Mark 16:19-20.

Sometimes its there and other times it not?

The problems lay with the early codexes and the writings, so how comes then do we have it!

It had to be added at a later point, but this is not proved either to be true or not, but what is proven is that it contains a more detailed account of Jesus being with His Disciples before His Ascension, filling in the gaps?

Some translations remove some verses in this portion, while others do not have it, but have a footnote at the bottom of the page and this can cause more confusion to the reader than a help!

Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:6-11.

Happy New year and an peaceful eastern-Christmas to all?

The missing Piece!

To the Christmas Story?

Many believers find it hard to place Jesus circumcision in the account, because they fail to understand that Jesus also came to fulfill the Law of God and to prove that he was a total complete Jew!

We are now living iin wicked times once more with the rise of antisemitism and misguided hatred of the Jews, because of the situation in the Gaza strip and Muslim lies many are deluded in to humanitarianism and not faith!

We cannot afford to leave out the bits of the Christmas story that may upset us due to doctrine, hatred of the Jews and replacement theology, because we undermine the teaching of our own salvation?

Luke 2:22-24, Romans 3:21-32, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:25-28, 10:10,15, 20, 26, Revelation 3:20.

Why did He Come!

What is the purpose of His Coming?

First He was the promised Messiah to the Jewish race and the nation of Israel, but later we see them rejecting Him at the cross and the resurrection!

Jesus also came to be the Savior of the Gentiles, so that they could be drafted in to the commonwealth of Israel, while the Jewish people have been blinded generally, but some will still get saved before the day of God;s coming destruction?

He came to fulfill the promises of God to Israel and to the world and this is all of the real meaning behind the events of the Christmas story, so now we have to add this into the message we may be sharing this season, with a dying world all around, offering to them truth and Hope!

Hosea 3:3-4, John 1:1-18, 2 Corinthians 3:14-16.

Who is Jesus!

Who is He really?

Do we really think that God has rejected Israel for the rights of the Palestinians or do we accept that He is the King of Israel as well as the Savior of the world!

Are we mixing politics with religion and humanism over faith or are we just hating God, through hating His race and being pretend Christians?

This is the image that many are seeing in believers today, that we justify sin and that we are for things that do not exist, so many are turning to religion with rules like Islam!

So we are left with this one passage in Luke 1:68-79.

Bible Translations!

King James most common by 87%?

This is what is claimed by many around the world that eighty seven percent of Holy Bibles are still the King James and these are in the most languages of the world, portions and booklets!

Yet it is known that the most popular translation of the Bible is the New Living and that is more so in richer western countries, while others such as the NIV (New International Version) and others modern English versions lag behind?

China now prints most of the worlds Bibles for all western publishing houses, yet they seem to lack copies of the Holy Bible and New Testament with portions of others being smuggled in probably the King James Version!

Romans 15:4, 2 Corinthians 15:3-4, 2 Timothy 10:13, 16, 4:3, 2 John 1:9-10, Revelation 2:20,

Jesus Challenge’s!

The religious hypocrisy of His day?

Despite time, this sin of unbelief remains in many parts of traditional Christianity today, where Jesus is no longer Jewish?

Faith is the answer to believing, since there is no other way to be saved, but many abandoned this concept for something that is more easier and less accountable and that is why there is so much scandal in those denominations, when there is not repentance!

The more our Lord spoke the more they set their hearts to kill Him, since He was showing them what they were and that more so of dishonesty and making excuses in how to get around the law, something that many Christians today also excuse to their fate?

God is merciful, compassionate and kind to all who seek Him and to us He is our comforter through the Holy Spirit that is within us!

Acts 8:37, Proverbs 30:5, Hebrews 9:26-27.

CHRISTMAS!

The Virgin Birth of Jesus?

The most disputed passage in the Holy Bible by a lost world, that refuses to believe in the impossible of God the creator and they are determined to undermine the truth for some sordid version of their own corrupted minds!

Many in western society today dismiss the account as another fairy story or a cover up for the above mentioned, without being able to accept the truth of a loving God, who gave to us His one and only son, so that by faith in Him we might be saved?

Ekklesia has had a problem, since the introduction of the Christmas tree and today the manger is covered up by gnomes and tat and many refuse to speak up for the fear of being attacked, but they expect they will be covered by the sufferings of others in other lands?

Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7, Matthew 1:20, Luke 1:68-72, John 1:1-5, 3:3, 14-21, Hebrews 9:25-28.

Our need of Salvation?

The Christmas Message!

For our lost world, both physically and Spiritually, for some of us this is the season of ekklesia unity and family, for others ministering it is the poor, the food banks, the lonely and the older folks?

We may all still like to send cards, give presents and celebrate with tradition thrown in, but the world has commercialized the season to cancel the message that Jesus, the God-Man came into our world two thousand years ago to save sinners and bring salvation to all who would have faith in Him!

We are entrusted with a message that remains today as fresh as it did them and our time is running out as the night of the apocalyptic era is approaching!!

Acts 13:23, 32-33, Psalm 2:7, 132:11, Hebrews 9:25-28, 10:10.

‘Our Conduct!

What is expected of Us?

It is so easy to say we are all sinners, and this means that God will forgive us if we deliberately sin!

But this is not correct, because we have allowed evil to dominate us and not trust in God, The Holy Bible gives to us all that we need to keep walking and following our Lord and now that the Christmas and New Year is upon us, we need to be seen.

Romans 12:17-21, Hebrews 13:4-5.

The message of Jesus birth is simple and we need to get it out into a more and more commercial world that is replacing truth with lies, so that we will see souls saved?

Luke 1:47, 2:11, John 1:1-5, Acts 5:31, 13:23.

Original Confidence!

Staying the Course?

Not all who come to faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus stay the course, fear of man, tiredness, trials cost and burn out many that is why Jesus told us about the sower and the seeds in His Gospel parables!

But if we fail, we should repent and seek our Lords forgiveness, since our destiny is not a good destination and there is no return after death?

God wants us to be both wise and honest and press on knowing in whom we have believed and that He will never fail or leave us and we will make it home, one day to be with Him for evermore!

Proverbs 13:11-14, Malachi 4:1, Hebrews 3:12-15, Revelation 17:7.