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I am Norm. I am a Christian and I love God. God has gotten me through many troubles in my life. I was diagnosed with a disease related to schizophrenia when I was 25. I cried inagony everyday for 6 years but God was always there to get me through. Some people don't believe in a God that can be there for you but there is. I am a man who is witness to this. I owe my life to Christ. He has been there for me and during those 6 years he is theone who kept mealive. I am 45 now and doing considerably better than before. I am by no means a righteous man but I have devoted much time to studying the Bible. I stand firm in what I believeand I share it below.
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Norman’s Christmas Sermon.
As we celebrate Christmas this year, I would like to explore what it is to be born again. People forget that even Christ was born again.
In the beginning there was Jesus and Jesus was with God and Jesus was God. Jesus was with God in the beginning. All things were made through Jesus. Nothing has been made that has been made without Jesus. This is what John said to us. We often forget Jesus was born first at the beginning of time.
Colossians 1: 15-17: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn overall creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together.
Proverbs 8:22-36: The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began. When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with water; before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, before he made the earth or its fields or any of the dust of the world. I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind. Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my instructionand be wise; do not ignore it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord. But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.
Jesus was the firstborn Son of the Father. He is the beginning of all things. He was born in the beginning. The father created the Son at the beginning of time and it was the Son who made all things as Colossians and the book of John says. All things were made by the Son. The Son made man in his own image as the book of Genesis says. The Father loved the Son and they both loved men more than anything else for man was created in their image. Satan hated God and wanted the Son’s life. Since he could not kill the Son of God he turned on that which God loved the most—men. Satan defiled man because God loved men more than anything. When this happened to mankind the Son was heartbroken for he loved men more than his own life. It was then the Son of God offered his own life for the lives of men. The Father saw this and then could prove to Satan that the Son was worthy to be God. He was willing to die for the men he had created. Not only would Jesus save the lives of the men he had created but he was clearly worthy to be their God. Satan could not argue with the Father on this for it had clearly been proven.
Jesus was born again to his earthly mother Mary the first Christmas. That which was first and before all things gave that up to be a man so he could save his people. Jesus was reborn to his earthly mother Mary so we could live through him. If we believe in Christ’s birth, death and resurrection we can be born again just as Christ was reborn to his mother Mary in the first Christmas. Jesus is and always has been God, God at the Father’s side. The Son is the only way to the Father and always has been. Christmas is the celebration of Christs earthly birth which was necessary so that he could save mankind but one must remember Christ is much older than that. Christ was born to the Father at the beginning of time. He was always there. Throughout the Old Testement. He was always there.
Psalm 110:1 : The Lord says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
As this scripture says, the Father said to the Son, “Sit at my right hand.” Notice the enemies are not the Father’s but the Son’s enemies. Jesus is and always has been God. From his birth in the beginning of time to his birth to Mary, he has always been there and always has been worthy of our worship.
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Another note on Psalm 110. It is a Psalm of David. This scripture clearly says that David worshipped the Son for he called him "My Lord."
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You get it when you realize that Christianity is not about you yourself getting to heaven. Instead it is about bringing heaven to earth so that people will believe that heaven exists.
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Sometimes books on the Bible can be good. But I would rather read the Bible itself. That is what I recommend. In the beginning, God created Jesus. Jesus introduces himself in Proverbs 8 as the voice of wisdom. "I was the first of His works."and "I was the craftsmanat His side." In Matthew 11:18-19, Jesus directly references Proverbs 8 when he says, "And wisdom is proved right by her actions." In Genesis man is made in God's image. "Let us make man in Our Image." In John 1 Everything said in Proverbs 8 is confirmed. "Without him nothing has been made that has been made." "No one has ever seen God but God theOne and Only, who is at the Father's side."And in John 17 Jesus says,"And now Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began." Finally It is said in Colossians 1, "He is the firstborn over all creation...all things were created for him and by him. He is before all things." From the Old to the New Testament he was there for all of it. The one who died on the cross and rose again was God's litteral firstborn Son. What does a father love more than himself? Typically his child.And so the Father loved the Son. And so God loved the lives of men more than His own life and offered his life for the lives of men. We were created in the image of God and God loved loved us more than anything. Jesus is the firstborn Son of the Father and He was willing to give His life for the lives of men. The first creation was God himself. God was created first. Jesus was created first. "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning."
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Jesus Points the Way.
Mathew 11:18-19 (Jesus Speaking) “For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.”’But wisdom is proved right by her actions.”
Notice that Jesus says, "her actions" not "his actions." Here Jesus is pointing the way to Proverbs 8 which begins describing wisdom as a woman.
Proverbs 8:1-11 “Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud: To you oh men, I call out; I raise my voice toall of mankind. You who are simple, gain prudence; you whoare foolish, gain understanding. Listen, for I have worthy things to say; I open my lips to speak what is right. My mouth speaks what is true, for I detest wickedness,all the words of my mouthare just; none of them is crooked or perverse. To the discerning all of them are right; they are faultless to those who have knowledge. Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is more precious than rubies,and nothing you desire can compare with her.”
Then Jesus introduces himself for he is the voice of wisdom.
Proverbs 8:12-36
"I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledgeand discretion, To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate prideandarrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Counsel and sound judgement are mine; I have understandingand power. By me kings reignand rulers make laws thatare just; by me princes govern, and all nobles who rule on earth. I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. With meare riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yeild surpasses choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasures full. THE LORD BROUGHT ME FORTH AS THE FIRST OF HIS WORKS, BEFORE HIS DEEDS OF OLD; I WAS APPOINTED FROM ETERNITY, FROM THE BEGINNING, BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN. When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with water; before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, before he made the earth or his fields or any of the dust of the world. I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when he gave the sea it's boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. THEN I WAS THE CRAFTSMANAT HIS SIDE. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole worldand delighting in mankind. Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my instructionand bewise; do not ignore it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. FOR WHOEVER FINDS ME FINDS LIFE AND RECEIVES FAVOR FROM THE LORD. But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."
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JESUS WAS NOT MADE IN OUR IMAGE. WE WERE AND STILL ARE MADE IN HIS IMAGE.
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Know what this means to live: Jesus is a God of sincerity not ceremony.
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You get it when you see that Jesus was always God and that he made us in his own image. He loved us more than anything else because we were his children. We were the joy in his life as Proverbs 8 explains. You get it when you see that Jesus gave up his eternal life as God to become an ordinary man so that he could save us. He became a mortal man so that he could save the people he loved. He gave up his eternal life so that we might have life through his death and resurrection.
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This is what I believe about the end:
In the end, God will make Christians strong in the Holy Spirit. That is how Christians will get through the time of trouble and persecution that will occur in the end. Remember no one knows the day or hour of Christ's return. The Day of the Lord begins with Satan being cast out of heaven for good and thrown to earth. He will be full of anger and fury because he knows his time is short. At first, he will chase down Jewish people but they will get away and hide. After that, he will turn on Christians, persecute them and kill them. Christians will be strong in the Spirit to get them through these days. The hour of Christ's return still a secret to all at this time. In the hour of Christ's return, he will come triumphantly on the clouds for all to see. It is at this time, we will meet him in the air. This is a loud and very triumphant event for Christ has returned to set up his kingdom on earth.
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The Christian message is a simple one. Yet, so many people mess it up and add countless pointless rules that have nothing to do with God. There is but one rule and one law and if you do this one thing, you understand God. It is a four letter word--Love. This completes everything in God. If you love your fellow man, you have done what God wants you to do. Love is more than just words, more than just thought, it is also what you do. If you want to know how to love look to the words of Jesus for he taught how to love. If anyone tells you Christianity is about more than believing the message and loving your fellow man,they are lying. Love is and always has been the answer and even the richest and most powerful people in the world are nothing without it. Believe and love, yes it is that simple. Love is letting God shine through you. It is not about saving yourself. It is about doing what you can for others and bringing a piece of heaven down to earth in this life so that people can see that God actually is good.
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A lot of people are saying a lot of things about the end these days. To tell you the truth, I don't trust them because they use their own ideas usually and not the Bible. Here's one thing the Bible does say. Christians who refuse to get the mark of the beast will not be able to buy or sell. That means no money. No paying house taxes. Losing everything you have. Destitute in other words. That's one of many things it says. I believe also that it says that "destruction will come upon them suddenly." The end hits like a storm Jesus says. Those who built on the rock and not the sand will survive. Think of those things rather than the things in those books about the end. "Whoever finds his life will lose it."--Those who get the mark of the beast to keep their lives and property will be condemned. "And whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."-- Those who refuse the mark and confess to Christ will be saved despite loosing everything they own.
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Jesus said that only the Father knows the day or hour of Christ's triumphant return. The day or hour is not known to Jesus. Why? Only the Father is beyond Time. Why does the Father know the future. There is only one answer, he already exists in the future. He is beyond time. The Son is the beginning of all things but the Son only knows what the Father reveals to him. To God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. The Father is infinite yet he chose to exist through the Son. The only way to see the Father is through the Son for the Son says he is the only way to the Father. The Father and Son can live in people in the form of the Holy Spirit. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. are one. The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father and they can be in us as well. That should be the hope and reality someday of every Christian.
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People don't realize that Jesus was there for the entire length of the Bible. He was always there and he is the most underestimated part of the Old Testament. People often attribute the entire Old Testament to the Father. But he was there when man fell to the temptation of Satan. All men were condemned to hell because of this. Satan thought he had murdered mankind. He did this because the Father and the Son both loved men more than anything else because men were created in their own image. Because of this, the Son freely offered his life for the lives of men. He loved the men he had created more than his own life and he offered it. Because of this not only did he save those who believe but he proved himself worthy to be their God. He always was God but this proved to Satan who wanted his life in the first place that he truly was worthy and Satan could not argue with the Father about this. Jesus had passed the test.
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We know that Satan was Jesus's enemy from this scripture.
"The Lord said to my Lord,"Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet,"
Notice the first Lord is the Father and that he is telling Jesus he will make Jesus's enemies a footstool for his feet. Notice the Father does not say "my enemies" or "Our enemies." The problem was between Jesus and Satan. Jesus always was God and Satan could not hurt or harm Jesus despite wanting his life. Satan played dirty. He attempted to murder mankind because this was what Jesus loved the most. Satan is not much of an enemy to God but to men he is a terrible enemy and has been. His desire is for men to be tormented in hell as he will burn himself in hell someday. This would be the fate of all men if it weren't for Jesus.
Notice too that Jesus is David's Lord. He refers to Jesus as "My Lord." This scripture makes it clear. Jesus was there and David worshipped the Son.
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My ReligiousBeliefs
Jesus said, "I am the alpha and the omega." Meaning that I am the first and the last. My Father is beyond time and I have seen the future. "A day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day" to the Father in Heaven.
What is believing in Jesus? Believing in Jesusis believing that God became a man and dwelt among us. Then he took on our punishment while dying on the cross. He was ressurected so that we may live through him.
What is faith? Faith is believing that by doing what Christ says you will continue to believe and gain eternal life. There was only one command, "Love each other."
The Story of Mankind.
We have a heavenly Father that is beyond time itself. He extends from one end of time to the other. This is the very reason we have prophecy and that prophecy will come true.
In the very beginning before anything else, God the Father created Jesus. This was the beginning, that the Father created the Son.
Everything that was made was made through Jesus Christ and we were made in the image of Jesus Christ.
We exist because Jesus made us.
As a Father loves his child more than anything, the Father loved the Son. And the Son loved and delighted in mankind more than anything. Therefore God loved man more than his own life for we were God's children and as it says in Proverbs 8, the Son delighted in mankind.
John 1:1-5
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."
Proverbs 8:22-23 "The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began."
This Proverbs 8 is refered to by Jesus in both Matthew 11:18-19 and Luke 7:33-35
There existed an angel that God created who fell from grace.
In his mind, he said "I am perfect in beauty.and should rise above God."
He could not rise above God and could not hurt God in any way. Satan was only a created being. He became known as Satan for he is "the accuser" of man.
In his evil heart, Satan said I can not hurt God but I can hurt the thing that God loves the most. I shall separate mankind from him for God loves men more than anything else.
There was one command and that was all man had to believe and obey. Satan called God a liar and even said men could become like God. Men believed the lie and fell. Mankind was separated from God. All men would die from now on. God is Holy and sin separates men from God. Satan thought he had won. The rule was "an eye for an eye." Because of Satan's accusing nature, everything had to be dished out equally. Punishments equal to the crime. But God already had a plan. God knew how to reconcile all things to himself. God the Father said,"I will give the life of my one and only Son, Jesus for the lives of men." This is what Jesus want's, His Life for theirs. He will take on the punishment that they would have received. Satan had to agree but only if God could find a man willing to give up his one and only son. The rule was "an eye forand an eye" and Satan was watching everything.
God found that man in Abraham. Abraham offered his one and only son Isaac to God. God could see his willingness and stopped Abraham before he killed his own son. No God's son Jesus would be the one who's life would be taken to save men. So the Word became flesh and blood. God's cherished Son became a man so that he could be this sacrifice.
God's firstborn Son, offered his life for the lives of men so that those who believe and walk with him shall have everlasting life. He shall lose none that God has given him.. If you love Jesus, you will obey. Love your fellow man is what it says. Jesus litterally handed himself over to be tortured and killed for the lives of men. He took on our punishment for us. God is Holy and His Son has always been Holy. For men had been created through Him and He could not let them all die because of Satan's crime. Christ rose from the dead because you can not kill Life Itself. Life came from Jesus and it always will come from Jesus. Because of His sacrifice he ascended to the throne and inherited His Father's Kingdom. He always was God. God by the Father's side. Proverbs 8 clearly says He was the craftsman at his side. In otherwords the Father's side. This is referenced by Jesus in Mathew 11:18-19.and Luke 7:33-35.
That is too why Satan is condemned. He wants men to die. He doesn't care who, he just wants as many as he can spiritually kill to die with him in hell. He hates men because God loves men more than anything else. The Father and His Son always have been and always will be the only way to life for they and only they are life. The Son is and always has been the only way to the Father. "I am the way,and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
A Psalm of David. Psalm 110:1 "The Lord says to my Lord:"Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." Jesus said of this, "If then David calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" Refering to the fact that he actually came before David. It is also interesting to see that there are actually two Lords and that the Father talks to the Son in this scripture written by David.
Daniel 7:13-14 "In my vision at night I looked.and there before me was one like a son of man, coming on the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Daysand was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power: all peoples, all nations and men of every language worshipped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away,and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."
It was Satan's idea to kill men in the first place. Death is the reason the world is screwed up. The reason for wars, The reason for crying, the reason for disease, the reason for all suffering. Death was brought upon us by the devil himself--an angel who was jealous of God. That is why it says he was a murderer from the beginning and the father of all lies. It is because he lied to us and we believed the lie. In doing so, he thought he had murdered us. He thought he had separated us from God. God through his Son Jesus dying on the cross reversed that separation. Christ rose again so that we can live through Him if we believe in His death and ressurection.
In the end God's vicotry over death will mean that there will be no more death and suffering. Everything related to death will have been thrown into the eternal fire and destoyed. Satan could not kill Life itself. It is impossible to kill God.
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people,and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
To understand that the infinite became finite and was yet still infinite. A being larger than the universe created us but put himself in something as finite as a man to save us. He did this so he could be with us again. He was the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. Jesus was the image of the Father and for a time man got to see the Father through the Son, Jesus. For the Father and the Son are one. God himself took on our punishment so that he could be with us again. To those who love God he will send the Holy Spirit. This is his command: to love one another. To love God is to obey this command. Believe in his death and resurection. Believe in his teachings and build on the rock.
Beware of people who make up stories about the end. The message is as it has always been--To always be ready. When it comes it will come like a storm and if you haven't built on the rock you will be swept away.
Words to build with. "Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven."
The High Priest's Symbolic Words
Here a high priest who did not realize Jesus was the Son of God symbolically states the purpose Christ had come to perform. He did not completely realize the significance of what he had said because he was speaking politically instead of spiritually.
John 11:45-53: Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe him,and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Then one of them named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them togetherand make them one. So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
Little did this man realize that Jesus death really actually was the life of mankind. Caiaphas was speaking in political terms. They were plotting to kill a man for political reasons. They didn’t know this would save the world. They didn’t believe he was the Son of God. To Jewish people who refuse to accept Christ as the fulfillment of scripture, I point to the last book in the Old Testament—the book of Malachi. Pay attention to this book from 400 years before Christ. Who does it say is corrupt? It clearly says that the priests are corrupt. So why then is it so difficult to believe the spiritual leaders of Jesus day were dead inside.
Christ took the noble approach, though. No one is ever actually blamed for Jesus’ death. For even Jesus said, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”
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Believe me when I say Satan is but a worm to God. The day will come when God will squash Satan like a bug. Little is it known that Satan is on earth right now looking for men to devour. Satan is God's enemy because he became and still is man's enemy. He is guilty of attempting to murder mankind and also guilty of murdering all the men who have died spiritually. There is only one way to life and that is Jesus. Life began with Jesus and he brought life back to mankind when he died on the cross and was ressurected.
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People misunderstand who God and the devil are and who has what kingdoms. Everything belongs to God. God rules Heaven and Hell and all the universe. Hell is not Satan's kingdom. Hell was made for Satan's punishment and Satan will go there not as a ruler but as one receiving eternal punishment. Satan is the ruler of this world--the planet earth. The earth still belongs to God but Satan became the earth's ruler when men disobeyed God. The earth had been given to men to rule but when we believed the devil's lie this world's rule was handed over to Satan. Things are so screwed up in this world because Satan is its ruler. People often blame God for the loss of loved ones but they forget that Satan is the ruler of this world. If you want to blame someone blame him for things like disease, death and murder. Why hasn't God done something? Because, the fates of some men are tied up with Satan's. What God does to Satan must be done to some men as well. It is for the sake of the elect.An important man may not have been born yet. Perhaps there is someone God wants to save who has not been saved yet. Blame Satan for the lie that sold men down the toilett and for stealing the fates of some men.
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Realize there are two miracle birthsin the Bible.The first was that of Isaac who was born to a ninety year old woman. It was the first and only child born of Abraham's wife Sarah. He was 100 and she was 90. The second was that of Jesus born to Mary the virgin. She bore the litteral first born Son of God. Abraham's son was offered to be a sacrifice but God stopped Abraham from sacrificing him. No. God's own firstborn Son would be the one to die for mankind and be ressurected so that we could live through him. Believe it or not despite the modern criticism of Christianity, the entire story of the Bible makes sense. Especially when you put the story of Abraham and Isaac with the story of God the Father and Jesus. God had to find a man willing to give up his one an only son before he could send his own Son Jesus. Because Abraham was willing to do this, God could send his son Jesus to be the sacrifice that saves us. For all my beliefs goto, www.nwnrecords.com/about_us
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The part of believing in Jesus a lot of people forget about is actually believing in what he taught as well. Faith is believing what he taught and doing it. One should believe Jesus literally if he wants to believe in Jesus. It is also believing the story, his sacrifice and resurection. He lived again so we could live through him. Faith is believing that by following Christ's teachings that you will continue to believe and walk with Christ. Believing and Faith lead to eternal life.There is only one way to faith and that is to have a sincere of love of God and to obey his one command "to love each other."
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Too much pride will kill a man. This is the first and original sin. And the devil said, "I am perfect in beauty and should rise above God." The devil was too proud of himself and fell because of his jealousy of God. Beware that pride does not kill your spirit too and know that people who think they are better than others are in danger of hell.
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My belief is that believing in Jesus and doing what he said are both part of one and the same thing. They both go together. There was one command and that was to Love. The one who believes obeys this command for itis fulfillment of the Law. It also helps to actually believe the things he said as well. It helps to litterally take his advice. One should try to absorb everything he taught because what he teaches is how to love.
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Beware of men who say to pray, "I am worthy." Instead pray the Lord’s prayer or a sincere prayer like the man in this scripture: Luke 18:9-14 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Do not listen to those who tell stories about the end. The Bible says it will come like a storm. Jesus says to look for persecution ahead of time in Matthew 24. In 2 Thessalonians it says there will be a rebellion first and the rapture or ressurection (scripture does state they happen at the same time and in fact the dead will rise first) will not happen until the "man of lawlessness" has been revealed. In Matthew 24 Jesus says that when you see standing in the holy place, "the abomination that causes desolation," spoken of by Daniel to flee. In 1 Thessalonians it says while people are saying "peace" and "safety" "destruction will come on them suddenly." Scriptures also say that "no one knows the day nor hour." That is why you are supposed to build upon the rock now. That was the lesson-- to always be ready. No one knows but God the Father when Satan will be thrown down from heaven and when the "abomination that causes desolation" will take place. The rapture takes place when God takes the earth for his own and destoys the devil and all of his followers. It occurs at the "Last Trumpet"in 1 Corinthians 15. The "Last Trumpet"in Revelations is the 7th trumpet. When this trumpet is sounded according to the book of Revelation the world becomes the Lord's. 1 Thessalonians describes the rapture as a very "loud" event. It is no secret. In Matthew 24 it is described as something everyone will see. Also in Matthew 24 it says he will come on the clouds and that is when he gathers his elect. No one knows when any of this happens except for the Father. It's a waste of time to speculate on the time of it's arrival. The message always was to build on the rock and always be ready so when the storm hits your house (soul) will stand.
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One must always remember that Jesus was accused of being a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of sinners. It wasn't the religious people of his day that accepted him. It was the common man. It was those who were looked down on by society who accepted him into their homes. The people who should have been waiting for him with open arms rejected him. Do not judge Christ for what the hypocrites in his church are doing. There are still good people in his church and good lessons to be learned from his words.
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One might ask,"why doesn't God destroy Satan now or why hasn't he destroyed him yet? It is for the sake of the elect. Perhaps a great man has not been born yet. Perhaps a man he wants to have saved has not been saved. When God destroys the devil a new order of things will be created. There will not be child birth. It is for the sake of those who have not been born. When man fell after Satan's temptation, mankinds plight became tied up with the devil's plite. To destroy the devil would have been to destroy man. That is until God sent his Son to die on the cross and be ressurected. Now those who believe in the Son will not be destroyed with the devil. It is for the sake of the elect who have not been born yet that God has not destroyed the devil yet. When the time is right, the devil will be destroyed and the new order of things will be created.
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I say this to all Satanists. You are kissing the feet of the one who will chop off your head. If you do not repent, Satan will have succeeded in murdering you. God does not want you to die but Satan, the one you worship, does want you to die. Those who burnin hell are still under God's rule. Satan, your enemy, does not rule in hell. Those who burnin hell will do so in the presence of God and His angels forever and ever. Read up. It is also true that even though Satan is God's enemy he still has to obey a command from God. If God says to jump, Satan would have to jump. Look at the book of "Job." In it Satan had to obey God. Look at how Jesus drove out demons. God rules it all and sits in righteous judgement.
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I ask you is it possible for things to have started from nothing in the beginning? It is impossible for there to ever be nothing. There always has been something--an eternal God and the Son he created first. Believe. There is a God.
I want you to think from a spiritual aspect when you read this poem.
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I am the Alpha and the Omega.
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Jesus was the “Firstborn of Creation.” That is why he says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega.” Scriptures in both the Old and New Testament clearly state that Jesus was the first of the Father's works. It is stated clearly in Proverbs 8 and Colossians 1:15. Here in John 1:1 It says:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.”
God was created first. Jesus Christ was created first. The voice of wisdom clearly states he was the first of God's works and that he was the craftsman at the Lord's side. Yes, here Jesus speaks as the voice of wisdom.
Proverbs 8:22-36,”The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,
Before his deeds of old:
I was appointed from eternity,
From the beginning, before the world began,
When there were no oceans, I was given birth;
When there were no springs abounding with water;
Before the mountains were settled in place,
Before the hills, I was given birth.
Before he made the earth or its fields
Or any of the dust of the world.
I was there when he set the heavens in place,
When he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep.
When he established the clouds above
And fixed securely the fountains of the deep/
When he gave the sea its boundary
So the waters would not overstep his command,
And when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Then I was the craftsman at his side.
I was filled with delight day after day,
Rejoicing always in his presence,
Rejoicing in his whole world.
And delighting in mankind.
Now then, my sons, listen to me;
Blessed are those who keep my ways,
Listen to my instruction and be wise;
Do not ignore it.
Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my doors,
Waiting at my doorway.
For whoever finds me finds life,
And receives favor from the Lord.
But whoever fails to find me harms himself;
All who hate me love death.”
A direct reference to Proverbs 8 is made by Jesus in Matthew 11:18-19:
"For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say. He has a demon. The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is proved right by her actions.”
This reference is also in Luke 7:33-35.
The voice of wisdom was Christ. Christ was God's firstborn from the very beginning. "In the beginning was the Word." Christ was the very very first life ever created. In fact Christ is and always has been life. He always has been God and at the Father's side. Before anything else there was Jesus. I ask who was God speaking to in Genesis1:26 "Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness" God is clearly speaking to somebody else in this verse. "Our image" not "My image." Is it really a mystery who he is talking to? The hints are throughout the scriptures. Think about it. He has always been the One at the the Father's side. "Last of all, He sent His Son to them, they will respect My Son." Mathew 21:37
"For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me."
"Before Abraham was born, I am!"
"No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known."
And Jesus said,"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the World."
And Jesus said, "And now Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."
Colossians 1:15-20 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church: he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
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There is but one judgement. There is one day of the Lord. The punishment of the wicked starts with Satan being thrown out of heaven down to earth. Then there is the hour when Christ arrives and evil is overthrown on earth. All the wicked on earth will be punished. Jesus will then set up his kingdom on earth with the devil bound in hell.
If you ask an athiest they will say the first life formed was an amoeba. If you ask a Christian, they will tell you Jesus Christ. Life itself had to be created before even a one celled protozoa could live. Life itself is Jesus Chirst for all things were made through him. The odds of life forming without God. One in infinity. You can jolt the building blocks of life all you want but it will never become a one celled protozoa without God's breath.
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Do not refer to "Mary" as "The Queen of Heaven." She is not heavenly royalty. This was litterally the title of the pagan Roman goddess Diana. It also was a title of a diety the Israelites were worshipping in the Old Testement book of Jeremiah for which they got in big trouble. In the early days of the Catholic Church they began to venerate Mary to pacify those being converted from pagan goddess worship. Mary was just an ordinary woman and is at rest from the worries of this world. She will never hear a prayer made to her--ever. The only way to the Father is through the Son. If Jesus says that he is the only way to the Father, than how can there be another way to speak to God. There isn't. Praying to Mary or the saints is not praying to God. It is like praying to an Old Testament Idol--empty.
Mary, Mary, Mary (incomplete)
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If you are the voice of God,
Then what's that wretched smell.
For a pope can be wrong
and a pope can sin
and even a pope can go to hell.
Chorus:
Mary, Mary, Mary
How she'd hate what you've done
You've placed her up with Jesus
When Jesus is the only one.
A person does not understand and is mistaken if you think of the Son, Jesus Christ, as the mother's son. For he is the Father's Son and has existed since the beginning of time. He existed long before Mary. Mary is at rest from the worries of this world. She won't hear your prayers. One must always remember, Mary did not make Jesus. It was Jesus who made Mary as all men have been made by Jesus.
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Woe to rainbow churches. Woe to those churches that have gay weddings. That church is an abomination. Woe to churches that have gay ministers. That church is spreading the seed of Satan. Woe to those churches that don't teach repentance from sin but instead support the sinfulness of man. That church will fail to save it's members. If it wasn't clear before, let me make it clear what is in the Word of God and not from the minds of men like these churches teach.
Romans 1:26-27 "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
People should not be supprised at the consequences that gays have had to face in the last few decades. They were warned ahead of time and didn't listen.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor theives nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers no swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
It is said in the scripture "They promise you freedom but they themselves are slaves of depravity." I have heard gay men say that they are born gay and that it is not a choice to be gay. That's funny because the only people in this world who don't have a choice are either prisoners or slaves. So which are you if you are gay--a prisoner or a slave? I espesially have a problem with gay ministers.
What is the dirtiest and meanest word in the English language to a gay minister?
Repent.