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29.3.23

Love, Faith and Hope in God Almighty: Read and what's your view

Love, Faith and Hope in God Almighty: Read and what's your view

(1) LOVE FOR GOD ALMIGHTY
(A) If our very foundation and roots are built in Love then we will be able to understand Christ's Love even if it cannot be fully understood. With God we can move mountains. "Our God" gives us power from His "wealth of glory" through the "Holy Spirit" which makes "Jesus Christ" to "make our heart His home through faith."

NOTE THAT: 
(1) EVERY "FAMILY IN HEAVEN" GETS THEIR "TRUE NAME" FROM GOD ALMIGHTY.
(2) EVERY "FAMILY ON EARTH" GETS THEIR "TRUE NAME" FROM GOD ALMIGHTY.

According to Ephesians 3: 14-21
FOR THIS REASON I FALL ON MY KNEES BEFORE THE FATHER, FROM WHOM EVERY FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH RECEIVES ITS TRUE NAME. I ASK GOD FROM THE WEALTH OF HIS GLORY TO GIVE YOU POWER THROUGH HIS SPIRIT TO BE STRONG IN YOUR INNER SELVES., AND I PRAY THAT CHRIST WILL MAKE HIS HOME IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH FAITH. I PRAY THAT YOU MAY HAVE YOUR ROOTS AND FOUNDATION IN LOVE, SO THAT YOU, TOGETHER WITH ALL GOD'S PEOPLE, MAY HAVE THE POWER TO UNDERSTAND HOW BROAD AND LONG, HOW HIGH AND DEEP, IS CHRIST'S LOVE. YES, MAY YOU COME TO KNOW HIS LOVE - ALTHOUGH IT CAN NEVER BE FULLY KNOWN - AND SO BE COMPLETELY FILLED WITH THE VERY NATURE OF GOD. TO HIM WHO BY MEANS OF HIS POWER WORKING IN US IS ABLE TO DO SO MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN EVER ASK FOR, OR EVEN THINK OF: TO GOD BE THE GLORY IN THE CHURCH AND IN CHRIST JESUS FOR ALL TIME, FOR EVER AND EVER! AMEN.


(B) We need to Love and respect God which in turn, puts us right with Him. Angels who sinned have been punished before by God sending them to hell; the ancient world was destroyed by flood sent by God (except Noah, his immediate family, and everything in the ark/boat he built as God instructed him to); Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed with fire. We, as Good Christians, are still serving this same God who remains the same yesterday, today and forever. We must all throw away and avoid the teachings of false prophets and false teachers. Do not wait for God's punishment on you before you desist from being a false teacher/false prophet and stop being followers/disciples/students of false teachings/false prophecies. 

NOTE THAT: 
(I) "JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE."

(II) SOMEONE CAN BE SENT TO HELL WITH ALL THE GNASHING OF TEETH AND SUFFERING THERE ONCE THE PERSON DIES AND THE PERSON WILL STILL BE ON "AWAITING TRIAL FOR SUCH A VERY LONG TIME."

(III) REMEMBER THAT GOD IS STILL GOD. HE CAN DO AS HE PLEASES AS HE IS THE ONE TRUE GOD.

(IV) PREACHING THE RIGHT WORD OF GOD WHICH IS ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS CAN MAKE GOD SINGLE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY OUT OF MANY GODLESS PEOPLE AND BLESS YOU WITH PROTECTION, GUIDANCE , FAVOR ETC JUST LIKE HE DID WITH NOAH AND HIS FAMILY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.

(V) THE SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE SAVED FROM THE FLOOD IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ASIDES FROM NOAH ARE HIS WIFE, HIS THREE SONS AND THEIR THREE RESPECTIVE WIVES (ONE WIFE FOR EACH SON).

(VI) EVEN IN A PLACE FILLED WITH SIN, GOD RECOGNIZES AND SAVES THE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS ONES BY ALL MEANS POSSIBLE JUST LIKE HE DID WITH LOT WHO LIVED IN ONE OF THE CITIES SODOM AND GOMORRAH. GOD ALSO MAKES SURE THAT HE PUNISHES THE UNREPENTANT GODLESS ONES SEVERELY. "THIS IS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY HEAVENLY RACE IS A PERSONAL RACE." CHOOSE YE THIS DAY, WHOM YOU WILL SERVE.

(VII) "THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT IS COMING FOR ALL THAT GOD CREATED."

(VIII) THOSE WHO LIVE AND BEHAVE LIKE WILD ANIMALS (THAT IS, FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE PROPHETS) WILL BE KILLED LIKE WILD ANIMALS THAT THEY ARE (AS SEEN IN THE BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW). AND THEY WILL BE PAID WITH SUFFERING FOR THE SUFFERING THEY HAVE CAUSED. REMEMBER THAT JESUS CHRIST ALSO WARNS THAT "HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD DIES BY THE SWORD." 'THIS CAN SIMPLY MEAN THAT THE WAY YOU LIVE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS THE SAME WAY YOU WILL BE KILLED IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. GOD SEES EVERYTHING (THE SIGHT OF GOD).'

(IX) "FALSE TEACHERS/FALSE PROPHETS WANT TO LOOK AT NOTHING BUT IMMORAL WOMEN" WHICH COULD MEAN THAT THEY ENJOY WATCHING/LOOKING AT PORNOGRAPHY, STRIPPERS ETC. JUST LOOKING AT THEM WITH THEIR EYES GIVES THEM PLEASURE THAT IS INSATIABLE (THAT CANNOT BE SATISFIED).

(X) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW TELLS US THAT "FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE PROPHETS ARE CURSED PEOPLE."

(XI) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW DESCRIBES "FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE PROPHETS AS MISSING PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH THAT HAVE LOST THEIR WAY BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL LEFT THE TRUE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST." JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.

(XII) THE ROLE MODEL OF FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE PROPHETS IS BALAAM (A FALSE PROPHET) THE SON OF BEOR, WHO LOVED THE MONEY HE WOULD GET FOR DOING WRONG AND IT TOOK A DONKEY TO ACTUALLY SPEAK IN A HUMAN VOICE TO REBUKE HIM AND STOP HIS INSANE ACTION. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR AN ANIMAL TO CORRECT YOU AS A FALSE PROPHET OR FALSE TEACHER THAT YOU HAVE BEEN? ARE THERE NO TRUE TEACHERS OR PROPHETS AROUND YOU OR ACCESSIBLE TO YOU THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO AND LEARN FROM SO THAT YOU MAY CHANGE YOUR CROOKED WAYS AND FOLLOW THE STRAIGHT WAY?

(XIII) THE ROLE MODEL OF TRUE TEACHERS AND TRUE PROPHETS IS JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD AND MASTER. AND THE LOVE OF GOD (NOT THE LOVE OF MONEY) DWELLS IN THEM.

(XIV) NEW CONVERTS TO TRUE CHRISTIANITY, MOST ESPECIALLY,  MUST AVOID AND RUN AWAY FROM FALSE PROPHETS AND FALSE TEACHERS.

(XV) A PERSON IS A SLAVE OF ANYTHING THAT HAS CONQUERED HIM.

(XVI) AS TRUE CHRISTIANS, JESUS CHRIST IS OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR BUT IF WE GO BACK TO OUR VOMIT LIKE DOGS OR GO BACK TO THE DIRTS LIKE PIGS AFTER OUR SINS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN AND THE STAIN REMOVED BY GOD ALMIGHTY, THEN WE TEND TO COMMIT MORE SIN THAN BEFORE WE BECAME TRUE CHRISTIANS. THUS, THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW SAYS TO EVERYONE PERTAINING THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, "DO NOT START WHAT YOU CANNOT FINISH." AND ALSO, "FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT  OF RIGHTEOUSNESS"

(XVII) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE HELPS US TO SEE THAT AMONGST THOSE SITTED IN THE CHURCH OR CALLING GOD'S NAME OUTSIDE ARE "VERY MUCH STILL UNREPENTANT HARDENED SINNERS/HARDENED CRIMINALS."

The characteristics/features of false prophets and false teachers are as shown in the Holy Bible passage below:

According to 2 Peter 2: 1-22
FALSE PROPHETS APPEARED IN THE PAST AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND IN THE SAME WAY FALSE TEACHERS WILL APPEAR AMONG YOU. THEY WILL BRING IN DESTRUCTIVE, UNTRUE DOCTRINES, AND WILL DENY THE MASTER WHO REDEEMED THEM, AND SO THEY WILL BRING UPON THEMSELVES SUDDEN DESTRUCTION. EVEN SO, MANY WILL FOLLOW THEIR IMMORAL WAYS; AND BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DO, OTHERS WILL SPEAK EVIL OF THE WAY OF TRUTH. IN THEIR GREED THESE FALSE TEACHERS WILL MAKE A PROFIT BY TELLING YOU MADE-UP STORIES. FOR A LONG TIME NOW THEIR JUDGEMENT HAS BEEN READY, AND THEIR DESTROYER HAS BEEN WIDE AWAKE! GOD DID NOT SPARE THE ANGELS WHO SINNED, BUT THREW THEM INTO HELL, WHERE THEY ARE KEPT CHAINED IN DARKNESS, WAITING FOR THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. GOD DID NOT SPARE THE ANCIENT WORLD, BUT BROUGHT THE FLOOD ON THE WORLD OF GODLESS PEOPLE; THE ONLY ONES HE SAVED WERE NOAH, WHO PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE. GOD CONDEMNED THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, DESTROYING THEM WITH FIRE, AND MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE GODLESS. HE RESCUED LOT, A GOOD MAN, WHO WAS DISTRESSED BY THE IMMORAL CONDUCT OF LAWLESS PEOPLE. THAT GOOD MAN LIVED AMONG THEM, AND DAY AFTER DAY HE SUFFERED AGONY AS HE SAW AND HEARD THEIR EVIL ACTIONS. AND SO THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO RESCUE GODLY PEOPLE FROM THEIR TRIALS AND HOW TO KEEP THE WICKED UNDER PUNISHMENT FOR THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEIR FILTHY BODILY LUSTS AND DESPISE GOD'S AUTHORITY. THESE FALSE TEACHERS ARE BOLD AND ARROGANT, AND SHOW NO RESPECT FOR THE GLORIOUS BEINGS ABOVE; INSTEAD, THEY INSULT THEM. EVEN THE ANGELS, WHO ARE SO MUCH STRONGER AND MIGHTIER THAN THESE FALSE TEACHERS, DO NOT ACCUSE THEM WITH INSULTS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. BUT THIS PEOPLE ACT BY INSTINCT, LIKE WILD ANIMALS BORN TO BE CAPTURED AND KILLED; THEY ATTACK WITH INSULTS ANYTHING THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND. THEY WILL BE KILLED LIKE WILD ANIMALS. AND THEY WILL BE PAID WITH SUFFERING FOR THE SUFFERING THEY HAVE CAUSED. PLEASURE FOR THEM IS TO DO EVERYTHING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT THAT WILL SATISFY THEIR BODY APPETITES; THEY ARE A SHAME AND A DISGRACE AS THEY JOIN YOU IN YOUR MEALS, ALL THE WHILE ENJOYING THEIR DECEITFUL WAYS! THEY WANT TO LOOK AT NOTHING BUT IMMORAL WOMEN; THEIR APPETITE FOR SIN IS NEVER SATISFIED. THEY LEAD WEAK PEOPLE INTO A TRAP. THEIR HEARTS ARE TRAINED TO BE GREEDY. THEY ARE UNDER GOD'S CURSE! THEY HAVE LEFT THE STRAIGHT PATH AND HAVE LOST THEIR WAY; THEY HAVE FOLLOWED THE PATH TAKEN BY BALAAM SON OF BEOR, WHO LOVED THE MONEY HE WOULD GET FOR DOING WRONG AND WAS REBUKED FOR HIS SIN. HIS DONKEY SPOKE WITH A HUMAN VOICE AND STOPPED THE THE PROPHET'S INSANE ACTION. THESE PEOPLE ARE LIKE DRIED-UP SPRINGS, LIKE CLOUDS BLOWN ALONG BY A STORM; GOD HAS RESERVED A PLACE FOR THEM IN THE DEEPEST DARKNESS. THEY MAKE PROUD AND STUPID STATEMENTS, AND USE IMMORAL BODILY LUSTS TO TRAP THOSE WHO ARE JUST BEGINNING TO ESCAPE FROM AMONG PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN ERROR. THEY PROMISE THEM FREEDOM, WHILE THEY THEMSELVES ARE SLAVES OF DESTRUCTIVE HABITS - A PERSON IS A SLAVE OF ANYTHING THAT HAS CONQUERED HIM. IF PEOPLE HAVE ESCAPED FROM THE CORRUPTING FORCES OF THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, AND THEN ARE AGAIN CAUGHT AND CONQUERED BY THEM, SUCH PEOPLE ARE IN A WORSE STATE AT THE END THAN THEY WERE IN THE BEGINNING. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER FOR THEM NEVER TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN TO KNOW IT AND THEN TURN AWAY FROM THE SACRED COMMAND THAT WAS GIVEN THEM. WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM SHOWS THAT THE PROVERBS ARE TRUE: "A DOG GOES BACK TO WHAT IT HAS VOMITED" AND "A PIG THAT HAS BEEN WASHED GOES BACK TO ROLL IN THE MUD."

(2) FAITH IN GOD ALMIGHTY
(A) Our faith in God, as Good Christians, is not on what affects the physical body only. External ceremonies like circumcisions do not purify us within and moreover, we have passed that level as we now live by the Holy spirit (as Good Christians). We believe, as Christians that being put right with God is not by obeying the Laws/Commandments of God only but by having faith and trust in God as He always has great plans for His children.

NOTE THAT: 
(I) "KNOWING JESUS CHRIST (GOD, THE SON) AND BEING GUIDED BY WHAT HE KNOWS TOO IS MUCH MORE BETTER THAN ANYTHING WORLD SEES AS IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE."

(II) KNOWING JESUS CHRIST MAKES YOU CONSIDER EVERY THING OF WORLDLY STANDARD AS TRASH OR REFUSE, THUS, THROWING THEM AWAY IS INEVITABLE.

(III) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE CONFIRMS THAT THERE IS A RIGHTEOUS THAT COMES FROM ONE OBEYING GOD BY HIM OR HERSELF.

(IV) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE CONFIRMS THAT THERE IS A BETTER WAY OF GAINING RIGHTEOUSNESS TO ONESELF FROM GOD AND IT IS THROUGH "FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS." FAITH-BASED RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BETTER THAN OBEDIENCE-BASED RIGHTEOUSNESS.

(V) FAITH-BASED RIGHTEOUSNESS COMES FROM GOD WHILE OBEDIENCE-BASED RIGHTEOUSNESS COMES FROM ONESELF (ONES PERSONAL EFFORT).


According to Philippians 3: 1-11
IN CONCLUSION, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, BE JOYFUL IN YOUR UNION WITH THE LORD. I DON'T MIND REPEATING WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE, AND YOU WILL BE SAFER IF I DO SO. WATCH OUT FOR THOSE WHO DO EVIL THINGS, THOSE DOGS, THOSE WHO INSISTS ON CUTTING THE BODY. IT IS WE, NOT THEY, WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE TRUE CIRCUMCISION FOR WE WORSHIP GOD BY MEANS OF HIS SPIRIT AND REJOICE IN OUR LIFE IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS. WE DO NOT PUT ANY TRUST IN EXTERNAL CEREMONIES. I COULD, OF COURSE, PUT MY TRUST IN SUCH THINGS. IF ANYONE THINKS THEY CAN TRUST IN EXTERNAL, I HAVE EVEN MORE REASON TO FEEL THAT WAY. I WAS CIRCUMCISED WHEN I WAS A WEEK OLD. I AM ISRAELITE BY BIRTH, OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, A PURE-BLOODED HEBREW. AS FAR AS KEEPING THE JEWISH LAW IS CONCERNED. I WAS A PHARISEE, AND I WAS SO ZEALOUS THAT I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH. AS FAR AS A PERSON CAN BE RIGHTEOUS BY OBEYING THE COMMANDS OF THE LAW, I WAS WITHOUT FAULT. BUT ALL THOSE THINGS THAT I MIGHT COUNT AS PROFIT I NOW RECKON AS LOSS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. NOT ONLY THOSE THINGS; I RECKON EVERYTHING AS COMPLETE LOSS FOR THE SAKE OF WHAT IS SO MUCH VALUABLE, THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD. FOR HIS SAKE I HAVE THROWN EVERYTHING AWAY; I CONSIDER IT ALL AS MERE REFUSE, SO THAT I MAY GAIN CHRIST AND BE COMPLETELY UNITED WITH HIM. I NO LONGER HAVE A RIGHTEOUS OF MY OWN, THE KIND THAT IS GAINED BY OBEYING THE LAW. I NOW HAVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS GIVEN THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT COMES FROM GOD AND IS BASED ON FAITH. ALL I WANT IS TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, TO SHARE IN HIS SUFFERINGS AND BECOME LIKE HIM IN HIS DEATH, IN HOPE THAT I MYSELF WILL BE RAISED FROM DEATH TO LIFE.


(B) Put your faith in the power of Christ's death on the Cross and not on the good people of God who brought you to Christ or counsel you on how to live in Christ Jesus as it results in divisions into groups or cliche that do not agree in the church (gathering of Christians). How can you follow someone you do not have faith in? Trust in God compulsory for Good Christians.

NOTE THAT: 
(A) WHEN YOU ARE IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS, YOU DEFINITELY BECOME RICH IN ALL THINGS INCLUDING ALL KINDS OF SPEECHES AND ALL KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE.

(B) THE ONE THOUGHT AND GOAL THAT UNITES CHRISTIANITY IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF WHO DIED ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY FOR US ALL. EVERY OTHER THING IS SECONDARY SO, CHRISTIANS MUST ALL PLACE THEIR TRUST/BELIEVE IN GOD. 

(C) DON'T LOSE YOUR FAITH AND FOCUS IN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR.

(D) ALL BAPTIZED CHRISTIANS ARE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST AND NOT DISCIPLES OF YOUR PASTORS, PROPHETS, PROPHETESSES, PRIESTS ETC.

(E) YOU CAN BAPTIZE PEOPLE INTO CHRISTIANITY (JUST LIKE PAUL DID IN THE HOLY BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW) EVEN IF BAPTIZING PEOPLE (LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST DID IN THE HOLY BIBLE) IS NOT THE SPECIAL CALL OF GOD ON YOUR LIFE.

(F) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW TEACHES US TO HAVE FAITH IN CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS. DO NOT SEE IT AS NONSENSE LIKE THE LOST: THE SCHOLARS, SKILLFUL DEBATERS AND THE WISE WHO ALL TRIED/ATTEMPTED TO USE WORLDLY WISDOM/HUMAN WISDOM TO UNDERSTAND GOD BUT FAILED AT IT, THUS, THEY HAVE FAILED TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS FOR A VERY LONG TIME NOW.

According to 1 Corinthians 1: 4-20
I ALWAYS GIVE THANKS TO MY GOD FOR YOU BECAUSE OF THE GRACE HE HAS GIVEN YOU THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. FOR IN UNION WITH CHRIST YOU HAVE BECOME RICH IN ALL THINGS, INCLUDING ALL SPEECH AND ALL KNOWLEDGE. THE MESSAGE ABOUT CHRIST HAS BECOME SO FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN YOU THAT YOU HAVE NOT FAILED TO RECEIVE A SINGLE BLESSING, AS YOU WAIT FOR OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO BE REVEALED. HE WILL ALSO KEEP YOU FIRM TO THE END, SO THAT YOU WILL BE FAULTLESS ON THE DAY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD IS TO BE TRUSTED, THE GOD WHO CALLED YOU TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. BY THE AUTHORITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST I APPEAL TO ALL OF YOU, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TO AGREE IN WHAT YOU SAY, SO THAT THERE WILL BE NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU. BE COMPLETELY UNITED, WITH ONLY ONE THOUGHT AND ONE PURPOSE. FOR SOME PEOPLE FROM CHLOE'S FAMILY HAVE TOLD ME QUITE PLAINLY, MY FRIENDS, THAT THERE ARE QUARRELS AMONG YOU. LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY: EACH ONE OF YOU SAYS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. ONE SAYS, I FOLLOW PAUL"; ANOTHER, "I FOLLOW APOLLOS"; ANOTHER, "I FOLLOW PETER"; AND ANOTHER "I FOLLOW CHRIST". CHRIST HAS BEEN DIVIDED INTO GROUPS! WAS IT PAUL WHO DIED ON THE CROSS FOR YOU? WERE YOU BAPTISED AS PAUL'S DISCIPLES? I THANK GOD THAT I DID NOT BAPTIZE ANY OF YOU EXCEPT CRISPUS AND GAIUS. NO ONE CAN SAY, THEN, THAT YOU WERE BAPTIZED AS MY DISCIPLES. (OH YES, I ALSO BAPTIZED STEPHANAS AND HIS FAMILY; BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHETHER I BAPTIZED ANYONE ELSE). CHRIST DID NOT SEND ME TO BAPTIZE. HE SENT ME TO TELL THE GOOD NEWS, AND TO TELL IT WITHOUT USING THE LANGUAGE OF HUMAN WISDOM, IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS IS NOT ROBBED OF ITS POWER. FOR THE MESSAGE ABOUT CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS IS NONSENSE TO THOSE WHO ARE BEING LOST; BUT FOR US WHO ARE BEING SAVED IT IS GOD'S POWER. THE SCRIPTURE SAYS: "I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE AND SET ASIDE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCHOLARS." SO THEN, WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE THE WISE? OR THE SCHOLARS? OR THE SKILFUL DEBATERS OF THIS WORLD? GOD HAS SHOWN THAT THIS WORLD'S WISDOM IS FOOLISHNESS!


(3) HOPE IN GOD ALMIGHTY
(A) Our ultimate hope, as Christians, is to rise from death to life one day (after our physical death in this world) just like our Lord Jesus Christ has resurrected from the dead.

NOTE THAT: 
(A) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW TEACHES US THAT "ALL A TRUE CHRISTIAN REALLY WANTS IS TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, TO SHARE IN HIS SUFFERINGS AND BECOME LIKE HIM IN HIS DEATH, 'IN HOPE THAT HE OR SHE WILL BE RAISED FROM DEATH TO LIFE.'"

(B) WINNING THE PRIZE OF "RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD" IS THE REASON WHY JESUS CHRIST WON US TO HIMSELF TO BE CHRIST-LIKE (CHRISTIANS).

(C) HAVING SUCCESS AND PERFECTION TO WIN THE ULTIMATE PRIZE IN TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS/JOURNEY WHILE WE ARE STILL IN THIS WORLD. SO, "FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT."

According to Philippians 3: 8-12
NOT ONLY THOSE THINGS; I RECKON EVERYTHING AS COMPLETE LOSS FOR THE SAKE OF WHAT IS SO MUCH VALUABLE, THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD. FOR HIS SAKE I HAVE THROWN EVERYTHING AWAY; I CONSIDER IT ALL AS MERE REFUSE, SO THAT I MAY GAIN CHRIST AND BE COMPLETELY UNITED WITH HIM. I NO LONGER HAVE A RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MY OWN, THE KIND THAT IS GAINED BY OBEYING THE LAW. I NOW HAVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS GIVEN THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT COMES FROM GOD AND IS BASED ON FAITH. ALL I WANT IS TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, TO SHARE IN HIS SUFFERINGS AND BECOME LIKE HIM IN HIS DEATH, IN HOPE THAT I MYSELF WILL BE RAISED FROM DEATH TO LIFE. I DO NOT CLAIM THAT I HAVE ALREADY SUCCEEDED OR HAVE ALREADY BECOME PERFECT. I KEEP STRIVING TO WIN THE PRIZE FOR WHICH CHRIST JESUS HAS ALREADY WON ME TO HIMSELF.



(B) Our hope in God, as Christians, is for Him to strengthen us to continue the work that He has given/assigned to us because the enemies of our King Jesus Christ (even if He has warned us that His kingdom is not of this world but He is still the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords) will always try to device means to end the Gospel/Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ (which is very impossible for them to accomplish anyway because they keep failing as always). Hope in God keeps us  smart and strong in the work of God. God makes a way where there seems to be no way. 

NOTE THAT: 
(A) JESUS CHRIST IS THE MESSIAH

(B) JESUS CHRIST HAD TO SUFFER AND RISE FROM THE DEAD SO THAT WE WILL NOT PERISH (SO THAT WE WILL NOT GO TO HELL) BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE (BUT GO TO HEAVEN INSTEAD).

(C) QUOTING THE HOLY BIBLE IS THE PROVE OF THE GOOD NEWS/GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS THAT WE SPREAD 

(d) In the Bible passage below; Paul, Silas, Timothy, Jason, Leading women, a large group of Greeks, including many Greek women of High social standing and  many Greek men, and some other believers (all Christians by faith and hope whether old or new believers) suffered in the hands of some jealous Jews who kept on stirring up mobs of worthless loafers from the streets to attack them because of their active participation in the spread of the Gospel/Good News of "CHRIST JESUS" (as either listeners and/or preachers of the Word of God). The jealous Jews in Thessalonica still followed them to Berea exciting and stiring up the mob against Christians just as they did in their place before.

(E) EACH TIME IN THE BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW, PAUL AND SILAS WENT TO THE HOUSE OF GOD (SYNAGOGUE) TO ENLIGHTEN THE CHILDREN OF GOD ABOUT JESUS CHRIST (IN THESSALONICA, THEN, IN BEREA).

(F) THIS BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW TEACHES THAT EVEN WHEN ONE'S ENEMIES DEDICATE THEIR LIVES AND TIME TO TRY TO DESTROY, DISTRACT OR SCATTER ONE'S SUCCESS, GOD WILL MAKE A WAY TO FAVOR THE PERSON AS A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN.

According to Acts 17: 1-15
PAUL AND SILAS TRAVELLED ON THROUGH AMPHIPOLIS AND APOLLONIA AND CAME TO THESSALONICA, WHERE THERE WAS A SYNAGOGUE. ACCORDING TO HIS USUAL HABIT PAUL WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE. THERE DURING SABBATH HE HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PEOPLE, QUOTING AND EXPLAINING THE SCRIPTURES AND PROVING FROM THEM THAT THE MESSIAH HAD TO SUFFER AND RISE FROM DEATH. THIS JESUS WHOM I ANNOUNCE TO YOU," PAUL SAID, "IS THE MESSIAH." SOME OF THEM WERE CONVINCED AND JOINED PAUL AND SILAS; SO DID MANY OF THE LEADING WOMEN AND A LARGE GROUP OF GREEKS WHO WORSHIPPED GOD. BUT SOME JEWS WERE JEALOUS AND GATHERED WORTHLESS LOAFERS FROM THE STREET AND FORMED A MOB. THEY SET THE WHOLE CITY IN AN UPROAR AND ATTACKED THE HOME OF A MAN CALLED JASON, IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND PAUL AND SILAS AND BRING THEM OUT TO THE PEOPLE. BUT WHEN THEY DID NOT FIND THEM, THEY DRAGGED JASON AND SOME OTHER BELIEVERS BEFORE THE CITY AUTHORITIES AND SHOUTED, "THESE MEN HAVE CAUSED TROUBLE EVERYWHERE! NOW THEY HAVE COME TO OUR CITY, AND JASON HAS KEPT THEM IN HIS HOUSE. THEY ARE ALL BREAKING THE LAWS OF THE EMPEROR, SAYING THAT THERE IS ANOTHER KING, WHOSE NAME IS JESUS." WITH THESE WORDS THEY THREW THE CROWD AND THE CITY AUTHORITIES INTO AN UPROAR. THE AUTHORITIES MADE JASON AND THE OTHERS PAY THE REQUIRED AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE RELEASED, AND THEN LET THEM GO. AS SOON AS NIGHT CAME, THE BELIEVERS SENT PAUL AND SILAS TO BEREA. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE. THE PEOPLE THERE WERE MORE OPEN-MINDED THAN THE PEOPLE IN THESSALONICA. THEY LISTENED TO THE MESSAGE WITH GREAT EAGERNESS, AND EVERY DAY THEY STUDIED THE SCRIPTURES TO SEE IF WHAT PAUL SAID WAS REALLY TRUE. MANY OF THEM BELIEVED; AND MANY GREEK WOMEN OF HIGH SOCIAL STANDING AND MANY GREEK MEN ALSO BELIEVED. BUT WHEN THE JEWS IN THESSALONICA HEARD THAT PAUL HAD PREACHED THE WORD OF GOD IN BEREA ALSO, THEY CAME THERE AND STARTED EXCITING AND STIRRING UP THE MOB. AT ONCE THE BELIEVERS SENT PAUL AWAY TO THE COAST; BUT BOTH SILAS AND TIMOTHY STAYED IN BEREA. THE MEN WHO WERE TAKING PAUL WENT WITH HIM AS FAR AS ATHENS AND THEN RETURNED TO BEREA WITH INSTRUCTIONS FROM PAUL THAT SILAS AND TIMOTHY SHOULD JOIN HIM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.



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28.3.23

Isaac and Ishmael (the two step-brothers) who were sons of Abraham (who was a great prophet and the Father of all Nations): Read and what's your view

Isaac and Ishmael (the two step-brothers) who were sons of Abraham (who was a great prophet and the Father of all Nations): Read and what's your view

Abram became Abraham

Sarai became Sarah

(1) Abraham was a great prophet ordained by God Almighty Himself who had the power to pray that a King and all his people who unknowingly wronged should no longer die as they initially deseved as God confirmed all this in a dream to King Abimelech where He warned him to return Prophet Abraham's wife (Sarah) to him as she was not just his sister as he was told by them but she was Abraham's lawful wife instead. In addition, he also prayed for King Abimelech and his household to be fertile and bear children.

NOTE THAT: SARAH WAS ABRAHAM'S STEP SISTER BEFORE HE MARRIED HER. EVEN IF ABRAHAM MARRIED HIS STEP SISTER AND INSTRUCTED HER TO STILL TELL PEOPLE THAT HE WAS HER BROTHER BECAUSE HE KNEW AND RECOGNIZED THAT SARAH WAS BEAUTIFUL ENOUGH TO CAPTURE THE HEART OF ANY MAN (AND SHE ACTUALLY CAPTURED THE HEART OF KING ABIMELECH AS HE SUSPECTED COULD HAPPEN) AND HE MIGHT GET KILLED BY ANYONE OF THOSE FUTURISTIC MEN JUST TO GET HER FROM HIM. GOD STILL ACKNOWLEDGED THEM AS A MARRIED COUPLE AND NOT JUST STEP-SIBLINGS.

According to Genesis 20: 1-18
'ABRAHAM MOVED FROM MAMRE TO THE SOUTHERN PART OF CANAAN AND LIVED BETWEEN KADESH AND SHUR. LATER, WHILE HE WAS LIVING IN GERAR, HE SAID THAT HIS WIFE SARAH WAS HIS SISTER. SO KING ABIMELECH OF GERAR HAD SARAH BROUGHT TO HIM. ONE NIGHT, GOD APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM AND SAID: "YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TAKEN THIS WOMAN; SHE IS ALREADY MARRIED." BUT ABIMELECH HAD NOT COME NEAR HER, AND HE SAID, "LORD, I AM INNOCENT! WOULD YOU DESTROY ME AND MY PEOPLE? ABRAHAM HIMSELF SAID THAT SHE WAS HIS SISTER, AND SHE SAID THE SAME THING. I DID THIS WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE, AND I HAVE DONE NO WRONG. GOD REPLIED IN THE DREAM "YES, I KNOW THAT YOU DID IT WITH CLEAR CONSCIENCE; SO I KEPT YOU FROM SINNING AGAINST ME AND DID NOT LET YOU TOUCH HER. BUT NOW, GIVE THE WOMAN BACK TO HER HUSBAND. HE IS A PROPHET, AND HE WILL PRAY FOR YOU, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT DIE. BUT IF YOU DO NOT GIVE HER BACK, I WARN YOU THAT YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, YOU AND ALL YOUR PEOPLE." EARLY THE NEXT MORNING ABIMELECH CALLED ALL HIS OFFICIALS AND TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND THEY WERE TERRIFIED. THEN ABIMELECH CALLED ABRAHAM AND ASKED, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO US? WHAT WRONG HAVE I DONE TO YOU TO MAKE YOU BRING THIS DISASTER ON ME AND MY KINGDOM? NO ONE SHOULD EVER DO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME. WHY DID YOU DO IT? ABRAHAM ANSWERED, "I THOUGHT THAT THERE WOULD BE NO ONE HERE WHO HAS REVERENCE FOR GOD AND THAT THEY WOULD KILL ME TO GET MY WIFE. SHE REALLY IS MY SISTER. SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF MY FATHER, BUT NOT OF MY MOTHER, AND I MARRIED HER. SO WHEN GOD SENT ME FROM MY FATHER'S HOUSE INTO FOREIGN LANDS, I SAID TO HER, 'YOU CAN SHOW HOW LOYAL YOU ARE BY TELLING EVERYONE THAT I AM YOUR BROTHER.'" THEN ABIMELECH GAVE SARAH BACK TO ABRAHAM, AND AT THE SAME TIME HE GAVE HIM SHEEP, CATTLE, AND SLAVES. HE SAID TO ABRAHAM, "HERE IS MY WHOLE LAND; LIVE ANYWHERE YOU LIKE." HE SAID TO SARAH, "I AM GIVING YOUR BROTHER A THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER AS PROOF TO ALL WHO ARE WITH YOU THAT YOU ARE INNOCENT; EVERYONE WILL KNOW THAT YOU HAVE DONE NO WRONG." BECAUSE OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO SARAH, ABRAHAM'S WIFE, THE LORD HAD MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY WOMAN IN ABIMELECH'S PALACE TO HAVE CHILDREN. SO ABRAHAM PRAYED FOR ABIMELECH, AND GOD HEALED HIM. HE ALSO HEALED HIS WIFE AND HIS SLAVE WOMEN, SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE CHILDREN.'


(2) Abraham had Ishmael first from the slave woman, called Hagar then later on he had Isaac with his free born wife (his step-sister). Sarah didn't want Isaac to share his inheritance with the slave woman's son (Ishmael) so she asked that Abraham should send Hagar and his son, Ishmael away. Abraham also loved Ishmael because he was also his son. Ishmael was fond of playing with Isaac, the free born son of Abraham. God Almighty agreed that Hagar and Ishmael should be sent away as Sarah had requested and promised Prophet Abraham (The Father of all Nations) that He will take care of them and make them a nation, which He actually did, most especially, when he heard Ishmael crying as he was also still a young boy and they had no water left to quench their thirst at least as they travelled.

NOTE THAT: 
(A) The main reason why God Almighty agreed with Sarah's decision and asked Abraham to actually send Ishmael (Abraham's other son) away was because it was through Isaac (not Ishmael) that he planned to give Abraham the descendants that he has promised him.

(B) God was always with Ishmael as he grew up to become a skilful Hunter and even married the Egyptian woman that his mother, Hagar, got him.

According to Genesis 21: 1-21
'THE LORD BLESSED SARAH, AS HE HAD PROMISED, AND SHE BECAME PREGNANT AND BORE A SON TO ABRAHAM WHEN HE WAS OLD. THE BOY WAS BORN AT THE TIME GOD HAD SAID HE WOULD BE BORN. ABRAHAM NAMED HIM ISAAC, AND WHEN ISAAC WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD, ABRAHAM CIRCUMCISED HIM, AS GOD HAD COMMANDED. ABRAHAM WAS A HUNDRED YEARS OLD WHEN ISAAC WAS BORN. SARAH SAID, "GOD HAS BROUGHT ME JOY AND LAUGHTER. EVERYONE WHO HEARS ABOUT IT WILL LAUGH WITH ME." THEN SHE ADDED, "WHO WOULD HAVE SAID TO ABRAHAM THAT SARAH WOULD NURSE CHILDREN? YET I HAVE BORNE HIM A SON IN HIS OLD AGE. THE CHILD GREW, AND ON THE DAY THAT HE WAS WEANED, ABRAHAM GAVE A GREAT FEAST. ONE DAY ISHMAEL, WHOM HAGAR THE EGYPTIAN HAD BORNE TO ABRAHAM, WAS PLAYING WITH SARAH'S SON ISAAC. SARAH SAW THEM AND SAID TO ABRAHAM, "SEND THIS SLAVE AND HER SON AWAY. THE SON OF THIS WOMAN MUST NOT GET ANY PART OF YOUR WEALTH, WHICH MY SON ISAAC SHOULD INHERIT." THIS TROUBLED ABRAHAM VERY MUCH, BECAUSE ISHMAEL WAS ALSO HIS SON. BUT GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM. "DON'T BE WORRIED ABOUT THE BOY AND YOUR SLAVE HAGAR. DO WHATEVER SARAH TELLS YOU, BECAUSE IT IS THROUGH ISAAC THAT YOU WILL HAVE THE DESCENDANTS I HAVE PROMISED. I WILL ALSO GIVE MANY CHILDREN TO THE SON OF THE SLAVE WOMAN, SO THAT THEY WILL BECOME A NATION. HE TOO IS YOUR SON." EARLY THE NEXT MORNING ABRAHAM GAVE HAGAR SOME FOOD AND A LEATHER BAG FULL OF WATER. HE PUT THE CHILD ON HER BACK AND SENT HER AWAY. SHE LEFT AND WANDERED ABOUT IN THE WILDERNESS OF BEERSHEBA. WHEN THE WATER WAS ALL GONE, SHE LEFT THE CHILD UNDER A BUSH AND SAT DOWN ABOUT A HUNDRED METRES AWAY. SHE SAID TO HERSELF, "I CAN'T BEAR TO SEE MY CHILD DIE." WHILE SHE WAS SITTING THERE, SHE BEGAN TO CRY. GOD HEARD THE BOY CRYING, AND FROM HEAVEN THE ANGEL OF GOD SPOKE TO HAGAR, 'WHAT ARE YOU TROUBLED ABOUT, HAGAR? DON'T BE AFRAID. GOD HAS HEARD THE BOY CRYING. GET UP, GO AND PICK HIM UP, AND COMFORT HIM. I WILL MAKE A GREAT NATION OUT OF HIS DESCENDANTS. THEN GOD OPENED HER EYES, AND SHE SAW A WELL. SHE WENT AND FILLED THE LEATHER BAG WITH WATER AND GAVE SOME TO THE BOY. GOD WAS  WITH THE BOY AS HE GREW UP; HE LIVED IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN AND BECAME A SKILFUL HUNTER. HIS MOTHER FOUND AN EGYPTIAN WIFE FOR HIM.'


(3) Isaac married Rebecca (the daughter of Bethuel) and gave birth to Jacob and Esau. He blessed Jacob and instructed him to not marry a Canaanite woman and directed him to the household of his maternal grandfather called Bethuel. Esau married his direct/first cousin from his father's side (Ishamael's daughter called Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth) while Jacob married his direct/first cousin from his mother's side (his maternal uncle's daughters called Leah and Rachel)

NOTE THAT:
(A) JACOB AND ESAU MOTHER'S BLOOD BROTHER WAS LABAN (WHO WAS LEAH AND RACHEL'S FATHER).

(B) JACOB AND ESAU FATHER'S HALF BLOOD BROTHER WAS ISHAMAEL (WHO WAS MAHALATH AND NEBAIOTH'S FATHER).

(C) THE MAIN REASON ESAU MARRIED MAHALATH (WHO WAS A CANAANITE AND THE SISTER OF NEBAIOTH) WAS BECAUSE HE NOTICED THAT HIS FATHER (ISAAC) DOES NOT LIKE CANAANITE WOMEN.

(D) ABRAHAM WAS THE FATHER OF ISAAC AND ISHMAEL.

(E) ABRAHAM MARRIED HIS STEP-SISTER CALLED SARAH WHO GAVE BIRTH TO ONLY ISAAC AT OLD AGE.

(F) ABRAHAM HAD A SIDE WOMAN (THE SLAVE WOMAN CALLED HAGAR) GIVEN TO HIM BY SARAH HERSELF TO GIVE BIRTH FOR HIM AND HE WAS CALLED ISHMAEL.

(G) ISAAC WAS THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER OF JACOB AND ESAU

(H) ISHMAEL WAS THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER OF MAHALATH AND NEBAIOTH.

(I) GOD CHOSE THE SECOND SON OF ABRAHAM CALLED ISAAC TO BE THE ONE THROUGH WHICH HE WILL GIVE HIM THE DESCENDANTS THAT HE PROMISED HIM.

(J) ISAAC BLESSED HIS SECOND SON CALLED JACOB (ALSO KNOWN AS ISRAEL IN THE HOLY BIBLE), INSTEAD OF ESAU.

(K) THE HOLY BIBLE ACKNOWLEDGES BOTH ISAAC AND ISHMAEL'S DESCENDANTS AS BOTH CANAANITES.

(L) JACOB (ALSO KNOWN AS ISRAEL) MARRIED LEAH AS HIS FIRST WIFE AND RACHEL (THE WOMAN AFTER HIS HEART) HER SISTER AS HIS SECOND WIFE.

(M) ESAU ALREADY HAD TWO HITTITE WIVES WHO MALTREATED HIS PARENTS (ISAAC AND REBECCA) AND MADE THEIR LIVES MISERABLE BUT HE STILL WENT AHEAD TO MARRY MALAHATH AS HIS THIRD WIFE.


According to Genesis 28:  1- 9
'ISAAC CALLED JACOB, GREETED HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, "DON'T MARRY A CANAANITE WOMAN. GO INSTEAD TO MESOPOTAMIA, TO THE HOME OF YOUR GRANDFATHER BETHUEL, AND MARRY ONE OF THE YOUNG WOMEN THERE, ONE OF YOUR UNCLE LABAN'S DAUGHTERS. MAY ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS YOUR MARRIAGE AND GIVE YOU MANY CHILDREN, SO THAT YOU WILL BECOME THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS! MAY HE BLESS YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS AS HE BLESSED ABRAHAM, AND MAY YOU TAKE POSSESSION OF THIS LAND, IN WHICH YOU HAVE LIVED AND WHICH GOD GAVE TO ABRAHAM!" ISAAC SENT JACOB AWAY TO MESOPOTAMIA, TO LABAN, WHO WAS THE SON OF BETHUEL THE ARAMEAN AND THE BROTHER OF REBECCA, THE MOTHER OF JACOB AND ESAU. ESAU LEARNT THAT ISAAC HAD BLESSED JACOB AND SENT HIM AWAY TO MESOPOTAMIA TO FIND A WIFE. HE ALSO LEARNT THAT WHEN ISAAC BLESSED HIM, HE COMMANDED HIM NOT TO MARRY A CANAANITE WOMAN. HE FOUND OUT THAT JACOB HAD OBEYED HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND HAD GONE TO MESOPOTAMIA. ESAU THEN UNDERSTOOD THAT HIS FATHER ISAAC DID NOT APPROVE OF CANAANITE WOMEN. SO HE WENT TO ISHMAEL SON OF ABRAHAM AND MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER MAHALATH, WHO WAS THE SISTER OF NEBAIOTH.'


(4) The Ten commandments of God Almighty were given to the Israelites (God's chosen people) through Moses after they where rescued from slavery in the hands of the evil claws of the, then, Egyptians. 

NOTE THAT:

(A) THE ISRAELITES (THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB ALSO CALLED ISRAEL) WHO WERE FREE BORNS LATER BECAME SLAVES TO THE EGYPTIANS WHERE THEY GAVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN WHOM THE EGYPTIANS ALSO CONSIDERED TO BE SLAVES BUT GOD RESCUED THEM IN A MAJESTIC WAY AT HIS OWN TIME.

(B) ISHMAEL WHO WAS FROM THE SAME BIOLOGICAL FATHER AS ISAAC WAS SEEN AND CONSIDERED AS A SLAVE BECAUSE HE WAS BORN OF A SLAVE EGYTIAN WOMAN BUT GOD PROMISED PROPHET ABRAHAM THAT HE WILL BLESS ISHMAEL AND HIS MOTHER AND MAKE THEM A NATION WHICH HE DID (HIS DESCENDANTS WERE CALLED ISHMAELITES).

These Ten commandments are as simply shown below:

(I) WORSHIP NO GOD BUT ME.
(II) DO NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELVES IMAGES AND WORSHIP IT AND DO NOT HATE ME.
(III) DO NOT USE MY NAME TO DO EVIL THINGS.
(IV) OBSERVE THE SABBATH AND KEEP IT HOLY FOR I HAVE MADE IT HOLY.
(V) RESPECT YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER SO THAT YOU WILL LIVE LONG IN THE LAND WHERE YOU WILL SETTLE DOWN.
(VI) DO NOT COMMIT MURDER.
(VII) DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
(VIII) DO NOT STEAL.
(IX) DO NOT ACCUSE ANYONE FALSELY (THAT IS, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS).
(X) DO NOT DESIRE ANYTHING SOMEONE ELSE OWNS (DO NOT BE COVETEOUS).


BE WARNED THAT: ANYONE WHO USES GOD'S NAME (WHETHER GOD, THE FATHER OR GOD, THE SON OR GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT) AND COMMIT ANY OF THE OTHER NINE SINS LIKE BEARING FALSE WITNESS IN THE COURT OF LAW OR ELSEWHERE HAS COMMITTED TWO IN ONE SIN AT THE SAME TIME.

According to Exodus 20: 1-17
GOD SPOKE, AND THESE WERE HIS WORDS: 'I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF EGYPT, WHERE YOU WERE SLAVES. "WORSHIP NO GOD BUT ME." "DO NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELVES IMAGES OF ANYTHING IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH OR IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH. DO NOT BOW DOWN TO ANY IDOL OR WORSHIP IT, BECAUSE I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD AND I TOLERATE NO RIVALS. I BRING PUNISHMENT ON THOSE WHO HATE ME AND ON THEIR DESCENDANTS DOWN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION. BUT I SHOW MY LOVE TO THOUSANDS OF GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME AND OBEY MY LAWS." "DO NOT USE MY NAME FOR EVIL PURPOSES, FOR I, THE LORD YOUR GOD, WILL PUNISH ANYONE WHO MISUSES MY NAME." "OBSERVE THE SABBATH DAY AND KEEP IT HOLY. YOU HAVE SIX DAYS IN WHICH TO DO YOUR WORK, BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS A DAY OF REST DEDICATED TO ME. ON THAT DAY NO ONE IS TO WORK - NEITHER YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR SLAVES, YOUR ANIMALS, NOR THE FOREIGNERS WHO LIVE IN YOUR COUNTRY. IN SIX DAYS I, THE LORD, MADE THE EARTH, THE SKY, THE SEA, AND EVERYTHING IN THEM, BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY I RESTED. THAT IS WHY I, THE LORD, BLESSED THE SABBATH AND MADE IT HOLY. "RESPECT YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, SO THAT YOU MAY LIVE A LONG TIME IN THE LAND THAT I AM GIVING YOU." "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY." "DO NOT STEAL." "DO NOT ACCUSE ANYONE FALSELY." "DO NOT DESIRE ANOTHER MAN'S HOUSE; DO NOT DESIRE HIS WIFE, HIS SLAVES, HIS CATTLE, HIS DONKEYS, OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT HE OWNS." 



(5) Jesus Christ was a descendant of King Solomon, the Son of King David (who was a descendant of Jacob, Isaac, and, then, Prophet Abraham).

According to Matthew 1: 1- 17
"THIS IS THE LIST OF THE ANCESTORS OF JESUS CHRIST, A DESCENDANT OF DAVID, WHO WAS A DESCENDANT OF ABRAHAM. FROM ABRAHAM TO KING DAVID, THE FOLLOWING ANCESTORS ARE LISTED: ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, JUDAH AND HIS BROTHERS; THEN PEREZ AND ZERAH (THEIR MOTHER WAS TAMAR), HEZRON, RAM, AMMINADAB, NAHSHON, SALMON, BOAZ (HIS MOTHER WAS RAHAB), OBED (HIS MOTHER WAS RUTH), JESSE, AND KING DAVID. FROM DAVID TO THE TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WERE TAKEN INTO EXILE IN BABYLON, THE FOLLOWING ANCESTORS ARE LISTED: DAVID, SOLOMON (HIS MOTHER WAS THE WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN URIAH'S WIFE), REHOBOAM, ABIJAH, ASA, JEHOSHAPHAT, JEHORAM, UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AHAZ, HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH, AMON, JOSIAH, AND JEHOIACHIN AND HIS BROTHERS. FROM THE TIME AFTER THE EXILE IN THE BABYLON TO THE BIRTH OF JESUS, THE FOLLOWING ANCESTORS ARE LISTED: JEHOIACHIN, SHEALTIEL ZERUBBABEL, ABIUD, ELIAKIM, AZOR, ZADOK, ACHIM, ELIUD, ELEAZAR, MATTHAN, JACOB, AND JOSEPH WHO MARRIED MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS, WHO WAS CALLED MESSIAH. SO THEN, THERE WERE FOURTEEN GENERATIONS FROM ABRAHAM TO DAVID, AND FOURTEEN FROM DAVID TO THE EXILE IN BABYLON, AND FOURTEEN FROM THEN TO THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH.


(6) Jesus Christ has summerized all the Holy Laws/Commandments of the Holy Bible into "the Love for God with all our hearts" and "Love for our neighbors as we love ourselves", thus, He did not abolish the Laws as He rightly taught us in the Holy Bible. Love is the greatest law of all laws and the greatest commandment of all commandments. These things are still forbidden till today and you don't choose to follow one and leave the other. He who bears false witness is the same as he who steals; He who commits murder is the same as he who commits adultery; he who commits adultery is the same as he who desires/covers what belongs to another person; and so on and so forth because the similarity between them all is that they are all sinners.

NOTE THAT:
(A) THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, WE ARE MADE FREE BORNS (BORN-AGAINS), THUS, THE ONLY TWO MAIN TYPES OF SLAVES THAT EXIST NOW ARE:
(I) SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OBEDIENCE (ALSO CALLED SLAVES OF GOD) WHOSE REWARD IS ETERNAL LIFE.
(II) SLAVES OF SIN (ALSO CALLED SLAVES OF EVIL AND WICKEDNESS) WHOSE REWARD IS ETERNAL DEATH.

(B) JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR US WHEN WE WERE YET SINNERS.

(C) WE HAVE ALL SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD WHICH SIMPLY MEANS THAT SIN MAKES US TO COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD ANYTIME, ANYDAY AND ANYWHERE. IT IS JUST THAT THE GRACE OF GOD COVERS US THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD AND MASTER.

(D) THE HOLY BIBLE SAY, "SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABIDE?" WHICH MEANS THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE THE LOVE AND GRACE OF GOD DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE SHOULD KEEP SINNING AS IF WE DO NOT HAVE CONSCIENCES TO KNOW WHAT IS GOOD OR BAD AND THE ABILITY TO FOLLOW THE GOOD PATH (WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF). 

(E) JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

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27.3.23

He who has ears let him hear so also he who has eyes let him see the Truth of Life: Read and what's your view

He who has ears let him hear so also he who has eyes let him see the Truth of Life: Read and what's your view


Have you not heard that:
* he who has a teeth cut out should not tell the children which toothpaste to use.

*he who has a cut finger should not tell the children how to manage their hands.

*he who has a toe cut out should not tell the children which shoes to use.

*he who has a cut hand should not tell the children which hand to use.

*he who has a cut leg should not teach the children how to walk.

*The person who has a breast cut out should not  teach the children how to avoid breast cancer.

*The person who has multiple kids (triplets, twins, etc) different times and still keeps giving birth without managing the situation should not teach the children how to use birth control.


(1) Jesus Christ (God, the Son) is also called "The Word" (The Holy Bible say, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God). Jesus Christ came to this world as a man with flesh and bones like all human beings. Jesus Christ is wisdom itself. No one knows Jesus Christ (Wisdom) as much as God the Father and there will never be anyone as such (This Bible passage below says, "The first human being ever created never knew wisdom completely, and the last person on earth will be no more successful). 

The fact remains that:

***Any person who truly has Jesus Christ is a wise person.

***As a mere human being, you can never be wiser than Jesus Christ (God, the Son).

***As Jesus Christ is wisdom itself, He gives wisdom to His followers, disciples, called and chosen people who accepts Him as He really is and they can never be tired of having Him in their lives or the wisdom He gives freely to them (This Holy Bible verse below say, "Eat me, and you will hunger for more; drink me, and you will thirst for more.")

According to Sirach 24: 1-34
LISTEN TO WISDOM! SHE PROUDLY SINGS HER OWN PRAISES AMONG THE ISRAELITES, HER OWN PEOPLE, IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS POWER. "I AM THE WORD SPOKEN BY THE MOST HIGH. I COVERED THE EARTH LIKE A MIST. I MADE MY HOME IN HIGHEST HEAVEN, MY THRONE ON A PILLAR OF CLOUD. ALONE I WALKED AROUND THE CIRCLE OF THE SKY AND WALKED THROUGH THE OCEAN BENEATH THE EARTH. I RULED OVER ALL THE EARTH AND THE OCEAN WAVES, OVER EVERY NATION, OVER EVERY PEOPLE. I LOOKED EVERYWHERE FOR A PLACE TO SETTLE, SOME PART OF THE WORLD TO MAKE MY HOME. THEN MY CREATOR, WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE, TOLD ME WHERE I WAS TO LIVE. 'MAKE YOUR HOME IN ISRAEL,' HE SAID. THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB WILL BE YOUR PEOPLE.' HE CREATED ME IN ETERNITY TO COME. I SERVED HIM IN THE SACRED TENT AND THEN MADE MY HOME ON MOUNT ZION. HE SETTLED ME IN THE BELOVED CITY, AND GAVE ME AUTHORITY OVER JERUSALEM. I PUT DOWN ROOTS AMONG AN HONOURED PEOPLE WHOM THE LORD HAD CHOSEN AS HIS OWN. I GREW TALL LIKE THE CEDARS IN LEBANON, LIKE THE CYPRESSES ON MOUNT HERMON, LIKE THE PALM-TREES OF ENGEDI, LIKE THE ROSES OF JERICHO, LIKE BEAUTIFUL OLIVE-TREES IN THE FIELDS, LIKE PLANE-TREES GROWING BY THE WATER. MY BREATH WAS THE SPICY SMELL OF CINNAMON, OF SWEET PERFUME AND FINEST MYRRH, OF STACTE, ONYCHA, AND GALBANUM, THE FRAGRANT INCENSE IN THE SACRED TENT. LIKE AN OAK I SPREAD OUT MY BRANCHES, MAGNIFICENT AND GRACEFUL. LIKE A GRAPEVINE I PUT OUT LOVELY SHOOTS; MY BLOSSOMS GAVE WAY TO RICH AND GLORIOUS FRUIT. COME TO ME, ALL YOU THAT WANT ME AND EAT YOUR FILL OF MY FRUIT. YOU WILL REMEMBER ME AS SWEETER THAN HONEY, BETTER THAN HONEY FROM THE COMB. EAT ME, AND YOU WILL HUNGER FOR MORE; DRINK ME, AND YOU WILL THIRST FOR MORE. OBEY ME, AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE CAUSE FOR  EMBARRASSMENT; DO AS I SAY AND YOU WILL BE SAFE FROM SIN."


(2) Don't assume that you are the best thing that ever happened to anyone because the person can decide to shock you one day when you least expect it and in the public or in front of important persons in the society, then you will feel humiliated/embarrassed. In the end, causing you immense heart break and/or disappointment. Making assumptions always is not actually a very reliable way to live ones life. For instance, because your husband takes care of you a lot and you have never really seen how he takes care of his mother all this while because he has been secretive/discreet about it, then you, as a wife, will now come one day and ask him to choose between you and his mum ignorantly, then, after he chooses his mother over you, you will now go around telling your friends and family and others that he never loved you, whereas, you were the one that felt that the world was at your feet because up until that time anything you said in the house was taken as almost the law that must be carried out, things like buy me a house, he buys it; buy me a car, he buys it; send the maid away; he actually sends the maid away; sack the driver for no good reason, then he actually sacks the driver; don't go to work today are you not the CEO and owner of the business(es), then he actually stays at home just to please you and make you feel happy and safe with him in the marriage. What you were meant to tell your friends, family and others is that (in Pidgin language) "your cup don full."

According to Luke 14: 7-14
JESUS NOTICED HOW SOME OF THE GUESTS WERE CHOOSING THE BEST PLACES, SO HE TOLD THIS PARABLE TO ALL OF THEM: "WHEN SOMEONE INVITES YOU TO A WEDDING FEAST, DO NOT SIT DOWN IN THE BEST PLACE. IT COULD HAPPEN THAT SOMEONE MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU HAS BEEN INVITED, AND YOUR HOST, WHO INVITED BOTH OF YOU, WOULD HAVE TO COME AND SAY TO YOU, 'LET HIM HAVE THIS PLACE.' THEN YOU WOULD BE EMBARRASSED AND HAVE TO SIT IN THE LOWEST PLACE. INSTEAD, WHEN YOU ARE INVITED, GO AND SIT IN THE LOWEST PLACE, SO THAT YOUR HOST WILL COME TO YOU AND SAY, 'COME ON UP, MY FRIEND, TO A BETTER PLACE.' THIS WILL BRING YOU HONOUR IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE OTHER GUESTS. FOR ALL THOSE WHO MAKE THEMSELVES GREAT WILL BE HUMBLED, AND THOSE WHO HUMBLE THEMSELVES WILL BE MADE GREAT." THEN JESUS SAID TO HIS HOST, "WHEN YOU GIVE A LUNCH OR A DINNER, DO NOT INVITE YOUR FRIENDS OR YOUR BROTHERS OR YOUR RELATIVES OR YOUR RICH NEIGHBOURS - FOR THEY WILL INVITE YOU BACK, AND IN THIS WAY YOU WILL BE PAID FOR WHAT YOU DID. WHEN YOU GIVE A FEAST, INVITE THE POOR, THE CRIPPLED, THE LAME, AND THE BLIND; AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY YOU BACK. GOD WILL REPAY YOU ON THE DAY THE GOOD PEOPLE RISE FROM DEATH."


(3) Losing a loved one to death in this world is not the end of the road of life for you that have been left behind here. Even as a heartbroken widow, for instance, she can manage all that the husband left for her just like Judith, the widow in the Holy Bible and still serve God in truth and in spirit. Fasting and/or praying is not forbidden for a widow. In the olden days (before Christianity started fully) fasting was only forbidden in the following days for the Children of God (also known as God of our Ancestors, God of Heaven, I am that I am, The Most High God, etc):
(a) The day before the Sabbath and the Sabbath itself.
(b) The eve of the New moon festival and the festival itself.
(c) All the festivals and holidays observed by the people of Israel.
With Jesus Christ now, fasting and/or praying can be done as the Holy Spirit (Spirit of God) leads anytime and anywhere. If the Holy Spirit asks a true christian to fast for a reason at any of the above listed period above for any reason whatsoever, such a person will obey and fast because he or she is now ruled by Love, grace, hope, faith and all the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

NOTE THAT: BACK THEN, SLAVES CAN BE MANAGERS OF THE BUSINESS(ES) OF THEIR MASTERS.

According to Judith 8: 1-10
'AT THAT TIME, JUDITH HEARD ABOUT UZZIAH'S DECISION. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MERARI,THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF OX AND THE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOSEPH, JOSEPH'S ANCESTORS WERE OZIEL, ELKIAH, ANANIAS, GIDEON, RAPHAIM, AHITUB, ELIJAH, HILKIAH, ELIAB, NATHANAEL, SALAMIEL, SARASADAI, AND ISRAEL. JUDITH'S HUSBAND MANASSEH, WHO BELONGED TO THE SAME TRIBE AND CLAN, HAD DIED DURING THE BARLEY HARVEST. HE HAD SUFFERED A SUNSTROKE WHILE IN THE FIELDS SUPERVISING THE FARM WORKERS AND LATER DIED IN BED AT HOME IN BETHULIA. HE WAS BURIED IN THE FAMILY TOMB IN THE FIELD BETWEEN DOTHAN AND BALAMON. FOR THREE YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS, JUDITH HAD LIVED AS A WIDOW. IN HER GRIEF SHE BUILT A LITTLE SHELTER ON THE ROOF OF HER HOUSE AND LIVED THERE, WEARING SACKCLOTH. SHE FASTED DURING THAT ENTIRE PERIOD EXCEPT WHEN FASTING WAS FORBIDDEN: THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH AND THE SABBATH ITSELF, THE EVE OF THE NEW MOON FESTIVAL AND THE FESTIVAL ITSELF, AND ALL THE FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS OBSERVED BY THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. JUDITH WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT HER GOLD AND SILVER, SERVANTS AND SLAVES, LIVESTOCK AND FIELDS. SHE CONTINUED TO SUPERVISE THE ESTATE, AND NO ONE EVER SAID ANYTHING BAD ABOUT JUDITH. SHE WAS A VERY RELIGIOUS WOMAN. JUDITH HEARD HOW THE PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING BITTERLY AGAINST UZZIAH, NOW THAT THE WATER SHORTAGE HAD BROKEN THEIR MORALE. SHE LEARNT THAT IN ANSWER TO THEIR COMPLAINTS HE HAD PROMISED TO SURRENDER THE TOWN TO THE ASSYRIANS AFTER FIVE DAYS. JUDITH SENT A SLAVE, THE WOMAN WHO MANAGED HER BUSINESS AFFAIRS, TO INVITE UZZIAH, CHABRIS, AND CHARMIS, THE TOWN OFFICIALS , TO HER HOME.'


(4) As christians, we are slaves of obedience to God which, in turn, results in being put right with God, thus, slaves of righteousness also. Everyone is asked to serve God with the same zeal they used in serving sin and wickedness (for wicked purpose) in the past, only that now they will serve God as slaves of righteousness (not slaves of sin). True christians are for holy purposes and since we are now fully dedicated to God as His slaves, the result we will get is eternal life (not eternal death).

Note that based on the Laws/Directions/Instructions/Verdict/Commandments of God in the Holy Bible:

(A) There is no much difference between people who steal (e.g. armed robbers; thieves etc), for example, and the people who kill (e.g. murderers; ritual killers; hired or self assassins etc) because they are all sinners.

(B) The wages/consequences of sin is death.

(C) The free gifts/reward of righteousness is eternal life. 

(D) The slaves of righteousness (which means slaves of God) are free from sin.

(E) The slaves of sin (which means slaves of evil) are free from righteousness.

(F) Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

(G) Jesus Christ warns in the Holy Bible that He did not come to abolish the Laws but that the Laws are all encompassed in two different parts as shown below:
(I) Love for God
(II) Love for neighbors
Thus, Love is the summary of the Laws/Commandments of God. You now see why Jesus Christ Himself has always been wisdom itself. God is good!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!!

According to Romans 6: 15-23
'WHAT, THEN? SHALL WE SIN, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GOD'S GRACE? BY NO MEANS! SURELY YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOURSELVES AS SLAVES TO OBEY SOMEONE, YOU ARE IN FACT THE SLAVES OF THE MASTER YOU OBEY - EITHER OF SIN, WHICH RESULTS IN DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE, WHICH RESULTS IN BEING PUT RIGHT WITH GOD. BUT THANKS BE TO GOD! FOR THOUGH AT ONE TIME YOU WERE SLAVES TO SIN, YOU HAVE OBEYED WITH ALL YOUR HEART THE TRUTHS FOUND IN THE TEACHING YOU RECEIVED. YOU WERE SET FREE FROM SIN AND BECAME THE SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. (I USE EVERYDAY LANGUAGE BECAUSE OF THE WEAKNESS OF YOUR NATURAL SELVES.) AT ONE TIME YOU SURRENDERED YOURSELVES ENTIRELY AS SLAVES TO IMPURITY AND WICKEDNESS FOR WICKED PURPOSES. IN THE SAME WAY YOU MUST NOW SURRENDER YOURSELVES ENTIRELY AS SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HOLY PURPOSES. WHEN YOU WERE THE SLAVES OF SIN, YOU WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHAT DID YOU GAIN FROM DOING THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE NOW ASHAMED OF? THE RESULT OF THOSE THINGS IS DEATH! BUT NOW YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN AND ARE SLAVES OF GOD. YOUR GAIN IS A LIFE FULLY DEDICATED TO HIM, AND THE RESULT IS ETERNAL LIFE. FOR SIN PAYS ITS WAGE - DEATH; BUT GOD'S FREE GIFT IS ETERNAL LIFE IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.'



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26.3.23

I am called the Baby of the Lord, Jesus Christ: Read and what's your view

I am called the Baby of the Lord, Jesus Christ: Read and what's your view


"My name is Jesus Baby," says me.

Benefits and characteristics of a Christian is as follows 👇:

(1) Overcomer: I am an Overcomer because God is my avenger. "Vengeance is mine," says the Lord. He will come in plenty to rescue me always. "One with God is majority."

According to Malachi 4: 1-6
THE LORD ALMIGHTY SAYS, "THE DAY IS COMING WHEN ALL PROUD AND EVIL PEOPLE WILL BURN LIKE STRAW. ON THAT DAY THEY WILL BURN UP, AND THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF THEM. BUT FOR YOU WHO OBEY ME, MY SAVING POWER WILL RISE ON YOU LIKE THE SUN AND BRING HEALING LIKE THE SUN'S RAYS. YOU WILL BE AS FREE AND HAPPY AS CALVES LET OUT OF A STALL. ON THE DAY WHEN I ACT, YOU WILL OVERCOME THE WICKED, AND THEY WILL BE LIKE DUST UNDER YOUR FEET. "REMEMBER THE TEACHINGS OF MY SERVANT MOSES, THE LAWS AND COMMANDS WHICH I GAVE HIM AT MOUNT SINAI FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO OBEY. "BUT BEFORE THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD COMES, I WILL SEND YOU THE PROPHET ELIJAH. HE WILL BRING FATHERS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER AGAIN; OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE TO COME AND DESTROY YOUR COUNTRY."

(2) Dedication to God: God calls us to honor and serve only Him as our only God and do not let the problems, troubles and worries choke up the promises He has made to His faithful people. Everyone who has idols that they worship as if they were god must put all of them aside, that is, throw them away and face only God Almighty as our only God. And other people/nations will also ask and receive the blessings of God; and  praise the name of God because of the Honor you have given to God Almighty. God calls us to dedicate our whole lives to Him.

According to Jeremiah 4: 1-4 
THE LORD SAYS, "PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, IF YOU WANT TO TURN, THEN TURN BACK TO ME. IF YOU ARE FAITHFUL TO ME AND REMOVE THE IDOLS I HATE, IT WILL BE RIGHT FOR YOU TO SWEAR BY MY NAME. THEN ALL THE NATIONS WILL ASK ME TO BLESS THEM, AND THEY WILL PRAISE ME." THE LORD SAYS TO THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, "PLOUGH UP YOUR UNPLOUGHED FIELDS; DO NOT SOW YOUR SEEDS AMONG THORNS. KEEP YOUR COVENANT WITH ME, YOUR LORD, AND DEDICATE YOURSELVES TO ME, YOU PEOPLE OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. IF YOU DON'T, MY ANGER WILL BURN LIKE FIRE BECAUSE OF THE EVIL THINGS YOU HAVE DONE. IT WILL BURN, AND THERE WILL BE NO ONE TO PUT IT OUT."


(3) Unique: We, as Christians, do not depend on the Laws to be put right with God because we have all died in Christ Jesus, thus, our ways are now the ways of the Spirit of God as we belong to Jesus Christ (God, the Son). This same Holy Spirit (Spirit of God) that was sent to the apostles/disciples on the day of the Pentecost for them to do the work of our Lord Jesus Christ (God, the Son) in truth and in Spirit. Thus, we have become useful (and not useless) in the service/work of God. The wages of sin is death.

NOTE THAT: 
(A) One who dies in Christ Jesus is dead to sin (Sin knows Him not).

(B) One who dies in sin is dead to Christ Jesus (Jesus Christ knows him not).

(C) Behold, old things have passed away and all things have become new here. As an existing believer in God Almighty:
(I) The old things is serving God in the old way of a written Law
(II) The new things is serving God in the new way of the Spirit of the Most High God.

According to Romans 7: 1-6
'CERTAINLY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, BECAUSE ALL OF YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LAW. THE LAW RULES OVER PEOPLE ONLY AS LONG AS THEY LIVE. A MARRIED WOMAN, FOR EXAMPLE, IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND AS LONG AS HE LIVES; BUT IF HE DIES, THEN SHE IS FREE FROM THE LAW THAT BOUND HER TO HIM. SO THEN, IF SHE LIVES WITH ANOTHER MAN WHILE HER HUSBAND IS ALIVE, SHE WILL BE CALLED AN ADULTERESS; BUT IF HER HUSBAND DIES, SHE IS LEGALLY A FREE WOMAN AND DOES NOT COMMIT ADULTERY IF SHE MARRIES ANOTHER MAN. THAT IS HOW IT IS WITH YOU, MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS. AS FAR AS THE LAW IS CONCERNED, YOU ALSO HAVE DIED BECAUSE YOU ARE PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST; AND NOW YOU BELONG TO HIM WHO WAS RAISED FROM DEATH IN ORDER THAT WE MIGHT BE USEFUL IN THE SERVICE OF GOD. FOR WHEN WE LIVED ACCORDING TO OUR HUMAN NATURE, THE SINFUL DESIRES STIRRED UP BY THE LAW WERE AT WORK IN OUR BODIES, AND ALL WE DID ENDED IN DEATH. NOW, HOWEVER, WE ARE FREE FROM THE LAW, BECAUSE WE DIED TO THAT WHICH ONCE HELD US PRISONERS. NO LONGER DO WE SERVE IN THE OLD WAY OF A WRITTEN LAW, BUT IN THE NEW WAY OF SPIRIT.


(4) Accessibility: All those without hope and without God before can now have access and live right with the believers of God (Christians) through the Corner Stone called Jesus Christ, our Lord (God, the Son) since they are now members of the family/household of God. 

NOTE THAT:
(A) Jesus Christ brings peace by joining people of different races as one people in His wonderful Name. All they need do is to believe in the Blood of Jesus Christ shed on the Holy cross of Calvary whether they are Jewish or not.

(B) Jesus Christ is the one that preaches peace and thus, brings both those who were not close to God before and those who are already close to God together as fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God and members of the family/household of God. Thus, making us one body and helps us to be a sacred temple dedicated to the Lord where God lives through the Spirit.

According to Ephesians 2: 11-22
'YOU GENTILES BY BIRTH - CALLED "THE UNCIRCUMCISED" BY THE JEWS, WHO CALL THEMSELVES "THE CIRCUMCISED" (WHICH REFERS TO WHAT MEN DO TO THEIR BODY) - REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE IN THE PAST. AT THAT TIME YOU WERE APART FROM CHRIST. YOU WERE FOREIGNERS AND DID NOT BELONG TO GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. YOU HAD NO PART IN THE COVENANTS, WHICH WERE BASED ON GOD'S PROMISES TO HIS PEOPLE. YOU LIVED IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT HOPE AND WITHOUT GOD. BUT NOW, IN UNION WITH CHRIST JESUS, YOU WHO USED TO BE FAR AWAY HAVE BEEN BROUGHT NEAR BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. FOR CHRIST HIMSELF HAS BROUGHT US PEACE BY MAKING JEWS AND GENTILES ONE PEOPLE. WITH HIS OWN BODY HE BROKE DOWN THE WALL THAT SEPARATED THEM AND KEPT THEM ENEMIES. HE ABOLISHED THE JEWISH LAW WITH ITS COMMANDMENTS AND RULES, IN ORDER TO CREATE OUT OF THE TWO RACES ONE NEW PEOPLE IN UNION WITH HIMSELF, IN THIS WAY MAKING PEACE. BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS CHRIST DESTROYED THEIR ENMITY; BY MEANS OF THE CROSS HE UNITED BOTH RACES INTO ONE BODY AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO GOD. SO CHRIST CAME AND PREACHED THE GOOD NEWS OF PEACE TO ALL - TO YOU GENTILES, WHO WERE FAR AWAY FROM GOD, AND TO THE JEWS, WHO WERE NEAR TO HIM. IT IS THROUGH CHRIST THAT ALL OF US, JEWS AND GENTILES, ARE ABLE TO COME IN THE ONE SPIRIT INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER. SO THEN, YOU GENTILES ARE NOT FOREIGNERS OR STRANGERS ANY LONGER; YOU ARE NOW FELLOW-CITIZENS WITH GOD'S PEOPLE AND MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF GOD. YOU, TOO, ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION LAID BY THE APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, THE CORNER STONE BEING CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF. HE IS THE ONE WHO HOLDS THE WHOLE BUILDING TOGETHER AND MAKES IT GROW INTO A SACRED TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE LORD. IN UNION WITH HIM YOU TOO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER WITH ALL THE OTHERS INTO A PLACE WHERE GOD LIVES THROUGH THE SPIRIT.'


(5) Strengthened: We are strengthened by God and encouraged in the Holy Bible to earn a living and not just spend all our time and lives meddling in other people's business. This counseling is meant to always continue from one believer (Christian) to another believer (Christian) as friends/brothers/sisters in Christ Jesus Christ and not as enemies. The obedience of the instructions that comes from the Spirit of God is very important in our day-to-day lives. Paul says to all children of God (Christians), 'Do as I say" and "Do as I do."

According to 2 Thessalonians 3: 6-18
'OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE COMMAND YOU IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO KEEP AWAY FROM ALL BELIEVERS WHO ARE LIVING A LAZY LIFE AND WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT WE GAVE THEM. YOU YOURSELVES KNOW VERY WELL THAT YOU SHOULD DO JUST WHAT WE DID. WE WERE NOT LAZY WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU. WE DID NOT ACCEPT ANYONE'S SUPPORT WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. INSTEAD, WE WORKED AND TOILED; WE KEPT WORKING DAY AND NIGHT SO AS NOT TO BE AN EXPENSE TO ANY OF YOU. WE DID THIS, NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO DEMAND OUR SUPPORT; WE DID IT TO BE AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU TO FOLLOW. WHILE WE WERE WITH YOU, WE USED TO SAY TO YOU, "WHOEVER REFUSES TO WORK IS NOT ALLOWED TO EAT." WE SAY THIS BECAUSE WE HEAR THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE AMONG YOU WHO LIVE LAZY LIVES AND WHO DO NOTHING EXCEPT MEDDLE IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS. IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WE COMMAND THESE PEOPLE AND WARN THEM TO LEAD ORDERLY LIVES AND WORK TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING. BUT YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, MUST NOT GET TIRED OF DOING GOOD. IT MAY BE THAT SOMEONE THERE WILL NOT OBEY THE MESSAGE WE SEND YOU IN THIS LETTER. IF SO, TAKE NOTE OF THAT PERSON AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM OR HER, SO THAT THEY WILL BE ASHAMED. BUT DO NOT TREAT THEM AS AN ENEMY; INSTEAD, WARN THEM AS A FELLOW-BELIEVER. MAY THE LORD HIMSELF, WHO IS OUR SOURCE OF PEACE, GIVE YOU PEACE AT ALL TIMES AND IN EVERY WAY. THE LORD BE WITH YOU ALL. WITH MY OWN HAND I WRITE THIS: GREETINGS FROM PAUL. THIS IS THE WAY I SIGN EVERY LETTER; THIS IS HOW I WRITE. MAY THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL.'


(6) Protection: Christians are well protected by God even in their trying moments. For Instance, Jesus Christ (God, the Son) could even send a hidden whistle blower to warn you and, effectively protect you by providing information to the governing/high authorities even if your enemies are very plenty. "One with God is majority." Jesus Christ tells us that the service/work of God must continue from one country to another no matter what. Spread the Good news. God is good. God is Love!

Note that: 
(A) Paul was instructed by Jesus Christ to go and preach Christianity (spreading of the Good News) in Rome,  just like he did in Jerusalem. And this instruction was given to him in his turbulent moment.

(B) God's plan for His people is the best no matter what the devil and his evil agents has planned or is about to plan.

(C) Jesus Christ blesses His own people (Christians) with peace of mind even in the worst of kind of trials and tribulations.

(D) In the evil plans of the wicked enemies of God's own people, they sign their own death warrants by themselves. Take this Bible passage below for instance, More than 40 (forty) Jewish enemies of Paul (thus, enemies of Jesus Christ too) took an oath to not eat or drink till they kill Paul. Apparently, these people must have died of starvation because God made sure of it by providing Paul with a whistle blower. 

(E) In the Bible passage below, the chief priests were the evil high/governing authority (Jewish Authorities) while the Commander Claudius Lysias was the good governing/high authority that identified Paul as a innocent prisoner and wrote a letter in favor of him to Governor Felix by God's Heavenly Grace.

According to Acts 23: 10-22
'THE ARGUMENT BECAME SO VIOLENT THAT THE COMMANDER WAS AFRAID THAT PAUL WOULD BE TORN TO PIECES. SO HE ORDERED HIS SOLDIERS TO GO DOWN INTO THE GROUP, GET PAUL AWAY FROM THEM, AND TAKE HIM INTO THE FORT. THAT NIGHT THE LORD STOOD BY PAUL AND SAID, "DON'T BE AFRAID! YOU HAVE GIVEN YOUR WITNESS FOR ME HERE IN JERUSALEM, AND YOU MUST ALSO DO THE SAME IN ROME." THE NEXT MORNING SOME JEWS MET TOGETHER AND MADE A PLAN. THEY TOOK A VOW THAT THEY WOULD NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING UNTIL THEY HAD KILLED PAUL. THERE WERE MORE THAN 40 WHO PLANNED THIS TOGETHER. THEN THEY WENT TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS AND SAID, "WE HAVE TAKEN A SOLEMN VOW TOGETHER NOT TO EAT A THING UNTIL WE HAVE KILLED PAUL. NOW THEN, YOU AND THE COUNCIL SEND WORD TO THE ROMAN COMMANDER TO BRING PAUL DOWN TO YOU, PRETENDING THAT YOU WANT TO GET MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT HIM. BUT WE WILL BE READY TO KILL HIM BEFORE HE EVER GETS HERE." BUT THE SON OF PAUL'S SISTER HEARD ABOUT THE PLOT; SO HE WENT TO THE FORT AND TOLD PAUL. THEN PAUL CALLED ONE OF THE OFFICERS AND SAID TO HIM, "TAKE THIS YOUNG MAN TO THE COMMANDER; HE HAS SOMETHING TO TELL HIM." THE OFFICER TOOK HIM, LED HIM TO THE COMMANDER, AND SAID, "THE PRISONER PAUL CALLED ME AND ASKED ME TO BRING THIS YOUNG MAN TO YOU, BECAUSE HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU." THE COMMANDER TOOK HIM BY THE HAND, LED HIM OFF BY HIMSELF, AND ASKED HIM, "WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO TELL ME?" HE SAID, "THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES HAVE AGREED TO ASK YOU TOMORROW TO TAKE PAUL DOWN TO THE COUNCIL, PRETENDING THAT THE COUNCIL WANTS TO GET MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT HIM. BUT DON'T LISTEN TO THEM, BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE THAN FORTY MEN WHO WILL BE HIDING AND WAITING FOR HIM. THEY HAVE TAKEN A VOW NOT TO EAT OR DRINK UNTIL THEY HAVE KILLED HIM. THEY ARE NOW READY TO DO IT AND ARE WAITING FOR YOUR DECISION. "THE COMMANDER SAID, "DON'T TELL ANYONE THAT YOU HAVE REPORTED THIS TO ME." AND HE SENT THE YOUNG MAN AWAY.'



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25.3.23

How can you say that you really know God?: Read and what's your view

How can you say that you really know God?: Read and what's your view


(1) Do you remember the Bible quote: "No one truly knows God, the Father except God, the Son (Jesus Christ) and so also, no one truly knows God, the Son except God, the Father." 

Thus, 
*** If you truly wish to know all about God, the Father then come to God, the Son (Jesus Christ).

*** If you truly wish to know about God, the Son then come to God, the Father.

So, saying that Jesus Christ will be angry if you know God, the Father first is very wrong. Jesus Christ says, : "I and my Father are one". Thus they are the same. Do you know that the ancestors we have as Children of God (most especially, Christians) like Jacob (also known as Israel), Abraham, Prophet Elijah, Prophet Jeremiah, Prophet Elisha, Prophet Miriam, Moses, Noah, Melchizedek etc were all born before Jesus Christ was born on this earth and they knew about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (also called Emmanuel which means "God is with us") as told by the true Prophets of old. Do you remember the parable Jesus Christ told about the Rich man who went to hell for stinginess to the needy and the poor man who went to Heaven because of His endurance even while in misery and great lack and poverty? Who did the poor man go to meet in heaven? The poor man in the story was in Heaven with Father Abraham (the father of Isaac and Ishmael) which means Abraham is in Heaven even if it was said in a parable. Abraham is referred to in the Holy Bible as the Father of all Nations as He was promised by God Almighty. The only fastest way to heaven is to hide under the Majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ but if you think otherwise. That's your choice not mine. 

NOTE THAT: ALL THOSE WHO "SERVE" JESUS CHRIST IN TRUTH AND IN SPIRIT ARE CALLED "THE SERVANTS OF GOD."

I am not the only witness and testifier:

John, the Baptist happily witnessed and testified to this:
According to John 3: 27-36
'JOHN ANSWERED,"NO ONE CAN HAVE ANYTHING UNLESS GOD GIVES IT TO HIM. YOU YOURSELVES ARE MY WITNESSES THAT I SAID, "I AM NOT THE MESSIAH, BUT I HAVE BEEN SENT AHEAD OF HIM." THE BRIDEGROOM IS THE ONE TO WHOM THE BRIDE BELONGS; BUT THE BRIDEGROOM'S FRIEND, WHO STANDS BY AND LISTENS, IS GLAD WHEN HE HEARS THE BRIDEGROOM'S VOICE. THIS IS HOW MY OWN HAPPINESS IS MADE COMPLETE. HE MUST BECOME MORE IMPORTANT WHILE I BECOME LESS IMPORTANT." HE WHO COMES FROM ABOVE IS GREATER THAN ALL. HE WHO IS FROM THE EARTH BELONGS TO THE EARTH AND SPEAKS ABOUT EARTHLY MATTERS, BUT HE WHO COMES FROM HEAVEN IS ABOVE ALL. HE TELLS WHAT HE HAS SEEN AND HEARD, YET NO ONE ACCEPTS HIS MESSAGE. BUT WHOEVER ACCEPTS HIS MESSAGE CONFIRMS BY THIS THAT GOD IS TRUTHFUL. THE ONE WHOM GOD HAS SENT SPEAKS GOD'S WORDS , BECAUSE GOD GIVES HIM THE FULLNESS OF THE SPIRIT. THE FATHER LOVES HIS SON AND HAS PUT EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN THE SON HAS ETERNAL LIFE; WHOEVER DISOBEYS THE SON WILL NOT HAVE LIFE, BUT WILL REMAIN UNDER GOD'S PUNISHMENT.'


Jesus Christ (God, the Son) Himself confirms this during the Passover festival:
According to John 12: 20-26
'SOME GREEKS WERE AMONG THOSE WHO HAD GONE TO JERUSALEM TO WORSHIP DURING THE FESTIVAL. THEY WENT TO PHILIP (HE WAS FROM BETHSAIDA IN GALILEE) AND SAID, "SIR, WE WANT TO SEE JESUS." PHILIP WENT AND TOLD ANDREW, AND THE TWO OF THEM WENT AND TOLD JESUS, JESUS ANSWERED THEM, "THE HOUR HAS NOW COME FOR THE SON OF MAN TO RECEIVE GREAT GLORY. I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH: A GRAIN OF WHEAT REMAINS  NO MORE THAN A SINGLE GRAIN UNLESS IT IS DROPPED INTO THE GROUND AND DIES. IF IT DOES DIE, THEN IT PRODUCES MANY GRAINS. THOSE WHO LOVE THEIR OWN LIFE WILL LOSE IT; THOSE WHO HATE THEIR OWN LIFE IN THIS WORLD WILL KEEP IT FOR LIFE ETERNAL. WHOEVER WANTS TO SERVE ME MUST FOLLOW ME, SO THAT MY SERVANT WILL BE WITH ME WHERE I AM. AND MY FATHER WILL HONOUR ANYONE WHO SERVES ME.'


(2) After coming to Jesus Christ for rest as He instructed all human beings that want and need to make it to Heaven : "Come to me all you that are heavily burdened and I will give you rest." This is because we are all made by God and He would not want anyone to lose Heaven so we all have the Potential from Him to make Heaven while trusting in God Almighty and we can fail woefully at this but if and when you come through Jesus Christ, our Lord, He makes it easier for you to make Heaven. True Christians don't lose Heaven. Jesus Christ considers them as too precious for that. He has taken it upon Himself as a duty to bring them all to Him only if they allow Him to do so by following Him. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. After you come to Jesus Christ, you must carry the light burden He promises you in place of the heavy burden you already have as your cross. That is, you must come with the Heavy load, and He will give you a light one at His own time to ease your situation too. 

NOTE THAT:
(A) YOU HAVE TO PLACE JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR HIGHEST PRIORITY IN LIFE BEFORE YOUR OWN SELF, YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER, YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN AND YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS (THIS IS WHY HE SAID THAT NOBODY CAN BE HIS DISCIPLE WITHOUT GIVING UP EVERYTHING HE/SHE HAS WHICH INCLUDES SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY OF THAT PERSON TOO). THUS, THE LOVE AND WORK OF GOD COMES FIRST BEFORE ANYTHING FOR THE HOLY BIBLE ALSO SAYS, "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND ITS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EVERY OTHER THING SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." AFTER SEEKING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, MAKE SURE TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF HEAVENLY RACE TO THE FINISH AS HEAVEN IS THE GOAL, THUS, MAKING SURE THAT THE DEVIL AND HIS EVIL AGENTS DO NOT MAKE A MOCKERY OF YOU AT THE END OF TIME OR EVEN WHILE YOU STILL LIVE HERE ON EARTH. GOD IS LOVE AND WISDOM.

(B) DON'T START WHAT YOU CANNOT FINISH BUT THE BEST DECISION IS TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST IN THE WAY THAT HE HAS RECOMMENDED TO ALL THOSE WHO LOVE AND CHOOSE HIM.

What it takes to be Jesus Christ's (God, the Son) disciple is as follows 👇:
According to Luke 14: 25-33
'ONCE WHEN LARGE CROWDS OF PEOPLE WERE GOING ALONG WITH JESUS, HE TURNED AND SAID TO THEM, "THOSE WHO COME TO ME CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLES UNLESS THEY LOVE ME MORE THAN THEY LOVE FATHER AND MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND THEMSELVES AS WELL. THOSE WHO DO NOT CARRY THEIR OWN CROSS AND COME TO ME CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLES. "IF ONE OF YOU IS PLANNING TO BUILD A TOWER, YOU SIT DOWN FIRST AND WORK OUT WHAT IT WILL COST, TO SEE IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO FINISH THE JOB. IF YOU DON'T, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FINISH THE TOWER AFTER LAYING THE FOUNDATION; AND ALL WHO SEE WHAT HAPPENED WILL LAUGH AT YOU. "THIS MAN BEGAN TO BUILD BUT CAN'T FINISH THE JOB!" THEY WILL SAY. "IF A KING GOES OUT WITH TEN THOUSAND MEN TO FIGHT ANOTHER KING WHO COMES AGAINST HIM WITH TWENTY THOUSAND MEN, HE WILL SIT DOWN FIRST AND DECIDE IF HE IS STRONG ENOUGH TO FACE THAT OTHER KING. IF HE ISN'T, HE WILL SEND MESSENGERS TO MEET THE OTHER KING, TO ASK FOR TERMS OF PEACE WHILE HE IS STILL A LONG WAY OFF. IN THE SAME WAY," CONCLUDED JESUS, "NONE OF YOU CAN BE MY DISCIPLE UNLESS YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING YOU HAVE."


(3) After Jesus Christ Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven, no one knows when He will come back again to judge the living and the dead. Death is part of life's existence just like seeds are planted in the soil then they die and sprout up as edible plants that feed the hungry, flowers that beautified the surroundings etc. 

NOTE THAT:
(A) Jesus Christ Himself told us that the big secret that God, the Father is keeping from Him is "THE EXACT DAY OR DATE THAT JESUS CHRIST WILL COME BACK AGAIN TO END THE WORLD." 

(B) "THE HOUSE" MEANS THIS WORLD AND THE OWNER OF THIS WORLD IS GOD BECAUSE FIRST AND FOREMOST, HE CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL THAT IS IN IT, SECONDLY, HE IS GOD.

(C) THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, (AS HE SAYS IN HIS COMMANDMENT, THOU SHALL NOT SERVE ANY OTHER GOD BUT ME.)

(D) YET, JESUS CHRIST HAS A CLUE OF THE TIME OF DAY HE MIGHT COME AGAIN ON THE DATE THAT GOD, THE FATHER HAS CHOSEN, JUST AS WRITTEN IN THE HOLY BIBLE PASSAGE BELOW:
(I) EVENING (THIS IS AROUND 6:00 PM DOWNWARDS OR EVEN 04:00 PM DOWNWARDS)
(II) MIDNIGHT (EXACTLY 12:00 AM)
(III) BEFORE DAWN (RIGHT BEFORE 6:00AM)
(IV) SUNRISE (EXACTLY 12:00 NOON)
GOD, THE SON (JESUS CHRIST) JUST ADVICES US TO BE WATCHFUL AND EVER READY 24 HOURS A DAY AS IT COULD BE EITHER IN THE EVENING OR AT MIDNIGHT OR BEFORE DAWN OR AT SUNRISE.

(E) MOREOVER, IF WE LOOK AT THIS IN ANOTHER WAY, WITH THE WAY THE WORLD IS, FOR INSTANCE IT MIGHT BE EVENING IN COUNTRY A AND AT MIDNIGHT IN COUNTRY B; THEN BEFORE DAWN IN COUNTRY C; THEN AT SUNRISE IN COUNTRY D. BUT THE VERY MOMENT JESUS CHRIST COMES AGAIN TO THE WORLD IS THE SAME FOR EVERYONE. FROM THE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE, BY THE TIME THE AWFUL HORROR HAD ALREADY BEEN SEEN:
(I) FOR THOSE IN COUNTRY A, JESUS CHRIST CAME AGAIN TO THE WORLD "IN THE EVENING."
(II) FOR THOSE IN COUNTRY B, JESUS CHRIST CAME AGAIN TO THE WORLD "AT MIDNIGHT."
(III) FOR THOSE IN COUNTRY C, JESUS CHRIST CAME AGAIN TO THE WORLD "BEFORE DAWN."
(I) FOR THOSE IN COUNTRY D, JESUS CHRIST CAME AGAIN TO THE WORLD "AT SUNRISE."

FURTHER ILLUSTRATION:   IMAGINE YOU ARE MAKING A CONFERENCE CALL OR A GROUP CHAT BETWEEN FOUR INDIVIDUALS CALLED "W", "X", "Y", AND Z FROM TOTALLY FOUR DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WITH FOUR DIFFERENT TIME ZONES. AS AT THE TIME THE CONFERENCE CALL OR GROUP CHAT STARTED BETWEEN THEM AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, IT WAS:
(i) "IN THE EVENING" FOR "W".
(ii) "AT MIDNIGHT" FOR "X".
(iii) "BEFORE DAWN" FOR "Y".
(iv) "AT SUNRISE" FOR "Z".


This is How the next coming of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be:
According to Mark 13: 32-37
'NO ONE KNOWS, HOWEVER, WHEN THAT DAY OR HOUR WILL COME - NEITHER THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, NOR THE SON; ONLY THE FATHER KNOWS. BE ON WATCH, BE ALERT, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE TIME WILL COME. IT WILL BE LIKE A MAN WHO GOES AWAY FROM HOME ON A JOURNEY AND LEAVES HIS SERVANTS IN CHARGE, AFTER GIVING TO EACH ONE HIS OWN WORK TO DO AND AFTER TELLING THE DOORKEEPER TO KEEP WATCH. BE ON GUARD, THEN, BECAUSE YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE IS COMING - IT MIGHT BE EVENING OR AT MIDNIGHT OR BEFORE DAWN OR AT SUNRISE. IF HE COMES SUDDENLY, HE MUST NOT FIND YOU ASLEEP, WHAT I SAY TO YOU, THEN, I SAY TO ALL: WATCH!"


(4) The Best thing you can do for yourself if you are currently living in denial of the Presence, Existence, Grace, Glory and Love of our Lord Jesus Christ is to repent of such and accept Him as God, the Son and your Lord and Personal Savior. The God whom you truly serve in secret will reward you abundantly.

NOTE THAT: 
(A) JESUS, THE NAZARENE (IS ALSO CALLED JESUS OF NAZARETH OR JESUS OF GALILEE AND SO ON AND SO FORTH)

(B) JESUS OR JESUS CHRIST IS THE NAME OF GOD, THE SON ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN, ANYWHERE BECAUSE AT THE MENTION OF HIS NAME EVERY KNEW SHALL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD.

(C) NAZARETH IS THE NAME OF A PLACE, AND GALILEE IS ALSO THE NAME OF A PLACE. 

(D) THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT CAN SWEAR ON THE HOLY BIBLE OR CALL THE NAME OF GOD AND STILL DO WRONGS (THEY SAY THINGS LIKE, "I SWEAR TO GOD") OR IN COURT OF LAW WHERE THEY BRING THE HOLY BIBLE TO THEM AND THEY STILL BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THE INNOCENT, THEY STILL LIE (SOME WILL STILL SAY -ON SUCH BIG FAT LIE - THINGS LIKE, "MAY GOD PUNISH ME IF I AM LYING" ETC). 

(E) DO ALL THAT IS IN THIS WRITE-UP AND, MOST ESPECIALLY, THE HOLY BIBLE IN ORDER TO BECOME HIS DISCIPLE (A CHRISTIAN). IF YOU HAVE DENIED JESUS CHRIST IN ONE OR MORE WAYS ALREADY THEN COME BACK TO HIM IN REPENTANCE AND WEEPING BEFORE DEATH COMES CALLING (BY THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO RECTIFY WHATEVER WRONGS YOU HAVE DONE).

(F) DO NOT EVER DENY JESUS CHRIST HERE ON EARTH. JESUS CHRIST HAS PROMISED THOSE THAT DENY HIM HERE ON EARTH THAT HE WILL DENY THEM IN FRONT OF HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN.


True repentance comes with a contrite/sorrowful/weeping heart and soul because you are sorry for the mistake done most times in ignorance and fear even if ignorance is not an excuse. All you need do in this kind of situation is talk to God in repentance of your sins and if God Has not taken your life, do not commit suicide because that is another sin:
According to Matthew 26: 65-75
'AT THIS THE HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS CLOTHES AND SAID, "BLASPHEMY! WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE WITNESSES! YOU HAVE JUST HEARD HIS BLASPHEMY! WHAT DO YOU THINK?" THEY ANSWERED, "HE IS GUILTY AND MUST DIE." THEN THEY SPAT IN HIS FACE AND BEAT HIM; AND THOSE WHO SLAPPED HIM SAID, "PROPHESY FOR US, MESSIAH! GUESS WHO HIT YOU!" PETER WAS SITTING OUTSIDE IN THE COURTYARD WHEN ONE OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT WOMEN CAME TO HIM AND SAID, "YOU, TOO, WERE WITH JESUS OF GALILEE." BUT HE DENIED IT IN FRONT OF THEM ALL, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT," HE ANSWERED, AND WENT ON OUT TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE COURTYARD. ANOTHER SERVANT WOMAN SAW HIM AND SAID TO THE MEN THERE, "HE WAS WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH" AGAIN PETER DENIED IT AND ANSWERED, "I SWEAR THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT MAN!" AFTER A LITTLE WHILE THE MEN STANDING THERE CAME TO PETER." OF COURSE YOU ARE ONE OF THEM," THEY SAID. "AFTER ALL, THE WAY YOU SPEAK GIVES YOU AWAY!" THEN PETER SAID, "I SWEAR THAT I AM TELLING THE TRUTH! MAY GOD PUNISH ME IF I AM NOT! I DO NOT KNOW THAT MAN!" JUST THEN A COCK CROWED, AND PETER REMEMBERED WHAT JESUS HAD TOLD HIM: "BEFORE THE COCK CROWS, YOU WILL SAY THREE TIMES THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME." HE WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY.'



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