Not limited to white Europeans?
Many dark skinned people believe this traditional view of European slavery and they either do not know or have forgotten that Islam and the Arab world exploited Northern-Africa from the Islamic conquest in AD600 to the present day, Northern Nigeria and Libya!
The fact that is during Biblical times it was common amongst all peoples and races to have slaves or sometimes referred to as servants, that being more our role in our relationship with Jesus, if we are born-again of the Holy Spirit?
White slavery between 1618 and 1890 was encourage initially by fellow tribes wanting rid of enemies, many ship captains did resist the idea, but under pressure and as always with the human psyche were a quick profit can be made it will be made!
It was the plantations of sugar in the Caribbean and of Cotton in the southern-states of the U.S that drove the market and helped many Christian mill owners to be kind to their European workers in limited cases of guilt?
Deuteronomy 24:7, Psalm 105:17, Proverbs 29:19, Mark 7:20-22, 1 Corinthians 9:19, Revelation 18:13, 19:18.
Showing posts with label relationship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relationship. Show all posts
Monday, 29 June 2020
Monday, 25 February 2019
Real Friendship?
Relationship with Jesus!
We may think that we have many friends or perhaps we know them as associates, but are they really our close mates or buddies or are they out to get something from us?
The old Hymn opens with these words, 'What a friend we have in Jesus!
This is true, He really is the best and only friend that we can really have, if we seek, confess our failure and turn from it into being born-again as a new creation?
Now we will have that friendship, knowing that Jesus will intercede on our behalf to the Father! He will hear our prayers and guide us through the daily reading of His words in the Holy Bible!
Matthew 7:7-8, John 14:27, Revelation 3:19-20.
We may think that we have many friends or perhaps we know them as associates, but are they really our close mates or buddies or are they out to get something from us?
The old Hymn opens with these words, 'What a friend we have in Jesus!
This is true, He really is the best and only friend that we can really have, if we seek, confess our failure and turn from it into being born-again as a new creation?
Now we will have that friendship, knowing that Jesus will intercede on our behalf to the Father! He will hear our prayers and guide us through the daily reading of His words in the Holy Bible!
Matthew 7:7-8, John 14:27, Revelation 3:19-20.
Monday, 1 October 2018
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.
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.
Monday, 30 October 2017
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.
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.
Monday, 10 July 2017
Prayer?
Many Kinds!
God is not limited to hearing us cry out to Him, to give thanks, to praise Him! Humanity likes to jeer God and make Him small and far away, to undermine the people of faith as nutters, weaklings losers?
Prayer does help in our times of need, wither we are praying for our own situation or that of another!
Born-again believers know already that our relationship with God, through Jesus His one and only Son allows us to see the miracles, the impossible at work all the times and everyday!
Our God is near and not limited, He answers in His time and He gives what is needed to meet each situation!
God is not limited to hearing us cry out to Him, to give thanks, to praise Him! Humanity likes to jeer God and make Him small and far away, to undermine the people of faith as nutters, weaklings losers?
Prayer does help in our times of need, wither we are praying for our own situation or that of another!
Born-again believers know already that our relationship with God, through Jesus His one and only Son allows us to see the miracles, the impossible at work all the times and everyday!
Our God is near and not limited, He answers in His time and He gives what is needed to meet each situation!
Genesis 13:8, 19:7-8, Exodus 10:17, Job 42:8, Psalm 5:2, Matthew 6:9, Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 13:7, 2 Thessalonians 3:2, Hebrews 13:8, 3 John 1:2.
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