by admin | Feb 3, 2016 | Articles
Those who are in Christ, Christians, have many promises from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There are also promises that Christ have given as a warning to those, that they might consider and be Saved. “I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:9 “He who believes into Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38 “Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more, but you see Me. Because I live, you will live also.” John 14:19 “Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue to abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:31-32 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. The one believing into Him is not judged; but the one not believing is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:16-18 “He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still. And...
by admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Articles
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many entering in through it. Because narrow is the gate and distressing is the way which leads unto life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14 “Then one said to Him, Lord, are there few who are saved? And He said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” Luke 13:23-24 When I was a child I attended a Nazarene church on a regular basis. If my parents didn’t attend on Sunday the church bus would come and pick me and my sister up. There I met some really great people growing up and attended Sunday school. For what it is worth, more biblically sound doctrine was probably taught at that church then what is at many Baptist churches nowadays. It was at this same church that I would give my life to the Lord. At 9 years old during an alter call I would go forward and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Eventually my parents divorced and we move a few miles away. Here my family began to attend a Pentecostal church. With rock instruments up on stage, a pastor would preach his sermon and some well-to-do people who were given authority as Sunday school teachers, etc., we would go there for a couple of years. This was my first instance of seeing speaking in tongues. I never believed it and...
by admin | Jan 17, 2016 | Articles
Recently a coworker told me that he would give me one-million dollars if he won the Powerball jackpot. At the time the prize was 1.4 billion dollars, eventually making it to 1.6 billion dollars. Indeed the largest jackpot in the history of mankind. So much money that one would instantly be wildly rich and my coworker, like people throughout the entire country, was having conversations with others for days about what he would do with all of that money. My response to him made him stop for a moment. I replied that I did not want the money. He shrieked out a “what do you mean you wouldn’t want it, a million bucks!?” Exactly, I didn’t want it, I didn’t care. Of course I have bills I could pay off, I could buy a house, I could do this or that, but what I could do at the moment is no longer stand to listen to such nonsense. While the odds where overwhelming that this man would still just be a cook, with 1 in 292 million, the reality was that men and women just like him where having conversations and thoughts about what they would do should the money-gods be on their side. He wasn’t alone, in fact I was the outsider, I was the one who didn’t care to participate in such worthless talk and the one who would honestly tell him to keep his money should he become the winner. I replied to him that I wouldn’t take the money, I would simply give it away, it was a distraction, a hassle...
by admin | Jan 9, 2016 | Articles
The other day while at work I was having a brief conversation with a coworker who was discussing his plans for the future. Having had talked to him about the need for Salvation in the past, he finished stating what he was going to say and I interjected about how even if he got everything he wanted he would still be lost and doomed, what then would it matter? Instead of simply brushing it off, he responded that he would take care of that later in life, not now. Right now he was going to live his life. Well what if there is not a later time? What if that day was the day of Salvation for him? What if he had chosen the world over Christ and an opportunity to accept the Savior through repentance and believing into Him never again became available? “For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2nd Corinthians 6:2 …”testifying both to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” Acts 20:21 “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26 The question is how many people go throughout life with the exact same philosophy. They believe there is a God, they know that somehow they have to get right with Him,...
by admin | Jan 6, 2016 | Articles
“Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.” 1st Corinthians 4:1-2 What is required of a Christian? As a Believer grows in Christ, more and more they will realize that the need for the armor of God is a very serious matter. There is most certainly a war raging and the Christian must follow their Savior Jesus Christ. I would recommend Little Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, a book which may be read of no charge HERE. In America our persecution generally differs greatly from those in other countries. For instance: Those who profess Christ in India and follow Him, as commanded, are often brutally murdered, their wives ravished and then also murdered and their children are no exception. I have read of stories where Christian families are burned alive, as spectators revile in pleasure, pleasing their Hindu gods. Despite the fact that there are apparently 330 million gods and goddesses, there is no room for the Most High and His Son. Travel to Syria and ISIS makes the news, now commonly known. How many people who profess to serve Christ are beheaded? This of course does not suggest how many are actually servants of the Most High, but certainly shows the militancy towards that. Yet not far away in neighboring Iran there are also prices to pay. Street justice comes and takes its form as a mob against those who proclaim to be Christians and would dare practice such religion. Strong beatings, maiming, death and imprisonment are not...
by admin | Dec 29, 2015 | Articles
But we never can prove the delights of His love Until all on the altar we lay For the favor He shows, and the joy He bestows Are for them who will trust and obey — Trust and Obey This article will have minimum commenting. The thought here is to provide some Scripture, some definitions and simply let those who know Christ to sit and ponder their ways. “And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it? So he answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:25-27 “Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God, Jehovah is one. And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, with all your soul, exceedingly in every way. And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:4-9 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but...
