The value of Preaching? One.

Has the Gospel any real value Today!

What a strange statement to make, but is it not true when every command in relation to sexual sin, except that of abusing children is ignored by most people who claim a faith in God?

But we have a faith in Jesus that is based on being born-again of the power of the Holy Spirit and we know God as our Father more personal than an idea of Him or an entity!

The message of the Gospel is as relevant today as it was nineteen-hundred years ago, because without it people will be lost to the eternal separation from the light of God and burn in the fires of hell!

We wonder what is wrong with our society, why narcotics, why knife and gun crime, but what we fail to recognise is if we deliberately excuse one sin then all of them can be excused by the world who have no knowledge of the truth?

Revelation 14:6,   Mark 9:44-49,   Romans 6: 7-9,   11-12,   Ephesians 3:9-11,   Colossians 1:23.

Amnesia in Ekklesia? Part-One.

Amnesia 

In the 1950’s western Christianity in the U.S and in the U.K. was described by many as sleep walking into religious observance over that of real faith, but it cannot be said for every believer?

World War-II (1939-45), left the allied nations with a great loss of its youth generation, as much as the previous world war-I (1914-18), but Spiritually the Church recovered only to be knocked once more!

Today we have the lines blurred between some denominations, with the rise of the Islamic Jihadi’s there is a desire to unify on many levels post ecumenism and no longer see any doctrinal barriers?

Yet those barriers do remain unchecked and so some believers are pick and mixing into their own form of faith that is no longer based on the reformation, while on the other hand there are increases of groups that have some strange mixed ideas that are not found in the Holy Bible and they are leading many astray!

1 Timothy 1:3,   10,   6:3,   Isaiah 9:15,    29:13,    1 John 2:27. 

The Resurrection of Jesus!

Sometimes not fully Understood?

We like to think that all believers understand the fulness of the Easter message as we who have to teach and share it? But many just go along with it as part of the ‘Churchy experience,’ but they do not really believe that it was possible!

It is strange but it is easier to believe that someone, Jesus would die for us to make that final atonement for sin taking our failure on Himself, but at the same time refusing to understand the fulness of what the resurrection means in relation to conquering death and allowing us to enter into the New Life?

More emphasis on this is needed today, so that believers will once more be effective in sharing their faith and not afraid of losing it if attacked by the world? Being active remains an essential of being Born-Again, slackness is the work of the enemy to make the Gospel of Jesus ineffective and our witness non-existent?

Zephaniah 3:8,   Acts 2:31,   Romans 6:5,   Philippians 3:10,   Hebrews 6:2,   1 Peter 1:3.

Transgender Issues?

Testosterone!

What makes men and woman different is now the challenge that woman have to face with men who think or feel feminine and want to share the toilet, and also the sports field despite having more energy than females?

We are living in disturbing times, wither we call it apostate or something other it is not good for believers to accept sin and excuse it as something other?

In times past the Church and its institutions did cover up serious financial fraud and use other methods to hide its dishonesty!

But now we are living in an age were many people are vulnerable to sexual assault and rape and latest police figures suggest that much crime is either not being recorded or reported!

If we claim a faith in Jesus then we only have the Bible to live by and the conditions set by God, He who will have the last word at the end to the accountability for sin and our failures! We cannot excuse ourselves as many do today, believing that ‘Once they are saved they can live as they wish?

Romans 1:18-28,   Psalm 81:12,   Hosea 4:18,   Ephesians 4:18,   2 Thessalonians 2:10-12,   Revelation 22:14-15.

DAY TWO!

The EASTER Story.

Much has been written about the events of Easter, the death of Jesus on the cross/stake/tree are the essentials of the power of our redemption and forgiveness of failures to the promise of the New Life or being Born-Again!

We also know of the much in connection to the resurrection of Jesus from the grave and again the fulness of the promise of Eternal Salvation, but the hours between these two tremendous events are hardly ever covered in detail?

We get but a glimpse of the burial of Jesus, the torn curtain in the Temple in Jerusalem and the lies that were put in place to dishonour these events! When Easter is over Pentecost is the next episode of the Christian Church, missing out the Ascension of Jesus!

Matthew 27:33-66,    Mark 15:47- 16:1,    Luke 23:55-56.

The Book of Revelation! Two.

Israel and the 144.000?

This is proof that God has not given up on the Jewish people or the restoration of them in the land that He gave them!

Anti-Semitism and anti-Israel are rife today in the European Christian scene, because the roots of the Nazi-German Holocaust lives on disguised as pro-Palestinian issues?

We are in great danger of loosing our salvation, when we allow the world to interfere with our faith in God and our claimed walk with Jesus? Some believers claim they are able to balance this out, but this is not true! One cannot be lukewarm with God, we are either with Him or not!

The Kingdom of Israel will be established and filled with the 144,000 chosen of God, this one thousand year reign on the Earth will be followed by the end!

Matthew 25:34,   26:29,   John 3:3,   14-18,   Acts 17:31,   1 Corinthians 1:20-21,   26-28,  2:12,   3:18-19,   Galatians 6:14,   Revelation 1:6,   5:10,   7:4,   11:15,   14:1,   3,   16:10,  17:17,   19:6,   22:5,

Our Choices?

Choosing right from Wrong!

Taking a look at the world today we hear and see nothing more than death through murder and terrorism, but also war and traffic incidents and also other accidents!

Making choices is a difficult subject to cover in one blog post, but we will at this time take a cover of the subject and later develop it into something much deeper.

Looking at the actions of Brenton Tarrant points to an heart full of hatred and evil and mixed up man? But it was he alone who made the choice to carry out these attacks on over one hundred people praying in two Mosques!

Was he demon possessed or did he do it of his own choice? Its tough to know, perhaps those who examine him will know better as to his motives, because the actions of the crazed are not always the work of the Devil!

Exodus 32:22,   Numbers 14:37,   35:21,   Psalm 94:6,    Matthew 15:9,   Luke 11:13,   John 7:7,   Romans 9:18,   12:9,   1 Corinthians 15:33,   Colossians 1:21,   James 2:4,  11,   1 Peter 3:9.

Rainbow Diversity!

The eventual acceptance of Paedophilia?

The Church at this time is much different than it ever has been and is now open to many sexual preferences and yet doctrinally it remains stuck over the role of woman and many other areas?

One might be surprised that one should take on this subject and may feel hurt by the claims, but for the last sixty years many political groups within mainstream politics in the United Kingdom have tried to change the law in relation to paedophilia! Not as one would expect against it but for it, because many who practice what is now considered illegal will one day like same-sex relationships become acceptable?

Paedophilia is the last taboo in the Rainbow diversity challenge to sexuality, currently the new or great debate is on same Trans-gender facilities and there is much conflict over the matter of woman being molested by men,  such as the issues with Harvey Winestien?

The doctrine of love has been the excuse for a long time in relation to these matters, but the whole concept of sexual deviance runs completely contrary to what God has to say in the Holy Bible and it would appear there is an open rebellion of apostacy now facing Christianity that is in conflict!

Matthew 18:6,   Mark 9:42,   Luke 17:1-2.

Luke 17:28-29,   Romans 1:24,  26-27,  9:29,   1 Corinthians 6:9-10,  Ephesians 5:5,  1 Timothy 1:10,   Jude 1:7,   Revelation 21:8,   2:15.

Genesis 19:4-13,  Leviticus 18:22,   20:13,  Deuteronomy 23:17-18,   Judges 19:22,   1 Kings 14:24,  15:12,   2 Kings 23:7.

 

The book of Revelation! One.

Why no longer Popular?

Over the last forty years it seems that the book of Revelation is not as popular as it was say in the 1950’s?

One reason may be that it is difficult to understand or it is not relevant to the problems in the modern age?

The other reason is perhaps it warns those of us who claim a faith in God, but live in rebellious sin? Revelation does tell us the fate of liars, those doing dishonest gain and living in effeminate lifestyles!

1 Corinthians 6:9-10,   Ephesians 5:3-6,   Revelation 9:20-21,  21:8,   27,    22:14-15.

Amazing Scriptures!

A process of God at work in the Believer?

Romans 8:28 is one of those scriptures like John 3:16 is often quoted but little understood since mush of it is passed by in the saying?

God gives us a promise that those who mean bad for us, this could also mean other believers might actually turn out better for us and be more of a loss to them!

A good way of explaining this process, is say you wanted to leave where you where living but for another reason you could not do it yourself and your neighbours told lies to get you out thinking they were getting rid of a problem to their space? While you got moved on to something better that suited you much more than what you had been in and also the new resident that replaced you might turn out far worse for those who opposed you?

God does actually care about us and will not leave us in a place or situation that does not benefit Him!

Genesis 50:20,    Acts 4:28,    Romans 8:28.