious and the leaders tell us Lies!

With God there is never anything new under the sun when it comes to human failures, times may pass for a long time, but it all just comes around again and again for another generation to deal with?

Today many Church leaders have lost their way, but not because of external pressure, but their own choice in leading millions astray in false ideas and doctrines, trying to justify one sin so they can cover up their own lack in what ever area that Satan has tempted them in!

We are up against it, so that is why we need the holy Bible to read and study and prayer to get our guidance without needing any intermediary?

Jeremiah 5:30-31,  2 Corinthians 11:13-15,  Colossians 2:8,  2 Timothy 4:3,  2 Peter 1-2.

The Easter Impact! Two.

 The rolling Stone?

The grave could not hold Jesus the Son of God and as He promised He would be raised on the third day from the grave, those who followed Him came to the garden and saw that mighty stone had been rolled away!

Matthew/Levi 28:2,  Mark 15:46, 16:4. Luke 24:2, John 20:1.

The question to be asked is do we too have a stone that covers our hearts, when it comes to God and Jesus? 

A stone that can only really be moved by God, if would but turn to Him and believe we would be a New person and He would give to us a New Heart and a New Life?

Ezekiel 11:19,  36:26.

New Revisionism & Holocaust Denial?

 Misplaced Understanding!

#blm have taken up an agenda in Europe that has nothing to do with fighting for the rights of black people who are murdered by the police?

They have misunderstood slavery can be paralleled with the Holocaust in what could be described as black anti-Semitism and they have forgotten that the Europeans saw blacks as a commodity, while the Nazi's saw the Jewish people as a threat and wanted their elimination!

Believers have to stay with the Holy Bible and its truths in relation to understanding that we are all sinners and fallen into divers ways of deceit and lies! If we claim to have faith and have not love for others, then we are in a dire situation that must be sorted out with God and put right or our Salvation may be lost?

Numbers 35:20-22,  Psalm 25:19,  109:5,  Proverbs 10:12,  Romans 8:6,  Galatians 5:20,  Ephesians  4:31,  Hebrews 3:1.

The Harvest Festival?

'A time to give thanks to the Lord!

Harvest time is traditional in the western Churches, because it gave a time to be thankful for the provision of God on the land even when it was not so good it was better than nothing?

But we may not fit in culturally to this set up, but still we can give thanks to God for His salvation and the great changes He has made for us in our New Lives!

There is always something to thank Jesus for in this New Life, daily miracles, children, blessings, deliverance, healing and the list could be endless?

Deuteronomy 8:10,   Psalm 44:8,   Jeremiah 33:11,   Mark 6:41,   Luke 2:28,   Romans 14:6, Colossians 4:2,   1 Timothy 4:4.

E-2.

Resurrection to New Life!

We cannot enter into our New Lives, without Jesus rising from the dead?

Jesus rose on the third day as He said He would, so that death would be conquered and the victory gained for us! 

Much work was done by our Lord between His death and rising, in gathering all the captives of the past and setting them free!

Jesus spent forty days here on Earth and was seen by over five-hundred people, apart from His Disciples.

Matthew 20:19,   Luke 13:32,   Acts 2:31,   Romans 6:5,  1 Corinthians 15:4,  16:2,   1 Peter 1:3.

Day two! Part-One.

Day One death, day three Resurrection!

These are generally the two emphasis points of the Easter story, but day two is the one that is over looked and yet it is essential to understand all three together, because without it many believers today are missing the points later on in the New Testament teaching?

Jesus birth, death and resurrection are key to understanding why He had to die, fulfilling the Jewish Laws for us as the final sacrifice for sin and His rising allows us to enter into the promises of Eternal Life, but we are now in the New Life!

Much of the work of Jesus was done in the grave of reconciling Jews and Gentiles of gathering the captives in His train and all the while the world was trying to undermine these events with lies to dispute the truth, which it continues to do to this day!

Isaiah 26:19,   60:1,   61:1,   Luke 4:18,   John 5:25,   12:46,   Ephesians 5:14,   Colossians 1:13.

Happy New Year 2019.

New life, Peace and Heaven?

The world seeks 'Good health, Peace, and Prosperity and at times does not care how they get it!

But we already have it, if we are Born-Again, we are reassured of our faith and salvation, we have the peace of Jesus in our hearts and we know that a home is waiting in Heaven for us!

The world on the other hand has no security, it has a elusive peace and an insecure future?

So what are you waiting for now that you know these truths, confess repent and seek Jesus as the Lord of your life!

Amos 5:4,  John 14:2-3,  27,  Romans 7:6,   Hebrews 9:28.

Our Choices? Two.

The way we want to be Seen?

Religion is the way we appear perhaps one or two days a week for certain people, otherwise we are blown to the wind in depravity and the world?

But faith in God, through both confession and repentance leads us to be Born-Again and enter into a new relationship and Life!

There is a big difference between keeping rules or none and faith in the death for us of Jesus and His rising from the dead on the third day!

It is up to us to choose, do we continue being hypocrites or will we be a people of faith?

Psalm 16:5,  John 3:3,  15-17,  31-36,  Romans 3:22-23, 6:22-23,  Philippians 1:29.

Political Sickness?

Anarchy!

The world is mad at the moment with its conceptions of what is politics, many are being seen for what they are and what they should not be?

Many nations are in political anarchy and they can no longer hide their lies or pull the wool over peoples eyes! Meanwhile those in opposition are no better, with confusion reigning and members  allowed to run wild with their ideas and prejudices?

Who to vote for and what will be the outcome, this is now becoming a harder question than it has been for some time, and one does not know the answer!

But faith in Jesus, is the answer to a New Life and a New way! Leaving behind the concerns of the world, and coming into new things!

Yes we have to live in the world, but the world will no longer live in us!

Matthew 5:14,  24:21,  Mark 10:30,  Luke 9:25,  John 1:9, 29,  1 Corinthians 3:19.

Summer Opportunities? One.

Prayer and Witness!

This is a great time of the year to share our faith with others and also to start something new in our prayer lives?

Good weather and holidays brings people out and there is almost unlimited opportunities for us to start a conversation, make new friends and listen to others problems, before we take not and go home to pray or share with our fellowships!

We will be rejected by some, but others will want someone to listen to their situation as someone listened to ours that lead us to faith in Jesus!

Psalm 145:2,  Proverbs 15:29,  Matthew 6:1-4, 6,  Romans 12:2, 12,   Philippians 1:19,   Hebrews 10:10.

EASTER! Three.

Arisen and Seen!

There are many Church going people who enjoy celebrating Easter, but they only go half way not believing in the resurrection? They think that to accept that Jesus died for their sins is enough, but they fail to see that they cannot be fully saved without the power unleashed by God in the resurrection of Our Lord?

We cannot enter into the promised New Life, without first recognising Jesus victory over the sting of death and the setting free of the captives! These are essential to having the full assurances of knowing that we have been called and chosen by God!

We need to understand today where we stand with God and know the essential truths of these serious matters in relation to our onw individual destinies?

Psalm 14:1,  53:1,  Matthew 13:25-40,  Acts 2:31,  4:2,  Romans 1:4,  14:17,  1 Peter 1:3,  2 Peter 1:10-11.

Meeting the Ancestors?

All Hallows/Halloween!

Nearly every culture around the globe has something similar at some point of the year, where there folklore has to deal with the living and the dead and some form of contact being made? This time of the year was dreaded in the belief of meeting the ancestors, especially if you were a murderer since all would be revealed?

Today the Christian festivals of All Hallows and Halloween have been hijacked by commercialism and the message of Jesus light over the powers of the devil lost in the fun and fireworks?

But Jesus did defeat Satan at the temptation in the wilderness and finally at the cross and Jesus resurrection from the dead for all of us who have been set free from darkness into our New Life relationships with Him!

Psalm 18:5,  Matthew/Levi 4:1, 10:28,  John 8:12,  9:5,  12:46,  2 Peter 2:4.

Life and Death?

Medicine does not have all the Cures?

It big news at this time about a little baby, who is being kept alive by a machine at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). But others believe there is the possibility of a cure in the U.S. that is worth following through?

We so much need hope today in this world, hope that life will be lived over that of death and murder! The youth are killing themselves over crap rivalry and listening to music that is neither cultural or inspiring!

We all need to have our faith in God, to believe in the impossible to know that we are cared for and loved by God who gave us His one and only Son! So that we would be set free from the darkness of this life into the hope of the New Life!

John 3:3,  15-16,  31-36,  Proverbs 8:30,  Philippians 2:9-11.

Sinning. Part-One.

Continuing to Sin.

There are many who claim a faith in God today, but they continue to live in the world, as the world. They show nothing of the New Life that they claim to have in Jesus death and resurrection for them?

God warns those who have believed and who then think that they can abuse their position with Him, will loose their salvation! The blood that Jesus spilt for us on the cross/tree/stake is very precious, it was to buy us back to God.

But if we abuse that relationship by living and continuing on in the sinful nature, we will be refused entry into His rest.

Hebrews 10:26, Numbers 15:28-31, Deuteronomy 17:12, Psalm 19:12-13, Matthew 12:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:13, 2 peter 2:20-22.

Rejoice. Part-One.

It helps Us!

We all need help at the best of times, and God wants us to be happy in all our circumstances and situations!

The world will always be attacking us for one reason or another, if we believe in God!

The many times they have a go at us, they also contradict themselves in their anger and frustration?

But we are now living in our New Lives and have so much to give thanks to God for.

1 Chronicles 16:32,  Psalm 40:16,  Philippians 2:17-18.

No tit for Tat!

We are not called to do Evil!

The world is full of anger about the loss of what it wants over that of letting go and sharing?

Believers in Jesus by faith in His death and resurrection have been set free from the powers of darkness!

We are no longer what we were and in this New Life, that begins the moment we believed we are not a people of doing tit for tat.

Psalm 38:20,  1 Thessalonians 5:15,  1 Peter 3:9.

Saints and Sinners. Part-Two.

What and who are the Saints?

Roman Catholicism has venerated those they believe have performed miracles, but the bible says that all purchased failures are the saints. Those who went before us in each fellowship are the saints, they look over us as the body of believers. Hebrews 12:1, 1 Peter 5:12.

God so loved the world, that he gave us His one and only son. God does not want people to perish, but for all to turn to Him. We are lost now in the darkness of failure, but we can come out of it into His Eternal light. John 3:19-21, 9:5, 2 Peter 3:9.

The choice is always with us?

Will you choose today to surrender to His will and be set free from the emptiness of filth, riches and the muck of this life to the promises of New things in His?  Joshua 24:15-18,

SLAVERY. Part-Two.

Servitude.

Who do you belong to, The Devil or Jesus?

If you belong to the Devil, you are part of this world that is lost and heading for decay.

If you belong to Jesus, you have been set free and are in New Life and entering Eternity.

John 8:32,  36,  1 Corinthians 7:21-23, Galatians 3:28,  Philemon 1:1-21.

New Year.

'Whats in store for You?'

Believers will be blessed, wither they deserve it or not! Because that is the way with God, he always wants to give us new things and lead us in the best ways and directions for our lives.

Perhaps this year you will give up your excuses and finally give in to following Him?

What ever you do, the history of the world will continue as it has, there will be great events and there will also be more disasters and wars, terrorism etc.

1 Kings 9:4,  Psalm 34:4-9,  101:2,  Joel 2;32,  Acts 7:50-60,  Romans 10:12-15.

Wicked. Part-Two.

A New Way.

Traditionally we associate wickedness with witchcraft and Voodoo or similar beliefs, but today we face new names in our plural world for the same evils.

Humanism, Rational explanations and secular thinking are these three new ways that turn our minds away from believing in God.

They set the agenda for equality that includes sexuality which opposes Gods will, doubts at to did God really say that and that science has the answers to explain way all the awesome events and miracles in the bible!

Genesis 3:1-3,  Psalm 73:11-13,  Hosea 7:2-3,  John 3:15-18,  Romans 3:23,  6;23,   Ephesians 2:1-4.