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Words Which Bring You Peace, Grace, joy & Set You Free |The Bible

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John 8:34-36 NKJV

  • Words are powerful, they are precise.
  • Words can make you climb the highest mountains or leave you crawling the lowest of valleys.
  • Words can build up or destroy. They say that violence is the reason for so many deaths in this world and that guns kill.
  • What they have missed is the rhetoric on both sides of the political aisle.
  • They also have missed the constant and systematic social media onslaught of making people who have differing views hate each other.
  • Words. Words unite. Words divide. Words hurt. Words heal.
  • The Word of God in His scriptures does both. We must have the full counsel of God to know what we as humans are capable of. Left to our own free will and thinking, we are then left to our own demise.
  • Free will and thinking can only coincide within us when there is a Higher Power that has given us limits on what we can and can’t do.
  • I know you are thinking, “How can you say that we are free people who have free will and thought if you are saying that we need a Higher Power to tell us what we must and mustn’t do?”
  • This is where Moral Law and Truth come in.
  • We can’t have a free society without morals. Morals are taught and practiced.
  • We also need civil law to keep society in order.
  • The less government intervention, the better. Let me explain. How can people be a free society if every action is dictated by the government? The more government interferes, the fewer people are free to think for themselves and make the right decisions. Because human laws are imperfect, no matter how good they seem.

  • Why? Because human beings have both good and evil inside of them.

  • Words. Words can teach, or make people ignorant.
  • The Bible is still the most read book in human history. It has founded societies and has made more people free.
  • The words inside have changed lives. This book has withstood the test of time.
    There are more copies which prove how close to the original writings of the Old and New Testaments they are than any other book out there.
  • Even the skeptics are unable to say otherwise. The critics have tried saying that we can’t trust the Bible because it was written by men and the writings are so old, we can’t believe what the original manuscripts.
  • Yet, the more they fight this Book, the more the Bible verifies itself, more than any other book out there (See References below).
  • Words. The Bible has words. If you read them and acknowledge what these words say, it brings new life to the person reading it.
  • Words inside this beautiful, awe-inspiring Book have led more people to be free, than any other book in History.

  • Words. Can transform a person from the inside out.

  • I invite you to read the Bible yourself.
  • You will find the words refreshing.
  • Start with the Book of Psalms and Proverbs.
  • Once you are there, you can jump into the Gospel of John.
  • Then you can go to Romans where the words will give you what people without God are like.
  • What people with God plus regulations are like.
  • Finally, what people who have a lasting personal relationship with Jesus, the Savior of the world are like.

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You see, words can be read and interpreted in personal fashions. But once you understand God’s word, there is only one way you can learn it.

  • You can read it for the task of reading through it like any other book. You can read it and see how God gave us do’ and don’ts, and try incredibly hard to abide by God’s Commandments.
  • Or, you can take those same Commandments and read what Jesus said about them in his Gospels and in Acts, Romans, 1st, and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians,, etc..
  • Once you read the explanations of the God’s Word and Commandments in these Letters, you will be set free.
  • And once someone is set free in Christ, the person is forever free, no matter what governing bodies are in charge.
  • No matter what words anyone uses against the person that has been set free through Jesus the Savior of the world.
  • Remember, words can hurt, divide and misinform.

  • But the Word of God heals, unites and points you to the grace, peace, and joy of knowing God wholly, through a personal relationship with His Son Jesus.

I invite you to know Jesus and ask Him into your life. I encourage you to be indeed set free…

Get know God & be truly free:

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

 

REFERENCES:

BibleAsk.com

Dead Sea Scrolls

New Testament Writings Research

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Shiloh the Messiah King Part I |Christmas 2018 Series Part V

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  • Imagine if you can, that your dad calls for an emergency family meeting. Then he calls each one of your siblings in on a one on one chat. Your turn is next and he starts giving you a prediction about something that you could not imagine yet.
  • Then imagine your dad is dying and in his deathbed, God gives him a vision predicting what your descendants would be like, and a special descendant who will change all of humanity’s course in History.
  • Now imagine that you are married and you are the 4th son in your family. In other words a middle child.
  • Imagine that you are hearing the words of your father and he tells you in his last couple of days, that a great King and Savior of the world will come through your family line.
  • And this descendant will take away the power of your future nation’s leaders, because they were getting out of hand ruling your future nation.
  • Now imagine that this future descendant who will be born through your family line will also come to save all of humanity.

What would you think if your dad said all these things to you? How could you put everything that your dad said into cohesive and credible thoughts? Would it be pretty awesome and pretty awful at the same time for you?

All this actually happened. It is what the prophecy or prediction which Jacob gave to his son Judah. Jacob on his deathbed gave all his sons predictions. They were not his prophecies,  but things God had shown Jacob regarding future events for each of his sons and their descendants.
Jacob starts giving his son Judah a prophecy explaining that a certain scepter would not depart from the tribe or nation of Judah, until Shiloh appeared…

Fast forward to right about the time Jesus is born. Sometime arounf 6-3 BC (roughly 2,000 years ago). Jesus came and power was taken away from the Leaders of Judea. This power was the power of the scepter or Shepherd’s staff or the scepter of kings and whoever held it, had the power to forgive or to judge a person.

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Each kingdom had a king at that time. Each king would be given this scepter or a shepherd staff as a symbol of power to lead and rule over the people. Judah was kingless, but they had a council who would meet and pass out laws and judgements.
Go back to what Jacob tells Judah. The father tells his son that his tribe would one day be big enough to have rulers judging his people. And that a certain descendant of Judah would be born, but not before the ruling scepter or Shepherd staff would be taken away from his future nation’s leadership.

Judah and the rest of the brothers, with the exception of Joseph, weren’t long-term thinkers. How do I know this, because had they been, they would not have sold Joseph and told their dad the lies they did to get away with it.

Gojg back to Genesis 49:10, Judah is listening to his dad telling him what his future progeny would be going through and he may or may not have thought that far ahead to really care.

But let’s look at the implications.

  • Jacob is foreseeing a time when his son’s nation, would be in great peril.
  • Imagine if you will, the USA is being taken over by a more powerful country and not being able to have a President, Congress and Supreme Court.
  • It is hard for me to fathom that one day, the USA will not have the right to decide on any death cases or be able to convict someone to death without the permission of another powerful ruling nation.

This is exactly what Judah’s descendants found themselves in the year 6-3 BC.
Fulfilling the prophecy of Shiloh. What is the meaning of Shiloh?

I’ll touch on this next post….

 

References

Picrure 1-  Genesis 49:10

Picture 2- Wars of the Jews”, Book 2, chapter 8– Josephus – Complete Works. Includes Life Of Flavius Josephus, Antiquities Of The Jews, Wars Of The Jews and others by William; Foreword by Lasor, William Sanford Josephus; Translated by Whiston (Author)

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The Only Action to Take |Gift of Salvation

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Some people say, “When you do an act of kindness, it’s good Karma!” If someone does something horrible, then you hear, “Wait until his Karma catches up to him!”
We’ve all heard of people saying there’s Karma in every action we take. The definition of this Buddhist and Hindu belief is that a person’s actions in this life or previous existence is a deciding factor in where a person will end up in the next life.

  • Although I don’t agree on the belief of a previous life or recycling into the next, I do believe that a person’s action will, in fact, be the deciding factor of where they spend eternity. You notice I said action and not actions?

The Word of God makes it indisputable in Hebrews chapter 29 verse 27 that it is appointed for a person to die once and then God’s judgment will be passed.

  • Here’s where the total opposite belief of what Karma is, comes in:

As human beings, we can never obtain a perfect balance for our next life on our own. We are never going to be good enough to achieve perfection. Only God, the Creator of the universe is perfect.
He is the only One that can judge us by His standards. And through the eternal measures of the heavens, we always fall short.
Here is where we have the chance to make destiny ours. We can, in fact, receive perfection. But here’s the catch, it’s not by our own actions.
It is by the time action that Jesus the Savior of the world, who is also the Son of God in the Trinity. He came and lived a perfect life. We can’t fathom this because we can’t live this kind of perfect life.
Some like the Buddha, Francis of Assisi, and Mother Theresa of Calcutta,  tried their best to lead good lives. Notice I said good and not perfect?
They through their own actions could never be good enough for their efforts to cancel out their sins.
All people have sinned and are in need of saving grace that is only given through Jesus. All people including Buddha, Mother Theresa, and all the other “beatified” human beings who have passed from this life into the next have died and were buried. None came back to life, except One.
People’s actions will not be good enough for them to enter into God’s heavenly Kingdom on their own accord. Before you tell me that this is extremely harsh to say, I am not the one saying it. The Word of God is clear on this. I wish I could say otherwise but then I would be making myself God and trust me, I am and will always fall short on that measure.
Instead of getting angry or depressed because you realized that you can’t make it into heaven on your own, why not ask the One that can help you. He is the only One that has died, been buried and risen from the dead. His name is Jesus the One they called the Carpenter, The Nazarene, The Way, the Truth, and The Life.

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    Below are reference links to most of what I mentioned here. Do your own homework and make the right decision.
  • Once you make a decision to follow Jesus, he will never leave you! Nothing will be able to separate you from His love.
  • Don’t leave it up to your very own “Karma” to find out too late…

 

 

 

 

References:

No human being is righteous in God’s eyes:  

https://biblehub.com/romans/3-10.htm

https://biblehub.com/romans/3-23.htm

Jesus is sinless:

https://biblehub.com/isaiah/53-9.htm
https://biblehub.com/1_peter/2-22.htm
https://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/5-21.htm
https://biblehub.com/1_john/3-5.htm

Christ came to save us:

https://biblehub.com/romans/8-38.htm

He is the Only One that can save us:

https://biblehub.com/john/14-7.htm

Ask Him to be your Savior:

https://biblehub.com/romans/10-9.htm

Welcome to the Family of God:

https://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-22.htm

Got more questions?:

Steps to Peace With God

How Can I know God

Know God

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A Tale of Two Men |Salvation in Christ Alone

 

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I recently heard of a famous Physicist who passed away recently and of a well-known conservative thinker who was brilliant explaining his thoughts and why free markets and less government was a way to continue for us in order to live better and more freely from the intruding big brother government proliferating our lives more and more, every year.

This thought saddened me because one of these beautiful minds, chose the wrong path. Whatever you may think of either one of the men, I want to take the time to see what happens to even the best of us after we leave this earthly body:

This is a story of two extraordinary men.

  • Both were bound in a wheelchair most of their lives. Their stories were similar. Yet so worlds apart.
  • One was a brilliant scientist. One was a brilliant writer and thinker.
  • One believed in God. The other struggled to see if God existed. He became an atheist later on in life.
  • Both passed this life into the next.
  • Once both of them entered into the afterlife,  they were cured of their agonizing and confined wheelchairs, once and for all time.
  • One went on to be with the Lord freer than ever before, while the other went into loneliness forever tormented away from the greatest peace and love he will always cry out for, but never attain.
  • We are like those men.
  • We are confined by this earthly body. But we have a choice today.
  • To rely on and have faith in God or deny and have faith in our own destiny.
  • The choice is yours. Do you want to go from one confinement into the next?IMG_2400.JPG

  • What afterlife will you choose today?

 

Reference verses:

John Chapter 10 verse 9

John Chapter 14 verse 6

Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 27

The Bridge to Life

How to Know God

How can I know God?

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