Being a Believer!

 And not a fake religious Hypocrite?

Our fellowships are full of long time goers, who are not saved coming out eventually with statements that prove who they really are and the damage that they have caused over the years to many others, if not the younger generations that we wonder why they will or never have come to faith!

God tells us in his word that even the angels who broke cover were cast into Hell and all those who practice evil out of pride and other sensuality face the same fate, unless they repent.

We are told in the New Testament to speak and keep the truth, since we cannot deny what God has done in us and we are to avoid bad company, since they with the power of Satan drag us backwards?

1 Corinthians 10:13, 15:33, 2 Peter 2:4-10, Revelation 3:10, 3:20. 

Take the money and Run!

 Little hope for black people in America?

Trump is back or maybe its only him who thins so, and we have a dotty old man running the States in the hope of restoring without dealing the real issues out of fear of something that is now well beyond its sell date?

Most of us would probably take what we can and go with it, but if we do without investment it will run out, while reality will not change since both Joe and Donald are weak men to corruption to sin, to lies, to cover-ups and much more, believing that money can buy their way out!

Why is the nation only left with this choices and that there is no one suitable who might be a bit younger and wiser to deal with the ever new crises that Joe is causing before his departure?

Exodus 23:1, 23, Psalm 24:4, 119:104, Proverbs 6:19, Matthew 7:15, John 3:3, 14-21, Romans 6:23.

Buffalo and Texas!

 It's happening again and again and it will continue?

That might be hard to swallow, but it is a truth that we human beings never seem to learn, despite hundreds of years of slavery, the scientific age that down graded people by their races and then Pogrom's and the Holocaust and much since, we are the same caught in inherited sin!

Laws would help, but we have seen in the united States a great weakness today more so that the 1960's to deal with rights, lies is now acceptable and their is no bar to any morality or Biblical truth that many profess to be, when they are not?

God sees and desires us who have faith in Jesus to share Him daily, because He is the only way to get out of this mess and be free! This not the freedom of secular humanism that has shipwrecked the Church and the Christian community, it is one of our hearts and minds!

 Acts 22:28, John 8:36, Romans 5:16, 6:18, 8:2, 1 Corinthians 7:21-22, Galatians 3:28, 4:21, Ephesians 6:8, 1 Peter 2:16, Revelation 13:16.

The Love of God!

 Compassion?

We do not see much compassion with even the best of people at the worst of times and yet we are told in the New Testament of the Holy Bible that Jesus showed compassion to people!

The word is defined as having pity rather than showing love, Jesus had pity on the crowds who followed Him, because they were Spiritually dull and yet they wanted many things a leader to free them from the Roman occupation and a healer!

Today many people are searching for answers to the problems of life, but at the same time they do not want God? Because they have been told God is about rules and religion is rubbish and we can solve all our problems if we can find the answers ourselves?

Matthew/Levi 9:36,  14:14,  15:32,  20:34,  Mark 9:22,  Luke 10:33,  Romans 9:15,  Colossians 3:12, 1 John 3:17.

Understanding African History? One.

Islam and Arabic Slavery!

Very few black people outside of North-Africa know that before white European slavery began, there was nearly one thousand years of Islamic slavery in the Sahel region and some of it continues to this day through the Tuareg desert tribes and the newly established Islamic State militants in Mali, southern-Algeria and Libya, apart from N-Nigeria, Chad and Burkina Faso.

The Prophet Mohammed said that before he was enlightened and afterwards he kept a few slaves to serve him and that Muslim could continue in the will of Allah (God) doing so!

From the 65th Century to the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th Century, the Berber tribes of Morocco were the main players in slavery and many African tribal leaders got rid of enemies and problematic people in this way! But by the time of the Europeans arriving and that of the English, the Berbers were being overwhelmed by the numbers being provides so another new outlet became available?

This is not to undermine the horrors of European slavery, but just to let people know that black people are not innocent of these customs and crimes and the wealth of the Islamic world too was built on forced labor!

1 Corinthians 7:21-22,  9:19,  12:13. 

George Floyd!

God does not discriminate on Colour! John 3:16.

America and the world is exploding with protest and riots, people have had enough of white supremacy in the land of half the free?

After four hundred years of European and Confederate slavery, emancipation lead to one hundred and fifty years of being held back and even 1968 with the changes has still not brought any form of equality for Black American!

God sees all of this and those in power will face His wrath, as America is crumbling in the hands of that mad man? He claims he has helped Israel, but that too is coming at a cost and that of accusing them of disloyalty, which is not really nice for some one who claims to be a Christian!

White America has to face its own racists truths and stop using Russia, reds under the bed and many others things to excuse these essential truths?

Psalm 82:2,  109:5,  Proverbs 26:26,  John 7:24,  8:15,  Romans 8:37,   Hebrews 12:3,   James 4:11.

The people of Faith?

We Believers!

The New Testament paints a different picture of Gods faithful believers and its not the same as many in the Church today portray, for one reason or another?

Many Church going people resemble the world that we have to live in, they do the same things as the world and act in the same way, except on a Sunday they wear a suit and hold a Bible!

Hebrews chapter eleven is about what faith is and the types of people in the past who kept it, as well as those who are today walking by it, instead of sight and all the securities of this world?

Faith does not mean lack of wealth or being poor, but it means living with God and in a personal relationship with Jesus and following, even when it will cost us!

Acts 7:24,   Romans 5:5,   1 Timothy 4:1-5,   Hebrews 11:1-3,   32-40,   Revelation 21:8.

Conduct?

People always Watching!

We can forget when we are believers that the world is watching us, sometimes they do want to catch us out, but other times they envy secretly in their hearts the freedom that we have!

It is something that is hard to fathom and it is perhaps better to leave that with God! 

But meanwhile our conduct does matter, we can be silly and humorous but it must be clean, our attitude should be different from that of the world?

We should always be honest and do what is good and right and not be involved in past interests or idea of cheating others, but rather be looking out for them! They may not do that for us, but that does not matter, God will in His time deal with them as He too will with us!

Proverbs 14:2,   Ezekiel 23:49,  Romans 13:3,  1 Thessalonians 2:10,  James 3:13,  1 Peter 3:1, 16,   2 Perter 2:7.

Value of People. Part-Two.

From Las Vegas to Baghdad?

There is a big difference here between the value of people, because in Vegas they are worth more that in Iraq? This is a fact of the way humanity classifies the races and nations in this world, from the advanced western to the simplest in Africa and other natives!

But God sees all of humanity as fallen and sinful, that is why He gave us His one and only son Jesus to die for our failures!

Today we see that the U.S. President is not a racist in relation to the NFL, while he thinks the Hispanics are lazy losers? He is hoping soon to Nuke N-Korea and this Las Vegas situation is going to be political ammunition for him to become more popular at the cost of black people in the United States!

At the end of the day he too, will have to give an account to God wither he believes in Him or not!

Exodus 17:14,  Matthew 12:36,  Luke 12:7,  24,  Romans 14:12.

Irma and 9/11.

Today is the 16th Anniversary of 9/11!

Meanwhile as one disaster is remembered another is ending hopefully with the monster storm Hurricane Irma, which has killed well over 50 people so far across the Caribbean and Florida?

Irma has been bad, but it has ben nothing like this eventful day in New York 16-years ago, which left over three thousand people dead, when two commercial airlines where hijacked and crashed into the twin towers!

Many people will ask why, why do these things happen? Some are the results of bad foreign policy and broken promises, while other could be blamed on the continued ignorance of burning fossil fuels that are messing up our weather?

These things are bad, but what is even worse is not knowing God and Jesus of Christmas came to set all free from the darkness!

Deuteronomy 29:22,  31:17,  Proverbs 3:25,  Jeremiah 16:10,  Luke 13:4.

500+

Witness of the Resurrection!

People are canny today when it comes to being a witness, they either know how the play the system that requires numbers or they like the police make up false statements to twist things to suit themselves?

But over five hundred people say Jesus risen from the grave over a period of forty days, and Jesus said to sceptical Thomas what you see, many will believe without ever seeing!

So the ball is now in our court and we have heard it all before, OMG I don't believe?

Isaiah 53:9-12,  Mark 16:12-13,  Luke 24:13,  John 20:24-26,  1 Corinthians 15:6.

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.

Don't give up on Me?

God Cares for us!

Being a believer in the death and resurrection of Jesus by faith does not mean that we are exempt from sin, in fact we are now more likely to be attacked by the enemy than ever before.

When were in the world we were blind to our failure and if Satan muucked us up, we just thought it was bad luck?

Despite falling, after being forgiven of our past God wipes away that sin never to look at it again!

He is not like humanity, who will draw up again and again our mistakes even after a really long time?

Psalm 95:6,  100:3, 138:8,  Matthew 12:36-37, 1 Corinthians 14:15, Ephesians 5:19.

Reconciliation....

Our way back to God.

God accepts nothing without the shedding of blood, which makes it Holy.

In times past everything that was offered had to be covered by the blood of animals.

The problem was that it did not put and end to sin and had to be offered time and again.

Jesus, Gods own son was the perfect answer, all who confess Him have been covered in His blood of reconciliation back to the Father.

God always provided a way for people in need to seek Him, But now we have Jesus the perfect sacrifice to turn too.

Isaiah 45:19,  John 3:15-21,  1 Timothy 2:5-6,  Hebrews 9:13-15,  22-28.

'Second Class. Part-One.

Criminal Records.

Wither you have one, or are just know for getting in trouble with the police, it kind of sticks to you like a bad smell. Later on in life, despite so many laws that are supposed to protect us, that past drags on behind us and many people who know it keep us down.

Being second class in this world and trying to keep to the straight and narrow is harder than being a criminal. But faith in Jesus is harder, because you show up the hypocrisy in the so called 'Good Living peoples.

Matthew 23:13-29,  Luke 6:24-26.

Love. Part-Two.

Care and Concern.

Do you care about your family, mum, dad, grandparents, brothers, sisters, relatives? 

It is so easy to love your own and it is so easy to say, 'I love you!

What God really wants us to do is to show real care and concern for others, do the washing up, sweep the yard, take some old person to the store and if they over run on the cost you pay that extra. 

Now that is showing real love, just like Jesus showed us His love by going to the cross.

Genesis 4:9,  Psalm 27:10,  Proverbs 1:32,   Matthew 25:36,   Acts 20:32.

Ufology. Part-Two.

Military Secrets.

The military are always trying to improve technology, weapons have always been big business. 

There has to be secret trials of aircraft, missiles, ships and vehicles to see how they work under different conditions.

Many people say they have seen strange lights in the sky or out at sea, there are reports of night movements on land and in remote places. 

These are the likely places to do any safe testing, but urban environments could be used to test drones and other security equiptment?

Exodus 7:11,  Job 4:12,  Psalm 78:4,  John 19:38,   Revelation 10:7.

'Think Your Big?

Unwise People.

There are lots of people who think they are big, important, scary. 

They have the cars, the money the woman and men.

But God lets them know in His many ways if they come up to Him they ain't going any futher.

Our God does not allow the evil people to continue day after day, they have their times and that is it.

Proverbs 21:30,  Isaiah 22:7,  37:34.

Proof. Part-Two.

500.

They normally don;t tell you that over five hundred people witnesed the resurrection of Jesus.

Many people like to think it was only the elite few, His Disciples and maybe a few friends.

Matthew 28:16-20,  John 21:1-3,  Acts 1:3-8, 
1 Corinthians 15:6-7,  Hebrews 13:20.

May Day.

A Day for....

The workers, traditional European May festivals, the call from a sinking ship. All of these are associated with this one day.

Socialism and Communism mark it as a day for the workers and most workers in this world are poor people, doing all the menial or dirty jobs. From the toilet cleaner/Janitor to factory worker, construction, steel industry, farming.

Others mark May Day in its European traditional of dancing around the May pole, with ribbons and flowers.

For others it is the distress call of the sinking ship, perhaps their first opportunity to cry out to the God they don't believe in ' Save Me.'

Amos 5:4, John 3:16, Hebrews 9:27, Romans 3:23, 6:23, !0:9, Psalm 111:19, Acts 4;2, Proverbs 9:10, Philippians 2:10.