Satan the great tempter. God sent His only begotten Son that he whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16) As the prophets foretold in the Old Testament, God sent a savior to purchase us back from the fall. Jesus came into the world lowly and humble. God wanted to experience what the least of us experience to truly absorb our sorrows. He then placed our inequities and sorrows on His son on the cross. Jesus was crucified, died, buried, and rose from the dead defeating Satan, Sin, and Death. Jesus being born in Marys womb by God fertilizing her egg. Was 100% God and 100% man. She did not conceive Jesus through regular intercourse with a man. The savior of the world could not be born of the seed of Adam (sin) but only the seed of God. He, Jesus, could empty his deity at anytime. For God can remove himself from matter if he so chooses. This is how each of us becomes born again today. The Holy Spirit actually baptizes us into himself and we become new creations by His power not our own. We can war with the spirit and fall because we have a flesh man but God has all the power and if he so chooses knows what each of us needs to be chastised into submission. In other words, like a loving father he will recapture his beloved own. For example, Saul was not looking for God. He was persecuting Christians on the road to Damascus. Jesus I(an angel of the Lord) accosted him and knocked him off his horse blinding him by the radiance of Gods glory. He told him who he was and told him what he would do next. Did Paul have a choice? For Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and he could not run from God. Moses did not part the red sea in his own strength God came into him and gave him the power to do so. Jesus states that unless one is BORN AGAIN from above He is not forgiven. There will be many who come to others saying they are for God, about God and a child of God and they are not. An example would be the prosperity preachers. Lead the sheep astray saying God wants to bless you. Of course God wants to bless us but the lusts of the flesh, the eyes, and the pride of life are not of God but of the world. God hates idolatry or anything you put before him. If you work to only rise yourself above others, and obtain things, you are not living in your God given purpose and serving Gods purpose for the world. You are then an enemy of God feeding your lusts. You are growing your kingdom and not his. After all he gave you the world for free ... how dare we not obey and submit to him after all hes done for us to give us life and a whole universe as our home. All who sin against him the bible says deserve DEATH. You will know those who truly belong to Jesus by their fruit. Those who are not ground in the word, born again, will run from the house of God, the enemy will snatch them away because they are not truly Jesus sheep. You will know a true disciple of Jesus by his or her fruit (lifestyle, you must see a significant transformation in the person from sin to righteousness, etc. look for this) Jesus has sheep that are given to him by the Father. Jews in this sheep fold and others outside the sheep fold (gentiles). Those who are not really given to him will fall away because they were never truly his given from the father. He has power to lay his life down for his sheep and raise it back up again. We are not to worry about him. John 10:10-29 (ESV) 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I (Christ Jesus) came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:46:45 +0000
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