Repent, and believe the Gospel

Repent, The Kingdom of God is at hand. 

There is a heavenly kingdom.

Jesus is the King.

He wants you to believe:

He is King and Lord.

He came you save you from sins tyranny.

He will heal your soul with the Spirit.

He will make you a new creation that is Holy.

He wants you to live in union with Him in Trust.

Repent, The Kingdom of God is at hand. 

Fear Not

Psalms 135:6

Whatever the LORD pleases He does,

In heaven and in earth,

In the seas and in all deep places.

1 Kings 19:18

Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.

Luke 12:49

I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

Luke 12:51

Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.

2 Timothy 2:19

Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Love Truth

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; 

because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Forgiveness comes from Love

- Sins are forgiven because of love. 

- She loves more because her sin was more. 

- The greater the sinner the more potential for awesome love. 

- The faith that saves is the love for Christ whom loved us first and is willing to forgive our sins. 

- You must be willing to admit you are a sinner to see how much God is willing to forgive. This brings about the love for Him. 

- Receive His love and forgiveness then you too can go in peace. 

Luke 7:47-50

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

Eucharist

Once you understand the Eucharist, you can never leave the Church. Not because the Church won't let you, but because your heart won't let you. 

We don’t like your love

People don't know your love or understand or even want it because your love is not the way we love or think love should be.

Your love is different. Your love purifies and heals and to do that it uses both pain and pleasant. Both are blessings. Pain drives us closer to you and pleasant gives us reasons to praise. 

Our love only considers pleasant and thinks eradication of any and all pain is true love. This kind (our kind) does not heal or purify, it actually creates false surface living not deep communion. It actually leads to narcissistic tendencies and selfishness. 

I had been wondering why so few people would accept your wonderful gift of love and salvation and love you. 

It’s because we don't like your love. We have to be willing to admit we don't know real love and need to be purified. And we Don't Like Pain. We don't want to be purified. So we want the blessings of pleasant but once it gets hard we leave. We want the easy way. 

God, you came to show us both pleasant and pain is part of your plan. Your coming as a mortal man with our infirmity and death shows us this. 

You love us as we are but cannot let us come to heaven as we are. We must be purified-Heaven is pure. 

Open our minds Merciful Father and help us see true love and be willing to embrace both pleasant and pain and be purified so we can come home. Amen

Lectio Divina

Lectio Divina (Divine Reading)

• Read
• Reflect
• Respond
• Rest

Lectio:

Read:

Psalms 48:14

For this God 

is our God for ever and ever:

he will be our guide 

even unto death.

Reflect:

This God: the creator of all things. Who holds the stars in place. Who speaks into existence. The God who thirsts for the hearts of men to love Him. Who is pure truth love and mercy. 

Respond:

Please help me give you my heart Jesus. I want to love you for who you are. 

Reflect:

He is my God forever: I will never be alone. He is with me at all times past, present, and future into eternity. He knows all things and knows exactly what I need each day to get through those day’s obstacles. 

Respond: 

He loves me and wants to take care of me. Help me remember you know best and what I want is usually distorted. 

Reflect: 

He is my guide: he will counsel me. I must listen and obey. Just because he guides does not mean I am choosing to listen and do. He will not force but he will continue to call me the right way. He knows the right way to go, he had his plan before the foundation of the earth. Only obeying him brings true life. 

Respond:

Help me listen and do your will in all things. Only you love and know best for me. Know there are opposing voices to the will of God. I must sift through all and choose correctly. My flesh, the world, and the devil have a different desire. I must be willing to listen to the correct voice and then DO it. 

Reflect: 

Unto death: he will never give up on me. He will counsel and pursue me all the way till my last breath. 

Respond:

Help me Jesus surrender to your love and grace now all the way home. 

Rest

Witness

Are You

A Witness of Christ?

Witness: a person who testifies, 

to events or facts 

within his own knowledge.

Do you live in the Power of Christ?

Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, 

after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: 

and ye shall be witnesses unto me 

both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, 

and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

How to live

Do good to all

Bless all

Pray for all

Be kind to all

Be merciful to all

Judge not anyone

Condemn not anyone

Forgive all

How you measure others 

will be measured to you. 

Do to others as you would have them do to you. 

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, 

and do not the things which I say?

Am I with God?

The question is not: is God with me?

The question is: am I with God?

And 

Since I can’t understand His Will and plan-it is too mysterious…

I must be humble and docile to the Holy Spirits leading. 

What I think does not matter,

What God wants is what matters. 

Lord, help me submit to your leading on any and all situations for your Glory!

My Body, His Home

My Body

My body is a living ark of the covenant, a tabernacle of the Lord Jesus my savior. I will take care of my body as such. 

The Lord of Glory has chosen all of my strengths and weaknessess according to his own purpose. Because he has seen fit to give me the weaknesses that I have he will also make a way for me to deal with them. 

I will do as I am told to take care of this body, that he has chosen as his home, the very best that I can. 

Anyone who chooses to disagree with what I think the Lord has told me, is between them and him. I will do what I think he wants me to do, no matter what the earthly consequences is from man. 

And anyone that ever comes against this body of mine, which is the tabernacle of my Lord, shall beware of what they are doing, for then it is him they are against, and he will not be mocked. And He Never Loses. 

The fight is not against flesh and blood, it is against the principalities of the air. I refuse to be defeated, I am in Christ and therefore cannot be defeated for he has already paid for my Victory. 

Thank you Jesus for your awesome love and protection. Thank you for saving me and being pleased to live in me. It is my honor to live and glorify you to the best of my abilities. 

Amen, praise to you the Most High!

The Gospel Message

The Gospel Message

1. God made you. 

2. God wants to have a relationship with you. 

3. But your sin separates you from God.

4. Jesus took the punishment your sins deserved. Christ perfectly lived the laws of God, died, and rose from the dead to save sinners. He convicts the soul of sin and reveal the goodness of God's love, mercy and grace that calls the person to confess their sin and to repent of their sin. 

5. Receive Jesus as your sacrifice to God for your sin. 

6. You repent from sins and trust in him for your salvation, you will be forgiven, justified, and accepted freely by grace, and indwelt with his Spirit until you die and go to heaven.

7. Live out the new life in the Kingdom of God by faith. Acknowledgment of Jesus as LORD, crucifying your worldly self and live in the newness of the in dwelling Holy Spirit of Jesus, forsaking your sin in obedience to all He commands. 

8. Repenting when you fail pleading for mercy. Trusting in Him, especially his love and mercy. 

9. Love God above all-even yourself and love your neighbor as you love yourself. Forgiving others as God has forgiven you. 

If anyone shall say that the grace of justification is attained by those only who are predestined unto life, but that all others, who are called, are called indeed, but do not receive grace, as if they are by divine power predestined to evil, let him be anathema." [17]

Christ's passion was not only a sufficient but a superabundant atonement for the sins of the human race; according to 1 John 2:2, 'He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. 

While the grace it provided is sufficient to pay for the sins of all men, this grace is not made efficacious (put into effect) in the case of everyone. One may say that although the sufficiency of the atonement is not limited, its efficiency is limited. This is something everyone who believes in hell must acknowledge because, if the atonement was made efficacious for everyone, then no one would end up in hell.

The difference between the atonement's sufficiency and its efficiency accounts for Paul's statement that God is "the Savior of all men, especially those who believe." [22] God is the Savior of all men because he arranged a sacrifice sufficient for all men. 

He is the Savior of those who believe in a special and superior sense because these have the sacrifice made efficacious for them. According to Aquinas, "[Christ] is the propitiation for our sins, efficaciously for some, but sufficiently for all, because the price of his blood is sufficient for the salvation of all; but it has its effect only in the elect." 

God's enabling grace is only sufficient and is made efficacious by man's free choice rather than by the nature of the grace itself.

Vatican II stated, "[S]ince Christ died for all men, and since the ultimate calling of man is in fact one and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known only to God offers to every man the possibility of being associated with this paschal mystery." 

The gift of final perseverance is "the abiding in good to the end of life. In order to have this perseverance man...needs the divine assistance guiding and guarding him against the attacks of the passions...[A]fter anyone has been justified by grace, he still needs to beseech God for the aforesaid gift of perseverance, that he may be kept from evil till the end of life. 

It is a RELATIONSHIP. 

Stand Strong

Even if all people in the church were apostate and heretics I cannot leave the faith. 

Jesus Christ gave us the faith of the church and I don’t want to leave Him or reject any of His teachings. 

Lord, have mercy on me a sinner, give me the grace to stand strong in the darkness. Only you are my strength and hiding place. Have mercy on all the world!

Apostasy, a deliberate rejection and renunciation of  the faith of Christianity by a baptized person who, having at one time professed the Christian faith. 

It is distinguished from heresy, which is limited to the rejection of one or more Christian doctrines by one who maintains an overall adherence to Jesus Christ.

Lesson from Cain

Cain Lessons: 

The wrong: (choice)

He did wrong offering

The anger: (choice)

Anger at God for not accepting his offering

Anger at brother for having done right

The confrontation: (Grace)

God confronted and Cain refused correction 

The correction: (Grace)

If you do well you will be accepted

If you do wrong sin is able to get more of you

Sin desires to get you

We must rule over sin

The second offense: (choice)

Cain murders brother

The confrontation: (Grace)

God confronted Cain again after murder and still no repentance 

The punishment: (Grace)

Punishment is removal from Gods presence and sins natural consequences. 

God could kill Cain but determined that existence is better than death. 

Note:

Even though sinner there is a divine mark so no one will hurt other humans. Do not hate others it leads to murder!