Hunger and Thirst

God gives LIFE to us and He wants to give us even MORE LIFE, life in abundance. In Jesus Christ God reaches out to us and He wants to give us ETERNAL LIFE but sin separates us from God. Without Jesus we can do nothing, without Jesus we don't have LIFE, but if we embrace Jesus then He sets us free from the bondage of sin and we can LIVE in the presence of God, we can have LIFE IN ABUNDANCE.

Those who BELIEVE in Jesus and who OBEY Him will have eternal life but the world rejects Jesus. People rather love the pleasures of sin and choose to go after the desires of their flesh, they reject Jesus and then they come to the end of their life and they spend eternity in damnation, AWAY FROM JESUS because they chose to reject Jesus, to reject LIFE.

If we SEEK Jesus we find Him and He will reveal Himself to us. Jesus said:”Blessed are those who YEARN (hunger and thirst) for righteousness because they will be satisfied.” He said:”Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and then all the other things will be added unto you.” If we SEEK Jesus, we find Him, if we go after Him He will reveal Himself to us, but we have to HUNGER AND THIRST for Him. We have to HUNGER AND THIRST for the RIGHTEOUSNESS that results from OBEYING and FOLLOWING Jesus Christ because then we come into the presence of God, then we have eternal life.

Without Jesus there is NO LIFE, without Jesus there is NO FUTURE. Do you HUNGER AND THIRST for RIGHTEOUSNESS? Do you HUNGER AND THIRST for Jesus Christ? Do you always HUNGER AND THIRST to be in His presence and for the ASSURANCE that he Himself is pleased with you?

May Jesus bless you.

Bible Quoting Sinners - Sons of satan

If you really believe in Jesus Christ then you will FOLLOW and OBEY Him. You will SIN NO MORE. You will be HOLY as He is holy and you will do the WORKS of your Father, God. You will be GUIDED by the Holy Spirit and you will be a SHINING LIGHT in this world, bringing people to REPENTANCE and OBEDIENCE to Jesus Christ.

There are many Bible Quoting Sinners (“Christians”,) unrepentant hypocrites who think that if they quote Bible verse, that they are justified. The devil also quotes the Bible, he quotes the words of Jesus but he does not obey Jesus Christ.

A tree is known by it's fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree does not bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will get cut off and burned. The ax is already lying at the root of the trees and many will get cut off because their fruit show that they are bad trees. They are SONS OF sATAN even though they quote the Bible. Many Bible scholars want to tell others how God thinks and what God will do and how things work in the kingdom of God but they themselves do not even know God. If they knew God they would humble themselves before Him and be taught by HIM, they would not become teachers themselves but they would take others to Jesus so that HE CAN TEACH THEM.

It is about your walk, the FRUIT that you bear. Are you the LIGHT OF THE WORLD? Are you walking in holiness and righteousness and are you bringing people to Jesus so that they can follow Him? Your Bible knowledge will not save you, it is your relationship with Jesus. Without Jesus we can do NOTHING. If you don't have Jesus YOU ARE LOST! Humble yourself before Him, seek Him and He will guide you. He alone is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE, follow HIM!

May Jesus bless you.

According to Jesus Christ

Eternal life is ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST. Jesus Christ alone is the way and the truth and the life. Jesus Christ IS the Word of God. All that matters is what Jesus SAID and what He is SAYING and He Himself will have the LAST SAY.

He will say to many people in that day:”Go away I never knew you, you workers of wickedness,” because they were listening to what other people said. It is not what the pastor says, not what the Bible says, that matters, it is WHAT JESUS IS SAYING RIGHT NOW that matters.

“Man will not live from bread alone but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” Jesus IS God. He is SPEAKING right now. Those who HAVE EARS will LISTEN and they will HEAR Him, OBEY Him and FOLLOW Him, they will have LIFE.

Are you LISTENING to Jesus Christ? Do you HEAR what He is saying? Are you seeking Him and are you following Him? Are you DOING what Jesus Christ is commanding you to do?

May Jesus bless you.

Everything is POSSIBLE

Everything is possible for those who follow Jesus Christ because He Himself goes ahead of them. Many so-called believers say they cannot stop sinning. It is because they are not following Jesus.

Make up your mind, deny yourself, pick up your cross every day and follow Jesus Christ and NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU.

May Jesus Bless you.

Make Every Effort

We read in the gospel of Luke 13:24 that somebody asked Jesus whether those who are being saved are few. Jesus replied and said:”MAKE EVERY EFFORT to enter the narrow door because many will try hard and not be able.” Many believers say that they cannot stop sinning, they cannot obey the words of Jesus, they say they cannot be perfect as Jesus commanded. Jesus said:”Be perfect like your Father in heaven is perfect.”

How much EFFORT are we putting into following and obeying Jesus Christ? How hard are we trying? If we do not put every effort into seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness we will enter! We will not find the narrow door. How much EFFORT are we putting into following and obeying Jesus Christ? Are we putting every bit of energy, EVERY EFFORT into DOING THE WILL OF GOD? Or do we just believe that we will be saved because we believe in Jesus? Then we are living in a fool's paradise.

We have to put EVERY EFFORT into doing the will of God because many will try hard and not be able. How hard are we trying? How much effort are you putting into your relationship with Jesus Christ?

May Jesus bless you.

Be BAPTIZED for FORGIVENESS of your SIN

God will forgive your past sins and cleanse you of unrighteousness IF you REPENT, STOP SINNING. PLEAD JESUS FORGIVENESS and then BE BAPTIZED for the WASHING OFF OF YOUR SIN. After that you are clean but then you must SIN NO MORE. You must not go back to sin. You must follow Jesus Christ and OBEY God in the newness of Spirit and STAY CLEAN. No sinners will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Have you COME CLEAN? Have you had your past sins forgiven? Have you had your sins WASHED OFF? Are you CLEAN? Are you now following Jesus Christ in a NEW, HOLY, RIGHTEOUS LIFESTYLE?

Without holiness no man shall see God. No sinners will enter the kingdom of heaven.

May Jesus bless you.

OBEDIENCE resulting in Salvation

The kingdom of God is about DOING THE WILL OF GOD, being obedient to Jesus unto death. That is why Jesus taught us to pray:”Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done...” If we want eternal life we must SUBMIT to the will of God. We will learn obedience through what we suffer. Jesus Christ, although He was a son, learned obedience through what He suffered.
If you follow Jesus Christ you will have to SUBMIT TO THE WILL OF GOD all the time. It will be HIS WAY and NOT YOUR WAY, at HIS TIME and NOT at YOUR TIME, whatever HE WANTS not what You want. You will learn to OBEY Him through what you suffer. That is how we learn obedience, through suffering. Things will never work out the way that YOU want them to work out or expect them to work out. You will learn long-suffering (patience). That is what the kingdom of God is about.
God's way is the ONLY WAY and that WAY is Jesus Christ alone. LISTEN to Him, FOLLOW Him and OBEY Him regardless of anything else. He will make you CHOOSE. You will have to choose HIS WAY all the time. You will have to DENY yourself and go HIS WAY if you want to enter the kingdom of Heaven and have eternal life.

May Jesus bless you.

Filthy Works

Many believers think that they can buy God's favor by their works, by their Bible study, their church attendance, their support to their favorite charity, the money that they give to the church, supporting the church bazaar, going to the fellowship meetings. They think that it pleases God that they attend Christian fellowship and that they do praise and worship and dancing in the church, participating in the church activities. Those are FILTHY WORKS.
God is not interested in those works. God is interested in one thing only and that is in OBEDIENCE and RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jesus said:”If you love Me OBEY MY WORDS” Jesus wants OBEDIENCE not sacrifice. He does not want your money nor the things that YOU want to GIVE to Him, the sacrifices YOU want to make. What is important to Jesus is that we OBEY HIM and give to Him the HONOR and the RESPECT and the OBEDIENCE that is due to Him, that we SERVE Him as LORD and MASTER. Our filthy works cannot buy the favor of God. God wants OBEDIENCE.

Are we serving God with REVERENCE and FEAR? Do we OBEY the words of Jesus. That is what is pleasing to God. May Jesus bless you.

The Grace of God

There is a lot of misconception about the grace of God. God does not tolerate sin but He grants us forgiveness if we repent and obey Jesus Christ. We read in Titus 2:11”For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12INSTRUCTING US to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, 13looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, 14who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. “

It is clear that if you hope in Christ and the grace of God has come to you then you have turned away from sin and you live a holy and a godly life. We read in 1Peter 1:13"Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14As obedient children, DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THE FORMER LUSTS which were yours IN YOUR IGNORANCE, 15but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”' We are instructed to live in righteousness and in holiness. But if we go back to sin and our previous lifestyle of sin then the wrath of God comes on us, we will perish!

As we read in Hebrews 10:26”For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.” If we go back to sin we can expect to end up in hell UNLESS we repent and turn back to God.

There is grace and there is mercy for every soul who truly repents. We are called to holiness, to live in communion and in relationship with Jesus Christ. We read in 1 John1:5 ”This is the message we have heard from Him(Jesus) and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM AND YET WALK IN THE DARKNESS, WE LIE AND DO NOT PRACTICE THE TRUTH; 7but IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” IF we walk in the Light, but if we do not walk in the Light then we are in darkness, we are NOT IN HIS PRESENCE.

Verse 8 ”If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.

1 John 2:1”My little children, I am writing these things to you SO THAT YOU MAY NOT SIN. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

3By this we know that we have come to know Him, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. (the words that Jesus spoke) 4The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:6the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”
We are called to holiness and righteousness. That is the grace of God, that we might find forgiveness of the sins that we did in our ignorance BUT IF WE GO BACK TO SIN then the WRATH OF GOD WILL COME ON US because He does not tolerate sin. Without holiness no man will see God. If we truly repent we will find forgiveness but we cannot sin every day and repent every day, then we are not in relationship with Him, then we are not walking in the Light. The grace of God leads us to repentance and holiness and righteousness. We must be holy like Jesus Himself who called us is holy. If we are not holy and blameless then we are not fit for the kingdom of God. We must walk daily in righteousness and in holiness in the presence of God or else we are not fit for His kingdom. That is the grace of God, that we might become children of God and be like Jesus.
May Jesus bless you.

It is all about PERFORMANCE

Like everything else in life our relationship with Jesus is also about PERFORMANCE. We will be judged by out deeds. Jesus said that every branch in Him that does not bear fruit will get cut off and burned. He also said:”Why do you call Me Lord, Lord and you do not what I say?”

We need to PERFORM ACCORDING TO THE RULES, we need to perform according to the words of Jesus. The apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 9:24 “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.” We need to PERFORM ACCORDING TO THE RULES, we need to stay active in this race. We must OBEY Jesus, if we want to win the prize. It all depends on our PERFORMANCE.

Satan wants you to believe that you are saved by your faith only, by believing in Jesus, but if you believe in Jesus, you OBEY Him and you PERFORM according to His words. You LISTEN to His Holy Spirit and you FOLLOW Him. You deny yourself, you pick up your cross every day and you follow Jesus.

We will be judged by our PERFORMANCE. The question is: How are we PERFORMING? How did we PERFORM today as children of God? How did we perform as witnesses for the kingdom of God? Were we pleasing to Jesus today? How are we PERFORMING? Are we ready to be cut off and thrown into the fire or are we PERFORMING according to the standard set by Jesus? How is our PERFORMANCE?

May Jesus bless you.

YOUR righteousness will determine your destiny

YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS will determine where you spend eternity.  If JESUS has come into your life and you are a child of God, then you are a righteous man.  Jesus said, I read from Matthew 5:20 “For I say to you that unless your righteousness SURPASSES that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you SHALL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” If you are a child of God then you have repented of the dark works of the flesh and of unrighteousness and you are living in utter righteousness. We will be judged by our deeds and if our deeds are not righteous then we prove that we are not children of God. The apostle John wrote in 1 John 3:6 “6No one who abides in Him sins; and no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 7Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: ANYONE WHO DOES NOT PRACTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, nor the one who does not love his brother.”
Righteousness is not works of the law, it is not about obeying the law of Moses. Righteousness is a result of obeying Jesus Christ, His words. We will be judged by the words of Jesus and if we disobey Jesus we will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL DETERMINE WHERE YOU SPEND ETERNITY.
May Jesus bless you.