Author: 3tnewlifeblog

Hi. We are both born-again believers for the last thirty years and we have always had the desire to share our faith with everyone, other believers to be encouraged because it is hard to follow God! To those seeking Him, that they will find that He is able to forgive us our pasts and that He loves us to bring us back into fellowship with Him. There are many who do not want to know or are blinded by legalism, believing this is enough? But the truth of the Bible is that there is only one way and this has to be made through God's One and only Son Isa,/Isus,/Jesus,/Yeshua! Jesus was the final sacrifice for our failures, he was the final atonement and our repentance and faith in Him, will bring us back into relationship with God, Elohim, Al-Liylah (Allah).

Philip and the Ethiopian! One.

Controversial Doctrine?

Both Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch are under estimated in the Christian experience, many believing today that this account in the scriptures was never really there?

But this is not true from the point that God was bringing the death and resurrection of Jesus to the Jews in the Horn of Africa! It also shows us the little talked about ministry of Philip who knew that Jesus was the long awaited Messiah of Israel.

The problem with the Ethiopian conversion is that it does not fit the historical reformation doctrines of how sinners are saved, believing in a certain process for that salvation which today has become a mantra in evangelical circles as sometimes the only way?

Faith is not based on a set or process of doctrines, but rather on the power of God to change our hearts, to no longer be hostile to Him. The other reason for the avoidance of dealing with this area is the old one of white racism to black people, and in some cases that not all black Christians are really born-again?

John 1:45, 3:3, 5, 15-21, 31-36, Acts 8:26-39 , Romans 3:22-23, 6:22-23.

Carnivals?

Notting Hill, Reading, Glastonbury!

The justification of sin or just having a good time?

Cultures are different, something that should be considered by all believers in the statement made by the Gospel of John’ For God so loved the World! Controversial because it addresses humanities failure on race and so to Ekklesia that carries the un-repented problem of being in the community of all the same?

We can claim that next weekend will see a rise in crime in W-London with the annual west-Indian/Caribbean street party and much will be reported and addressed in relation to all the negatives of it?

But neither Glastonbury or Reading will receive the same fare reporting of its drug abuse and violent cultures and this is because it will be majority white and civilised over that of black and dark skinned?

Genesis 6:5, 1 Kings 8:39, Job 21:27, Psalm 7:9, 19:14, 139:2, Isaiah 55:8, Jeremiah 11:20, Amos 4:13, Luke 2:35, Acts 1:24, Philippians 2:2, Hebrews 4:12.

BREXIT? Staying in Europe!

A lying Government?

Britain is in a disaster over the lies about Brexit and how our politicians are now manipulating us to fulfil their own ego’s! This is the current fact that nothing is going to change and why?

Because all of them have been bought out by the wealth of the European Union and NATO, recently the U.S. President advised our PM on how to leave the E.U.! But she revealed she had no intention of leaving and would continue to cover up and fool the people of this nation with false promises!

One reason may be that we have no choice anymore in relation to voting and its better to just stay in and push on with the post-World War II vision for European peace?

1 Samuel 25:6, Isaiah 33:7, 39:8, 45:7, 57:21, Jeremiah 8:11, John 14:27-28, Acts 9:31, Romans 3:17.

Public blindness to Suffering? Part-Two.

Immigration Issues!

Many people do not want foreigners in their lands anymore!

But the question is who is going to do the dirty work?

Most of our young people today want to be designers, do photo-journalism, work in an office, banking? But none want to wash floors, clean toilets or be involved in cleaning old peoples bottoms, they would rather stay on the social benefits?

We cannot do without foreign people, nursing, cafés, restaurants, hotels need people who can do the jobs within a required time slot! Farmers need Eastern-Europeans to pick fruit and vegetables and Asians to work in the curry houses!

Ruth 2:10, Matthew 17:25, 1 Corinthians 14:21, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Timothy 5:10.

How we do outreach/reach out?

Lack of Witness!

There is a serious decline today in preaching and teaching the biblical message to the lost in society, their seems to have been a change were the Church is now more aligned with the world than it is with God and the Holy Bible?

Perhaps the main cause for this change is the fear of persecution or having to give up the panelled homes of the clergy who life the life of Riley at the cost of their faith!

But many believers continue to share their faith with others, even not compromising on homosexuality but warning of the consequences of unrepentance and change that is required by God when entering into the New Life!

Out-reach-out remains one of the most important forms of witness for believers and Gods Ekklesia, it reveals to the community who and what we are and how we should care for the people around us instead of ourselves and hoping that God-Jesus will do the hard work for us?

Matthew 3:3, 7:2, 18:14, Luke 7:22, John 14:6, Acts 9:31, Romans 1:17, 1 Corinthians 12:2, Ephesians 2:20, Colossians 4:5.

Public blindness to Suffering. One.

The need to cut foreign Aid?

This is the common request today from the British public, but it is also the same in the U.S. and many other places! What many ordinary folk fail to realise or understand is that the British Empire that once was still has many links to its former colonies, who are British citizens?

But it is well known for some years now that most people are both blind, cold and indifferent to the suffering and homelessness around them and sadly are the so many self-opinionated Christians who as the Bible warns us don’t care anymore?

Despite there being much Christian outlook, it has come under government control and so spaces are now limited to do the right work that once was done by Christian charity?

Food banks help, homeless hostels are too few, wealth and donations are not enough, action has to be taken to help those in need, while also seeking to win them to Jesus, so that their new attitude will give all hope?

Isaiah 63:9. 1 Thessalonians 2:7, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 5:2.

Prostitution! Part-Two.

Tears of Faith?

It is interesting how Jesus deals with the sad woman of sexual exploitation and vulnerability, it is not the way that we humans might deal with the situation because of all the stigma that we carry?

Jesus say the love for Him in her tears and the cost of her gift to Him! This was not cheap or tatty, it was her appreciation that God really cared about her!

Much like that of Jesus washing the feet of the Disciples, we need to take a leaf from the Bible and start serving God, rather than enjoying ministry on tax freedoms and living in our panelled homes?

John 12:3, 13:12.

May Celebrations?

Fertility Rights!

The traditional May day celebrations around the May pole that many of us once enjoyed as children in Britain seems to have been lost today in hub-bub of religious identity?

This was a pagan festival brought into the Christian tradition marking the fertility rights of the spring season and new life! Even the Roman occupation adapted the festival and added colours to it!

We tend to forget very quickly as the seasons pass in the year the significance of Christmas and Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost as nothing more than another Christian holiday and yet Easter is the most prolific?

Since it deals with the New Life of the individual from the slave master of Satan to the servant of God!

John 5:29, 11:25, Romans 8:11, 1 Peter 3;11.

Israel and Jerusalem!

Right to Exist?

If we are believers in the death, resurrection and return of Jesus, we cannot escape the facts about Israel and its Eternal capital Jerusalem? Despite the introduction and the long term acceptance of Replacement Theology in the Christian Church, we still find some passages about Jerusalem and Israel do not fit in to the Christian way?

This is because they are not for the blessings of believers but for Israel alone! God has a plan for His people Israel that is far different than that of the Church, this is a fact that must be recognised for us to really understand the bible!

If we persist with the ideas set out by Replacement Theology we will be lead astray into the many forms of false teaching and doctrines that are being introduced today! The capital of Israel is Jerusalem and when the Lord returns there will be a New Jerusalem for the believers by faith!

John 3:3, 15-17, 31-36, Romans 3:22-23, 6:22-24.

Unions?

Workers Rights!

Many Christians get upset about being in a Union, they claim it is not Christian because its based on atheism and Socialism? But these many probably own their own businesses and have never been poor or working class?

Today many jobs are open contracts, with open hours and people can loose their jobs as quickly as they got them! Hours are long and breaks few, the work is demanding and tedious and it is hard to believe writing this one could be talking about the social history of Britain in the 19th Century?

The Bible teaches us that we should be fare to our workers and care for them, instead of being greedy and bragging about what we have! God sees the plight of the oppressed and the poor and He will over rule the unjust!

This message is directed at well to do believers, who believe they can get away with their sins, perhaps they might consider some of the rich fools mentioned in the New Testament and take a leaf out of their book as a warning!

Job 20:19, Psalm 9:9, Luke 12:18, 16:22-23, 2 Corinthians 6:4, Ephesians 6:6, 1 Peter 2:16.