THE LOVE OF GOD FOR US : JESUS IS MIGHTY TO SAVE

THE LOVE OF GOD FOR US : Christ is Mighty to save

Here is a wonderful story to illustrate the Love of our Father for us.
There was this woman living outside Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, she was very poor and lived in such a poor place and her greatest fear was that she had such a beautiful daughter and she knew that when this daughter of hers grew up she would go to Rio de Janeiro to make a better life and she knew what would happen to her daughter if she went there.
One day the woman came home and the daughter was gone. there was a note that said: GONE TO RIO TO FIND A LIFE. Knowing what would happen, she took all the money she had and bought a bus ticket to Rio de Janeiro. Before she went, she went to a photo shop and spent some of the money to make pictures of herself, and when she reached Rio de Janeiro, she spent months there searching every hotel, every restaurant, every movie house, all the discotheques, everywhere, and every where she went she left a picture of herself.
Finally she ran out of money and went home.

One night her daughter was coming down the stairs of a hotel and she was with a man, she had become a prostitute, she looked like she had aged 15 years and she comes down the stairs she feels like she's going to die. She looks over in the mirror she sees how she's aged and suddenly something catches her eyes and she sees a picture of her mother, she grabs it, she cannot believe it and she turns it over and on the back she reads this: I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME AND I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, PLEASE COME HOME.

It sounds like the summary of what God says to us in the new testament:
I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME AND I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, PLEASE COME HOME. MY SON HAS PAID FOR IT ALL ON THE CROSS, NOW COME HOME.

Some of us who are young are going to ruin their lives, some of us adults bear scars, they seem like they will never be removed because of the sins in our lives, some of us the only thing we have seen about Christianity is a dead religion, but we serve a living God who has sent us a living Saviour and He calls all men to turn from their sins and come back to Him and those who come to Him He will not cast out, let us trust in Christ, He is such a Saviour, He is Mighty to save, let us not let anything come in between us and getting to know Him.

God is LOVE and He has provided a Saviour and if we do not come to Him the fall will be ours.

FLEE FROM LUST AND SEXUAL SIN by Paul Washer

It is the will of God that we keep ourselves from sexual immorality
true love for God and for others will lead to sexual purity. Sexual impurity is one of the greatest demonstration of selflove, self idolatry and  of lovelessness for God and others.Some people say that all men struggle with sexual. They should rather keep in mind that all men should fear sexual immorality and constantly be aware of the dangers, by the way not every man struggle with this.

1Corinthains 10:13 :no temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is Faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape that you my be able to endure it

sexual impurity is one of the most dangerous sins and it en-globes fornication, prostitution, pornography, masturbation, homosexuality and any other type of act, belief or concept that will contradict the Word of God with regard to the physical.

Fornication has to do with any sexual activity outside the sacred vows of marriage and pornography comes from the greek word pornographos, porne which prostitute and graphos which means riding.

Abstinence is one of the most essential basic requirements of christian life. if we have not mastered this, we have not even achieved, accomplished or arrived to the first run of what it means to be a Christian.

Roman 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

so it is like a man sleeps with one thing (for instance, a woman) and another thing (for instance a child) and another thing (for instance a man with another man) and another thing ( for instance an animal) until his concience is gone. once they fed on a tiny thing they  want more and more, the things that seemed to be dark are no longer dark enough and they go for another darker until they are finally consumed by darkness.

That is why we young people should guard our eyes.
Proverbs 4:23 : above everything, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.


Those who do this can no longer inherit the Kingdom of God. But we do not talk about this anymore, do we?
It seems to have become an old concept, but the Bible certainly does, and there are several texts that talk about the same thing:
1 Corinthians 6:9
Galatians 5:21
Ephesians 5:5-6
Revelations 21:7-8
Revelations 22:14-15


They that did and continue to do it were never born again. That is not what a believer does, he does not continue in these things. To live in sexual impurity is to refuse to embrace the Glorious reason for which our body was created and to give our body and ourself to the most vile thing in the world.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”¹⁷ But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
¹⁸ Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies.

So sexual immorality is a horrible, vile, flagrant, arrogant and shameful way to deal with the presence of the Lord within us.

Let us flee sexual immorality.

There was time when these things should have been addressed to men only but nowadays women have become as shameless as men.


Someone in the church will think within themselves, but who can see what i am doing. the Church is not only a spectacle to men, but it is also a spectacle to Angels who are supposed to see only the Grace and the Glory  of the Lord among us and rejoice and the fallen be ashamed  and humiliated. but when we practice sexual immorality, the angels the saints mourn and the demons glow .
i pray that the spirit opens the ears our our understanding, our spiritual eyes to see what is really going o.

There is only a way to deal with sexual immorality, it is to have no mercy upon it kill it. We should be careful the things we do, the things we share and talk about, the things we watch, the people we spend time with. Again we should guard our hearts.


1Corinthian 5:11:  But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister^[a] but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people

Matthew 5:28
i say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart
Proverbs 4:23 : above everything, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.


Let us take the power of Christ to deal with these things. Our souls depend upon it. The future generation, our future children depend upon it, Christ will judge sexual immorality in the church.

Revelation 2:12-16
To the church in Perganum
To the angel of the church in Perganum, write:

These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. ¹⁵ Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Let us not be deceived and remain careful about the modern terms and ways to define things. What was called pornography even 30 years ago nowadays is no more called pornography, let us be careful about what the world is teaching us. In nowadays movies you see people sleeping together and still it is ok to be displayed on tv on regular hours.

LET US FLEE LUST AND SEXUAL SIN.

WEAKNESS BY PAUL WASHER

Recognizing our weakness drives us immediately to God, believing that He is the fountain that he claims to be, that He is the Source and the Helper that He claims to be, that He is the Owner of unlimited resources that for some reason He does not hand out to us as his children but let rain on us, and let us benefit from.

The issue with us and the reason why we cannot see, feel or experience all of this is that we do not recognize that we are weak, or we do but decide to remain in our weakness.

Weakness is supposed to drive us to God. It is the devil who keeps condemning us as he wants us to believe that we cannot run back to God anytime for a sin we have committed over and over again in spite of repentance, so that we stay away.

This leads us to believe that  we do not love God and therefore have to put ourselves in a penalty box at least for a couple of days and try to work our way back into faith before we come back to Him. We think we cannot keep asking God for forgiveness and expect Him forgive and cleanse us immediately for the same sin knowing we might do it again. We think to ourselves: isn't that hypocrisy? Isn't that a law view of God? Isnt that treating God as a forgiveness machine?

I have been there so many times and keep struggling with this.

No, as Paul Washer said, it is biblical,  it is what poverty of spirit is supposed to do to us.
Most of us Christians apparently believe ourselves to be who we are not, and expect ourselves to be perfect.
The Bible says there is no condemnation for those who are Jesus. That's it. Jesus is the key. So anytime it happens, that is when we have to grab Christ and claim that we believe in his promises. We should understand that we are in a different realm now, that we are free and saved, we have been removed out of Adam's way, all of our sins have been paid for.
One thing that should remain clear to us is that we will never be able to this on our own, that would only keep us away from God and that is exactly what satan wishes for, so that he can strike at will. Let us remember: "Jesus is the Key".

A LONG LETTER TO MY FATHER

Abba Father who is like You ?

I have been on earth for a while now and i have not seen, nor heard of anyone like You.

Whenever i take a moment to talk to You, there is like a movie playing into my mind and i can remember everything You have done so far for me and your promises come true.

Sometimes it feels so unrealistic, i would say so good, so beautiful that it is hard to believe that You talk to me. Yet You gave me the necessary faith, and opened the eyes of my understanding to see it was really You talking to me.

That peaceful voice would tell me Sabine you're not dreaming, the devil cannot read your thoughts and therefore cannot be answering your secret questions just like i am doing right now.

You re conciliated me to You and to myself.

Father anytime i think about how You have been protecting me...... Oh God i was living unworried, not knowing i was near death's mouth, You showed me in many dreams, You called my Name, but i was too busy pursuing worldly things to see that my own life was at stake.

If i am still here, that is because You said no. Father, being the God You are , being Lord and Majesty, You humbled Yourself to come after the little creature i am out the billions you have created, instead of me running after You. Though You had me aware, but i would not listen,Your Hand, Your Love, Your Grace , Your Mercy, Your Favor were still covering me through this valley of shadow of death.

Father many are gone who were not worse than i am right now, i still do not have any clue which basis You chose on, but like You said, your Grace is sufficient for me.

People claimed to love me and would encourage me to follow them instead of following You. I believed them, and because of that i was not having time for You anymore. I would do anything to please them, in spite of what they would hurt me often. Then this dark chapter of my life came up and suddenly they were all now too busy, to see me or talk to me. I was no longer good for them, being sick and jobless, not good looking, having lost my shine and not being able to serve them anymore like before.

At a point even the closest ones were getting tired of my condition. I was feeling so alone, so sad and rejected, discouraged, abandoned, living in fear as i could feel death was near and it could be any moment from then, but i was trying to find a place into my heart to believe that the game was not yet over.

I then desperately started trying to find my way back to You. I would do it trying to convince myself that i was doing it the right way. I was becoming bitter and bitter and would blame everyone whatever was happening to me.

But oh Lord in Your Mercy, though i would not really mind You, You gathered whatever was left of my soul, completely broke it and day after day made something beautiful out of it, and sent Your Spirit to dwell into me and would watch me all the time.

The deliverance process was long and painful, but i am so grateful that at last i am still here. I remember having dreams, and being the daughter of whose daughter i am, knowing the people i know, i was never able to bring them to life.

Worse, they were fading away day after day. Then i reached a point where i had completely lost hope , i thought to myself what was the point of having dreams that would never come true.

You progressively taught me to completely rely on You which i started doing and in less than a month, You blessed above all that i could ever imagine. You took me to places i never thought i would ever be, made me eat at the tables of people i never thought i would ever meet in my life. You would walk ahead of me anytime i moved, your Angels bearing me up in their hands and keeping my feet from being snared, Holy spirit talking to me and comforting me. And here am i today, people who know all about it are amazed at what i am still standing up and still into the race. They have been surprised as it looked like i was done.

Father who will dare come before my face and tell me that i am too young to live my life the way i am living it now ? That i should forget about Church and service and Jesus and follow fleshy and worldly desires ? Months ago they were ashamed having to talk to me, as i looked like nothing and did not fit to be their friends. Some of them used and gave me up when i needed them the most. And now that You have rebuilt me, all of a sudden they remember that i exist and want me to go and sit with them and drink ?

Where were they when i was sick ? Sad ? Abandoned ? Poor? Not good looking ? Dying ?

Human beings beings want you when you are at you're best.

But oh Father you want us most when we're at our worse.

Lord i am merely a human being and i know that i have never been able to do anything good on my own, but i have taken the pledge and take it again this day, i shall live and serve You all the days of my life. My children shall know and glorify Thy Name. They shall serve and be consecrated to You.

Taking that pleadge oh father i am not relying on my own strength, but on Yours, knowing that the Same God who saved me when i was lost into the World shall forever keep me at His feet and complete whatever He started in my life. He shall keep my Head above the water,both He and i shall not be ashamed, and i will not be the one to put a barrier to His plans for my life. Father as i have voluntarily taken that pledge, no matter what it takes, i belong to You now, so whenever You see me drift away or do things that are contrary to your words even a little, spank me, scold me, punish me like a Father with his child do whatever it takes to bring me back on track.

I shall trust You with all that i am. I asked You to let thy Perfect Will be done into my life.

Dear Father, my heart have i poured out to You through this letter.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING BORN AGAIN

John 3:3  And Jesus answered and said unto Him, verily verily i say unto you, except a man be born again, He cannot see the Kingdom of God.

We are not automatically Christians or born again or converted or saved.
In Matthew 18: 3 Jesus said verily verily i say unto you, except you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

So one was ever born a Christian or a Child of God. They become by choice.
John 1 : 12-13 But as many as received Him ( Jesus), to them gave He power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on His Name. Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh , nor of the will of man, but of God.


The Bible is full of examples of conversions: that of Nicodemus, paul and others.

In order to get born again, we must 
-recognize our sinfulness
Most of us fail to see ourselves as serious sinners. We feel like we are a good person. We tend to compare ourselves to others instead of God's standards (the 10 commandements) still being important in the eyes of God unto this day. Let us see how we rate as compared to the ten commandements:


1) you shall have no Gods before me (exodus 20:3)
 No one can claim they have never put anything ahead of God ( money, career, ownself-centered goals, pleasure, sport, entertainment, sin, vice, a relationship, ocult practices etc..)

2) you shall not make unto yourself any graven image  or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in earth beneath or that is under the water under the earth...
Many have been guilty of inventing a god of their own imagination and liking who suits them. People want a god that overlooks sins and take everyone to heaven. They have improvised and dreamed up a god of their own image, not to mention the represention of Jesus through imagery and representation and worship  of images and statutes of Mary.

3) you shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guitless that takes His Name in vain.
Let us carefully, for God keeps records of everytime we have used His Name as a curse word and we shall answer for it one day.

4) Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. Six days shall you labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God: in it, you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man or woman servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is whithin your gates.
        To God the Sabbath is the day that follows the six working days. it is the seventh day. That day should be His day, everything we do and say shall revolve around Him.
How many of us can claim they ve made that day Holy for the Lord? That they make no one in their house work in this day. That they celebrate the Lord and consecrate that day to Him alone? Or that they have never missed the opportunity to gather together with theirs asssemblies in the Name of the Lord in that day?


5)Honour your Father and your Mother.
How many of us can claim that they were never been disrespectful towards their parents, that they always listenned to their advices and honored them?

6) you shall not kill.
How many of us can claim, as a woman to have never committed abortion or supported anyone who did? How many men can claim they never urged a woman to commit abortion before as they were not ready to have a child or yet another child? how many parents urged their children to commit abortion in order to protect them and themselves from the shame of having children outside marriage or before they have been able to complete their studies and get a job?

7)You shall not commit adultery.
How many can claim they have never committed aldultery when Jesus said in Matthew 5:28 that whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed aldutery with her already in his heart.
Besides how many can claim that they have never been with someone else whilst their wife or husband is at home waiting for them or that they have never been with someone else's wife or husband? Nowadays, not many.

8) you shall not steal.
How many of us can claim that they have never taken anything that does not belong to them. Even something small or even the boss's time to go at some place?

9)you shall not bear false witness against your nieghbor.
Who can claim they never lied before in order to cover themselves or someone they love. Well whenever we did someone else who was innocent had to bear the guilt.

10)you shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
Have you ever desired something that you do not neccessarily need just because you saw on it with someone else. Have you ever looked at someone with envy? Have you ever been ungrateful?

Most people are guilty of breaking all ten commandements. Many places in the Bible reaveal that liars, adulters, thieves, the covetous etc... shall spend eternity in hell ( Rev 21:8, 1 Cor 6:9-10, Gal 5:19:21).

HOW COULD YOU EVER EXPECT TO GET TO HEAVEN BY LIVING A GOOD LIFE?
Roman 3:10  As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.
Roman 3:23 For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.
Roman 6:23 For the wages of sin is death.

We cannot possibly get to Heaven by keeping the Law ( the 10 commandements).

The law was given by God to show us how much we need forgiveness by accepting the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for our sins. The Bible says , the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith ( Galatians 3:24)

We are condemned on our own and need a Savior. 
Once we recognize it, we are qualified to be saved.
Jesus said, the Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost. This is the key to being born again.

Many foolishly attempt to make themselves acceptable by their own works.

In Rom 10:1-3 Paul says for i i bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge( Bible) for they being ignorant of God righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God ( the sacrifie of Jesus on calvary).
Trying to work our way to Heaven is an insult to God.
Jesus said in Matthew 7:21-23 Not everyone that says unto me Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but he that does the will of my Father who is in Heaven. Many will say unto me that day Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in Your Name? And in Your Name have cast out demons? And in Your Name done many wonderful works?And I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me you that work iniquity. 
Sadly they were trusting their own goodness and works instead of the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins.

Jesus is our Substitute sacrifice for sin
The Bible says that, Christ died for our sins according to the scripture ( 1 Cor 15:3). Jesus paid for our sins ( hell) on the cross.

We cannot therfore born again by earning it.
Titus 3:5 says Not by work of righteousness which we have done, but according to His Mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 2:8-9 says For by Grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast.
All our faith must be in Jesus Christ 100%.

Getting to Heaven cannot be both by grace and by works.
Roman 11:6 says And if by Grace, then it is no more of works. Otherwise, Grace is no more Grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more Grace. Otherwise, work is no more work.
Therefore we conclude that man is justified (saved by faith) without the deeds of the Law ( Rom 3:28).

Any verses in the Bible eluding to doing good works are always addressed to an already born again Christian, encouraging him to faithfully serve the Lord after being saved.
Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying  and these i desire that your affirm constantly, that they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Baptism has nothing to do with us getting to Heaven. 
In fact, St Paul said Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel (1 Cor 1:7).
The thief on the cross went to Heaven without ever being baptized. You won't find a baby baptized in the Bible, nor anyone else before being born again.
 However, after some have been saved, they should follow the example of Christ by being baptized by immersion in a true Bible practicing Church.

But remember we are saved by the Blood of Christ, not the water of the baptisery.

Ephesians 1:7 In Whom we have redemption through the Blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His Grace.
Roman 5:9-10 Much more then, being now justified by the Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were ennemies, we were reconciled to God by death, we shall be saved by His Life.

Would you like to be saved now? 

Pray this prayer to Jesus and mean it with all your heart:

Lord Jesus i know i am a sinner, i know i sinned against You and unless You save me i am lost forever. I thank you for dying for me on the cross. I come to You now and ask You to save me. I now receive You as my Lord and Savior and renounce to satan and any satanic activity into my life. Please cleanse me from inside out with Your blood and renew my spirit. I declare i am now Your servant and a child of God Almighy. Take out of my life anything that does not glorify Your name and use me to save as many souls as possible for the advancement of Your Kingdom. AMEN.