Christ is Risen!!! He is alive forevermore!!! Because He lives, I can face tomorrow!!!
If you were to be faced with your death today, would you fear it? If you were to be executed for a crime you didn't commit, could you accept it? When you are falsely accused, do you bear it well?
Jesus overcame fear, death, and the onslaught of the enemy, satan. He triumphed over the things of this temporal plane. He saw the Glory that was His from the beginning of time, and boldly went forward to claim it!
Tonight, while sitting in front of the fire, I was surfing the net, when I came across this gem:
http://www.rense.com/general90/jesus.htm
I'll warn you, it's a long read, but it's also well worth it.
Some of you think you're Christians. Some of you disdain the very thought. Either way, you will not see the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the same way after you read this.
It is my humble prayer that you will be transformed by the renewing of your minds.
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Showing posts with label salvation. Show all posts
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
As easy as 123
I don't know if three posts in as many days qualifies for the official title of "A Flurry", but I have been more inclined to post things lately.
When we think of how "religion" is a bad thing, that it causes wars and stuff, if we are trying to see it from the worldly point of view, Christianity is lumped right in there with the rest of them.
Well, guess what? True Christianity isn't a religion! It's a bunch of individual relationships with God Himself, through Jesus Christ. Do some of the individuals make mistakes? Of course they do. Do they always hear from God perfectly? Of course not. Does that mean that it's just another religion among many? Not on your life!
As was said recently, "Just because you spend the night in a garage, that doesn't make you a car."
Thus, just because you go to church, or read a Bible, or even just know a few Christians, it doesn't make you one. You are only allowed into "the accepted of the beloved" through a personal relationship with Yahwey by knowing Jesus, aka Yeshua, well, personally.
Look, my words always seem to fall short when I try to describe this. There have been many more eloquent expositors than I who have explained it so that even a child could understand. I always muddle it up. Sorry.
Watchman Nee was a brother in China who was anointed to preach and teach the Word of God. He was mightily blessed by God in his ministry, so much so that when the communists took over China, he was hauled off to prison and told to recant his "religion". That is like telling someone to say they didn't have a father. Even if you say it, you know that it's not true, so why say it? Of course, Brother Nee refused to recant his relationship with thee Father and he was rewarded by the devil by being tortured in the Chinese communist prison system until his death in 1972. (This is the tolerance that they talk about today!) Anyway, not to get off the topic, our brother wrote tons of good stuff and I thought it would be a good time to share something that he wrote in regards to salvation and a relationship with God through Christ.
When we think of how "religion" is a bad thing, that it causes wars and stuff, if we are trying to see it from the worldly point of view, Christianity is lumped right in there with the rest of them.
Well, guess what? True Christianity isn't a religion! It's a bunch of individual relationships with God Himself, through Jesus Christ. Do some of the individuals make mistakes? Of course they do. Do they always hear from God perfectly? Of course not. Does that mean that it's just another religion among many? Not on your life!
As was said recently, "Just because you spend the night in a garage, that doesn't make you a car."
Thus, just because you go to church, or read a Bible, or even just know a few Christians, it doesn't make you one. You are only allowed into "the accepted of the beloved" through a personal relationship with Yahwey by knowing Jesus, aka Yeshua, well, personally.
Look, my words always seem to fall short when I try to describe this. There have been many more eloquent expositors than I who have explained it so that even a child could understand. I always muddle it up. Sorry.
Watchman Nee was a brother in China who was anointed to preach and teach the Word of God. He was mightily blessed by God in his ministry, so much so that when the communists took over China, he was hauled off to prison and told to recant his "religion". That is like telling someone to say they didn't have a father. Even if you say it, you know that it's not true, so why say it? Of course, Brother Nee refused to recant his relationship with thee Father and he was rewarded by the devil by being tortured in the Chinese communist prison system until his death in 1972. (This is the tolerance that they talk about today!) Anyway, not to get off the topic, our brother wrote tons of good stuff and I thought it would be a good time to share something that he wrote in regards to salvation and a relationship with God through Christ.
Knowledge Being Different from Revelation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bible Verses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Luke 24:14 And they were talking to each other
concerning all these things which had occurred.
(15) And while they were talking and discussing,
Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
(16) But their eyes were kept from recognizing
Him. (17) And He said to them, What are these
words which you are exchanging with one another
while you are walking? And they stood still,
looking sad. (18) And one of them, Cleopas by
name, answered and said to Him, Do You alone dwell
as a stranger in Jerusalem and not know the things
which have taken place in it in these days?
(25) And He said to them, O foolish and slow of
heart to believe in all that the prophets have
spoken! (26) Was it not necessary for the Christ
to suffer these things and enter into His glory?
(27) And beginning from Moses and from all the
prophets, He explained to them clearly in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
(28) And they drew near to the village where they
were going, and He acted as though He would go
farther. (29) And they constrained Him, saying,
Stay with us, because it is near evening and the
day is already gone by.
And He went in to stay with them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words of Ministry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After the Lord's resurrection, two of the
disciples went to Emmaus. On the way they were
talking to each other concerning all the things
which had occurred, that is, about the things
concerning the Lord Jesus which Mary had related.
At that moment, the Lord Jesus Himself drew near
to them. Yet their eyes were kept from recognizing
Him; they did not know the resurrected Lord.
They knew the Jesus who was in the flesh.
But they did not know the Lord who had resurrected.
Resurrection was a mysterious thing to them, and
they could not believe in it.
The Lord conversed with them, taught them, and
clearly explained to them in all the Scriptures
the things concerning Himself, beginning from
Moses and from all the prophets. Yet they still
did not know Him. Although they understood the
teachings of the Scriptures and were touched and
even burning in their hearts, they still did
not know the Lord Jesus. This shows us that
doctrines and revelation are two different things.
They understood the Scriptures, but they did not
know the Lord. They knew the teachings about Christ,
but they did not know Christ.
Luke 24:29 And they constrained Him, saying, Stay
with us, because it is near evening and the day is
already gone by. And He went in to stay with them.
(30) And as He reclined at table with them, He took
the loaf and blessed it, and having broken it, He
began handing it to them. (31) And their eyes were
opened, and they recognized Him; and He disappeared
from them. (32) And they said to one another,
Was not our heart burning within us while He was
speaking to us on the road, while He was opening
to us the Scriptures?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words of Ministry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When it was near evening and they [two disciples
of Jesus] were coming close to Emmaus, they
constrained Him to stay with them. As they
reclined at table, Jesus took the loaf and handed
it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they
recognized Him. This shows us clearly that there
are two kinds of knowledge of the Lord. One kind
of knowledge is from the Bible, while the other
kind of knowledge comes when the Lord opens men's
eyes. Some are very familiar with the Scriptures
and can even speak to others about them, but they
do not know the Lord Jesus. Others know not only
the scriptural teachings, but their eyes have
been opened by the Lord and they know the Lord
Jesus also. These are two very different things.
We must realize that Christianity does not have
only the Bible but also personal revelations.
It is true that without the Bible, there would
be no Christianity in the world.
But we have to remember that without revelation,
we do not have a personal Christ.
One problem among God's children is that much
of their knowledge is “transmitted” knowledge;
it is transmitted from one's mouth to another's
ear. One man understands with his mind and
transmits it into another man's ear.
Everything is transmitted, and hence everything
is just a doctrine and teaching. We must remember
that it is useless to have Bible knowledge without
knowing the Lord. The two disciples that were on
the way to Emmaus knew the Scriptures already,
and while the Lord was talking with them and
explaining the Scriptures to them on the way,
their hearts were burning. Yet they still did
not know the Lord. The only true knowledge of
the Lord is inward knowledge.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
PROOF!!!
Ok, so it's been awhile. But here's an amazing bunch of factoids.
If, after reading this, you still don't believe that the Bible is the inspired and only true Word of Yahwey, then I release you.
SHORT EXPLANATION OF NUMERICS
What is so important about the Numeric New Testament? The perfect divine
inspiration of the original Scriptures are scientifically obtainable through numerics. Let
me tell you a little of the awesome story.
Ivan Panin was forced to leave Russia during the
Bolshevik Revolution and come to the United States. He became a Harvard Scholar,
professor, and mathematician, who once tutored Albert Einstein. His training, devotion to
Christ and the Scriptures well-equipped him for his future work. Here he found his life’s
work in scientifically proving the divine inspiration of Scriptures. For fifty years, Dr. Panin
devoted twelve to eighteen hours a day to this work. The basis for his revelation, which
he called numerics, was the ancient Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament
Scriptures. The Hebrews and Greeks used their letters also for their numbers. In other
words, the whole Bible was actually written in numbers also. What Dr. Panin discovered
is that when he used the numbers, the 66 books of the Bible showed a pattern of numbers
and divisibility that no other writing had. He diligently researched other Hebrew and
Greek writings and found no pattern. This included the apocryphal books added in the
Catholic and other early Protestant Bibles, including the original King James Version
before its many revisions.
I have read Dr. Panin’s works for many years and am totally impressed that God
ordained him to bring us back to the original text. Below is a small sample of his volumes
of work from a pamphlet titled Astounding New Discoveries © 1941 by a disciple of his,
Karl G. Sabiers, M.A. The number seven is by far the most common number used in the
surface text of the Bible, used in Revelation alone more than fifty times, but it is also
common beneath the surface of the whole Bible.
In GENESIS CHAPTER ONE, VERSE ONE we read, “In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.”
FEATURE ONE
The number of Hebrew words in this verse is exactly seven.
FEATURE TWO
The number of letters in the seven words is exactly twenty-eight, or four sevens.
FEATURE THREE
The first three of these seven Hebrew words contain the subject and predicate of the
sentence. These three words are translated–“In the beginning God created.” The
number of letters in these first three Hebrew words is exactly fourteen, or two sevens.
The last four of these seven words contain the object of the sentence. These four words
are translated–“the heavens and the earth.” The number of letters in these last four
Hebrew words is fourteen, or two sevens.
FEATURE FOUR
These last four Hebrew words consist of two objects. The first is “the heavens,” and the
second is “and the earth.” The number of letters in the first object is exactly seven. The
number of letters in the second object is seven.
FEATURE FIVE
The three leading words in this verse of seven words are God–the subject –and heavens
and earth–the objects. The number of letters in these three Hebrew words is exactly
fourteen, or two sevens. The number of letters in the other four words of the verse is
fourteen, or two sevens.
FEATURE SIX
The shortest word is in the middle. The number of letters in this word and the word to its
left is exactly seven.
FEATURE SEVEN
The number of letters in the middle word and the word to its right is exactly seven.
These are only a few examples of the many amazing numeric facts, which have
been discovered in the structure of this first verse of only seven Hebrew words. Literally
dozens of other phenomenal numeric features strangely underlie the structure of this
verse.
Thus, according to the law of chances, for twenty-four features to occur in a
passage accidentally, there is only one chance in 191,581,231,380,566,414,401–only
one chance in one-hundred-ninety-one quintillion, five-hundred-eighty-one quadrillion,
two-hundred-thirty-one trillion, three-hundred-eighty-billion, five-hundred sixty-six million,
four-hundred-fourteen-thousand, four-hundred-one. (The nomenclature herein used is
the American, not the British.)
Many brief Bible passages have as many as seventy or one hundred or more
amazing numeric features in the very structure of their text. If there is only one chance in
quintillions that twenty-four features could occur together accidentally, what would the
chance be for seventy features to occur together accidentally?
When there is only one chance in thousands for something to happen accidentally,
it is already considered highly improbable that it will occur at all. When there is only one
chance in hundreds of thousands, it is considered practically impossible. But here there
is one chance in not only millions, but billions, and trillions, and quadrillions, and
quintillions, that merely twenty-four features could occur together in a passage
accidentally.
If that is not enough to convince any sane man, there are patterns of eight, eleven,
thirteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-three, thirty-seven, forty-three, etc., on top of the
sevens throughout the Word. Larger patterns connect book to book, Old Testament to
New Testament and show the correct order of the books. What all this proves is that one
divine, brilliant mind wrote the Bible rather than thirty-three simple men, with relatively no
schooling, who lived in different countries over a span of 1,600 years. If men wrote the
Bible, they would have all had to live at the same time and place and all been
mathematical geniuses. Then they would have each had to write their book last with the
knowledge of the numeric pattern in all the other books. Men have tried to write a simple
numeric text with very few features and failed miserably.
The Hebrews had extremely stringent rules for the scribes to follow in copying the ancient
manuscripts. God did this through them in order to preserve this pattern of perfection in
the Scriptures that we might have the “God-breathed” Word of God. If a Greek or Hebrew
letter is added, removed, or changed, the pattern breaks in that text. The main problem
today in publishing Bibles is deciding which manuscript to use. It makes common sense
to use only ancient manuscripts, which were close to the original with less likelihood of
human mistake. Using a copy of a copy of a copy, etc. makes no sense, and yet, because
of prejudices or lack of availability of ancient manuscripts, some have published Bibles
from these. Needless to say, the ancient manuscripts proved to be much more numeric.
What God has done through numerics is to give us a method by which we can find out
which manuscript is right and where each one is right or wrong. Then of course Ivan used
only the numeric texts for an original copy. Numerics has made searching multiple
translations obsolete. It also makes it possible to find out which translation is the most
accurate. In comparing the Bibles up through the early 1900s, Dr. Panin rated the
American Revised Version in English, now called the American Standard Version
(starbible.com), to be the most accurate. However, his Numeric New Testament exceeds
that because there are no disputed references of slight differences in ancient manuscripts
since Numerics proves every text to the letter.
Publisher’s Note: The reader will notice a few rare occasions where verses are skipped. This is in keeping with Dr. Panin’s original work. Over time, men have added verses that do not have a numeric pattern and are not a part of the original Greek.
Important Note: Dr. Ivan Panin’s original work has not been changed except for a few
typographical errors and a few select words where the spelling was modernized and
standardized. This upgraded only the spelling and did not change the numeric Greek
pattern behind it. Since few know the value of the numeric blank spaces sometimes found
between chapters and verses, which are explained in Paper I, they have been left out in
favor of readability, easier typesetting, and lower printing costs. These can be found in the
original NENT. A very few Notes were left out because they had already been
incorporated into the text of the Second Edition making them unnecessary. Dr. Panin's
numeric materials may be found on our website at UnleavenedBreadMinistries.org.
Your servants at UBM
Hey? Hey?! Is that not amazing? And that's just one example! The entire Bible, both old and Most importantly, the New Testament, is one giant numbers game! No other writing on earth has this! None!
I believed in God by faith many years ago and He just keeps rewarding my trust with evidences like this. To not believe in Jesus Christ after reading his stuff is just pure satanic rebellion at this point, and unless you repent of your sin and change you ways, there's not much hope for you. I'm so sorry for anyone who could reject the only hope we have in this world.
May God richly bless you, Hidden Mountain
If, after reading this, you still don't believe that the Bible is the inspired and only true Word of Yahwey, then I release you.
SHORT EXPLANATION OF NUMERICS
What is so important about the Numeric New Testament? The perfect divine
inspiration of the original Scriptures are scientifically obtainable through numerics. Let
me tell you a little of the awesome story.
Ivan Panin was forced to leave Russia during the
Bolshevik Revolution and come to the United States. He became a Harvard Scholar,
professor, and mathematician, who once tutored Albert Einstein. His training, devotion to
Christ and the Scriptures well-equipped him for his future work. Here he found his life’s
work in scientifically proving the divine inspiration of Scriptures. For fifty years, Dr. Panin
devoted twelve to eighteen hours a day to this work. The basis for his revelation, which
he called numerics, was the ancient Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament
Scriptures. The Hebrews and Greeks used their letters also for their numbers. In other
words, the whole Bible was actually written in numbers also. What Dr. Panin discovered
is that when he used the numbers, the 66 books of the Bible showed a pattern of numbers
and divisibility that no other writing had. He diligently researched other Hebrew and
Greek writings and found no pattern. This included the apocryphal books added in the
Catholic and other early Protestant Bibles, including the original King James Version
before its many revisions.
I have read Dr. Panin’s works for many years and am totally impressed that God
ordained him to bring us back to the original text. Below is a small sample of his volumes
of work from a pamphlet titled Astounding New Discoveries © 1941 by a disciple of his,
Karl G. Sabiers, M.A. The number seven is by far the most common number used in the
surface text of the Bible, used in Revelation alone more than fifty times, but it is also
common beneath the surface of the whole Bible.
In GENESIS CHAPTER ONE, VERSE ONE we read, “In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.”
FEATURE ONE
The number of Hebrew words in this verse is exactly seven.
FEATURE TWO
The number of letters in the seven words is exactly twenty-eight, or four sevens.
FEATURE THREE
The first three of these seven Hebrew words contain the subject and predicate of the
sentence. These three words are translated–“In the beginning God created.” The
number of letters in these first three Hebrew words is exactly fourteen, or two sevens.
The last four of these seven words contain the object of the sentence. These four words
are translated–“the heavens and the earth.” The number of letters in these last four
Hebrew words is fourteen, or two sevens.
FEATURE FOUR
These last four Hebrew words consist of two objects. The first is “the heavens,” and the
second is “and the earth.” The number of letters in the first object is exactly seven. The
number of letters in the second object is seven.
FEATURE FIVE
The three leading words in this verse of seven words are God–the subject –and heavens
and earth–the objects. The number of letters in these three Hebrew words is exactly
fourteen, or two sevens. The number of letters in the other four words of the verse is
fourteen, or two sevens.
FEATURE SIX
The shortest word is in the middle. The number of letters in this word and the word to its
left is exactly seven.
FEATURE SEVEN
The number of letters in the middle word and the word to its right is exactly seven.
These are only a few examples of the many amazing numeric facts, which have
been discovered in the structure of this first verse of only seven Hebrew words. Literally
dozens of other phenomenal numeric features strangely underlie the structure of this
verse.
Thus, according to the law of chances, for twenty-four features to occur in a
passage accidentally, there is only one chance in 191,581,231,380,566,414,401–only
one chance in one-hundred-ninety-one quintillion, five-hundred-eighty-one quadrillion,
two-hundred-thirty-one trillion, three-hundred-eighty-billion, five-hundred sixty-six million,
four-hundred-fourteen-thousand, four-hundred-one. (The nomenclature herein used is
the American, not the British.)
Many brief Bible passages have as many as seventy or one hundred or more
amazing numeric features in the very structure of their text. If there is only one chance in
quintillions that twenty-four features could occur together accidentally, what would the
chance be for seventy features to occur together accidentally?
When there is only one chance in thousands for something to happen accidentally,
it is already considered highly improbable that it will occur at all. When there is only one
chance in hundreds of thousands, it is considered practically impossible. But here there
is one chance in not only millions, but billions, and trillions, and quadrillions, and
quintillions, that merely twenty-four features could occur together in a passage
accidentally.
If that is not enough to convince any sane man, there are patterns of eight, eleven,
thirteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-three, thirty-seven, forty-three, etc., on top of the
sevens throughout the Word. Larger patterns connect book to book, Old Testament to
New Testament and show the correct order of the books. What all this proves is that one
divine, brilliant mind wrote the Bible rather than thirty-three simple men, with relatively no
schooling, who lived in different countries over a span of 1,600 years. If men wrote the
Bible, they would have all had to live at the same time and place and all been
mathematical geniuses. Then they would have each had to write their book last with the
knowledge of the numeric pattern in all the other books. Men have tried to write a simple
numeric text with very few features and failed miserably.
The Hebrews had extremely stringent rules for the scribes to follow in copying the ancient
manuscripts. God did this through them in order to preserve this pattern of perfection in
the Scriptures that we might have the “God-breathed” Word of God. If a Greek or Hebrew
letter is added, removed, or changed, the pattern breaks in that text. The main problem
today in publishing Bibles is deciding which manuscript to use. It makes common sense
to use only ancient manuscripts, which were close to the original with less likelihood of
human mistake. Using a copy of a copy of a copy, etc. makes no sense, and yet, because
of prejudices or lack of availability of ancient manuscripts, some have published Bibles
from these. Needless to say, the ancient manuscripts proved to be much more numeric.
What God has done through numerics is to give us a method by which we can find out
which manuscript is right and where each one is right or wrong. Then of course Ivan used
only the numeric texts for an original copy. Numerics has made searching multiple
translations obsolete. It also makes it possible to find out which translation is the most
accurate. In comparing the Bibles up through the early 1900s, Dr. Panin rated the
American Revised Version in English, now called the American Standard Version
(starbible.com), to be the most accurate. However, his Numeric New Testament exceeds
that because there are no disputed references of slight differences in ancient manuscripts
since Numerics proves every text to the letter.
Publisher’s Note: The reader will notice a few rare occasions where verses are skipped. This is in keeping with Dr. Panin’s original work. Over time, men have added verses that do not have a numeric pattern and are not a part of the original Greek.
Important Note: Dr. Ivan Panin’s original work has not been changed except for a few
typographical errors and a few select words where the spelling was modernized and
standardized. This upgraded only the spelling and did not change the numeric Greek
pattern behind it. Since few know the value of the numeric blank spaces sometimes found
between chapters and verses, which are explained in Paper I, they have been left out in
favor of readability, easier typesetting, and lower printing costs. These can be found in the
original NENT. A very few Notes were left out because they had already been
incorporated into the text of the Second Edition making them unnecessary. Dr. Panin's
numeric materials may be found on our website at UnleavenedBreadMinistries.org.
Your servants at UBM
Hey? Hey?! Is that not amazing? And that's just one example! The entire Bible, both old and Most importantly, the New Testament, is one giant numbers game! No other writing on earth has this! None!
I believed in God by faith many years ago and He just keeps rewarding my trust with evidences like this. To not believe in Jesus Christ after reading his stuff is just pure satanic rebellion at this point, and unless you repent of your sin and change you ways, there's not much hope for you. I'm so sorry for anyone who could reject the only hope we have in this world.
May God richly bless you, Hidden Mountain
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Law and Grace
"....and Jesus said, Think not that I came to abolish the law, but rather I came that the Law might be fulfilled......"
OK, here's a primer for you.
On their website, http://www.wretchedradio.com/ , Todd Friel and the gang have a unique but effective way of sharing the Good News. They call it Law/Grace.
For the initiated among us, that is to say Believers in The Way, this sounds like an oxymoron. If we're saved by grace then what the heck does the law have to do with anything?
It's really quite simple. When we know the condition we're in when we look at ourselves under the microscope of the Law, then we can see clearly our need to be Born from Above in order to be under Grace.
It goes like this:
Have you always kept the Ten Comandments? I mean every one, ALWAYS!
Have you always loved the Lord, without reservation or hesitation?
Have you ever stolen anything? Even a paperclip or some other equally benign object?
Have you ever told a lie?
Have you ever been jealous of someone and coveted their stuff?
Have you ever looked at a member of the opposite sex and lusted after them?
Have you ever hated someone?
You get the picture.
The Word of God says that if you have broken even one of these laws, once, you are guilty of them all and deserve to be cast in to Hellfire for all eternity! I know, I know, God is a big meanie for making it soooo hard on us.
But wait, there's more!
Why did Yeshua, aka Jesus, have to come and do all those really nice things then be killed by the bad guys?
Answer, to deliver us from the penalty of breaking all of those Laws! That's the Gospel, the Good News!
"He, who knew no sin, became sin for us, taking that sin and nailing it to the Cross, thereby justifying all who would hereafter believe upon Him and His sacrifice."
People have asked me, "How can you possibly believe in the Bible, after all it was just written by men?"
My answer. If it was just written by men, they must have had some kind of amazing way of communicating because the Bible was written by 40 different authors, over a period of 1500 years, and it tells the exact same story from beginning to end. Very few of those authors knew each other, or even lived at the same time or place. They ranged from kings to farmers, from prophets to whoremongers. The truth is, the Bible was written by men, yes, men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, who spoke through them, instructing them and guiding them to produce the Holy Scriptures.
Another Question I have heard is, "Why do you have faith in something you can't even see?"
My answer. Why do you have to see the wind in order to believe in it? The fact is, my faith in God has grown exponentially since I became a Believer. It's now Experience! I have seen miracles, in my own life and in the lives of others. I've witnessed so many miracles that I can't even remember them all! From having feasts prepared in the wilderness, to being healed of sicknesses, to little things like having a part for my truck appear from seemingly nowhere when there was no other way it could have been there, I have experienced the mighty Hand of God so many times that to doubt Him or question His ability would just be, frankly, stupid.
The trouble is, we are a rebellious and sinful bunch, we want it our way, and we hate the idea that we are under some kind of ever watchful eye. We hate the idea of being judged, yet we judge others. What if the One who judges us loves us? What if He made a way of escape? What if we could just have a simple, easy way to by-pass the judgment we deserve?
Well there is a way. His name is Yeshua Messiah, aka Jesus Christ, and all we have to do is admit that we are sinners, believe in Him and what He did for us, and repent of our sin. That's it.
No religion. No rituals.
Please, consider these words and come to the One who can not only save you from Hell but who can bless you in so many ways that you will never be the same again.....
OK, here's a primer for you.
On their website, http://www.wretchedradio.com/ , Todd Friel and the gang have a unique but effective way of sharing the Good News. They call it Law/Grace.
For the initiated among us, that is to say Believers in The Way, this sounds like an oxymoron. If we're saved by grace then what the heck does the law have to do with anything?
It's really quite simple. When we know the condition we're in when we look at ourselves under the microscope of the Law, then we can see clearly our need to be Born from Above in order to be under Grace.
It goes like this:
Have you always kept the Ten Comandments? I mean every one, ALWAYS!
Have you always loved the Lord, without reservation or hesitation?
Have you ever stolen anything? Even a paperclip or some other equally benign object?
Have you ever told a lie?
Have you ever been jealous of someone and coveted their stuff?
Have you ever looked at a member of the opposite sex and lusted after them?
Have you ever hated someone?
You get the picture.
The Word of God says that if you have broken even one of these laws, once, you are guilty of them all and deserve to be cast in to Hellfire for all eternity! I know, I know, God is a big meanie for making it soooo hard on us.
But wait, there's more!
Why did Yeshua, aka Jesus, have to come and do all those really nice things then be killed by the bad guys?
Answer, to deliver us from the penalty of breaking all of those Laws! That's the Gospel, the Good News!
"He, who knew no sin, became sin for us, taking that sin and nailing it to the Cross, thereby justifying all who would hereafter believe upon Him and His sacrifice."
People have asked me, "How can you possibly believe in the Bible, after all it was just written by men?"
My answer. If it was just written by men, they must have had some kind of amazing way of communicating because the Bible was written by 40 different authors, over a period of 1500 years, and it tells the exact same story from beginning to end. Very few of those authors knew each other, or even lived at the same time or place. They ranged from kings to farmers, from prophets to whoremongers. The truth is, the Bible was written by men, yes, men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, who spoke through them, instructing them and guiding them to produce the Holy Scriptures.
Another Question I have heard is, "Why do you have faith in something you can't even see?"
My answer. Why do you have to see the wind in order to believe in it? The fact is, my faith in God has grown exponentially since I became a Believer. It's now Experience! I have seen miracles, in my own life and in the lives of others. I've witnessed so many miracles that I can't even remember them all! From having feasts prepared in the wilderness, to being healed of sicknesses, to little things like having a part for my truck appear from seemingly nowhere when there was no other way it could have been there, I have experienced the mighty Hand of God so many times that to doubt Him or question His ability would just be, frankly, stupid.
The trouble is, we are a rebellious and sinful bunch, we want it our way, and we hate the idea that we are under some kind of ever watchful eye. We hate the idea of being judged, yet we judge others. What if the One who judges us loves us? What if He made a way of escape? What if we could just have a simple, easy way to by-pass the judgment we deserve?
Well there is a way. His name is Yeshua Messiah, aka Jesus Christ, and all we have to do is admit that we are sinners, believe in Him and what He did for us, and repent of our sin. That's it.
No religion. No rituals.
Please, consider these words and come to the One who can not only save you from Hell but who can bless you in so many ways that you will never be the same again.....
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