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Saturday Oct 24, 2015
Saturday Oct 24, 2015
Zombie Hunting
What is a zombie?
Living dead or animated dead people.
They are reanimated by either magic, or science or a virus, etc.
Zombies are fictional
Can anyone think of any famous zombies?
Frankenstein, a mummy, Solemn Grundy, Minecraft,
What do zombies really look like?
However God talks about such creatures. Creatures that are alive, but dead.
Real life zombies.
[Eph 2:1 ESV] And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
[Eph 2:2 ESV] in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--
[Eph 2:3 ESV] among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
[Rom 7:14 ESV] For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
[Rom 3:10 ESV] as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
[Rom 3:11 ESV] no one understands; no one seeks for God.
[Rom 3:12 ESV] All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."
[Rom 3:13 ESV] "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
[Rom 3:14 ESV] "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
[Rom 3:15 ESV] "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
[Rom 3:16 ESV] in their paths are ruin and misery,
[Rom 3:17 ESV] and the way of peace they have not known."
[Rom 3:18 ESV] "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
[Rom 3:19 ESV] Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
[1Jo 3:14 ESV] We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
[1Jo 3:15 ESV] Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Zombies cannot understand moral goodness.
[1Co 3:3 ESV] for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
[1Co 3:4 ESV] For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?
[1Co 2:14 ESV] The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Zombies are better organized than the movies.
The have leaders. “false teachers”
[2Ti 3:2 ESV] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
[2Ti 3:3 ESV] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
[2Ti 3:4 ESV] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
[2Ti 3:5 ESV] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
[2Ti 3:6 ESV] For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
[2Ti 3:7 ESV] always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Zombie detector,
The Word of God.
First use the detector on yourself.
1. You Love Jesus Christ
Luke 10:27
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
2. You want God most of all. .
Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
What does it look like to diligently seek the Lord?
John 14:21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Isaiah 55:6-7
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
You Love God more than the World. James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
3. Psalm 119 is a description of you.
[Psa 119:4 ESV] You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
[Psa 119:5 ESV] Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
[Psa 119:6 ESV] Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
[Psa 119:7 ESV] I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
[Psa 119:9 ESV] [Beth] How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
[Psa 119:10 ESV] With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
[Psa 119:11 ESV] I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
[Psa 119:12 ESV] Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes!
[Psa 119:13 ESV] With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
[Psa 119:14 ESV] In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
[Psa 119:15 ESV] I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
[Psa 119:16 ESV] I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
[Psa 119:17 ESV] [Gimel] Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.
[Psa 119:18 ESV] Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
[Psa 119:19 ESV] I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
According to the zombie detector which are you?
Do you love yourself and the world more than the creator of the world?
Living a life in obedience to Jesus looks a lot like zombie hunting.
Next week we are going to talk about The Cure, and how hunt a zombie.
Here is a highlight of next week.
The Cure: Death to Life.
[Jhn 5:24 ESV] Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
[Jhn 5:25 ESV] "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
[Jhn 5:26 ESV] For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
[Jhn 5:27 ESV] And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
[Jhn 5:28 ESV] Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
[Jhn 5:29 ESV] and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
The Cure.
[Eph 2:4 ESV] But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
[Eph 2:5 ESV] even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
[Eph 2:6 ESV] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[Mat 5:38 ESV] "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
[Mat 5:39 ESV] But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
[Mat 5:43 ESV] "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
[Mat 5:44 ESV] But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
[Mat 5:45 ESV] so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
[Mat 5:46 ESV] For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
[Mat 5:47 ESV] And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
[Mat 5:48 ESV] You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
In every young adult book. The protagonist realize they are part of a much bigger war.
Chapter 4, Spiritual War
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Saturday Sep 12, 2015
Saturday Sep 12, 2015
The Invitation: You just can’t say no.
Chapter One: . . .
Do I have a something higher and better than this?
Harry Potter, a letter from an owl. The first one was burned. Then so many letters arrived that not even the adults who were trying to suppress him could deny the letters.
Katniss saves her sister by replacing her in the games.
Divergent, the girl is not like everyone else, her difference makes her dangerous to the powers that be.
Spiderman, Peter Parker is bitten by the spider and he can’t go back.
The Christian Calling.
[Eph 1:1 ESV] Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
[Eph 1:2 ESV] Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
[Eph 1:3 ESV] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
[Eph 1:4 ESV] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
In love
[Eph 1:5 ESV] he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
WHY?
[Eph 1:6 ESV] to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
How Did He Do It?
[Eph 1:7 ESV] In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
[Eph 1:8 ESV] which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
[Eph 1:9 ESV] making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
[Eph 1:10 ESV] as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
CAN’T Lose It!
1. God planned it.
[Eph 1:11 ESV] In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
[Eph 1:12 ESV] so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
2. God Sealed You Forever.
[Eph 1:13 ESV] In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
[Eph 1:14 ESV] who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Saved from the zombies.
[Eph 2:1 ESV] And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
[Eph 2:2 ESV] in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--
[Eph 2:3 ESV] among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
[Eph 2:4 ESV] But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
[Eph 2:5 ESV] even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
[Eph 2:6 ESV] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[Eph 2:7 ESV] so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
God saved you, you did not “Let’ God save you.
[Eph 2:8 ESV] 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 ESV] not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
How about you?
Meta Narrative Chapter 2; The Calling
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Monday Aug 31, 2015
Monday Aug 31, 2015
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Saturday Aug 01, 2015
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
Doctrinal Clarification
Religion Encroaches; A Salvation Issue.
While in Antioch
[Act 15:1 ESV] But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
A Salvation Issue!! It’s always about man “doing” something to earn Heaven.
Man really wants to keep a little glory in our pockets.
Here is the doctrine of a church in Hampshire County
We believe the Bible teachers that salvation – the forgiveness of sins – is only by grace through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 26:28; Romans 5:9; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 John 1:7
We believe the Bible teaches that one receives God’s grace by putting faith in Christ, repenting of sin, confessing Christ “and being immersed into Christ”, but that none of these is sufficient in and of itself for the assurance of salvation.
God’s plan to sacrifice Christ is not enough
We humans must finish the job.
The most theologically accurate way to call someone to repentance.
In a debate with an atheist Sye Ten Bruggencate said the following.
“Beg God to grant you repentance”.
Why? Because a person can’t repent unless God enables the person to do so.
Look at what Jesus says to disciples and fans.
[Jhn 6:63 ESV] It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
[Jhn 6:64 ESV] But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
[Jhn 6:65 ESV] And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."
[Jhn 6:66 ESV] After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
In Galatians; Paul writes a whole letter about circumcision.
[Act 15:2 ESV] And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
[Act 15:3 ESV] So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
[Act 15:4 ESV] When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
Christians who were Pharisees
[Act 15:5 ESV] But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."
[Act 15:6 ESV] The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
Peter Speaks Up.
[Act 15:7 ESV] And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
[Act 15:8 ESV] And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
[Act 15:9 ESV] and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
“Before I was done preaching the Holy Spirit came upon them.” (They were saved before they had done anything).
Don’t force religion that not even we Jews could follow.
[Act 15:10 ESV] Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
[Act 15:11 ESV] But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will."
[Act 15:12 ESV] And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
James Speaks
[Act 15:13 ESV] After they finished speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me.
[Act 15:14 ESV] Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
[Act 15:15 ESV] And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
[Act 15:16 ESV] "'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it,
[Act 15:17 ESV] that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
[Act 15:18 ESV] known from of old.'
Quote from Amos
[Amo 9:11 ESV] "In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,
[Amo 9:12 ESV] that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.
[Act 15:19 ESV] Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
[Act 15:20 ESV] but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
[Act 15:21 ESV] For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues."
1. Polluted by idols
[1Co 8:1 ESV] Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
[1Co 8:13 ESV] Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
2. Sexual Immorality: The only approved physical intimacy is between one man & one woman in the covenant relationship of marriage. Everything else is evil.
3. Strangled and eating blood.
[Gen 9:3 ESV] Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
[Gen 9:4 ESV] But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
[Lev 17:10 ESV] "If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
[Lev 17:11 ESV] For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
[Lev 17:14 ESV] For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
[Act 15:41 ESV] And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Religion: Do things to go to Heaven
Christianity: Jesus saved you, so live accordingly.
Live a life in response to being saved.
The Council Agrees, They send out teams.
[Act 15:22 ESV] Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
The Letter
[Act 15:23 ESV] with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.
[Act 15:24 ESV] Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,
[Act 15:25 ESV] it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
[Act 15:26 ESV] men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[Act 15:27 ESV] We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.
[Act 15:28 ESV] For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:
[Act 15:29 ESV] that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."
Barsabbas, and Silas; reaction to the letter.
[Act 15:30 ESV] So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
[Act 15:31 ESV] And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.
[Act 15:32 ESV] And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
[Act 15:33 ESV] And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.
[Act 15:34 ESV] 34: But it seemed good to Silas to remain there
Paul & Barnabas’ Home Church
[Act 15:35 ESV] But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
[Act 15:36 ESV] And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."
Big Disagreement and team split
[Act 15:37 ESV] Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark.
[Act 15:38 ESV] But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
[Act 15:39 ESV] And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
[Act 15:40 ESV] but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.
[Act 15:41 ESV] And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
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Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Acts 14 Polarized Reaction
In Iconium
[Act 14:1 ESV] Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
[Act 14:2 ESV] But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
[Act 14:3 ESV] So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
[Act 14:4 ESV] But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles.
[Act 14:5 ESV] When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
[Act 14:6 ESV] they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,
[Act 14:7 ESV] and there they continued to preach the gospel.
A Sign of God Misunderstood.
[Act 14:8 ESV] Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked.
[Act 14:9 ESV] He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
[Act 14:10 ESV] said in a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." And he sprang up and began walking.
[Act 14:11 ESV] And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
[Act 14:12 ESV] Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
[Act 14:13 ESV] And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.
[Act 14:14 ESV] But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,
[Act 14:15 ESV] "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
[Act 14:16 ESV] In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
[Act 14:17 ESV] Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness."
[Act 14:18 ESV] Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.
[Act 14:19 ESV] But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
[Act 14:20 ESV] But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
[Act 14:21 ESV] When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
[Act 14:22 ESV] strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
[Act 14:23 ESV] And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
[Act 14:24 ESV] Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
[Act 14:25 ESV] And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia,
[Act 14:26 ESV] and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.
[Act 14:27 ESV] And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
[Act 14:28 ESV] And they remained no little time with the disciples.
Saturday Jul 04, 2015
Saturday Jul 04, 2015
What is going on? Why is evil celebrated in our country this week?
History and sexual immorality.
History is attached via the confederate flag and the Government continues to hate God and promote great evil.
The Confederate Flag Attack.
Freedom means Individual Responsibility. If you cannot be individually morally responsible, you cannot have freedom. You will lose your responsibility and become a slave.
Historically, the national sin of slavery, As states were unwilling to stop enslaving humans they separated themselves and said the Federal Government cannot tell individual states what to do.
1. They were correct.
2. However, they very objection they were raising to Federal government, they were doing to humans within their own states.
3. The south lost the war and then lost their state’s right.
Same is try after 9/11.
Terrorism brings fear.
Americans would rather have security not freedom.
So Department of Homeland Security is created.
Another bloated government agency feeding off the responsible working class of Americans.
Sin as an individual and a nation always leads to lose of freedom.
Sexual Immorality
Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide
New York Times - 1 day ago
In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the court ruled, 5-4, that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.
Why is humanity charging the gates of Heaven?
Hoping to overthrow holiness, purity, righteousness, in the name of love?
All humans are enemies of God.
[Psa 14:1 ESV] To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
[Psa 14:2 ESV] The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
[Psa 14:3 ESV] They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
[Psa 14:4 ESV] Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
Walking dead.
[Eph 2:1 ESV] And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
[Eph 2:2 ESV] in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--
[Eph 2:3 ESV] among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
God’s Judgements.
[Rom 1:18 ESV] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
[Rom 1:19 ESV] For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
[Rom 1:20 ESV] For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
[Rom 1:21 ESV] For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
[Rom 1:22 ESV] Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
[Rom 1:23 ESV] and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
[Rom 1:24 ESV] Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
[Rom 1:25 ESV] because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
[Rom 1:26 ESV] For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
[Rom 1:27 ESV] and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
[Rom 1:28 ESV] And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
[Rom 1:29 ESV] They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
[Rom 1:30 ESV] slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
[Rom 1:31 ESV] foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
[Rom 1:32 ESV] Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Hope for zombies, He saved us when we were zombies.
[Eph 2:4 ESV] But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
[Eph 2:5 ESV] even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
[Eph 2:6 ESV] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[Eph 2:7 ESV] 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 ESV] 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 ESV] not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
[Eph 2:10 ESV] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
What are we to do?
[Eph 5:7 ESV] Therefore do not become partners with them;
[Eph 5:8 ESV] for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
[Eph 5:9 ESV] (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
[Eph 5:10 ESV] and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
[Eph 5:11 ESV] Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
[Eph 5:12 ESV] For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
[Eph 5:13 ESV] But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
[Eph 5:14 ESV] for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
[Eph 5:15 ESV] Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
[Eph 5:16 ESV] making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
[Eph 5:17 ESV] Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
[Eph 5:18 ESV] And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
[Eph 5:19 ESV] addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
[Eph 5:20 ESV] giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Repent Continually.
[1Pe 4:1 ESV] Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
[1Pe 4:2 ESV] so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
[1Pe 4:3 ESV] For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
[1Pe 4:4 ESV] With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
[1Pe 4:5 ESV] but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
[1Pe 4:6 ESV] For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
[1Pe 4:7 ESV] The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
The Gospel must be spoken from your Mouth
[Rom 10:13 ESV] For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
[Rom 10:14 ESV] How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
[Rom 10:15 ESV] And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"
[Rom 10:16 ESV] But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?"
[Rom 10:17 ESV] So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Evangelize and Teach.
[Mat 28:19 ESV] Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
[Mat 28:20 ESV] teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Sharing the Gospel has got to be Priority.
[1Co 9:19 ESV] For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
[1Co 9:20 ESV] To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
[1Co 9:21 ESV] To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
[1Co 9:22 ESV] To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
[1Co 9:23 ESV] I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
[1Co 9:24 ESV] Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
[1Co 9:25 ESV] Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
[1Co 9:26 ESV] So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.
[1Co 9:27 ESV] But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Christians first American’s 2nd. Save your neighbor not the country.
[1Pe 2:9 ESV] But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
[1Pe 2:10 ESV] Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
[1Pe 2:11 ESV] Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
[1Pe 2:12 ESV] Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
The downfall of America is not the downfall of the world.
Peace and Joy is not based on outward circumstances.
[Phl 4:4 ESV] Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
[Phl 4:5 ESV] Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
[Phl 4:6 ESV] do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
[Phl 4:7 ESV] And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
[Phl 4:8 ESV] Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
[Phl 4:9 ESV] What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me--practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Saturday Jun 20, 2015
Saturday Jun 20, 2015
Paul and Barnabas 1st Missionary Journey
Paul has three missionary Journeys
1st Missionary Journey (Acts 13-14):
2nd Missionary Journey (Acts 15:36-18:22):
3rd Missionary Journey (Acts 18:23-20:38):
Ordination & Sending of Paul and Barnabas
[Act 13:1 ESV] Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
[Act 13:2 ESV] While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
[Act 13:3 ESV] Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
[Act 13:4
ESV] So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and
from there they sailed to Cyprus.
First they go to the Synagogues.
[Act 13:5 ESV] When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.
Who is bar-jesus? Creepy wizard who did not like the Gospel
Bar-jesus; means son of Jesus, Not Jesus Christ but
I. Elymas = "a wise man"
A. the Arabic name of the Jewish magnus or sorcerer Barjesus, Act 13:6
[Act 13:6 ESV] When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
Proconsul is a A Roman Deputy
[Act 13:7 ESV] He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
[Act 13:8 ESV] But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
[Act 13:9 ESV] But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
[Act 13:10 ESV] and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
[Act 13:11 ESV] And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
Whoa, this dude has super powers!
[Act 13:12 ESV] Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
We will see what teaching astonished the proconsul!
Note: John left them. “this is too much for me”.
[Act 13:13 ESV] Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem,
[Act 13:14 ESV] but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
Here is the teaching that astonished the Procunsul.
[Act 13:15 ESV] After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it."
[Act 13:16 ESV] So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. (Jews and non-jews)
[Act 13:17 ESV] The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
[Act 13:18 ESV] And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
[Act 13:19 ESV] And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
[Act 13:20 ESV] All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
[Act 13:21 ESV] Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
[Act 13:22 ESV] And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
[Act 13:23 ESV] Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
He went from David directly to the Final King; Jesus!
The herald of the King John the Baptist
[Act 13:24 ESV] Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
[Act 13:25 ESV] And as John was finishing his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
[Act 13:26 ESV] "Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
[Act 13:27 ESV] For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
[Act 13:28 ESV] And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
[Act 13:29 ESV] And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
[Act 13:30 ESV] But God raised him from the dead,
[Act 13:31 ESV] and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
[Act 13:32 ESV] And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
[Act 13:33 ESV] this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.'
[Act 13:34 ESV] And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'
[Act 13:35 ESV] Therefore he says also in another psalm, "'You will not let your Holy One see corruption.'
David died so this prophecy was not about David but someone else.
[Act 13:36 ESV] For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
[Act 13:37 ESV] but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
[Act 13:38 ESV] Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
You can’t just “do your best” you need to have your evil forgiven and forgotten.
[Act 13:39 ESV] and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Don’t reject this message
[Act 13:40 ESV] Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:
[Act 13:41 ESV] "'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'"
Atheists reject all “evidence”
http://www.biblethumpingwingnut.com/
Matt Slick vs. Matt Dillahunty
There is no evidence you present an atheist that they will accept.
The Design/ Designer model is Universally self-evident.
Bill Nye again uses dog speciation to argue evolution.
http://bit.ly/1KTzRdG
The Big Picture.
Step back a get a better view of History
Now here is the real pattern for those who don’t believe in Jesus.
1. America is blip on the radar in world history. Look beyond your lifetime.
[2Th 2:1 ESV] Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, (concerned they missed the return of Christ)
[2Th 2:2 ESV] not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
[2Th 2:3 ESV] Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
[2Th 2:4 ESV] who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
[2Th 2:5 ESV] Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
God is retraining the revealing of the Lawless One. * This is plan waiting to be revealed.
[2Th 2:6 ESV] And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
[2Th 2:7 ESV] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
[2Th 2:8 ESV] And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
[2Th 2:9 ESV] The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
[2Th 2:10 ESV] and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
[2Th 2:11 ESV] Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
[2Th 2:12 ESV] in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Romans 1. 3x God gave them over. . .
[2Th 2:13 ESV] But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
[2Th 2:14 ESV] To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[2Th 2:15 ESV] So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
[2Th 2:16 ESV] Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
[2Th 2:17 ESV] comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
Back to Acts!
[Act 13:42 ESV] As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.
[Act 13:43 ESV] And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
[Act 13:44 ESV] The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
Now the whole city wants to here and have come out to the Jewish center.
Resistance? Why?
[Act 13:45 ESV] But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.
[Act 13:46 ESV] And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
[Act 13:47 ESV] For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Paul quotes Isaiah.
The high calling of the Jewish nation is to proclaim their King to the world.
[Isa 49:6 ESV] he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
[Act 13:48 ESV] And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
This is how it works. You share the Gospel. God Saves.
[Act 13:49 ESV] And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
The unsaved, are not just indifferent tolerant unbelievers but outright violent and opposing enemies.
[Act 13:50 ESV] But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
[Act 13:51 ESV] But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.
[Act 13:52 ESV] And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14 Polarized Reaction
In Iconium
[Act 14:1 ESV] Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
[Act 14:2 ESV] But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
[Act 14:3 ESV] So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
[Act 14:4 ESV] But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles.
[Act 14:5 ESV] When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
[Act 14:6 ESV] they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,
[Act 14:7 ESV] and there they continued to preach the gospel.
Saturday Jun 06, 2015
Saturday Jun 06, 2015
Acts 12
Political Resistance
[Act 12:1 ESV] About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.
[Act 12:2 ESV] He killed James the brother of John with the sword,
[Act 12:3 ESV] and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
Which Herod is this?
A. Herod Agrippa I was the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the Great. After various changes in fortune, he gained the favour of Caligula and Claudius to such a degree that he gradually obtained the government of all of Palestine, with the title of king. He died at Caesarea, A.D. 44, at the age of 54, in the seventh [or the 4th, reckoning from the extension of his dominions by Claudius] year of his reign, just after having ordered James the apostle, son of Zebedee, to be slain, and Peter to be cast into prison: Acts 12:21
Herod = "heroic"
The first Herod was the political leader when Jesus was born.
The 2nd Herod was Herod “Antipas”
This Herod was Agrippa
His son was Herod Agrippa the II
[Act 12:4 ESV] And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.
The Angelic Rescue
[Act 12:5 ESV] So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
[Act 12:6 ESV] Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.
[Act 12:7 ESV] And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands.
[Act 12:8 ESV] And the angel said to him, "Dress yourself and put on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me."
[Act 12:9 ESV] And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
[Act 12:10 ESV] When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.
[Act 12:11 ESV] When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."
Go to His Local Church
[Act 12:12 ESV] When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
[Act 12:13 ESV] And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
[Act 12:14 ESV] Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate.
[Act 12:15 ESV] They said to her, "You are out of your mind." But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, "It is his angel!"
[Act 12:16 ESV] But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.
[Act 12:17 ESV] But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place.
Meanwhile back at the local Government
[Act 12:18 ESV] Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.
Herod’s Motive is not Justice.
[Act 12:19 ESV] And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.
Government Intrigue; Herod offers peace, gives a speech and God strikes him dead.
[Act 12:20 ESV] Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
[Act 12:21 ESV] On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them.
[Act 12:22 ESV] And the people were shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"
[Act 12:23 ESV] Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
If humanity in general is at war with God,
of course the Governments of the world are also at war with God.
[Psa 2:1 ESV] Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
[Psa 2:2 ESV] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
[Psa 2:3 ESV] "Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us."
[Psa 2:4 ESV] He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
[Psa 2:5 ESV] Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
[Psa 2:6 ESV] "As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill."
[Psa 2:7 ESV] I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
[Psa 2:8 ESV] Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
[Psa 2:9 ESV] You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
[Psa 2:10 ESV] Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
[Psa 2:11 ESV] Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
[Psa 2:12 ESV] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
For Christians in America at the moment: Political Incorrect,
The New Tolerance; which means the only thing that is bad is saying that bad is bad.
In which case everyone is allowed to say it’s bad.
Biblical mortality is socially unacceptable.
Government supported and promoted Child sacrifice
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/03/planned-parenthood-performed-327653-abortions-2013-accepted-528-million-taxpayer-funds/
According to the statistics in the report, the 327,653 abortions comprised 94 percent of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services, which also include prenatal care and adoption referrals.
During the fiscal year 2013-14, Planned Parenthood received more than $528 million in taxpayer funds; or about $1.4 million per day. Taxpayer funding accounts for 41 percent of Planned Parenthood’s revenue.
Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit, currently holds more than $1.4 billion in net assets.
37 babies an hour are sacrificed to demons and the president rejoices.
Flashback to Acts 4, when Peter and John are arrested for healing and proclaiming Jesus.
[Act 4:19 ESV] But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,
[Act 4:20 ESV] for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard."
[Act 4:21 ESV] And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened.
[Act 4:22 ESV] For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
[Act 4:23 ESV] When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
The Church prayed from Psalms 2
[Act 4:24 ESV] And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
[Act 4:25 ESV] who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
[Act 4:26 ESV] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'--
[Act 4:27 ESV] for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
[Act 4:28 ESV] to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
Look at their prayer request
[Act 4:29 ESV] And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,
[Act 4:30 ESV] while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus."
[Act 4:31 ESV] And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
The Real Word of God increases. After Herod’s death.
[Act 12:24 ESV] But the word of God increased and multiplied.
[Act 12:25 ESV] And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had completed their service, bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark.
Share the Gospel
[2Ti 4:1 ESV] I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
[2Ti 4:2 ESV] preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
[2Ti 4:3 ESV] For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
[2Ti 4:4 ESV] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Celebrate Communion
[1Co 11:23 ESV] For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
[1Co 11:24 ESV] and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:25 ESV] In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:26 ESV] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Monday May 25, 2015
Monday May 25, 2015
Memorial Day 2105
Temporal Life, Eternal Life
60 people at the Memorial service around a memorial.
Of men and women who died in wars to fight and protect our country and our freedom.
Folks visiting grave sites.
Annual Paw Paw Alumni Banquet. Evening Schedule: Tribute to Deceased Members: 1905-2015.
110 Years!
Time Verses.
[Jas 4:13 ESV] Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"--
[Jas 4:14 ESV] yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
[Jas 4:15 ESV] Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
[Jas 4:16 ESV] As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
[Jas 4:17 ESV] So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Time Verses.
[Eph 5:15 ESV] Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
[Eph 5:16 ESV] making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
[Eph 5:17 ESV] Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
We are commanded to Know for sure we are going to Heaven.
[1Jo 5:13 ESV] I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Step One; Level the playing field.
Who is a sinner? I am and You are.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.[c]
[Mat 5:21 ESV] "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'
[Mat 5:22 ESV] But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
[Mat 5:28 ESV] But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
15 “You shall not steal. (Regardless of value)
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Lie)
17 “You shall not covet
If we broke even one of these laws once we are guilty of breaking it all.
[Jas 2:10 ESV] For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
[Psa 130:3 ESV] If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
[Rom 3:23 ESV] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
A Good God MUST punish sin. A Good God is a Just God.
Romans 6:23 Esv
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:36 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
God’s Judgement is Terrifying!
[2Th 1:8 ESV] in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
[2Th 1:9 ESV] They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
So now all humanity has a problem.
God is good and holy, We are evil in God’s site and He must punish us.
The Throne
[Rom 14:12 ESV] So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
So here you are before the complete righteous throne of God.
God asks you. “Why should I let you into my Heaven”?
What will you say? . . . . .
Will you try to justify yourself?
I did good, I went to church, I walked the isle, I prayed the sinners prayer, I was part of the Lions club, Kiwanis, I gave to the red cross, I believed in social justice
Will you come up with an excuses?
I didn’t know you were there, How was I supposed to know the Bible was the right religion?
Will you blame God for your life?
You God placed my with my abusive, alcoholic, broke parents, You let my loved ones die in that accident, your local church did me wrong, You made me have those sexual desires, You made me that way.
Let’s look at the One and Only Right Answer!
God so Loves the World.
Here is HOW God So Loved the World.
He sent someone to take His Wrath in Your Place.
[Jhn 3:16 ESV] "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
[Jhn 3:17 ESV] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Propitiation. God’s Righteous Judgement; Wrath is satisfied.
[1Jo 2:2 ESV] He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
[1Jo 4:10 ESV] In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
How did God make Jesus the propitiation for our Sins?
[2Co 5:21 ESV] For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus is our substitute Sinner, even though He Never Sinned.
God made Jesus the object of His Wrath to Satisfy His Justice.
God Mercy & Grace saved us from God’s Justice.
[Rom 8:1 ESV] There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
[Rom 8:2 ESV] For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
[Rom 8:3 ESV] For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
[Rom 8:4 ESV] in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Legal Transaction. Need volunteers.
What do you do with this information?
Admit: You are evil and deserve God’s Justice.
Trust: Jesus Christ substituted Himself in your place. Took God’s punishment on your behalf.
God can legally declare you justified before Himself and allow you a relationship with Him.
Ask God to let the sacrifice of Jesus Christ be applied to you.
Yield yourself to God as His servant and tell Him you will learn His Will and Obey.
Let’s visit the Throne of God Again.
Here is the one and only right Answer.
[Job 42:1 ESV] Then Job answered the LORD and said:
[Job 42:5 ESV] I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
[Job 42:6 ESV] therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
I know I am an evil sinner deserving your Wrath.
I stand here forgiven because You had Jesus take my punishment for me.
Jesus Christ my Savior and Lord is the only reason I can come into your Heaven.
I bring you nothing else.
God Commands everyone to repent
Acts 17:30 ESV / 5
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
You need to trust in the deepest part of your heart, that it is only the sacrifice of Jesus Christ instead of you to satisfy the Justice of God that you deserve.
When Jesus returns it will be too late for anyone else.
[2Th 1:7 ESV] and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels
[2Th 1:8 ESV] in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
[2Th 1:9 ESV] They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
[2Th 1:10 ESV] when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.