Today’s Tweets

A man is only wise to the extent that he heeds God’s word.

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The meaning of Easter? Can you define what it’s supposed to mean?

That Jesus Christ was crucified for the sins of the whole world, and was raised from the dead on the third day, so He can be the Justifier of all who believe on Him.

See Romans 3:23-26

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Now, skin color alone decides which murders are important, making the Left wing narrative more racist than any other narrative.

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“And the LORD sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servants the prophets.”

(2 Kings 24:2)

God can command heathen nations to go to war as His instruments.

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To trust God or not to trust God, that is the question, Willie Shakespeare.

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God, in Christ, has given us the power and responsibility to control our thoughts, words and actions.

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There is no substitute for character.

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True prophets tell you what God wants you to hear, and false prophets tell you what the devil wants you to hear.

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This present world will end soon, and it won’t end well, according to the Bible:

“Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.” (Rev. 1:7)

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The Passover Lamb

“But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”

(Hebrews 10:12-14)

When you’ve seen pictures of Jesus hanging on the cross you might not have seen it in these terms, of a Man offering Himself as a sacrifice for my sins and yours.

Only one offering, one time, it can never be repeated.

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Anyone without a Savior is not saved. And those with a Savior are saved.

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Christian, if you want to know whether all is well, ask yourself, Do I trust Him? If the answer is, Yes, then all is well.

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Turning your back on God is a very hard life.

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Christian, if your life were to end today, would you regret not having given more quality time to God?

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Do you ever think about God?

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A big person will sometimes support people they don’t particularly like. Whereas, the small minded won’t.

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Jesus Christ is the King of Kings.

Then, who or what are His disciples?

The world and the devil conspire against you to make you think you have nothing.

But the devil knows you have everything in Christ, and he has nothing, and he doesn’t want you to realize it.

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The way things are going it’s the ones with the biggest mouths who suppress and control, but Jesus said the meek shall inherit the earth.

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If anything causes even just a ripple in your conscience, take it to God, first.

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The beauty of holiness can only be seen through holy eyes.

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Let us take pleasure only in giving glory to God in everything.

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Three aspects of practical love which non-Christians should experience when they encounter Christians:

• Kindness
• Patience
• Generosity

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“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

However hard the very last days are going to be there’s going to be a significant number of disciples of Jesus who survive and remain to be caught up into the sky to meet the Lord Jesus.

How will they survive?

The Lord will keep them, protect them, and provide for them.

And yet many will also be martyred, as so many have been, and are presently, suffering martyrdom.

If we survive until the day the Lord physically returns, we will join these martyrs, together with them, to “meet the Lord in the air”.

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Maybe the Father has a list of those, His children, who actually still talk to Him?

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In Christ, we are called to love someone who loves us immensely.

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If God is silent to you, did you get the message?

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An atheist says, if God is in control then it means He is responsible for all the evil in the world.

No.

God doesn’t physically prevent you doing whatever you like. If He did then you would not be serving Him because you love Him, but because you’re forced to.

But, at His discretion, He could end your life and send you for judgment at any hour of the day.

So, He’s definitely in control.

But He’s not responsible for the sins we commit. We are.

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The Lords Supper

Taking the meal “in an unworthy manner” (1 Cor. 11:27) would surely also include taking it while knowingly living in a state of hypocrisy: feigning respect, when deep inside we have our heart still set on sin.

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More scary than anything happening in the world is the lack of thinking among Christians.

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Life without God is an entirely meaningless existence. You are just a highly evolved animal, by chance, by accident, and not by any purpose, design, reason or meaning other than the ones you create in your mind, and then you die, cease to exist, and are forgotten forever, as if you never existed.

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Our salvation was very costly, it cost Jesus everything.

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If we become lukewarm:

a. God is robbed of glory due to Him

b. We suffer loss

c. Others suffer loss

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We need to thank God for EVERYTHING we have.

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Mercy always reaches unworthy recipients.

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There are two basic traps:

a. Sin

b. False spirituality

And false spirituality is simply a cover for sin.

Usually, it’s a cover for pride, the worst sin.

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Faith believes God will take care of it.

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You know things are getting bad when whether something is true or not is considered to be a minor detail.

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Out of all the lives which have ever lived on this planet, how does your life compare, on average?

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A Christian is never alone.

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Have you understood and apprehended the promises of God in Christ Jesus?

Take the promises personally.

He promised YOU.

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Christian, are you ready to face the last days, undergirded by this truth alone: “…I will fear no evil for you are with me…” (Ps 23:4)

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“…earnestly contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” (Jude 3b)

A contender fights to keep what is his and what belongs to others. A contender of the faith fights against corruptions of the faith. He will stand in the way of false teachers and earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints by presenting that original faith once delivered to the saints.

The faith was once delivered. There were no further installments.

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Do you have any reason to doubt Jesus Christ?

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When a man is at peace with God he’s certainly at peace with a lot more people than he was before.

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How much do you think God cares about you?

Not at all?

A little?

A lot?

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If you’re a man or woman of God, people should know that if they contact you they’re gonna get prayed for.

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History has taught us that man can’t govern man.

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Those who don’t know God can never see things from His perspective, which is the only perspective that matters.

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You can’t put a monetary value on a true friendship, so we should value friends much more than money.

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Faith is always optimistic.

Pray for your family in Myanmar

Letter from Myanmar:

“First of all I want to beg you to pray for our safety and protection. I pray that the angel of the Lord will continue to surround every home in our country.
The military has taken control and is killing civilians. Every day we needed to collect dead bodies on the road with tears and pains. Banks are being shut down, and it isn’t easy to get online.
It breaks my heart so much. Everywhere is filled with smoke and fire as factories are burned and destroyed. Thousands of people don’t have work, food, and a place to stay now.
Almost all of our church members ran back to their village. There is neither market nor a shop where we can buy food because every road is blocked now. How long will we last if it continues like this!?
Just a while ago, the soldiers’ truck came and stopped near our house. We were terrified; they captured six people who were having tea in the shop. We don’t know what they will do to them. God is my only Hope….”

– from Heart Cry Mission Society

Today’s Tweets

There’s absolutely nothing that can substitute for personally knowing Jesus.

But people have a lot of confidence in substitutes.

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Are you an Ambassador of Christ?

And, if so, are many people aware that you are?

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“If Christ is not at the center of your life, something else is.”

And that something is us.

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The peculiar thing about humans is they are created in the image of God, but sin has disfigured that image.

And the peculiar thing about those in Christ is the disfigured image is re-created into the image of Christ.

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God places equal value on every human life.

It’s only man who considers some lives more valuable than others.

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If you understand how Jesus is different to any other man who’s ever lived, you’ll believe and follow Him.

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Jesus was inclusive toward all, but exclusive in His message.

There is where liberals trip over that Stone.

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Before the Lord saved me I would sometimes think of weird or wacko Christians I had met or seen and then kind of self justify my own life, but deep down I knew that by doing that I wasn’t at all sincere, I was looking for an excuse to justify my sinful life.

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Saw today:

“…almost a Christian…”

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If you have been truly born of the Spirit, then the Holy Spirit of God has been inside you the whole journey, through thick and thin, through joy and pain, through success and failure, and when you felt spiritual, and when you didn’t.

He’s been in you the whole time.

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Update

Did you know that in many parts of the world you can face trouble, imprisonment or death for simply criticizing the government?

Maybe you’re not as oppressed as you think.

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It’s true, baptism doesn’t save, and yet its importance is derived from Jesus command for it, so if a person refuses baptism we know their stance toward the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jesus Christ healed thousands of people from serious diseases. At His command the blind could see, the crippled could run, jump and dance, and even the dead came back to life. And He, Himself, came back to life after being dead for three days.

I believe this, and millions of good people have believed this, over 2000 years, from every nation and language.

Join us at His feet.

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Any estimation of God’s power will be an under estimation.

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“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

1 Timothy 6:10

“straying from the faith”

It’s not that they suddenly despise Jesus or purposely reject Him.

It’s that they have strayed away searching for something else or something more.

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Studying the Laodicean church in Revelation 3.

You know, the average Christian today has far more material wealth and luxury than the rich Christians whom Christ addressed in Laodicea.

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“Now when this epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. And say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.” “

(Col. 4:16-17)

Archippus is assumed to be the prominent elder in the church of Laodicea. We see in Rev. 3 that Laodicea became lukewarm and in danger of being cast off by the Lord. Paul is writing to Collosae, which was a neighbouring city to Laodicea, perhaps twenty years prior. Archippus needs to fulfill his ministry in Laodicea. If he doesn’t, then the church there could be lacking. Perhaps he didn’t fulfill his ministry there, and the church became lukewarm? No one knows. But it seems likely.

We must fulfill our ministry. You must fulfill your ministry.

There has to be fulfillment. Not in part, not an unfinished work.

If you say you don’t have a ministry, what you mean is you don’t serve the Lord Jesus Christ, but your own interests.

Today, a “ministry” is usually a business, which is not a Biblical ministry to begin with.

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How can a Christian support evil things?

Just check how the things you support stand before the Judgment Throne of Christ.

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Jesus’ message…

Pass it on.

It’s His message to man.

He wants us to pass on His message.

Not that hard to do.

It would be much harder if you had to think up your own message.

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Don’t hang your family’s dirty laundry out to air to entertain viewers around the world, if you ever get the chance.

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In the Christian life, whatever is man-made crashes like a house of cards sooner or later.

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Jesus Christ wants to come into the deepest part of your being and make you alive to God.

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The essence of honoring God is in the parts of our life where only He knows whether we are honoring Him.

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Is the Father in Heaven involved in the living of your daily life?

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The Bible says the whole world lies in darkness. You can’t dress it up to make it look like it isn’t. It is.

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Topical

If you’re extremely sensitive to kids being “corrupted” by certain story books or cartoons, but allow them to sit with you and watch filth and perversion, then you’ve got a major contradiction there. Maybe you’re not the great moral crusader you thought you were?

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In the “Bible days” the Bible was written on big scrolls, and you couldn’t walk around with a bunch of huge scrolls and open them every time you wanted to quote scripture. It had to be stored in your heart and mind, or you didn’t have it.

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“And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear”

(1 Peter 1:17)

God never bends the rules for anyone because they’re special. He uses the same standard to measure us all, without partiality.

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A man or woman of God will occasionally say something we like to hear, but they always say what we need to hear.

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The New Testament says Christ becomes the LIFE of His people. He is our LIFE. Not an add on.

So, it’s quite readily apparent in anyone’s life when Christ is truly their LIFE.

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When you speak to your Father, believe He hears every word.

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Over a lifetime, if God answered all the prayers which you prayed according to His will, then, just that alone, would mean your life has had a massive spiritual impact in this world.

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“Abortion stops a beating heart”

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Next to God, a man’s conscience is his best friend.

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There are people out there who, practically, don’t believe anything in the Bible, but they still call themselves Christians. Very slippery dudes. Impersonators.

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If you study history you’ll note that it’s extremely rare for a person of integrity to rule a nation.

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Anyone want to start a new life in America? Now is the time, you can just walk right in.

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If we could see the world through God’s eyes we would weep and weep and weep.

Today’s Tweets

Christian, would you consider yourself bold and courageous? Or, timid, shy and fearful of what others think of you?

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See Revelation 3:14-22

Comments

They were not outwardly immoral, they were lukewarm.

They put a lot of stock in material things, and their social status.

It’s like, If only they were as enthusiastic for Jesus and the extension of His Kingdom as they were for the good things in life.

The Lord Jesus doesn’t comfort them here with knowledge of His sovereignty or providence. He gives them an ultimatum. Many today would resent such an ultimatum. The Pharisees also rejected Jesus’ ultimatum by replying that they are God’s chosen, so no such threats apply to them.

Our human tendency is to think we are more special than anyone else. Some may read Jesus’ stern warning to the Laodiceans and think, That would never apply to me! No chance Jesus would ever spew me out of His mouth! I’m His special, chosen one!

Well, so were they.

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How could you think of everything God has done for you in Christ and not love Him?

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Everything has its proper place, except for things which should have no place in our lives.

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Everyone needs a place to call “home”.

Oh boyyyyy, you should see our home!

Our Father and our Savior are there waiting for us.

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One of the great encouragements for we who have been truly born again is the communion of the Holy Spirit, revealing to us our UNION with Christ: how we are joined to Him by the Spirit of God, so we are IN HIM and HE IN US, and we can never leave His presence or know any distance between us and Almighty God our Father. Fellowship with God. He knows us, and we know Him. He hears us, and we hear Him.

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Most religious leaders will never have to publically answer an intelligent question.

The religious system is designed so they won’t have to face that embarrassment.

The illusion might be shattered if they can’t give an honest and intelligent answer.

But a righteous person never has to fear any question.

The unrighteous do, though. They don’t like to be caught off guard. They need time to prepare an evasive answer.

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While Jesus is the healer, some of this teaching has problems in its assumptions. “On earth as it is in heaven” , if used as suggested here, would mean no one dies, because no one dies in heaven. No one gets tired or weary in heaven, either.

So does that mean that when you die, or get tired, or get sick, that you are out of the will of God and don’t have enough faith?

How many people have been turned away from the Lord because they were told the reason they are not healed is because they don’t have enough faith? And they are out of God’s will?

Regarding an individual knowing whether it is God’s will to heal them: it is a very personal matter. If the individual desires to be healed and decides to trust God, unconditionally, that is, their faith is not dependent on whether they get healed or not, then it’s between them and God, and all true believers will stand with them.

One of the assumptions the article made was that Christians must be convinced that it is always God’s will to heal, every time, in every situation, otherwise, if they don’t believe this, then they will be double minded as to whether it is God’s will to heal them.

This is a faulty assumption.

Generally, yes, God wants to heal.

Generally, yes, a believer can be confident God wants them well to serve Him.

Generally, God is not in the business of making everyone sick.

Yet we can’t make a rule which we don’t see in scripture.

To know His specific will personally, on some things, we are going to have to know Him personally.

A simplistic formula will not suffice.

And we don’t need a simplistic formula in order to have faith and avoid double mindedness.

There are sometimes unpleasant things in life which are God’s permissive will.

Being martyred for your faith could be God’s will for you, but not for someone else.

God doesn’t kill His people. And yet sometimes it’s His will that we be killed for our faith.

It’s not the same will for everyone.

And this understanding is where true faith or trust rests.

A lot of the American stuff is simply an extension of a neurotic mind.

If such people are faced with the reality that God may have a purpose for them to suffer, they can’t countenance that.

They have opted for the Prosperity Gospel to avoid facing reality.

If you could know God’s will through a simplistic formula then you wouldn’t need to know Him. The formula would replace knowing Him.

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What happens when immoral people become the moral police?

Of course, no one should be the “moral police”.

The history of religion and currently, is that some of the most immoral people have set themselves up as the moral police.

Liberalism is also a religion.

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Injustice may not mean much to a person until it happens to them.

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“If we could earn our salvation, Christ would not have died to provide it.”

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The present state of Christianity can be understood by two things:

a. Christians not having time for God.

b. Or… their spiritual life is self seeking or self indulgent – the pursuit of self.

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It’s ironic that Evangelical politicians are mocked for their beliefs when the most powerful politicians in America are Catholic, and no one mocks them for their beliefs. Do you know what the Catholic Church believes? Check it out, you’ll be amazed.

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One sign the Bible is not fiction is that it’s impossible to write fiction as good and as authentic as that. True stories always outshine fictional ones.

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To some:

You seem to be very confident there is no God? Where do you get that confidence from?

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The Washington swamp has found a convenient decoy in “dangerous” children’s cartoon characters to distract from child trafficking, child porn and paedophile networks under their protection.

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If you run out of reasons to live, at least live for your Creator and Savior. He would like that very much.

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In former times people became famous because they actually did something, or achieved something. Those days are gone.

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What is it with the current Victimhood fad?

If everyone is a victim, no one is responsible.

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Though all creation defies the theory of evolution, the human mind and psyche, in particular, defies it the most. As amazing as all the organs and systems in our bodies are, the brain is on another level altogether. Yes, it’s just a piece of jelly-like meat, but there’s a world within a world inside that clump of tissue, because the physical world is simply that, but the brain goes beyond the physical. The human mind is far more than physical.

Muscles are physical. Organs are physical. But a purely physical brain would not work.

I want you to think about your thought life, and how you control it. Particularly, your desires in life. Is your brain telling you what to do, or are you telling it what to do? Does the brain control it’s own function, or is there something higher up the order than the brain which controls desires, plans, creates, dreams, aspires, or… loves?

Is love merely a set of electrical or hormonal transmissions within the brain?

Who controls what you think and speak?

Is there some hidden recess in my brain that’s firing up right now, shooting electrical connections, chemical reactions, and thus compelling me to write this down or think about this subject?

And is this subject simply some kind of neurological data code somehow imprinted deep inside that piece of meat?

Christians believe man has a spirit, and this life force or inner being rules his brain insomuch that the brain is an instrument of man’s spirit. Man’s spirit controls his mind, like software, and his brain carries out the functions, like hardware.

This seems self evident by the ability we have to contemplate how our own mind works in a self-aware way.

How can an object step outside of itself to view itself?

And only we humans are self-aware. That is, only we can look into ourselves and analyze, understand and appreciate ourselves.

How could a mere clump of tissue and cells analyze it’s own motives, and why it does what it does?

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In Christ’s kingdom and economy there is no “great” work or “small” work, there is only the work of God, and everything He does is wonderful.

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Today’s Tweets

The Antichrist will simply fill the vacuum in society which apostate Christianity has created.

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The religion of wokeness wants to dominate all religions, and is against freedom of religion.

The church of wokeness has many wannabe popes.

All this “woke” “cancel culture” stuff is a cultural and political power game, and also a spiritual onslaught. It’s not really about the issues it purports to be about at all, they are just a means to an end, which is to silence Conservatives and Christians and gain power over them. Immoral people are trying to be the arbiters of morality, reminiscent of past religious inquisitions.

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They want ID for everything except for voting. Ya gotta be cynical.

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The Lord Jesus knew that the only way we could live with Him forever was by Him being nailed to a cross, pouring out His blood, and paying the penalty for our sins. And He was willing to pay the price.

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What role does the Holy Spirit play in your life?

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“Jesus”, “Christ”, and “Jesus Christ” are the most popular expletives or cuss names. You rarely hear anyone else’s name.

He must really affect their conscience.

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Regarding the Pope’s interfaith dialogue in Iraq.

The Pope doesn’t represent the Christian faith, the New Testament does. If you want to understand the Christian faith you must read the New Testament, not listen to the Pope.

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Every person is a masterpiece of creation, yet fallen because of sin.

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Perhaps people had less psychological problems back in the day when if they didn’t get out and work the land they would starve.

The subject is, what happens to a person’s mind when they don’t have to work and can live on handouts?

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The Christian life is full of Biblical principles, and these are actually Jesus’ own principles, and if we know Him we will make His principles our own.

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“If gender is only a social construction then all sports should be co-ed.”

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True Christianity is a perpetual dialogue with the infinite God.

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Discouragement can be a great lesson from the Lord for us, sifting us, and forcing us to confront the REAL reason we serve Him and what our TRUE ambitions are.

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We have a free choice to decide what we will believe, but no such choice as to whether we will be judged by God.

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To defy the order of things which God has determined is to defy God.

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I know that nationalistic idolatry is a big problem.

I think it’s not such a simple subject.

I don’t believe God gives a hoot whether someone says the pledge of allegiance or not.

He knows what they mean in their heart.

When we sign a binding contract we are not necessarily becoming a slave to a master.

If I agree to obey the laws of the land it doesn’t necessarily mean the government is now my master, because the law of the land will apply to me whether I agree or like it, or not.

I’ve seen Americans going to both extremes.

Legally, I can’t see what the point is of pledging allegiance to a government or even to Christ because, legally, a pledge means nothing, because people will be subject to the authority whether they pledge or not.

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True Christians believe there is a supernatural dimension inhabited by God and angels, and also evil spirits.

Of course, many in the western world find this primitive, unscientific, medieval thinking.

But, so what?

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The most persistent enemy is self, because he’s always with us.

No, Christians don’t hate themselves, but they don’t love themselves, either.

A born again person is a new creation, their spirit, or inner man, has been reborn with eternal life. But their mind and emotional side has not been regenerated, but it is in a process of renewal.

So, a Christian has a new nature and an old nature living side by side, and warring with each other.

The old nature is self or the flesh, which is to be denied.

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The human condition is to try and escape or avoid God by finding a substitute for Him.

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Just met a brother who told me that, before he became a Christian, when he was in high school, he was failing badly in most subjects. Someone invited him to a Bible study. He heard how King Solomon asked God for wisdom and then became the wisest man on earth. So, he said that he thought he would ask God the same thing, because that’s what he badly needed. Straight away there was a change, in that he became interested in the subjects he was studying, and rather than just memorize answers, he wanted to understand the principles behind it, and how and why it is that way. Gradually he began to excel, and some time later he became a Christian, and he went on to be a Doctor, and now, years later, has been greatly used by God in the medical field.

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Humanists are the first to lose their humanity.

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Everything about our existence we need to give God the credit for.

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According to what Jesus said, you can know, without a doubt, exactly where you’re going after you die.

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What if the true meaning of life is not politically correct?

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Trust Him with the future.

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With all the talk of the Left being offended with everything, have you thought about what it means when God is offended?

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In the wake of the Ravi Zacharias scandal let’s remember Jesus taught that wrong thoughts are the same as the corresponding action in God’s sight. To think about doing wrong is the same as doing wrong.

So, with public cases like Ravi, this is only the tip of the iceberg, in reality.

And perhaps there are some who are disgusted by Ravi who are worse than him.

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Has God forgiven all your sins? Yes or No.

If He forgave us all our sins, but refused to forgive just one of them, we would be separated from Him forever.

How much have you been forgiven?

What did it cost God to lawfully forgive you?

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The joy of knowing Him.

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No Christian should think himself unemployed because the King has employed him in His service.

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The Tweets are long today because I couldn’t get connected to

Today’s Tweets

Giving God our time is a primary way we honor Him.

And no one can say they have no time to give Him.

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Billions of people have lived on this planet, and each had their turn to live for their Creator, and now it’s your turn, and your opportunity.

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Peace on earth does not come prior to Jesus physical and bodily return to judge the world. To believe otherwise is to open oneself to the great delusion of false peace which will accompany the Antichrist.

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Jesus never ever received an unrepentant sinner. The preaching that He does receive them is one of the great deceptions of our time.

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With God, having understanding or knowing does not mean full comprehension. We should know what God expects us to know. A disciple is not on a mission to know and understand everything about God, but rather, what God wants him to know.

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All is well with Christ Jesus.

And if you get with Him then all will be well with your soul.

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Grace can’t be improved upon or added to, it can only be received, responded to, and applied, or rejected.

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How much do your prayers mean to you?

How much do they mean to God your Father?

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God doesn’t judge unrepentant sinners because He hates them or is vindictive but because He is true to His word, and just and holy.

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If you try to illegally slip through immigration you’re a felon, but if you can skip across the border somewhere you’re a “migrant”.

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Everything is providential AND for everything man does he is responsible to God.

Some find in providence a refuge from responsibility: it’s all up to God and not up to them.

And others lean too much on responsibility and can’t see God’s providence: it’s all up to them and not up to God.

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Jesus died for you. Now, how could you think this is not enough and He should have done more?

Jesus died so you can live.

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You’d be amazed how much stuff is going to be cancelled once Jesus comes back.

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Read what Jesus taught about life after death.

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On the question of, What were the “signs of an Apostle”? (2 Cor. 12:12) That is, how did the miraculous in Apostles differ from the miraculous in non Apostles?

I would offer a partial explanation like this:

Jesus taught that God will answer the prayers of anyone as far as that prayer reflects the specific will of God.

Theoretically, then, and there’s no reason to believe otherwise, that any believer could pray for even the greatest and most fantastic miracles and recieve them if it is God’s will and if they have faith.

The NT says God confirmed the message of the Apostles with signs following.

There is only one message.

And God has already confirmed it.

There is no new message, therefore there’s no message which needs confirming today.

The true Gospel is already confirmed by God.

However, the NT also describes another function of signs and wonders:

“For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient — in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.” (Rom. 15:18-19)

So here we see God convincing people of Himself through the miraculous. It’s something more than just validating the Apostles, it is God convincing people about God’s power and reality.

So we see in scripture that God sometimes uses the miraculous to convince or awaken people, and also the devil uses the same method to convince people to follow false prophets.

Anecdotally, millions have come to Christ through supernatural encounters or healings.

Millions also have come to Him without the miraculous, and yet their conversion was just as miraculous.

But back to the question.

The original Apostles had something more than the common spiritual operation of praying for the sick and seeing God heal them.

The difference is authority.

In Jesus ministry He didn’t pray for the sick.

He usually gave them a command.

And as they obeyed Him they were healed.

Now, you can try that out, and go around telling people in wheel chairs to stand up and walk, but I don’t think you’ll get far if you don’t have the authority from God to do it.

But you can pray and God can answer.

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Traditionally, weren’t Liberals supposed to support free speech?

So, we see the real issue today is not so much free speech for all, but that only a select group in society is allowed freedom of speech.

The Left is allowed all the hate speech and violence its heart desires, but let a Conservative cross the line and…. Cancel him!

Thugs will become the moral police.

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Looking at the current situation in western society, there is a puppet master and plenty of puppets.