How tragic
people won’t see or acknowledge HIM
when even the demons know
He is the Christ,
the son of the Living God!
Even evil will give Glory to God!
Every knee will bend!
Luke 4:41 (NKJV): And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!”
And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ.
How tragic
people won’t see or acknowledge HIM
when even the demons know
He is the Christ,
the son of the Living God!
Even evil will give Glory to God!
Every knee will bend!
Luke 4:41 (NKJV): And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!”
And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ.
You can be saved if YOU want
God offers Salvation to YOU
Repent
Believe the Gospel
Be reconciled
Work out Your own Salvation with fear and trembling.
We receive salvation in Christ through repentance and faith. This means turning away from sinful ways (repentance) and turning to God (faith), trusting in Christ. Jesus will forgive your sins and set you on a path to life with Him. We cannot earn this right, it is His free gift. However reconciliation is dependent on repentance.
To Repent and Reconcile:
The first is responsibility: We must recognize that we have done wrong. Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs.
The second is regret: We must have true remorse for doing wrong and for the pain and problems we've caused.
The third is resolve: We must be committed never to repeat the act regardless of the temptations or situation. This is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.
Principles
7 Benefits
Reconciliation:
The four major parts of Reconciliation are: 1) contrition, 2) confession, 3) penance, 4) absolution.
2 Corinthians 5:20 (NKJV): Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
You can be saved if YOU want
God offers Salvation to YOU
Repent
Believe the Gospel
Be reconciled
Work out Your own Salvation with fear and trembling.
We receive salvation in Christ through repentance and faith. This means turning away from sinful ways (repentance) and turning to God (faith), trusting in Christ. Jesus will forgive your sins and set you on a path to life with Him. We cannot earn this right, it is His free gift. However reconciliation is dependent on repentance.
To Repent and Reconcile:
The first is responsibility: We must recognize that we have done wrong. Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs.
The second is regret: We must have true remorse for doing wrong and for the pain and problems we've caused.
The third is resolve: We must be committed never to repeat the act regardless of the temptations or situation. This is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.
Principles
7 Benefits
Reconciliation:
The four major parts of Reconciliation are: 1) contrition, 2) confession, 3) penance, 4) absolution.
2 Corinthians 5:20 (NKJV): Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
Man carries within him the seed of eternity.
Man has been created by God
for a destiny of happiness
beyond the reach of earthly trials.
The almighty and merciful Savior
will restore man to the wholeness
that he had lost through his own fault.
God has called man,
to be united in his whole being
in perpetual communion with himself
in the immortality of the divine life.
The Christian is faced with the necessity,
and the duty, of fighting
against evil through many trials,
and of undergoing death.
Man will look forward,
strong in hope,
to the resurrection.
This victory has been gained for us
by the risen Christ,
who by his own death
has freed man from death.
Christ has risen,
destroying death by his own death;
he has given us the free gift of life.
Man carries within him the seed of eternity.
Man has been created by God
for a destiny of happiness
beyond the reach of earthly trials.
The almighty and merciful Savior
will restore man to the wholeness
that he had lost through his own fault.
God has called man,
to be united in his whole being
in perpetual communion with himself
in the immortality of the divine life.
The Christian is faced with the necessity,
and the duty, of fighting
against evil through many trials,
and of undergoing death.
Man will look forward,
strong in hope,
to the resurrection.
This victory has been gained for us
by the risen Christ,
who by his own death
has freed man from death.
Christ has risen,
destroying death by his own death;
he has given us the free gift of life.
From the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world of the Second Vatican Council
The mystery of death
In the face of death the enigma of human existence reaches its climax. Man is not only the victim of pain and the progressive deterioration of his body; he is also and more deeply, tormented by the fear of final extinction. But the instinctive judgment of his heart is right when he shrinks from, and rejects, the idea of a total collapse and definitive end of his own person. He carries within him the seed of eternity, which cannot be reduced to matter alone, and so he rebels against death. All efforts of technology, however useful they may be, cannot calm his anxieties; the biological extension of his life-span cannot satisfy the desire inescapably present in his heart for a life beyond this life.
Imagination is completely helpless when confronted with death. Yet the Church, instructed by divine revelation, affirms that man has been created by God for a destiny of happiness beyond the reach of earthly trials. Moreover, the Christian faith teaches that bodily death, to which man would not have been subject if he had not sinned, will be conquered; the almighty and merciful Savior will restore man to the wholeness that he had lost through his own fault. God has called man, and still calls him, to be united in his whole being in perpetual communion with himself in the immortality of the divine life. This victory has been gained for us by the risen Christ, who by his own death has freed man from death.
Faith, presented with solid arguments, offers every thinking person the answer to his questionings concerning his future destiny. At the same time, it enables him to be one in Christ with his loved ones who have been taken from him by death and gives him hope that they have entered into true life with God.
Certainly, the Christian is faced with the necessity, and the duty, of fighting against evil through many trials, and of undergoing death. But by entering into the paschal mystery and being made like Christ in death, he will look forward, strong in hope, to the resurrection.
This is true not only of Christians but also of all men of good will in whose heart grace is invisibly at work. Since Christ died for all men, and the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, that is, a divine vocation, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being united with this paschal mystery in a way known only to God.
Such is the great mystery of man, enlightening believers through the Christian revelation. Through Christ and in Christ light is thrown on the enigma of pain and death which overwhelms us without his Gospel to teach us. Christ has risen, destroying death by his own death; he has given us the free gift of life so that as sons in the Son we may cry out in the Spirit, saying: Abba, Father!
From the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world of the Second Vatican Council
The mystery of death
In the face of death the enigma of human existence reaches its climax. Man is not only the victim of pain and the progressive deterioration of his body; he is also and more deeply, tormented by the fear of final extinction. But the instinctive judgment of his heart is right when he shrinks from, and rejects, the idea of a total collapse and definitive end of his own person. He carries within him the seed of eternity, which cannot be reduced to matter alone, and so he rebels against death. All efforts of technology, however useful they may be, cannot calm his anxieties; the biological extension of his life-span cannot satisfy the desire inescapably present in his heart for a life beyond this life.
Imagination is completely helpless when confronted with death. Yet the Church, instructed by divine revelation, affirms that man has been created by God for a destiny of happiness beyond the reach of earthly trials. Moreover, the Christian faith teaches that bodily death, to which man would not have been subject if he had not sinned, will be conquered; the almighty and merciful Savior will restore man to the wholeness that he had lost through his own fault. God has called man, and still calls him, to be united in his whole being in perpetual communion with himself in the immortality of the divine life. This victory has been gained for us by the risen Christ, who by his own death has freed man from death.
Faith, presented with solid arguments, offers every thinking person the answer to his questionings concerning his future destiny. At the same time, it enables him to be one in Christ with his loved ones who have been taken from him by death and gives him hope that they have entered into true life with God.
Certainly, the Christian is faced with the necessity, and the duty, of fighting against evil through many trials, and of undergoing death. But by entering into the paschal mystery and being made like Christ in death, he will look forward, strong in hope, to the resurrection.
This is true not only of Christians but also of all men of good will in whose heart grace is invisibly at work. Since Christ died for all men, and the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, that is, a divine vocation, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being united with this paschal mystery in a way known only to God.
Such is the great mystery of man, enlightening believers through the Christian revelation. Through Christ and in Christ light is thrown on the enigma of pain and death which overwhelms us without his Gospel to teach us. Christ has risen, destroying death by his own death; he has given us the free gift of life so that as sons in the Son we may cry out in the Spirit, saying: Abba, Father!
Don’t trust your foolish heart
Walk in Godly wisdom and be delivered
Trust in the Lord with your heart
Lean on Gods understanding
Acknowledging God
He will direct you
Don’t be wise in your eyes
Fear God and forsake evil.
Proverbs 28:26 (NKJV): He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.
Proverbs 3:5–7 (NKJV): Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
Don’t trust your foolish heart
Walk in Godly wisdom and be delivered
Trust in the Lord with your heart
Lean on Gods understanding
Acknowledging God
He will direct you
Don’t be wise in your eyes
Fear God and forsake evil.
Proverbs 28:26 (NKJV): He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.
Proverbs 3:5–7 (NKJV): Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
