On April 4, 2010, over 1,300 young people, all of them members of Faith Church celebrated Resurrection Sunday in Budapest, Hungary.
Music: Ferenc Balogh Jr.
Lyrics: Shelly Matos, based on the Hungarian text by Tamas Pajor (Tompage)
Producer: Ákos Nemes
Art Producer: Tamás Pajor (Tompage)
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Lyrics
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That day will be remembered as the greatest day in history
The fate of the world changed in one glorious moment
When Life triumphed on Resurrection Sunday
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The hope of a people searching for life
The day will be brighter
The message of freedom rings in the sky
Spreading the fire
The flag of a nation ready to fly
Taking them higher
The heart of a land that rises to fight
Full of desire
When nothing is as you want it to be
Look up to heaven
Freedom was paid for on Calvary
The chain is broken
Making a way right to destiny
Borders are open
And Jesus has granted the victory
That Sunday mornin
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Joy in this life time, utterly free
More than the world gives, beyond what you see
For nations its time to rise their hope is in Jesus Christ
If the giants come, just hold on, the advantage is now on your side Jesus, will take the final fight
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A light dawned that Sunday Morning it broke through the boundaries of time
Hearts start shining, calling to all mankind
Lets celebrate eternal life
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When nothing is as you want it to be
Look up to heaven
Freedom was paid for on Calvary
The chain is broken
Making a way right to destiny
Borders are open
And Jesus has granted the victory
That Sunday mornin
Bridge
Joy in this life time, utterly free
More than the world gives, beyond what you see
For nations its time to rise their hope is in Jesus Christ
If the giants come, just hold on, the advantage is now on your side Jesus, will take the final fight
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A light dawned that Sunday Morning it broke through the boundaries of time
Hearts start shining, calling to all mankind
Lets celebrate eternal life
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1, When something in you, says youre not through, something whispers, you need to go too
2, you say that things just cant stay this way, your heart is calling may day may day
3, world is just trouble, get out of your muddle, jump, nows the time, take your chance on the double.
4, Leave it behind, youll see you wont mind, once you meet Jesus the answer youll find
5, Dont google your noodle, or consult your poodle, just follow your heart and it will be super
6, Wake up, see the light, find new life in His life, with Him in sight He’ll take you to new heights
7, The rescues begun, now Someones come, be looking to the sky but not for Air Force One
8. The way out is up; up up and away, with Jesus today is Independence day
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Hearts start shining, calling to all mankind
Lets celebrate eternal life
A light dawned that Sunday Morning it broke through the boundaries of time
Hearts start shining, calling to all mankind
Lets celebrate
Lets celebrate
Lets celebrate eternal life
John 14:6 has not only been a challenge, but has been a thrilling joy. Jesus said, ” I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
What a confession that was!
When the Master said, “I am the Way,” the Spirit at once began to bring to my mind excerpts from the 9th Chapter of Acts, of Paul going to Damascus to see if he could find any that were in the Way, whether men or women, so he could bring them to Jerusalem. Christianity was the Way.
“But some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of The Way.” (Acts 19:9).
What did they mean by calling Christianity The Way? Back yonder in the Garden, Adam lost the Way, the Way into the Father’s presence, the Way into the Father’s heart. He left the place of light and glory and went out into the world without light. All down through human history men have been groping for the lost Way, the Way back into fellowship with the Father; back into that Eden condition where condemnation would not rule as a Master over the heart. When Jesus said, “I am the Way,” He meant He was the Way to the Father’s heart-the Way of Life.
Then I saw that everyone of us is a light, a sign-board pointing to the Way. Now notice carefully what it means to you. You are taking the Master’s place; you are the “Way, and if your life is not in tune with the Master, and you are not living the Word, you may be pointing the wrong way.
He not only said, “I am the Way,” but He said, “I am the Truth,” or, “I am the Reality.” When I saw that word translated Reality, it gripped me. Jesus is the answer of the age-old cry of the human spirit for Reality.
One translation of Rom. 1:25 reads, “For they exchange the reality of God for the unreal.” Satan is the God of vanity. The major pleasures of the Senses of natural man have no actual reality in them. There is no reality in the moving pictures, in the dance hall, in gambling, or in drinking. There is nothing in them that the spirit of man can feed upon. Satan has not given to men one thing that has in it any permanent value. The pleasures of the Senses perish with the using.
When Jesus. said, “I am the Way, the Reality, and the Life,” He was pointing to something that is different. In John 16 :13 Jesus said, “When he, the Spirit of Reality, is come, he wiII guide you into all Reality.” Jesus is the Way into the thing that the heart has craved through the ages-Reality.
It is a strangely realistic truth that no one who has ever actually found Eternal Life, has ever turned to any other religion. The metaphysical religions that are born of the senses have no appeal for the man who has found Reality. The human heart can find no Reality outside of the man Jesus. The New Creation is real. Our fellowship with the Father is real. The Word is a real message to the spirit of the New Creation. We walk in the light of Reality. Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Reality, and the Life.” The Greek word here for Life is “Zoe.” That is the new kind of Life Jesus brought to the world. ”I am come that ye might have life and have it in abundance.” What is Life? It is the Nature of the Father. In that Nature of the Father is all Wisdom, all Ability, all Love.
John 6 :47: “He that believeth hath Eternal Life.” Believing is actual possession, so the believer is a possessor of this the greatest gift ever given to man-Eternal Life. John 1 :4 “In him was Life, and that life is the light of men.” How little we have appreciated the fact that Eternal Life in man has given to us all the creative ability manifested in this mechanical age. (Paragraph edited)
There are two words translated Life in the New Testament: “Zoe”-the Nature of the Father that Jesus brought, and gives to man in the New Creation; and “Psuche”-the natural human life. ”Psuche” has never produced any great literature; has never given to man anything that was of any real value. Let this become clear in our minds, that “Zoe,” this new kind of Life, is the Nature of the Father, and the Father is Love.
So when this new kind of Life comes into a man, it drives out the old nature and the New Nature takes possession. It is just like Israel moving into the promised land, driving out the inhabitants, and taking over the country for themselves. Eternal Life has taken us over.
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The believer is the sign-board pointing toward Jesus-the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and we must be bold in our confession that we are in the Way; that we have the Reality and are enjoying the fullness of this marvelous Life.
Jesus made another. confession. “I am the Good Shepherd.” The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” (John 10:11) What a beautiful confession, so full of suggestion-the Shepherd. It brings before the heart the 23rd Psalm: “Jehovah is my shepherd; I do not want. He causeth me to lie down in green pastures, and he leadeth me beside the waters of gentle stillness”; he restores my thinking processes so I can think God’s thoughts.
He is the caretaker, the bread-provider, the shield and the protector of His people. His ministry is guiding and leading us into the real pastures where the heart learns to feed. Can you see what this means to you? The moment we receive Eternal Life, that moment we become under-shepherds of the flock: we become leaders and teachers of this New Order, this new Life.
(E.W. Kenyon, New Creation Realities, 1964, Kenyon’s Gospel Publishing, pp29-31)
John 14:1-11 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him, and have see Him.” Phillip said to Him. “Lord show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. ” Jesus said to him, ” Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to youI do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. “ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake fo the works themselves.”
Atheism is an illogical and stupid position and here is why. First, it is logically absurd to assume that a person can know for sure that God does not exist. Atheism is a ‘faith’ position that is on unsecured ground logically, rationally, and with bad faith.
The position of atheism is that God does not exist, dogmatically. Definitions of atheism on the Web:
•the doctrine or belief that there is no God
•a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
•This word comes from two Greek words, a the negative, and theos, God. Atheism teaches that there is no God of any kind, anywhere, anytime. Some atheists claim to “Exercise no belief in a god” the same way they would exercise no belief in pink unicorns. …http://spiritrestoration.org/Theological_Terms/A_Prior_%20to_Born_Again.htm
It is told that when the first cosmonauts of the former Soviet Union reached space, they peered out and declared there was no God because they could not see a god.
To be so closed minded in such a Large Universe is being intellectually stupid. Logically, for a person to say “there is no God”, that person would have to be everywhere in the whole universe at one given point in time. For if that person where standing on the moon and looking out into space, and they did not see God; God could in fact be hiding on the backside of Mars and thus be “invisible” to the one on the moon. Therefore, to “know” that there is no God, that person would need to have perfect knowledge of the whole of the universe and any other plane or dimension of existence, all at the same moment. And if in fact that person possessed that information and ability, that person would in theory be god themselves, thus disproving their own theory that God does not exist.
By definition, God is the highest order of Being who possesses infinite knowledge “Omniscient”; is everywhere at all times “Omnipresent”, and has all power “Omnipotent”.
Rather, it is more logical and of good common sense to remain open minded to the issue that there is a God; since we as human being have a limited sphere of knowledge and very limited ability to “know”.
There are many other sound arguments as to why the position of “atheism” is illogical. Basically is still remains that atheism is not “rationalism” as the atheists likes to think; rather it remains a position of “faith”. Or actually, a position of “disbelief” or “anti-faith”. It is not “logical” at all. The position is not even “scientific”. It is just clear and willful ignorance.
So here we are in the Galaxy of the Milky Way; one of many possibly millions of galaxies in the estimated universe. If we were to be shown our solar system on an overlay of the Milky Way Galaxy; our solar system would be about as big as a single grain of sand or speck of dirt on a floor as big as 20′ x 20′ room. That is just our solar system, not to mention how small our planet is.
Our planet earth is about as big as a marble compared to a large beach ball against jupiter. Compared to earth, the sun is enormous! It contains 99.86% of all of the mass of the entire solar system. The sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it. Earth is about the size of an average sunspot! (http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/sunearth.shtml)
So everything in the universe is moving as speeds that boggle the imagination. There are astroids zipping around; large planetary masses that are travelling in excess of 25,000 miles per hours. Our planets are revolving around a large nuclear furnace that could incenerate even our hardest rocks. Our solar system collectively is screaming through space at 568,000 m.p.h.!!! (try driving that fast ) That is just our Solar System. Our Galaxy is also hurling through the Universe at even more incredible speeds.
And no one is driving? We are out of control? People actually have the audacity to run around trying to deny God and saying ugly things about the only Power that is keeping everything from smashing together or fly apart or burning up? I’ll pass on that death wish. We better pray there is GOD!!! “Beam me up….PLEASE!”
Psalm 19:1-4 ” The Heavens declare the Glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their word to the end of the world.”
“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly
Luk 21:35
For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luk 21:36
Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
“Watch therefore” the key word here is to watch. 1) to be sleepless, keep awake, watch 2) to be circumspect, attentive, ready.
It seems to me that the #2 definition of watch is mostly what the Lord Jesus was referring to ”to be circumspect, attentive, ready. ” Circumspect means: careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences.
“Pray Always” – 1) to want, lack 2) to desire, long for 3) to ask, beg a) the thing asked for b) to pray, make supplications
Mark 13:33-37 “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming – in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning- lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all, WATCH!“
WATCH:
1) to watch 2) metaph. give strict attention to, be cautious, active a) to take heed lest through remission and indolence some destructive calamity suddenly overtake one
If You read in ( Mathew 13:24 ) The tares are weeds that look a lot like wheat… a tare can be mistaken for the wheat.. The Bible Tells us they will grow up with the wheat until the harvest.
The harvest is at the end of the age.. Its interesting that new Christians can also look a lot like tares..This is not so we can Judge other people . People come into our lives claiming to be a christian or claiming to be from God, And If were not careful. They can make habit on our lives or dividing the body of Christ or even leading some astray and they do it all in the name of the lord..
Some will worship God in spirit and truth if you read in John 4:23,24) The Bible teaches us that we shall know them by their fruits in Matthew 7:16-20- Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns,or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ..
( Matthew 15:8 -This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me… The bible tells us in Matthew 7:22-24 -Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.
( John 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth..God gave us discernment, you can know a christian by their fruits as well as the non believer and the false prophets. Note: That they do blend in and they can look a lot like the wheat.
Anything contrary to the word of God you will know, when a spirit is evil, you will know, when a false prophet is twisting the word and sowing lies instead of seeds of truth, you will know.
what is discernment. The Bible tells us to try the spirits by the spirit. The true fruit are they that will do what God tells them to do ..they obey his laws and commandments ? Do they have Love.. The bible tells us that if we have not love then the Love of Christ is not in us.
Do they obey God or are they professing to know him and Living in sin. The way they live their lives and what they speak tells differently..they show their life one way but live another..
Do they do things to be seen of men or God… We are to pray for them and witness to them… but not to be pulled into there sin. The tare’s job is to choke the life out of the wheat . We do have to grow together along with the weeds these are the tares until Jesus Christ returns..
God allows them to grow together until the harvest, when he will gather up the wicked into the fire. [ John 15:6- If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Back to the subject of why a new Christian can look like a tare ? They are Still growing in the Lord and as a baby needs to learn to walk they need to grow to maturity . Growing to maturity from milk to the meat of Gods word as baby christians they are just learning to walk in the lord. before you know it they will run the race put before them and not faint, because these are the ones who have grown in the word of God and know the meat of Gods word. Those that got into the meat of Gods word and have been through the firy darts of the enemy and they have walked through trials and came out still standing.
They got into the meat of the word of God and grew in the Lord to a full maturity and they know how to follow the Lords instruction of how to walk and not fall . because they know the word of God and what it says in depth.. page upon page line upon line and they live by it. You must be separated from the world before you can receive the meat of the word. A christians growth progress is in the meat of his word and they know how to walk in obedience to the Scriptures. Where babies don’t know what the word of God says yet and they start out on milk.
The Milk and the Meat of God’s Word) the bible is talking about carnal and referring unto babies in Christ because they don’t know how to walk in Christ yet or know what Gods word says until we grow in his word. brethren, I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hither to ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for where as there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” (I Corinthians 3:1-3)
The tares are a specific peoples called Kenites. A tare looks like a wheat but it is bitter and no good. So are the Kenite, they look and act nice but deep down they can be and many are bitter and evil. God Allows both to grow together until the harvest.. Now it is easy to tell the difference between the wheat, tares, and the weeds. The wheat is longer, bigger, and stronger. The tare is shorter, medium sized, and weaker. The weed is the shortest, smallest, and the weakest…The weed doesn’t produce any seeds. The tare produces some seeds. The wheat produces the biggest seeds..Some having the form of Godliness, but deny the power thereof.
They look like they are saved, sanctified until they reach the threshing floor..Threshing in Bible times was the harvest time activity by which the grain was removed from the husk and the tares was separated …The threshing floor is a place where the seeds were separated from the vine. This is a painful time in a Christians life because it is where tests, trials, and tribulations comes to prove the faith. One can tell what Christian is victorious through the seeds produced. We all are over commers by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.
The power of the seed to full maturity in the lord
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. In the parable, as the plants grow, tares look very much like wheat. It is almost hard to detect. Until the harvest “…Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn”. Matt. 13:30
The harvest of the earth time will be when it is ripe- Revelation 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
The harvest time is How the tares are separation… Threshing in Bible times was the harvest time activity by which the grain was removed from the husk and the tares (false grain) was separated from the wheat.
Luk 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you POWER TO TREAD on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
“POWER/AUTHORITY” from the greek - “exousia”
1) power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases. a) leave or permission 2) physical and mental power a) the ability or strength with which one is indued, which he either possesses or exercises 3) the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege) 4) the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed) a) universally.
From VINES – Authority:
denotes “authority” (from the impersonal verb exesti, “it is lawful”). From the meaning of “leave or permission,” or liberty of doing as one pleases, it passed to that of “the ability or strength with which one is endued,” then to that of the “power of authority,” the right to exercise power, e.g., Mat 9:6; Mat 21:23; 2 Cor 10:8; or “the power of rule or government,” the power of one whose will and commands must be obeyed by others, e.g., Mat 28:18; Jhn 17:2; Jud 1:25; Rev 12:10; 17:13; more specifically of apostolic “authority,” 2Cor 10:8; 13:10; the “power” of judicial decision, Jhn 19:10; of “managing domestic affairs,” Mar 13:34. By metonymy, or name-change (the substitution of a suggestive word for the name of the thing meant), it stands for “that which is subject to authority or rule,” Luk 4:6 (RV, “authority,” for the AV “power”); or, as with the English “authority,” “one who possesses authority, a ruler, magistrate,” Rom 13:1-3; Luk 12:11; Tts 3:1; or “a spiritual potentate,” e.g., Eph 3:10; 6:12; Col 1:16; 2:10, 15; 1Pe 3:22. The RV usually translates it “authority.”
Exousia first denotes “freedom to act” and then “authority for the action.” This is first true of God, Act 1:7. It was exercised by the Son of God, as from, and in conjunction with, the Father when the Lord was upon earth, in the days of His flesh, Mat 9:6; Jhn 10:18, as well as in resurrection, Mat 28:18; Jhn 17:2. All others hold their freedom to act from God (though some of them have abused it), whether angels, Eph 1:21, or human potentates, Rom 13:1. Satan offered to delegate his authority over earthly kingdoms to Christ, Luk 4:6, who, though conscious of His “right” to it, refused, awaiting the Divinely appointed time.
to TREAD – “pateō”
1) to tread a) to trample, crush with the feet b) to advance by setting foot upon, tread upon: to encounter successfully the greatest perils from the machinations and persecutions with which Satan would fain thwart the preaching of the gospel c) to tread under foot, trample on, i.e. to treat with insult and contempt.
“over all the power of the enemy” – The word “power” of the enemy here is the greek word translated dynamis
1) strength power, ability a) inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth b) power for performing miracles c) moral power and excellence of soul d) the power and influence which belong to riches and wealth e) power and resources arising from numbers f) power consisting in or resting upon armies, forces, hosts
Vines Note: Dunamis, “power,” is to be distinguished from exousia, “the right to exercise power.”
The reader should well be aware that Jesus alone now had all power and the RIGHT to EXERCISE POWER – Mat 28:18. He has also transfered this AUTHORITY to HIS disciples. When we read Luke 10:19, Jesus gave His authority to His disciples as He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to announce Jesus as He was preparing to visit those cities of Israel.
I believe that Jesus is willing to give His authority to anyone who has believed Jesus’ message, has been baptised as instucted, and practices Jesus’ words. The key hear is that He gave the “Power” (Authority to RULE demons and evil spirits) to HIS DISCIPLES. This whole site is about discipleship. Follow Jesus. Jesus is the Way. We should follow Him in it. To be a disciple is to seek to learn fromt he MASTER JESUS. HE alone walked the prefect path with GOD and was pleasing to GOD in all things.
Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. Jesus is the Annointed ONE. Jesus ALONE is the One Annointed with the OIL OF GOD – the HOLY SPIRIT (Who is GOD) without limitation. The Holy Spirit is the Power of GOD that made the Universe and all life. That Power is given to Jesus forever – He is the Annointed One Forever! Jesus is Annointed to RULE all things under the Father God.
Jesus Said in John 15:7 “If ye abide in me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”
I Corinthians 1:20 “For however many are the promises of God, in Him(Jesus Christ) is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen – So Be It,” to the glory of God through us.”
We are not here to rule the world (thank God for that!). But we are here to do the works of the Kingdom of God and of His Christ – Jesus. We are to destroy the works of the devil – who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. We are continuing to works of JESUS. JESUS came to SAVE mens lives NOT Destroy them!!! Jesus set people free from the bondage of the devil’s slavery.
Isaiah 61:1 ” The SPIRIT of the LORD GOD is upon Me (Jesus) because the Lord has annointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; ”
* ”You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all.” (Mark 10:42-44)
In the world, greatness is measured by how much weight you can throw around, or how many people you can order about, or how much rank you can pull. But Jesus turned that on its head. The great ones are not those who know how to “lord it” over others, but those who know how to become the servant—the slave! —of all. This kind of servanthood is not so we can one day become great leaders and put aside the role of being a servant. Quite the contrary, this kind of servanthood exactly defines what a great leader is—the servant of all. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
It is the very nature of Jesus to give and to serve, for Jesus is truly God, and “God is love” (1 John 4:8), and it is the very nature of love to give. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16).
In doing the Father’s will, Jesus demonstrated the Father’s love, giving His own life as a ransom for us—paying a terrible price He did not owe to redeem us from a debt we could never pay.
What about those who have neverheard of Jesus? Can a good personwhohasn’t heard the truth go to heaven?.. Non believers will go to Hell because God gives everyone a chance to seek out salvation. The bible tells us to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling...What does it mean? Work out your own salvation with trembling and fear? Philippians 2:12-16)
John 3:3 ..no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.
Acts 4:12: Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
The Bible tells us you can’t get to heaven by living a good life and doing good deeds … it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” Ephesians 2:8, 9)
This is another example of a person who would have never heard the gospel ,they couldn’t have saved themselves. God gives everyone a choiceto seek out the truth If they ask him.. Gods promise is to anyone that asketh, it shall be given -James 1:5) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. This Scriptures tells us that everyone and not just some people ,but everyone that asksreceives… For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7:8) I believe that If anyone wants to know the truth and wants to go to heaven and has never heard the Gospel. I believe That God would go out of his way to lead someone in theirpath to hear the truth. No one will get left out because The Scriptures tell us that Jesus Christ Died for everyone ,he left no one out. The Bible says The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. -2 Peter 3:9 ) Note: This Scripture tells us that he wishes all to come to repentance.
1 John 5:12:…He who does not have the Son of God doesnot have life.Note: that the Bible explains to us that God will judge all people righteously. It seems there will be a stricter judgment for those who have rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ than for those who haven’theard the Gospel . Everyone has a choice to seek out the truth…
Do Children go to heaven ? Yes.. The Age of accountability is understanding right and wrong. This could very with children.. but the Scriptures tell us that Jesus was 12 years old. The fact that Jesus went into the temple and taught at the age of 12 years old ..The Bible makes it clear that children who die go to heaven on the bases of their inability to fully understand the difference of right and wrong.
Now I believe someone that was born without a right state of mind that has a disability ,this would make them at a child state of mind like retardation and sort’s of course they would be like a small childs mind as of there accountability because they do not know better and they have no under standing of right and wrong. But the rest of us have no excuses.
Here is a Scripture that explains it all… That nothing is kept from us, if you read in ( Romans 1:18-20 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse: Note: No excuse’s.
Every person knows what sin is if you read in Genesis 3After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and discovered that they sinned. They knew that they were naked and covered themselves, no one told them but they knew sin came on them and they did hide themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden GEN 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Everyone knows that they are a sinner, we are inwardly seeking God and we all need salvation because the Bible tells us sin came on all of us. And the Bible tells us there is no other way for man to be saved but thruJesus Christshed Blood.
Because of Adam and Eve.. Sin came on us all. This is the second death the Bible tells us you shall surely die . If people could go to heaven without the blood of Jesus Christ and If they never heard the Gospel .Then Jesus Christ would not have had to die for our sins, he would have simply not have told anyone about salvationand because they never heard the Gospel they could all go to heaven and continue in sin ..This is false and untrue, The scripture’s tells us that we must be born again.. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:14 . So My answer is that we all need Jesus Christ and to come to the knowledge of salvation that’s why Our Lord and savior died on the cross for our sins. We all have to stand before the Judgment seat of Christ.. When the books are opened we will be without any excuses no exceptions. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the
things done in his body, according to that he hath done, weather he hath done, whether it be good or bad – Cor 5:10) (Rev. 20:12- And I saw the dead, small and great,
stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:
and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Salvation is a free gift to anyone who will receive him. Ask and ye shall receive eternal life through his son Jesus Christ. ( John 1:12 – But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name Salvation is a free gift of God through Jesus Christ, He said him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out John 6:37
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. Matthew 11:19
If you read Matt: 1-18.. particularly 11-18… Jesus is referring to John’s ministry but how he was still accused of being demon possessed.(verse 18) verse 16-17 is where Jesus denounces the people of his time who were disbelievers as little children who weren’t happy with anything (verse 17). Therefore the reference in 19 to eating and drinking was a derogatory reference to Jesus for his association with the the non believers. The eating referring to gluttony (overeating to excess) and drinking referring to getting drunk… How dare He associate with them..even being a friend to the tax collectors and sinners’.-was their thinking..not realizing it was those very people He came to save—–like today when we reach out to the unlovable or the people everybody hates or doesn’t want to associate with…why waste your time?… is the question they ask of themselves and others… but I know God called us to reach out to the lost .
What would of happen if we ignored God’s call? people might never know the love of Christ and receive Him! People we reach out to every day in our lives they our Just like one of those ‘sinners” condemned in Jesus’ time….Jesus sets the example.. these are the very people He calls us to reach out to…we can’t ignore our call and duty….where would we be if someone never reached out to us…because someone thought us unworthy! Think and pray about it! We are all sinners..but Gods love is available to all..and it is that grace and Jesus Christ love that changes us.
“Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine . The bible tells us Jesus was falsely accused ..Jesus was without sin. They accused Jesus falsely It says they accused him of being a winebibber it never said Jesus was drinking alcohol fermented but he was falsely accused.. look in ( Revelation 12:7-12 – about the accuser of the brethren… for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. Jesus Christ is pure and holy and with out sin.
Jesus Christ never sinned, never: High Priest to King of The World- which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15 KJV) Jesus Christ did not consume alcohol, but was absolutely spiritually pure ,
“Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine it was grape juice. Isaiah 65:8. “Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”
I want to share this that when the juice of the grape is still “in the cluster” God calls it “wine.” “Grape juice still in the cluster is not ‘fermented’ wine,” I explained. “It is unfermented wine. It is grape juice. There are two kinds of ‘wine’ in the Bible. Fermented and unfermented.”
This explained that Jesus neither drank nor created fermented wine. That would have been disobedience to His Father’s Word. Disobedience is sin and He never sinned. (Hebrews 4:15)
Galatians 5:21 contains a warning about conduct that will keep people out of the coming kingdom of God. It states that, “Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
In a similar instruction to the Corinthians, Paul wrote that no thieves, idolators, adulterers, extortioners or drunkards, etc., “shall inherit the kingdom of God” (I Cor. 6:9-10).
Now what is it that drinking did to the Kings, Princes and Priests of old?
“But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.” (Isa 28:7 AV)
So, back to the first verse, and question, what should be the law, and what should be the punishment when someone breaks the law.
“Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:” (Le 10:9 AV)
(Deuteronomy 29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
( Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
(numbers 6;3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. NOTE THAT IT SAYS DRINK NO VINEGAR OF WINE. Men love to justify their sin because the bible says they are wise in their own eyes.
Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight.
(prov 23;29-30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
(Isaiah 28: “Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim…that are overcome with wine
( Proverbs 20:1 (KJV):
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-10: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God
( Numbers 6:2-3: “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD: He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.”
( Ephesians 5:18-20: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
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