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 Unfortunately we are living in a time where repentance as a teaching is being neglected by some parts of the church. What is being taught is that you only have to repent once to be saved forever. The words of John the Baptist in Matthew 3:8 are being ignored by some evangelical teachers who wrongly assume that if you repent after you are saved, you are somehow putting your salvation in question. This could be a modern form of Antinomianism which basically says that Christians are released by grace from the obligation of observing the moral law! The modern argument bases works and faith on unequal terms and says that if you obey the moral law, you fall under a works salvation. Catholic doctrine is being attacked because of this, despite obvious scriptural references that show we are to obey the moral law.   Romans 8:12-13 says "Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation-but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you wil

 Each successive generation holds out new and different possibilities, each one different from the other. God has a lot to say about generations in the bible and how they adapt or accept the word of God. It is quite possible that an entire generation can miss the boat so to speak, and collectively cause more damage than previous generations. It is not the fault of one particular individual, but each individual adds to the generational sins of each generation. When a righteous man lives on the earth, he leaves a blessing for successive generations. Psalm 112 says "Happy is the person who honours the Lord, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands. The good man's children will be powerful in the land; his descendants will be blessed. His family will be wealthy and rich, and he will be prosperous forever." (Psalm 112:1-3 Good News Bible)  When a righteous man leaves a legacy of holiness, the bible says "But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love m

 There is no darkness in God, but that doesn't mean He doesn't use it for purposes for good. In a real sense God has a mind, and that mind is full of love, God is a Spirit and He is love. You can say that God has a conscience and that mind is found in the word of God. When evil prevails in the world, the way back is to follow the light and the truth. Behind the veil of light is darkness, the unknown about God that He hasn't revealed to humanity. The darkness hides His presence, the light manifests it. The darkness that hides God's glory is a part of His consciousness. God never changes and hides Himself so to speak from the mind that has rejected Him. The bible calls the darkness a covering, where the Lord comes to send His judgement into the world.  When God gave the Ten Commandments to the present day, the Lord is the same. Darkness cannot hide the light, and it cannot cover the light. When people suppress the truth, the darkness expands, but as this happens the candl

 These are words from the Spiritual Master and guru Paramahansa Yogananda. Taken in a christian context, it can be made to mean "Life in the Spirit." Let me explain, in it's proper context it means that when the ego dies, the soul will be fully United with Spirit! This has an even deeper explanation, the ego in a religious context is the non-spiritual aspect of our being. Being a spiritual person, the material aspect of our humanity is not bad, our flesh so to speak is sacred, for as a believer the Holy Spirit lives in our flesh, and the last thing to be redeemed is our flesh. To avoid heresy, let me say that the flesh is good, even though we are called to live in the spirit not our flesh, to treat the body with disrespect is suicide.  When we kill the flesh, or ego, it never fully dies this side of the resurrection. Even after death, the ego never fully dies. Another word for the ego is our personality, character, or soul. These are our identity, the ego is what gives yo

 God is a God of compassion and love, but He is also a God of anger and wrath. God is sovereign, which means that He is in control of everything that happens on planet earth. Although God judged sin by sending His Son Jesus Christ to pay the penalty for our sins, mankind is still held responsible for the sins we commit outside the covenant relationship with Jesus Christ, otherwise known as the New Covenant. When we think of God as being an angry God, we have to remember that Jesus took the full wrath we deserved for our sins, when he died on the cross. God's wrath for our sins was fully taken by His Son. Jesus died for the whole world, but outside this relationship, mankind is still under the wrath of God.  As such, God has every right in the world to punish us, and those who's sins are forgiven, still experience the effects of living in a fallen world. When a person trusts in Jesus as Lord and Saviour, they no longer experience the wrath of God, because they have identified th

Sometimes God has to let us go. It is not his desire, however I wan't to talk about a passage of scripture found in Isaiah 28, it reads in part;  "Therefore hear the word of the Lord you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place." So this is what the Sovereign Lord says; "See, I lay a stone in Zion a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed." I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will will overflow your hiding place.  Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. (Isaiah 28:14-18) What shocks me from these verses is that the people had made a covena