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What is Mortal Sin? The church is not teaching that there are eternal consequences to sin, otherwise known as mortal sin. When someone becomes a Christian they are forgiven from the consequences of sin, but it doesn't take away the real and present consequences of present sin. This process is call sanctification. The bible teaches in Hebrews that if we continue in sin there no longer remains a sacrifice for sin. Persistence in venial and mortal sin can send anyone to hell, even a saved person. What the devil is trying to get Christians to believe in our century, is that there are no eternal consequences for sin, even after you become saved. Yes Salvation is a free gift, but the bible teaches us not to neglect this gift. Hebrews 2:3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. The lie is that we can sin all we want, and still go to Heaven when we die, and then they will g...

Life doesn't have to end When we Die. No, I am not trying to trick you and maybe you feel a little uncomfortable with that statement. This is what Jesus offers all who die in the grace of God however. I used to think about this a lot throughout my life. I was always taught that Christianity offers something more than just a nice afterlife, it offers something called eternal life. In Christianity we believe in something called the resurrection as we believe our Saviour and Lord Jesus, died for our sins and was raised to Life by the Holy Spirit. We believe that one day that those of us who died in Christ, will come alive again physically and live on a resurrected New Heavens and Earth, where God Himself will dwell with us forever. This is my Christian hope. When I am faced with death, my death or the death of others, I need not despair, because my Lord conquered death and in the same way, we will truly conquer death the same way Christ did. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is de...

Are we in the Last Days? 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. Matthew 24:7-8 | ESV From the time of the early church, Christians expected the immanent return of Jesus Christ. We are now living in the 21st century and Christ hasn't returned yet, but the Church still believes in his immanent return. Most of the world will be caught off guard, and that is a shame because Jesus warned us in the gospel of Matthew chapter 24, that there are things that will be happening in the world before the resurrection of the dead. The world is already in a state of unrest, and the church is mostly unprepared for his coming, but you don't have to be. One of the things Jesus promised was that his gospel would go out to the ends of the world, before his return, and that is what is happening despite world wide persecution of Christians and the bible!...

How Far Can We Go? Jeremiah was a prophet who was dealing with a people who forgot the Lord. God told Jeremiah that His people no longer knew Him. 22 “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.” Jeremiah 4:22 | ESV There is a similarity today how people live now, as compared to Jeremiah's time. Nobody wanted to listen to the truth, so God used this prophet to pronounce their judgement. "I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. 25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. 26 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger. Jeremiah 4:23c-26 | ESV God made their land a waste...

Why we can't live without hope. Hope gives us a reason to live. There was never a happier time in my life than when I had hope. It's easy to think that things can't get better and that is one of the reasons why we give up. Hope doesn't have to come from having things, but when we have things we can still lose hope. A health crisis, an unhappy marriage can give us reason to believe that we will miss out on being happy. When things are really bad we might need someone to carry us or pick us up. It's nice to feel secure but hope comes from believing there is a future. Part of the cause of my depression in 1999 was feeling that I wasn't going to have a future, therefore I had no reason to keep believing. I let my circumstances literally crush me, but now I don't blame myself, because I see that I was just human and fragile, just like everyone else. It took me 20 years to see that I needed to forgive myself for losing hope. It was a fight, and it is a struggl...

The Roots of Religion. One's convictions should be based on history. The more we all remember about the world and our place in it the more we can bring to our present moments in our current history. Present moments should be shaped by our collective good, not our collective evil. Mankind has the power to commit great good if our will is strong, but our wills must be shaped by the good in history, not the evil. To forget what is our peace is a mistake, peace begins by trying to be good, and morality is a start. There is no need to try to be good on your own for this is impossible. Our society must change direction, for this is the way we saved ourselves in the past. There is a lot of encouragement and psychological therapy, but this must not be done in a bubble or isolation, there has to be choices that shape the direction of cities, towns etc, and that starts by you helping other people. The roots of all religion must be courage and thankfulness. Without courage we would give i...

No Going Forwards Without Looking Back. When you sin and hurt someone and then continue to move forwards in your life, you are preparing yourself for ultimate failure and judgement. As a Christian you need to make every effort to resolve conflict now and live in peace with other men and women, and with God. You will not pass the great judgement or your particular judgement after you die with unforgiveness in your heart, and unresolved conflict with other people. God has given you one life in which to glorify God, and the more and more you ignore His existence the worse your Judgment will be at the end of time. People used to live with the mindset that the Judgement Day was always coming, the fact that people sin now and feel no remorse is proof that mankind is still loosing their way. God is writing everything that is happening here in books, and if you die in your sins you will have to answer for all the sins of omission and commission, the things you didn't do and the things ...