By J. R. Miller, from "The Law of Love"
Christ did not so much give rules for special cases--as principles to govern all conduct.
"I tell you who hear Me: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you." Luke 6:27
Loving enemies is not a natural affection.
This is not an easy lesson to learn!
It is never easy to be a Christian.
The easy way does not lead toward heaven!
The lesson of love continues, "Bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat you." Luke 6:28
These counsels are intensely practical. In answer to men's cursings, revilings and insults--we are to return words of peace, kindness and love. Those who mistreat us--we are to pray for, instead of uttering threats against them, or imprecations upon them.
We remember how Jesus Himself lived out this law of love. There were many who cursed Him and reviled Him--but He never lost the sweetness of love out of His heart. He never on any occasion returned a word of cursing or anger or even of impatience--in response to the bitterest revilings of His enemies. "When He was reviled--He did not revile in return; when suffering--He did not threaten, but committed Himself to the One who judges justly." 1 Peter 2:23
That is the example for us. We are to be silent when others speak evil of us or to us; or, if we speak, it is to be the soft answer that turns away wrath. We need not worry ourselves about the deserts of those who treat us unjustly, feeling that we should see to their punishment. We are to leave that to God--who judges righteously and who will take care also that no real harm shall come to us, from the wrongs which others inflict on us, provided we keep ourselves in His love and in an obedient spirit.
The lesson has its ideal exemplification in our Lord's prayer on His cross for His murderers. His only answer to the driving of the nails through His hands and feet was, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do!" That is the way He wants us to answer the cruelties and injuries which others may inflict upon us!
We must be ready to endure not one--but many injuries from the others. We must be unresisting, like our Lord. No wrongs from others--should ever turn our love to hate. Christ's own life was an illustration of this. He was treated wrongfully at every step--but His heart never lost its sweetness, its gentleness, its patience, its desire to bless others and do them good.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
This is what it is
God is holy righteous and just. There is a day that he will judge every human being. It is called for a man once to die and then the judgement. He will judge us on the 10 commandments. The 9th commandment is do not lie. have you ever told a lie? Even just one then you are a liar. The 6th commandment is you shall not murder. Have you ever murdered? Did you have an abortion? Jesus said that if you hate your brother you murdered him in your heart. Have you every hated anyone? If you have hated then you are a murder in Gods eyes. The 7th Commandment is that you shall not commit adultery. Jesus said if you lust after a women then you have committed adultery with her in your heart. So if you have lied, lusted and hated God will see you as a liar, guilty of adultery and a murder. If God judges you by the 10 commandments you will be guilty and go to hell, but God made a way that you would not have to go to hell. God sent is only son Jesus. Jesus lived a perfect life. Jesus never sinned. He was completely innocent. Jesus was tried in an unfair way they could not convict him of anything but healing on a day one should not work, bringing dead people back to life and claiming to be God. They raised him up on the cross and killed him. Jesus took the full wrath of God for the sins of those that repent and trust in Jesus. Repenting is confessing your sins and Trusting in Jesus's death. The confessing of sin is not just a confess so you go to heaven but a confess because you are cut to the heart that you did them. You have to have a trust in God that leads you to turn away from sin. Sin is breaking Gods laws. A saving faith is based on the willingness to submit to the authority of God. You have to make God Lord of your life. You have to make him King. You have to be willing to give up everything for Jesus. Do you have that kind of trust in Jesus? Does Jesus occupy the throne of your heart? Are you saved from your self will and are you coming to God on your terms or his? You have to come on is terms. Does breaking Gods law grieve you? You need to check yourself and make sure you have a saving faith.
Jesus is my Lord and King and I will follow him.
Jesus is my Lord and King and I will follow him.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
False Teachers and Their Destruction
2 Peter 2:1-9 (New International Version)
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,[a] putting them into gloomy dungeons[b] to be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,[a] putting them into gloomy dungeons[b] to be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
The Right Jesus
There is only 1 reason to come to Jesus.
You have to know that you are a sinner and that you deserve hell. You have to know that if God Judged you then you would be guilty. The only reason to run to Jesus is that he died on the cross and you want to repent and put your faith in him that he paid the fine for your sins. If you are coming to Jesus for any other reason then you are not a Christian.
If you became a Christian to be Happy then you are probably not saved.
If you become a Christian to be wealthy then you are probably not saved.
If you became a Christian to hang out with people you think are cool then you are probably not saved.
If you became a Christian and your life did not change radically you are probablly not saved.
Do you think you are going to heaven because you are a good person and you believe in God and you have never really hurt anyone? Let us look and see if you really are a good person. The word Good is dirived from God. God is morally perfect. God requires us to keep the 10 commandments. Have you kept the 10 commandments? Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever stolen anything even something small? Have you ever hated anyone? If you hate your brother then you have murdered him in your heart. Have you ever lusted? Jesus said if you lust after a women you have commited adultry already in your heart. The Bible sayes it is called for a man once to die and then the judgment. If you are judged by the 10 commandments how will you do? If you broke even 1 then you will be guilty of them all. The Bible says all liars will have their place in the lake of fire. no theif no murder and no adulter can enter the kingdom of heaven. God will judge us thought word and deed but he is rich in mercy and he sent his only son Jesus Christ to live a perfect life and to never break any of the laws. Jesus an innocent man was raised up on the cross and paid the fine for those that repent and put their faith in Jesus's work on the cross.
The acceptable time for repentance is now. Please repent and put your trust in Jesus. God will make you a new person and you will be born again. A trust in Jesus means that you walk as if you believe what the Bible tells you. It is repenting daily for what you have done. It is reading the Bible understanding it and obeying what it says.
You have to know that you are a sinner and that you deserve hell. You have to know that if God Judged you then you would be guilty. The only reason to run to Jesus is that he died on the cross and you want to repent and put your faith in him that he paid the fine for your sins. If you are coming to Jesus for any other reason then you are not a Christian.
If you became a Christian to be Happy then you are probably not saved.
If you become a Christian to be wealthy then you are probably not saved.
If you became a Christian to hang out with people you think are cool then you are probably not saved.
If you became a Christian and your life did not change radically you are probablly not saved.
Do you think you are going to heaven because you are a good person and you believe in God and you have never really hurt anyone? Let us look and see if you really are a good person. The word Good is dirived from God. God is morally perfect. God requires us to keep the 10 commandments. Have you kept the 10 commandments? Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever stolen anything even something small? Have you ever hated anyone? If you hate your brother then you have murdered him in your heart. Have you ever lusted? Jesus said if you lust after a women you have commited adultry already in your heart. The Bible sayes it is called for a man once to die and then the judgment. If you are judged by the 10 commandments how will you do? If you broke even 1 then you will be guilty of them all. The Bible says all liars will have their place in the lake of fire. no theif no murder and no adulter can enter the kingdom of heaven. God will judge us thought word and deed but he is rich in mercy and he sent his only son Jesus Christ to live a perfect life and to never break any of the laws. Jesus an innocent man was raised up on the cross and paid the fine for those that repent and put their faith in Jesus's work on the cross.
The acceptable time for repentance is now. Please repent and put your trust in Jesus. God will make you a new person and you will be born again. A trust in Jesus means that you walk as if you believe what the Bible tells you. It is repenting daily for what you have done. It is reading the Bible understanding it and obeying what it says.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Standing Outside of Planned Parenthood overview
Standing infront of planned parenthood is something you have to experience to really understand. It is unbelievable.
There is a half circle that goes out into the street and if you are pro-life you are not allowed to go into the circle.
If you want to go to the other side of planned parenthood on you have to cross the street cross the street to the left and then cross back over to the side of the street you were on before just on the otherside of the circle like a uturn. If you do not then you get a citation from the Police. I now have my picture on the wall inside of planned parenthood I am a marked pro-lifer. Like having my picture up in the post office for being a criminal. There are 3 old people that seem to be aleast 70 that go every Tuesday-Saturday. 7am-10am . The three older people have huge signs of babies being murdered and of babies the age that are being murdered. 7am-10am is the time that Babies are murdered. I think about 10 babies where murdered today. You can not stop or get in the way of people going to kill their babies but people yell things like ask for a sonigram. I yelled your baby has fingernails when I was not preaching or reading. It is a time for prayer.
I got there about 6:45am to watch the staff of planned parenthood walk into the clinic. I talked to the 3 Catholic older people before everything began. They were very nice.
I read from about 7am-8am. Kevin and his family showed up and I gave them tracts and they handed them out on the corners not near the clinic so that people would take the tracts. This is a good warm up.
One paster showed up around 8am and he went against the rules on purpose and walked through that half circle over and over again inciting the planned parenthood security guy on purpose. I am not sure why a pastor would do that but he did. Him breaking the law on purpose made me very nervious. I had just finished reading the sled stuff and the gospel so I left to find kevin and his family when the planned parenthood guy said he was calling the police.
After regrouping with Kevin, Diane and their daughter and freind we went back to infront of the abortion clinic. The police got called 3 times while I was there. They seem to take a long time to showup. Kevin read for Project Erza for the first time. Kevins daughter and friend read for the first time too. I read the gospel serveral times. right after Kevins Daughter started reading 2 very outragious guys showed up trying to start fights and spiting on the pro-life signs. I got my camera out and started video taping them. I think my camera might be broken after the guy hit my camera since I was taping him. But since I started taping him he stopped trying to fight people. The video camera is really a great security measure. Since he thought he was being taped he was milder if you watch the video you be like what was he doing earlier?
My heart is really for the Catholic 3 elderly people that are out there all the time and not saved. It is like 2 little Mother Tereasa's and Gondi. They are doing mightly things and they are not saved. They are who I will be preaching to next time. They are doing good deeds and I am rooting for them to get saved. If good deeds got people into heaven they would be going.
There are catholic people standing around the half circle praying the rosary over and over again the entire time. It is such a shame they are not saved.
Here are the videos from the day. The one there is swearing. When Kevins daughter was reading John 1 is when the 2 strange guys showed up. I walked around her as he was coming around so that he could not get near her. I am not sure his goal was to get near her but he verbally attacked those that he had seen up on the box particularly for a bit and since she was on the box reading Gods word there was no way I wanted him near her.
There is a half circle that goes out into the street and if you are pro-life you are not allowed to go into the circle.
If you want to go to the other side of planned parenthood on you have to cross the street cross the street to the left and then cross back over to the side of the street you were on before just on the otherside of the circle like a uturn. If you do not then you get a citation from the Police. I now have my picture on the wall inside of planned parenthood I am a marked pro-lifer. Like having my picture up in the post office for being a criminal. There are 3 old people that seem to be aleast 70 that go every Tuesday-Saturday. 7am-10am . The three older people have huge signs of babies being murdered and of babies the age that are being murdered. 7am-10am is the time that Babies are murdered. I think about 10 babies where murdered today. You can not stop or get in the way of people going to kill their babies but people yell things like ask for a sonigram. I yelled your baby has fingernails when I was not preaching or reading. It is a time for prayer.
I got there about 6:45am to watch the staff of planned parenthood walk into the clinic. I talked to the 3 Catholic older people before everything began. They were very nice.
I read from about 7am-8am. Kevin and his family showed up and I gave them tracts and they handed them out on the corners not near the clinic so that people would take the tracts. This is a good warm up.
One paster showed up around 8am and he went against the rules on purpose and walked through that half circle over and over again inciting the planned parenthood security guy on purpose. I am not sure why a pastor would do that but he did. Him breaking the law on purpose made me very nervious. I had just finished reading the sled stuff and the gospel so I left to find kevin and his family when the planned parenthood guy said he was calling the police.
After regrouping with Kevin, Diane and their daughter and freind we went back to infront of the abortion clinic. The police got called 3 times while I was there. They seem to take a long time to showup. Kevin read for Project Erza for the first time. Kevins daughter and friend read for the first time too. I read the gospel serveral times. right after Kevins Daughter started reading 2 very outragious guys showed up trying to start fights and spiting on the pro-life signs. I got my camera out and started video taping them. I think my camera might be broken after the guy hit my camera since I was taping him. But since I started taping him he stopped trying to fight people. The video camera is really a great security measure. Since he thought he was being taped he was milder if you watch the video you be like what was he doing earlier?
My heart is really for the Catholic 3 elderly people that are out there all the time and not saved. It is like 2 little Mother Tereasa's and Gondi. They are doing mightly things and they are not saved. They are who I will be preaching to next time. They are doing good deeds and I am rooting for them to get saved. If good deeds got people into heaven they would be going.
There are catholic people standing around the half circle praying the rosary over and over again the entire time. It is such a shame they are not saved.
Here are the videos from the day. The one there is swearing. When Kevins daughter was reading John 1 is when the 2 strange guys showed up. I walked around her as he was coming around so that he could not get near her. I am not sure his goal was to get near her but he verbally attacked those that he had seen up on the box particularly for a bit and since she was on the box reading Gods word there was no way I wanted him near her.
Friday, January 22, 2010
50 Million Murdered and these are our Warriors
Hitler Killed 15 Million, Stalin killed 20 Million. The US has killed 50 million Babies since 1973, many paid for by tax payers money. On 911 2,973 people died. We went to war with 2 countires. At Perl harbor 2,403 people died and we entered into World War 2. Every day 2000-3000 babies are murdered in an abortion clinic in The US. These are 4 Catholic Boys standout outside of the Abortion clinic. There parents are on the other side of the half circle praying the rosery. This is the response. This is a large response today since it is the aniversery of Roe Vs Wade. Normally every friday there is only 1 little old lady named Sally. She looks to be 70+ years old. She must think I am crazy but I can not stop myself every time I see her I just grab her and hug her and kiss her face. I say thank you over and over again. I pray for her all the time. I keep wondering why there is not not more people out there. Why didn't Bush put the millitary troops outside of the abortion clinics and not let people in? That would have saved more lives. The people killing these babies don't they have a conscience. The Bible tells us that they are blinded by the prince of this world and they definately are blinded. They just do not see what they are doing.
The more I keep thinking about abortion and our response I realized that I should not be surprised at our recaction. As a Christian I know that God is going to Judge every person for their every thought word and deed. If a person has lied then God will see them as a liar and has broken the 9th commandment. If a person has lusted after another then the Bible tells us that they are an adulter at heart and has broken the 7th commandment. If you hate your brother then God sees you as a murder so you broke the 6th commandment. I know that It is appointed for a man once to die and then the judgement. The Bible says all liars will have their place in the lake of fire and no theif or murder will enter the kingdom of heaven. The only way anyone can get to heaven is to have Jesus pay your fine by dieing on the cross for you. You need to repent and put your active trust in Jesus paying your fine.
Christians know that millions are going to go to hell for eternaty and our responce is that a few go out and beg people to repent and put their trust in Jesus. The response is laking here too. What a sad state the church is in and the US.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Preparing
Did you know that the Bible tells us that we are created by God, in His own image & likeness? It's true, dear. God says: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." Jeremiah 1:5" You were made by God for God Babies are not property but gifts from God. HE created us he gave us a conscience so we know right from wrong which is informed by the moral law the 10 commandments. The 6th commandment says you shall not murder. The Bible tells us that we know the difference between right and wrong and we suppress the truth
There is a way that seems right to man but that way leads to destruction.
Abortion is not a choice, a decision or a mistake it is a sin. It is an offense against God.
We are born with a sin nature and have the tendency to do what is right in our own eyes. Taking the life of a baby is murder and a sin against God. You will have to live with the murder of your baby for the rest of your life. You know what you are doing.
If you lust after a person you have committed adultery already in your heart. Sex outside of Marriage is Fornication and sin.
A man is called once to die and then the Judgment. God is going to judge you for every thought word and deed. How will you do on the day of Judgment. If you have an abortion God will see you as a murder. If you have sex outside of marriage God will see you as an adulterer if you break 1 of 10 commandments you will be guilty and go to hell. Does that concern you?
Eternity in Hell?
For God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus. Jesus lived a perfect life and as fully God and fully man and totally innocent Jesus died on the cross for the sin of those that repents and puts their faith in Jesus.
There is only 1 way to be forgiven of your sin. You have to repent from your sins. Stop breaking Gods law. Stop killing your baby, Stop committing adultery. Have faith that Jesus Died on the cross for your sins and then walk as if you are grateful for Jesus blood on the cross.
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