Eros verses Agape Love!

Saint Valentines?

Friendship and charity now have very little to with either the Ekklesia and certainly not Kosmov, that does not mean than some still try to do what is right and to care since many do?

The battle of loves today seem more clear cut than they ever have been in that of sexual love and the pleasures of the flesh seem to dominate over that of Jesus amongst believers and selfishness is ruling the nest!

But we can change things by preaching and sharing the truth with a mixed up society that allows all sins to be permissible and refuses the truth? It is hard work, but the salvation of souls at the end of the day will make well worth our while!

Agape is more than St. Valentines slush, but they were of a kind and loving heart in serving in their day, hopefully as we are today our selves as believers?

Deuteronomy 10:18, Ruth 4:15, Psalm 11:5, 37:28, Ecclesiastes 5:10, Song of Solomon 3:1, Luke 7:47, Ephesians 5:28, 1 John 4:7, Revelation 22:15.

Believers Baptism?

A tough area of Contention!

Should a Born-Again believer be baptised or not?

Is it important to be baptised and do we have too be?

These and many more complex questions have been debated in Ekklesia over the last two-thousand years, and even today there is no clear understanding that is acceptable to all sides!

Many of the early Churches from three-hundred Ad to the time of the German Reformation of Martin Luther went with child baptism, since it was easier and pleased most? The Church from that time kept an exclusiveness on the Scriptures, through the clergy and the common man had to take the word or control as it was distributed with local superstitions and curses?

The most tremendous fact about baptism is that of the thief on the cross who entered heaven, without being baptised! This perhaps is the best clarification on the matter that are faith is on Jesus and focussed on how we are lead by Him and will follow Him doing, loving, caring and showing concern, while witnessing His truth to the dying world around us!

Luke 23:43. Romans 5:21, 1 Timothy 1:15, Hebrews 7:25, Revelation 2:7.

Sunday Evening Services! One.

No longer Popular?

Many fellowships today only have Sunday morning services and have ended their evenings for the pleasures of the television and other?

They see no value in pressuring their congregations into attending Church twice on a Sunday! But one has to say I think this is wrong, the opportunity to share the Gospel is slowly being eradicated and we will have to give God an account for missed souls?

Many in ministry have it easy, compared to normal 9-5 work and so it seems another chip off the block can be sacrificed? Many people today work in the gig economy and would like to break bread before or after work, to be fed spiritually and have the opportunity to bring a friend?

Isaiah 40:11, 56:11, Ezekiel 34:2, Luke 2:20, 1 Peter 5:2.

Jesus’ Return? Part-One.

When and Where!

Over the last two-thousand years their has been much speculation and false predictions in relation to the return of Jesus? One has to wonder why do some Christians continue to go against the world of God in relation to the matter, that Jesus said only the father knows all this?

Wither it is replacement theology, modernism or down right Anti-Semitism, it has become a blinder to the whole truth in relation to the Church and Israel! What many believers do not understand is that they are being drip-fed Reformation theological crap, which is not actually in the bible!

Israel and the Church are one in Christos/Messiah, but they are two, when it comes to the bible! This is because the false-Messiah has to come to the Jews in Jerusalem, Israel before the Lords return and that will be to the New Temple!

So now all the rubbish about a two-state solution and the rights of the Philistines to a homeland does not fit the picture of reality, because these beliefs are false and are from the worlds prospective?

Job 15:34, Psalm 98:9, Isaiah 13:9, Daniel 9:27, 12:11, Zephaniah 1:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-14, Revelation 20:4-7.

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.

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.

Prostitution. Part-One.

Sex for Hire!

This is a subject that many who profess a faith in God feel uncomfortable with, either from disgust, guilt or that they were involved or are practising in secret?

The world calls it the oldest profession, but we only here of it first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 38:15! One does not know if it existed before the flood or not, but it may have but is not mentioned since the human heart was evil and open to constant violence!

The Holy bible has much to say about the matter in relation to both men and woman, and today with our society the male aspect of it is much more prevalent than that traditionally of young girls and woman!

Exploitation of emotional breakdown or being lead astray through false love is what is the main cause of people getting involved! Others do it for quick money, while others do it out of their own lust for sex, that is never enjoyed or fulfilled?

Deuteronomy 23:17, Proverbs 6:26, Isaiah 9:4, Micah 6:12, Romans 3:13, 1 Corinthians 6:15-16.