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. 

The Christmas Story!

'More to it than meets the Eye?

After the wise men departed, an angel told Mary and Joseph to flee to Egypt with the Child, meanwhile King Herod felt that he was tricked by the Magi and ordered the genocide of all children from babes to two years old!

We don't here much about these historical facts today and people are quick anyway to even forget Holocaust in our current history?

Jesus birth coincides with the Roman census a governmental way of gathering essential data on the  population, something that has been continued to this day!

The who story of Christmas in these few New Testament Gospels covers a three year period and this would occur again, when the ministry of Jesus would happen up to that of the cross and His resurrection from the dead!

We hope that you will have a happy and peaceful Christmas season and not limit oneself to one tradition? For others this may be a time to seek God and find His forgiveness of Sins in and through Jesus?

Amos 5:4,   Matthew/Levi 2:12-15,   16-18,   19-23,    John 3:3-7,   15-16,    Acts 4:12,    Romans 3:21-31.

Persecution!

The cost of being a Christian?

We tend to think of Stephen the first martyr of the Church which is mentioned in Acts 6:8-7:60, but we forget that the baby Jesus with His Earthly parents to had to take off in the middle of the night!

An Angels warned the wise men to return another way, while also telling Joseph to go down to Egypt until Herod's term was ended!

So we can see many pictures about human life from the Christmas story and that we will be persecuted and attacked for our simple faith in the death, resurrection and return of Jesus our Lord and Saviour!

Matthew/Levi 2:11-15,   Hosea 11:1. 

Leaving and Returning!

Some (believers) Forget?

Even people of faith can allow themselves to get caught up in tradition of holidays like Christmas and Easter and forget that their faith in God has much more to offer?

Jesus Ascended back to Heaven and Angels said, 'He would return again in the same way!'

Jesus is coming back to collect the Ekklesia, Bride of Christ or family of God at the end of the Age!

We must be ready for that great and terrible day, when the sky as we understand it will be opened to reveal the mighty armies of Heaven descend to Earth?

Acts 1:2-11, John 14:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:10, Revelation 1:7.

Christmas Miracles. Two.

Chosen.

Many Christians can get upset when we start to talk about the chosen, but here in this account of an element of the Christmas story we have such an event apart from Mary the virgin!

Shepherds out in the fields were startled by the host of angels who visited them, perhaps one could say they where terrified? 

Many people today who claim to see lights in the sky or what they think are UFOs are afraid?

Abraham, Jacob and King David were all shepherds and even Jesus later said My sheep know My voice.

Luke 2:8-20, 10-15,  Genesis 4:2, 30:33,  1 Samuel 16:11, 19,  Isaiah 53:6-7,  John 10:4.

Jesus Return. Part-Two.

Clouds of Glory.

Many of us have heard this through media, films and books, without ever knowing the bible or having any contact with Christians?

But this is an abiding truth that Jesus will return first to gather His followers in the sky and then with His army of Angels to defend Israel His chosen people.

Every eye will see Jesus in the end and there are many events in relation to His return written in the book of Revelation.

Daniel 7:13-14. Matthew 13:26, 23:39, 26:64, Luke 13:36, 22:68.