Overcoming the world

I have friends that I know and can trust, but many are caught up in the evil that is in the world.They are living in fear and confusion and some are fighting the demons from their past.  God sent Jesus his son to take away our sins and to make us free in him. God loves us and wants us to be saved out of the evil of this world. Let us read His truth.

Rev 21:7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

 1Jn 5:4  For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 

1Jn 5:5  Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 

He that overcomes the world, the devil and sin, how? Through faith and confession that Jesus is the acceptable sacrifice for our sins. Our good works will not save us. Jesus is our way to overcome, for he has fought our battle for us. In him is our victory! Come to Jesus and be in his truth and blessings. This is real and the truth.

Freedom

This is the slowest year of my sharing the Bible on the Internet. I used to send out a "Daily Bible" lesson. In the early days of AOL chat rooms we led scores of people to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Many that were reached on the computer were victims of human bondage with all the ugliness of using a living body and soul for selfish lusts. Women, men, boys and girls were horribly abused. Many were dead inside and some were given multiple personalities as a way to endure.  Setting them free physically from bondage was the beginning of the quest for true freedom.  I was able to share with many the power of a new life in Jesus. Jesus will remove the sin and shame. The Bible is the absolute truth of God in a time when many are told that there are no absolutes. Showing love with God's  word and his forgiveness were the beginning steps to freedom. Those who had been slaves needed the Daily Bible lessons to learn and to grow to be free.

John 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 

John 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 

I no longer have a target audience of newly saved people to share with, but God knows the end results of sharing his truth.

Prayer:  Lord forgive me for being slack in the sharing of your word. Help me to be more faithful to this ministry. amen

Faith In God

 The dermatologist sent me to a cancer specialist in Sacramento. The surgery was the MOH procedure. The cancer was on the side of my face. After three hours the doctor informed me that he had removed a squamous cell cancer and there was no more of it.  I was not frightened but was praising God.

A woman that I know in our church was going to have surgery to remove a mass in her bowels. After it was over the doctor said that he got it all. The patient had never been in a hospital and although she had faith in God she was terrified. The unknown can cause fear.

Another lady advanced in years, but still young like me, has a ministry in Africa. Her ministry was first to help deaf girls in Uganda, teaching them how to sew and how to use the computer so that they could earn a living and to avoid prostitution.  The government took over this Christian ministry. The ministry then went out to areas of Africa reaching  peoples and tribes to God through faith in Jesus Christ who died in our place for our sins. The missionary was very excited and dedicated to this work. Having recently returned from Africa she was diagnosed with MS and is using a walker. Her faith in God continues. She said that "he can heal me". Faith grows with experience. Faith in Jesus brings you into eternity with God where there is no  sickness or suffering. He is our healer who gives to us peace and abundant life.

No Fear of God

 People are pretty much the same. We all have desires for certain things, some are stronger than others in making a living and or finding happiness.  We may compare ourselves with others and wish that we were more like someone else, but most think they are a good person.  How does God fit into your life? Truth is there probably is little fear of God in our nation. We make laws that oppose his goodness. God is good, so I have nothing to fear, right?

There are two kinds of people in the world, the haves and the have not's. Those who God has forgiven their sins and those who he has not forgiven. The forgiven are to live forever in peace with God. The unforgiven  have souls that will forever be separated from God, even cast into hell. This should make us fear God. We certainly do not want to be separated from God. Don't be mad at God or his messenger. He has provided a way for you to be with him forever and your sins forgiven. He sent Jesus as our substitute in paying for our sins. The price to be paid for our sins was death, Jesus died in our place for our sins.

If you have not asked God to forgive your sins by faith that Jesus has died for your sins, then your sins remain.   Ask him to remove your sins and to be truly sorry for them. He will hear you. Time is soon coming when God's believing people will be taken up to be with him. The world will become even more evil. There will be a one world government.  Money will no longer be used, but you must believe and worship a world leader in order to buy and sell. Those who accept Jesus as payment for their sins and call him Lord, will be persecuted and killed. You will chose to worship satan and his world ruler or to receive Jesus and his eternal life with God in his kingdom.. 

Mat 24:14  And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. 

 God will choose witnesses from among the Jews to proclaim Jesus as Lord. God will get the message out all over the world, even using his angel to preach the good news of Jesus Christ.

Rev 14:6  Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. 

Rev 14:7  And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” 

 Come to Jesus now while you may find peace.

John 14:6  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

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Giver of Eternal Life

 God always existed, but we had a beginning. God created all things.  Our purpose is to be reconnected to God who is pure and good.  We are not pure. The Bible calls our lack of moral purity "sin."  A sinful people cannot come into the presence of God who is pure and perfect.  His mercy has made a way for us to connect with him.  He sent his eternal Son, Jesus Christ to come in the form of a human to be a perfect and sinless person to die in our place for our sins. After three days in the grave, the soul and spirit returned and Jesus was alive forever more.  The good news is that through faith in Jesus Christ we are forgiven of our sins and are to be in the eternal kingdom of God.  Satan's power was defeated on the cross.

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 

God loves his world that he created. He showed his mercy by sending his Son Jesus, to give us eternal life with him. All that God brings to faith in Jesus His Son will be given eternal life.

John 17:3  And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 

It is by faith in Jesus Christ that we are saved, having our sins and trespasses forgiven.

Eph 2:4  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 

Eph 2:5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us  alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 

Eph 2:6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 

Eph 2:7  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 

Eph 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 

Eph 2:9  not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 

The important thing to remember is that we are separated from God because of our sins  and that Jesus became our savior and mediator to bring us to God and eternal life through the forgiveness of our sins.

John 14:5  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 

John 14:6  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

Be aware that you cannot come to God with your sins. Right now ask Jesus to remove your sins and to give you a new life in him. Ask him now, he will hear you. It is life or death, choose life

Something to Hang Onto

 Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Upon love hang all the law and the prophets. The English Standard Bible translates the verb hang as    "depend". In 1 Corinthians 12 and 13 The Bible speaks of the Spiritual gifts.  They only are effective if they hang or depend on love as a motivation. Love is an attribute of God, and God has no sin, so love is without sin. The devil tries to make love to be sinful. The devil is a liar. True love is not selfish, love is kind and love rejoices in  truth. Because love is from God it will be everlasting.  I ask a question? If love is so important then why do we not love more? Love God and love others.  Hold onto something that will last forever.  God showed us his love by having his son come to take your sins away. Jesus paid the price for you to be free of sin and to be filled with love. Ask Jesus to be your salvation and to give you more love. The love and truth of God will make you free.

I am Content

 I  think we all want to enjoy our life, having food and shelter and a degree of health. In Christ we can enjoy life and in him we have our being.   In our flesh nature we worry about things. I recently found that my recurring cough was the result of congestive heart failure. We murmur and complain thinking of the worst possible things that await us. No, we are not to do that if we trust in God, in Jesus Christ His Son. All is well.

Php 4:11  Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 

Do you have the Spirit of God to comfort, to help you and to give you peace? We live by faith in Jesus and rejoice in the knowledge that Christ loves us.

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 

A young friend likes to quote from Proverbs,

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 

Pro 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 

Pro 3:7  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 

Do you have a problem? God has this. Trust in the LORD with all your heart. All things are under His authority.