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メッセージを投稿DEATH DOES NOT END IT ALL FOR THOSE WHO ARE BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT Bethany was a small village that lay two miles (3 km) from Jerusalem. (John 11:18 ) A tragedy unfolded there a few weeks before Jesus’ death. Lazarus, one of Jesus’ close friends, unexpectedly became seriously ill and died.When Jesus first heard the news, he told his disciples that Lazarus was asleep and that he intended to awaken him. (John 11:11 ) But Jesus’ disciples did not grasp his meaning, so Jesus told them plainly: “Lazarus has died.”— John 11:14 . Four days after the burial, Jesus arrived at Bethany and sought to comfort Martha, a sister of the deceased.“If you had been here, my brother would not have died,” Martha said. (John 11:17, 21 ) “I am the resurrection and the life,” Jesus replied. “The one who exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life.”—John 11:25 . To demonstrate that those words were not an empty promise, Jesus then approached the tomb and cried out: “Lazarus, come out!” (John 11:43 ) And to the astonishment of the onlookers, the dead man emerged.Jesus had performed at least two resurrections previously. On one occasion heraised a young girl from the dead—the daughter of Jairus. Right before Jesus resurrected her, he also described her as being asleep.— Luke 8:52 . Notice that regarding the death of both Lazarus and Jairus’ daughter, Jesus compared death to sleep. That is a fitting comparison. Why? Sleep is an unconscious state and suitably conveys the idea of rest from pain and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 9:5 ; see the accompanying box, “Death Is Like a Deep Sleep.” ) Jesus’ early disciples clearly understood the true condition of the dead. “To the followers of Jesus death was a sleep, and the grave a resting-place . . . for those who had died in the faith,” * states the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics. It comforts us to know that the dead are asleep in the grave and are not suffering. Death thereby loses its mystery and no longer needs to cause us dread. “IF A MAN DIES, CAN HE LIVE AGAIN?” But while we appreciate a good night’s rest, who wants to go to sleep forever? What hope do we have that the dead who lie asleep in the grave will return to life—as Lazarus and Jairus’ daughter did?The patriarch Job raised that very question when he felt near to death. “If a man dies, can he live again?” he asked.— Job 14:14 . Addressing Almighty God, Job answered his own question, saying: “You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the work of your hands.” (Job 14:15 ) Job felt sure that Jehovah longed for the day when He would resurrect His faithful servant. Was that mere wishful thinking on Job’s part? Not at all. The resurrections performed by Jesus offered clear proof that God gave Jesus power over death. In fact, the Bible says that Jesus now possesses “the keys of death.” (Revelation 1:18 ) So Jesus will unlock the gates of the grave, just as he ordered that the stone of Lazarus’ tomb be rolled away. The Bible repeats this resurrection promise time and again. An angel assured the prophet Daniel: “You will rest, but you will stand up for your lot at the end of the days.” (Daniel 12:13 ) Jesus told the Sadducees, Jewish leaders who denied the resurrection promise: “You are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (Matthew 22:23, 29 ) The apostle Paul said: “I have hope toward God . . .that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”— Acts 24:15 . WHEN WILL THE DEAD ARISE? When will this resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous occur? The angel told righteous Daniel that he would rise up “at the end of the days.” Martha likewise believed that her brother, Lazarus, would “rise in the resurrection on the last day.”— John 11:24 . The Bible connects this “last day” with Christ’s Kingdom rule. Paul wrote: “For he [Christ] must rule as king until God has put all enemies under his feet. And the last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing.” (1 Corinthians 15:25, 26 ) This is a powerful reason why we should pray for God’s Kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on the earth. * As Job well knew, God’s will is to resurrect the dead. When that day arrives, death will truly be brought to nothing. And never again will anyone wonder, ‘Does death end it all?’ DEATH IS LIKE A DEEP SLEEP “Give light to my eyes, so that I may not fall asleep in death.”— Psalm 13:3 .“‘Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am traveling there to awaken him.’ The disciples then said to him: ‘Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well.’ Jesus, however, had spoken about his death.”— John 11:11-13 . “David, on the one hand, rendered service to God in his own generation [and] fell asleep in death.” — Acts 13:36 .“Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death.”— 1 Corinthians 15:20 .“We do not want you to be ignorant about those who are sleeping in death, so that you may not sorrow as the rest do who have no hope.”— 1 Thessalonians 4:13 . THE DEAD WILL RISE “Your dead will live. My corpses will rise up. Awake and shout joyfully!”— Isaiah 26:19 .“Many of those asleep in the dust of the earth will wake up.”— Daniel 12:2 .“The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out.”—John 5:28, 29.
BE COVERED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD This righteousness is the nature of God.It is the character and personality of God; how God behaves, how He acts, how He responds, how He speaks.“The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion”~Psalm 116:5So, you can’t have the righteousness of God, unless you have the nature of God. If you’re an unbeliever, and you’re not born again, but you’re morally upright, you don’t have the righteousness that comes from God. Because you don’t have the nature of God, you can’t have His righteousness. There’s basically not much difference between you and a good dog, a good goat, a good rabbit, or a well behaved lion.Righteousness devoid of the nature of God is not the righteousness of God. God is righteousness. Romans 10:1-3 When you are born again – that is, when you believe in Jesus Christ baptism, death and the resurrection, your sins are remmitted, filled by His spirit, then you have His nature, and you have His righteousness.Memory Verse:~Psalm 116:5“ The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion” THE BORN AGAIN THANKSGIVING PRAYER Heavenly Father, I thank You that I am born again of water and the spirit without Which l Would have died and go to hell.Thank You for giving me Your nature through your son who came by water and the blood, and so I have the righteousness that comes from You and not by myself, lsaiah 64:10 in JESUS name Amen. Email:philipgenesisboadu@gmail.com Personal numbers: 0201746274/0547754195 Call for free christian Books
How many of you start your day in prayer and then rely on what the stars have in store for you? If you think that there is no harm in even reading your daily horoscope, then I would advise you to seek your council from the word of God and God alone. There is even a greater danger much closer to home than you might think! Your friends and your family. Family get to gether’s, parties, birthdays, a night on the town with friends, your daily telephone conversations, your internet chats. Not forgetting the people with whom you work, at school, on public transport, in waiting rooms etc. What do you talk about, what do you listen to? If you profess to being a born again Christian then I am sure you all do what God expects of you, even more so when you are in the company of your Christian brothers and sisters. Galatians 6:10. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are in the household of faith. As a born again Christian you have an obligation to God, to spread the Gospel at every opportunity, and as good upstanding Christians, surely you have done your work well. With so many people around you, and all of them knowing who you are, I am sure they all stand behind you and your faith 100%. So how many of them are standing behind you in Church each Sunday? What do you discuss when you are with your Christian brothers and sisters, is it Spiritual or worldly matters? Are you remaining faithful to your calling or are you like so many others who only grumble and complain about others. Are you maybe one of those who is constantly in disagreement with your leaders sermons, or not happy with the way someone dresses or even where they sit in Church. Don’t worry, this is normal behavior for today’s born again Christians. After all this is what Church is all about these days. When we look at the state of our faith in this way we can clearly see that something is not quite right. We seem to see that Christians are having fellowship with both believers and unbelievers, in other words you are enjoying the best of both worlds. Well God is none too happy with this. What we need to understand is the difference between whom we class as unbelievers and who God classes as unbelievers. Everyone on this earth who has sin in their heart is an unbeliever, they don’t believe in the righteousness of God because they know nothing about it. The reason for this is because there is no one with the proper knowledge of these Spiritual matters to tell them. This is why the worlds Churches are in the state they are in today. They are full of born again sinners. Hosea 4:6-9 Explains this predicament to the letter. So in reality, in God’s eyes everyone who does not believe in His righteousness is a sinner destined for hell. So as self-proclaimed born again Christians you have preached the gospel to all your friends and family and to everyone you come in contact with, you have done your work well. Who then do these people become when they refuse to accept the gospel you have given them? These are the ones who stand 100% behind you but not next to you. They are the ones who are the worst kind of sinners because they accept what you say but reject what you have given them. So why then do you continue to seek fellowship with those who are according to God, the living dead? Compare these people to the thousands who followed Jesus because He was healing them, feeding them, giving them to drink. When Jesus turned off the tap and asked His followers to do something for Him, eat His flesh and drink His blood, they all left Him. These are the what’s in it for me Christians, just like those who you keep company with. Luke 10:10-12. But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say, The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near you. But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. It is through the lack of knowledge of the only true gospel which Jesus and His disciples preached that the world does not know the true meaning of the righteousness of God. Matthew 3:15. Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. The moment that John the Baptist laid his hands on the head of Jesus in the Jordan river, all the sin of this world was transferred onto Him. This is the moment that our Lord became the righteousness of God. So who are the unbelievers of today, why do you say you must wait for the right moment, and choose whom you think deserve to be saved or not? John 4:34-38. Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, There are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this saying is true: One sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors. Our Lord is telling us here that now just as then we go around picking and choosing which days and times and to whom to preach the gospel, this we do to save souls according to our way of thinking without first asking God. This way we are only making our own judgments on others. We say the time, the place or a person is not yet ready to receive salvation. The truth is, the moment that our Lord became the righteousness of God, every single person on this earth is just waiting to be harvested. The price for the harvest has already been paid for by the servants of God who lived in previous generations. They are the ones who died trying to protect the word of God. They have accomplished their labors. Those of you who profess to be born again without the knowledge of this truth, then all your labors are in vain, you are only reaping sinners. 2 Corinthians 6:14-15. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or which part has a believer with an unbeliever? The Question I ask you today is this, if you profess to be one of the worldly born again Christians, then why do you still insist in having fellowship with the dead? The unbelievers. The proof of this truth is in your conversations with the unbelievers. You discuss all your problems and make all your plans with the dead, you don’t even trust in the God you profess to worship. You are playing with fire and you will be burned. When you clamp on fast to those who have rejected Christ they will pull you down with them because you feel sorry for them. This is where Satan accomplishes his greatest works. Don’t you understand what God is telling you? 2 Corinthians 6:16-18. And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the living temple of God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Just look at what Saul hears from the dead prophet Samuel. After seeking council from a medium.1 Samuel 28:18. Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord nor execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek….. Look at what the rich man hears from Father Abraham in Luke 16: 19-31. Here you can see that the dead cannot help you. They did not believe the words of Moses or the prophets, and this is why they don’t believe you now. But still you cling to those who cannot help you.You will become just like the company you keep. The only way you can beat the attacks of Satan is with the power from the Holy Spirit, if He dwells within you. There is one way and one way only to receive God’s Holy Spirit, and that is to become truly born again out of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. 1 Peter 5:8-9. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. Only a truly born again Saint who has been born again of the gospel of the water and the Spirit has this knowledge. We are the ones who are harvesting what has already been sown. John 3:5. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. John 1:29. Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 1 Peter 3:21. There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism ( not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God ), through the resurrection of Christ. This is the flesh we must eat and the blood we must drink, this is the righteousness of God we must believe in. The baptism that Jesus received from John the Baptist is Jesus ’flesh. Without this baptism, nailing Jesus to the cross would have had no meaning. The sins of the world had first to be transferred onto the offer Lamb before it could bleed to death. When we know this secret we are eating the food for our souls. So stop looking for life among the dead, there you will only find heartbreak and disappointment, and in the end you will only feel sorry for them. And when the time comes to let them go, you can’t, you will only be destroyed with them. If you truly want to find your life then please don’t hesitate to order our free books on the Gospel of the water and the Spirit, written by Rev. Paul C. Jong. What you will find in these life giving books you will not find with the dead. These books will lead you to read in your own Bible all the things the dead are unable to tell you. Pastor & EvangelistJim Montgomerie The New Life MissionHolland : BranchLelystad Church
Our God is GOD of mercy. He is calling all of us, be it young or old, male or female, black or white to come together and share the truth from Himin isaiah 1:1, God Himself wants to reason with us. for us to reason with God, we have to accept that we are sinners and overwhelmed with sins, he is ready to wash us again to regain His first glory that we lost.it is not about keeping the law but believing in His son Jesus Christ, who came with total and complete salvation for all mankind.the gates of heaven are open for all of us, God is ready to treat us as His children to inherit everything He owns in heaven. therefore, by accepting and believing baptism, blood and spirit to be part of us, we shall not perish but have eternal life forever.i would like to thank new life mission for publishing the truth in books, so that many can turn back and propel what Jesus left behind.i pray that, the truth be spread and changed many souls to true gospel of Jesus Christ not just say that, 'come now and reason together" and yet no truth in us.
THE BATTLE IS NOT TO THE STRONG (Part 2) Let us take our Scripture reading once again from Ecclesiastes where we are told that: “The race is not for the swift, nor the BATLE to the STRONG, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11). King Solomon who spoke the above words had a great in-depth knowledge about God’s Word, His ways, thoughts, and about how He battles, defends, and contends for the “WEAK.” Therefore when he said that “the BATTLE” is not to the “STRONG,” he had reasons and the bases for saying this. What then are the reasons and the bases for which King Solomon made this assertion? As we all know, the writer of Ecclesiastes was an Israelite who was born in the Holy Land. And even though he was born in his own generation, he heard and read about the events which took place in the past generations in the era of his fore-fathers, and how God actually FOUGHT for His own people who were not “STRONG” but “WEAK.” So first of all, the author of Ecclesiastes (Solomon) knew the history of how his own nation Israel was founded on the “FAITH” of Abraham. He knew how Abraham’s nephew (Lot) was captured in the “BATTLE” of the kings, and how God FOUGHT for Abraham, how he DEFEATED Chedorlaomer and his forces (the kings), and how he recovered all the goods and the captives including Lot as recorded in Genesis 14:1-16. Therefore after the “BATTLE,” the Scripture says, “And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Kings’ Valley), after his return from the DEFEAT of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him. Then MELCHIZEDEK king of salem brought out bread and wine; he was the PRIEST of God Most High. And he BLESSED him and said: BLESSED be Abraham of God Most High, Possessor of heavens and earth; And BLESSED be God most High Who has delivered your ENEMIES into your hand” (Genesis 14:17-20). Now when it says here that, “BLESSED be God most High Who has delivered your ENEMIES into your hand,” it means that it was God himself who FOUGHT for Abraham and gave him victory over his enemies. It was not because Abraham “ARMED” his three hundred (300) and eighteen (18) trained servants who were born in his own house (Genesis 14:14). Abraham’s ARMY was not a match for the ARMIES of the kings, but the reason why he won the “BATTLE” was because God FOUGHT for his aremed men who were “WEAK.” That’s why the same author of Ecclesiastes told us in his Book of Proverbs that, “The horse is prepared for the day of BATTLE, but deliverance is of the LORD” (Proverbs 21:31). This is the reason why I said earlier that King Solomon knew about the past events surrounding his own country Israel and how the LORD Himself FIGHTS for His people. It was on this bases that he declared, “the BATTLE is not to the STRONG.” But there is a “mystery” surrounding Abraham’s VICTORY over the kings, and how after the “BATTLE” he met “MELCHIZEDEK” who brought “bread and wine” and “BLESSED” him. This event tell us that, God Himself FOUGHT our spiritual “BATTLE” when He sent His only begotten Son JESUS to face SIN, Satan, and his demons. And after taking away our SINS upon Himself in the waters of the Jordan (Matthew 3:13-17), He “DEFEATED” Satan and his ARMY (evil forces) on the Cross when He said “It is FINISHED” (John 19:30). Therefore just as Abraham met “MELCHIZEDEK” who gave him “bread and wine” and BLESSED him, God also swore by Himself when He told JESUS, “You are a PRIEST forever according to the order of MELCHIZEDEK” (Hebrews 5:6). This is telling us that after JESUS also defeated our “ENEMIES,” He came to meet we the SINNERS as the heavenly “MELCHIZEDEK,” and he also gave us “bread and wine” which stands for His own “flesh and blood.” And after this, He BLESSED us. That’s why it is recorded in the Scriptures that, “And as they were eating, JESUS took bread, BLESSED and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, EAT; this is My BODY.” Then He took the cup (wine), and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “DRINK from it, all of you. For this is My BLOOD of the New Covenant which is shed for many for the REMISSION of SINS” (Matthew 26:26-28). In the above passage, we must know that JESUS did not only talk about His “BLOOD,” but He spoke about His “BODY” which received our SINS in the Jordan River when He was baptized by John the Baptist. Therefore if you are a Christian and you don’t “BELIEVE” in both, but you believe in only the “BLOOD” of the Cross, then you will always be “DEFEATED” by Satan in the spiritual “BATTLE.” This is because you went to FIGHT him with a half-truth. However, the only way you can only DEFEAT the Devil is possible when you are fully “ARMED” with the full-truth or the complete truth. As a Christian, don’t allow denominational doctrines to make you a “FOOL,” but believe in the “TRUTH” which is in JESUS CHRIST, and you will be “WISE” spiritually. Don’t forget that King Solomon who told us “the BATTLE is not to the STRONG” was a very “WISE” person because he received this “WISDOM” from God. But unfortunately, many Christians have refused to receive this spiritual “WISDOM” which is hidden in the “bread and wine” of the heavenly “MELCHIZEDEK” (JESUS CHRIST). We must know that the reason why God gave victory to Abraham in the “BATTLE” is because he was someone who “BELIEVED in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Genesis 15:6). Therefore unless a Christian receives the “bread and wine” which the “PRIEST forever according to the order of MELCHIZEDEK” is giving to them, they will always be DEFEATED by Satan and his foes. JESUS did not FIGHT the “BATTLE” for those who are “STRONG,” but for those who are feeble (WEAK). And for those who BELIEVE, God has given them VICTORY over Satan. Our study continues.........
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