EASTER?

What does it Mean!

The world is finding excuses everyday to get away from God, from Jesus and from the Holy Bible, because they want to live their lives their own ways without Him interfering, just the same way Jesus was misunderstood by Israel over two thousand years ago?

What they wanted was to be delivered from Roman occupation, today people want the freedom to sin, dishonesty, lies and sexual deviancy and so they misunderstand that Jesus is our suffering servant, who has come to invite us home to eternity by His blood making that atonement for sin, if we would surrender in repentance to Him and discover His forgiveness!

It is getting harder to preach or share the Gospel with many people being offended, while others find the language offensive and they complain to undermine the truth, since most today in the Kosmon are living in the delusions of the age!

Psalm 51:1-5, Isaiah 53:1-12, 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, Hebrews 2:15-18, 4:12-13, 9:26-27, 10:10, 15, Jude 1:6-7.

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.

The book of Revelation?

A mirror to the soul re-exploitation!

Replacement theology has lead many believers to discount the teaching of the book of Revelation as having no practical application in our modern world, but sometimes it is referred too in relation to End time events and the return of our Lord Jesus?

Otherwise the key elements of the salvation of Israel and the underlying secret slavery in society is avoided, it is a mirror of guilt in relation to service, servitude and cheap workers for clothing, medical care and a under payed work force and former imperial slavery and the lack of compensations to the survivors?

God is the only one who really knows our hearts, we may be serving Him in good faith, while hiding the secrets of prostitution, dishonesty, tax evasion and corruption, secret societies and much more!

John 9:41, Titus 3:3, Hebrews 4:13-14, 2 Peter 2:19, Revelation 7:1-8, 18:13.

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.

deliberate!

Genocide, it has not stopped and it will happen again?

Tomorrow marks European Holocaust memorial day and in the light of what is occurring in the Ukraine, much hypocrisy is masking the truth about the ethnic cleansing of Russians living in the eastern area by Ukrainians since 2008!

Something that both the United States and the European Union have ignored to justify a proxy war with Russia and continue the racial anti-Russian felling as well as anti-Semitism to Jewish businessmen worldwide, while trying to promote a new revised history of world war-II (1938-45)?

Since the Nazi holocaust, there have been as many numerous genocides, some systematic others racially based anarchy and with them millions have died over factionalism, doctrine and other and if we think they have ended, we are only fooling ourselves!

Our human condition of inherited sin proves that we cannot change our ways, even believers cannot overcome some issues in our anger and frustrations, when we let Satan have a foothold in our lives, by not fully trusting God to intervene on our behalf!

Job 18:4, Psalm 69:2, Proverbs 1:15, Matthew 5:21, Galatians 5:20, Ephesians 4:26, 1 Timothy 2:8, James 1:20.

How God see’s Us!

Embracing and Kissing?

Luke 15 found in the Gospels of the New Testament is not a chapter to be overlooked, since it is the story of salvation and a revelation of how God see’s us!

Sometimes in the Ekklesia we forget some essentials mentioned by Jesus, such as the one s in Luke 15:20-21 and the ministry of washing each others feet as maybe not literal, when they are?

This young man has squandered his inheritance and sees sense to go home, he thinks through what he must say to his father!

But his father sees him coming and is ready with love for the one who was lost, this theme is not new, we see it with Esau and Jacob love in practice!

We also see it with Absalom even though much was given to him, he chose to fail and oppose his father for the throne, that was not his to have!

Genesis 33:4, 2 Samuel 14:33, Acts 14:33.

The Holocaust/Ha Shoah!

Christian anti-Semitism, anti-Israel?

Replacement theology and 19thCentury German modernism are two evil roots against God and His people the Jews to cut them off from their inheritance!

These are modern facts in the Christian religion and it is leading to a denial of Biblical truth on many fronts, in relation to the events of the book of Revelation in having no practical application for believers today?

We are told in this last book of the Holy Bible and of the New Testament that the dragon will hunt down believers in the last times, for many today around the world that feels like it is already happening!

Revelation 12:3-17, 13:4-11, 16:13, 20:2, Lamentations 4:18, Micah 7:2.

EVIL! Two.

World War-I/II+ We Remember?

There is much pride in the human heart to remember the fallen of past wars and conflicts and it would seem honorable to do so, but not was all right in these two world wars and all wars!

Men in fear were treated as cowards and shot and their families not compensated with a war pension, greed and spite came to the fore, those who refused on religious grounds were either killed or rejected by society?

Meanwhile the suffering of nerve gas, high-explosive ammunitions left men with terrible if not horrific wounds and in the 1939-45 war many nations refused the Jews prior to the Nazi-Holocaust while others avoided their rescue and Britain maintained similar prison conditions in the Middle-East until Winston Churchill got challenged by the events?

Wars have to be fought to save our systems of politics and at one time supposed Christian values, but this is a smoke screen to cover arms sales and the pride of royal families, madness of dictatorship and excuses for sin and they will continue until even the Day of Armageddon!

Genesis 44:4, Numbers 13:32, Job 19:19, 35:12, Psalm 78:68, Proverbs 24:1, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Jeremiah 31:3, Hosea 11:1, Matthew 5:11, Luke 7::47, John 3:14-18, 12:43, 13:34, 15:9, Romans 8:37, Ephesians 2:4, Revelation 16:16.

The continued Value of….

Preaching?

We tend in the west today to excuse the need to stand on a soap box and degrade our dignity on a street corner to tell dying society around us of the Good News of Jesus!

Christians have allowed the standards of the world to influence us and so in many places the faith is in decline? Some say it is different now with technology and the Internet, but one did not see much to qualify this during the pandemic in the British Isles so it is not true!

The world cannot see and does not want know, unless someone has the courage to speak and share Jesus and from this point to that of the pulpit, people need quality teaching and the altar call for people to believe that God loves them and gave to us His One and Only son, forgiving us of our pasts and promising to us the Eternal Life!

It is a simple message that needs to be got out and proclaimed by believers who will surrender all, not just the words of a hymn on a Sunday morning, but everyday?

Acts 2:26-31, 8:25, 14:6, 21, Romans 10:14, 1 Corinthians 15:1, 11, Galatians 4:13, Philippians 1:30, Colossians 1:23, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 3:7, 15, 2 Peter 2:5, Revelation 1:9, 20:4.

Anti-Semitism and Revisionism!

Holocaust Denial?

Many professing Christians are anti-Semitic in their attitude as much as their doctrine, replacement theology or not! The problem is jealousy and taking their focus of who Jesus is, rather than He being the King and Messiah of Israel?

The other issue is that of His redemptive work and prophecy, since without His dead on the stake/tree/cross we cannot be saved from our sins! The Jews were in the will of God in what they did, because it had to happen that way and Rome was blackmailed to do their will!

Today millions are dying without accepting Jesus, millions refuse to accept the fate of the Jewish people because of what Israel is doing in ‘Palestine? Yet this promised land belongs to Israel and they are still doing Gods will!

We can either reject the Holy scriptures or accept them and stop being racist in our attitudes to changing history to suit our perspectives?

Psalm 7:9-11, Matthew 22:14, Romans 3:21-31, 11:17, Hebrews 4:12, 10:10-17.