tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934310803371858002024-03-13T15:54:58.159+05:30Gospel Of Jesus ChristMore than two thousand years ago God sent Jesus Christ into this world. He became one of us.He showed us what God is like - merciful and kind. He healed the sick people, the blind were made to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk.He gave his own life as a sacrifice, a payment for our sins. He died on the cross to save us. Three days after he died, Jesus Christ came back from the dead. Now He lives in the power of an endless life to meet your need, to be your Saviour, to forgive your sins.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645896061621257837noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193431080337185800.post-2050765358651266892011-12-20T14:28:00.000+05:302011-12-21T06:04:22.024+05:30Power Of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we describe the power of our Creator or the ability of our infinite God in all things?It is really impossible to define the power of God.It is so powerful and great and vast that our little minds cannot understand it.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">No one who takes the Bible seriously can deny the power of God. </span>Whether we study zoology, astronomy, meteorology and any other scientific pursuit, it will become apparent that all creatures and all things have a Maker, indeed an Almighty Creator and Preserver.God revealed himself in the Bible about his adequate power to do anything thought by man to be impossible.However much we investigate, to whatever extent we carry our search, we still have to say, We know but little, especially when it comes to God's attributes, and particularly his infinite power and might.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">The earliest manifestation of God’s power is seen in the creation of the world in which we live.</span>He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens at His discretion. (Jere 10:12).<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Throughout Scripture, the creation of the world is cited as a compelling testimony of the power of God.</span>The power of God is seen in those commissions in the air and earth: thunders, lightnings, storms, earthquakes, hurricanes.Animals,Birds,Plants etc. of the earth speak of his infinite power.Innumerable other creatures can be mentioned to testify the power of God.Not only does all creation bear witness to the great power of God, but also to His entire in-dependency of all created things.Man's power is limited, his measuring rod is too short to acquire a proper idea of the incomprehensible omnipotence of God.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Without the power of God working in you, there is no victory, there is no overcoming. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The power of God works in us, and keeps us through faith to salvation, which is to be delivered from sin. Christendom today is without the cross and without the true hope; and so without the power of God, left only as a hollow shell of the original Christianity, without the new life of the new creature, without holiness, boasting of their imperfection, perishing, whose end is destruction. For without the power of God released to change a man, his heart remains full of sin and unacceptable to God, whatever his lips may say in the form of worship.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without a doubt a world-crisis is at hand, and everywhere men are alarmed. But God is not! <em>He </em>is never taken by surprise. It is no unexpected emergency which now confronts Him, for He is the One who "worketh all things after the counsel of His own will" (Eph. 1:11). Hence, though the world is panic-stricken, the word to the believer is, "Fear not!" "All things" are subject to His immediate control: "all things" are moving in accord with His eternal purpose, and therefore "all things" are "working together <em>for good </em>to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Present history is not moving towards chaos. It is moving in the grand drama of God’s plan to the accomplishment of His holy designs and to the vindication of His glory.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In these circumstances the message of the divine sovereignty is to be considered.The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of His supremacy.Being infinitely elevated above the highest creature, He is the Most High, Lord of heaven and earth.He is not influenced by anything on earth.He does everything according to his will.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth” (Ps. 46:10). God’s supremacy demands subjection to His law and guarantees </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">judgment </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">for every transgression</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">. All history is under His control and is moving towards His final judgment where every infraction of truth and deviation from justice will receive its final adjustment and adjudication. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God is sovereign means that He is paramount and supreme. There is no one higher in authority or power, but that does not mean He exercises His power by controlling everything in our lives. He has given us the freedom to choose. He has a plan for us. He seeks to reveal that plan to us and urge us in that direction, but we choose. He doesn't make our choices for us.In many instances, it is our wrong choices that bring disaster upon us. In other cases, our problems are nothing but an attack from the devil.Believing that God controls everything renders a person passive. Why pray and believe for something better?????</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God is the source of all good and goodness, and He alone defines what is good. All that He is and all that He does is good. Most of us often mistakenly equate the goodness of God with the “rightness” of our circumstances. When we get what we everything we need, we say “God must really like me!” Or conversely, when things aren't going our way, we say, “Why is God punishing me like this?” But our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God’s goodness, rooted in His character, is the same. Human goodness is modeled on divine goodness (Mt 5:48). For human beings goodness involves right behavior, expresses itself in kindness and other praiseworthy qualities, includes avoiding evil, and springs from the inner person etc...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men" (Ps. 107:8). Gratitude is the return justly required from the objects of His beneficence; yet is it often withheld from our great Benefactor simply because His goodness is so constant and so abundant. It is lightly esteemed because it is exercised toward us in the common course of events. It is not felt because we daily experience it."Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?"(Rom. 2:4). His goodness is "despised" when it is not improved as a means to lead men to repentance, but, on the contrary, serves to harden them from the supposition that God entirely overlooks their sin. The goodness of God is the life of the believer’s trust. It is this excellency in God which most appeals to our hearts. Because His goodness endureth forever, we ought never to be discouraged: "The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knoweth them that trust in Him" (Nahum 1:7). </span></div>
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good, for His mercy endureth forever" (Psalms. 136:1). For this perfection
of the Divine character God is greatly to be praised. Mercy is essentially
God’s relieving love poured out upon man in deep misery and trouble. God is a God of mercy.
When he appeared to Moses, he declared his name before himself in these
words: "...The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long
suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.... " (Exodus.
34:6). It is God's mercy to which we sinners primarily appeal. We
see this demonstrated in the words of David in Psalm 51:1: "Have
mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great
compassion blot out my transgressions." The Father assures us in
Psalm 147:11 that he is pleased with such an approach, for the Lord takes
pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his mercy. Of course,
the greatest act of mercy that God has ever demonstrated was to send his
Son to die for our sins. In Titus 3:5 we read that “he saved us, not
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extended not only to all men, believers and unbelievers alike, but also to the
entire creation.“The LORD is good to all, and his mercies are over all His
works” (Psalms. 145:9).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which is exercised toward the children of men a special mercy, to all of
mankind. “Be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to
rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the
unrighteous” (Matt. 5:45)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reserved for the heirs of salvation, which is communicated to them in a
covenant way, through the Mediator.“For He says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it does not depend on the
man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy” (Romans 9:15‐16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and third distinctions pointed out above, it is important to note that the
mercies which God bestows on the wicked are solely of a temporal nature; that
is to say, they are confined strictly to this present life. There will be no
mercy extended to them beyond the grave: "It is a people of no
understanding: therefore He that made them will not have mercy on them, and He
that formed them will show them no favour" (Isa. 27:11).God can never
cease to be merciful, for this is a quality of the Divine essence (Ps. 116:5);
but the exercise of His mercy is regulated by his sovereign will. This must be
so, for there is nothing outside himself which obliges him to act; if there
were, that "something" would be supreme, and God would cease to be
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Because God is a
merciful God, he expects his children to be merciful. Mercy is so important
that God instructs us to bind it around our necks and write it upon the
tablet of our hearts (Prov. 3:3). The prophet Hosea informs us that God
desires mercy, even more than he desires sacrifice (Hos. 6:6). When
Jesus delivered his Sermon on the Mount, he summarized the biblical teaching in
these simple words, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown
mercy" (Matt. 5:7). In another place, the Lord gives us a simple command
to be merciful: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful"
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You that
have received this mercy from God, show mercy to others. Use all that is
within you so as to endeavor to beget men to God. Though God alone does
it, yet he uses means; though means contribute nothing, yet God uses them
as the clay to open the eyes. Have you a friend who lives with you,
perhaps a student or brother who is unconverted? Oh, if you have received
mercy from God, endeavor to bring them in to obtain like mercy
with yourself.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645896061621257837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193431080337185800.post-51968814613311601722011-12-10T17:05:00.001+05:302011-12-10T17:09:49.450+05:30Grace Of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Grace is a favour that God shows towards us without measure. He loves us and wants us to know about His grace. Grace is a characteristic of God. God is a gracious God. Grace is a part of God's very nature. Grace is an attribute of God. He would no longer be God without his grace. This grace we could never earn on our own and we do not deserve His grace in the first place. But God showed us how much He loved us by sending His Son Jesus Christ into this world (John 3:16). He gives His grace freely to all those who believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. Grace can be described as:</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">G-Godly R-Riches A-At C-Christ's E-Expense<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace is God's undeserved favour and unmerited love. It is God's blessing on man when he is not bound to bless, and when he has no obligation to bless. On man's part this grace of God is utterly undeserved. It depends on a free decision of God and not on any worthiness at all in man. It exclusively comes to sinners through the Lord Jesus Christ. If a judge freed a guilty prisoner that would be his mercy. If he paid his fine that would be his kindness, but if he adopted him into his family and made him his son and heir that would be his grace. The Lord Jesus restoring Peter after he denied him and saying to him, "Feed my sheep" is an example of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The way he continually forgives our own familiar pattern of sins is because of his limitless grace. The grace of God is his great heart of love.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine the Creator of all things and the Lord of all creation, forsook His riches for our sake. He became poor, so that we could become rich (2 Cor 8:9). This is not earthly or temporal blessings, but it is about God's riches of love we are blessed with, it is the Divine grace. Grace was made available to us as He bore our sins on the Cross and took our spiritual bankruptcy <b>upon Himself</b>, that we might be able to partake of His spiritual richness (Eph 3:17-19).We have been redeemed through the blood of Jesus Christ, had our sins forgiven, according to the riches of His grace (Ephesians 1:7). Apostle Paul was greatly marveled at the people for deserting God so 'quickly', who called them by the grace of Christ, and were following a different gospel (Gal 1:6).The truth that salvation is by God's grace humbles us, but it also exalts our God. It gives God all the glory. When a sinner sees this he doesn't say, "I think I made the smartest choice a man could make. I chose eternal life." He knows that it was the mighty God who set his love on him. God knew all about us; he had seen the file. He understands us better than our own spouses or parents, but he still loves us with a love that continually forgives and will never let us go.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grace is not a sentiment or a divine attitude or feeling. Grace is God's omnipotence saving and sanctifying his people. Grace is strength. Grace is the total commitment of God. He holds nothing back. He spares not his own Son. With him he freely gives us all things. Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians tell them about his thorn in the flesh, and how the Lord refused to remove it. Paul knew constant weakness, distress and tribulation. He longs for deliverance but he was told this by the Lord, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." The grace of Christ is the strength of Christ upholding his hurting servants. His grace can change every circumstance, and strengthen every weakness, and cheer every distress, and lift every burden, and bear every responsibility, and handle every privilege. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever may happen in life or in death; whatever may take place in any conceivable situation or circumstances, whatever may be your lot, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ will be sufficient. It will hold you, it will sustain you, it will even enable you to rejoice in tribulation, it will strengthen you, establish you, hold you, keep you, answer your every need and take you through. Ultimately it will present you faultless, perfect, in glory in the presence of God. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645896061621257837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193431080337185800.post-245783788664891492011-12-10T14:15:00.003+05:302011-12-10T14:20:45.319+05:30Love of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."</b><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><b style="background-color: black;"> </b><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Love of God is Awesome!!! His Love is much greater than you will ever be able to fully comprehend during your physical existence. Once you begin to understand the reality of the Love of God, you will never cease to be amazed at how much greater his love is than you thought you understood it to be. The love of Jesus can be compared to an ocean which has no boundaries, which contains an immeasurable amount of water. The love shown by the God almighty to the human being is greater than the love of a mother to her child.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no reason why one part of mankind should be loved, more than another part. As we know, this love was not shown to a group of saints who lived in the earth, or to a group of people based on their character or based on their services; but it was shown to a world of sinners. God loved men as a race, as sinners, the enemies of God. There was no reason why a part of the race of sinners should be loved. There was nothing in the character of the human race that could allow God to love them, or take any delight in their character. This is the only love, a universal love, which could have been exercised towards man by a good being.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The love which God actually did manifest was the only kind of love that could have been important to man. If the love of God had mere emotion, or pity, it would have done man no good. But there was some good reason for this love of God--something which his own understanding and conscience sanctioned. There was something about men which rendered it reasonable for God to love them, with a certain kind of love. The reason why God loved men was not because they deserved that he should do them good. Observe, there was a good reason why he should love them, but they had no right to demand his love as a matter of justice, for they had forfeited all claim to his affection or protection; and therefore, of course, justice did not demand that God should do them good.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But let me say once more, the soul of man was so valuable, its happiness would be so infinitely important, and its misery so great an evil, that God, looking at the intrinsic value of their souls, saw good reason for loving them and doing them good--that is, God did the good for the sake of the good itself; he willed good to them for the sake of the intrinsic and infinite value of this good to them considered in itself, and not because they at all deserved it. There was good reason for this, not in view of the actions of mankind, but in consideration of the value of their souls.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The sinners mistake the nature of God's love, and so they try to make themselves happy. They always think that they must do something to deserve his love. The sinner never will believe that God loves him as a sinner. But let me tell you sinner that this is all wrong; you can never deserve God's love in the sense in which you hope to possess it--and if you seek to deserve it thus you will never be saved. But remember that Christ died for you! Just as you are in your sins God loves you, and for you just in that state he gave his Son to die for you. This is what you must believe<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God came to this earth in human form, he came to serve us. He taught us, he loved us, at one point he even washed his disciples feet. He died for us to show how much he loves us, because he wants to be in a relationship with us. That`s who he is. He doesn`t stay in up there in an air-conditioned heaven; he came down here to serve us so we could know him, so we could be in relationship with him. That`s what he wants. No matter how contagious we are, and we all have the disease called sin, no matter how rich or poor, bad or good, sinful or sinless, anything that we might be, that`s who Jesus is.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes,God is a Loving God, Who showers blessings upon those who love and serve HIM. And even these, God will not hesitate to spank to correct then to walk in the way that He wants. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645896061621257837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193431080337185800.post-82232154672122611642011-12-09T14:22:00.001+05:302011-12-09T14:26:12.663+05:30Faith In Jesus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">One of the important principals of Christianity is to have faith in God.Jesus said to have faith in God (Mark 11:22).Apostle Paul has described many times in new testament to have faith in Jesus.But who is Jesus Christ and what does it mean to have faith in Jesus???Today let me discuss something about the faith in Jesus.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">What is faith? True faith must be focused in Jesus Christ, which is the first principle of the gospel.For a person to be saved they must have faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.Jesus has given us a promise that,we can become the children of God.It is only through faith in Christ that we can become the children of God.Because of our sinful acts we are separated from God. The Bible tells us that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.“yet<span class="apple-style-span"> we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified”.</span>(Gal.2:16). T<span class="apple-style-span">he gift of eternal salvation with God the Father can only be received by grace through faith in Jesus Christ – not by any type of works that we could do – no matter how holy and pure our works are.</span>Whatever good works we are doing,it will not help us to reach heaven.Jesus paid for our sins because we cannot pay for our own sins. The ticket into Heaven has been paid for—all you have to do is accept the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.You just need to believe in Jesus,the son of God and his resurrection.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"> We must have faith in Jesus Christ. It is only through Him that we can have salvation. It is only through His name that we can be saved (Acts 4:12). It is only through Him that we will be resurrected to eternal life (Luke 20:36, John 6:44).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645896061621257837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193431080337185800.post-44226863641985949392011-12-08T11:31:00.008+05:302011-12-08T19:34:33.712+05:30Salvation through Jesus<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As w<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">e know,there are many who lived in earth and are famous in different ways. Hitler,Einstein,Socrates, Buddha,Mohammad Nabi etc.....</span></span></span>They were all famous in one way or another.They lived for a short period in this world and they died.They all become a part of History.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">But Jesus Christ came to the earth to give an eternal life to the humanity.He died for our sins in the Calvary.Jesus Christ said<span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">"I am the way,and the truth,and the life;no one comes to the father but through me."(John 14:6).</span> Because of the sinful acts of the humanity we are separated from God.O<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">ur sins have caused him to reject us and not listen to our prayers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">But God demonstrates his love for us through the death of his one and only son.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">The Bible declares “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).</span>"And there is none righteous. No! Not one." As sinners, we have lost the right to an eternal life of happiness, love and peace, and are doomed to be destroyed at the judgment when our sins bear witness against us. "For the wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23)</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ETCVjdkXNGA/TuBYp3676bI/AAAAAAAAACQ/Je0nhwFgasM/s1600/find-1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="176" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ETCVjdkXNGA/TuBYp3676bI/AAAAAAAAACQ/Je0nhwFgasM/s320/find-1.gif" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> As Bible says "<span class="Apple-style-span">And there is salvation in no one else;for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be served."(Acts 4:12).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The Bible specifically says, without any other possible interpretation, that there is only one God, one faith, one baptism, and one way to God the Father – and that is only through His Son Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross. Jesus says that He, and only He, is the way, the truth, and the life leading to God the Father and that no one comes to the Father except through Him! Bible clearly says that no amount of human goodness,human works or religious practices can gain acceptance with God or get anyone to heaven.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">The moral man, the religious man, and the immoral and non-religious are all in the same boat.</span>Works to obtain salvation is impossible.We can never work our way to heaven.That is what all the pagan religions teach.Good deeds to try to assuage some angry god is not what our loving Father asks for. <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Then how can we reach heaven?????We can reach there by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">believing in Jesus Christ and His message of eternal salvation through His death on the cross.</span></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4PBJzLrNEc/TuBiMJMX4uI/AAAAAAAAACY/zgf0PODfvus/s1600/find-3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4PBJzLrNEc/TuBiMJMX4uI/AAAAAAAAACY/zgf0PODfvus/s320/find-3.gif" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "> God is not only perfect holiness but He is also perfect love and full of grace and mercy. Because of His love and grace, He has not left us without hope and a solution. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Jesus said:</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">"</span><span class="woj">I am the gate;whoever enters through me will be saved.They will come in and go out, and find pasture.</span><span class="woj">The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.</span>I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">We can receive the son of God, Jesus Christ, as our savior by personal faith, by trusting in the person of Christ and His death for our sins."</span>Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."(John 1:12).</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> If you choose not to believe in Jesus Christ and His message of eternal salvation through His death on the cross, then you will die in your sins and go straight to<a href="http://www.bible-knowledge.com/reality-of-hell/" style="text-decoration: none; " title=" hell"> </a>hell when you die.The life that we are living down here on this earth is serious business! The choices that we make in this life will determine our ultimate fate in the afterlife. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span> Choose Jesus Christ and the blood that He has personally shed for you on the cross – and you will then become saved and born again – and you will then enter into the most incredible place imaginable when you die – heaven itself!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Choose anyone or anything else, and you will cross over into the most horrible place imaginable when you die – hell itself, and then eventually into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone after the Millenium has taken place, where the Bible says that the smoke of your torment will ascend forever and ever!</span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645896061621257837noreply@blogger.com0