God's promises to us are true. Don't try to force their fulfillment before God's timing. There were many in the Bible who fell into that trap.
When Cain was born, Eve thought he was the promised serpent crusher. We all know what Cain became.
Abraham thought Ishmael was the promised child. He thought that through him, God would bring about the original promise of a vast multitude of descendants. God reminds Abraham that a son from Sarah, Isaac, is the fulfillment of the promise. All we have to do is read the papers regarding the Middle East and see the effects of what trying to rush God's promise can do.
King Saul lost his kingdom by stepping out if his calling and trying to force the blessing from God by sacrificing. This was the responsibility Samuel. For that, God gave the kingdom to the second king of Israel, David. The Promise would be one of his descendants.
When Jesus was born, God's promise was fulfilled. Where the first Adam failed, the second one would succeed just as He had Promised.
This year, have faith the Eternal Promise Keeper will bring His promises to pass in your life.
FCS
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Cross Conduit
The Cross of Christ is the conduit that transmitted the life of heaven into this dying world. - FCS
The Mystery Revealed
The Apostle Paul received the revelation from God regarding His plan in the world. The Mystery was that no longer was God just blessing, saving and using the Israelites, but He makes the rest of the world, Gentiles, recipients of the promise and partakers of the new covenant in Christ.
Christ made it possible, by God's grace, for everyone who has faith in Him, to be a child of God. That means that He no longer is holding back anything from you. Whereas before we believed, we were in enmity with Him and walked according to our own sinful desires. All we were going to receive was His wrath. But God. I love that phrase. "But God". He loved us while we were still sinners. He made a way for us to be part of all of His blessings.
Paul says that these blessings are beyond what we can imagine. He says they are unsearchable riches. They are both unimaginable and unsearchable because even in eternity, we will never exhaust them. Because God is eternal and everlasting, so is what we receive from our Father, through Christ Jesus.
Another blessing is that the believer sits with Christ in heavenly places. If you are not a believer, He invites you to take a seat with Him today. Do it. Don't delay. You won't regret it.
FCS
Christ made it possible, by God's grace, for everyone who has faith in Him, to be a child of God. That means that He no longer is holding back anything from you. Whereas before we believed, we were in enmity with Him and walked according to our own sinful desires. All we were going to receive was His wrath. But God. I love that phrase. "But God". He loved us while we were still sinners. He made a way for us to be part of all of His blessings.
Paul says that these blessings are beyond what we can imagine. He says they are unsearchable riches. They are both unimaginable and unsearchable because even in eternity, we will never exhaust them. Because God is eternal and everlasting, so is what we receive from our Father, through Christ Jesus.
Another blessing is that the believer sits with Christ in heavenly places. If you are not a believer, He invites you to take a seat with Him today. Do it. Don't delay. You won't regret it.
FCS
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Can't Say That You Are, Until...
To be truly Biblical, a Christian and a Church must be enthusiastically Missional. To not have a heart after the lost is antithetical to what the Bible teaches. It is obviously of utmost importance to believe right, but even more so to live out the belief in our daily walk.
God created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. After the fall of man, because of Adam and Eve's sin, God began to redeem mankind. He foretold of the coming Saviour many times through His prophets, angels and His direct communications. His desire has always been to restore mans relationship with Himself.
God accomplished this through his Son, Jesus. He was born on earth without sin, lived a sinless life, and became sin for us at the cross where he died to redeem us. All of this because He was on a mission to reconcile the Creator with His creation, YOU. He came to set us free.
He expects and extols us to communicate that message of His love to all around us. As someone once said, "Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words." Our actions speak louder than our words. To have a vision and a mission, and to not move upon it only creates frustration.
To be Biblical, doctrinally correct and orthodox, one can not help but to be missional, outreaching and ministerial. The two go hand in hand. Jesus said that we would receive His power to be witnesses. Witnesses are people who communicate a story, a message. Witnesses are not people who sit back and just watch events without and wait to see how things will pan out.
You and I have a message to tell. Such is the case that He calls us Ambassadors. We represent the Kingdom of God, therefore it is our duty to obey the King of kings. Remember that faith (doctrine, belief) without works (missional, ministry, outreach) is dead (lifeless, ineffective). As we become missional, in obedience to His commands, we demonstrate our faith and fight for it with our actions.
Lets go set people free!
FCS
God created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. After the fall of man, because of Adam and Eve's sin, God began to redeem mankind. He foretold of the coming Saviour many times through His prophets, angels and His direct communications. His desire has always been to restore mans relationship with Himself.
God accomplished this through his Son, Jesus. He was born on earth without sin, lived a sinless life, and became sin for us at the cross where he died to redeem us. All of this because He was on a mission to reconcile the Creator with His creation, YOU. He came to set us free.
He expects and extols us to communicate that message of His love to all around us. As someone once said, "Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words." Our actions speak louder than our words. To have a vision and a mission, and to not move upon it only creates frustration.
To be Biblical, doctrinally correct and orthodox, one can not help but to be missional, outreaching and ministerial. The two go hand in hand. Jesus said that we would receive His power to be witnesses. Witnesses are people who communicate a story, a message. Witnesses are not people who sit back and just watch events without and wait to see how things will pan out.
You and I have a message to tell. Such is the case that He calls us Ambassadors. We represent the Kingdom of God, therefore it is our duty to obey the King of kings. Remember that faith (doctrine, belief) without works (missional, ministry, outreach) is dead (lifeless, ineffective). As we become missional, in obedience to His commands, we demonstrate our faith and fight for it with our actions.
Lets go set people free!
FCS
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Who The Devil Really Hates
I know that the devil hates humans. He hates us because we remind him of The Creator, since we are made in His image. But I think that his hatred towards us is a by product of his disdain for God Himself. You see, as much as the devil is interested in bringing destruction to our lives, he is more interested in discrediting God and "showing/demonstrating", which of course he can not, that God is a liar and that God can not fulfil what He has said and promised.
The Bible shows us glimpses of the behind the scene occurrences that Lucifer, who later became Satan, and God were involved in. We read about Lucifer's creation and his purpose, which was to oversee the worship of God at His throne. you could not have been any closer to Him. We then read about his rebellion and his power of persuasion, which he used to turn the hearts of a third of the angelic host against God. That is an amazing power. I often wonder what and how he told the angels that his way was better than Yahweh's. Lucifer's radiance must have been such that the angels ignored there nature and chose to disbelieve and then to disobey. Later in the New Testament, we read about the disciples rejoicing because they were casting demons, fallen angels, out of people, then Jesus declared to them, that's no big deal, I saw the devil cast out of heaven itself.
The Bible then goes on to describe Satan's new purpose, to convince man that God is unjust and unmerciful. Since the devil and his minions were condemned to an eternal punishment in the flames of hell, he accuses God of being unmerciful. Isn't that just like us humans also. We know when were not suppose to do something wrong, yet we do it and get caught, then we cry foul.
The devil basically challenges God, as we see in the Book of Job, to punish mankind for his disobedience. From the fall in the Garden of Eden, Satan's purpose is to deceive man and then accuse them before God. Because of sin, man now also has to be judged and condemned. But now, God himself becomes man, in Jesus Christ, and vicariously dies for mankind. Upon Jesus, God pours out condemnation and His mercy towards man. He once, again proves that he does not go back on His word or His promises.
The devil really hates that. He hates Gods love and justice towards us in Christ Jesus. He will continue to use his power of persuasion to deceive mankind. He'll sometimes come as an angel of light and at other times as a roaring lion. Yet, have confidence in this, "greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world". Gods love is greater than Satan's hate. Gods love overcomes all fear. In the end, the Book says that we win. - FCS
The Bible shows us glimpses of the behind the scene occurrences that Lucifer, who later became Satan, and God were involved in. We read about Lucifer's creation and his purpose, which was to oversee the worship of God at His throne. you could not have been any closer to Him. We then read about his rebellion and his power of persuasion, which he used to turn the hearts of a third of the angelic host against God. That is an amazing power. I often wonder what and how he told the angels that his way was better than Yahweh's. Lucifer's radiance must have been such that the angels ignored there nature and chose to disbelieve and then to disobey. Later in the New Testament, we read about the disciples rejoicing because they were casting demons, fallen angels, out of people, then Jesus declared to them, that's no big deal, I saw the devil cast out of heaven itself.
The Bible then goes on to describe Satan's new purpose, to convince man that God is unjust and unmerciful. Since the devil and his minions were condemned to an eternal punishment in the flames of hell, he accuses God of being unmerciful. Isn't that just like us humans also. We know when were not suppose to do something wrong, yet we do it and get caught, then we cry foul.
The devil basically challenges God, as we see in the Book of Job, to punish mankind for his disobedience. From the fall in the Garden of Eden, Satan's purpose is to deceive man and then accuse them before God. Because of sin, man now also has to be judged and condemned. But now, God himself becomes man, in Jesus Christ, and vicariously dies for mankind. Upon Jesus, God pours out condemnation and His mercy towards man. He once, again proves that he does not go back on His word or His promises.
The devil really hates that. He hates Gods love and justice towards us in Christ Jesus. He will continue to use his power of persuasion to deceive mankind. He'll sometimes come as an angel of light and at other times as a roaring lion. Yet, have confidence in this, "greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world". Gods love is greater than Satan's hate. Gods love overcomes all fear. In the end, the Book says that we win. - FCS
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