Who Do You Say Jesus Is?

 Good morning to all of you.  I would like to take a few minutes to look at Jesus Christ.  Lets start by looking at Mark 8:27-30 which reads "27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him."  If you can see Jesus asks his disciples who does the people say he is, they answered, John the Baptist, Elijah or one of the other prophets.  Jesus then asks Peter who do you say I am and Peter answered the Christ.(Messiah)  Peter gave the right answer, Jesus is the Messiah the one to come to save the people of Israel.
    There is another way of looking at this passage, which I would like look at.  Let's look at Jesus for a minute, we know that he is the personal son of God the Father.  In John 14:7 Jesus tells us, "If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."  Jesus tells his followers that he is God because he wanted to let them know who he is in the relationship to God the Father.  Let's look a God the Father for a moment, we know that God the Father is the creator of heaven and earth, he also created man in his own image.  God also knows everything about his creation and everyone on it.  NO One can hide from God's eyes or eares.  Life in the past is called history, and we all know that seeing God created the heavens and the earth, he also wrote the oldest history book in existence today.  If all of this is true and I'm saying that it is true because its written in the Holy Bible, the God the father is also God the son, and they both see and know everything that's needed to be known. 
    Ok here's my point Jesus did not have to ask his disciples who he was, you see he already knew the answer.  Jesus was doing two things by asking this question, first of all he made the disciples think about the answer, secondly he wanted us the reader of John 14:7 to think of the question and to think of Jesus and who he is and what he can do, if we only ask for his help.  I have the problem of asking for Jesus help, when its to late.  I hope that all of you are smarter then I am and ask for Jesus help long before you need it.
    I thank God for all of my readers, and hope that you all have a good day getting to know who Jesus really is.

Good Day For Now.

KNOCKING ON GOD'S DOOR!

Good Morning to Everyone:

I would like to give you my story of Knocking On God's Door.  I want to start by looking at a verse in the Gospel of Matthew 7:7 which reads "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."  This past winter I asked to God's help, I was in so much pain with 4 Bladder Stones, I was bleeding internally and I was in a lot of pain.  No one in there right mind wants stones in there Bladder.  I was in so much pain that I had a friend here in Washington CH, Oh along with a large amount of his friends at his church where praying for me.  I thank God for my friend and his friends.  I personally prayed for surgery to get rid of the stones God did come through and I had surgery on the 17th of April of this year.  Before I went into the operating room I asked God to take good care the the operating team at the hospital.  Well God did get me through and he did take care of the team, you see they couldn't get a vane in neither of my arms for the IV, so they had to put the IV in my upper right hand corner of my chest bone.  Boy did that hurt, they called it mainling my vane.  I do thank God for all of my friends, the operating team, and specially God himself without him on my side I could not have made it through the surgery.  All this time I was praying for God's help I was actually asking and knocking at his door for his help, and I'm glad he was home to answer the door and helped me out.  Thank you my heavenly Father.

I do hope you all have a good day, until my next posting, may God bless you.

Love in Christ
Kevin

God's Word Is Powerful

This morning I would like to start off by saying I received an email from a very good friend of mine. My friend reminded me that God's Word is Powerful. I want to give you two examples from St Pauls letter to the Romans. The first is from Romans 3:9-18 which reads

⁹ What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, ¹⁰ as it is written:

“None is righteous, no, not one;
¹¹ no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
¹² All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
¹³ “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
¹⁴ “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶ in their paths are ruin and misery,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known.”
¹⁸ “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

In each of these verses God is telling something about each and everyone of us, I'm sorrow to say this but it includes me also a very big sinner. These words should not represent anyone but they do and for my self they scare me 100%. Lets look at another few verses from the same letter to the Romans: 3:21-26 which reads

²¹ But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— ²² the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ²⁶ It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

These verse remind me that God gave us a free gift of a new life in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus went to the cross so we would not have to be seperated from God the Father no more, we just have to except the fact that we all are sinners and we need that free gift from God to live the way God wants us to live, with God as our adopted Father and Jesus our adopted brother. Talk about powerful words found in the book of Romans. These two are just examples of what the New Testament is all about. But as a sinner I have asked Jesus to come into my life back in 1987. I'm still a sinner but I'm saved by the free gift Of Jesus dieing on the cross so I don't can be justified in God's eyes.

I thank God for Jesus every time I talk with him. What powerful words once I was a sinner and know I'm saved. I still have my share of sins to carry but I'm not being seperated from God because of them. My life is slow changing everyday I see a new person, a person that God is reshaping for the 5oth time in my Christian life. No I'm fare from being perfect but I can few me changing on a daily basis.

Until later, remember that Jesus loves you and so do I.

EASTER IS COMING

Good Morning to Everyone:

I want to look at St Paul's Letter to the Galations for just a few minutes the verses are Galations 1:3-5 which reads

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Paul in his writing had a very simple way of putting the important part of God's gospel to the main spot light of the letter that he was writing. I see a few things in these pages the first is that Christ did die for our sins, he had to without his death and resurrection we could not grow in love with God the Father, which he wants from us very much. The second item I see is that we do live in a very evil age, an age that scares me when I think of what people are doing to God's churches. Without the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we could not have any body of belivevers better known as the church. I see the church changing in front of me and the only thing that I can do for the true believers is to keep passing on God's true gospel, nothing I made up but what God wrote himself in the New Testament. If I don't keep on passing God's good word then I feel that I'm as lost as the next guy, and I try to thank God everyday for his mercy in my life, which without it I could not call him my heavenly Father.

To my friends God is not giving up on his true church, I ask that you don't give up on God neither, I now that I still Love him today as I did when I gave over my life to him. I hope that you all have a good day knowing that God is still in control.

Love in Christ

Kevin

GOD LOVES HIS WORLD!

Good Morning To Everyone:

This is a beautiful day that God wants you to know about his son Jesus Christ. Today's bible reading is John 3:16,17 which reads - 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. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

God wants all of us to know that the word world in these two verses means the people of the earth, remember that God created us in his Spititual body. He created us because he loved us some much that he wanted us to be called children of God, and you know we can be children of God by excepting Jesus that he died on the cross so our spiritual body will never die, but have everlasting life. We can all change everyday by asking Jesus into our life, Jesus will be there to be with you when you call for his help and guildance.

Until latter have a good day
Love In Christ
Kevin

THE HOLY SPIRIT

Good Morning:

I would like to look at John 16:13-15, which reads, ¹³ When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
I want to look at what the Holy Spirit does for the true believers of Jesus Christ. When we except Jesus as our personal savior the Holy Spirit comes into our heart and lives with us. Why because the Holy Spirit is our Guild to what is true in the bible. He also teaches us what needs to be taught, and he also convicts us of anything that we need to ask God's foregiveness for our lives. The Holy Spirit keeps us going, he knows what we should pray for and how to pray to God. He does a whole lot more I just wanted to give a small sample why the Holy Spirit lives in the believer.

Until later have a good day
Love in Christ
Kevin

Jesus Calling The Living And The Dead

Good Morning to all of you:

I want to use a passage from the Gospel of John 5:25-29 which read:
²⁵ “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶  For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

What I believe Jesus is talking about is the basic rapture of the church into heaven, one of the last endtime events before Jesus goes after Satan once and for all.

Until later have a good day