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MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-53138852810916963122021-12-26T11:50:00.013-08:002021-12-27T06:53:11.547-08:00The Second Advent<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 24pt;">The Second Advent</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">ccording to the Oxford dictionary, the word advent means "the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event." Some Christians celebrate the advent season during Christmas as a special time of religious observance. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiZ_dtimIlqriaT_e0fDxTf5RFc-MqG7Vb0lCVysSWEDWo_clSnjGnXHWZ6cDPs49pqcgpBy5CR_vCa_PQhojz3NgXVvR8RnJvY7xPc4faD2jPsNzRS-eKa-bDgaCR6stgY5I1Ep_igsiQiwpuad1ZDoKmo61dD7bpuLfUnw1guCmvKhaAtuHz2kCSLw=s412" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="412" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiZ_dtimIlqriaT_e0fDxTf5RFc-MqG7Vb0lCVysSWEDWo_clSnjGnXHWZ6cDPs49pqcgpBy5CR_vCa_PQhojz3NgXVvR8RnJvY7xPc4faD2jPsNzRS-eKa-bDgaCR6stgY5I1Ep_igsiQiwpuad1ZDoKmo61dD7bpuLfUnw1guCmvKhaAtuHz2kCSLw=w691-h412" width="691" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">The first advent signified the birth of Jesus Christ. He came into this world as a humble baby born of virgin Mary in the town of Bethlehem. The reason for His<b> first advent</b> is to save the helpless human race. "God sent his Son into the world <b>not to judge the world, but to save the world through him</b>" (John 3:17, NLT). How is he going to save the world? "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Many people thought He was going to fight the Romans and deliver the Jews from their oppression from Rome. But, Jesus came to deliver them from the problem of sin and eternal death through His death on that cruel cross. His first advent was "spiritual" and more than "earthly." He fulfilled dozens of prophecies concerning Him at His first advent. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">The second advent or the second coming is when Jesus Christ will come to this earth to rule and reign. This is the event that will take place roughly seven years after the Rapture of the church, the bride of Christ. The Rapture could happen at any moment. The Rapture of the church will be addressed in a separate article. The focus here is on the second advent. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <br /></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">There are more prophecies concerning the second advent than the first. In the first advent, Jesus came to save the world. <b>In the second advent, He is going to judge the world. </b>The second advent is not about entertaining the people. It is going to be a terrible day of judgment. Paul wrote to Timothy about that judgment day, "I solemnly urge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will someday judge the living and the dead when he comes to set up his Kingdom" (2 Timothy 4:1). </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus Christ is going to come back to setup His kingdom. John the apostle wrote about the second advent and said, "Look! He comes with the clouds of heaven. And everyone will see him—even those who pierced him. And all the nations of the world will mourn for him. Yes! Amen!" (Revelation 1:7). People who rejected Jesus Christ and followed after other gods will be terrified to see Him coming back to judge the nations. In the first advent, He came as a lamb. In the second advent, He will come as a lion. "Then everyone—the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person—all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to survive?" (Revelation 6:15-17). At the second advent, I do not have any words of comfort for those who rejected Jesus Christ. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">After judging the nations, Christ sets up His kingdom on earth, it will be like Paradise on earth. The prophet Isaiah described about that kingdom in Isaiah 11. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">"In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat.</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">The cow will graze near the bear. The cub and the calf will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like a cow. The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra. Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea,</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">so the earth will be filled with people who know the LORD. In that day the heir to David's throne </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">will be a banner of salvation to all the world. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">The nations will rally to him, and the land where he lives will be a glorious place." (Isaiah 11:6-10).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Dear reader, have you repented of your sins and accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Today is the day of salvation. 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Your eternity depends on it<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span> What is the <b>gospel</b>? Your eternity depends on it<br /></span></span></span></p><p><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">The Background</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Let me take you on a
brief journey to the creation account as a way of providing some background to
the gospel. In Genesis chapter 1, we read, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in
Our image, … God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created them’” (Gen. 1:26-27). How can God create us in
His image and yet create male and female? Once a young lady asked me, brother,
is God male or female? Bible says, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmlh9Ea9XeAUzuVcC1bp8zpfsOvCDz0yZLBrbECYkolyClO10o9OuwcKrCr302TjvyJEsVEjGB7cXeLF-PZlOL0oJ5g0HVFvJG6JH7HAmuHDUNOkSRQ16GC9p7OP_KjGmuTY6sXJ39Jz9/s1475/jcr_gospel_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1475" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmlh9Ea9XeAUzuVcC1bp8zpfsOvCDz0yZLBrbECYkolyClO10o9OuwcKrCr302TjvyJEsVEjGB7cXeLF-PZlOL0oJ5g0HVFvJG6JH7HAmuHDUNOkSRQ16GC9p7OP_KjGmuTY6sXJ39Jz9/w772-h558/jcr_gospel_2.jpg" width="772" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When God said, let us
create man in our own image, He is not talking about the physical body, but
about the spirit of man to be in the image of God. That spirit will not die—it
will last forever and ever, as it was created in God’s image. The spirit within
you is the real you. Then God put that spirit in a house to dwell, what we
call—the body. Then how are we different from animals. Or have we evolved from
animals as the evolutionists would advocate? </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Bible says God spoke
into existence all the animals, birds, fish, and everything that lives on the
earth. “Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according
to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according
to its kind”; and it was so” (Gen 1:24). Evolutionists struggle with the
“missing links” in explaining their theory of evolution. But God said He
created everything of its kind. There is a separation from one kind to the
other kind. That explains why you have those missing links. When you believe in
the theory of evolution, you believe that you came from a monkey. Then you
cannot believe the creation account in Genesis 1. If you cannot accept the
first chapter of the first book in the Bible, you will have trouble believing
anything else in the word of God. If you do not believe in “first man Adam,”
you cannot have faith in the “last Adam,” who is Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 15:45).
Since you do not have the sin that comes from Adam, you don’t need a Savior.
That is the danger of evolution Satan wants you to believe. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Listen, God spoke the
animals, birds, and fish into existence. He just spoke, and they appeared. But,
God uniquely created man. The Bible says, “And the LORD God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul” (Gen. 2:7). Listen, here is the critical difference
between humans and the rest of the living beings. When an animal dies, that is
the end of its story. There is no spirit to go to heaven or hell. When you swat
a mosquito, there is no soul of that mosquito to go to heaven or hell. The
human soul is not going to die. Our physical body may die and be buried, but
the soul will never die. I can take off my coat and put it in my closet, but
that is not really me. How foolish it will be for anyone who wants to talk to
me but goes to my closet and talk to my coat. That coat is not really me.
Similarly, the physical body is only a house for the real you. The soul, which
is really you, must go to either heaven or hell and spend there for
eternity. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Sadly, people only pay
attention to the physical body, outward appearance rather than the inward soul.
People buy life insurance, medical insurance, and other insurances for this
body but never pay attention to their soul. The Lord said to Samuel, “…the LORD
sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks
on the heart” (1 Sam. 16:7). Paul calls this body a tent. “Now we know that if
the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an
eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands” (2 Cor. 5:1). So God created
our spirit in His image and put that in a human body. When we think about
eternity, it is a very long, long time. Eternity makes the bad news or the good
news even more significant. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">What is the Gospel?</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The term ‘gospel’ (in
Greek ε</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">ὐ</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">αγγέλιον</span><span style="color: #0e101a;"> Evang</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">é</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">lio) means </span><span style="color: #0e101a;">“</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">good message</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">”</span><span style="color: #0e101a;"> or </span><span style="color: #0e101a;">“</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">good news.</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">”</span><span style="color: #0e101a;"> If we want to define
the gospel in another word, it is the word ‘righteousness.’ “For in the gospel
the righteousness of God is revealed…” (Romans 1:17). It is the good news of
sin washed away. If we really want to appreciate the value of the good news, we
need first to recognize the bad news. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">The Bad News</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When God placed Adam
and Eve, not Adam and Steve, in the garden of Eden, they disobeyed and sinned
against God. As a consequence of their sin, death came into this world. The
scripture says, “For the wages of sin is death…” (Rom. 6:23). This death is not
just physical death but spiritual death, eternal separation from God in hell.
Because we all came from Adam, we are under the curse of that sin. The Bible
says, “For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God…” (Rom. 3:23). If a person wants to go to hell, they do not have
to do something because they are already under the condemnation of sin. The
default destination for us is hell unless we recognize it and change that
course or change the direction. It is fashionable to joke about hell these
days. “Oh, devil, and I will go to hell with my buddies and have a beer.”
Really? But, Jesus described hell as a place of eternal torment. The rich man
cried out, saying, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he
may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented
in this flame” (Luke 16:24). The wicked will be thrown into the fiery
furnace…(Matt. 13:50). The unbelievers ‘will be cast into the outer darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 8:12). In Mark 9:43,
Jesus said about hell “…where their worm dies not, and the fire is not
quenched.” And this torment, this pain, is forever and ever. Once you
understand the seriousness of hell, you do not want to gamble or take chances
with eternity. You do not want to go there. You do not want your loved ones to
go there. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The rich man cried out
from the place of torment for his five brothers that they should not come to
the place where he is to join in his predicament. If any of your friends or
relatives may have died without Christ, they might be crying from the place of
torment for you. Father Abraham, please send someone lest my brother, my
sister, my son, my daughter, or my friend also come to this place of torment.
This place of torment is originally not prepared for you and me. We read in
Matthew 25:41, “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from
Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his
angels…” The lake of fire was originally prepared for the devil and his angels.
The whole human race is condemned because of Adam’s fall. That is the bad
news. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The bad news is
even <b>compounded </b>when we realize that there is nothing we can
do about it to save ourselves from our sin and the wrath of God. In many
religions of the world, people realize that there is a sin problem. Their
remedy is for you to earn your salvation by doing good deeds to outweigh bad
deeds. Unfortunately, our good deeds will amount to nothing before the Holy God
in our fallen, sinful state. “And all our righteous deeds are like polluted garment”
(Isa. 64:6). You and I need to be saved from the wrath of a holy and just God.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">The Good News</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Because God is loving
and compassionate, He does not want us to be condemned to hell for eternity. He
sent His only Son to pay the price for the sins of all mankind. “But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us” (Rom 5:8). The Bible says, “But when the fullness of the time had
come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons” (Gal
4:4). The good news is also multiplied when we realize that God not only
delivered us from the curse and penalty of our sins but made us joint-heirs
with Jesus Christ. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">This good news was
proclaimed to the shepherds nearly 2000 years ago. “And the angel said to them,
“Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all
the people. Today in the City of David a Savior has been born to you. He is
Christ the Lord!” (Luke 2:10). When we repent of our sins and place our faith
in Christ, he will forgive our sins and deliver us from the evil one. “He has
delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the
Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins” (Col 1:13). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">And some falsely say
that God is love and He will not send anyone to hell. How can a loving God send
someone to hell for eternity? My dear friends, because God does not want anyone
to perish in the eternal lake of fire, He sent His son. Christ died for all and
gave us the gift of salvation, but you and I need to accept that gift in faith.
If you do not accept that gift of salvation through faith, it does not belong
to you, and you are still under condemnation. And you cannot blame God for your
refusal to accept His gift of salvation. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">Gospel – Theme</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“For I delivered to
you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the
third day according to the Scriptures… For since by a man came death, by a man
also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in
Christ all will be made alive.” (1 Cor. 15:3-4, 21). If there is any other way
to earn your salvation, Christ died in vain. Jesus prayed in the garden of
Gethsemane, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me;
nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42). “Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise Him” (Isa. 53:10). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Jesus died and rose
again, and the tomb is empty. He is going to come back as the Judge. Timothy
Keller has written: “If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all
that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what
he said?” Understanding His incarnation, death, burial, and resurrection is key
to one’s salvation. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When writing to the
Corinthians in his first epistle, Apostle Paul says, “My brothers and sisters,
I firmly affirmed (declared) the gospel to you.” And he lists four things: 1)
First, he says, I preached the gospel to you, 2) you received it, 3) you stand
on it, and 4) you are saved by it. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">Paul preached the
gospel</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Paul did not back away
from preaching the gospel. In fact, he says in 1 Corinthians 9:16 “Woe to me if
I do not preach the gospel!” Sadly, some churches stopped preaching the gospel
of Jesus Christ. They will tell you how to live a moral life. They will tell
you how to have a happy life. In fact, I saw a book written by a well-known
preacher, “Your Best Life Now.” Really? I thought our best life is yet to come
when we see our Lord and Savior face to face.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Jesus also said, “The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the
gospel…” (Luke 4:18). Not only he preached the gospel, but he also sent His
disciples to go and preach the gospel. (Luke 9:2). He later gives the great
commission by saying, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to
everyone.” (Mark 16:15). Preaching the gospel has to be the primary goal of the
church. Paul makes a compelling case about the importance of preaching the gospel.
“1How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall
they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear
without a preacher?” (Rom. 10:14). “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing
by the Word of God.” (Rom. 10:17). What is Paul’s argument here? If you don’t
preach the gospel, how can the people get saved? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When we as a church do
not preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, we will become just a circus, juggling a
few things here and there. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">You Received it </span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When Paul preached the
gospel, the Corinthians received it. If one does not receive the word of God
that was preached, then Satan comes and takes away the word of God. Jesus
compared this to a way-side soil where the birds came and take the seed that was
sown. So, when a person hears the gospel one needs to respond to it by
receiving and understanding it and applying it to their lives bearing good
fruit. “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into
the fire” (Matt. 7:19). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">You Stand on It </span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">What does it mean to
stand on the gospel? Jesus said in Matthew 7:24-25, “Therefore whoever hears
these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built
his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds
blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the
rock.” (Matt. 7:24-25). If you want to stand on the gospel, you need to obey
His word. “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are
deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The Hymn writer Edward
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">M</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">y hope is built on nothing less </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">Than Jesus’ blood and
righteousness; </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">I dare not trust the
sweetest frame, </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">B</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">ut wholly lean on Jesus’ name. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;"><b>O</b>n Christ, the solid
Rock, I stand; </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">All other ground is
sinking sand, </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif;">All other ground is
sinking sand. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">You are Saved by
It </span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Paul makes it
abundantly clear that it is by the gospel you are saved. “…(that is, the word
of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be
saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation” (Rom. 10:8-10). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Many people are
deceiving themselves. They think they are saved because they go to church on
Sunday morning. Others believe they are saved because they believe in a god.
Many believe in the God of their own making. James says in his epistle, “You
believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But
are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is
useless?” (James 2:19-20). James calls this dead faith. From Monday thru
Saturday, no thought of God. Their language and lifestyle will be the same as
that of the world. “…Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity
with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of God” (James 4:4). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Sometimes when people
say they believe in Jesus, I was tempted to ask them, which Jesus? Is that the
Jesus of Islam or the Jesus of Mormons? Or are you believing in the Jesus of
the Bible? Is that the Jesus who died according to the scriptures? “But He was
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed”
(Isa. 53:5). Is that the Jesus who said take up the cross and follow me? Is it
the Jesus who said, “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may
have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have
overcome the world” ( John 16:33). Is it the Jesus who said there are two gates
broad and narrow, “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the
way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through
it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there
are few who find it” (Matt. 7:13-14). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Have you ever
convicted of your sins by the Holy Spirit and asked God for forgiveness? We see
Peter repenting, “And he went out and wept bitterly” (Luke 22:61). “For the
sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without
regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death” (2
Cor. 7: 10). Peter’s sorrow was godly sorrow, that led him to repentance.
Judas’s sorrow was worldly sorrow that led him to hang himself and die. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“If we say that we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and
His word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-9). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Sometimes we justify
our sinful behavior. We say, “everyone is doing it. The culture has changed,
and we will follow the culture.” My dear people, let me remind you that our
Lord, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do not be
carried away by varied and strange teachings…” (Heb 13:8-9). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Jesus told Nicodemus,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again (or born by the spirit)
he cannot see the kingdom of God….” (John 3:5). When you are born of the Spirit
there will be fruit evident in your life. Jesus said, “Every tree that does not
bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will know
them by their fruits. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter
the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven
will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name
perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;
depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness” (Matt. 7:19-23). When a person is
truly saved he or she will desire to have fellowship with God and fellowship
with God’s children. “Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is
not His” (Romans 8:7-9). Are you walking in the Spirit or walking in the
flesh? </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">The Power of the
Gospel</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">It is one thing to
say, “Humanity fell into sin and Christ died for sinful human beings” and quite
another to say, “I am a sinner and Christ died for me.” The gospel is the
relational connection between you and Jesus. You need to have a relationship
with Jesus not a religion. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone
who believes…For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to
faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith.’” (Rom 1:15-17). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“Let this mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not
consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation,
taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being
found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the
point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly
exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and
of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:5-11). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">There is another life
to which we are now being prepared</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">This life is not the
end; this is the beginning. Christ has purchased for us eternal life. God
refines us through sufferings in this life to make us to be like Christ. “If in
this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.” (1
Cor 15:19). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">As God is preparing us
on earth to be Christ-like, He is preparing a place for us in heaven. “In My
Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be
also” (John 14:2-3). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">The second coming of
Jesus Christ</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“But I do not want you
to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you
sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">15 For this we say to
you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming
of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord
Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we
who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18
Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thes 4:13-18). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“For many walk, of
whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the
enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their
belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be
conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able
even to subdue all things to Himself” (Phil. 3:18-21). Paul, writing to his
protégé in 2 Timothy 4:1, says, “Jesus Christ will judge the living and the
dead at His appearing.” </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">Conclusion</span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“Preach the word! Be
ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all
longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching
ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears
away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all
things, <b>endure afflictions</b>, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill
your ministry.” (2 Tim. 4:2-4). If you are convicted by the Holy Spirit, that
is a good think. Do not quench the Spirit. Godly sorrow produces repentance
which leads to salvation. Submit to God. Surrender your life to God. All the
time you are failing trying to be good, because you are trying to do the
religion in your strength rather than walking in the Spirit.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">For those who are
already saved and washed in His blood, Do you fear sharing your faith because
you might get rejected and feel like you failed? You always win when you share
Christ. If they respond in faith in Christ, then it is obviously a win. If they
have no response at all, then you have won by planting a seed. Trust God with
the results. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">“Reminding ourselves
of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.” Do you
remind yourself of the gospel every day? Do you recount the joy of your
salvation? If you want to grow in the relationship with Christ, share the
gospel with others. It is not optional for you and I to share this glorious
gospel. Jesus commanded, saying, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who
does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:15). Was there a time in your life
that you repented of your sins and confessed and accepted Jesus as your
personal savior? If not, you are not saved. You need to be saved by the Spirit
of God. Please do not gamble with eternity. If you truly understand the horrors
of hell, you do not want to go there; you do not want your loved ones to go
there. Are you saved? I mean, are you truly saved by His blood? Do you have a
relationship with God? If not, you are just hanging by a thread to fall into
the lake of fire. Our life is like water vapor; it will soon disappear. C.T.
Studd, the British cricketer and missionary to China, wrote: </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a;">“<i>Only one life,
’twill soon be past, </i></span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="color: #0e101a;">Only what’s done for
Christ will last.” </span></i></b><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This article was transcribed from the following video message: <a href="https://youtu.be/BOvgPub1h4o">What is the gospel? your eternity depends on it</a></span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span></span>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-80336890421019989062021-05-27T23:22:00.006-07:002021-05-30T11:12:35.064-07:00 From Dungeon to Throne<p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">From Prisoner to the Protector of Egypt<br /></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Joseph was a handsome young lad when God gave him dreams. The
essence of his dreams, which God gave him, foretold that his brothers, father,
and mother would bow down before him. The brothers were envious of Joseph
because of his dreams. Even his father, Israel, rebuked him because of such
dreams. It would be unthinkable, especially in that culture, for a father to bow
down to a son. What could Joseph do? These dreams were given by God, who knows
the future. Who knows the beginning from the end. Although his father rebuked
him yet, being a godly man, he "kept the matter in mind" (Gen.
37:11). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNpD22dVV9GIeATXDU9Qn2vchTvWdSZO-YqUqB2eBxUer1qpnG9zuOACIkfmHWdCH93zyHmIfGe9qje5KX35MSfDIFucGhGuezrKbSZTlo3hz15VjMMxWhDSY7CE0ucmdbaWLQiselBLC/s995/JosephEgypt.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="795" height="787" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNpD22dVV9GIeATXDU9Qn2vchTvWdSZO-YqUqB2eBxUer1qpnG9zuOACIkfmHWdCH93zyHmIfGe9qje5KX35MSfDIFucGhGuezrKbSZTlo3hz15VjMMxWhDSY7CE0ucmdbaWLQiselBLC/w630-h787/JosephEgypt.JPG" width="630" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Sometimes people want to fight against God and His plans.
Joseph's brothers tried to kill him and said to one another, let's kill him.
"We shall see what will become of his dreams!" People think they can
thwart the plans of God. But it is hard to fight against God, His plans, and
His people. In the New Testament, Saul was one such fellow who wanted to fight
against God and His people. Jesus confronted him and said,"Saul, Saul,
why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads"
(Acts 26:14).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Joseph's brothers thought they could get rid of his brother. So,
they sold him to Ishmaelites, and they sold him to Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh and captain of the guard in Egypt. His brothers thought Joseph's story
was over. But, the Bible records, "<b>The Lord was with Joseph</b>, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority" (Gen. 39:2-4).</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">When you are in the perfect will of God, you do not have to fear
because God will be with you, as He was with Joseph. God will give you peace
even in the midst of calamity. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> <span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Joseph was a handsome young man. Potiphar’s wife started to
tempt Joseph and asked him to sleep with her. "So it was, as she spoke to
Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with
her" ( Gen. 39:10). Joseph responded to her by saying,"
"Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has
committed all that he has to my hand. 9 There is no one greater in this house
than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, <b>because you are his
wife.</b> <b>How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?</b>" (Gen. 39:8-9). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">One day, his master's wife saw Joseph alone in the house, and
she grabbed him and forced him to lie with her. Joseph left his garment in her
hand and fled and ran outside. When his master came home, she accused Joseph of
attempted rape and showed him Joseph's garment that he left with her when he
fled.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">I do not think, Potiphar believed her story. If he had believed
in her version, he would have Joseph killed, for he is the chief executioner.
Instead, he sent him to prison to save his face. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">After Joseph was thrown in prison, the Bible records again,
"the Lord was with Joseph" (Gen. 39:21). Joseph stayed in prison for
years. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">One day Pharaoh had a couple of dreams which perturbed him
greatly. He called for help to interpret the dreams, and no one in all his
kingdom could interpret his dreams. The chief butler informed Pharaoh about
Joseph how he interpreted his dream when he was thrown in prison. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Immediately, Pharaoh sent for Joseph in the dungeon. Probably a
band of soldiers when to the prison and pulled Joseph out of prison. They
probably might have taken him straight to "The Great Clips" and gave
him a nice haircut, shaved his beard, put nice robes, brought him, and
presented him before Pharaoh. All the while, Joseph did not understand what was
going on. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Joseph stood before Pharaoh. After Pharaoh revealed his dreams
to Joseph, he answered to Pharaoh and said, "It is not in me; God will
give Pharaoh an answer of peace" (Gen. 41:16). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Joseph interpreted the dream and explained how there would be
seven years of plenty followed by seven years of severe famine, and God has
warned Pharaoh to save during the time of plenty so they can survive during the
time of famine. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one
as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,
"Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> and wise as you. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you" (Gen. 41:38-40). </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">God pulled Joseph out of the dungeon and set him up on a throne,
second in command in all of Egypt. Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand
and put it on Joseph's hand. He clothed him with royal garments, put a gold
chain around his neck, and gave him a "Rolls-Royce" for travel. He
proclaimed, without Joseph's permission, "no man may lift his hand or foot
in all the land of Egypt." Pharaoh gave him a beautiful wife, Asenath. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">I can only imagine; Potiphar went home and probably told his
wife, "Guess what?, from now on, I am going to report to that guy whom you
accused of rape". </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Later, when the famine was so harsh in every country, Joseph's
father, brothers, and families were all moved to Egypt. They all came and bowed
down before Joseph. Joseph's brothers thought they got rid of their brother and
his dreams with him. But they did not realize those are God's dreams, and no
one can nullify those God-given dreams. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">When the brothers were terrified to see Joseph in such an
elevated position, they fell before him to the ground. Joseph said to his brothers, "you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good." <br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Dear reader, I do not know what situation you are going through.
But, if you honor God and run away from sin, He will be with you even in the dungeon.
He took Joseph out of the dungeon and set him up on a throne. "If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). Jesus said, "Behold, I
stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I
will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me" (Rev. 3:20).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> </span><span><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.mydailydevotion.org/2020/07/how-can-loving-god-send-someone-to-hell.html" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Click here to read my previous article on “How can a loving God send someone to hell?”</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<p> </p>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-29408697976145904112021-05-25T21:55:00.003-07:002021-05-30T11:13:44.137-07:00Life is short; Eternity is long<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Life is short;
Eternity is long</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Two weeks ago, our
doorbell rang as I attended to the door, there stood a man with a huge bouquet
of flowers. My brother-in-law and his family ordered flowers and a box of
chocolates for my special birthday from Australia. It was quite a surprise as I
wasn't expecting anything, especially from across the great ocean. The flower
arrangement was gorgeous with a variety of flowers.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCk0LBEDkYOckehrE7eyfLSJo7MVM7CVbboaj_hxA7JKUPmpcczkztr0U0qbtgcpCE75_gqzrRov_hTsA3sWP8MROhrnOvQLadAz9uHV9-G5beMTW8Zfrb5P0Gx20iAOrVVbPWK1s6tnc/s2048/IMG-7058%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="787" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCk0LBEDkYOckehrE7eyfLSJo7MVM7CVbboaj_hxA7JKUPmpcczkztr0U0qbtgcpCE75_gqzrRov_hTsA3sWP8MROhrnOvQLadAz9uHV9-G5beMTW8Zfrb5P0Gx20iAOrVVbPWK1s6tnc/w591-h787/IMG-7058%25281%2529.jpg" width="591" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Two weeks passed, and the flowers faded, and I must throw them
away. I was not pleased to discard these flowers but did it anyway, of course,
reluctantly.</span> It reminded me of the brevity of our lives. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">The prophet <b>Isaiah</b>
writes, </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">"All flesh is grass,</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">The grass withers, the flower fades</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">when the breath of the Lord blows on it;</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">surely the people are grass.</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">The grass withers, the flower fades,</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">but the word of our God will stand forever" </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">(Isaiah 40:6-8).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3C7vgW97uIY-jnaim2dtkSTWvBHjZTLMzBSbjl0V_Vz4sB9ZGmdz2uHvuE55ij1DdZTQ6khO0op4R0vkwg9SYlkPfLNU4ZteN1ZlJMCdtwWcH44-FJvaw4ik-F0tq58m-lnjh1Z4FTpDj/s2048/IMG-7086%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3C7vgW97uIY-jnaim2dtkSTWvBHjZTLMzBSbjl0V_Vz4sB9ZGmdz2uHvuE55ij1DdZTQ6khO0op4R0vkwg9SYlkPfLNU4ZteN1ZlJMCdtwWcH44-FJvaw4ik-F0tq58m-lnjh1Z4FTpDj/w379-h505/IMG-7086%25281%2529.jpg" width="379" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">In the Psalms, <b>King David</b> also expresses a similar thought, </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">"As for man, his days are like grass;</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">he flourishes like a flower of the field;</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></div><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">and its place knows it no more" (Psalms 103:15-16).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"><b>James</b>, the half-brother of Jesus, warns not to boast about
tomorrow. </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">"Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to
such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a
profit"; <span> </span>whereas you do not know
what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that
appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say,
"If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." But now you
boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows
to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" (James 4:13-17). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">For every unsaved person, of course, the first act of sanity is
to accept Christ as Savior and make sure that the proper destination is reached
when the exodus occurs. How do you get that sanity? Moses, in Psalm 90, prays,
"Lord,... <b>So teach us to number our days</b>, that we may gain a heart of
wisdom" (Psalms 90:12).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">The Apostle Paul exhorts the Ephesians to "Look carefully then <b>how you walk, not as unwise but as wise</b>, <b>making the best use of the time</b>, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:15-16).</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> <br /></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">The best use of time in ones' life is to seek the Lord. There is
no more incredible task in life than to follow Jesus Christ. The author of the
Hebrews promises that God is "a rewarder of those who diligently seek
Him." (Heb. 11:5).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Some people just run after money. They do not have a moment to
think about God. In the parable of the rich fool, "But God said to him,
'You fool! <i>This very night your life is demanded of you.</i> And the things you
have prepared — whose will they be?' "That's how it is with the one who
stores up treasure for himself <i>and is not rich toward God</i>" (Luke 12:20-21).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">I love the quote
from the English cricketer, and missionary to China, Charles Thomas Studd (C.
T. Studd), </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
<span data-preserver-spaces="true">
</span></span><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><i><b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">"Only one
life, 'twill soon be past,</span></b></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><i><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia", serif; line-height: 150%;">Only what's done for Christ will last."</span></b></span></i></p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">
</span></span><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"></p></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="6"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> </span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> </span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-55994500211581484492021-05-24T12:16:00.002-07:002021-05-24T19:46:23.193-07:00The sign of the scarlet cord<p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">The sign of the </span></b></span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">scarlet cord </span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Rahab was a prostitute
in Jericho. Her house was on the city wall. People come and go to her home
without being noticed. When Joshua sent two spies to scout out the land around
Jericho, they went to the house of Rahab. But someone told the king of Jericho,
"Some Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land." So the
king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab: "Bring out the men who have come
into your house, for they have come here to spy out the whole land." But
Rahab hid the two spies and told the king's officers that the men who came to
her had already left. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBJdZ-0fs8G109lzXnsa3RTpCSEDQ_KCD43snDljZE2B_Pgla3XLFVGP-exOF2qIHWD2HyMwlSugUBhslEm7xmuV51UFIZy30UOWTB37fdv4I7GnXyxyn4_TER6r91wreAYLepJMtOXQq/s789/Rahab.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="789" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBJdZ-0fs8G109lzXnsa3RTpCSEDQ_KCD43snDljZE2B_Pgla3XLFVGP-exOF2qIHWD2HyMwlSugUBhslEm7xmuV51UFIZy30UOWTB37fdv4I7GnXyxyn4_TER6r91wreAYLepJMtOXQq/w682-h499/Rahab.png" width="682" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Later, Rahab went up on the roof where she hid the two spies and
talked with them. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>She acknowledged the God of Israel is
the true God</b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>.</b><span style="color: #0e101a;"> She said our hearts melted when we heard about
the miracles your God performed to deliver the Israelites from Egypt, how the
Lord made a dry path through the Red Sea. And how He helped Israel defeat their
enemies on the way. She believed God of Israel is going to give Jericho also
into the hands of Israel. </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Once she realized she and her relatives were in danger, she
helped the spies by hiding them and asked them to spare her life when they
conquer the land. The men agreed and said, "Behold, when we come into the
land, </span><b><span style="color: red;">you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window </span></b><span style="color: #0e101a;">through which you let us
down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your
brothers, and all your father's household" (Joshua 2:18).</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtksXBNBhx3TKu2S7e8ir0jfU4ff9rbFiAe6BqmdFdDi4yiUB4Vc1xT8Ef3vOiEu4WbSjKidoO4slibpuIwp9Cr_AV976wEx4pEADa0ZUi4yQJQS4cdfbpdNRr-rNUEp8c9SiB5C4qNUDS/s600/Scarlet_Cord.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtksXBNBhx3TKu2S7e8ir0jfU4ff9rbFiAe6BqmdFdDi4yiUB4Vc1xT8Ef3vOiEu4WbSjKidoO4slibpuIwp9Cr_AV976wEx4pEADa0ZUi4yQJQS4cdfbpdNRr-rNUEp8c9SiB5C4qNUDS/w739-h415/Scarlet_Cord.jpg" width="739" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /><o:p><br /></o:p></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>The scarlet cord represents safety for all those who would believe
and come for protection.</b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b> </b><span style="color: red;"><b>The scarlet rope is a sign of protection.
</b></span><span style="color: #0e101a;">The people who are outside the house that was marked with a scarlet cord were
in grave danger. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Later, Rahab married Salmon and gave birth to Boaz. "Boaz
fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse. Jesse fathered ... David" (1
Chronicles 2:12-13). Because of her faith in the God of Israel, Rahab became
the great-great-grandmother of David and whose line the Messiah was born. No matter how sinful your past may be, Jesus can turn around your life when you repent and surrender your life to Him. When Rahab put her faith in the one true living God, He turned a prostitute to be counted in the genealogy of Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:5).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">The sign of the </span></b></span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">blood on doorposts<br /></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When Israel came out of Egypt, the Lord told Moses that the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel should kill their lambs at
twilight. "Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two
doorposts and the lintel of the houses ...</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are.</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>And when I see the blood, I will pass over you</b></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>,</b> and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt" ( Exodus 12:6-7, 13). Those whose houses were marked by the blood were saved. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnV4sHwyZASYfZ_qtWA0wbMxLINdb0YFb-KLcUw5izCRTacp026_FjyWy1UcEx3O-mrbPLPZTaOn0lLrBsjmnlw_xHD_OUX1swJRi301_KK3PV8CQWrw8rK5w6EpFGBzBPkJcD3-8J8YRn/s2048/Lamb_jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnV4sHwyZASYfZ_qtWA0wbMxLINdb0YFb-KLcUw5izCRTacp026_FjyWy1UcEx3O-mrbPLPZTaOn0lLrBsjmnlw_xHD_OUX1swJRi301_KK3PV8CQWrw8rK5w6EpFGBzBPkJcD3-8J8YRn/w676-h508/Lamb_jpg.jpg" width="676" /></a></span></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">The sign of the </span></b></span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">blood on the cross</span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span> <br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In the New Testament, Jesus was the Passover lamb. "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29).</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As the writer
of the Hebrews notes, "For it was indeed fitting that we should have such
a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted
above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices
daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did
this once for all when he offered up himself" (Hebrews 7:26-27).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">"Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with
blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins
(Hebrews 9:22). Jesus Christ came into this world, lived a perfect life, <span style="color: red;">and
shed his precious blood on the cruel cross for the sins of humanity</span>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Those who came inside the house where the lamb's blood is
applied on the doorposts were saved. Those who went inside the house where the
scarlet cord was tied were saved. Similarly, those who come under the blood of
Christ will be saved. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">To come under the protection of the blood of Christ is to repent
of one's sins and accept Him as Lord and Savior. "For the Son of Man has
come to save that which was lost (Matthew 18:11).</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that <b><span style="color: red;">whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life</span></b>" (John 3:14-15).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">"But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, <b><span style="color: red;">and the <u>blood of Jesus Christ</u> His Son cleanses us from all sin. </span></b>... If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1
John 1:7,9).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Dear friend, if you are reading this, it is not too late to go to Jesus Christ and confess your sins and receive the gift of salvation by faith. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"> <span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.mydailydevotion.org/2020/07/how-can-loving-god-send-someone-to-hell.html" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Click here to read my previous article on “How can a loving God send someone to hell?”</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Every person should know, what is the Church?</span></b></span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">What is the Church?
Many people think of Church as a building where Christians gather for worship
on a Sunday. The Church (</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">ἐ</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">κκλησία</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> ekkl</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">ē</span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">sia) is a unique entity revealed and ordained by God and came
into existence at the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came upon the
believers. The true meaning of "ekklēsia" is the "called out
ones." Jesus started building His Church by calling out people to
repentance and turn to Him. Jesus said, "... I will build My church, and
the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18). Jesus is
the One who is building the Church. </span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXryPfmsIsdXPhTEWBx8b5iy5LUAoYOaZz2ih-4VvVpq0uriLgc3QkVMPd2XkuT86SU_PCdbSzDqc3ggil2BPMolFKZFKocfTgL0ifjXVglpWEz80aVJwwR5Do2C3QqbVIl_vzk20j4edb/s2048/BrideFreePic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXryPfmsIsdXPhTEWBx8b5iy5LUAoYOaZz2ih-4VvVpq0uriLgc3QkVMPd2XkuT86SU_PCdbSzDqc3ggil2BPMolFKZFKocfTgL0ifjXVglpWEz80aVJwwR5Do2C3QqbVIl_vzk20j4edb/w825-h464/BrideFreePic.jpg" width="825" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The Church, a group of people who are
called out and set apart for the glory of God. God's view of the Church is seen
as described by apostle Paul, "but you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the
praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who
once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained
mercy but now have obtained mercy" (1 Peter 2:9-10). The job of the Church
is to keep herself holy and "proclaim the praises of Him who called them
out of darkness into His marvelous light." Apostle Paul writes, "He
has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of
the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins" (Colossians 1:13-14). The Church submits to Christ's
authority as He is the Head of the Church. The relationship between Christ and
the Church is likened to a bridegroom and a bride. "For I am jealous for
you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ" (2 Cor. 11:2). The Holy Spirit
is sanctifying the Church as a bride for the marriage. Paul also writes,
"that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot
or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without
blemish" (Eph. 5:27). The Church was born on the day of Pentecost will be
taken up to heaven at the Rapture. The Church will be presented as a bride for
the Bridegroom Jesus Christ. "Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him
glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself
ready" (Rev. 19:7).</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The Beginning of the Church</span></span></b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">There is no concept of the Church in the Old Testament. It was a
mystery until it was revealed later in the New Testament. Sometimes people
wrongly equate the Old Testament Israel with the Church in the New Testament.
John the Baptist rightly understood this and acknowledged he was not part of
the Church. He calls himself the friend of the bridegroom (Jesus) but not the
bride. "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the
bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the
bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled (John 3:29). Jesus
also said, "The law and the prophets were until John" (Luke 16:16).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Later, Jesus told His disciples that He must go to the Father in
order to send the Holy Spirit to them. "Nevertheless I (Jesus) tell you
the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the
Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when
He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment" (John 16:7-8). </span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Later, after His
death, burial, and resurrection, "He (Jesus) was taken up, after He
through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had
chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many
infallible proofs, being seen by them </span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">during </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-weight: normal;">forty days</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom
of God" (Acts 1:2-3). Just before his ascension, Jesus said to His
disciples, "tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power
from on high" (Luke 24:49). Just like He promised, after seven days after
His ascension, "when the </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-weight: normal;">Day of Pentecost</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">had fully come, they were all with one accord in one
place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there
appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 2:1-4). Thus, the Church
was formally born with the anointing and the visible presence of the Holy
Spirit.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcr5eQhMZI9NWAeY2VcA_qmNjPnMtZCBlzumGZp0St5nyd9KfvJQ01HQVS3tC2DBfy3bY8TeFNbVDzrZ_jsu-6qvSBxgRrDGKmoJwlNWdYx7AalFUyaOWDG4Bs_iL50ozdapHXnZwXsuQp/s946/GTCapture.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="946" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcr5eQhMZI9NWAeY2VcA_qmNjPnMtZCBlzumGZp0St5nyd9KfvJQ01HQVS3tC2DBfy3bY8TeFNbVDzrZ_jsu-6qvSBxgRrDGKmoJwlNWdYx7AalFUyaOWDG4Bs_iL50ozdapHXnZwXsuQp/w856-h269/GTCapture.JPG" width="856" /></a></div><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true"></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> The Church will be raptured before the whole world will be
plunged into the great tribulation that will come upon the whole earth. The
Holy Spirit also the Restrainer who dwells in a believer will be taken out of
the way at the Rapture. The apostle Paul writes, "For the mystery of
lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He
is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the
Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness
of His coming" (2 Thess. 2:7-8). Paul describes, after the Church is
raptured, then the Antichrist will be revealed. After the Church is taken out
of the way, the focus will go back to the Jewish people to fulfill Daniel's
seventieth week for seven years.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><b><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Message to the Church while awaiting
the Rapture</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The message to the Church is as follows:</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Be faithful until death, and I will
give you the crown of life (Rev. 2:10).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">To him who overcomes I will give to
eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God (Rev.
2:7).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">And he who overcomes, and keeps My
works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—‘He shall rule
them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's
vessels’—as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the
morning star (Rev. 2:26-28).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">He who overcomes shall be clothed in
white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I
will confess his name before My Father and before His angels (Rev. 3:5).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">He who overcomes, I will make him a
pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on
him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem,
which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name
(Rev. 3:12).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">To him who overcomes I will grant to
sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His
throne (Rev. 3:21).</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear reader, we are
now in the church age. Have you repented of your sins and asked Jesus Christ to
be your Lord and Savior? It is a terrible thing to be left behind when Christ
comes for His bride the Church at the Rapture. The world will experience
unimaginable hardship on this earth under the Antichrist. Don't trust your good
works. Bible says "...we are all like an unclean thing, And all our
righteousness are like filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6). The only righteousness
that is valid before God is Christ's righteousness by removing our
unrighteousness. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John
1:9).</span></p>
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<![endif]-->MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-22725820478919484862021-05-12T23:13:00.013-07:002021-05-14T09:40:12.335-07:00<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span>Do you want to know what will happen next in the Middle East?</span></span></span> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Will there be peace in the Middle East? Who is going to win the Israel Palestinian conflict? When the
tensions go high between Israel and Arab nations, people want to know what will
happen next. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFEQFDAw9bT_04Wo42Z1N4k0uzt_jtzSI7qMckrtd5pW4iRpkkUDqC6d-i_ZTTxW0Od-rySocXb68zF0VwCWF3-lDGXuUPxmW4ggnbdN1DslQeWPHK1Y1afVGQSAmdPjzPMg_zK_LlSSS/s976/Israel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFEQFDAw9bT_04Wo42Z1N4k0uzt_jtzSI7qMckrtd5pW4iRpkkUDqC6d-i_ZTTxW0Od-rySocXb68zF0VwCWF3-lDGXuUPxmW4ggnbdN1DslQeWPHK1Y1afVGQSAmdPjzPMg_zK_LlSSS/w756-h425/Israel.jpg" width="756" /></a></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">I
want to explain what is going to happen in the Middle East. I am not writing
what will happen in the future because I am a prophet. "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet" (Amos 7:14). <b>I am writing the future because
I study the prophets.</b> Some of the things I am writing here may seem
preposterous to a few people.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iUsAbbVwoMJxV38FqxpBNaoaBTSR1eHczKC_lZ-gSGPPFlFphdc0zbES1vFyIcieJeIw8K0UE72jr0wwARPcx_J1kpG08gl2SWhKFNwoa8SoPT0DRbGLAOyt-D78g7dQSiBAywoJ9sBL/s2048/10jerusalem1-videoSixteenByNine3000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iUsAbbVwoMJxV38FqxpBNaoaBTSR1eHczKC_lZ-gSGPPFlFphdc0zbES1vFyIcieJeIw8K0UE72jr0wwARPcx_J1kpG08gl2SWhKFNwoa8SoPT0DRbGLAOyt-D78g7dQSiBAywoJ9sBL/w749-h421/10jerusalem1-videoSixteenByNine3000.jpg" width="749" /></a></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Before
1948, when some pastors preached from the Bible that God will bring back the
nation of Israel, many scoffed at them. For almost 1900 years, there was no
nation Israel, said the unbelievers. Scoffers questioned how a nation could
come back that has gone out of existence for 1900 years. For man, it is
impossible, but for God, all things are possible. In fact, God can bring a
nation in one day just like the prophet Isaiah foretold:</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> "Who
has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Can a land be born in one day</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">?</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Can a nation be brought forth all at once?</span></b></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> As
soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons” (Isaiah 66:8).</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">On
May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Jewish</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> Agency,
proclaimed the establishment of the </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">State</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> of
Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation</span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> on the same day. </span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The prophecy came to fulfillment, and the nation
Israel was born in one day. And the rest is history. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Tz8qelT4apybddeytpqPI5liS-n9FF6wDXa9fEqVpq8Z1azQABd2S3rZBktHEVrLjKzt5Qi7YV46TOxhkMA5iruIraXpIQG91Alsn835Nm7HJJk8SokA_xpP1Xq9Vu6z5FYqijqLhFwM/s1060/israel-rebirth-newspaper.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="1060" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Tz8qelT4apybddeytpqPI5liS-n9FF6wDXa9fEqVpq8Z1azQABd2S3rZBktHEVrLjKzt5Qi7YV46TOxhkMA5iruIraXpIQG91Alsn835Nm7HJJk8SokA_xpP1Xq9Vu6z5FYqijqLhFwM/w786-h285/israel-rebirth-newspaper.png" width="786" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">This
should make the reader curious after seeing the fulfillment of a prophecy
written during 750 BC. There are several prophecies concerning Israel that are
yet to be fulfilled. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> <span style="color: #0e101a;">In
the last days, the Jewish Temple will be rebuilt, and the temple sacrifices
restored. Looking at the TV screens and watching the tensions flaring up in the
Temple Mount recently, it appears, rebuilding the Jewish temple is an impossible
task. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> <span style="color: #0e101a;">With
all the details in my head, someday I will write a book, but for now, I should keep this
short. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> <span style="color: #0e101a;">According
to the Bible, we are now living in the "Church Age". When the rapture
happens, all the truly born-again, born by the spirit Christians, both living
and dead, will be taken out of this world with a glorified body. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> <span style="color: #0e101a;">The
Apostle Paul writes, </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">"… the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a
cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the
trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive,
who are left, <b>will be caught up together with them in the clouds</b> to meet the
Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians
4:16-17).</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> <span style="color: #0e101a;">As
millions of people disappear into thin air at the rapture, the corrupt
mainstream media will convince the people left behind as some radiation or an
alien invasion that caused the people to disappear. There will be lawlessness
and turmoil in a scale the world has never seen. Out of the chaos, an
insignificant leader emerges into the center stage and usurps power over many
nations. The Bible calls this leader the Antichrist. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcUwWLHGS0Zu5g9U-AK9q_QrSvBSNbpRRHK0_R3PUBkRyKk-Vw0q-jy8bnOvDbDBgUtTFyYR2rv_SYvLCPqAxgxJRKP8IjfDBgYmEdwaxvgccKiG7dmwW2kgZd4KEbMZIU1Y-qEa7bHPf/s946/GTCapture.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="946" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcUwWLHGS0Zu5g9U-AK9q_QrSvBSNbpRRHK0_R3PUBkRyKk-Vw0q-jy8bnOvDbDBgUtTFyYR2rv_SYvLCPqAxgxJRKP8IjfDBgYmEdwaxvgccKiG7dmwW2kgZd4KEbMZIU1Y-qEa7bHPf/w641-h202/GTCapture.JPG" width="641" /></a></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The
Antichrist will sign peace treaties with many nations and Israel for seven
years (one week of years). It's ironic that Israel rejected their Messiah (the
Christ) but accepts the Antichrist. By this time, Israel will have its temple
rebuilt and the sacrificial system restored. The Antichrist will break his covenant
in the middle of the seven-year treaty and halts the sacrifices in the temple.
He enters the temple and declares himself as god. He begins persecuting the
Jewish people in order to annihilate them. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The
next three and half years is the great tribulation. The great tribulation is a
time of unprecedented suffering, especially for the Jewish people. It is also
called the "Jacob's trouble." Many of them will flee to Petra. The
Antichrist and his armies will ravage Israel. As the prophet Joel describes,
they "have cast lots for my people, <b>and have traded a boy for a
prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it</b>" (Joel 3:3).
If you think the holocaust was the biggest tragedy for the Jewish people, six
million Jewish people were killed, it will be nothing compared to what is going
to happen during the time of the Antichrist. It is estimated that one in three Jews
were killed during the holocaust. In the great tribulation, two out of three Jews
will be killed. When the nation Israel goes through the tribulation, they
realize their great sin of crucifying their Christ (Messiah) and accepting the
Antichrist. The prophet Zechariah wrote,</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">"In the whole land, declares the
Lord,</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">two
thirds shall be cut off and perish,</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">and
one third shall be left alive.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">And
I will put this third into the fire,</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">and
refine them as one refines silver,</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">and
test them as gold is tested.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">They
will call upon my name,</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">and
I will answer them.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">I
will say, 'They are my people';</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">and
they will say, 'The Lord is my God" (Zechariah 13:8-9).</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Until
the Church is raptured, and Israel goes through the tribulation, a
partial hardening has come upon the Jewish people. When they repent and call for their Messiah, whom they crucified, then all Israel will be saved. The Apostle
Paul writes, </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">"... a partial hardening has come upon Israel, </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is
written, </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">"The Deliverer will
come from Zion,</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">he will banish
ungodliness from Jacob";</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> "and this
will be my covenant with them</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">when I take away their
sins" (Romans 11:25-27).</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">At the end of the seven-year tribulation period, Jesus Christ will come back and destroy Antichrist and establish his kingdom. When the Prince of Peace comes, there will be peace in Jerusalem. Until then, there will be no peace. There will be no peace without the Prince of Peace. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Dear
reader, if you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, the next event that
happens is the rapture. If you only have a religion and not a relationship, you
will be left behind and will suffer through the tribulation. If you really
understand the tribulation, you do not want to be there or do not want
your loved one to be left behind. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Jesus
said ..., "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me" (John 14:6). "Believe in the Lord Jesus,
and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). </span>Those who reject Jesus
Christ will be thrown into the lake of fire. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="6"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="6"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span><br /></span></span></font></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</span></span>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-66185689915172565442020-08-21T20:37:00.008-07:002021-05-14T09:48:53.689-07:00The Church of Satan and the Fallen Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjML5wnnezMbzMZpHlqIUvK2bPTdDciyi8Nm4Pbw68MdyYX1vVuAjPkPuThGO-B3oZia4-A4xIIdD3NkBraPiKWs98C7vWkTz_8ORpKDNOojoJQ2KzbLEBu7rGZ90ZUkDB8Jrr9OIZWrj2Q/s886/churchofSatan.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="886" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjML5wnnezMbzMZpHlqIUvK2bPTdDciyi8Nm4Pbw68MdyYX1vVuAjPkPuThGO-B3oZia4-A4xIIdD3NkBraPiKWs98C7vWkTz_8ORpKDNOojoJQ2KzbLEBu7rGZ90ZUkDB8Jrr9OIZWrj2Q/w512-h382/churchofSatan.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The
Holy Bible describes about the stars in the firmament extensively. "There
is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the
stars; <b>for one star differs from another star in glory</b>"
( 1 Corinthians 15:41). Each star is different, and each symbolizes something significant.
Apostle John writes what he hears from Jesus in the Island of Patmos, "I
Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I
am the root and the offspring of David, <b>and the bright and morning
star</b>" ( Revelation 22:16). Jesus is called the "bright and
morning star" in the scriptures. He is called the "Root of
David," and He is also called the "Son of David." </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When
Jesus was born, wise men from the East came, "saying, "Where is He
who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen <b>His star</b> in
the East and have come to worship Him" (Matthew 2:2). It is a specific
star that they saw out of millions and millions of stars. The star they saw
represented "the bright and morning star." </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The Old
Testament Prophet Daniel writes, "Those who are wise shall shine Like the
brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the
stars forever and ever" (Daniel 12:3). If you are a soul winner, you will
be like a star forever and ever. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0EnXdUdiBlsoMygvYI8jVjYJ2CFpUUCAKBqjF-bWmumVPabztRbsGfy0KFtxSeRTOA5TmCvTwt1UgLkEWUoT7ykOr5LWXQJAIr9XtABh1fXFExW5ntCM3juY2ux7M7gp58TLgTVvgZCn/s960/IsraeliFlag.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="960" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0EnXdUdiBlsoMygvYI8jVjYJ2CFpUUCAKBqjF-bWmumVPabztRbsGfy0KFtxSeRTOA5TmCvTwt1UgLkEWUoT7ykOr5LWXQJAIr9XtABh1fXFExW5ntCM3juY2ux7M7gp58TLgTVvgZCn/w410-h297/IsraeliFlag.JPG" width="410" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Like
school mascots representing their school, with time, religions, businesses,
countries have their symbolism. Many of you may have seen the star of David on
the flag of Israel and many Jewish monuments. The Star of David is a generally
recognized symbol of modern Jewish identity and Judaism. Its shape is that of a
six-pointed star, the compound of two equilateral triangles. (You won't find
this description in the Bible or Talmud).</span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Similarly,
Satan and its evil forces also have stars. The prophet Amos describes,
"You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, <b>The
star of your gods</b>, Which you made for yourselves" (Amos
5:26). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">We read
in Acts 7:43, "You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the <b>star
of your god Remphan</b>, Images which you made to worship; And I will
carry you away beyond Babylon.' (Acts 7:43).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">In the
book of Revelation, Satan is seen as a star fallen from heaven. "Then the
fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him
was given the key to the bottomless pit" (Revelation 9:1).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqgp_jZOY6Z_4DrggRByZW5qnlLU2Ub5VQp9vu35bjvm065ar2mxXvI4ZOK0tgpMcWmX4Koj8CoTewy7SrjYg69kdUarxfP_ns_96_6_0pV0gcGywnd8WRW6kYTnyV4uQLnfLmsMrOqcg/s1200/1200px-Baphosimb.svg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqgp_jZOY6Z_4DrggRByZW5qnlLU2Ub5VQp9vu35bjvm065ar2mxXvI4ZOK0tgpMcWmX4Koj8CoTewy7SrjYg69kdUarxfP_ns_96_6_0pV0gcGywnd8WRW6kYTnyV4uQLnfLmsMrOqcg/w410-h410/1200px-Baphosimb.svg.jpg" width="410" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
church of Satan has officially adopted the five-pointed star as its official
symbol. The official emblem of the Church of Satan, consisting of the head of a
goat transfixed upon a reversed pentagram flanked by the Hebrew letters of the
word "Leviathan (לִוְיָתָן), can be seen that on the Church of Satan's
website. </span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">There
is a genuine "bright and morning Star," there is a counterfeit
five-pointed star, also called "Sigil of Baphomet." </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWnmJQ-r-CJ1oA8_CStWsScABPk5FzQUvnETw4iVkgyIli7G-7mA4dJWDVxe4e9TkmoX7oRwM3wfIMOXElon-McYGX4egzifCpdQ8Mt8fLm-vihU8V88bA4EXCsb8N4tpkRefz9DWMoqpO/s2048/ImagesOfSatan.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="2048" height="635" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWnmJQ-r-CJ1oA8_CStWsScABPk5FzQUvnETw4iVkgyIli7G-7mA4dJWDVxe4e9TkmoX7oRwM3wfIMOXElon-McYGX4egzifCpdQ8Mt8fLm-vihU8V88bA4EXCsb8N4tpkRefz9DWMoqpO/w800-h635/ImagesOfSatan.jpg" width="800" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stay away from
all occult and satanic symbols and practices. </span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> ***</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></font></p>
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MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-50646154054449313552020-08-16T22:32:00.011-07:002021-05-14T09:50:54.086-07:00When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvH4ZEKaNRmVCXhxAN4tJWEhLXljXCMrguYYayCue80itlLELmZZys8mkEavROEvwyUs8zWtAQ6Q_DD_32UYlkGJJ6zgQsM9b-FAmnHJELra6p3ghGHTOJ0UEcpRkJsYy7VrqMwqeRMkTs/s1545/Monopoly_6546.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="1545" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvH4ZEKaNRmVCXhxAN4tJWEhLXljXCMrguYYayCue80itlLELmZZys8mkEavROEvwyUs8zWtAQ6Q_DD_32UYlkGJJ6zgQsM9b-FAmnHJELra6p3ghGHTOJ0UEcpRkJsYy7VrqMwqeRMkTs/w512-h470/Monopoly_6546.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b><span><b>L</b>ately, I was spending more time with my kids and
playing board games with them. When we play Monopoly, it is a serious
business.<span> </span>I mean serious business. All
of us come up with the best strategies to win the game. When you own many
properties and build houses and hotels, you feel like you achieved a great
deal. Sometimes when the game runs for hours, we keep the game alive untouched
and continue the next day.<span> </span>Because no
one wants to give up and loose until the game is over. Here comes the sad part,
when the game is over, all the titles, money, houses, and hotels go back to the
box. </span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Our life on earth is like a Monopoly Game.</b> When our
time on earth is over, we have to leave everything behind. Our bodies are made
out of the dust, "and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the
spirit returns to God who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12:7).<span> </span>Moses prays to God in Psalm 90, "You
return man to dust...You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a
dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes
and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers." A wise person will
understand the brevity of life, especially when compared with eternity, and
live for the glory of God. We will also pray like Moses, Lord, "<b>So teach
us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom</b>" (Psalm 90:12). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Sooner or later, everyone has to depart this earth.
When the time comes, will we say like Apostle Paul,<span> </span>"...the time of my departure has come. I
have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also
to all who have loved his appearing" ( 2 Timothy 4:6-8).</span>
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so
closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that
was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the
right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:1-2). </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>When I tear down my tent on this earth, all I want
is to hear my Master say "</span><span><b>Well done, good and faithful servant</b>" (Matthew 25:23).</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></font></p>
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MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-68041270266358914612020-08-07T18:07:00.013-07:002021-05-14T10:17:32.098-07:00Who is Jesus Christ? <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4x8u3VAHeaoGcxPLM58bnmK9qExxrkeLdfdK6Fg49506L0PEBX6XzVL4zBj7CxJe7VaLTgH-Rn2qcrCYM0J-8WxbFI_7bm8HWWdWSwmljfTFLbVgeRzaif2L3ERX8F9XRwZ6emrhgGf6/s959/Boulder.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4x8u3VAHeaoGcxPLM58bnmK9qExxrkeLdfdK6Fg49506L0PEBX6XzVL4zBj7CxJe7VaLTgH-Rn2qcrCYM0J-8WxbFI_7bm8HWWdWSwmljfTFLbVgeRzaif2L3ERX8F9XRwZ6emrhgGf6/w427-h640/Boulder.jpg" width="427" /></a></p><b><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">is Jesus Christ?</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> Even Jesus
asked his disciples the same question, as this is the ultimate question one
should answer, </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">"Who do people say that the Son of Man
is?" </span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">(Matthew
16:13). Your eternal life depends on how you answer this question. </span></span></span></span><p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Islam calls
Jesus a mere prophet, less important than the prophet Mohammed. Hindus consider
him as a guru (a moral teacher) or as one of the millions of gods they worship. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Once, I attended a party. The host, who is a Christian, when addressing the
guests, told his Hindu friends, you should at least consider Jesus as a
teacher. Although his intentions were good, I was shocked to hear that. What
good is it going to do if his friends believe Jesus as a mere teacher? In fact,
it will stop them from thinking about Jesus beyond a guru. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The disciples
answered Jesus and said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah,
and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." (Matthew 16:14). These are
all typical Jewish answers from antiquity. People come up with all kinds of
answers these days.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Jesus asked
the disciples, "But who do you say that I am?" (Matthew 16:15). Simon
Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God"
(Matthew 16:16). </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Jesus
replied, "And I tell you, you are Peter (Πέτρος Petros ), and (καί kai; <b>but</b>/and) on this Rock
(πέτρα petra) I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it (Matthew 16:18). Now the important question is, what is the Rock
upon which Jesus is going to build His Church? Clearly, Jesus was using a play
on words here. Simon, </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">you are a Petros</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> (a piece of Rock), </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">but upon
this Petra</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> (a
boulder, a feminine usage of a much bigger rock, or cliff), </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">I will
build my Church</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">.
Logically if you think, Jesus asked a direct question, </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">"</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">But who do you say that I am?" After he got a
correct response from Peter, Jesus said, upon this (response) Rock, I will
build my Church. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">The response
Peter gave is, "<b>You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.</b>"
(Matthew 16:16). This is the response on which God is going to build his
Church. When you are saved, you become a part of His Church. How are you saved?
"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved... ( Acts 16:31).
"...If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your
heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).
The saved are the members of the Church. Whether the response about Jesus or
Jesus himself is the Rock does not make much difference, as the response
acknowledges Jesus is the Son of the Living God. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Some people
erroneously think that Jesus told Peter that Jesus is building his Church upon
Peter (</span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Petros</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> -a
piece of Rock). Thus, some Roman Catholics believe Peter was the first Pope. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Paul writes
about pre-incarnate Christ, "...For they drank from the spiritual Rock
that followed them, and the Rock was Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:4). Clearly, the
Rock is the pre-incarnate Christ in the Old Testament. "You were unmindful
of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth..."
(Deuteronomy 32:18). Psalmist writes about God as "He only is my rock and
my salvation..." (Ps. 28:1, Ps. 62:2).</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">How are you
going to answer the question Jesus asked? Are you going to say, "</span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">You are
the Christ, the Son of the living God?</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">" </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">If you
cannot say that, you are calling him a liar. Apostle John writes, "Who is
the liar but he who </span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">denies</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> that Jesus is the Christ? This is the
antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has
the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also (1 John 2:22-23).</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">My hope is
built on nothing less</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Than Jesus
Christ, my righteousness;</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">I dare not
trust the sweetest frame,</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">But wholly
lean on Jesus' name. </span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a;">
</span><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> On Christ, the solid Rock</span></b><span data-preserver-spaces="true">, I stand;</span></span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="color: #0e101a;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">All other ground is sinking sand.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div dir="rtl" style="margin-right: 80px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with your friends.<br /></span></span></font></p>
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some in the Christian community and especially among my friends. Whenever I
hear people say that our God is unchanging out of context, it bothered me a bit
as it is inconsistent with the Word of God. Some say, "you are not
changing the mind of God with your prayers." In other words, what they are
saying is that our God is like a frozen-rock; he doesn't move, doesn't change,
doesn't show compassion, doesn't answer your prayers, because he cannot change.
Although they may not say in the same words, yet it conveys that message. If
God is not going to change his mind, then why pray? If a person is sick and
ready to die, and if God is not going to change, why pray to a God who does not
change based on your prayer. In one breath, they say, "God is not going to
change based on your prayer," and in the next, they say, "Fast and
pray that God will (change his mind and) heal my loved one." </span></span></span><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">People usually take the following verse out of
context to say God will never change his mind. "God is not man, that he
should lie, or a son of man, <b>that he should change his mind.</b> Has he said, and
will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" (Numbers
23:19). The context here is important. Israel's enemy, Balak, king of Moab, is
bribing the disobedient prophet Balaam to put a curse on God's people. In the
first Oracle from God, Balaam spoke, "How can I curse whom God has not cursed?"
(Numbers 23:8). God desires to bless Israel and not to curse them. But Balak
repeatedly tried through Balaam to put a curse on Israel. Balak tried to bribe
Balaam to put a curse on Israel. Balak knew how God blessed Israel with all the
victories he gave against their enemies. God is not going to change his mind to
curse Israel because of the bribes. In that context, God said to Balak through
Balaam, "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he
should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken,
and will he not fulfill it?" (Numbers 23:19). See also, Numbers23:19,
Isaiah 46:9-11, 1 Samuel 15:29, Ezekiel 24:14. If you read the word of God out
of context, you can come up with whatever you want. Another principle, one
should understand is that God's Word does not contradict itself. I can
understand the reason for their position, and I agree with them to some extent,
but it is only a half-truth. I thank God for he is unchanging as a
promise-keeping, trust-worthy, compassionate, impartial, righteous, merciful,
and just God. A part of being compassionate, kind, and merciful is to change
one's mind. If one's heart (mind) is hardened to hear the pleas for help, it is not
compassion.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> <span style="color: red;">When God changes his mind, it does not mean his
character and his attributes were changed. When God changes his mind, it does
not mean he is not sovereign, omniscient, or omnipotent. It also does not mean
he learned something new that he didn't know before.</span> I agree, Our God knows everything. Psalmist writes, "For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether" (Psalms 139:4). I fully agree with God's foreknowledge. In fact, He knows every bit of our life. "Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them" (Psalms 139:16). <span></span><span style="color: red;">It would be hard for us to explain God's foreknowledge, which we do not have.</span> But from our standpoint (without the foreknowledge), God did change his mind (of course he knows all that before hand because of foreknowledge) in the case of Moses, Hezekiah, and Ninevites. It only means he is
compassionate, loving, and merciful. God's core attributes will not change.
When God says as in Malachai 3:6, "For I the Lord do not change...",
it means that his attitude towards sin and judgment has not changed. Read the
previous verses for the context. "Then I will draw near to you for
judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers,
against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in
his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the
sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts (Malachi 3:5). Again the
context is important. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> The unconditional covenants or promises of God will
never change. Then there are conditional statements that are contingent on the
behavior of the people. In some places, God says, if you do this, I am going to
bless you. If you disobey, I am going to punish you. In some cases, God does
not have to be explicit in saying the conditional statement. Sometimes the
context implies that there is a conditional statement. What is the point of
Jonah preaching to Ninevites if they are going to die in 40 days?<span> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Ninevites changed the mind of God </span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and
preach to it the message that I tell you....Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be overthrown!" (Jonah 3:2-4). Then when the people of Nineveh repented, God
spared them from the disaster. <span> </span>"Then
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and <b>God relented</b>
from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do
it" (Jonah 3:10). Jonah was not happy that God changed his mind. He
complained to God, "</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">for I knew that you are a gracious God and
merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from
disaster" (Jonah 4:2). </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Moses Changed the mind of God </span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Let's look at this pericope from<span> </span>Exodus. "And the Lord said to Moses,
"I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! Now
therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may
consume them. And I will make of you a great nation." Then Moses pleaded
with the Lord his God ... (Exodus 32:9-11). "So <b>the Lord relented</b> from the
harm which He said He would do to His people" (Exodus 32:14). God was
angry with the people of Israel for their sins. It is righteous anger. Yet, God
showed mercy when Moses pleaded with God, and "the Lord relented from the
harm which He said He would do to His people."<span> </span>I do not think any of us will say God is
unjust for changing his mind not to harm Israelites. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Hezekiah Changed the mind of God </span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">"Thus says the Lord: 'Set your house in order,
for <b>you shall die, and not live</b>.'" (2 Kings 20:1). When Hezekiah prayed to
God to heal him, God changed his mind. In fact, God asked the prophet Isaiah to
make a "U-turn" and go back to tell Hezekiah that he changed his mind.<span> </span>"Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of
My people, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of David your Father: "I have
heard your prayer, I have seen your tears;<b> surely I will heal you</b>. On the third
day you shall go up to the house of the Lord (2 Kings 20:5).</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red;">God is not learning anything new. God is not
saying, oops! I am sorry, I made a mistake.<span>
</span>When he changes his mind, he is not lying. When he changes his mind, it
is to show compassion and mercy.</span> In all these instances and many more in the
Bible, God changed his mind.<span> </span>God the
Father did not change his mind when Jesus prayed to take away the cup from him.<span> </span>"Father, if you are willing, remove this
cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done" (Luke 22:42). </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="line-height: 150%;">This article is to provide a better understanding
of the attributes of God as he changes his mind to show compassion, mercy, and
goodwill if we ask in his will. <span> </span>God will
not change his mind if what we are asking is not the best for us. Of course, as
a finite being, I cannot fully understand an infinite God. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span>My desire is to give
you hope in the Lord to pray like Hezekiah, Moses, and the Ninevites. </span></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--></div>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-43168502748857094592020-07-27T13:30:00.005-07:002020-07-28T21:07:21.332-07:00How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord..? <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0EHt_csSNRPYFChh5PcF88F2DiDoV7w16aQxwnznLqX0hPi8kw9IvZzeWnZt9v-kmyHNIVg_qjo4xrf8bmXg5XZSzkEHevTIULh9m32Ci5ggwBLXXzTATkB8DZTr679Kq4hmbhQkaleAk/s512/Foundation1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="512" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0EHt_csSNRPYFChh5PcF88F2DiDoV7w16aQxwnznLqX0hPi8kw9IvZzeWnZt9v-kmyHNIVg_qjo4xrf8bmXg5XZSzkEHevTIULh9m32Ci5ggwBLXXzTATkB8DZTr679Kq4hmbhQkaleAk/w625-h311/Foundation1.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Imagine you are
planning to build a building. The taller you want the building, the deeper and
stronger you want to make the foundation. You want to use the right materials
in the right proportions to form the foundation.<span> </span>Otherwise, you know, whatever you build on it
will not be able to sustain it. Lately, California, Japan, and other places
where the risk of earthquakes are high, the buildings are designed to move
less and withstand in case of an earthquake. The foundation is critical to hold
the building in case of an earthquake, hurricane, or other disasters. </span></span></font><span style="font-family: "georgia";"></span><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Our faith in Jesus
Christ is like a foundation. You need your faith to be strong to withstand all
that the enemy throws at you in your life. This reminds me of the beautiful
hymn, "How firm a foundation..."</span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>How firm a
foundation, ye saints of the Lord,</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Is laid for your
faith in His excellent word!</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>What more can He
say than to you He hath said,</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>To you who for
refuge to Jesus have fled?</span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> </span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Obedience to the
Word of God is like a firm foundation.<span>
</span>Jesus said, "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does
them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain
fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it
did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.<span> </span>And everyone who hears these words of mine
and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the
sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it" (Matthew
7:24-27).</span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>If you are a person
who hears God's Word and does not act upon it, you are building your house on
the sand.<span> </span>When life's calamities come
upon you, is your foundation going to withstand?<span> </span>I do not know what kind of storms you are
facing, financial hardship, loss of a job, sickness, etc. In stressful
situations, cling to the cross of Christ where there is hope. </span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> The apostle Paul
reminds us that Jesus Christ is the sure foundation. "For no one can lay a
foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone
builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—
each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it
will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has
done.<span> </span>If the work that anyone has built
on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward (1 Corinthians 3:11-14).</span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>In summary, the
firm foundation, a foundation that can withstand,<span> </span>is Jesus Christ and obedience to His Word. </span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> Let me close with
another favorite hymn:</span></span></font></p><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>My hope is built on
nothing less</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Than Jesus Christ,
my righteousness;</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>I dare not trust
the sweetest frame,</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>But wholly lean on
Jesus’ name.<span> </span> </span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>All other ground is
sinking sand,</span></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">
</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span><span> </span>All other ground is sinking sand.</span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> </span><span></span><span><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.mydailydevotion.org/2020/07/how-can-loving-god-send-someone-to-hell.html" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Click here to read my previous article on “How can a loving God send someone to hell?”</a></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> </span><span><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/drjohnreddy" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Subscribe to the author's YouTube Channel</a><br /></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></div>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-21813810191922662682020-07-22T05:57:00.007-07:002021-05-14T10:00:41.828-07:00What is hell like? [Everyone should know]<div></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRhrnzBOUtVyOxhwqltdheGsn4P_bMxW4WU4UAwLrQ_lqKFnClt2Yi8IA7t8OiHzKdlLL1oujc8kWzkt4800Vn-VFqDwZeXSkdtNCOIODysGR288nuAC5g4EFz0Hl3QpWAPWhTfaY3one/s2048/Pictures1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRhrnzBOUtVyOxhwqltdheGsn4P_bMxW4WU4UAwLrQ_lqKFnClt2Yi8IA7t8OiHzKdlLL1oujc8kWzkt4800Vn-VFqDwZeXSkdtNCOIODysGR288nuAC5g4EFz0Hl3QpWAPWhTfaY3one/w500-h375/Pictures1.jpg" width="500" /></a></span></font></div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span></span></span></font><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Many people do not
want to talk about hell. Some people ignore it as folklore as if it will go
away. But the reality is that hell is as real as heaven. The Bible describes
hell as an <b>eternal place of torment</b>, “<b>prepared for the devil and his angels</b>.” It
describes hell as a place where the fire will never be quenched. John the
Baptist declares, “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly
clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will
burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire” (Matthew 3:12).<span> </span>Isaiah gives a similar description of hell.
“And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled
against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and
they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh” (Isaiah 66:24). Jeremiah writes,
circumcise your hearts, “…lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none
to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds” (Jeremiah 4:4).</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Jesus describes it
as a place “where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched” (Mark
9:48). What does it mean that “their worm does not die?” I believe these
worms are maggots that usually feed on dead tissue (some on live tissue). When
describing the fate of the King of Babylon (Antichrist), Isaiah writes, “Your
might and power were buried with you.<span>
</span>The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased.<span> </span>Now maggots are your sheet, and worms your
blanket” (Isaiah 14:11). </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Jesus also taught
about hell as a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. He will answer those
who rejected His salvation saying, “...I do not know you, where you are from.
Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity. There will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth” (Luke 13:27-28). The hell is also a place of torment. Jesus described
the agony of the rich man, “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy
on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool
my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame’</span></span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>”</span></span></font> ( Luke 16:24). </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>This torment in
hell is not for an hour, not for a day, not for a year, not for a hundred
years, but forever and ever. It is a place of no return. Some people take comfort
in an imaginary purgatory. The Bible does not mention such a temporary place. Abraham
said to the rich man, “...besides all this, between us and you there is a great
gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can
those from there pass to us” (Luke 16:26). </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>The body is merely
the physical house in which we live. The apostle Paul calls it a tent. At
death, we move out of this tent. The real you is the spirit inside this tent.
The important thing is what happens to the spirit after it has left the body.
Where is it going? The lake of fire was made for the Devil and his angels. You
choose your final destination. </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>In Summary, the
hell is a place of torment where the spirit of a person infested with
maggots,<span> </span>surrounded by unquenchable
fire, desiring to cool his tongue with a drop of water and will be weeping and
gnashing his teeth without any hope in isolation.<span> </span>You must make the decision in this life where
you will spend eternity after your death. You do not get a second chance after
death. </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>If you are not a
follower of Jesus Christ, you may ask how can I get saved.<span> </span>The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and you will be saved...” (Acts 16:31). In fact, no one knows what
happens tomorrow. The Bible says, “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold,
now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). “If we say that we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins,
He (Jesus) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.<span> </span>If we say that we
have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10).</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Dear friend, if you
do not believe in the existence of hell, you are calling Jesus Christ a liar. Just
for the sake of reasoning, look at the implications; if you do not believe in
hell, and if hell is real, you will go there. Think again! This article is by
no means to scare anybody. With a great burden in my heart for souls, I am
writing this to warn of the danger.<span> </span>If
you are a saved person, will you share this message with someone who does not
know Jesus as their personal savior or does not believe in hell? </span><br /><span><br /></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please share your thoughts in the comments section below. <br /></span></span></font></p>
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<![endif]--></div>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-32052980210829874682020-07-21T13:05:00.004-07:002021-05-14T10:04:34.554-07:00How can a loving God send someone to hell?<div><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="5"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPdtbkwxtwN58QuuTRByVrN8p1I-kmtjqwV8W2sC9i28Ulum-CV45AcStpUsAOSyvk8V4ZEdd6NZsjXdjSx__bnP99zByuJpFAezuU4TZA4bSpSyEvoaOV-LuPl3jgBUcg-C-6EGZh2ya/s1200/MDD_hell1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPdtbkwxtwN58QuuTRByVrN8p1I-kmtjqwV8W2sC9i28Ulum-CV45AcStpUsAOSyvk8V4ZEdd6NZsjXdjSx__bnP99zByuJpFAezuU4TZA4bSpSyEvoaOV-LuPl3jgBUcg-C-6EGZh2ya/w500-h333/MDD_hell1.jpg" width="500" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia";"></span></font></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i><span>"Then the King
will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father,
inherit the kingdom (of heaven)<span> </span>prepared
for you from the foundation of the world (Matthew 25:34).<span> </span>"Then he will say to those on his left,
Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels (Matthew 25:41).</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Here we see two
groups of people and two places. The first group of people (on his right) is
righteous, who put their trust in the Lord Jesus's righteousness. This group
becomes righteous through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. They believed in the
death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, repented of their
sins,<span> </span>and accepted the gift of
salvation.<span> </span>The first place described is
that the kingdom of heaven, prepared for this group on his right.<span> </span>These are the people who prayed for God's
will be done in their lives. God granted their request. </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span> The second group of
people is unrighteous, who put their trust in their own righteousness and their
good deeds—this righteousness amount to nothing. In fact, the Bible says,
"... all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags..."<span> </span>(Isaiah 64:6). The second place mentioned in
the above passage is the eternal fire--hell<span>
</span>(I will attempt to describe hell in a separate article, for now, it is
outside the scope of this discussion). This place is not prepared for the
people, the Bible says, it is prepared for "the devil and his
angels." God's desire is NOT to send any people there. He "...is
longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should
come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him" (Romans 5:8-9).<br /></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>If someone asks,
how can a loving God send someone to hell? The question is not truthful. God
has not prepared hell for the people; it is prepared for "the devil and
his angels." Furthermore, God wants everyone to come to repentance so they
will not perish. God is not sending them to hell. The second group of people is
willfully choosing to spend eternity away from God. The second group of people
does not want to do anything with the savior. They rejected the free gift of
salvation. God is not going to make them love Him. They chose to be away from God. God is ultimately going to
say to them, "thy will be done."<span>
</span>Because they disobeyed the heavenly call, they became the children of
the devil. "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your
father you want to do" (John 8:44). And thus, they are going to the
eternal fire prepared for "the devil and his angels."</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>Please do not
distort God's character when you ask the question, " how can a loving God
send someone to hell?"</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/drjohnreddy" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Subscribe to the author's YouTube Channel</a><br /></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5">Please share your thoughts below.<br /><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></p>
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<![endif]--></font></div>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-34938310289824803342020-07-11T22:48:00.003-07:002021-05-14T10:03:26.007-07:00How can a Holy God be Jealous?<div style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><br /></span></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLVctMt2GMV_i9gOOUCgVDv6jwfZ4lYSlTA9oh8ktlTjawhx5LqZV5uj9T7c8zc_qGUFjRZBwkVjfRBwdQqBQwidYKMttEfZU3yU2XMu_IfFpxzSInUkk-5oEGdtxIrg6Rrefd728KudZ/s1200/JCR_MDDCouple.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLVctMt2GMV_i9gOOUCgVDv6jwfZ4lYSlTA9oh8ktlTjawhx5LqZV5uj9T7c8zc_qGUFjRZBwkVjfRBwdQqBQwidYKMttEfZU3yU2XMu_IfFpxzSInUkk-5oEGdtxIrg6Rrefd728KudZ/w578-h384/JCR_MDDCouple.jpg" width="578" /></a></span></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">How can a Holy God
be jealous?</span></span></font>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">A few days ago, a
young man asked me how God can be jealous when jealousy is sinful? </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Let me explain with
a hypothetical situation. Suppose you met a beautiful girl and you both loved
each other and got married.<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>After a
while, if your wife is flirting with a friend of yours, will you be
jealous?<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>Is it wrong for you to be
jealous? It is not wrong for you to be jealous, because she belongs to you and
you only, and you belong only to her. It would help if you were jealous so that
you can help her and correct the situation in any way possible. Instead, if you
are not jealous, you are harming your marriage and your family. Jealously is
not always a bad thing as righteous anger is not bad. </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> Although jealousy
and envy are interchangeably used in our modern English language, they mean
different things.<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>Sinful jealousy (or
envy) is coveting something that does not belong to you. Here is an example of sinful
jealousy about King Saul. "So from that time on Saul kept a jealous
eye<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>(to watch with jealousy) on David (1
Samuel 18:9, HCSB). Another example of sinful jealousy about Rachel. "Now
when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and
said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die!" (Genesis 30:1)</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> The right kind of
jealousy is appropriate when someone takes what is rightly belongs to you. God
created us in His image. We are His children and His prized possession. We need
to understand that there is only one God and no rival or equal. Even the
so-called opponent, satan, is a created being nothing to be compared to God.
Apostle Paul writes, "...we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and
that there is no other God but one" (1 Corinthians 8:4). But when God's
people who were created in His image turn to idols, which are not gods, God
should be jealous.<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> Apostle Paul was
also jealous of the church at Corinth, but he expressed it as "godly
jealously."<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>"For I am jealous
for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I
may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest somehow, as the
serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom
we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not
received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up
with it!" (2 Corinthians 11:2-4). This jealousy is the same kind that God
revealed in the Scriptures. God's jealously is love in action.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><br /></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5"><br /><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/drjohnreddy" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Subscribe to the author's YouTube Channel</a></span></font></span></span></font></font></p>
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<b style="line-height: 1.5;">I</b>magine, if you are invited to the Buckingham Palace by an exclusive invite from
the queen. When the special day arrived, you dressed up in your best attire and
brought a special expensive gift for the queen. The butler welcomes you into the
palace. You are delighted to meet the butler as he is very helpful in the new
place. You started talking to the butler for a long time, and you liked him. But
then, the butler announced to you that her majesty would be anticipating him any
moment. You tell the butler I am not interested in meeting the queen as we are
having a good time looking around the palace and having a pleasant conversation.
You say to the butler I will give you the gift I brought for the queen and in a
short while I will take leave. After reading this, you are thinking; I would
never do such a thing. It is a great honor to be the guest of the queen.<br />
<br />
As a
Christian, if you believe truly that Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord
of Lords, you would consider spending time with Him a great honor. You will take
delight in the Lord. "Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you
the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And
He shall bring it to pass (Psalms 37:4-5)." The great King of kings said, "Come
to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew
11:28)."<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, we are busy with our little world. We are busy with the
things that will perish. The things you can touch and feel. Jesus said, "Don't
collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where
thieves break in and steal. But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don't break in and
steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew
6:19-21). For some, it may be their job, car, house, boat, bank account, stock
market, games, and even ministry. These things can become an idol when we
worship them more than the King, who provided these. You may say I am not
worshiping any of these. The word worship means that you are evaluating the
worth of a person or a thing. If you value anybody or anything more than our
Lord and Savior Jesus, you are not worshiping Jesus. You may say, I worship
Jesus also, I consider him of some value to me. Jesus said, "No one can be a
slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be
devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money
(Matthew 6:24)" Some are devoted to building their "own" ministry or church and
forgot to worship Jesus in a real sense.<br />
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How is your prayer life? How much you
love God and His Word? "If you love Me, you will keep My commands" (John 14:15)
You cannot keep His commands if you do not spend time with Him. You may have to
make some hard decisions to remove your "idols" in your life, even if it cost
you much. "Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce
fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you
remain in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and
I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me. If anyone
does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They
gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned (John (15:4-6)" As we
see the day approaching, let us cling to our Lord and Savior more and more. <br /></span></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><br /></span></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="5" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/drjohnreddy" style="line-height: 1.5;" target="_blank">Subscribe to the author's YouTube Channel</a><br /></span></font></div>MyDailyDevotion.ORGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911313355683209845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147574289634811467.post-65024689998863613972020-05-28T20:59:00.001-07:002020-05-28T21:05:08.617-07:00Dr John Reddy YouTube Channel - Please Subscribe
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Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains." ” [Matthew 24:3, 6-8] <hr> <p><strong>"The coming of the LORD"<br></strong> <p><strong>T</strong>he manifestation of Christ’s coming is His return to earth in power and great glory to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. The Rapture will not be seen by the world; it takes place in a split second. But every eye will see Christ when He comes to reign. Therefore it is called the manifestation of His presence (parousia).<br>During the first half of the Tribulation, many false messiahs will appear who will succeed in deceiving multitudes. The current rise of many false cults may be a prelude to this, but it is not a fulfillment. These false religious leaders will be Jews claiming to be the Christ.<br>There will be wars and rumors of wars. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. It would be easy to think that we are seeing this fulfilled today, but what we see is mild compared to what will be. Actually the next event in God’s time schedule is the Rapture of the church. There is no prophesy to be fulfilled before then. After the church is removed, God’s prophetic clock will begin and these conditions will quickly manifest themselves. Famines, pestilences, and earthquakes will occur in various parts of earth. Even today world leaders are alarmed by the specter of famine due to the population explosion. But this will be accentuated by the shortages caused by wars.<br>Earthquakes and Tsunamis are attracting increasing attention—not only those now occurring but also those that are expected. Once again, these are straws in the wind, and not the actual fulfillment of our Savior’s words.<br>Verse 8 clearly identifies this period as the beginning of sorrows—the onset of birth-pangs. Naturally, the birth-pangs will increase in intensity and also in frequency.<br><strong>The Parable of the Fig Tree</strong><br>Again our Lord draws a spiritual lesson from nature. When the branches of the fig tree become green and tender, you know that summer is near. We have seen that the fig tree pictures the nation of Israel. For hundreds of years Israel has been dormant, with no government of its own, no land, no temple, no priesthood—no sign of national life. The people have been scattered throughout the world.<br>Then, in 1948, Israel became a nation with its own land, governments, currency, stamps, etc. Spiritually, the nation is still barren and cold; there is no fruit for God. But nationally, we might say that its branches are green and tender.<br>“So you also, when you see all these things, know that is near, at the very doors!” Israel’s emergence as a nation means not only that the beginning of the Tribulation is near, but that the Lord Himself is near, at the very doors!<br>If Christ’s coming to reign is so near, how much more imminent is the Rapture of the church? If we already see shadows of events that must precede His appearing in glory, how much closer are we to the Rapture? <p><em></em><em><em><em><em><em><em>"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. "</em><em> 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18</em></em></em></em></em><br></em> <p> <p> <p> <h5>"...Even so, come, Lord Jesus"</h5> <p>“In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.” [Hebrews 10:37] <p><img border="0" alt="Jesus coming on clouds" src="http://mydailydevotion.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/JesusComingOnClouds.324193454_std.jpg" width="468" height="350"> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p><strong>PLEASE bookmark this website and share it with your friends.</strong> <p><strong>Please use the "<a href="http://mydailydevotion.org/contact_us">Contact Us</a>" form to let us know if the Word of God is a blessing to you.</strong> <p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><br></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong> <p>Copyright 2013 MyDailyDevotion.ORG. 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heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament (the expanse of the
heavens) shows His handiwork.” And what a story they tell! Think,
first of all, what they tell about the immensity of the universe. If we
traveled at the speed of light—186,000 miles a second or roughly six
trillion miles a year—it would take us ten billion years to reach the
farthest point we can see with a telescope. But this would still be far
from the outermost limits of space. Now astronomers think that space may
have no bounds at all! Our earth is nothing but a tiny speck in a
limitless expanse!<br /><br />Think too of the number of stars and other
heavenly bodies. With the naked eye we can see about five thousand
stars. With a small telescope we can see about two million. But with
the Palomar telescope we can see billions of galaxies, to say nothing of
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think about the distances of the heavenly bodies from the earth and
from each other. Someone has pictured the distances as follows: if it
cost a penny to ride 1000 miles, a trip to the moon would cost $2.38, a
trip to the sun would cost $930, but a trip to the nearest star would
cost $260 million.<br /><br />It takes light from the most remote stars
which can be seen with telescopes ten billions years to reach the earth.
So when we look out into space, we are really looking backward in time.
For example, we do not see the Andromeda galaxy where it is now but
where it was two million years ago!<br /><br />Although the stars may appear
to be crowded in the firmament, the distances between them are so great
that they have been likened to lonely lightships a million miles apart,
floating in an empty sea.<br /><br />If creation is so great, how much
greater is the Creator! Day and night the heavens are telling the
greatness of His power and wisdom. The firmament unceasingly proclaims
the marvels of His handiwork.<br /><br />The terrifying dimensions and
complexity of the universe confirm that "if you think strongly enough,
you will be forced by science to believe in God."<br /><br />Yet, “The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."" (Psalm 14:1)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">“<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">W</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">here can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there;<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. </span> </span><br />
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I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the
sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me
fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become
night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the
night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. <span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">[Psalm 139:7-12] </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named
Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. Jesus
Presented in the Temple When the time came for the purification rites
required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to
present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord,
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sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair
of doves or two young pigeons.” <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: normal;"> [ Luke 2:21-24]</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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least three different rituals are described in this passage: First
there was the circumcision of Jesus. This took place when He was eight
days old. It was a token of the covenant that God made with Abraham. On
this same day, the Child was named, according to Jewish custom. The
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second ceremony was concerned with the purification of Mary. It took
place forty days after the birth of Jesus. Ordinarily parents were
supposed to bring a lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or
turtledove for a sin offering. But in the case of the poor, they were
permitted to bring “ a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons”. The
fact that Mary brought no lamb, but only two young pigeons is a
reflection of the poverty into which Jesus was born. </span></div>
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third ritual was the presentation of Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem.
Originally, God had decreed that the firstborn sons belonged to Him;
they were to form the priestly class. Later, He set aside the tribe of
Levi to serve as priests. Then the parents were permitted to “buy back”
or “redeem” their firstborn son by the payment of five shekels. This
they did when they dedicated him to the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">[Matthew 5:17]</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">For
you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might
become rich. [2 Corinthians 8:9]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">“<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;">N</span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino;">ow
there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was
righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the
Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy
Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought
in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,
he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,<br /><br /> “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation”</span></span></span><span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> [Luke 2:25-30] </span></span></span></div>
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is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was
pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was
found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband
was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public
disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. </span>”</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: normal;"> [Matthew 1:18-19] </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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birth of Jesus Christ was different from any of the births mentioned in
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now we have the record of a birth without a human father. The facts
surrounding this miraculous conception are stated with dignity and
simplicity. Mary had been promised in marriage to Joseph, but the
wedding had not yet taken place. During the time of her betrothal, the
Virgin Mary became pregnant by a miracle of the Holy Spirit. An angel
had previously announced this mysterious event to Mary: “The Holy Spirit
will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you”. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">A
cloud of suspicion and scandal hung over Mary. In all of human history
there had never been a virgin birth. When people saw an unwed woman who
was pregnant, they had only one possible explanation. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Even
Joseph did not yet know the true explanation of Mary’s condition. He
might have been indignant at his fiancée on two counts: First, her
apparent unfaithfulness to him; and second, though innocent, he would
almost inevitably be accused of complicity. His love for Mary and desire
for justice led him to decide to break the betrothal by a quiet
divorce. He wished to avoid the public disgrace which normally
accompanied such an action.<br />While this gentle and deliberate man was
mapping his strategy to protect Mary, an angel of the Lord appeared to
him in a dream. The salutation, “Joseph, son of David, was doubtless
designed to stir up the consciousness of his royal pedigree and to
prepare him for the unusual advent of Israel’s Messiah-King. </span></div>
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should have no misgivings about marrying Mary. Any suspicions
concerning her purity were groundless. Her pregnancy was a miracle of
the Holy Spirit. The angel then revealed the unborn Child’s sex, name,
and mission. Mary would bear a Son. He was to be named Jesus, (which
means “Jehovah is salvation”).<br />As a result of the angel’s
intervention, Joseph abandoned his plan to divorce Mary. He continued to
recognize their betrothal until Jesus’ birth, after which he married
her. <br /> <br /><b></b> </span></div>
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as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to
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heaven, but now chose to come into the world in a human body. He dwelt
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some mistake or misunderstanding. God actually came to this earth and
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manifestation of Christ’s coming is His return to earth in power and
great glory to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. The Rapture
will not be seen by the world; it takes place in a split second. But
every eye will see Christ when He comes to reign. Therefore it is called
the manifestation of His presence (parousia).<br /><br />During the first
half of the Tribulation, many false messiahs will appear who will
succeed in deceiving multitudes. The current rise of many false cults
may be a prelude to this, but it is not a fulfillment. These false
religious leaders will be Jews claiming to be the Christ.<br /><br />There
will be wars and rumors of wars. Nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom. It would be easy to think that we are seeing
this fulfilled today, but what we see is mild compared to what will be.
Actually the next event in God’s time schedule is the Rapture of the
church. There is no prophesy to be fulfilled before then. After the
church is removed, God’s prophetic clock will begin and these conditions
will quickly manifest themselves. Famines, pestilences, and
earthquakes will occur in various parts of earth. Even today world
leaders are alarmed by the specter of famine due to the population
explosion. But this will be accentuated by the shortages caused by wars.<br /><br />Earthquakes
are attracting increasing attention—not only those now occurring but
also those that are expected. Once again, these are straws in the wind,
and not the actual fulfillment of our Savior’s words.<br /><br />Verse 8
clearly identifies this period as the beginning of sorrows—the onset of
birth-pangs. Naturally, the birth-pangs will increase in intensity and
also in frequency.<br /><br /><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>The Parable of the Fig Tree</strong></span><br /><br />Again
our Lord draws a spiritual lesson from nature. When the branches of the
fig tree become green and tender, you know that summer is near. We
have seen that the fig tree pictures the nation of Israel. For hundreds
of years Israel has been dormant, with no government of its own, no
land, no temple, no priesthood—no sign of national life. The people
have been scattered throughout the world.<br /><br />Then, in 1948, Israel
became a nation with its own land, governments, currency, stamps, etc.
Spiritually, the nation is still barren and cold; there is no fruit for
God. But nationally, we might say that its branches are green and
tender.<br /><br />“So you also, when you see all these things, know that is
near, at the very doors!” Israel’s emergence as a nation means not only
that the beginning of the Tribulation is near, but that the Lord
Himself is near, at the very doors!<br /><br />If Christ’s coming to reign
is so near, how much more imminent is the Rapture of the church? If we
already see shadows of events that must precede His appearing in glory,
how much closer are we to the Rapture?</span></span></div>
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the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with
the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the
dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and
are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore
encourage one another with these words. "</span></em><em><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18</span></em></span></em></span></em></span></span></em></span></em></span></em></div>
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He was dismissing the multitude, Jesus told the disciples to get into
the boat and start back to the other side of the lake. Then He went up
on a hillside to pray. When evening came, He was alone there.
Meanwhile, the boat was now far from land and battling a contrary wind.
As the waves battered the boat, Jesus saw the disciples' plight. In the
fourth watch of the night (between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m.), He went to them
walking on the sea. Thinking it was a ghost the disciples panicked. But
immediately they heard the reassuring voice of their Master and Friend.
"Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid."<br /><br />How true to our
own experience! We are often storm-tossed, perplexed, in despair. The
Savior seems far away. But all the time He is praying for us. When the
night seems darkest, He is near at hand. We often mistake Him even then
and push the panic button. Then we hear His comforting voice and
remember that the waves that caused us to fear are under His feet.<br /><br />When
Peter heard the well-known, well-loved voice, his affection and
enthusiasm bubbled over. “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You
on the water.” Peter sensed that Jesus’ commands are His enablements,
that He gives strength for whatever He orders.<br /><br />As soon as Jesus
said, “Come,”.. Peter jumped out of the boat and began walking toward
Him. As long as he kept his eyes on Jesus, he was able to do the
impossible; but the minute he became occupied with the strong wind, he
began to sink. Frantically he cried, “Lord, save me!” The Lord took him
by the hand, gently rebuked his little faith, and brought him to the
boat. As soon as Jesus went on board, the wind ceased. A worship meeting
took place in the boat with the disciples saying to Jesus, “Truly You
are the Son of God.”<br /><br />The Christian life, like walking on water,
is humanly impossible. It can only be lived by the power of the Holy
Spirit. As long as we look away from every other object to Jesus only,
we can experience a supernatural life. But the minute we become occupied
with ourselves or our circumstances, we begin to sink. Then we must cry
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you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I
then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
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planning the human body, God never intended that it should be used for
vile or impure purposes. Rather He planned that it should be used for
the glory of the Lord and in His blessed service.<br /><br />There is
something amazing in this verse which should not escape notice. Not only
is the body for the Lord, but even more wonderful is the thought that
the Lord is for the body. This means that the Lord is interested in our
bodies, their welfare, and their proper use. God wants our bodies to be
presented to Him a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable (Rom. 12:1). <br /><br />To
further emphasize the need for personal purity in our lives and for
guarding our bodies from impurity, the apostle reminds us that our
bodies are members of Christ. Every believer is a member of the body of
Christ. Would it be proper, then, to take the members of Christ and make
them members of a prostitute? To ask the question is to answer it, as
Paul does with an indignant certainly not!<br /><br />And so the apostle
warns to flee sexual immorality. There are not to dabble with it, trifle
with it, study it, and even talk about it. They are to flee from it! <br /><br />A
beautiful Bible illustration of this is found in the account of Joseph
when he was tempted to sin by Potiphar’s wife. (Gen. 39). Potiphar’s
wife tried repeatedly to seduce Joseph, but he steadfastly refused. He
would not betray his master’s confidence or sin against his God. One day
she caught him by his garment. He squirmed out of it and fled, leaving
her holding it. He lost his coat but saved his character and eventually
gained a crown. She used the coat as “evidence” that Joseph had
attempted to rape her. Believers are taught to flee fornication,
idolatry, and youthful lusts. Better to flee than to fall.<br /><br />Most
sins have no direct effect on one’s body, but sexual immorality is
unique in the sense that is does directly affect one’s body: a person
reaps the consequences of this sin in his own body.<br /><br />Sex outside marriage inevitably and irresistibly works havoc on the offender.<br /><br />What
kind of works does fallen human nature produce? There is no difficulty
in identifying the works of the flesh. They are evident to all. Adultery
is unfaithfulness in the marriage relationship. Fornication is unlawful
sexual intercourse. <br /><br />“The acts of the flesh are obvious:
sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft;
hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions,
factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I
did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom
of God.” Gal . 5:19-21.</span></span></div>
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