Ascension and Pentecostal pouring Out!

 Jesus departed with the promised return and the Holy Spirit continues to be given to Believers!

God does not change but we do or one hopes we do as believers grow?

Bad people become good, some get saved and good believers can lose it because of mental health and do bad things, stress, pain, suffering, anger can all lead to that type of fall others to sex, money, narcotics or the ego of power and their destruction with victims!

Many Christian's refuse to believe that those saved can be lost, but the Holy Bible tells us so and that hose who live in sin will not inherit eternity! We may think we can play games with God, sin one day and seek His forgiveness the next  thinking we are okay, but we are only fooling ourselves in our silly ideas?

To be a believer is a tough road and the older you get the harder it is, some people hide their pain with smiles and praise, they refuse to admit their situation's, even to Jesus !

Hebrews 10:26, Leviticus 4:2, Deuteronomy 17:12, Psalm 19:12-13, John 9:41, 1 Timothy 1:13, James 4:17.

Ascension and Pentecost!

Leaving, Holy Spirit and promised Return.

The Disciples were privileged to see Jesus their risen Lord return to Heaven, ten days later they received the Holy Spirit in the Temple of Jerusalem, Roman occupied Israel!

This time the Holy Spirit was given to all believers and there were many more from all over the known world that day of Shavout, Jews from the very east, south and west.

Today believers live in that same empowerment to reach out to the dying, decaying world around us! But we are also waiting the return of Jesus, who every eye will see when the sky is torn apart!

We have no time or date for His promised return, but we have been told not to be found naked and be alert for He will come like a thief in the Night!

Acts 1:6-11,  2:3,  19:6,  Exodus 23:16,  Matthew 25:36-44.   2 Peter 3:10,  Revelation 3:3, 16:5.

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.

Resurrection.

Jesus said...

'He would rise from the grave on the third day' and he did, thus death or the sting of death has been overcome for us who believe in Him.

Matthew 17:23,  Mark 10:34,  Luke 18:33,  Acts 10:40,  1 Corinthians 15:4.

Over five-hundred people saw the risen Lord during His forty days on Earth, before He made His Acension to Heaven.

Acts 1:3.

Many people think that is the end of the story, but it is only the beginning of a bigger story by far.

Matthew 24:18, Luke 17:31, James 5:7-8.

Ascension.

Going Home.

For some Christians Easter is the end of the bible story, Jesus rose from the dead and the victory was achieved.

But the resurrection, was only the beginning for believers in Jesus by faith.

Jesus spent forty days on the earth and was seen by over 500 people, then He ascended back to Heaven with the promise that he would return for His own.

Many nations today who claim that they do not believe in God fear this statement.

DO YOU?   

Acts 1:1-11.