General
LIGHT VS DARKNESS
In the Bible light is a very important subject, too much so that I cannot cover all of the facets in just one article. Light is used of the physical manifestation that we see or it can be the truth. The opposite of light is darkness. Darkness is used to describe the physical side of the absence of light or the absence of truth. In the spiritual realm it is used of the Devil and his devil spirits. In contrast to the spiritual darkness God, Jesus Christ, God’s Word (the Bible) and Christians are the light.
LOVE
The badge of Christianity is love. No one else can love like a Christian can love. The reason for this is that the Christian has Christ in them.
Colossians 1: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
There are two types of love described in the Bible the first is the Greek word “phileo”. It could be translated into English as “brotherly love”. It is the love where I love you because you first did something for me. But, there is a greater love, a love that does not pick favorites and that has the ability to love the unlovable.
JESUS, JESUS CHRIST, CHRIST JESUS
What is in a name? Most people don’t give it a thought. In English we have one name for God – God. Yet in the Bible there are over twenty names for God including Elohim, El Shaddai, Adon and Jehovah. It is the same with the names of Jesus. You hear people praying in the name of Jesus or in the name of Jesus Christ or they pray to God and say amen. If you don’t believe that the Bible is The Word of God then you may have a problem with what I am about to say BUT if you hang in there you will see that the Bible is The Word of God. It is important to understand that God has a reason for everything that He says in the Bible, where it is placed in the Bible, why it it placed and to whom it is addressed; it is like this for the names of Jesus.
HOORAY FOR HONDURAS
This past week Honduras arrested their President, Mr. Jose Manuel Zelaya and then sent him into exile. Many nations are calling this a military coup but it wasn’t. the military was carrying out orders from both the Supreme Court of Honduras and the Congress of Honduras.
THE WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST
One of the great verses that touch my heart so many times is in the book of John.
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Often I use this verse to show that we have something so truly great in the ability to lead people into the new birth of Christ in them but seldom do I stop and consider what the first part of that verse really means. Look at it. Christ says that if we believe on Him, we shall do the works He did. Well, ladies and gentlemen let me show you some of works Christ did.
WHY THE BIBLE
Since the inception of this blog it has been my desire and goal to give quality information that will benefit the Christian and those seeking answers in their lives. It has been tempting for me to point fingers at the elected officials and corporate big wigs that either don’t have a clue as to what is going on or don’t care as long as they can fleece another dollar out of the good people of the U.S.A.. But that doesn’t help people
BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD
Throughout the Bible God beseeches both the Jews and then the Christians to look to Him, via His Word, and to keep the Word of God first and foremost in their minds. It is only by the study AND application of the Word of God that we find deliverance and freedom. Money won’t give people freedom. Money won’t deliver them from the imprisonments of the mind, it can’t. The only way to be delivered and get that freedom is by an accurate study and application of the Word of God in your life.
MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
What you and I have available to us today as Christians is fantastic. It is so fantastic that God had to hide the reality of what we have from the foundations of the World. In the Bible God calls it “the mystery”.
THE ORIGINAL SIN
In Genesis God shows us the workings of the Devil and Adam and Eve’s spiral downward to the sin against God that has put all of mankind into the terrible fix that we have been in over the centuries.
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GOD FIRST
Everybody has a center of reference for believing outside of themselves. Some people’s reference is the television, others use the works of a philosopher or a psychologist, some people listen to their friends, family and pastors for a reference for believing. Other sources could be the newspaper, the internet, movies or the radio. Very seldom does a person use the Bible as a reference for believing. You should ask yourself why people aren’t using the Bible for a reference for believing. I would suggest that the Bible is THE center of reference for believing and that by not using the Bible as THE center of reference for believing that a person puts him/her self in a position of living below par, of having a life of extreme ups and downs and one frought with peril and ill results. To be a more than conqueror that it talks about in Romans chapter eight the Bible has to be the only center of reference outside the person seeking.
What I mean by a center of reference is a source of answers to questions that is true and that you can use as a template to compare other information or answers to. Doctrine would be a good word to help describe what a center of reference is.
