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.

The cost of Faith!

Bearing Witness?

All believers will be challenged about our faith in Jesus, about truth, honesty and integrity and we have both a testimony and a knowledge of God and what He is doing for us!

When we think of Stephen the first martyr of the Ekklesia, we see a man who could not be out done and so out of spite and jealousy free slaves handed him over to the religious men of the day to have him stoned to death.

Many believers around the world today are being murdered for the name of Jesus, wither they practice or not, they bear the name Christian and Islam is one of the most hostile followed by all atheism nations who make excuses for truths they cannot bear to hear?

Matthew 10:15, Mark 13:9, Luke 21:13, John 15:26, Revelation 6:9-11.

The Ukraine?

No Peace!

As believers how do we deal with a world leader who refuses peace and is also provoking conflicts with other nation who are seeing through him and his mantra of lies to get a shopping list of weapons, that even his armed forces are failing to deploy in a proper manner, but rather waste on the battlefield?

Zelensky has rebuked many people who have suggested peace, this is nothing new David was rebuked by the peoples he lived with in hiding and it was a struggle for him!

Jesus tells us He did not come into our world to make peace, but with a Sword to cause division and to see who really loves Him more than our own loved ones?

Psalm 35:20, 120:7, Matthew 10:34-39.

We are abused, but we press On!

Mission and Leadership.

One cannot say, ‘Today that many in the western Ekklesia go through this set of circumstances in the palatial panelled homes and insurance policies, holding anti-Semitic views and much other worldly rubbish?

We wonder why we no longer have revivals and if we do, they are not what they once were! Even one hundred years ago many famous preachers pointed out the lounging of missionaries on the field on the continent of Africa and many other far flung places?

Here we are challenged by these Apostles going out to share Jesus in hostile societies and unbelieving Jews, with very little of comfort, except they had faith and the strength to trust God and in the process we have the book of acts, telling to us the growth from the Way, ‘Hedos to Ekklesia and two thousand years of continued growth.

1 Corinthians 4:11-13, 2 Corinthians 11:23, (Matthew 8:20), Lamentations 3:45.

Ascension and Return!

The way of the World?

Our societies are moving into unnatural areas of science that will allow two men to have a baby, as is reported from Japan and so we already have three way surrogate parenting which proves the human mind continues to seek out these things!

Man wants to reach the stars with a load of one hundred people at one time, Musk has failed for now but he will get there will lesser, but still enough to build on Mars and go other places?

N-Korea is making threats, the Ukraine situation could boil over along with Israel moving and taking the Temple Mount, aggravating Islam and the beginning of more than one third world war, since we humans are fickle minded?

All of this points us to the days of Noah, eating, drinking and not caring about God, in fact they were and are today side lining Him again to please themselves and so when the Lord appears it will be a dreadful time for them, but for us we will be taken up in the skies to meet Him.

With Easter past the work must continue to preach the Gospel message and teach believers our needs met and conduct kept, to see souls won and to show love to the unloved, the oppressed, the hurting as Jesus has done for us so we must do to others?

Matthew 24:38-39, Luke 17:27-30, 1 Peter 3:20-22,.

illness!

Happy 2023?

One is so sorry not being able to write for the past five weeks due to illness and missing Christmas and much more!

As believers we will be attacked by the enemy from time to time, it is expected and we have to just bear it trusting our Lord that He is with us as we go through it?

The Holy Bible is full of sickness, suffering and who God has interacted with us to warn, to heal as we see that most of the ministry of Jesus was the healing of many who were sick, but it did not stop when he ascended, the Apostles also faced these problems themselves and with others it was and remains something of a challenge?

Psalm 41:3, John 11:4.

Boldness without Fear?

To preach the Gospel, despite being Persecuted!

Most who are reading this blog will be from a persecuted background and one that is continuing by wicked people, who take pleasure in hurting others!

It is hard to bear the name of being a Christian in most of the world today, since many lands are closed due to religious idolatry or atheistic unbelief, but for us despite all these factors we have more of a desire to preach, to talk, to witness and teach about our Jesus, who has set us free from the coming destruction that humanity is bringing upon itself?

The Apostle Paul was one who was not afraid of telling others, even the Imperial Guard of the Roman empire knew about his and probably man were coming to faith!

Fear should not stop us, we must have a passion to reach the lost in this world, I speak from my depravity and the love that God showed me with mercy as he has also done for many of you!

Acts 4:31, 2 Corinthians 2:12, Philippians 1:13-14.

What we signed up for?

Our agreement with God!

Many believers find after years of service that they get left behind by the next generation and we may at times feel why did struggle so much for?

In this last age of human history there has been some dramatic changes, motorised transport, the invention of television and now the Internet, Space travel, electric cars, hydrogen surpassing the burning of fossil fuels and nuclear power if not war?

We may have written our own tracts, preached and taught, while today people use apps, watch videos on their phones and tablets and share via the web, even with the continuing Pandemic ekklesia is moving in to virtual rather than physical!

What we need to do is accept and be glad that younger people are getting saved and that our experience of life may be of help to all who are struggling?

Matthew 20:9-11, Luke 15:31-32, Romans 3:23, 6:23.

End Times. Three.

Deception is Rife!

We have now come to the end of this series of three postings and we are to deal with the world (Kosmon) in deception and one could say, ‘This is already happening with a shut down to the media, cutting Russia out of the world stage and attempting to undermine China over it claim to Taiwan?

But it is a bit more serious as the Kosmon and Ekklesia has accepted the teachings, if not by force the LBGT+ movement, which is contradictory to Biblical teaching and if this has happened what is coming next?

The Book of Revelation is about many events and their order has been much in discussion by theologians for the past two thousand years, but when we take Israel out of the truth of what is in this last book, then everything Satan wants to throw at us will follow and is happening now!

Matthew 24:24, Acts 2:19-21, 1 Thessalonians 2:5-7, Revelation 16:14.