Jesus.
Jesus existed well before everything that we know, see and understand.
He was at the creation, He existed before He was manifested in human flesh and we will see Him again either for Salvation or for Judgement.
Psalm 75:3, John 8:58, 1 Corinthians 8:6.
Blessed are You.
Have you ever been set up, accused of something that you did not do? People at work, school, at home, services tell lies about you, put the blaim on you?
That is what it is like when you stand your ground, do what is right and refuse the worlds advances.
Jesus has said and promised that we will be blesses, when we are rejected by the lost world around us, or the selfish false believers, when they won’t let us into their little club or circle.
Matthew 5:10-11, Psalm 27:12, 35:11, Philippians 1:28, Revelation 2:10.
God’s Standards.
We all like to think we have done good and what is right and sometimes we can forget that God chose us because we were bad and not able to be good on any level. Many people who met Jesus thought of Him as a good man because of the healings and miracles that he was performing daily.
Another problem that plagues our thoughts is to see what we think is good works being carried out around the world and we are so easily lead to praise others, while forgetting to recognise the work of Jesus and believers leading thousands to faith and the promise of Eternal Salvation!
Luke 18:18, John 5:41-44.
The Rich Man.
Asked Jesus a questions about wanting to be Saved. He called Jesus a Good man, but Jesus said to him, ‘Who is good, but only God’.
This shows us that we are all failures, Sinners and it is only God who is without sin.
Humans find it really hard to admit that they have failed, so they continue on hiding their shame.
Mark 10:18, Romans 3:23-26.
Jesus’ promised Return.
Atheism and Communism in China and North-Korea fear this claim perhaps more than any other threat, why? Why fear something that you claim you do not believe in, because the reality is that you doubt or you believe your achievement will be destroyed.
These nations and their systems work on the idea of mass control and in the worship of men, so they have opened themselves up to idolitary.
The return of the Lord will pronounce the end of the ages in which all of humanity will have no choices in having to bow to Him.
Zephania 3:8-9, John 14:6, Acts 15:15-16, Romans 16:20, 1 Corinthians 15:23-25, Philippians 2:10.
Nailed on the Cross for Us.
This is the final act of atonement, Jesus is nailed on the tree/stake/cross for us. He has taken our Sin and failure upon His own body and if we believe in Him by faith, we to are set free from death through His Resurrection.
Jesus died as much for Israel as He died for the world, His death opened a new covenant for all who would believe in Him.
There is no other way to be saved, this easter please consider these matters and make the right choices to give your life to Him?
To be a believer in Jesus is much more than going to Church, it is not about keeping rules, instead it is about pleasing God and being obediant to His word the bible. it is the beginning of a New Life.
Matthew 27:35, Mark 15:20, Luke 23:33, John 19:18, Romans 6:6, 1 Corinthians 2:8, Hebrews 12:2.
The Holy Bible.
As believers in the death, resurrection and return of Jesus, the Messiah and King of Israel the Perfect man who was wounded for us. We have a book about how to live life and please the God who has saved us from Eternal damnation. God has laid out in this book that we call the Holy bible human history, from the beginning to the end.
The book tells us what God wants from us and what He does not approve of, this is called Sin. Though we may be saved, we still will have problems with sinning, but we can call on His Son Jesus to help us.
God’s story is hard, but it will be fulfilled or completed in His way and time and man in all his cleverness will not be able to stop it.
This week there are no scripture, because you must read it for your self.
Rosa Parks.
The little ordinary people are the ones who make history and start movements. Rosa Parks was an ordinary black lady, who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man. Thus was born the Civil Rights Movement in America,
That movement inspired the troubles in N-Ireland, Aparthied in South-Africa and many other conflicts world-wide.
God calls people to believe in Him, through His Son Jesus and yet it is many ‘Christian based societies around the world, who practice Racism, Segregation and Sectarianism.
They claim to follow the bible and the teachings of Jesus and yet they are the first to be anti-Jewish and form groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate and drive out or suppress those they feel are inferior to them.
Psalm 27:3, 46:2, Proverbs 3:7, Malachi 3:5, Matthew 10:26, Luke 8:50, Hebrews 13:6, 1 Peter 3:14, Revelation 2:10.
An Astronomical Event.
Scientists think that they can prove the event of the explosion of a giant supernova star occuring around the time of the birth of Jesus and they also believe it was a prominent feature in the skies of the middle-east for over one year.
The prophet Daniel knew about it long before the event and Baalim also knew about it much further back still. Daniel had great sway over the Babylonian court of his day and it was from these men that the Magi came, setting out from Persia to Israel to find the King of the Jews.
But baby Jesus came as a humble servant to this lost world, to save us from our sins. That is what Christmas and Easter are all about, the celebration of a promised birth and the death and resurrection of a Savior.
Numbers 24:17, Daniel 6:25-28, Matthew 2:1-12.
God bless you this speacial season and may you come to know these truths as we do.
Ask me and I will tell you! 