Tag: Faith

Immigration Issues!

Effecting Europe and the United States?

People and governments want people to leave, because they fear a spike in crime, but in the U.K. most of the crime is committed by West-Indians and Nigerians and not those who are seeking their right to ask for asylum, a right promised from the days of empire!

In the U.S. it has more to do with illegals over staying and the problems with narcotics coming in from S-America, that needs to be curtailed and it is being hit, but this is only for show the real numbers is staggering and many white Americans are well known to be involved?

In the Gospel of Luke we have three accounts in relations to foreigners doing the right things, when religious Jews turned a blind eye, it proves that we cannot paint all the people with the same brush and we cannot judge the unmarried or those who are seriously ill with Aids and other dangerous infection!

Luke 10:25-33. 17:16-18, John 4:9, Romans 12:2, Hebrews 7:25.

Ebenezer (Even-Ezer).

The Lord has helped Us!

Israel at this time saw that God was with them and He was their really only help?

Today many Churches choose the name to symbolize what God is doing for us as believers and not as some believe the fellowship of the brothers alone!

We should all know that God is good and He is always looking out for us as we walk with Him, but when we take our eyes off, we head straight for the darkness of sin and possibly destruction if we refuse to repent and come back to the narrow way?

Israel did the same, after the time of the Judges, they wanted a King and God gave them a loser Saul son of Kish.

1 Samuel 7:11-12, 17:37, Psalm 98:1, 116:12, Romans 8:37, 2 Corinthians 1:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:1.

The out working of Sin!

Cain had a choice and so do we?

Jealousy set in to the heart of Cain against his brother Abel and it continues to this day, between nations and individuals even many who profess to know God, they allow their hearts to be darkened!

God warned Cain he had a choice and he went with Satan to oppose God and to kill, this past few days the former U.S. President nearly became a legacy for the United States when Mr, Crook was 2-inches form killing him?

Jesus is the answer, if we keep Him as the focus or source point of our lives and not choose to wander off is some false idea, doctrine, teaching or a;;ow anger to take control of us!

Genesis 4:6-7, Proverbs 14:29, John 3:3, 14-21, Romans 3:23, 6:23, 2 Corinthians 12:20, 1 Timothy 2:8, Hebrews 11:27, James 1:19-20.

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.

Christmas!

The real meaning of?

We all know the events of the Christmas story and how we can cross reference the Gospels with the book of Isaiah and other to fit the traditional picture of it, but so much can be missed out in the leaving out of certain passages.

Most of western-Christmas is associated with the Catholic Church and the Protestants have taken out the bits that they do not like in relation to doctrine, while the eastern Church celebrates more the iconography of the saints than scriptures?

But we want too look at the message of Salvation through Jesus and why He came into our world to save sinners like you and me!

Numbers 24:17, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 1:76-79, 2:8-15, 30-32, John 8:12.

Hearing and Doing!

Righteousness and Justification?

For hundreds of years the Jews were caught in a legalistic trap and they have maintained that now for the last two thousand years, since they are blinded by God so that the Gentiles might come into faith.

We who are saved under grace must be aware of legalism creeping into our walk with Jesus, but I think this verse, gives to us the answer and if we do, what we hear from the word of God we are doing well.

Discipline in the Christian life/walk is invaluable, but let us keep the application of doing right in relation to the commandments?

Exodus 20:1-17, Romans 2:13, Galatians 2:16-17.

‘Fate?

S-Korea 154, India 141, and Somalis 120 lives lost this weekend!

It is a tough call when loved ones are lost to fate, going out to a festival, being silly or just going about everyday life and death comes suddenly as we have seen in these three nations mentioned?

Some Christians will say they should not have been their for Halloween, others why were people jumping on that bridge and others, well terrorism can’t be helped!

Jesus told the crowds that the people under a falling tower were not worse than them and people would die in disasters human and natural!

We may know much in relation to the end times, but we could be as mistaken as Israel was when Messiah came and they had missed the scriptures in relation to Him?

We cannot change fate, since these things are hidden from us, but we can be wise in hearing God and not doing certain things, by not allowing ourselves to get into a crowded space or avoiding certain buildings in countries were terrorism is likely if we can?

Ecclesiastes 9:1-6, Luke 13:1-5, Ephesians 5:15.

Christian despair & Depression!

‘Not a bed of Roses?

The statement, ‘It is hard to be a believer, should not be under estimated, since many of us who are now long in the faith now the pain and costs that are involved as we progress in that race that the Apostle Paul encourages us with!

Ekklesia has much to answer to when it comes to depression, mental-illness and despair amongst believers? What was at one time referred to for missionaries is now widespread in the body, since many of us live in pluralistic societies that are hostile to Christians?

Nothing much has changed from the times of the pagan world of the early followers of the way to modern times, the world has turned back to the worship of nature and abandoned the God of the Holy Bible and many believers are starting to fall away, as we are told is to happen!

But we have a God who loves us and His son Jesus who died for us, we must run to Him and trust to endure and to press on? It is indeed very hard, but the price for us is too great to know give up or let go? Let us encourage one and another and help, pray, financials and a roof?

2 Corinthians 4:8-11, Psalm 56:2-3, Proverbs 8:10, 1 Peter 1:7, 4:12-14.

Media Misinformation!

Christianity Blocked Off?

In some ways the whole world reports what their respective governments want us to here, rather than the whole truth! Perhaps what we have in the west is the freedom to debate and yet one is getting the feeling that this too is being controlled to a moderate or equal level that is not what it claims to be?

Fake news has come into the world vocabulary through a world leader that does not tell us much of any truth himself and the media circus loves it, as they love, Putin, N-Korea, Zimbabwe and now Belarus!

But the good news of Christian activity and the daily attacks world wide do not get reported in Christian countries, but to a select few radio stations, networks primarily in the U.S. and to newspapers and magazines!

The truth be told more Christians are suffering from Islamic inspired attacks in Europe, as in other parts of the world were it is expected?

Psalm 15:2, 25:5, 91:4, John 4:18, 8:32, Romans 2:8, 8:35, 16:25, 1 Corinthians 13:6, Ephesians 4:24, 1 Timothy 2:4, 6:5, 2 Timothy 4:4, 1 Peter 1:22, Revelation 7:14.