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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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Remember that Jesus was saying these things to His disciples so that they would not be offended. Jesus is speaking to His disciples about the Holy Spirit, who is the Comforter. The ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer is the front line of defense against the devil and his devices of defeat. The phrase, "The God of all comfort" carries the idea of a divine comforter who encourages, refreshes, strengthens, aids, assists, and is an ever present help in the time of need. The ways that God chooses to comfort are not always the same. He may deliver you or remove the cause of the affliction, or He may comfort you with words giving you a hope for the future. He also uses people to share their faith with you by prophesying. He sends...
"BORN ONCE...DIE TWICE BUT BORN TWICE...DIE ONCE" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2017-10-21
Knowing Jesus is knowing the Father. This is not only because Jesus did exactly what He saw His Father do, but Jesus was God in the flesh.
The disciples didn't realize that seeing Jesus was seeing God. They were expecting something more. Many times we miss seeing God work in our lives and circumstances because we are looking for something stupendous. Although it is true that God is totally awesome, He doesn't usually choose to manifest Himself in that way.
God spoke to Elijah not in the fire, wind, or an earthquake, but in a still, small voice. Jesus didn't come to this earth in a grand way by man's standards, but was born to poor parents in a stable. Isaiah 53:2 says that Jesus had no form nor beauty that would make us think that He was anything more...
Thomas knew Jesus. He just didn't realize Jesus was "the way." Likewise, people today know portions of God's Word but they don't realize that God's Word is their way to victory. Often, people cry out for God to speak to them while their Bible lays unopened on their nightstand. God has spoken to us through His Word. We just need to believe it and receive its truths as our way to victory.
Jesus didn't say: "I am a way, a truth, and a life." He claimed to be the only way, truth, and life. No man can come to the Father except through Jesus. This means that anyone who claims to honor Jesus while advocating other ways to get to God, truth, or life, besides Jesus, is deceived or a deceiver.
Jesus' claims about Himself, of which there is only one, left no room for...
DO YOU KNOW YOU WERE CREATED FOR GOD'S PLEASURE? REVELATION 4:11 SAYS THAT HE CREATED EVERYTHING, INCLUDING US, FOR HIS PLEASURE (Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.) I ONCE WONDERED HOW MUCH PLEASURE HE GETS OUT OF SOME OF THE THINGS WE DO UNTIL I REMEMBERED THAT HE SEES US THROUGH JESUS. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY OUR HOLY GOD COULD LOOK UPON US. 1ST JOHN 4:17 TELL US THIS (Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.) WE ARE WITHOUT SIN IN GOD'S EYES.
This is Jesus' last teaching to His disciples before His crucifixion. Jesus' disciples were about to go through the greatest test of their faith that they had ever encountered. Jesus said that He was saying these things so His disciples would not be offended. Jesus was preparing them for what was to come. Why then speak of preparing them a mansion in heaven? The reason for this was to comfort the disciples and help them put things in perspective. In 1 Thessalonians 4:18, Paul tells us to comfort one another with words about being gathered unto the Lord in the air. Paul said again, "I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18). Someday, all of our trials will seem like...
THIS MORNING AS I WAS STUDYING ROMANS AND I STOPPED ON CHAPTER 5, VERSE 2, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT PATIENCE. MY DEFINITION OF PATIENCE, BEFORE I READ THE FULL DEFINITION, WAS "JUST WAIT AND SEE IF IT HAPPENS". AFTER LOOKING IT UP, I FOUND THAT I WAS WAY OFF. THE NOAH WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY OF 1828 SAYS IT MEANS "The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. "DOESN'T THAT SOUND JUST LIKE JESUS? HE MUST HAVE ENDURED ALL OF THESE DURING HIS LIFE ON EARTH. HE WAS THE CREATOR AND MOST OF HIS CREATION REJECTED HIM. THAT HAD TO REALLY HURT HIM.