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It Is Time To Act - Spread the Gift of Eternal Life

As the church in America struggles to remake it's self. I would challenge believer's in the Word of God to seek the Lord for guidance in all their actions. Each day we must ask,"Lord, what is your will for me today? Where, What, How do you want me to use the time and resources you have provided me to better serve You?".
Keeping in mind ( in prayer ) our inability to life Godly, and depending ( trusting and relying upon ) His Spirit, His strength.

Each day we have opportunity to share the Love of Christ. Each day we have opportunity to share our material goods with those less fortunate then us. Each day we have time and opportunity to interact with others ( fellow Believers, and those who do not have the Faith ). We can choose to spend our time and resources on ourselves ( as the world is always tell us to do ), or we can think less about ourselves and see where God would use us. A neighbor or a stranger. A fellow believer, or one who is still lost in the lies of the world.

We must always be mindful of our own lack of ability and seek the power of God. We NEED to have His Word in our heart and mind. Time spent in the Bible, and on our knees ( one of the best ways to pray ) are CRITICAL to walking in the Light. I could start quoted all the verses, but if you are a believer, many of them are already in your heart. And if you are a non-believer, I would "dare you" to read the Gospel of John through, and ask God to show you what is "true". "Call upon the Name of Lord" === Trust, reply, depend, looking to for deliverance, strength, and Divine intervention.

ACT upon what you already know. Then God can show you more. And believe me there is a lot MORE.

Seek truth, and you will find it ( this is a promise from God ).

And to my fellow believers ( saved by grace through faith - not of works ), I would challenge you to share the Gospel with those around you. Showing them love and providing for physical welfare is a good and noble thing, but please do not neglect sharing the life giving truth of the Gospel. Give them the Message of Eternal Life. Help them to be Born Again. Help them become a Child of God. Plug them into our heavenly Father. This is what we are called to do, while not neglecting to show the kindness and love that is God. Let your actions include speaking His Word. Proclaim His Name ( Jesus Christ the Lord ). Tell them that their Creator has a plan and purpose for their life. That He has paid the penalty for their sins, and forgiveness is freely available.

The world has many "good deed doers", but so few "truth sayers". Share the Love, but please don't be afraid to share the Word. Don't be afraid to tell them God is real, the Bible is true, and Jesus Christ died that they might have forgiveness and eternal life. Tell them about this great eternal life that begins the moment a person understands and trusts in Jesus Christ as their savior, they substitution, their redeemer, their God who has provide a way to restore the relationship He always had in mind. Tell them that being "born again" as a child of God puts them in connection with the Creator of the Universe. And that He is real, He hears, He cares, and He can be "called upon" each and every day. And He has no limits to His ability to hear, understand, guide and comfort His children.

It is time to ACT.
Are you ready?

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ACTS 1:11 tells us that Jesus is returning one day - while we await His return, let’s ACT

Angels and Demons Movie - Editoral from New York Times on the Author's true purpose

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May 19, 2009 from the New York Times

Op-Ed Columnist

Dan Brown's America

By ROSS DOUTHAT

The movie treatment of his novel, "Angels and Demons," is cleaning up at the box office this week. The sequel to "The DaVinci Code," due out in November, might buoy the publishing industry through the recession. And if you want to understand the state of American religion, you need to understand why so many people love Dan Brown.

It isn't just that he knows how to keep the pages turning. That's what it takes to sell a million novels. But if you want to sell a 100 million, you need to preach as well as entertain — to present a fiction that can be read as fact, and that promises to unlock the secrets of history, the universe and God along the way.

Brown is explicit about this mission. He isn't a serious novelist, but he's a deadly serious writer: His thrilling plots, he's said, are there to make the books' didacticism go down easy, so that readers don't realize till the end "how much they are learning along the way." He's working in the same genre as Harlan Coben and James Patterson, but his real competitors are ideologues like Ayn Rand, and spiritual gurus like Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra. He's writing thrillers, but he's selling a theology.

Brown's message has been called anti-Catholic, but that's only part of the story. True, his depiction of the Roman Church's past constitutes a greatest hits of anti-Catholicism, with slurs invented by 19th-century Protestants jostling for space alongside libels fabricated by 20th-century Wiccans. (If he targeted Judaism or Islam this way, one suspects that no publisher would touch him.)

But Brown doesn't have the soul of a true-believing Enemy of the Faith. Deep down, he has a fondness for the ordinary, well-meaning sort of Catholic, his libels against their ancestors notwithstanding. He's even sympathetic to the religious yearnings of his Catholic villains — including, yes, the murderous albino monks.

This explains why both "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" end with a big anti-Catholic reveal (Jesus had kids with Mary Magdalene! That terrorist plot against the Vatican was actually launched by an archconservative priest!) followed by a big cover-up. A small elect (Tom Hanks and company, in the movies) gets to know what really happened, but the mass of believers remain in the dark, lest their spiritual questing be derailed by disillusionment and scandal. Having dismissed Catholicism's truth claims and demonized its most sincere defenders, Brown pats believers on the head and bids them go on fingering their rosary beads.

In the Brownian worldview, all religions — even Roman Catholicism — have the potential to be wonderful, so long as we can get over the idea that any one of them might be particularly true. It's a message perfectly tailored for 21st-century America, where the most important religious trend is neither swelling unbelief nor rising fundamentalism, but the emergence of a generalized "religiousness" detached from the claims of any specific faith tradition.

The polls that show more Americans abandoning organized religion don't suggest a dramatic uptick in atheism: They reveal the growth of do-it-yourself spirituality, with traditional religion's dogmas and moral requirements shorn away. The same trend is at work within organized faiths as well, where both liberal and conservative believers often encounter a God who's too busy validating their particular version of the American Dream to raise a peep about, say, how much money they're making or how many times they've been married.

These are Dan Brown's kind of readers. Piggybacking on the fascination with lost gospels and alternative Christianities, he serves up a Jesus who's a thoroughly modern sort of messiah — sexy, worldly, and Goddess-worshiping, with a wife and kids, a house in the Galilean suburbs, and no delusions about his own divinity.

But the success of this message — which also shows up in the work of Brown's many thriller-writing imitators — can't be separated from its dishonesty. The "secret" history of Christendom that unspools in "The Da Vinci Code" is false from start to finish. The lost gospels are real enough, but they neither confirm the portrait of Christ that Brown is peddling — they're far, far weirder than that — nor provide a persuasive alternative to the New Testament account. The Jesus of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — jealous, demanding, apocalyptic — may not be congenial to contemporary sensibilities, but he's the only historically-plausible Jesus there is.

For millions of readers, Brown's novels have helped smooth over the tension between ancient Christianity and modern American faith. But the tension endures. You can have Jesus or Dan Brown. But you can't have both.

Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

 

Eternal Security or when does Eternal Life Beginning

 

ETERNAL SECURITY

 

     Can a person who has been saved lose his salvation?  This question has been a perplexing question to many.  Maybe you have been questioning the genuineness of your salvation.  Are you really saved?  Are you really sure?

 

     Although the phrase "eternal security" does not occur in the Bible, phrases that are equivalent do occur.  Phrases such as everlasting life, eternal life, eternal salvation, eternal inheritance, eternal redemption, etc. occur dozens and dozens of times throughout the Bible.

 

     Eternal security is not a separate doctrine from that of eternal life or eternal salvation.  It is one and the same.  In fact, the only salvation God offers to mankind is eternal.  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16)." 

 

     God does not offer probation, but He offers salvation.  God does not offer a trial period, but rather, offers to completely save and give eternal life to anyone who responds to His invitation to trust Jesus Christ as his or her only hope of heaven.

 

     Consider the alternative, that you could lose your salvation.  By virtue of the fact that you could lose it, would mean that keeping salvation would depend upon your efforts or actions to keep it.  In other words, a person who says that he can lose his salvation for whatever reason is in reality saying that he is trusting in human works to save him.  Look at Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace (mercy) are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast."  Salvation is not of works and therefore a person who is trusting in his works is not and will not be saved.  What are we saying?  Plainly stated: a person who says he can lose his salvation is not saved.  Or he is thoroughly confused and lacks assurance of salvation.

 

     If you are not saved forever, then you are not saved.  Let me say it again.  If you are not saved forever, then you are not saved.

 

     Salvation, as taught in the Bible, is a present possession, received at the time of the new birth or acceptance of Christ as one's personal Savior, and is kept secure or eternal by God's power.  Consider such references as John 3:16; John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:28; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 10:10; Hebrews 10:14; I Peter 1:4-5.

 

     Jesus Christ made the promise in John 6:37 that He would never cast out anyone who had trusted Him as Savior for any reason.  "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."  He meant exactly that.  There is no circumstance or instance that would cause Christ to cast a saved person aside.

 

     Some have said to me, "Okay, Christ won't cast me out, but I can cast myself out."  This is impossible. Read with me John 6:39 where Jesus said, "And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that all which he hath given, I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day."  Jesus promises that He will never lose anyone who has come to him for salvation and that this is the Father's will.

 

     If any one saved person were ever lost, then Jesus Christ would be a liar because, He said in John 6:39 that He would not lose one.  If just one saved person in all of history were lost, then Jesus Christ would be a liar.

 

     Praise the Lord that Jesus Christ is a Savior who will deliver on what He has promised.  "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath (possesses now) eternal life (John 6:47)."  Jesus Christ promises eternal life as a present possession to all those who believe (trust) in Him.

 

     The heart of all the misunderstanding concerning this subject is the fact that human works or merit have zero to do with salvation.  Many Scriptures make it so clear that we are saved by faith and not by works.  For example: John 3:18; Romans 3:24-28; Romans 4;5; Ephesians 2:8-9 and so on.

 

     In addition to this, there are many clear Scriptures which teach that anyone who is trusting in works (church membership, baptism, confirmation, living the Christian life, etc.) in addition to faith in Christ will not be saved (Romans 11:6; and Galatians 5:2-4).  Thus we are to trust in Christ only to be saved.

 

     The work of salvation was finished on the cross by Jesus Christ himself (Hebrews 1:3).  If we want to be saved, then we must believe that Jesus Christ finished the work of salvation on the cross, and receive it as God's free gift (Romans 6:23).

 

     "I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him (Ecclesiastes 3:14)."  (See also Romans 8:38-39.)

 

     After we are saved, we should live for Christ out of love and gratitude for all He has done for us.  We will be rewarded for faithful service or suffer the loss of rewards for not serving the Lord, but we will be eternally saved (Corinthians 3:11-15).  Also, if we live in rebellion we will still be saved, but God will chasten us in this life and might take us home to heaven prematurely.  (See Hebrews 12:6-8; Corinthians 11:30-32.)

 

     Salvation is by grace through faith.  It is a free gift, and is wholly without works (Romans 3:27-28; 4:1-8; 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9).  The divine order is first salvation, then works (Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3:5-8).

 

     "Blessed Assurance" is a favorite hymn of many who claim to be saved.  But it is only wishful thinking to those who believe they can be saved today and lost tomorrow.

 

     "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39)."  A saved person can know and be absolutely assured of his or her salvation.  Nothing can undo what God has finished (Ecclesiastes 3:14).

 

     "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life (I John 5:13)."

 

 

 

Marriage Re-Defined - Another "Cloud" on the Horizon

Well now we can stop all the arguments about the "laws" of marriage, as the "word" has been redefined for us.

© 2009 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

 

Main Entry:   mar·riage

Pronunciation: \ˈmer-ij, ˈma-rij\

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English mariage, from Anglo-French, from marier to marry

Date: 14th century

1 a (1): the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law

 

(2): the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage>

 

b: the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock

c: the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage

 

2: an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected ; especially : the wedding ceremony and attendant festivities or formalities

 

3: an intimate or close union <the marriage of painting and poetry — J. T. Shawcross>

 

Let Us Watch and Be Sober

1Th 5:1-6 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

 

By the way, what are you becoming?

Great Question.

I am becoming a watcher.

Looking for,  and waiting for my King to return.

 

Mat 25:13 ASV Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

2Co 4:18 ASV while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Phi 3:20-21 ASV For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: (21) who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

Tit 2:11-14 ASV For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, (12) instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; (13) looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (14) who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

 

 

Luk 21:28-36 MKJV And when these things begin to happen, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near. (29) And He spoke a parable to them: Behold the fig-tree and all the trees. (30) Now when they sprout leaves, seeing it you will know that summer is now near. (31) So also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. (32) Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass away until all these things are fulfilled. (33) The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away. (34) And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you; (35) for it shall come as a snare on all those sitting on the face of the whole earth. (36) Watch therefore, praying in every season that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which shall occur, and to stand before the Son of Man.

Heb 10:23-25 MKJV Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised), (24) and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, (25) not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

So, I ask you.

Are you "looking", "watching", "waiting"? Will you notice that the Lord's return is near, or will you be too busy with the things of this world to notice the signs? Can "you see the Day approaching"?

Matthew 24:32 KJV: Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh;