How the Gospel can free you from Hate.

God’s love is all encompassing that it can change our hearts from bitterness to love. When we fully embrace the love that God has for all of humanity it can free us from demanding that we get our way all the time, and it puts others first. People want to be loved, and there is nothing greater to know that God loves you and He accepts you as you are. How we experience this love is through faith in Jesus Christ. He was put to death by angry sinners because they had never seen unconditional love the way Jesus lived his life. The society that Jesus lived in was one of rules and religious law and Jesus broke almost every tradition that the religious Jews were accustomed to.

He ate with sinners, broke ceremonial laws in regards to washing hands before they ate, taught it was more important to honour your mother and father than keeping rules about traditional giving and other traditions from the law. He set a lady free from the punishment of death after she was caught in the act of adultery by her community, and healed a person on the sabbath day when it was considered an act of work, when no work was to be done. Because of this many people doubted Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah because surely the Messiah wouldn’t have acted in this way.

But Jesus was there to set up a new way of doing things called the new covenant. He eventually removed the barrier between Jew and Greek, and through his death and resurrection became the Lord of both the Jew and Gentile. Nearly, over 2000 years have passed and Christians are no longer waiting the first coming of the Messiah but we are awaiting for his second coming. Before Jesus comes again, God is giving people a chance to repent because when Jesus comes back again he is not coming back to save people, but to bring the final judgment to this world. He is not coming back to this earth alone, but is bringing with him armies of saints and holy angels, so if you are not prepared for that Day, I encourage you to put your faith in Jesus now! He loves you and desires to be your friend, not your Judge. You must make a free choice for Jesus now. This is Mike.

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The Parable of the Ten Virgins.

Matthew 25:1-13 I have discovered a remarkable interpretation of this parable that I would like to share with you. The story in the Bible goes like this: “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ 7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ 9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy som...

Age of Brokenness.

We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and ...

The Biblical Meaning of “Life in the Spirit.”

“Life in the Spirit” is an example that the Apostle Paul gives in the book of Romans starting in chapter 5 and going through to chapter 8. He begins by telling us we are justified by faith (5:1), and have gained access by faith into the grace of God (5:2). We have been delivered from God’s wrath (5:9) and we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son (5:10). He goes on to explain that through Adam all die (5:12), and that the free Gift of God brings justification and righteousness to the believing sinner (5:15-17). Through our conversion we are baptized into Christ and into his death, which frees us from the law and makes us dead to sin (6:2-4). He explains that just as Christ was raised from the dead, we are given new life in Christ (6:4). Our old unregenerate self was crucified with Christ so that our body of sin might be done away with (6:5-6). Because we have died to sin, we now submit ourselves to God being that we are now under grace, not the law (6:8-1...

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