Bible Study June 10, 2023
A rational man thinks that it is impossible for a dead to rise from the grave after three days and cannot become a Christian. But in a state of high emotion, this becomes apparent beyond reason. And the highest level man can understand the Bible code and can decode.
Son of the Morning – Isaiah 14
Satan, the personification of evil, was once one of God’s most beautiful angels in Heaven. This evil angel was originally called Lucifer, which means son of the morning (Isaiah 14:12). He was the prince of angels, the bearer of light. God created him to be perfect in wisdom and beauty, a spectacle of flawlessness. But this was not enough for him. For He wanted to sit on the mount of God and be like God. The prophet Isaiah described his proud heart in the following passage which also referred secondarily to the King of Babylon :
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High’”
Isaiah 14:12-14
Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
damn, (in Christian belief) be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell.
What Is Speaking in Tongues?
Speaking in tongues is a form of communication to God. It is a prayer, and doing so speaks directly to God alone, according to 1 Corinthians 14:2, “For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.”
Christians Must Learn To Hate Evil Again
Proverbs 8:13 – “To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.”
Romans 12:9 – “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”
Psalm 101:3 – “I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.”
Amos 5:15 – “Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.”
Proverbs 13:5 – “The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves.”
Psalm 119:104 – “I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.”
When we hate evil we are not allowing it to have a foothold in our lives. We are not tolerating it or excusing it, but instead, we are actively fighting against it. We are standing up for what is right and what is just, even when it is difficult. When we hate evil we are acknowledging the reality of the brokenness of our world. We recognize that sin and evil do exist and that they cause pain and suffering. But we also know that God has overcome sin and evil through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We should look to the example of Jesus Himself, who drove out the money changers from the temple with a whip (John 2:15). He did not tolerate their wickedness and corruption but took action to remove it from the house of God.
Judas Priest - Metal Gods
Machines are taking all over
With mankind in their command
In time they'd like to discover
How they can make their demand
Better be the slaves
To their wicked ways
But meeting with our death
Engulfed in molten breath
2 Corinthians 10:3-6
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Holy Ghost (Lyrics) - Maverick City Music feat. Bri Babineaux & Alton Eugene
2 Peter 3 (ESV)
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
How can I become a Christian?
This is the best part. Because of His love for us, God has made it exceedingly simple to become a Christian. All you have to do is receive Jesus as your Savior, fully accepting His death as the sufficient sacrifice for your sins (John 3:16), fully trusting Him alone as your Savior (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). Becoming a Christian is not all about rituals, going to church, or doing certain things while refraining from other things. Becoming a Christian is all about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ, through faith, is what makes a person a Christian.
God chose us
We did not choose Him. It pleased God to choose us. It was according to His kindness. God choosing us brings glory to His name because of His unfailing mercy and grace. The Bible is clear, God chose us. He personally set us apart from the rest of His created people. God chose those who would be His and passed over the rest. God alone is responsible for this process. Not man. If man had any part in this choice, then it would rob God of some of the glory.
Frequently in scripture the term “elect” is used to describe those who have been predestined. It means set apart or chosen. God didn’t have the author of these New Testament book use the term Church or Christian or Believer. He chose to use the word elect.
What I have found is that I no longer have a will of my own and leave everything to God's will.
In my opinion, Christianity is a religion that raises the vibration of emotions, and sheep are likened to human emotions, and Jesus is the shepherd who leads them.
Come To Jesus
https://www.ibnzura.com/come_to_jesus.php?lang=en
Make a decision
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. For no one on earth is so righteous that he does good and never sins. We have all sinned. We have all done things that not please God. The good news is that God has provided that we can be reconciled to Him a way for ourselves and He has through His Son, Jesus Christ did. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ died on the cross in your place, paid your sin-debt in full, and then rose from the dead. If we surrender our lives to Jesus Christ, He promises to forgive and cleanse us of all our sinful past, He promises to give us power over sin in the present, and He promises us a great future with Him. If you will give Jesus Christ everything you have, He will give you everything He has.
If deep down in your heart you know Jesus Christ is the Truth, it is because God’s Spirit is calling you out of the darkness into His Light. Jesus said: I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (John 8:12). Jesus says: Look, I stand at the door, and knock, if anybody hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will feast with him, and he with me (Revelation 3:20).
It is necessary to go through a conversion that changes your lifestyle. This is possible by making a decision to stop sin and trying to become Jesus Christ like. It is very important to correctly understand conversion. When people become converted they change their way of thinking. Real conversion is: a determined, inward decision, a change of thinking. The change of thinking results in changed actions and activities. It is a noticeable change that God sees as conversion! At its core conversion doesn’t involve an emotion but a decision!
If you are sorry for the things you have done wrong, and want Jesus Christ to make you clean on the inside and come and live inside you, you can ask Him right now. He looks at the heart.
Pray
You can pray by simply saying:
Dear Jesus Christ,
I believe You died for me on the cross
And shed Your blood for my salvation.
I believe You rose from the dead and ascended on high.
I am a sinner.
Forgive my sin.
Cleanse me now with Your precious blood.
Come into my heart.
Save my soul right now.
I give You my life.
I am Yours forever,
And I will serve You and follow You the rest of my days.
Disciples of Jesus Christ share a common mission in life, they seek to know the Truth, live the truth, and spread the truth. If you want to learn more about God, you can do so by reading what God has said in the Bible and by meeting with people that follow and love Jesus Christ, His followers are known by their holy lives, and how they love one another. You can also get to know God better by talking with Him in prayer.
Christianity
It is believed that because of the sin of Adam, original sin, that man was separated from God and it is only through the salvation of Christ, merited by his death and resurrection, that man is reunited with God.
This is the reason that Christ has been called the Second Adam; the first Adam introduced sin into the world, Christ, the second Adam, took it away. «Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for all have sin. That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord» (Romans 5:12, 21).
Christians feel that the death and resurrection of Christ merited them sanctifying grace from God which they were separated from by the sin of Adam; the sin that forms the basis of the religion. Without such grace there was no connection between God and man; this connection was restored through the work of Christ. It is believed that God always loved man, even when he was dead in sin; but God could not shower this love upon man until a sufficient satisfaction or restitution was provided for sin. The suffering death of Christ provided such satisfaction. It is further believed that
such grace comes to man only through the merits of Christ, and not by human effort. Therefore, salvation, unity with God, requires the belief in Jesus Christ: «For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power» (Colossians 2:9-10).
Salvation by grace through faith is at the heart of the Christian religion. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8–9). The statement has three parts— salvation, grace, and faith—and they are equally important. The three together constitute a basic tenet of Christianity.
The word salvation is defined as “the act of being delivered, redeemed, or rescued.” The Bible tells us that, since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, each person is born in sin inherited from Adam: “Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12). Sin is what causes all of us to die. Sin separates us from God, and sin destines each person to eternal separation from Him in hell. What each of us needs is to be delivered from that fate. In other words, we need salvation from sin and its penalty.
No matter how well-intentioned or “good” we may be, the fact is that we simply do not have the power or the goodness to overcome the sin nature we have inherited from Adam. We need something more powerful, and this is where grace comes in.
The grace of God is His undeserved favor bestowed on those He has called to salvation through His love (Ephesians 2:4–5). It is His grace that saves us from sin. We are “justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24). Being justified, we are vindicated and determined to be sinless in the eyes of God. Our sin no longer separates us from Him and no longer sentences us to hell. Grace is not earned by any effort on our part; otherwise, it could not be called grace. Grace is free.
The means God has chosen to bestow His grace upon us is through faith. “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). Salvation is obtained by faith in God’s Son, Jesus Christ, in what He has done—specifically, His death on the cross and His resurrection. But even faith is not something we generate on our own. Faith, as well as grace, is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). He bestows saving faith and saving grace upon us in order to redeem us from sin and deliver us from its consequences. So God saves us by His grace through the faith He gives us. Both grace and faith are gifts. “Salvation belongs to the LORD” (Psalm 3:8, ESV).
"Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit"
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it's God that decides their success or failure.
Black sun rising, time is running out
Judas Priest - Sinner
Sinner rider, rides in with the storm
The Devil rides beside him
The Devil is his god, God help you mourn
Do you, do you hear it, do you hear the thunder?
Deafen every living thing about
Can you, can you see it, can you?
See the mountains darken yonder
Black sun rising, time is running out
Apr 22
I'm close to this.
ecstasy, (from Greek ekstasis, “to stand outside of or transcend [oneself]”), in mysticism, the experience of an inner vision of God or of one’s relation to or union with the divine. Various methods have been used to achieve ecstasy, which is a primary goal in most forms of religious mysticism. The most typical consists of four stages: (1) purgation (of bodily desire); (2) purification (of the will); (3) illumination (of the mind); and (4) unification (of one’s being or will with the divine).
Union with Christ in the Bible
As mentioned, we don’t necessarily see Paul give a breakdown of this doctrine, but we certainly see him hint at it all throughout his writings:
We’ve been crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:10)
We’ve been made alive in Christ (Colossians 2:13)
We’ve been hidden in Christ (Colossians 3:3)
We’ve been made one in Christ (Ephesians 5:31-32)
We’re a part of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27)
We will be brought to life in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:22)
We’ve been raised with Christ (Romans 6:5)
We will be glorified with Christ (Romans 8:17)
The list goes on. These instances describe for us what it means to be in Christ or with Christ. There are somewhere between 80-90 instances of “in Christ” in the New Testament – and this is where the definition of union with Christ becomes most clear to us.
Transubstantiation – the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic Adoration at Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada
Union with Christ
The Bible contains an astonishing number of terms, expressions and images that bear witness to the reality of our being made one with Christ Jesus.
In the Newer Testament we find literally hundreds of references to the believer’s union with Christ. To cite merely a few examples, believers are created in Christ (Eph. 2:10), crucified with him (Gal. 2:20), buried with him (Col. 2:12), baptized into Christ and his death (Rom. 6:3), united with him in his resurrection (Rom. 6:5), and seated with him in the heavenly places (Eph. 2:6); Christ is formed in believers (Gal. 4:19) and dwells in our hearts (Eph. 3:17); the church is the body of Christ (1 Cor. 6:15; 12:27); Christ is in us (2 Cor. 13:5) and we are in him (1 Cor. 1:30); the church is one flesh with Christ (Eph. 5:31–32); believers gain Christ and are found in him (Phil. 3:8–9).
Furthermore, in Christ we are justified (Rom. 8:1), glorified (8:30), sanctified (1 Cor. 1:2), called (1:9); made alive (Eph. 2:5), created anew (2 Cor. 5:17), adopted (Gal. 3:26), and elected (Eph. 1:4–5). Whew! All this without reference to the Gospel and letters of John! Suffice it to say, union with Christ is an absolutely fundamental gospel conviction of the Apostles—dear to them because it was so dear to their Lord.
Where Did Communion Come From?
Jesus started the tradition of communion. He instructed His followers to use bread and wine to remember the sacrifice He was going to make when He died for our sins on the cross (1 Corinthians 11:23-26).
Jesus called Himself “the bread of life,” which means that we’re nourished by Him, we survive because of Him, and He satisfies us when everything else leaves us empty (John 6:48-51). There’s a connection between our nearness to Jesus, believing in Him, and being fulfilled by Him (John 6:35).
The early Church celebrated Jesus by taking communion, sometimes every day (Acts 2:42-46). They saw that every time they gathered around a table to eat and drink, it was a chance to recognize Jesus and thank God for all He’s done.
Transubstantiation is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ".
This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that, in the Eucharistic offering, bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ
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