A tough Calling?

Doing as Jesus Did!

Not many of us come up to the standard of our calling, we tend to fall away or struggle to the world that we have to live and exist in everyday, unless we belong to a religious order and even there it can be hard to get on with our brothers or sisters because of the selfishness of the human heart?

But God has given to us an example that we need to copy and follow, since it is the right way to live, to let the bad people off and show His mercy! We know they deserve to be punished, but we must maintain the knowledge that we too were saved by God’s grace from what we deserved too?

Our calling is to live like our Lord and in the process seek to win souls for Eternity, without bias and with Love!

Matthew 11:29, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Peter 2:21, 1 John 2:4-6.

‘A happier New Year 2021?

Struggling with Sin!

Wither we are saved or not Sin will still attacks us, as believers we are in conflict with Satan, with selfishness and some believers miss the point or use their failings to hurt others in deliberate sin?

This is very dangerous in the we will loose our Salvation, if we continue to sin knowingly!

God wants us to seek Him and to find Him and to come to a full knowledge of Him in our experience of Jesus!

Proverbs 8:17, Matthew 11:28-29, John 10:9, Romans 7:20-21, 2 Corinthians 13:3-4.

Happy New Year 2020!

Keeping it Simple?

We who are filled by the Holy Spirit have something to say to the world this year, starting from now! It is a simple message that the world needs to find Salvation in Jesus and that it is an imperative that must be done now, today?

We have all the tools to share our faith, we know why we became believers! We make lack courage, but the fire within will give us that! People of course will reject what we say, because think they know better, but ‘surprise, and be surprised some will turn to God!

Deuteronomy 30:19,   Amos 5:4,   Matthew 7:7-8,   Galatians 3:13,   Revelation 3:20.

Two kinds of Blessings!

One for Israel and the other for Ekklesia?

Most western Christians live in the delusion of replacement theology that God has given up on Israel and all their blessings now belong to the Church, but this is a lie and is not true!

Without Israel and the Hebrews language the Bible does not work and that is why so many believers no longer read it, if believe it fully taking out only the bits that suit them or meet their needs?

Thus the power of the Holy Spirit is nullified and many are dull in outlook, vision and are not able to share a faith that they half believe in or not at all!

Numbers 6:24-27, 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Secularism Declined!

Many people in the U.K. wanted Easter this year?

And they made Easter mean Easter from the traditional Christian message to eggs and bunnies, as long as the name Easter was there!

For the first time in perhaps fifty years people were aware that they could loose the backbone religion to both secularism, the New age and Islam and that they might never have it back again?

Fear drove people back to Christianity, how much more would preaching on repentance do for our desperate world around us, so instead of talking about revivals past let us go out and do the hard graft so it will come again!

Matthew 11:7-9, Mark 1:38, Luke 10:1-3, 14:21-23, Hebrews 11:8, Revelation 2:3, 3:20.

Love & Faithfulness?

Cannot have one without the Other!

Ekklesia today teaches that God is love and there is no measurement to His love, but this is a Roman Catholic doctrine that fails to address Faith and truth, when looking at the area of Love.

Taking away truth and faith makes excuses for sin and over the years this has been proven by the abuse cases and the openness to sexual sins that may allow for the justification of some abusers?

God tells us in the minor letters of John 1-3 the definition of love and what is expected of us in our walk with God/Jesus, that we must be faithful and obedient to Him, that we must speak and practice the truth and in it to love the despised of society, while also loving our Lord who by His blood has saved us!

John 3;3, 14-21, Romans 1:26, 6:23, Hebrews 2:1-2, 4:12-13, 9:26, 10:10, 1 John 3:16-18, 2 John 1:1-4, Revelation 2:19, 3:20.

‘On fire for God!

Being Prepared?

The story of the wise and unwise virgins and their lamps is a warning to all believers to remain active in the field of our ever new lives and what we need to be doing or not doing as we await the return of our Lord Jesus!

We need to clean up, trim our wicks and buy new oil with a reserve to keep topping it up, but we are not to share is or to allow others who lack Spiritual wisdom to interfere with us?

Since those who are not ready will be locked out on the day of His return, we do not want to find ourselves in that position and our fellowships are full of people afraid or shy to serve and they if let be will become a trap, a snare to many believers!

Job 21:17, Psalm 18:28, 119:1, 5, 105, Proverbs 13:9, Matthew 25:1-8, Luke 12:35.

The Immaculate Conception!

Birth of Jesus.

In the Gospel of Luke we have a detailed description of how Jesus came to enter humanity through the conceptive work of the holy Spirit and it is perhaps fitting that this is explained by the Disciple Luke being a medical doctor by profession?

Mary was chosen by God, since she was of the line of King David and the events of the traditional Christmas story fits together the prophetic of the Holy Scriptures in relation to every part of the story being fulfilled in that the Messiah of Israel has now come!

Isaiah 7:14, 9:6. Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:28, 30, 34-35, 37.

What will we do with this truth, if we believe share it, if not seek Him and find salvation?

Amos 5:4, Matthew 7:7-8, John 3:3, 5, 14-21, Romans 3:23, 6:23, Revelation 3:20.

Israel has a different Destiny! Two.

Return.

In the last one-hundred years Jews have been making return (Aliya) to Israel, with the first arriving from Russia in 1880 they slowly rebuilt Tel-Aviv and then after with the fall of the Ottoman Empire they pushed on into Jerusalem and Hebron.

But with the end of the Nazi Holocaust (Ha ‘Shoah) 1938-45, and the beginning of the State of Israel they flowed in and Britain surrendered their Mandate 1919-1948.

Since then the population has grown to over eight-million people from all over the world (Ha ‘Olim) and everyday flights organised by various organizations in coordination with the Jewish agency bring in hundreds.

Israel is being restored as promised by God, since He cannot lie, we should as believers know that He always keeps His promises to us. But in relation to Israel this is a different matter and many need to see and understand this in a world of humanitarian equality, sexual liberation and compensation for slavery and much more human idealism is not part of Gods ways and plans!

Matthew 19:28, Luke 22:30, James 1:1, Revelation 7:4, 14:1, 3, 21:12.

Israel has a different Destiny? One.

Not among the nations!

As believers we are the commonwealth of Israel, but we are not Israel, the Ekklesia is the bride of the Messiah and He is King, Priest and Savior of all who place their trust in Him, because of His death and resurrection reconciling man to God.

But Israel has a different destiny, since it has been blinded by God so that the Gentiles may be added to the Kingdom! The problems with the modern day Christianity is that it has accepted replacement theology and that is the cause of much confusion in relation to the Book of Revelation?

The other reason that the last book of the Bible is discounted is more to do with its content of end time persecution and slavery hidden behind wealth, something that many American and Europeans fail to face their historic empire origins!

Numbers 23:9-10, Revelation 14:13.

Angel of the Lord!

Protector of Believers.

We tend to forget that through the difficult times we are not alone, but that the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is with us in the guise of the Angel of the Lord.

He is our protector and He is also the protector of Israel in times past and now, for some this is difficult to fathom, but it is a fact and we cannot take Israel out of the Holy Bible and replace it with the Ekklesia, because books such as Revelation and many important passages get discarded to our loss.

Exodus 3:2, Numbers 22:24, 2 Kings 1:15, Matthew 1:20, Acts 12:7.

The sword of the Spirit!

Stands at the entrance to Eden.

Many of us who have been in the faith for a long time will have learned of the sword of the Spirit in relation to the armour that we need to wear all the time, when facing our foe and this we attribute the Holy Spirit in relation to the word of God that we need to know in how to counter the arguments of the world?

But this same fiery sword stands blocking off the garden of Eden and as much Heaven, since in the Hebrew language both mean a similar place.

Meanwhile the same sword is used by God to cut our marrow, to know our motives in our actions and as believers we must understand that nothing is hidden from God.

Genesis 3:24, Ephesians 6:17, Hebrews 4:12.

‘Truth.’

1, 2, 3, John emphasizes Love and Truth!

In these three small letters attributed to John we have the emphasis of love and truth, and many commentaries point out love as the key, but when you read and study them, it is more the truth that is the real emphasis of these letters.

We can easily believe many things because we think we love others, each other and some of the lost that are around us, but it is speaking and practicing the truth that is the most essential thing for the believer to show a better and honest way forward with integrity and to really love others, because it will cost us?

Luke 14:23, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 7:23.