G-D BLESS YOU ALL!
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
THE GOOD NEWS IN A BAD WORLD
God Speaks....
THE GOOD NEWS
JESUS SAVES!
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UPDATE ON INTERNET AND THE UNITED NATIONS
IF the UN takes over control of the internet, we may be silenced. Pray this does not happen. It could be rumors but F/B is already threatening to take down any "religious" pages using certain "key words." God bless and pray cos the internet is some people's only means of hearing the Word of God.
PLEASE PRAY!
SERMON OF THE DAY BY J. VERNON McGEE - THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD!
He may seem old-fashioned but remember, God nor the Gospel ever changes. What was true then is especially true today. It is TIME to get back to the TRUTH!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL
MUCH LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS!
LEAD SOMEONE TO THE CROSS.....
SERMON OF THE DAY BY ROBERT BREAKER @ CLOUD CHURCH - HOW TO LEAD A SOUL TO JESUS CHRIST
A very good Bible-preaching sermon! No demoninational affiliation but closest to Bible. His "church" is an online-only church AND you can contact him via email. He will always answer you! God bless and enjoy...SPREAD THE WORD!
May He Richly Bless You Always!
AMEN!
THE MIRACLE OF BELIEVE - BY: OSWALD CHAMBERS "MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST"
"My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom ..." (First Corinthians 2:4)
Paul was a scholar and an orator of the highest degree; he was not speaking here out of a deep sense of humility, but was saying that when he preached the Gospel, he would veil the power of God if he impressed people with the excellency of his speech. Belief in Jesus is a miracle produced only by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God. The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the Gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.
Real and effective fasting by a preacher is not fasting from food, but fasting from eloquence, from impressive diction, and from everything else that might hinder the gospel of God being represented. The preacher is there as the representative of God --- ". . . as though God were pleading through us . . . " (2 Corinthians 5:20). He is there to present the Gospel of God. If it is only because of my preaching that people desire tobe better, they will never get close to Jesus Christ. Anything that flatters me in my preaching of the Gospel will result in making me a traitor to Jesus, and I prevent the creative power of His redemption from doing its work.
"And I, if I am lifted up . . . , will draw all peoples to Myself" (John 12:32)
Paul was a scholar and an orator of the highest degree; he was not speaking here out of a deep sense of humility, but was saying that when he preached the Gospel, he would veil the power of God if he impressed people with the excellency of his speech. Belief in Jesus is a miracle produced only by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God. The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the Gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.
Real and effective fasting by a preacher is not fasting from food, but fasting from eloquence, from impressive diction, and from everything else that might hinder the gospel of God being represented. The preacher is there as the representative of God --- ". . . as though God were pleading through us . . . " (2 Corinthians 5:20). He is there to present the Gospel of God. If it is only because of my preaching that people desire tobe better, they will never get close to Jesus Christ. Anything that flatters me in my preaching of the Gospel will result in making me a traitor to Jesus, and I prevent the creative power of His redemption from doing its work.
"And I, if I am lifted up . . . , will draw all peoples to Myself" (John 12:32)
STOP APOLOGIZING (ASK FOR FORGIVENESS INSTEAD!) BY: CHRISTIANITY.COM
“For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” – Matthew 6:14-15
Forgiveness is one of the central tenets of the Christian faith. Most of us grew up on Sunday school lessons which encouraged us to forgive others and seek God’s forgiveness in turn.
“God showed us grace when we didn’t deserve any,” my old pastor used to say, “Therefore, we must do the same for our neighbors, and even our enemies.”
With so much emphasis put on one piece of the gospel, you’d hope Christians would have gotten at least passably good at it. Well, I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to showing or asking for forgiveness, I fail miserably. The truth is, as much as we like to talk about it, real forgiveness is hard. Excusing someone who has hurt you takes a degree of faith few people can muster. Asking for forgiveness is even worse, since it requires you to let go of your pride and embrace humility.
Instead, most people just prefer to apologize. In a recent post for The Cripplegate, blogger Jordan Standridge noted how many Christians try to mend arguments by apologizing rather than asking for forgiveness. The difference, he says, is that an apology can be a neutral thing. It doesn’t assign blame, it doesn’t take responsibility, and it doesn’t absolve anyone of guilt. By refusing to participate in the actual process of forgiveness (either as a petitioner or an emancipator), Standridge believes we fall short of God’s glory.
He writes,
“Refusing to ask for forgiveness disqualifies you from worshipping God. Matthew 5:24says that if our brother has something against us we are to ‘leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.’ We must do our best to fix the relationship before we would ever think about doing something spiritual. Yet so many come to church week after week, take communion, pray, read the Bible and, believe it or not, get up and preach hour long sermons, and yet have unreconciled relationships. Jesus says that it is better not to worship the Lord than to do so while there are unreconciled relationships in our lives. Of course some people that we sin against will not forgive us. If they are believers then hopefully someone would step in and start the process of church discipline, but regardless, believers or unbelievers, our goal is to be reconciled while remembering Paul’s words in Romans 12:18 ‘if possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.’ We are only responsible for 50% of the transaction. ‘So far as it depends on you’ is very important because if the person does not ask for forgiveness, or will not grant it, then that person is choosing to disobey the Lord, but we will have done our part to seek reconciliation.”
The line between an apology and true repentance is thin, but it makes all the difference. God doesn’t want us to simply overlook our grievances, he wants us to reconcile them. When asked, Jesus told his disciples not only to forgive, but to do so “Seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:21-22). There’s no room in the gospel for grudges or impersonal excuses. God has reconciled us to Himself, and now we must learn to do the same with each other.
*Ryan Duncan is an Editor for Crosswalk.com
**Published 9/20/2016
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