Sunday, December 2, 2012

Trust in God?

as I keep going on though my life, studying science, learning from the Bible, interacting with people, growing up. I see Gods hand more, and more, and more, in science, in my life, in what he teaches me every day, in my reliance on him though prayer. 

It truly amazes me, and it helps me be very grateful for every thing he has done, and although it is hard sometimes, to trust him more and more. 

I want to remind all of you about that: God will always take better care of you, than you do. And the sooner you start to trust him, the sooner he will take care of you. I am not saying you won't go though tough times, Paul promises that we will go though them, but if you trust him, you will learn from those tough times, you will grow in him though those tough times, and Christ will never leave his claim in your life. 

So stand strong with whatever the world throws at you, weather trail, hardship, good times, hard times, times of pain, times of comfort, times of peace, times of turmoil, times of happiness, times of sadness. He will bring you though them all if you trust in him.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The world isn't ending yet

The world is not going to end until Christ returns again, 

God is here for you and I, and all other believers on earth, or he wouldn't have sent his son to die the worst death ever. We are worried about Money, school, our country,  and many other things that will not determine your future eternal status. 

God is good, Rom 8:28  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 
Rom 8:29  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 
this could really be what turns our country around, and is what God can and will use for his glory. If our economy collapses, if we get attacked, if we go to war, if our country starts to fall in any way, that is what will be a huge ministry opportunity. When people have nothing left to fall back on, where do they go? God can use this to bring the moderate/ half/ Christians like your room mate, like 80% of the American church today, to himself, so they will fall back upon him, a cleansing of the church. 

this is what we need to focus on: 
Psa 68:33  to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. 
Psa 68:34  Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. 
Psa 68:35  Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! 
Not the election, but Gods power, Majesty and his will. 

Hopefully it didn't' sound preachy, but we as Christians need to not worry so much about what our country does, and worry more about what we do for God and how he can use is in these times of trail 


Tuesday, August 28, 2012

hard times?

are you going through a hard time? in pain? having family trouble? and in fear?
then the question is: why? are you failing in your trust in God? or don't you trust in God?
Let me tell you something, God is the only strength that: will last forever, give you true peace, and will help you in your time of need.


Psa 23:1  A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 
Psa 23:2  He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 
Psa 23:3  He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 
Psa 23:4  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 
Psa 23:5  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 
Psa 23:6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. 

A common mistake is taking this as saying that we will not die, or shall not starve, or thirst.
This passage is talking about that we shall have eternal peace if you follow God. You my die, you may be in pain, you my be hungry, but God will provide something for you, whether it be death, food, water, relief from the pain. If you are saved, death should be something you look forward to, (don't take this out of context and go kill yourself....). the pain and suffering for the sake of God, you should look forward to. You should look forward to the struggles through life; so that you are able to learn and serve God.
God says we should not fear man, death, sin, satan, or anything except him. We will still fear if left to our human resources, but we must take his strength and he will keep you from fear.


Eph 6:10  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 

Eph 6:13  Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 
Eph 6:14  Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 
Eph 6:15  and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 
Eph 6:16  In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; 
Eph 6:17  and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 
Eph 6:18  praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 

Take what he has to offer, stand firm, and fear no evil. 





Monday, August 20, 2012

Am I saved?

sorry it has been so long for another post, but you know how busy life gets.


Anywho, one of the things I have been thinking about is assurance of salvation. There are christian faiths that do not believe in assurance of salvation. The Catholic faith, (I have heard this from multiple people, but please leave a comment if I am wrong) does not preach assurance of faith, neither do arminian thinking people. They preach that you can lose your salvation. I don't understand where this comes from, but I do understand where this leads. The thought that you can lose your salvation leads to people always worrying about "I wonder if I have been good enough today." or "oh no! I better confess my sins because I am not saved anymore". The Catholic church uses it as a way to get money, and to get people into the church on the holy days. The Catholic leadership has told people that if they don't go to church, and if they don't do good works, they get points marked off their card with God. You can gain points by helping the priest and such.The problem arises that it is now salvation by works. (Which is spoken against many places in the bible.) This is one of the passages I have found.
Rom 9:31  but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Rom 9:32  Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Rom 9:33  as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." 

Some Jews still believe that, and it is the same type of thing that the Catholic leaders have used. 
I am not saying works are bad at all, for in James it says:
Jas 2:13  For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. 
Jas 2:14  What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 
Jas 2:15  If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 
but Faith is necessary, along with works. 
Jas 2:21  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 
Jas 2:22  You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 
Jas 2:23  and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of God. 
Jas 2:24  You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 
Jas 2:25  And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 
Jas 2:26  For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. 
works follow faith, it is not the other way around. faith leads to salvation, which in-turn leads to works.
Joh 3:16  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
and also in Romans 
Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 

it says all you have to do is believe!
and once saved we can not be plucked from Gods hand for we are Christs sheep.
Joh 10:25  Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,
Joh 10:26  but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
Joh 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Joh 10:28  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

If your really believe in Christ, have faith you are saved in him, are embodied by the Holy Spirit,  you are saved.  
you get and assurance from the Holy Spirit. 
Rom 8:11  If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 
Rom 8:12  So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 
Rom 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 
Rom 8:14  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 
Rom 8:15  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 
Rom 8:16  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 

In conclusion, 
you are not saved by works, but by faith. However, works are part of the faith, and follow the faith as if we are Christ like, we must do good works, for him. we can be assured of faith, there should be no guessing, for God given those that are saved his spirit, (the Holy Spirit) who will bear witness to us, from God, about our salvation. 
so if you are not assured that you are saved, ask yourself "why don't I know?" you can be assured, and should be assured of salvation. Follow Christ, serve God, and then the Holy spirit will give you that assurance, that you crave. Remember, you are in the hands of an eternal, all powerful God, who will take care of you, when you give your whole being over to him.  

Saturday, August 11, 2012

God has shown himself through the whole world


Rom 1:18  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  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
Rom 1:20  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  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  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

these verses are very interesting to me,
because if you know the truth and do not act on it, you will have the wrath of God upon you. Yet all men have seen the evidence of God in creation. We can see the evidence of God when you look at anything that he has created.
if you put the parts of a watch in a pail, how long will you have to shake the pail before you have a working watch?
never the parts to the watch would have decayed before the watch could have been created. the same thing happens with cells, without all parts of a cell working at the same time it will not live, and some parts (such as amino acids) are destroyed if they are not protected. If you look at DNA, it is so complex that it is impossible for it to have evolved.  the interaction with the DNA, RNA, and the building of proteins is so complex that it would take several books of information just to explain it. Yet all this just evolved, life came from nothing. every scientist should be able to see the complexity of the world around us more than anybody else, yet they don't. they see the little things and say "wow, I wonder how that evolved" or "this is amazing what I discovered." yet God created it, almost all people that were around 2000 years ago, believed in some kind of god. Now, less and less people believe there is a God.
Yet they fail to explain the world, and all its natural wonders, away.
People that have heard the Gospel of Christ are without excuse, they will be punished for what they know and yet failed to act on
and so that all men are without excuse, God has shown his glory, power, magnificence through his creation.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

what does a Rubix cube have to do with your life?

you may think this is a dumb question, but let me explain it a little bit about a rubix cube has billions of combinations but only one is the right combination. like this 










the only way you can get into heaven is if you are perfect. When we come into this world we are all imperfect, like this.
so what are we to do? We can't ever twist our way into perfection. so what we have do is give our life to the hands of a master. Most of you can't do a rubix cube, some can(like me) and others can not. This is where my analogy breaks up, there is only one master, and that is Jesus Christ, and he puts new stickers on you. Makes you perfect in the eyes of God covered by his blood.
(I hope I didn't confuzle you to much)

You will still mess up, as 1 John verse 7-10 says

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 
1Jn 1:8  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
1Jn 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
1Jn 1:10  If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 
also Paul is not perfect! 
and also in
Php 3:12  Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 

he is talking to believers! we will sin, we have sin, and we need to ask for forgiveness. and it will be given us.
the reason I brought this up, is that I have talked to somebody in the last few months that believes that we do have to to be perfect to accept Jesus Christ, and we will never sin once saved.
this sent me on a quest to find an answer.
because there are many places that calls us to be perfect, and holy,
Mat 5:48  You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

so my question to you, is how do we reconcile these together? here is my take on it: the word perfect actually means "complete" which we are completed through Christs death on the Cross. Yet we are perfect in God's eyes from Christs death and resurrection , if we believe in Christ's resurrection from the dead and make him our savior.

so that is my take, I hope if you have questions you feel free to comment, or if you disagree with it, you comment or talk to me about it on Skype or something else

What God has given to us through the apostle John

me and a friend are doing a study on John, and yesterday we talked about verses 1-5. These verses are amazing if you dig into there meaning. 
(KJV)
Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God. 
Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 
Joh 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 
Joh 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 
in essence these are talking about Jesus, who is God, is with God, and he was there before time. Everything was made by him. Does this include sin, evil, mistakes? 
I do not believe so, because when God created the world he said all things were good, so does this mean that evil is good? the conclusion that I have come to is that all things that are evil, bad, sinful, are just broken perfection. Things that were perfect but were twisted by the author of lies: Satan. One verse that people use to say that God did create evil, is Isaiah 45:7 
Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 
but the word evil can mean calamity, (natural disasters, or war, things that are not moral evil) or it can mean calamity. this is the definition from Strong's dictionary: 
H7451
רעה    רע
ra‛  râ‛âh
rah, raw-aw'
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun: - adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil ([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief (-vous), harm, heavy, hurt (-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief, (-vous), misery, naught (-ty), noisome, + not please, sad (-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked (-ly, -ness, one), worse (-st) wretchedness, wrong. [Including feminine ra’ah; as adjective or noun.]
  
and with my evidence I now rest my case. 
             
            Another thing I want to point out about this passage is that in Jesus is life, and from that life, came the light of men, and that light cannot be overtaken by darkness!!!! once we have life from Jesus we get light from him, which can not be overtaken by: sin, satan, the world or any such things. 
Praise God that we can not lose what he has given to us. 

Monday, August 6, 2012

Take the challenge for God



I am memorizing Romans as some of you may know, and I have memorized up through verse eleven, this is going to be an amazing time with God, and the others who are memorizing it with me. 
this of course is not going to be easy, but it will bring us all closer to God. So I am going to challenge you to do something with God that is hard, and something that will stick with you forever. YOU WILL BENEFIT FORM IT. 

so do something for God, memorize your favorite chapter in the Bible, give an extra tithe this week, go to that person that the Holy Spirit has been telling you to minister to, read your Bible extra, go on a prayer and fast time, or something similar. God gave you your time, why not give him back his own time? start a challenge for you and others in your social groups. So my Challenge to you, is to take a challenge for God, and spread a challenge around to others.