Vanity?

What Satan thrives On!

The enemy will put us in a place of weakness and then He will attack us, this is very much so with the life of Job. But here we are also looking at our Lord, who was being tempted by Satan for Him to be worshiped, through the vanity of power and wealth!

We see that in times past even though people knew about God, they chose to ignore what was His to be honored and today many excuses are made for sin, that are not much different.

The western Ekklesia is dying for lack of preaching the Gospel, because leaders want to be comfortable and many in doing so excuse Sin claiming one thing and another and many fall away from their faith, if they ever were real believers in the first place?

Haggai 1:4, Matthew 4:8-9, 5:27, Mark 1:12-13, Romans 1:20-25, 2 Peter 2:10.

Psalm 104:4. Part-One.

Why are modern translations missing the King James Emphasis?

Modernism has a large role to play in undermining the original test as an alternative without giving the reasons as to why and thus the lay person is left confused!

But if an explanation in the foot note was given one would have a better understanding that the Hebrew, like the Greek has several meanings and thus we have a choice of them to use in preaching and teaching?

At the moment, the King James is becoming seen as archaic, yet despite the many modern versions of the Holy Bible, it remains the only one available to many around the world!

Prophecy?

Preaching to warn Ekklesia!

Not all always seems to be right in many fellowships when it comes to the services, the lack of preaching the Gospel message for over worship is one area that is lacking the influence of honesty and integrity in society?

The fervent preaching where it is done can become more of the man, rather that God and the balance is lost on the truth, and placed on personality?

We need to focus on the fact that it is the Lord that is leading us and not us leading ourselves?

2 Samuel 23:2, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2:1-3.

Understanding the Greek?

More than one Translation!

I think it is very important as a preacher teacher to have some grasp of the Greek, so that we can understand the many words from the various versions that are available for reading and study today?

Even if we are still limited to the King James or Revised Bibles, the Greek context is of great value, where as the Hebrew is quiet fixed even to the modern Israeli and so when comparing verses we will have a frame work built on a strong basis!

What Ekklesia faces today is deception and sensuality, the excuse to undermine the laws of God and to have truth expressed with love, rather one without the other!

2 Peter 2:1-3, Romans 16:18, 1 Corinthians 6;20, Galatians 2:4.

Easy and Hard?

Ways!

There are two ways to go in life so the Holy Bible tells us, the easy way to Hell and the narrow way to God!

Most people follow the broad way, even many who have made a confession, soon become inactive in fellowship and a bad example to many others?

But we are of the hard way, that costs and will hurt since we are sharing in some of the sufferings of our lord and our way is narrow and winding, but we are going up and not down even though it may feel that way at times!

Many are called few are chosen, those saved from much will do much, those from less, less will be done.

Psalm 16:11, Matthew 7:13-14, 18:8, Luke 13:24, John 14:6.

A.I. The future of Humanity!

The moral Question?

This depends from what religion or culture that you come from outside that of Christianity and that is why many nations are allowing for research into genetically modified humans as being more suitable than robots on the battlefield and eventually space exploration!

Bur today A.I. is being used in medicine, the nuclear industry and the military, with success, but also serious flawed failures as seen recently in the Middle-East, while the same flaw was ignored in Afghanistan by ISAF?

It would seem in the light of what we have learned so far the high moral ground is being ignored and that for financial gain rather than the cost or the value of human life!

Jeremiah 2:22, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Jude 1:23.

Mark 9:49!

In the AV/KJV, but not in the ESV?

Why has a crucial text in the Gospel of mark been removed by the modern translators of the ESV, thus loosing an important message of Salvation to the readers?

One has to wonder how much more of the Bible is to be changed to satisfy the selfishness that is entering Ekklesia in relation to justifying conduct and life style to fit in with the ideology of the world and the loss of an important message that our Lord was warning if lost cannot be got back again!

Matthew 5:13, Mark 9:50, Luke 14:34, Colossians 4:6.

Roman doctrine in Ekklesia!

The Love of God?

Its a subtle doctrine that most believers have grasped on to in relation to accepting sexual sins and then believing that a all loving God will ignore those issues of our selfishness, prior to this we had the issues of dishonesty when many believed they could get away with diddling their tax forms and other financial dishonesty!

God is love, He loved us to give to us His one and only Son, that we might be saved, we love Him because He has had mercy on us for our failings!

But God does not love sin, he will not tolerate His guidelines being broken and the selfishness of the human heart trying to justify sin.

Leviticus 18:22, John 3:16, Romans 1:25-26, Romans 3:22-23, 6:22-23, Hebrews 9:26, 10:10, 1 John 3:18, 2 John 1:3.

Modern Translations!

Missing the definitions of the text?

Many of the new translations of the Holy Bible, that have sought to move away from the King James version have done an injustice to the Greek, if not also the Hebrew languages and lumped words together into one, when missing the real context of what is being said!

It remains hard to know if this has been done deliberately or it is just being lazy in the work, hoping that only a few would take any notice?

We need to be clear and understand what God is saying to us in the scriptures so that we can preach the Gospel message and see souls saved!

Matthew 22:29, John 4:23-24, Romans 15:4, Hebrews 4:12-13, Revelation 3:20.

Woke-ism and Christianity!

Allowing in more delusion?

First it was issues around divorce, then abortion and now in the last few years more so in the western-Churches homosexuality and now WOKE!

Soon if believers do not take action it will be the undoing of the Holy Bible, last time we discussed the removal of the word rape for another one in relation to Tamar being violated a word that has many connotations, where rape is what it is.

Many other description’s of vile sin too will in time be replaced and the whole emphasis of the Christian faith will be under minded to perhaps a book of fables?

Isaiah 50:8, 51:17, 58:6, 2 Corinthians 11:12, Ephesians 6:13.