Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
THERE'S HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST
THERE’S HOPE OF SALVATION FROM SIN IN CHRIST JESUS
By M.G. Bueno
1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
In our bible reading, John was writing about sin. And we know that sin by definition is the transgression of God’s word. And really when we think of sin, the one word which sums up all of the definition of sin would be “unbelief,” because anything we do without faith or in unbelief is sin; not believing God, not believing his word, then sin becomes a wall that separates us from God. Because God cannot be one or have fellowship with someone who is in sin. And this doesn’t mean that God will not hear a repentant sinner’s prayer who wants to make it right with God, because it is God’s will for every man or woman to repent to be restored back to His fellowship. So that John also said, that if any man sin, we have an advocate or a spokesman to make our plea with the father. But how can a sinner be justified, or be made just or righteous before God? It’s through the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus Christ, because there’s power in the blood of Jesus Christ. We don’t know what’s in the blood, or how it works to wash sin, but the bible said that the blood of Christ is able to wash us from sin white as snow; and not only our sins but our thoughts, our consciensce and our life, can be made clean, when washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the great physician who is able to remove sin from a person’s life. Jesus said in,
Mar 2:17 “… They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
If there's no hope at all to be saved from sin, God would not have sent us his only begotten Son to die on the cross. There's hope to be cured from sin, otherwise Jesus would not have shed his blood on calvary. And everything that God did and Jesus did would have been in vain if it didn’t work. But they did it for us because it works, so that the sacrifice of Jesus and the Father was not in vain. It’s only in vain for those who do not believe, and for those who deride the power of the gospel, for those who underestimate the power of the blood of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible shows us examples of the faults and failures of mankind because of sin from Genesis to Revelation. And from it’s pages we can glean and learn lessons from the word of God, which was written for us so that the failures which happened in the pass may not repeat itself again in our generation. And looking at the world that we’re living in, and from all of the information that we gather from it, it seems as if, man will never learn from the negative things that happened in the pass. Men and women have fallen to the same tricks of the devil over and over again. And there are many people in this generation that are ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. People are more prone to not believe the truth. And there are people in this world who try to destroy anything that represent truth and love. And it really does not surprise us, because the bible said that the sinful nature of man love darkness more than light. When the first human beings disobeyed God, their nature was darkened from its original nature of Light.
For this reason David said, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceived me.
Paul cried, “Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall save me from the body of this death.” The body of this flesh is nothing but death. Our flesh is against the spirit. The Spirit is willing to serve God but the flesh resist against serving God. That is why Jesus said to his disciples when they were in the garden, before his crucifixion.
Mat 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
If anyman is tempted in the flesh, the solution to the problem is to watch and pray. If you begin to feel selfishness creeping into your life, watch and pray. If you feel like you don’t want to do what God tells you to do, watch and pray. This is the only way to put the flesh under subjection by the help of the Spirit of God. The flesh is the part of man that is against the spirit. Flesh when spelled backwards is self. But the Blood of Jesus Christ is our hope to go on for God while we live in this world and in the world to come. And the Holy Spirit of God is our strength, our energy, our coach, our comforter and our certainty to make it in God all the way, until we see God face to face.
Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
God is giving everyone His gift of power which is the Holy Spirit, as our companion, for us to overcome the tricks of the devil who tries to stop our progress in God. And God is confident that with the Holy Ghost, we can make it in Him. The bible said,
“Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light.”
If your life is not progressing, if it’s not going anywhere in the way that you’ve been doing it for years, maybe because it’s time for you to make that change and it’s time for you to change masters. And make Jesus your master. And you can rest assure that it will make your life better. If you need real change in your life, you gonna have to do something about it. You have to make it up in your mind that you’re going to serve God whatever happens. You gonna have to resolve in your mind that you want God’s blessings in your life? And I’m not talking about financial or material blessings, but spiritual blessings. Because when your spirit is blessed, all the rest comes to it’s rightful place. And it’s time for you to do it the correct way. And Jesus is the only Way. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. And his way is not going to lead you to disappointments, but he’ll lead you to abundant life and satisfaction in your soul. Which will make your life much better than when you didn’t have Christ in your life.
And the truth is that Jesus came to the world to save men and women from their sin. That’s the number one reason, and the number one truth, that, he came to save you and I from the bondage of sin. And the Bible said, that He himself became sin for us, so that while dying on the cross, God the Father could not even look at him. The Father had to turn his face away from his Son, because of the sin of the world that was place upon him; he was forsaken by God so that he cried Father, My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Because Jesus was separated at that moment from the fellowship of the Father because of the sins of the world, which he willingly placed upon himself so that the world maybe saved.
But inspite of all the pain that Jesus suffered on the cross, inspite of the blood that was poured out from him, Jesus said, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The Bible said that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
So now, you don’t have to die in your sin, because Jesus had already died for you. And God is giving you eternal life thru his son Jesus Christ. The Bible said, Whoever believes in Jesus Christ will not perish, but have everlasting life. The blood of Jesus Christ is able to wash your soul from sin white as snow. God said to Israel in,
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
The Bible said, if anyman be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things pass away, behold all things are become new. Being saved tonight is like when you just got out of the shower, and putting on a clean suit or dress, or drive a brand new car. What’s keeping you from becoming a brand new man and woman of God. Is sin really worth it to suffer eternal judgement in the lake of fire? If you’ll end up in the lake of fire, it’s not going to be because you were not warned by the word of God. It’s not going to be because God was not gracious and merciful enough. But it’s gonna be because you have made the decision to not listen to the direction of God, and listen instead to your flesh. The bible said that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. God doesn’t want you be killed in sin but he wants to save you. God doesn’t want you condemned but condemned sin instead. Because in ROMANS 8, it says,
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That’s how good our God is! And it’s because of this goodness and love which causes us to repent, because it says in ROMANS 4,
Rom 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
My God has been good to me. That’s the kind of God that we serve, it is his goodness that causes us to be ashamed and see our lost condition. It is his goodness that open our eyes and see why we can’t continue to live in sin. Because God has been very good to us. And so, there still hope for you and I because of the goodness which was declared through Jesus Christ. All you have to do is surrender your life to Jesus Christ, and invite him into your life to wash your sins by his blood and be made new.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD
THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD
By M.G. Bueno
Luk 3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luk 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Luk 3:9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luk 3:10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
In our Bible reading John was preaching to the people saying that the axe was already laid upon the root of every tree by God. God was ready to cut down every tree that’s not bearing good fruit. God was about to judge the nation of Israel. Their profession of being Abraham’s children was not enough. God wanted to see true repentance and they’re going to have to show it by their actions, and not just by their words. Just like the people of today, they make claims about being a close relative to someone who is close to God, or to someone who is serving God. They claim salvation by someone else who is faithful to God. The people in our Bible reading were trying to disproved John, that God cannot cut them down like a tree for the reason that they were children of the faithful Abraham whom God called his friend. But the Bible is clear that the seed of Abraham are those which are not according to a fleshly bloodline or descent, but according to the spiritual. The children of Abraham are those who shared the same faith that Abraham has. We are children of God for no other reason, but because we have been born of God in the spirit. It is God who birthed us through a heavenly birth, after we received Jesus Christ in our life. We’ve been born the second time into the heavenly family of God. And we have been given the power, or the right and privilege to become his children, so that we resemble Him who is now our Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, being now made partakers of His divine nature, a nature that is just like God.
But the Jews also claim their bloodline and descent from Abraham, yet they don’t resemble the character of Abraham, nor could they relate themselves to who Abraham really was in the spiritual. Their belief system does not correspond to the faith that Abraham had. They were like impostor children who try to claim inheritance from a man who is not really their father. They were trying to claim inheritance by a person that they didn’t even care about, when he was yet alive, and all of a sudden, claim to be of close relation because of alterior motives to partake of a inheritance because of greed. What a perfect anology of people who claim to be children of God, and even try to prove it by the written record of God, and make it sound as if God had truly given them the right to be his children, yet by their actions, they don’t resemble the God whom they claim to be their father.
The Bible said, But as many as received him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on his name.”
Thinking that God is your father, or thinking that you are his child is not going to save you just as professing that you’re save is not going to save you, because even the bible said, “Not everyone that says Lord, Lord will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Your life has to back up what you said you are, their must be some proof worthy of saying that you are saved. There must be an evidence in the way that you live.
In the world, in order to prove a person who claim to be the child of someone else, he must first go through a certain test. They call it the DNA Testing. They test the DNA that’s in the blood of the person to see if what he claims to be, is true, for the reason that the DNA of the Father should match his son’s DNA. And there’s no other accurate test that can prove otherwise, because the blood will always tell the truth. And anyone who claim to be a child of God must first pass the blood test whether they really are children of God, and that’s by the blood of Jesus Christ. Have you been washed in the blood of the Lamb, who is Jesus Christ? Have you become a blood brother of him who shed his blood for your sins on calvary? Will you pass the blood test for the kinship that you claim that you have with the Father?
Some cannot even pass the blood test, because, they don’t believe that the blood of Jesus Christ can truly save from the power of sin that’s controlling their lives. They think that being a good person is enough. But just being a good person is not going to get you to heaven, you must first be washed from the power of sin by the blood of Jesus Christ. There are good people in the world who did a lot of good things for other people, but that doesn’t mean that their good works is enough to redeem them from their sin. It still takes the blood of Jesus Christ to wash the sins of the whole world. It is true that Jesus died for the whole world, but not everyone in the world is saved but only those who received Jesus Christ in their life thru faith.
John said in our Bible reading that if they’re not going to repent from what they erroneously believe in the law, and receive Jesus Christ, if they’re not going to change in their thinking that they are Abraham’s children and do not do the works of Abraham, then, God is going to disown them, and God will raise up children unto Abraham from the stones, because in God nothing is impossible. God can raise up anyone or anything to worship him if he wants to. Noone is indespensible. God wants us to serve him, but he doesn’t have to have us.
When Jesus was entering the city of Jerusalem, there was a celebration among the people. The people were rejoicing and praising God with palm branches in their hands and spreading their garments on the ground where Jesus was passing, acknowledging him to be the Messiah, who comes in the name of the Lord. There was a great fanfare of his entering the city, and the people were shouting, Hossana in the highest! And the Pharisees tried to silence the crowd from praising Christ, but Jesus said, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, if these people stop praising and worshipping me, then, I will raise up the stones to worship me. Jesus was saying, if they choose to stay silent, when they should have been celebrating, then the rocks would immediately cry out.
When people see their favorite team making a score, they don’t just sit their emotionless. But they make all kinds of fanfare and noise, and even start hitting each other. They don’t care about what the next person is going to say about the noise. But what about when it comes to worshipping God? all of a sudden so called believers began to get quiet, and make excuses why they cannot give God the fruit of their lips as a sacrifice unto God, when Jesus Christ himself made the score of scores, when he defeated satan on the cross more than 2000 years ago; and he did it for you and me, so that we may be saved from the bondage of sin, so that sin will no longer have dominion over us. Because he died on calvary for the sins of the whole world. It’s for you and I and not for himself. Will you praise him for it? Will you praise him for saving you? And so, if the people of God is not going to praise and worship him, he is able to raise up the stones to celebrate his goodness, and mercy, and his salvation, and his glory.
John said bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. The first fruit of true repentance is receiving Jesus Christ in our life to be born again. The Bible said unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. You were born by a carnal birth, but the bible tells us that we must be born by a spiritual birth. You were born in this world, but you must be born again from heaven above. And this is the only way for us to become children of God. To be seated in the heavenly places with God. We must be born in the family of God. Through the born again experience, God has made us his sons and daughters. Are you in the Family of God. Are you his child. Have you been washed from your sin by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Monday, March 19, 2012
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
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