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‘Known by its Fruit!
Active Believers?
Ekklesia is full of dead and ineffective believers, who laze about listening but never applying, some are just waiting in the belief that they will have rest in heaven and others compromise with the world after Sunday!
Jesus warns us that we will know them by their fruit, if none then they are destined to be burned up, but if they do, with pruning they will produce more!
And for us we need to keep away from these fruitless trees, and rather go the right way with God and the Kingdom?
Matthew 7:15-19, 12:33, Luke 6:43, Revelation 2:7.
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Holding on?
To what we first believed!
I will never tell you that it is easy to be a believer in the death and resurrection of our Lord, who paid the one and final atonement for our failings, others might tell you something different but they are wrong!
We will be attacked for speaking the truth, having integrity and doing what is right, when the world lives on lies and bitterness backbiting each other for muck and jealous of us who seek for the precious things of Eternity!
But we must stay focused on Jesus and His words, doing what is right and pressing on to our promised Salvation?
1 Corinthians 15:2, Hebrews 3:6, 12-15.
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Being Unwise!
Is both cruel and of no Benefit?
Many believe that they can get away and they do for a while dishonesty and cruelty, but everything does eventually catch up with us and we then have to pay the penalty for what we have done!
But the wise person recognizes their failings and tries to do what is right and so they are blessed, but when we know the Lord as our own Savior, this will be much more of value to us?
Proverbs 11:17, 12:10, 26:16, John 3:13-16-21, Romans 6:22-23, Hebrews 4:12-13. 9:26-27, 10:10.
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Being grafted In?
Neither be arrogant or Proud!
This is a warning of the rise of antisemitism and replacement theology in Ekkelesia, which has ruined the Christian life for many over the generations and through it they may have lost their Salvation?
But we should know better, that the time of the Jews and Israel is not over and the end times will prove this to be true!
Today equity and right dominate political opinion no matter what side of the bed one might be on, they contain destructive forces and could be said to be the third front?
We on the other hand must accept the words of the Holy Bible as God’s truth and not something interpreted by the human mind, as all those claim when tearing our faith apart!
Romans 11:17-24, Verse 22.
Amos 5:4, John 3:3, 14-21, Revelation 3:20.
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Riches in having Faith!
The fear of God brings Wisdom?
For may who have been in prison the reading of Marks gospel and the book of Proverbs, appeals more to the travelling communities, who live lives trying to what is right in a hostile environment of being all ready judged!
But the writer here is saying more than human wisdom and it pointing out Spiritual riches to overcome sin and its lure as well as the material from being honest.
Faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior will be rewarded in our ever New Lives and the promises of our Salvation?
Proverbs 8:19-21, Amos 5:4, John 3:3, 14-21, Romans 3:22-23, 1 Corinthians 2:4, Hebrews 9:26-27, 10:10, 26, Revelation 3:20.
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A reed in the Wind?
John preparing the way of the Lord!
Reeds can grow as high as a small tree, when left wild and the reed has many uses from a cane to beat slaves, to building materials and other!
Since it is light and blows in the wind many people do not see its value and that is how they for generations considered the Prophets, but Jesus pointed out John as being different, he was the last of the theocratic prophets before the establishment of Ekklesia and he was to be heeded!
Those that did eventually would come to faith in Messiah, while all the rest like Israel in ancient times who rejected the truth and provoked God would be once more scattered, until Israel would be restored as a nation.
Matthew 11:7, 12:20, Luke 7:24-26, 1 Kings 14:15-16.
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Moses and Jesus!
A contrast.
The life of Moses began in dire circumstances and his mother left him in the bull rushes in a basket to be found by an Egyptian princess, Jesus on the other hand was born in a stable and placed in wooden manger.
How fickle is society that they fail to see that many are born at the side of the road, or in a lift-stairwell in block of flats?
Many Christians and religious people forget the poverty of others closer to home that further away, perhaps even beside them ‘how sad?
Exodus 2:3, Luke 2:7, 12, 18. Romans 2:19, 2 Peter 1:9, Revelation 3:17.
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Under the tree of Cursing!
Roman soldier comes to Faith.
It is amazing that we are told of only one person coming to faith at Jesus death on the cross and that of a gentile Roman soldier?
That soldier saw much that day from the darkening of Jerusalem to His death and fear entered in the right way into his heart to bring him to believe that this was truly the son of God!
Deuteronomy 21:23, Matthew 27;45, Mark 15:39, Luke 23:44, Acts 5:30, Galatians 3:13.
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EASTER!
‘For God so Loved the World?
That He gave to us His one and only Son….! John 3:14-21.
But the world loves darkness, it is blinded by the lies of Satan, that fallen Angel, that serpent in the garden of Eden and the tormentor of Job and Jesus in the wilderness.
But God has had mercy on humanity before with the flood he saved Noah and his family, now He wants to save as many as he can in relation to the end and Judgement day!
Many believe in that we can pray for the dead, but the truth is we must all make the individual choices now on this side of Eternity as to wither we believe or not in the death and resurrection of Jesus?
Amos 5:4, Mark 8:34, Luke 19:9, Romans 1:16, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Galatians 6:14, 1 Peter 1:9, Revelation 2:3.
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