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.

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.