Oh! What Beauty There Is In Communing With God!

Oh! How wonderful it is that such wicked creatures can commune with such a Holy God! Who are we that God desires to be with us? Who are we that God would desire to deal with us in our daily lifes? What would make God seek to shine His face upon us? My only answer to that is that He is love!

Oh! What beauty there is in the fellowship with the King Of kings and Lord of lords! The Lord Jesus who rules the hearts of rulers with the simple movement of His hand (Proverbs 21:1), seeks fellowship with us!

If you can relate to this hymn, you are one happy person!

I serve a risen Savior, He’s in the world today,
I know that He is living, whatever men may say;
I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer.
And just the time I need Him, He’s always near.

He Lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way
He Lives, He lives, salvation to impart!
You ask me How I know He lives?
HE LIVES WITHIN MY HEART.

We serve a Savior that is always with us! He is within us! He will never forsake us!
If all your friends forsake you, Jesus will not!
The world hates you, Jesus does not!
The world is unkind and full of God haters, But Jesus is with you!!

OH! There is no need to fear, Jesus is with you!
All the trials you go through are nothing compared to the peace Jesus can give you!
All these present sufferings cannot compare with sweet communion with Jesus who is always there

May we seek daily to praise Him for His desire to be in and with us! Make we also seek to fellowship with Him!

Does God Actaully Love You?

Is this western generation getting the wrong message that God loves them? As they recieve the message "God Loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life" they see God as one that approves their lifestyle and has unconditional love for them despite their deep hatred toward Him. Does God actually love eveyone? Lets Go to His word for the answer.

Psalm 11:5 The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates

Psalm 11 is clear about the intentions of those who love violence and then David explains that The Lord is righteous and He loves righteousness. God hates those that seek to murder and take the lives of the righteous.

Psalm 10:3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Again David lets us know of the actions of the wicked and their boastful hearts. God Commands that man not covet, therefore those that BLESS those that covet approve it and glory in it. David explains that God abhors them. Abhor is even a harsher word with the meaning of detesting and to loathe.

This generation needs to know that God is extremely angry with them and that He commands them to repent. Their sins will call them to the judgment seat of Christ who is absolutely just and holy, therefore will judge with the full extent of the Law in mind.

Those that expect to have no existence after their body dies will be terrified with the reality that they rejected their whole lives.

God has sent Jesus Christ, His only Son, to live a life that you could not live and applies it to yours. He died a death you could not die and applies it to you and then was raised from the dead so that you would be justified before God. If only you repent of your sins and believe in Christ will you escape the perfect Justice of God.

On Fire For Christ?

Yesterday, I received a phone call around noon. It reminded me of a man named Galloway. He was a security guard at Hawthorne High School. I first met him when I heard him bashing Jesus Christ and preaching Islam to another Christian. He walked toward me. It angered me to hear what he was saying about the LORD. He said in a loud voice, as he walked toward me, "Jesus was nothing but a prophet." I confronted him saying, "Jesus is God, who is coming to judge the living and the dead!" He smirked with a pompous look and walked away.

In my attempts to witness to this muslim, there were several heated confrontations. As I walked into a small bathroom, I saw him snorting water into his nose, bare feet, with his rug, ready to pray. It felt weird walking in on him. He got upset, I was interrupting his prayer session. I had to go number 2. He said his god would not hear him if I was there doing my business. I responded, my God hears me whenever, wherever.
He picked everything up and left.

The last meeting I had with him, was between bells in front of many students. He got loud as he attacked Christ. His goal was to intimidate me. He did, in front of much of the school this day. In a loud voice he said, "You'll be sorry when you meet Jesus and find out He is muslim. As students looked on, I cowered within and found the strength to tell him he had better repent and believe in Christ as the son of God, who will judge the world and turn from his false god. Again, he walked away and I went my own way.

His car had broken down once and he needed a ride. In spite of the tension between us, I offered him a ride. He had accepted. I was able to share Christ with him again but he still refused. He explained to me that he had been a Christian once, but has now found out that allah is the true god. I simply reminded him that perhaps his mother has prayed for him to come to Christ. He affirmed she did. I eventually left that job. I returned and left him Muhammed's Believe It or Else. This was a comic book explaining the beliefs of Islam and their absurdity.

A friend who works at the school continued to befriend him and share the gospel with him. Let me go back to the phone call, I had missed the original call so I checked my message. It went like this, "Brother remember Galloway, another teacher just told me that he was found dead in his home over the weekend. He had suffered a heart attack. Now he knows who the true God really is."

I was shocked for a moment. This man's time was up. Because he believed a lie, doctrines of demons, he payed the ultimate price. Unless he repented, and confessed Christ, he entered into the presence of Eternal Justice without Christ as his advocate. He entered into eternal damnation, thinking he was going to glory. I realize that sharing the gospel is a great responsibility and more than that, a command from the LORD. There are masses serving false gods and living for a lie. These are going into eternal perdition moment by moment! Think of how many are perishing worldwide this instant! In light of all this as Francis Schaeffer said, "How should we then live?"

Hail Sovereign Love

Hail Sovereign Love which first began, the scheme to rescue fallen man. Hail Sovereign free, eternal grace which gave my soul, a hiding place. Against the God who ruled the sky, I fought with hand uplifted high, despised the mention of His grace, too proud to seek, a hiding place.

Enwrapped in thick Egyptian night and fond of darkness more than light, madly I ran the sinful race, secure without a hiding place, but thus Eternal Counsel ran, Almighty love ARREST that man, I felt the arrows of distress, and found I had no hiding place.

To Sinai's fiery Mount I flew, Eternal Justice stood in view, but Justice cried with frowning face, "This mountain is no hiding place. Ere long a heavenly voice I heard, and Mercy's Angel soon appeared. He lead me on with gentle pace, to Jesus as my hiding place.

Should seven fold storms of thunder roll and shake this earth from pole to pole, no thunder bolt shall daunt my face, with Jesus as my hiding place, a few more rolling suns at most, shall land safe on Canaan's Coast, where I shall sing the song of grace, and see my glorious Hiding Place!

This hymn takes me to the moment when Christ arrested this wretched man. He poured torrents of living water and brought to life a man that was dead. Hail Sovereign Love.

Man In His Fallen Estate

Excerpt from Pink's Archive:

"Again, Man in his natural state is a beast, yea below the beasts that perish. In two things he strongly resembles them; in looking no higher then to sensual gratification, and in that selfishness of spirit which prompts him to propose himself and his own interest as his proper and highest end. But in many respects he sinks sadly beneath them. Unnatural lusts, and the want of natural affection toward their offspring , are abominations not to be found among the brute creation. What shall we say of mothers destroying their children with their own hands, or of the horrid act of self-murder! Men are worse than beasts likewise, in their obstinacy; they will not be warned. If a beast escapes from a trap he will be cautious how he goes near it again, and in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. But man, though he be often reproved, hardens his neck; he rushes upon his ruin with his eyes open, and can defy God to his face, and dare damnation." Taken from Pink's Archive by John John Newton

Polycarp: A Martyr for the Messiah

"For eighty and six years, I have been His servant and He has never done me wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?"

It was in A.D. 156 that persecution against Christians broke out in the province of Asia. There is a letter from the Smyrnaean Church that bears record. The authorities had decided to kill Christians. The reasons for doing so were not fully clear.

At eighty-six years old, Polycarp was a target for persecution because of his forceful ministry against paganism. He was known as the "atheist" by pagans, because they said he was a destroyer of their gods. From the perspective of the pagans, Polycarp worshiped a "dead man." He was an irritation to the pagans.

Local believers insisted that he hide from authorities. Polycarp's hiding out did not last. After torturing a servant, authorities learned of his whereabouts and found him hiding in a hay loft. Being that he was up in age, the authorities thought putting him to death was useless. They wanted Polycarp to deny his faith to save his life. What a victory that would be for the pagans and what a blow to the "cult" of Jesus. They addressed Polycarp saying, "What harm is there in saying Caesar is Lord and offering incense and saving your life?" The proconsul begged him to have respect for his age. "Swear by the divinity of Caesar, repent and say, "away with the atheists, take the oath and I will let you go."

"But Polycarp with his face set, looked at all the crowd in the stadium and waved his hands toward them, sighed, looked up to heaven, and cried, "Away with the godless!" The governor still continued to press him saying, "Swear, and I will set you free; execrate(to declare to be evil or detestable) Christ." Polycarp replies, "For eighty-six years, I have been His servant and He has never done me wrong, how can I blaspheme my King who saved me?" They threatened him further with beasts. The proconsul then threatened to burn him with fire. Polycarp answered, "The fire you threaten burns for a time and is soon extinguished; there is a fire you know nothing about-the fire of the judgement to come and of eternal punishment, the fire reserved for the ungodly. But why do you hesitate? Do what you want." Just then, a shout went out that Polycarp was to be burned alive. The crowds rushed to collect wood from workshops and public baths. When the wood was stacked, Polycarp began to pray, when he finished the prayer and offered up the amen, the men in charge lit the fire, and a great flame shot up.

Polycarp actually sat at the feet of John, the beloved. He forms the last link with those who had seen Christ in the flesh. His death, though a great loss to the believers in Smyrna, was a great victory for the Christians! Many unbelievers were horrified by what happened. Polycarp's death ended the persecution in Asia and paved the way for those not as courageous, to openly declare their faith in Messiah.

Atheist

I just watched the news about this atheist filing another lawsuit for having our bills written "in God we trust" (or I think it was something like that. I don't remember.). And the guy mentioned that he is with the science only foundation or something. I just thought it is very weird that there is a huge conflict between Atheist and the Theist. I'm very greatful for God to teach me so many wonderful things in my life yet I just wanted to share something that disturbs me greatly.

Atheist wants to use Science, Logic, and morality as their basis of disproving or "unproving" (according to Gorden Stein) the existence of God. Yet, Atheist cannot even explain the very foundation by which they use Science, Logic, and Morality. I would like to ask the Atheist, by what empirical reasons or proof can they justify that Science, Logic, and Morality is the "only way" to disprove or unprove the existence of God? Can they safely say that by the use of Science, science itself disprove the existence of God?

Theist maintains a position that without God, Science, Logic, and Morality has no meaning whatsoever. Theist also maintains that Science, Logic, and man's consciousness of morality points us back to God. Atheist tries to say that the Solar System has an inherent laws by which planets orbit around the strongest gravitational pole (in our case, Sun). This "law" by which the Solar System operate is abstract (cannot even be tested that Solar System revolves around the Sun. It just does and they cannot explain the reasons why.), unchanging (the law is always constant. The planets do not by any chance get out of their orbit.), Universal (the law of Solar System applies to the entire Space.) entities. By it, in the Atheistic worldview, there cannot be abstract, unchanging, universal entities for this alone contradicts the very beliefs that we live in the Evolutionary Universe, which all things are "random." In the Atheist worldview, they cannot even account for "laws" in general.

Atheist must first explain the reason why there are laws in this universe and why they are abstract. Once dealing with this particular question, they can actually do a scientific explanation but without it, they are pressupposing that "laws" exist and they must be invarient entities. But this pressupposition itself destroys the Atheist for if the laws of Gravity (for example) are invarient, how can they reconcile a connection between forever changing universe and the unchanging laws in particular? In logic, this is in fact called contradiction. It is saying, I have a pencil in front of me but it is not the case that the pencil is in front of me. If Atheist remains consistent with their worldview, they cannot account for laws.

So, who is the Atheist who talks against God? They are the one who is foolishly thinking that they have found the magical key that says there is no God when in particular, their own position is in itself by faith! I say by faith because Atheist has never justified the reason why they have laws. Without laws, this Universe would lose the very thing we are constantly dependant upon. If by any chance this World is by random processes, there would be enormous eruptions of "natural effects," planets constantly crashing, Sun would inflate a lot quicker, the planets would fail to be in "space" or in the "right place."

In short, Atheist cannot account for laws and thus, laws are the many reasons that without God, this world is irrational.

Prove to me that there is "laws" and how you can justify that law in your worldview. How can you make any connection with your changing worldview against mine.