As Jesus is, so are you in this world

1 John 4:17 KJV) - 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.

If you want to know what God is like, look to Jesus. Bible says Jesus is the exact representation of who God is.

Until you learn to identity yourself in Christ Jesus, you will never have that firm assurance of Salvation. You will always be tossed by the waves of doubt because you look at yourself represented to be judged before God. Until you know you are really loved by God, have faith in what his word says about your identity, you will always be in fear and on shaky ground.

And that is the modus operandi of the devil. He will use every power of deception to point you to yourself to be judged before God, even using scripture or the pulpit to deceive you. The devil is very cunning, able to use "religious" people to point you to your sins. Many a times, you may even feel overwhelmed by voices saying, You call yourself a christian, look at how you threat people, you have not please God enough, you use God like Santa Clause for a wish list, etc. Every kind of guilt/condemnation can creep in unknowingly.

Bible says in

Colossians 3:3 (NIV) - For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Whenever you hear judgemental voices, quote these 2 verses. Quote it and accept this by Faith even though you know you don't measure up.

Tell youself. As Jesus is, so are you in this world. Learn to look to Christ as your identity.

Is Father God pleased with Jesus Christ? So are you!
Is Jesus Christ under any condemnation? So are you!
Is Jesus Christ under God's Favour? So are you!
Is Jesus Christ Healthy? So are you!

Use such reasoning and use these 2 verses to fight against voices of condemnation or voices of people attacking you.

Dear Friends, For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God!

God Bless!

Morning fellow Christians.

When you pray to Father God, quote

Romans 8:32 at the end of your prayer, Thanking the Father.

You can pray like this:

"Father I thank you that you hear my prayers. And I also Thank you, that because you did not spare your own son, how will you also not along with my Lord Give me all things."

It makes a lot of difference to the dynamic of your Faith.

God Bless bro n sis in Christ.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comme...ant_nabeel_who/

He's dying from stomach cancer. Urgent prayers stage de.

Evidence of unbroken Salvation

1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV) - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Dear Fellow Believers,

I pray this will give you insight.

Realize that when the apostle Paul wrote this part of scripture, the word used in indication is present tense.

Translated in today's language,

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?

This Verse was used to help the corinthian Christians understand, despite of their short comings [Read all the wrongdoings stated in 1 Corinthians 6 (whole chapter)],

their body is STILL the temple of the Holy Spirit, not Was or Were.

Think about it, what it means.

God Bless.

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Being One with God

1 Corinthians 6:17 (NIV) - But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

The word of God says, when you are in union with God, you are also one in spirit with God.

This is something that is promised will happen when you practise to be united with God every hour of your life.

Having God in your life is equivalent to always having hope even when adversity comes.

Being One with God fills in the empty gap in your life. You will no longer search, neither feel the empty pain of loneliness. You will also note, things change in your life, many good things happen.

You will also not be troubled, by the circumstance of politic or whatever powers that oppresses Man, because you now know God who is creator and also the Lord of all things in this universe can upset such powers.

I don't know about you but dear Friend, only God is able to handle the deepest complexity of whatever that troubles Man and Woman, if you allow Him to come into your life.

I can testify this to be true.

God Bless.

Someone showed me John Peterson's talks about psychology and whatnot. I don't know if he's Christian or not, but after listening to some of his vids I learned some stuff.

The cycle of violent ideologies, for example. And that the first step of any real change is acknowledging your own flaws.

All of these are already written in the Bible, 2000 years ish before modern psychology.

If you are saved, start living like one!

2 Peter 1:10 (NIV) - Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble,


Good Day friends.

In 2 Peter 1:5, you'll see the apostle Peter mentioning to ADD these to your Faith:

goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.

Although we can argue all those comes as fruits by works of the Holy Spirit, nothing of us in essence, what Apostle Paul is saying in essence is this.

Since you are saved, start acting like one. Don't live your life as you used to, cursing, using vulgarity, lust of pornopgrahy, lying, cheating, etc.

See and understand that the Christian Life is in symbiosis life with God. You take 1 step of Faith believing, God goes into work in your life.

So when you take 1 step of Faith wanting to do goodness or to attain knowledge, God works in you, so that you start to do good things, and also attaining knowledge!

When you keep doing this in increasing measure, you are just solidifying that you have been saved.

The Bible says, when you don't this; you are in essence have forgotten that you have been saved. So adding all these virtues are important!

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

God Bless.

Fellow brethren,

My church is hosting this event next week.

It will definitely be beneficial if you guys come.

Who is against you?

Romans 8:31 (NIV) - What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

If you feel that everything in this world is against you. Know that God is for you.

Even if you feel God is against you. Know that by truth of scripture, God is for you!

The Bible says, the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). What this means is that he seeks to deceive someone to give a false impression of God, making it
seem as if God is angry with you as a roaring lion.

But let Romans 8:31 sink into your spirit and heart, God is not angry at you and is for you!

God Bless!

I'm sorry UW. I find it very hard to understand. By just existing we cause a chain of events that hurt another person. By deed and thought, by inaction or action.

Just existing as a human contributes to the problem of sin and there's no way to have everyone 100 percent good all the time...

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That is why Christ came to set things right for people who receive His Grace.

And that is why you must receive because only Grace can change you from the inside, not God's law.

People ask me, what is Grace? Is it a teaching? A subject? No, it's the person of Jesus Christ.

I used to be in bondage to Fits of Rage and Anger and Lust to pornography.

Christ delivered me from such bondage as many others have. These days I'm quite resistant to such compared to previously. If Christ can do this for me, He can do it for you too. Hence Romans 8:31.

True, I don't think people can be 100% perfect while in this body...but does that mean in our negative temperament God will be against us? Answer is No. God is not like our earthly father. He is God who knows everything about you and still would sent his Son to die for you. Beside this is just temporal. When we pass on and be with the Lord, we will have our new Heavenly Body absent of all sin, we will have perfection by then.

So don't worry about it.

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Guys,

Nabeel Qureshi has finally entered into the joy of the Lord Jesus Christ after a year long battle with stomach cancer.

Here's the link: https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justin...eshi-1983-2017/

I noticed that people who converts like Nabil, are usually on fire. passionate for the gospel......the passion burns incessantly.

Christians don't lose. either way. We live for God, when we die we enter into God's Kingdom.

Oh no...

I still feel sad. MOre like "who's going to talk to the Muslims now?" It feels like a huge loss.

Yes, like in the scriptures: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. -Philippians 1:21

So, it's a win for Nabeel.

I believe we can, God has His plan and his death might inspire and impact the Muslims that he had spoken to, perhaps his family as well.

I too have been reaching out to my Muslim friends and they are quite open to the bible and church events and that's a progress for me.

Plenty of ex-moslem convert to christian apologetics from middle east.

Plentiful.

Not to worry, Nabil isn't the only one or the best.

Many of them are residing in the states, some still in the middle east.

Many Christians don't consider their old self dead

Colossians 3:3 (NIV) - For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

One of the reason why God's word assures of us Salvation is because we are suppose to be dead.
Colossians 3:3 says that we have died and our life is now hidden in Christ in God.

What this means is that, our old sinful identity is dead before God, our rightful identify before God is now Christ, that is why we can have assurance of Salvation.
And because Christ has been judged, we will not be judged because God promised when we put our Faith in Him, God credit that as righteousness.
What many Christian don't understand about Colossians 3:3 is that God only look to Christ(and not us) when we received Christ as our Saviour.

Problem right now is that many of us consider ourselves alive before God to be judged in our thoughts and action.

This is the key problem where we have missed it and don't understand Colossians 3:3.

You may understand this for this very second, but come tomorrow morning, you will forget and there will be some sort of subconscious voice of condemnation, the guilt that you feel when you have done wrong or fallen short of God's standard. This tendency will keep coming back, making you forget, you have died even when you have done wrong, your old identity is no more. You will believe your identity is still alive.

It takes the Holy Spirit to give you this revelation to sink in. It is not easy, even I have struggles in this area of identity at time but I believe this truth is critically important to share out regardless.

Please stop for a moment and refuse to move until you really understand this revelation of you have died. Past tense.

God Bless.

Release from Ceremonial Law?

Romans 7:6 (NIV) - But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Good Days fellow believers.

This verse implies we have been released from the Law under the OT. There's a teaching among Christian circle purported, we have been only released from ceremonial laws of moses and not the 10 commandments.

but if you look at the context of Romans 7..where in verse 7, it says;

Romans 7:7: What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."


The Law of Covet is part of the 10 commandments.

This once and for all, put to rest the argument we have been released not only ceremonial laws but also the 10 commandments. Those who fight for the law in the OT need to read this and understand this.

There is also another teaching in the body of Christ, obedience is key to Salvation.

I want to bring this verse that will also put to rest of this argument.

Galatians 3:2 (NIv) - I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?

Do you see that? Works of the Law here refers to your obedience or performance.

The Spirit here is referring to the Holy Spirit. And how is it tied to Salvation?

Bible says it like this;

Ephesians 1:13-14 (NIV) - And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession to the praise of his glory.

Without the HS in you, you do not have Salvation. You do not receive because of obedience, you receive because of Faith.

Very clear cut in these verse as evidence. Obedience is the fruit, not the root! You cannot produce it by will power or effort, only comes and works by Faith.

Grace is the Gospel, that will lead you home!

God Bless.


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