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Overcoming war and Evil?
Memorialism!
Halloween is about the time of the pagan and the dead coming back to visit the living, Guy Fawkes is the 17th Century Bin Laden being foiled and then the nation gathers to remember the dead of the two world-wars and other conflicts that was part of the British Empire and Commonwealth?
For some they are great traditions to be kept and cherished, but they all represent death and the further we move away from the events, they have become less solemn and more of an event!
But us who have faith must see the great opportunity to share Jesus, that His light overcomes the darkness and that Good will always prevail over evil, wicked people and wrong motivation will neither stay nor last and not all as it appears in the world to be good and right it, since the world is full of delusion?
Amos 5:4, John 3:3, 14-21, Romans 6:22-23, 10:9-10, 12, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26-27, Revelation 3:20.
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The tree of life and Righteousness!
Bearing good Fruit?
Wisdom is life says the writer of the proverbs and in the New Testament Matthew records Jesus saying, ‘That doing the right things bring blessings and salvation, something that is required of us!
We live in an ever turbulent society, were things are not getting better, but are going from bad to worse and in this last age this the way it is to go?
But as believers God has given to us promises in His word to hold on too!
Proverbs 3:18, 11:3, 13:1, 15:4, 27:11, Matthew 7:17-19.
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Getting pushed On!
Please leave Us?
When one is a traveler of many and any type the rich people of the area will want us to move on and at times force outside that of the law has been used!
But as believers we should expect to be rejected by all and not worry about but take some advice from our lord to shake the dust of our feet and not return there!
If we are struggling then we should know that man may have side-lined us, but not God for it is He who grants us the inner peace of Jesus?
Psalm 118:13, Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5, John 14:27.
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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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