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WHEN A CHILD OF GOD GOES BACK INTO SIN...
When a child of God who has been previously washed and forgiven by the Blood of Jesus Christ goes back into sinful life and rejects the calls to repentance for restoration, all his righteousness, services, and labor in the kingdom of God for short or long period will be forgotten and wiped away. God will not remember all the holy living, good deeds, and effort in the services again. This is mysterious, how can God forget all the righteous living of many years, godly life, labor of love, sacrifices and services in the ministry and work of God for many years? The persecution the person endured, the preaching and evangelism the person did for God, the persistence in service, suffering, sacrificial giving, and all the holy and righteous living of the person will be forgotten by God because the person has gone back into sin or compromised with the world, because of un-confessed sin, because of secret sin, because of simple, common sin and because of it-doesn’t-matter sins. This is really mysterious.

God says, “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.” Ezekiel 18:24. God forget and He doesn’t remember or retrace the righteousness of the person anymore!

The doctrine of once saved is saved forever is doctrine of demons to deceive many to destruction. The doctrine of once saved is forever covered with the righteousness of Jesus without your righteous and holy living is satanic device to dilute God’s word and lead many to eternal doom.

Here is the Word of God, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1. What does that means? It means you can only escape God’s condemnation if you don’t continue to work according to the flesh, which is sinful desire and life. The declaration of “No condemnation” is applicable to those who repent, confess and forsake their sins and start to “walk in the spirit”. Walking in the Spirit is living righteous and holy life.

If you have not forsaken your sin, you need to repent now and confess those sins to Jesus, ask Him to forgive, cleanse and save you, and then forsake all those sin as you start to walk in the Holy Spirit by Holy Spirit for holy life. If you have gone back to sin, backslidden, you need to run back to Jesus now as a matter of urgency; it is the mercy of God that has kept you from being smitten by Satan, now run back to Jesus before the next minutes. If you have given and re-dedicated your life to Jesus now, then no turning back, no going back into sin and the worldly life a minute for you may not and never have a second chance.

You are blessed as you take the right step for the right stand!

HEBREWS 10:26-29
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?”

WHEN GOD CAN'T REMEMBER YOUR SINS ANYMORE
Do you know it's possible for God never to remember all your sins anymore?

When we come to Jesus Christ with a repentant heart and confess our sins to Him, God forgives all our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Every man on earth has a record before God; every sin committed is recorded in heaven against the person. But when we are sorrowful for our sins with a broken spirit and contrite heart – that is a repentant heart – the realization of our sins as sins, as terrible and displeasing to God and the readiness to forsake those sins; when God sees these in us, He cannot despise us no matter how terrible or how long we have been in the sins. When we sincerely realize and really ready to forsake those sinful lifestyles, God forgives us through Jesus His Son and uses the Blood of Jesus to cleanse us from all sins and also cleanse our records from all those sins.

And immediately, He does not remember all our sins any more! This is a mystery, beyond human understanding. How can all-knowing God forget what we did wrong, what we did against Him for many years? He forgets because He has forgiven through Jesus and the Blood of Jesus has wiped them away and that is forever. Those sins can not stand against us now nor forever, we become as innocent as never sinned, the righteousness of Jesus covers us and God sees only Christ’s righteousness. No remembrance, no consequence, no condemnation, but peace from the presence of God follows. Here is what God says, “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.” Ezekiel 18:21, 22.

To have this unspeakable experience, you need to realize your sins both small and great, ready to forsake all, not some, not serious ones, but all and then you confess all and ask Jesus to forgive and cleanse you. You tell Him that you want to accept Him as your Lord and ask Him to save you. Thank is all! Read: 1 John 1:7-9 and Colossians 2:13-15.

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WHEN GOD CAN'T REMEMBER YOUR SINS ANYMORE
Do you know it's possible for God never to remember all your sins anymore?

When we come to Jesus Christ with a repentant heart and confess our sins to Him, God forgives all our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Every man on earth has a record before God; every sin committed is recorded in heaven against the person. But when we are sorrowful for our sins with a broken spirit and contrite heart – that is a repentant heart – the realization of our sins as sins, as terrible and displeasing to God and the readiness to forsake those sins; when God sees these in us, He cannot despise us no matter how terrible or how long we have been in the sins. When we sincerely realize and really ready to forsake those sinful lifestyles, God forgives us through Jesus His Son and uses the Blood of Jesus to cleanse us from all sins and also cleanse our records from all those sins.

And immediately, He does not remember all our sins any more! This is a mystery, beyond human understanding. How can all-knowing God forget what we did wrong, what we did against Him for many years? He forgets because He has forgiven through Jesus and the Blood of Jesus has wiped them away and that is forever. Those sins can not stand against us now nor forever, we become as innocent as never sinned, the righteousness of Jesus covers us and God sees only Christ’s righteousness. No remembrance, no consequence, no condemnation, but peace from the presence of God follows. Here is what God says, “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.” Ezekiel 18:21, 22.

To have this unspeakable experience, you need to realize your sins both small and great, ready to forsake all, not some, not serious ones, but all and then you confess all and ask Jesus to forgive and cleanse you. You tell Him that you want to accept Him as your Lord and ask Him to save you. Thank is all! Read: 1 John 1:7-9 and Colossians 2:13-15.

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NO REPENTANCE, KEEP REPEATING!
Have you ever wondered why you have confessed your sins at different altar calls or personal confessions, and yet you kept repeating such sinful lifestyle? Do you wonder why people keep repeating sins even after sincere confessions? Do you wonder why you confessed your sins and believed you were saved and then serving God, but yet you still ran back into sin? Or you are disturbed why you keep confessing and committing sin? The answer is because you didn’t repent. Without repentance, you will keep repeating the same sins you have confessed.

The foundation of genuine salvation is repentance, the beginning of genuine salvation is repentance. If you really need genuine salvation of your soul, then the first thing you need now is repentance. You can confess a sin hundred times without repentance, you will keep committing the sin again. To experience salvation and unspeakable peace of God that follows, what you need first is not to confess your sin or to claim that Jesus Christ is your Savior. The first step is to repent. It is after you repent that you can then move to the next step of confessing the sin you have repented from and claim your salvation in Jesus Christ.

Repentance is not trying by struggling with sin, repentance is simply trusting, trusting God to forgive all your sins. Trying to live Christian life involves struggling, but trusting God to make you a Christian, His child, is by surrendering, you surrender all, repentance is realizing your shortcomings and sins and readness to forsake those sins by surrendering all to God. God doest take our 99.9% surrender but 100%. You cannot experience genuine salvation until you surrender all to God; all your sins, not most of them, every area of your life, not majority. God sees our hearts and knows our intents, until we truly surrender all at Calvary and ready to let go of all sins, ready to forsake all and follow Him. Until you surrender all, you will keep struggling with all, you will keep confessing and committing, forward and backward, trying and error.

Now, God is not expecting you to be sorry for yourself, He is not expecting you to see to your situation or think about it, and He is not expecting you to keep struggling with sins; what He expects from you is to simply surrender all now.

Repent – realize and ready to forsake every form of sin and unrighteousness in your life; surrender your sinful life to God and ask Him to forgive and cleanse you.

Pray – Right now you need to pray to God from your heart, confess all your sins and surrender all. Tell Jesus Christ to forgive you, cleanse you and save you. You can pray the prayer for the next few minute now, as Jesus is right beside you. 1 John 1:9. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Have you prayed that? Then you are saved!

After you have prayed and experienced salvation, then you follow JESUS.

Mark 8:34, "When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."

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MOSES' STRIKING
When the children of Israel complained of thirsty in the wilderness, God told Moses to speak to the rock before their eyes, Numbers 20:8. But instead, Moses disobeyed and struck the rock. Yet God answered and provided the water immediately, in fact the water came out abundantly. Numbers 20:7, 8, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”

Numbers 20:11, "Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank."

As a minister, you can be carrying out ungodly projects in your ministry, building multimillion edifice while many members are suffering of lack of accommodation and food to eat, yet you can still experience abundant success and progress. Your church can build university with expensive fees, and yet the presence of God still continues. Your church can be unfaithful to the biblical way of using tithes and offering, and still experience God's presence abundantly. Your pastors and church can be using different ungodly administrative systems, preaching heresies, and still continue to experience signs and wonders.

As a person, you can be displeasing God, doing things that are not approved by the Lord, and yet things will be working for you. You know what? Moses disobeyed God and miracle followed his disobedience, but he was disqualified for entering the Promised Land. Your disobedience may not stop God's blessing in your life, and as a minister of God or church, your disobedience, selfishness, lies, worldliness, indulgences, unfaithfulness to spending offerings and extravagant lifestyle may not necessarily hinder God's flowing of anointing and flourishing of blessings in your lives and church, but they will definitely disqualify you from making heaven if you do not repent now.

If a minister of God sins or begin to live or teach enormously, he may still continue to experience signs and wonders and the anointing flowing, but his name has been removed from the book of life and he no longer qualify for heaven, yet the anointing may keep on flowing with miracles, signs and wonders. After God answered Moses’s prayer with miracle of water supply even in his disobedience, God sentenced him in His judgment in the following verse of Numbers. 20:12, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

God is not a respecter of any man, even the greatest man of God on earth in the Old Testament, in the person of Moses, was judged by God. God is not partial to overlook or cover sin of anyone, minister or members. He could not overlook the sin of a man after His heart like David, but gave due punishment. So any minister or Christian who commits sin, who teaches or lives in an unbiblical manner may still experience continuous flowing of anointing and blessings but he is playing with eternal judgment and condemnation if he does not repent now.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

If a minister of God sins or begin to live or teach enormously, he may still continue to experience signs and wonders and the anointing flowing, but his name has been removed from the book of life and he no longer qualify for heaven, yet the anointing may keep on flowing with miracles, signs and wonders. After God answered Moses’s prayer with miracle of water supply even in his disobedience, God sentenced him in His judgment in the following verse of Numbers. 20:12, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

God is not a respecter of any man, even the greatest man of God on earth in the Old Testament, in the person of Moses, was judged by God. God is not partial to overlook or cover sin of anyone, minister or members. He could not overlook the sin of a man after His heart like David, but gave due punishment. So any minister or Christian who commits sin, who teaches or lives in an unbiblical manner may still experience continuous flowing of anointing and blessings but he is playing with eternal judgment and condemnation if he does not repent now.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

Are you ready to rededicate your life to Jesus now or start a new life? Then repent! Confess all your sins, forsake them all and ask Jesus to forgive, cleanse you and save you. Please click on this link and read on how to be genuinely saved and start new life in Jesus and pray as directed http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

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MOSES' STRIKING
When the children of Israel complained of thirsty in the wilderness, God told Moses to speak to the rock before their eyes, Numbers 20:8. But instead, Moses disobeyed and struck the rock. Yet God answered and provided the water immediately, in fact the water came out abundantly. Numbers 20:7, 8, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”

Numbers 20:11, "Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank."

As a minister, you can be carrying out ungodly projects in your ministry, building multimillion edifice while many members are suffering of lack of accommodation and food to eat, yet you can still experience abundant success and progress. Your church can build university with expensive fees, and yet the presence of God still continues. Your church can be unfaithful to the biblical way of using tithes and offering, and still experience God's presence abundantly. Your pastors and church can be using different ungodly administrative systems, preaching heresies, and still continue to experience signs and wonders.

As a person, you can be displeasing God, doing things that are not approved by the Lord, and yet things will be working for you. You know what? Moses disobeyed God and miracle followed his disobedience, but he was disqualified for entering the Promised Land. Your disobedience may not stop God's blessing in your life, and as a minister of God or church, your disobedience, selfishness, lies, worldliness, indulgences, unfaithfulness to spending offerings and extravagant lifestyle may not necessarily hinder God's flowing of anointing and flourishing of blessings in your lives and church, but they will definitely disqualify you from making heaven if you do not repent now.

If a minister of God sins or begin to live or teach enormously, he may still continue to experience signs and wonders and the anointing flowing, but his name has been removed from the book of life and he no longer qualify for heaven, yet the anointing may keep on flowing with miracles, signs and wonders. After God answered Moses’s prayer with miracle of water supply even in his disobedience, God sentenced him in His judgment in the following verse of Numbers. 20:12, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

God is not a respecter of any man, even the greatest man of God on earth in the Old Testament, in the person of Moses, was judged by God. God is not partial to overlook or cover sin of anyone, minister or members. He could not overlook the sin of a man after His heart like David, but gave due punishment. So any minister or Christian who commits sin, who teaches or lives in an unbiblical manner may still experience continuous flowing of anointing and blessings but he is playing with eternal judgment and condemnation if he does not repent now.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

If a minister of God sins or begin to live or teach enormously, he may still continue to experience signs and wonders and the anointing flowing, but his name has been removed from the book of life and he no longer qualify for heaven, yet the anointing may keep on flowing with miracles, signs and wonders. After God answered Moses’s prayer with miracle of water supply even in his disobedience, God sentenced him in His judgment in the following verse of Numbers. 20:12, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

God is not a respecter of any man, even the greatest man of God on earth in the Old Testament, in the person of Moses, was judged by God. God is not partial to overlook or cover sin of anyone, minister or members. He could not overlook the sin of a man after His heart like David, but gave due punishment. So any minister or Christian who commits sin, who teaches or lives in an unbiblical manner may still experience continuous flowing of anointing and blessings but he is playing with eternal judgment and condemnation if he does not repent now.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

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LIFE UNDER THE SUN VS LIFE UNDER THE SON
Ecclesiastes 1:2, ““Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher;“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

The book of Ecclesiastes is an unusual book in the Bible. The Bible is Word of God which instructs about spiritual walk and living under God, but this book of Ecclesiastes talks mostly about life under the sun, that is natural life, without the influence God. Life under the sun is a free thinking, natural life. A life controlled by men’s wisdom, freewill with the philosophy of man. The preacher, as the writer of Ecclesiastes, expressed such a life as a vanity and grasping of wind.

King Solomon was a great king in the land of Israel, beloved of God but at a point, he was lured into sin and he became as natural as everybody without the influence of the spirit of God. During this period, he wrote this book of Ecclesiastes. He began to search for satisfaction and meaning under the sun, what could give meaning to life under the sun, what could satisfy human emptiness in the natural world. He explained various means with exhaustive searching and empirical conclusion.

Solomon moved from acquiring wisdom, becoming the most intelligent and smart person on earth, to having all sorts of pleasure - sexual, musical, luxurious pleasure and enjoyment, and then to amassing wealth for himself being the richest man on earth; then to hard working - having lists of awards and certificates; but all lead to recycling emptiness under the sun.

The bad news is that life under the sun is depressing, desperately full of vanities and vexation, but the good news is that God has made a solution for man’s longing lost soul. When all the efforts of human philosophies, science, wisdom, knowledge and technologies can not fill the emptiness of soul or give internal peace of heart; when God saw the futile toiling of humanity, He intervened by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, into this world to give Way out of human toils, to give Peace and life in abundance. The Bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. “ John 3:16.

Jesus Christ the Son of God confirmed and declared in Mathew 11:28-29 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” This is a good news for you if you are seeking a real, practical and lasting solution for the emptiness and unrest of your soul; here is the long lasting peace your soul is long for, if you are looking for rest from all your spiritual, physical and psychological burdens and struggling, Jesus Christ the begotten Son of God is the only Way, the Life and Peace you need.

He is now calling you right away, no matter how bad you have been, He will give you a brand new life afresh; no matter how heavy your burdens, He will give you rest, and no matter how terrible and awful your situations, Jesus will make a turning around. All you need to do is to answer His call now. He is calling you personally to come unto Him, for salvation, for rest and ever- lasting life. This is as simple as ABC: You REALIZE your sins, READY to forsake them and CONFESS them to Jesus Christ; ask Him to forgive and cleanse you and invite Him into your life. He will cleanse you with His precious Blood and forgive you all your unrighteousness as you forsake them. And, hey presto, you have a new life, blissful, peaceful and fulfilling life under the Son of God.

Cease from toiling hopelessly under the sun, under your own natural, human wisdom and effort, turn to the Son of God, Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace and Savior of the world. Life under the sun is vanity, hopeless and destructive, but life under the SON is peaceful, glorious and everlasting life!

“The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides in him”. John 3:35.

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"Lord God, I pray for as many who read and pray for salvation and restoration, that You save, set them free, and strengthen them to serve and follow you till the end in Jesus name.Amen!

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DON'T GIVE IN
I Corinthians 9:27, "But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection"

After you are saved, even for many years, Satan will still bring sinful thoughts, feelings, ideas, and pressure; your unsaved body will want to over ride the Spirit of God. The addicted sin to smoke, drink, masturbate, etc; the pressure for sinful pleasures will come back in an overwhelming manner; the tendency to get angry, lie, drink, fight, or to do other sinful stuffs will come back; the people for sinful activities will still come back to you. Sometime the pressure will be so heavy as if you can't survive it. Satan will say, "Look, don't pretend, this thing is part of you and your salvation in Jesus can't stop it. You can't stop doing this thing, even if you don't do it now, what about tomorrow, next week, and next month? Just give in and God will understand."

My dear, that is the deception of pit of hell to make you feel helpless as if you can't overcome sin. When next the pressure to commit sin comes again, you know what to do? DON'T GIVE IN! The pressure and the feeling will not last, it will vanish. And you know what? Every victory over a temptation to sin gives you strength to overcome the next one, and you become stronger, but every falling into temptation makes you weaker to overcome another one. Solution is not to surrender to such sinful pressure once or again, the solution is to hold it, never give in.

Paul the Apostle, after many years of salvation, said, "I discipline my body and bring it into subjection" It is a continuous thing as Satan continuously brings temptations. Salvation does not automatically end the notion and tendency of sin, it only gives grace and strength to overcome. And we can only get the grace and strength by daily Bible reading, prayer for God's grace and daily watchfulness to walk in the Spirit.

Genuine Salvation is the foundation to overcome sin and Satan, DAILY grace of God through prayer and Bible is the strength, and watchfulness, self control that is self discipline to refuse, reject and deny is the solution!

Titus 2:11, 12
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age.

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THE IMMINENT RAPTURE, BE WARNED!
Do you care for the Rapture? How often do you think about the Rapture? Or rather, are you prepared for the Rapture? Better still, do you have clear understanding of what Rapture is all about? It’s unpopular topic in churches today, and so many Christians care less about it because it’s not as sweet and motivating as prosperity, breakthrough, new things, favors, blessing and earthly success.

But Rapture is a daily expectation and thought of the wise Christians while prosperity and earthly blessings are the focus for the foolish Christians. Rapture is the catching away of the saints, which will happen within seconds and any moment from now. It’s the first event of the end time advents when the angel of God will blow the trumpet, only Christians who are waiting for it, expecting it and preparing for it will make it.

The simple clarification for self-examination here is that if you are thinking, waiting, preparing or expecting prosperity, miracle or anything more than Rapture, you will not make the Rapture. Only those who earnestly, eagerly wait and prepare for His appearance more than anything else will eventually make it, just like the 5 wise virgins. Matthew 25.

Rapture is a glorious event of all generations; it’s going to be splendid, wonderful and rewarding for the saints more than any event in the history of the world. But then it will leave behind glooming, dooming and destructive reign of the Anti-Christ (666) for all who miss the Rapture.

Jesus Christ gave us the signs which will show that Rapture is very near, that should warn the wise to be more prepared. The two major signs are already present: CARE OF THIS WORLD through false preachers & GLOBAL WARMING. Read what Jesus Christ said:

CARE OF THIS WORLD, “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:26, 27.“Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” Matthew 24:11, 12.

The cares of this world has overcome many preachers, many churches and many Christians. It’s not just the work of the devil; it is the sign of end time. The syndrome of prosperity, breakthrough, earthly blessings, and focus on being rich, having cars, houses, big businesses, etc; the care for money, mansion, make-ups, partying, obsessing football are signs of end-time. It takes being wise to be warned.

GLOBAL WARMING & CRISIS, “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:6-8.

The global crisis, weapon building are not just political or matters of misunderstanding, and it’s to be naive and ignorant to see the present global warming of flooding, overheating, weather irregularities, earthquakes, etc as just scientific; but it’s a global “warning” of the eminent rapture. The physical will see it global warming, the spiritual will see it “global warning”; the fool will call it scientific but the wise calls it prophetic.

Are you ready and prepared for the rapture? You can become wise from here by repenting and totally rededicating your life to Jesus. Surrender all, be a different Christian of old, biblical standard in your family, your church, your place of work, your business, your school, everywhere. Let your primary purpose be to please God, your primary focus to make heaven and your primary expectation to be raptured. Even if you can’t remember when last your pastors preached about the Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus, you should remember Lot’s wife.

MATTHEW 24:42-44 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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THE IMMINENT RAPTURE, BE WARNED!
Do you care for the Rapture? How often do you think about the Rapture? Or rather, are you prepared for the Rapture? Better still, do you have clear understanding of what Rapture is all about? It’s unpopular topic in churches today, and so many Christians care less about it because it’s not as sweet and motivating as prosperity, breakthrough, new things, favors, blessing and earthly success.

But Rapture is a daily expectation and thought of the wise Christians while prosperity and earthly blessings are the focus for the foolish Christians. Rapture is the catching away of the saints, which will happen within seconds and any moment from now. It’s the first event of the end time advents when the angel of God will blow the trumpet, only Christians who are waiting for it, expecting it and preparing for it will make it.

The simple clarification for self-examination here is that if you are thinking, waiting, preparing or expecting prosperity, miracle or anything more than Rapture, you will not make the Rapture. Only those who earnestly, eagerly wait and prepare for His appearance more than anything else will eventually make it, just like the 5 wise virgins. Matthew 25.

Rapture is a glorious event of all generations; it’s going to be splendid, wonderful and rewarding for the saints more than any event in the history of the world. But then it will leave behind glooming, dooming and destructive reign of the Anti-Christ (666) for all who miss the Rapture.

Jesus Christ gave us the signs which will show that Rapture is very near, that should warn the wise to be more prepared. The two major signs are already present: CARE OF THIS WORLD through false preachers & GLOBAL WARMING. Read what Jesus Christ said:

CARE OF THIS WORLD, “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:26, 27.“Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” Matthew 24:11, 12.

The cares of this world has overcome many preachers, many churches and many Christians. It’s not just the work of the devil; it is the sign of end time. The syndrome of prosperity, breakthrough, earthly blessings, and focus on being rich, having cars, houses, big businesses, etc; the care for money, mansion, make-ups, partying, obsessing football are signs of end-time. It takes being wise to be warned.

GLOBAL WARMING & CRISIS, “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:6-8.

The global crisis, weapon building are not just political or matters of misunderstanding, and it’s to be naive and ignorant to see the present global warming of flooding, overheating, weather irregularities, earthquakes, etc as just scientific; but it’s a global “warning” of the eminent rapture. The physical will see it global warming, the spiritual will see it “global warning”; the fool will call it scientific but the wise calls it prophetic.

Are you ready and prepared for the rapture? You can become wise from here by repenting and totally rededicating your life to Jesus. Surrender all, be a different Christian of old, biblical standard in your family, your church, your place of work, your business, your school, everywhere. Let your primary purpose be to please God, your primary focus to make heaven and your primary expectation to be raptured. Even if you can’t remember when last your pastors preached about the Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus, you should remember Lot’s wife.

MATTHEW 24:42-44 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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HOW TO SUPERGLUE YOUR MARRIAGE
The world's "50/50 Plan" for marriage is destined for failure. God's plan calls for something much greater.

By Dennis Rainey

When two people get married, they have high expectations about their relationship. An unspoken assumption by each one is that the other will "meet me halfway."

When Barbara and I received premarital counseling from our friends and mentors Don and Sally Meredith, they warned us that we had been thoroughly indoctrinated in the world's plan for marriage. They called it the 50/50 Plan, which says, "You do your part, and I'll do mine." This concept sounds logical, but couples who use it are destined for disappointment and failure.

We spent the first year and a half of our marriage in Boulder, Colorado, where the winters are cold and electric blankets are standard equipment for survival. I can recall how both of us enjoyed sliding into those toasty-warm sheets after the electric blanket had thawed them. However, we couldn't always remember to turn off all the lights. We would snuggle in, and Barbara would say, "Sweetheart, did you remember to turn off all the lights?"

I would hop out of our comfy bed and run barefoot through the 55-degree apartment, turning off light after light. It didn't happen that often, so I didn't mind until one night when I dropped into bed totally exhausted. Just as I slipped into the third stage of anesthesia, Barbara gave me a poke and said, "Sweetheart, aren't you going to turn off the lights?" I groaned, "Honey, why don't you turn off the lights tonight?"Barbara replied, "I thought you would because my dad always turned off the lights."Suddenly, I was wide awake. It dawned on me why I had been suffering occasional minor frostbite on my feet. I shot back, "But I'm not your dad!”

The expectations Barbara and I brought to marriage set us up to buy into the 50/50 Plan. Barbara was sure that I would do my part and meet her halfway by always getting up to turn off the lights. On the night I flatly refused, I was pushing her to do her part and meet me halfway.

Why the 50/50 Plan fails. Our disagreement revealed the biggest weakness of the 50/50 Plan: It is impossible to determine if your spouse has met you halfway. Because neither of you can agree on where halfway is, each is left to scrutinize the other's performance from a jaded, often selfish perspective.

Many times in a marriage, both partners are busy, overworked, and feel taken for granted. The real question isn't who faced the most pressure that day. The important issue is how do you build oneness and teamwork instead of keeping score and waiting for the other person to meet you halfway.

The 50/50 Plan is destined to fail for several reasons:

Acceptance is based on performance. Many people unknowingly base their acceptance of their spouses on performance. Performance becomes the glue that holds the relationship together, but it isn't really glue at all. It's more like Velcro. It seems to stick, but it comes apart when a little pressure is applied. What a marriage needs is superglue—but more on that later.

Giving is based on merit. With the "meet me halfway" approach, a husband would give affection to his wife only when he felt she had earned it. If she always cooked tasty meals and balanced the checkbook then he would drop her a few crumbs of praise and loving attention. She, in turn, would lavish affection and praise only when he vacuumed the carpet and always arrived home on time.

Motivation for action is based on how each partner feels. As a newlywed, it's easy to act sacrificially because the pounding heart and romantic feelings fuel the desire to please. But what happens when those feelings diminish? If you don't feel like doing the right thing, perhaps you won't do it at all. I didn't feel like turning off the lights that night at our apartment, so I didn't.

Each spouse has a tendency to focus on the weaknesses of the other. Ask a husband or wife to list his or her spouse's strengths in one column and the weaknesses in another, and the weaknesses will usually outnumber the strengths five to one.

Ultimately, the world's plan, the 50/50 performance relationship, is destined to fail because it is contrary to God's plan.

Apply the superglue

What a marriage needs is the superglue of Philippians 2:3: "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than yourselves." It's what we refer to as the 100/100 Plan, which requires a 100 percent effort from each of you to serve your spouse.

The Bible describes this plan well in Matthew 22:39: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." There's no closer neighbor than the one you wake up to each morning! And since most of us love ourselves passionately, we are well on the way to implementing the 100/100 Plan if we take a similar approach to loving our spouses.

Start by stating the 100/100 Plan like this: "I will do what I can to love you without demanding an equal amount in return." In marriage you will hear a voice that says, Why are you making the bed this morning when she wouldn't bring you a soft drink last night? Or, Why should I not buy this outfit when he spent fifty dollars last weekend on golf? That voice has to be silenced if you are to live out the 100/100 Plan. Yes, there will be times when one person appears to get the advantage in the relationship. But love requires sacrifice. Stick with the 100/100 Plan and you will see increasing cooperation and intimacy in your marriage.

A bit of grace always helps too. Sometimes a couple can make issues out of things that really don't matter. Maybe we had parents who did that as we grew up, but that's not the type of person I want to be or one I'd enjoy living with. Barbara and I have learned over the years to let a lot slide; we don't take issue or talk about many minor disappointments.

Marriage is the union of two imperfect people who in their selfishness, sinfulness, and demands of each other will cause disappointment and hurt. You must lay aside those difficulties and hold fast to forgiveness, love, and Christ's command to love even those who don't at times appear to love you.

You will never have all of your expectations met in marriage on this fallen planet. But if you concentrate on implementing the 100/100 Plan, your life will be so full of satisfaction that you may not care.

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HARLOT BY GARMENT
Genesis 38:15, "When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot"

You can be registered as a harlot in heaven simply by the way you dress. You don't need to become an active sex worker, you don't need to commit a single sexual immorality with a man before Heaven will recognize you as a prostitute and remove your name from the Book of Life; in fact you can be a virgin but still a heavenly recognized harlot. How does that happens? It happens simply by what you wear and how you wear what you wear. If you wear low-cut dress or low necklines including ball gowns that exposes your cleavage, meaning, that shows the upper part, little trace of your breasts when you bend down, you are a harlot. You don't need to be half Unclad before you become harlot by garment, but as long you wear any clothing that reveals your cleavage a little, you are a harlot.

Also if you wear tight clothes that shows the anatomy of your body to the world as to show your shape, you are a harlot; if you wear transparent or perforated clothing that shows your inner-wears, you are a harlot; if you wear any dress which does not covers your arms or your kneels, you are a harlot. This may be hard to take but a spiritual reality for holy standard of the heaven minded.
You can be a pastor, a minister, deaconess; you can speak in tongues of angels, you can sing like angels, whoever you are or claim to be does not matter, but to God, you are a decent harlot. If this is too hard for you to take, you can wait until you get to the gate of heaven, only that will be too late, and I will not advise you to wait that too late. There will be surprise on the rapture day and in heaven, when our identities are declared to us, and we may say, "Lord, I am not a harlot, and never be one"

As a Christian woman, what will be your reason before God for wearing clothing that exposes your cleavage? How will you defend your motive of wearing tight, transparent, perforated and short dress?

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HEAVENLY VISION
…. I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts 26:19

Heavenly vision is very important for every Christian, minister and church as a whole. A Christian without heavenly vision will belong among the common Christians, a Christian minister without heavenly vision will remain a carnal minister, and a church without heavenly vision is a worldly and lukewarm church. And the worst is when a Christian or church loses heavenly vision, it become worse than never having it.

WHAT HEAVENLY VISION IS ALL ABOUT!
When we have heavenly vision, we will want to do everything to enter heaven and to bring others to heaven; when we have heavenly vision, the things of this worldly will be dim to us and things of heaven dearly to us; we will not be encumbered by the cares of this world. When we have heavenly vision like the earthly Christians, we will go extra miles for the kingdom of God and we will not have the mind of pursuing earthly things.

The beginning of revival in a Christian life and in a church is to have heavenly vision, because without that Christians will remain lukewarm, worldly and spiritually frivolous.

What is this heavenly vision is all about? Heavenly vision is when you come to the point of understanding and realizing that making heaven and helping others to make heaven is the paramount purpose of your living on earth, that every other thing apart from working towards making heaven and winning souls to heaven amounts to little or nothing, that it is the most urgent matter that needs the greatest attention on a daily basis. When you grab this heaven vision, your perspective of life will change, your reasoning will not remain the same, your Christian life will turn around, your life view will be of eternity not on this temporal care, your prayer points will be different from what it used to be, it will center on your Christian growth and winning souls, your ministry will turn different and your message will be heavenly focused.

DO YOU KNOW WHY CHRSITIANS………
Do you know why many Christians are worldly and lukewarm? It is simply because they don’t have heavenly vision. There is nothing as terrible and dangerous in life as being a Christian without heavenly vision.

Do you know why you compromise the word of God, and care for things of this life than heaven? It is because you lack or you’ve lost heavenly vision. Do you know why you pray more on prosperity than purity of life? It is simply because you lack heavenly vision in your Christian life. Do you know why you involve in worldly dress and stuffs and it seems impossible for you to part away with such things? It is simply because you don’t have heavenly vision yet.

Do you know why your priority of life is about getting money, having more possessions of life, getting position or popularity in life? It is because you don’t have heavenly vision. Do you know why you pray more against enemies in your life than you pray against sinful nature in your life? It is because you don’t have heavenly vision. Do you know why you pray against the witches and wizards in your family to die than you pray for sinners in your family to be saved? It is because you don’t have heavenly vision. You don’t need to speak in tongue before you know Christians void of heavenly vision, it is very obvious.

DO YOU KNOW WHY MANY CHRISTIAN MINISTERS……
Do you know why many Christian ministers preach more on prosperity of life than purity of life, why they preach more on goodness of life than godliness of life, why they preach more about temporal blessings of this life than eternal blessings of life to come or you wander why on the other hand some preach more on overcoming problems of life than overcoming temptations and persecutions of life or why they put witches and wizards In their lives to death than they put sinful old natures in their lives to death? It is simply because such Christian ministers do not have heavenly vision.

Do you know the reason why most of the preachers today do more of prophetic declarations than repentance declaration? It is simply because they lack or lost heavenly vision. You know what Paul said? He said, “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.” Acts 26:19, 20. After Paul got the heavenly vision, he was going different places and making declaration, not prosperity declaration, not prophetic declaration as they do today, but declaration of repentance, of turning to God and of doing work of righteousness and holiness. It’s the heavenly vision that makes the difference. But these pastors, evangelists, daddy GO, papa, bishops in America , Europe, Asia or Africa who are busy preaching, publishing and making declarations of prosperity, success and sweet things, and asking you to type “amen” on their Facebook posts, it is because their lives and ministries are void of heavenly vision.

We cannot deceive ourselves. Our priority of life is determined by the vision we carry in our hearts; if it is heavenly vision, automatically we will live, pray and preach more on heaven, and if it is earthly vision, we will live, pray and preach more on earthly things, that exactly is what we are seeing among Christians and pastors today. Where your treasure is determines the priority and purpose of your living.

GETTING IT RIGHT!
Before you can get to heaven, you must get it right on earth. And to get it right, you need to start with the right steps, and repentance from sins and worldliness is the right step to start with. To have heavenly vision, you must start with repentance. I pray for you as you read this message that God will open your eyes to see and seek the heavenly vision and make it to heaven. Al you need now is to repent, turn to God and begin to do the works befitting repentance. Please click on this link on how to experience genuine repentance http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

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DO YOU KNOW WHY MANY CHRISTIAN MINISTERS……
Do you know why many Christian ministers preach more on prosperity of life than purity of life, why they preach more on goodness of life than godliness of life, why they preach more about temporal blessings of this life than eternal blessings of life to come or you wander why on the other hand some preach more on overcoming problems of life than overcoming temptations and persecutions of life or why they put witches and wizards In their lives to death than they put sinful old natures in their lives to death? It is simply because such Christian ministers do not have heavenly vision.

Do you know the reason why most of the preachers today do more of prophetic declarations than repentance declaration? It is simply because they lack or have lost heavenly vision. You know what Paul said? He said, “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.” Acts 26:19, 20. After Paul got the heavenly vision, he started going different places and making declaration, not prosperity declaration, not prophetic declaration as they do today, but declaration of repentance, of turning to God and of doing work of righteousness and holiness.

It’s the heavenly vision that makes the difference. But these pastors, evangelists, daddy GO, papa, bishops in America, Europe, Asia or Africa who are busy preaching, publishing and making declarations of prosperity, success and sweet things, and asking you to type “amen” on their Facebook posts, it is because their lives and ministries are void of heavenly vision.

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SHOULD CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE VALENTINE?
Valentine was said to be a priest near Rome in about the year 270 A.D, a time when the church was enduring great persecution. His ministry was to help the Christians to escape this persecution, and to provide them the sacraments, such as marriage, which was outlawed by the Roman Empire at that time. He was martyred about AD 269.

So, should children of God celebrate Valentine? And the answer is, for at least two reasons, it is wrong for Bible Christians or Bible church to celebrate Valentine. Here are the two reasons:

(1) It's Wrong To Separate A Day to Celebrate a Saint. There is no reason to argue if the man, Valentine, was a genuine child of God or minister of God, but it is wrong to create a day to specially celebrate a saint or a martyr. There were several martyrs in the Bible and in our contemporary world, so it is of no use creating a day to celebrate them, include martyr Valentine; they are being celebrated in heaven already. For no reason should Bible Christians create a special day to celebrate a martyr. Only Jesus Christ should be celebrated in a special manner. Also, there are many "so called" saints who are really demons, and some of these names called with saints were demonic.

(2) It Doesn't Glory God, So it's Ungodly. Everything about Valentine day is outside Christian activity, unlike Christmas which involves Christian activities and draws us to God, Valentine day has nothing to do with the history of Christianity in the Bible. Valentine day is a general celebration outside Christianity. If Valentine is about sacrifice of love, you don't need to wait till February 14th before you do that. If it is showing or expressing love to loved ones, you don't need a day for that, if it is giving, no need to wait till February 14th before you do that. You don't need to wait till February 14th before you take your spouse out. In reality, Valentine is a celebration of lust, inspired by satanic spirit. There is no side of Valentine celebration that is attached to the Bible, there is no biblical backup for the celebration of Valentine.

If you are a child of God, love is part of you because God is love; if you are a genuine child of God, love is pure and not lust; you should celebrate with your spouse, in a special way at least every weekend. When the world is celebrating lust, you can spend your time to do something better; when the people of the world are waiting for February 14th before they can experience or express special love with their partners or people, you should do that every time, as much as possible.

Romans 12:1-2, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

If you have fallen into any temptation, humble yourself and repent, confess and open up and do the necessary restitution. Trust God and pray to HIM.

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CAN CHILDREN OF GOD COHABIT?
Cohabitation is an arrangement where a man and woman who are not married live together in an intimate relationship, particularly an emotionally and/or sexually intimate one, on a long-term or permanent basis; living together in a sexual relationship without being married.

People cohabit for several reasons: some because of financial difficulty to do wedding, so they decide to live together until they can gather enough money for wedding; some cohabit to test and try their relationship, and see if they can move forward to proper marriage; some cohabit because either parents do not support the relationship, so they decide to live together until both parents support. Others cohabit because of relocation, and so they stay together for the time other partner gets his or her apartment or till they marry. Some also cohabit, not because of marital relationship, but to assist the other opposite sex who needs accommodation.

The Bible truth is that, cohabitation is a sin wherever you are or whatever reasons you have, because:

IT'S SEXUAL IMMORALITY
Having sex with a partner before a legal and official wedding is a sin of sexual immorality of fornication, and no fornicator is a child of God or will enter heaven. 1 Corinthians 5:11, "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator.....with such an one no not to eat." Fornicators dishonor their bodies.

IT'S DISHONORING GOD'S NAME
"What if we live together and we don't have sex?" Even when there is no sex between both people, though rare, it is dishonoring God's name; they are defiling God's name before people. As children of God, we are not only to live with pure conscience before God, but also before men. "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offense toward God, and toward men." Acts 24:16. When you and an opposite sex are living together, you are passing wrong message to people and living in conscience full of offense towards people.

IT'S AN ACT OF DISORDER
God is not an Author of confusion, but He is an Author of an orderly marriage, where wedding takes place before marriage; having marriage before wedding is a serious act of disorder of high grade. We cannot disorder God's orderly arranged institution and procedure, and expect God's approval.

SO WHAT IF OUR PARENTS AND PASTORS ARE AWARE AND SUPPORT US? Even if your parents are aware and your pastors support, it does not overrule the truth that premarital sex is a sin. When your parents support your cohabitation, then you are not sinning against your parents, since they support, but you are only sinning against God; and when your pastors support you cohabiting, you are not sinning against your pastors then, but against your own soul. Fornication cannot turn to familiarity because of the support of parents or pastors, it only means the pastors are immoral and the parents are mis-supporting.

AND WHAT IF WE ALREADY HAVE CHILDREN? Having children do not make a marriage, what makes a marriage is a legal wedding between a man and a woman. Having children in cohabitation is simply bringing forth children on spoiled and sinful foundation.

If a man and woman are living together as married without legal wedding, people may see them as married couple, family and friends may address them as married, but to God, they are sinful partners living together. There was a story of a woman cohabiting with a man in the Bible, what did Jesus tell her? "Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” John 4:17, 18. The woman had had 5 husbands recognized by Jesus as "husbands" because they did what it took to be husbands, but the man she was living with at that moment was only recognized by Jesus as "the one", not as husband. No matter how many years you live together, no matter how many kids you have together, you are not recognized by God as husband and wife.

REPENT, RESTITUTE!
If you are living with an opposite sex partner or friend, you need to repent by realizing it to be sin, and asking God to forgive you. Genuine experience of salvation is very important. Then you do the right thing immediately - part away or do the right things. If you already have children and concluded to marry, you may not need to do elaborate wedding, just inform your parents, go to the government to legalize it and pay bride price as demanded by your culture immediately. You should do this without delay or detach from each other until this is done. It is better to separate, surrender your life to Jesus and pray for God's guidance, because the person may not even be God's will for you to marry, since you are now a child of God.

There is eternal condemnation for those who live in cohabitation and die in such condition, and if rapture takes place in such condition, there is no way such people can make the rapture to meet the Lord, because it is living in immorality, and no immoral person will enter heaven or make the rapture.

Romans 12:1, 2,
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

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PRAYING BEFORE CHOOSING!
We are faced with choices to make on daily bases, both tangible and intangible decisions; choices in marital decision, in career, where to work, where to worship, who to make friendship with, who to employ to work with, car to buy, business to do, where to live, what to say and so on...

Every choice we make has effect on our present, future and people around, so it is very important not to make choice on life matter by ourselves, and not to allow people to do this for us, either parents or pastor - but to pray about everything and let God choose for us.

Here is the example of Jesus Christ when it comes to making choice, which we must also follow:

"Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles" Luke 6:12, 13.

When Jesus Christ was about to choose His apostles, he first spent time to pray for God's direction before choosing, even though He was Christ. What about you?

Nothing is as dangerous and foolish for a child of God as making decision before praying, and when things mess up, you start to pray? Why not pray and save yourself from after-decision hazard?

Do not choose because it seems right or because many are rushing it - "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25

Do not choose by sight but by the Spirit of God - "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God." Romans 8:14

Do not take a decision before you pray, but take action by the leading of the Spirit after praying.

Commit your way and will to God and let Him have His way in your life and success with safety is sure!

Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart,And lean not on your own understanding;6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He shall direct your paths.

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WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO READ IS HARD TO BELIEVE........

Several years ago a book was published titled Beyond Death's Door by Dr Maurice Rawlings. Dr Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead. Dr Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a painless extinction". But something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming — descending down into the flames of hell:

"Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . . Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was "on end."

Then still another strange thing happened. He said, "Don't you understand? I am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like I had never seen before." (Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door,(Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3).

Dr Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place called hell!

". . . THEY DIG INTO THE HELL . . ." Amos 9:2
Another scientist Dr Azzacove Picks from Dr Rawling with this stunning revelation. He says "As a communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now believe in hell," said Dr Azzacove. "Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of Hell!"

Dr Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."

"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment."

"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans! (These details are from the translation of an article in a Finnish newspaper name 'Ammennusatia'.

Do you know why Jacques Costeau, the famous underwater explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime before he died? It is said that he stopped because he had heard in one of the underwater caves he was exploring, the sounds of people screaming.

There was also another time, when one of his men, who was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda Triangle, also had a similar experience. He signalled to be brought up immediately. After being revived from his shock, he told others of his frightening experience of hearing people's screams while under the deepest part of the sea.

The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!

In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell:
22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father�s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (Luke 16:22-28)

HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."

THE BIBLE GIVES THE LOCATION OF HELL
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into hell. In Acts 2, Peter is speaking, verse 31, " . . . seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in HELL" When Jesus Christ died His soul went into hell.

And in Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says: "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the HEART OF THE EARTH. "The Bible is clear — Hell is inside the earth!

Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: "Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH."

On page 85 of Beyond Death Door, Dr. Rawlings writes patients who described hell said, ". . . this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way." Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees the Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth:
"So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called 'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and 'the abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .

The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. . .

To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows much more about the earth's interior than is actually the case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies are the same size as their physical bodies." (Henry M. Morris, The Bible Has the Answer, p. 220)

The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article entitled "Earth's Center Hotter Than Sun's Surface, Scientists Say". The article stated that scientists have recently discovered, "THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HAS A TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!"

Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by reporters, "When HELL surfaced upon the earth." The book, Volcanoes, Earth's Awakening (p.91) describes an erupting volcano as "descent into HELL".

YES! THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HELL!
In Numbers 16, the Bible gives the account of people falling into hell alive! "And THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive INTO THE PIT, and the EARTH CLOSED UPON THEM:" Numbers 16:32-33

Caspar Peucer, a famous fourteenth century astronomer and physician, who also researched and documented the volcanoe eruptions at Heklafell wrote some very frightening information in his research findings. Peucer, claims (as others) that "fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of teeth" could be heard "for many miles. . ." as these volcanoes erupted: "Out of the bottomless abyss of Heklafell, or rather out of Hell itself, rise melancholy cries and loud wailings, so that these can be heard for many miles around . . . there may be heard in the mountain fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)

And Caspar Peucer is not alone. There are others who believe they have heard "cries and screaming" coming from volcanoes. Most have tried to ignore the obvious. Some simply explain the "sounds of hell" to some rational meaning. But they are there. . ."The fearsome noises that issued from some of their volcanoes were certainly thought to be the screams of tormented souls in the fires of hell below". (Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)
Inside this earth, this very moment, there are millions of lost, tormented souls — burning, weeping, wailing — without any hope whatsoever!

In Mark 9:46, Jesus Christ says about hell: "Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Jesus said explicitly — THEIR worm — not a worm, or the worm — but THEIR worm. The Bible teaches that Christians will one day have a body like the Lord Jesus Christ. Scientists recently discovered cracks on the ocean floor where fire was leaking out. Do you know what they found around these fire-breathing vents in the crust? Eight-foot long worms, found no other place in the world! The book, The Deep Sea, by Joseph Wallace (p.39), reads, "Perhaps the strangest of ocean creatures recently discovered are Riftia, the giant tube WORMS. Measuring up to 8 feet in length, the worms are ONLY FOUND NEAR DEEP SEA VENTS."

And Jesus Christ said, "Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

National Geographic magazine truthfully titled their story on Volcanoes "Going To Hell". When PBS did a series on The Savage Earth, one episode was titled "Hell's Crust: Our Everchanging Planet". Everything we know. Everything we observe. Echoes the truth of a place called hell.

Nature magazine recently discovered (July 2002) what the Bible knew over 3,000 years ago. Inside this earth is "fire and brimstone": "Volcanoes may be more like hell than anyone realized. Eruptions disgorge streams of molten sulphur, the brimstone of evangelical preachers, which burns up before it can be preserved for posterity, new research in the journal Geology shows". (Nature, Science Update, July 22, 2002)

HELL IS A PLACE OF TORMENT
Jesus says of the man in Luke 16:
23 "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in TORMENTS. . . "
24 ". . . for I am TORMENTED in this FLAME."
28 ". . .PLACE OF TORMENT."

It is humanly impossible to comprehend the Bible description of hell. Nothing on earth can compare with it. No nightmare could produce a terror to match that of hell. No horror movie could describe its fright. No crime scene with all its blood and gore could begin to match its horror.
It will be beyond anything humanly imaginable!

The Bible warns in Psalm 9:17, you will not only be in hell — you will BE TURNED INTO HELL! You will literally BE HELL! “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17

The Bible describes it as weeping (Matt 8:12), wailing (Matt 13:42), gnashing of teeth (Matt 13:50), darkness (Matt 25:30), flames (Luke 16:24), burning (Isa 33:14), torments (Luke 16:23), everlasting punishment! Jesus Christ says in Matthew 25:41, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING FIRE, prepared for the devil and his angels."

In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

HELL IS FOREVER!
Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT." Just look how the Bible warns of the eternity and permanence of hell:

everlasting fire - Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment - Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains-Jude 1:6
eternal damnation -Mark 3:29
eternal judgment -Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire -Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire - Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched -Mark 9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
fire unquenchable - Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever - 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever - Jude 1:13

What could possibly be worth eternity in hell? No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"

Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this THE JUDGEMENT"
Friend, it is appointed unto man once to die . . . and one day — YOU will die . . .
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments . . .

But God is a God of LOVE. . . Why would a GOD OF LOVE send me to hell? Yes, God is a GOD OF LOVE — but God is also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD demands payment for sin. Otherwise God would NOT and could NOT be HOLY.

Because God is holy — sin MUST be condemned. Joshua 24:19 says, ". . he is an HOLY GOD;. . . he will NOT forgive your transgressions nor your sins."

BUT FRIEND I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
God does NOT want you in hell because hell was not made for man. Matthew 25:41 says, hell was, ". . . prepared for the devil and his angels:"

Because God is a GOD OF LOVE, and He LOVED YOU so much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die a cruel death on a cross to pay the price a HOLY GOD demands for your sins.
Roman 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God does not send someone to hell. You choose hell when you reject Jesus Christ. When you refuse God's love gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. . .

Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview,” I’m looking forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I belong." You say —a fool! But friend, when you say "No" to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin — you are saying the same thing! "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them, become a new creature in Jesus and you will be saved from the terror of hell.

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DO NOT CURSE
Romans 12:14, “ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.”

Cursing people is a general and common thing among people from the beginning of the world in every culture. It’s to want evil or bad thing to happen to people who deeply offend us. Most curses come as a result of a terrible wrongdoing or an evil committed. People curse when people wrong them, and out of anger and vengeance to vindicate themselves, they place curse on the offender. Curse does not come without a cause. Naturally, it’s justifiable to alter a word or statement of curse against a person that deeply hurt or wrong you. The Old Testament standard permitted placing curse on the bad people because it’s the law of the nature.

Cursing does not come out of love or care for the offender but out of wrath and revenge. Cursing can be made from one’s heart without saying a word out and it can also be pronounced, either in the presence of the offender or in their absence. We all have the tendency to avenge ourselves when we are seriously wronged by placing a curse especially when we don’t have any other means to punish those we hurt us, and by human nature, we feel better or vindicated after placing curse on those who cheat or offend us, and we look forward for the manifestation of the curse.

But Jesus Christ teaches His followers never to curse anyone no matter what they do to us. The New Testament teachings of blessings are better than the Old Testament. Jesus Christ says in Matthew 5:43, 44, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.”

It’s the commandment of Jesus Christ; it may not go in line with the Old Testament, but it the best.

Since cursing does not come out of love, then cursing is contrary to the commandment of Jesus Christ. The Word of God says in 1 John 2:8, “Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.”

The new commandment of Jesus Christ in the New Testament is for the new creatures in Christ, and that is: bless and do not curse! The commandment of Jesus Christ forbids cursing and only true believers are obedient. He laid the example throughout His earthly ministry that He cursed no one, with all the people who spitefully used Him, even to the unjustified death on the cross He only blessed them by asking God to forgive them.

Why it is wrong for every child of God to curse people?

1, Because cursing is against the new commandment of Jesus Christ – LOVE. 1 John 2:8.

2, Because cursing is an act of vengeance, and that act only belong to God. Psalm 94:1.

3, Because the Spirit in us, as children of God, is to bless, not to curse. Luke 9:53-55.

4, Because we are no longer under the curse of the law but under the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:13.

Children of God who curse are living in ignorance, because what you need is not to curse those who offend but to let God take control and bless you in hundred fold. What is your concern? Is it curse on the person who offends you or blessing in return for you? For example, somebody steals your belonging, do you want God to seriously punish the thief or you want God to bless you in hundred fold of what was stolen? If someone steals your car, and you place curse on the thief, will that bring your car back? But if on the other way, you commit the person into God's hand to arrest him and command God's blessing into your life for abundant replenishment, and God provides another or a better car for you, the thief also is unrest and come back to you for confession, that is how God want us to walk.

Many Christians, because they are so engrossed with spirit of revenge, they would prefer God to punish their offenders than God to bless them instead.

Ministers of God who use their calling to curse are walking in ignorance; eye for eye will only make the world go blind. Love of God inspires us to bless those who offend or hurt us, to pray for their salvation or restoration, to ask God to replenish whatever people have taken from you wrongly.

Repent and Reverse
In anyway you have cursed people because of their wrong, if you are now a child of God, you will need to repent, ask for forgiveness and reverse the curse, bless those who have offended you, no matter how serious, by so doing, you are pulling them from generational curse and hell fire, and at the same time pouring the blessings of God upon your own life.

When people cheat us, offend us or hurt us, commit them into God's hands and command the blessings of God upon your life in return.

May the Blessed God be our help!

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
Now, what is difference between these two situations if you know it? In the early Christianity, believers were persecuted for preaching the gospel, they were punished for sharing gospel with others because the law of the land then forbidden it. And now in many countries, especially “Christian” countries, it’s forbidden to preach gospel or share gospel with people at workplace or in public schools, etc. It’s the same tactics of the devil to silent or block the spreading of the gospel, there is no different between the Roman emperor making laws that forbids preaching gospel and your office or school authority that forbid preaching or sharing gospel.

The devil will always remain devil through generations, and that is not a problem, but the problem here is that why believers do not remain believers throughout generations likewise? The believers of the olden days refused to stop preaching gospel in the face of persecutions, punishments and death when their governments then made anti-gospel laws but today believers are not ready to face persecution or punishment for preaching gospel so they rather remain silent. The worst situation is that if any believer, with his understanding of God’s word and zeal for God’s work, insist to preach the gospel and face the persecution or punishments, the first set of people who will condemn him are some Christians, either those worldly Christians or lukewarm Christians; they will say the Christian lacks understanding or wisdom, some will say the person is disobeying the law of the land which Bible commands us to obey.

But the question is, why did early Christians refused to obey the laws that opposed the gospel or the word of God, but Christians of today are ready to obey Government’s law than God’s laws? The answer is simple! It’s because the Christians of today are earthly focused and minded, but the early Christians were heavenly focused and cared less of things of this world. The Christians of today see prosperity as the sign of God’s approval but the early Christians saw persecutions as the sign of God’s approval.

Persecutions gave the early Christians joy, but the only thing that gives joy and testimony among Christians today is prosperity. “So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.” Acts 5:41.

This is the reason Christianity is not spreading as before in societies, because the devil is using government’s law, rules and regulations to silent Christians from preaching gospel, and many Christians are cooperating with the devil. When the devil used those in authority to pass laws that disallowed Christians from preaching gospel in the Bible, “But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.” Acts 5:29. But to the Christians of today, who are we obeying, God or government?

More Than The Government
I have got to know that many Christians are shying away from preaching gospel not mostly because of government laws but because of personal gain. Pastors are afraid to preach the truth in his church because he doesn’t want members to walk away, also many Christians are afraid of preaching to their customers, clients, in their businesses, offices, schools because they don’t want them to walk away, they don’t want people to see them as uncivilized fellow. You know it’s more civilized today to talk about sport than to talk about Christ. Christians of today are more mindful of their jobs, business or career than preaching gospel to offend people. I listen to some American Christian music, singing a whole song without mentioning the name of Jesus, because they want to appeal to everyone. I also heard of some popular preachers who write Christian books without mentioning the name of Jesus Christ in the whole books, all because they want to sell to everyone.

The apostles lost everything for the gospel, laid down their lives for the sake of gospel, but our preachers today are laying treasures for themselves on earth in the name of gospel, they are using gospel to gain the world and their members – lukewarm and worldly Christians - are also following their steps. Come to think of it, are you going to the same heaven the early Christian went to? When your life is opposite the lifestyle of the early Christians, it means you are going opposite where the early Christians went to.

In this end time, is there anything more urgently important and rewarding than preaching gospel and evangelism? Is there anything more important to spend money on than evangelism? Will you allow yourself to be consumed with the care of this world until you find yourself at the other side of the river in eternity or until rapture take place?

Do not be among the mixed multitude that will miss rapture before they realize they have missed the right way to heaven long ago.

Repent, rededicate your life to Jesus and renew your commitment to Him. He is waiting for you right now!

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CIVILIZED CHRISTIANS IN A MODERN WORLD
Many Christians today feel comfortable talking about sport, politics or celebrities than talking about Christ and sharing message of gospel, because they don’t want people to see them as uncivilized fellow.

You know it’s more civilized today to talk about sport than to talk about Christ. Christians are more civilized today that you don't just burst out to a stranger and begin to share gospel like the old Christians in those days. We are now living in a modern world with paralyzed Christians, sorry, I mean civilized Christians - What a lost generation of modern Christians!

No wonder witches and wizards are working against many Christians, no wonder terrorists are terrorizing the church, no wonder we are not seeing our signs again, because we have lost the gospel which is the power of God to salvation. A Christian or a church without fervent evangelism is a powerless Christian, no matter how many months of fasting and prayer. Evangelism is a power of God in the life of a Christian that makes him untouchable. You know why? When you are engaging yourself in effective evangelism as a Christian, you are touching the heartbeat of God, and so you become untouchable.

Apostle Paul said, " For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek." Romans 1:16

So what about you? Are you ashamed or afraid to share old time gospel on your social media, with your neighbor, with the passenger next to you in the plane or in a vehicle because you are making yourself to be a civilized, paralyzed Christian?

I put it to you, as a born again Christian, that you are a coward, that you are ashamed of Christ if you refuse to preach gospel to your fellow passenger in your next flight or travel by vehicle. If you can't talk, share tracts. Where are our tracts and Christians magazines?

Repent before it's too late. The secret of power of God in the life of Christians this year is not how long you fast but how much you preach and win souls, it's the power of God to salvation. Romans 1:16

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HELL IS FOREVER!
Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT." Just look how the Bible warns of the eternity and permanence of hell:

everlasting fire - Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment - Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains-Jude 1:6
eternal damnation -Mark 3:29
eternal judgment -Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire -Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire - Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched -Mark 9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
fire unquenchable - Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever - 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever - Jude 1:13

What could possibly be worth eternity in hell? No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"

Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this THE JUDGMENT"

Friend, it is appointed unto man once to die . . . and one day — YOU will die . . .
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments . . .

But God is a God of LOVE. . . Why would a GOD OF LOVE send me to hell? Yes, God is a GOD OF LOVE — but God is also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD demands payment for sin. Otherwise God would NOT and could NOT be HOLY.

Because God is holy — sin MUST be condemned. Joshua 24:19 says, ". . he is an HOLY GOD;. . . he will NOT forgive your transgressions nor your sins."

BUT FRIEND I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
God does NOT want you in hell because hell was not made for man. Matthew 25:41 says, hell was, ". . . prepared for the devil and his angels:"

Because God is a GOD OF LOVE, and He LOVED YOU so much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die a cruel death on a cross to pay the price a HOLY GOD demands for your sins.
Roman 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God does not send someone to hell. You choose hell when you reject Jesus Christ. When you refuse God's love gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. . .

DON’T GO TO HELL!
Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview,” I’m looking forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I belong." You say —a fool! But friend, when you say "No" to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin — you are saying the same thing! "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them, become a new creature in Jesus and you will be saved from the terror of hell.

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HELL IS FOREVER!
Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT." Just look how the Bible warns of the eternity and permanence of hell:

everlasting fire - Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment - Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains-Jude 1:6
eternal damnation -Mark 3:29
eternal judgment -Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire -Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire - Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched -Mark 9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
fire unquenchable - Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever - 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever - Jude 1:13

What could possibly be worth eternity in hell? No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"

Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this THE JUDGMENT"

Friend, it is appointed unto man once to die . . . and one day — YOU will die . . .
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments . . .

But God is a God of LOVE. . . Why would a GOD OF LOVE send me to hell? Yes, God is a GOD OF LOVE — but God is also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD demands payment for sin. Otherwise God would NOT and could NOT be HOLY.

Because God is holy — sin MUST be condemned. Joshua 24:19 says, ". . he is an HOLY GOD;. . . he will NOT forgive your transgressions nor your sins."

BUT FRIEND I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
God does NOT want you in hell because hell was not made for man. Matthew 25:41 says, hell was, ". . . prepared for the devil and his angels:"

Because God is a GOD OF LOVE, and He LOVED YOU so much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die a cruel death on a cross to pay the price a HOLY GOD demands for your sins.
Roman 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God does not send someone to hell. You choose hell when you reject Jesus Christ. When you refuse God's love gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. . .

DON’T GO TO HELL!
Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview,” I’m looking forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I belong." You say —a fool! But friend, when you say "No" to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin — you are saying the same thing! "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them, become a new creature in Jesus and you will be saved from the terror of hell.

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HOW TO BE SAVED AND START A NEW LIFE IN JESUS!
Dear reader, it’s by God’s mercy to exist to this time, Satan’s plan for us is to die in sin and doom forever in hell fire. Without genuine salvation, there is no way we can escape the judgment of God, so count it as a great privilege to have this opportunity, and so you need to make the best use of it for your salvation and new life in Jesus.

How can you have genuine salvation that will guarantee eternal life with Jesus and grant you the grace to overcome sin, Satan and self? Please follow the following steps:

No Excuse, but admit it.
If truly you need God’s mercy to pardon your sins and give you grace to overcome them, then you need to face it by yourself and acknowledge your sin. Don’t excuse sin because everybody is doing it - in your church (even your pastors, parents or partners), in your family, in your place of work, etc. Don’t says, “Does that means everybody doing it will go to hell fire?” Yes, everybody can go to hell and God will still be righteous. Jesus said instead of you to be thinking how many will be saved, YOU strife to be saved NOW. Don’t excuse sin because of its popularity, it’s in person - you, face it. And sin is sin, either small or great, there is no difference, you just be sincere and confess it.

Psalm 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight

Make a Genuine Confession
Do you wonder why you’ve made several confessions of your sins and yet you still have guilt of those sins, you still go back into such sins, and your salvation is not certain or you find yourself going back into your sins? It’s simple: you didn’t make genuine confession. Genuine confession is not just using the name of Jesus, not answering alter call and so on. Take the next 2 steps that lead you to genuine salvation in Jesus Christ:

First Repent before You confess.
There are many fake confessions, but if you sincerely want to make acceptable confession, you must first repent. No need for you to confess if there is no repentance in you. Repentance is thoughtful realization of your sins and determination to forsake them. If you confess without readiness to forsake the sins you confess, you are simply wasting your time, and the sins will soon get you down. To repent is not to be sorry for your sins, if you are sorry without readiness to forsake all, you will have a sorry case and that is not a genuine salvation. Humble yourself before God now and surrender all.

Proverbs 28:13 He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Pray It All
Now all you need to do is to go before in prayer as you confess your sins and ask God to forgive you through His Son Jesus Christ. Tell Him you are sorry for how you have lived and all you have done, ask Him to cleanse you by the Blood of Jesus and give you a new heart and a new spirit. He will do it as He has promised in His Word saying, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9.

Now is the time for your salvation! Do not delay further, do it now, don’t allow Satan to distract or delay you, because another chance may not come. You can pray the prayer for the next 5 to 10 minutes.

Have you prayed the prayer for your salvation? Then let me pray with you:
“Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for our sins, thank You for coming to seek us and counting us worthy to be saved. You promised that if we come to You, You will not cast us away; that if we admit and confess our sins, no mater how many and how terrible, You will forgive and cleanse us. So I pray for this beloved, as s/he has repented, confessed and asked for Your forgiveness, save her/him and give her/him a new nature of Yours to live for You from today. Thank You Lord because You have answered, for we prayed in Jesus name. Amen.”

Now You Are saved!
Now, you are saved, you are born again with a new life by Jesus Christ. You need to start the new life guided by God’s Word. You have to disassociate and detach yourself from old lifestyle; old things that are not according to God’s Word and friendship that can pull you back to old life in sin. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” You can’t continue in your old lifestyle anymore, you are now a genuine, heaven recognized child of God and your life must be guided by His Word. You need to be reading Bible every day and praying about your new life. You should be reading at least 2 chapters of Bible everyday and take time to pray for your spiritual growth and daily strength; you can start from Matthew chapter 1. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding before you read and pray after you finish reading. Pray for God’s grace and Spirit to live daily according to His word and to overcome every temptation on your way, and be watchful every time at every situation in your new life in Jesus!

As you have now started a new life in Christ Jesus, heaven is rejoicing over you as your name is written in the Book of Life. Look only unto Jesus, not any man or any pastor. There are many false teachings everywhere because we are in end time, so let the Bible be your supreme guide!

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HAVE YOU MADE IT?

For 7 months last year our business was not making progress, until God revealed the secret and it was settled. Immediately after things started picking up, a woman was introduced to me here in Abuja, she wanted her company to be distributing our products, and within 2 weeks she bought some amount of products. And since she saw that the products were marketable and her customers were responding well, she wanted to buy another huge amount, and considering distributing the products nationwide for us, connecting the products to international stores, supplying companies, government offices, etc. This is just like our dreams coming through.

But something happened shortly. We supplied her products as her customers were making demands. The following day she called me that some customers called and complained something about our products, “what was that ma’am” I asked. She said inside the packs of our soaps they found Christian tract that preached message of salvation. Well, the madam is not a Christian and most of her customers she eagerly supplied were Muslims too. She said they thought the paper was direction of how to use the products or information about the product, which she thought as much too, that was the reason she didn’t care to read it before supplying customers. Well, that was how we have been deliberately packaging message of salvation along with the product for years.

When the woman called me, she said the tract was pure Christian message which was not necessary in the business, that I don’t need to force my religion on others and whereas this is clear business. So she said if I want her to be doing business with us I should not include the Christian track in the products we are going to be supplying her, but if we insist, she would stop buying our products or doing business with us. After she finished talking, I said, “Thank you ma’am” Well, we cannot stop putting salvation message inside the product because it’s an easy way of reaching out to our customers with the message of salvation, and we have already made covenant with God that anywhere the product reaches, the message of salvation will follow.

All the dreams and expectations of the woman buying our products was coming to an end, I was already planning on the huge amount of products she was to buy in few days’ time, how I would use the money to settle piled-up bills due to low sales of several months, but now the woman has cancelled her business with us simply because we refused to remove Christian message in the product. I would not blame her, being a devoted Muslim and most of her customers also, but I can’t stop putting the tract in the product because I have made it, I mean I have made it a covenant with God, and I can’t stop it. It’s better for the business to stop than for me to stop the covenant I have made with God.

Well, after few days the woman called me, maybe her customers were demanding for more products, and she said that she understood that I’m a Christian but this is a business, and she is not getting the products for free, she is paying. She said there are several other means where I can preach to people but not in business; that she is a devoted Muslim but does not mix business with religion, and it’s not even legal. She said Government’s Human right commission is against it, that if a customer complains that we are forcing our religion on others through our products we can be penalized. Within me, I was thinking if this will lead to prison, I don’t mind.

Actually I appreciated the interest of this highly educated and connected woman, but I told her, “Ma’am, this is beyond my power; I can’t stop putting the Christian tract in the packaging of the product. I don’t mind if this would stop us from producing the product, but I can’t stop the tract” I had earlier suggested she could be removing the tract from the packaging before supplying her customers but she said how will she sit down and starts removing the tracts from 1000 packs of soaps or more? Where would she take the tracts to, to burn them or what?

Well, humanly speaking the woman was right, but I have made a covenant with the Most High God, and I can’t take it back. It’s better for the business to go down than for me to go down with the covenant I have made with God. My business is God’s business. I am a child of God, eternal reward is my ultimate goal not business, and I’m a citizen of heaven. I am working and doing business for meeting temporal needs, not for a living; I serve and please God for a living, what I do for a living is preaching Christ, not doing business. If my purpose of living is to be a successful businessman or to be rich, how will that sustain me after I stop living on earth? If what I do for a living is to work, do business and make money, how will that benefit my living in eternity after I stop living on earth? I am living for Christ Jesus, and evangelism is what I do for a living. By God’s grace we have moved on, and my wife is even more conscious to include the tract in every package of the products without missing one, that’s my production manager 

What About You?
Have you made a covenant with God? That if God should give you the job, the admission, the visa to travel, the business contract, the marriage, the child, that you would serve God and use the means to preach the gospel at the work, at the school, at the country? And here you are, after getting the job, the admission or the visa, have you forgotten your covenant with God or you think God did not take it serious, because you did not see fire coming down from heaven or thunder? You promised to serve God and preach daily if God will give you good marriage, good health or financial blessing. Now you have forgotten or you are too blessed, busy, comfortable or too civilized or exposed to carry Bible and preach Christ? What a terrible mistake! On the other hand, are you facing challenges in fulfilling your promise to God, in preaching the word of God? Are you afraid of losing everything or legal threat? You know what? It’s either you fulfill your words of promises to Christ and be ready to face the persecutions like Daniel and his friends in Babylon or you become a failure till eternity.

THIS YEAR!
Do you want to experience unprecedented blessings, grace and favor of God in your life, business, career, health, family, marriage or ministry? The secret and master key is not more fasting and prayer, it is more evangelism. God is set to be busy blessing His children who are busy doing evangelism this year. More also, we are closer to the end of the world this year more than last year, the devil is busy winning souls, using his children to win souls by all means, on media, in school, at work, on TV, on entertainments, in business world, on new technologies, in churches, and so on, and are we, children of God, going to fold our hands or focus on those temporal worldly ambitions?

From this year, we must be radical in preaching Christ and winning souls more than ever before, and by all means! Do not be wasting your time doing “copy and paste” on social media with political stories, gossip, sport, blessing prayer or all those non-eternal value sharing messages, but focus on preaching salvation and edifying believers.

Are you a teacher, preach Christ in your class. Are you working in office, preach Christ to your fellow workers and clients/customers. Are you in business, you use your business to preach Christ, not minding those who will be offended, just mind the kingdom of God. Are you a student, preach Christ. If you are on board, travelling by flight, share gospel with someone, if you are traveling by commercial transport, share gospel with people, if you have your own car, sometimes you can help to carry people for the purpose of sharing gospel. If you are a taxi or transport driver, preach to your passengers. Anywhere you are, any country you are, as long you are a genuine child of God, preach Christ more than ever before. There should not be any dull moment this year, because we are closer to the end than ever before and because our salvation is closer than ever before. “But this I say, brethren, the time is short.” 1 Corinthians 7:29.

“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” Romans 13:11, 12.

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND XMAS! (Please read)
Do you know that there is difference between Christmas and Xmas?

I see many Christians typing “Xmas” instead of Christmas, even on our page; many are ignorant of this and some are living outside of Christ.

Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ among Christians worldwide; as we celebrate Christmas, Christ is set as the priority and the center of the celebration, so it is more than secular or social celebration, but a Christian celebration with in-depth meaning in our relationship with God. That God love us so much that He sent His only begotten Son for us; that Jesus Christ was born for us, for our salvation, IMMANUEL!

Christmas also signifies that the world is recognizing and calling Jesus the Christ, that the Messiah of the world; it is a witness to pass message to the world that Christ has been born and you are called to be born again in Christ.

But along the way, the devil was not happy as the word “Christmas” was circulating around the world everywhere even in the official, secular and social places, people calling Jesus Christ; and so people under the control of Satan moved to cancel Christ from Christmas, to remove Christ from the December 25th celebration, and you know when Christ is left from a celebration, when Christ is not glorified in whatever you are doing, it become idolatry.

So, in subtle and modern English, they cancelled Christ from Christmas and replaced it with Xmas. In English, X is another sign of cancelling, removing or wronging something. A symbol of approval may look like this √ or to mark something right but to cancel something, to disapprove something, you can use a symbol of X. This is the Xmas you have today, where Christ is removed and cancelled = Xmas. So where is the Christ in the Christmas we are celebrating today?

HISTORY
If you search the history of the word “Xmas” online, you will see different answers. They said that in Greek letters, X stands for “Chi” but since 'X' is not Chi in English, we read the word as X-mas and see no connection with Christ. In the United States, in 1977 New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson sent out a press release saying that he wanted journalists to keep the 'Christ' in Christmas and not call it Xmas--which he called a 'pagan' spelling of Christmas. An American Evangelist and Missionary Franklin Graham told CNN journalist Roland Martin in an interview: "For us as Christians, this is one of the most holy of the holidays, the birth of our saviour Jesus Christ. And for people to take Christ out of Christmas. They're happy to say merry Xmas. Let's just take Jesus out. – allafrica.com

CHRISTMAS
Christmas is celebrating the birth of Christ into the world, and more than that, it is celebrating your birth in Christ, being born again, or how will you better celebrate Christmas without you being genuinely born again? That is useless! John 3:3

Christmas is remembering the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and renewing our commitment to His service – living for Him and sharing the Good news to all men - evangelism! John 3:35, 36

Christmas is remembering the sacrificial giving of God, and practise the giving. “For God so loved the world that He gave His begotten Son” John 3:16. Giving is part and parcel of Christmas, sharing with others, no matter how small. You celebrating Christmas without sharing is an empty Christmas.

XMAS
Xmas is a manipulated type of celebration by the unsaved, though claimed to be Christians. It is a pagan way of calling Christmas, they are scared to called “Christ” or they show they reject Jesus as the Christ of their lives, or they see writing “Christmas” as too long and lonesome.

Xmas is celebrating on December 25th without genuine salvation in Christ.

Xmas is celebrating Christmas in a way that will not glorify Christ.

Xmas is celebrating Christmas without Christ as the center.

WHICH ONE DO YOU CELEBRATE?
With the clear differences listed above, you can clarify which type you have been celebrating or you are celebrating today. The genuine celebration of Christ begins the day you are genuinely born again, and on the Christmas, you make Christ the center of your celebrating, you do everything that will glorify Christ, you use the period to share the Good news of the birth of Christ.

NOTE 1: If you have not experienced genuine salvation that gives victory of adamic nature, addicted sins, and common sins, or if your Christian life has gone low or backward, you can use today to rededicate your life to Jesus and experience the purpose and power of His birth. Please click on this link, read the short message and pray as directed http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

NOTE 2: If you have been saved, you need to recommit yourself to serve God better and share His Good news more than ever before. The end is nearer than before. And do not join the pagan to call or type Christmas as Xmas.

God bless you and Merry CHRISTmas!

THE MYSTERY OF GOD’S “NO REMEMBRANCE”
“For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more” Jeremiah 31:34

One of the mysteries of God and Christianity is this “No more remembrance”. It’s complex and has difference faces. When God says He remembers no more, He is not pretending or saying it for just saying, it is real, it’s so exactly, it’s a mystery. A mystery is something beyond human understanding, human comprehension, and this no-more remembrance is simply a mystery.

When God remembers our sins no more, the record is deleted from His memory and the consequence is removed. The mystery of "No-more-remembrance" is applicable to human sinful works and as well as good works as the case may be.

The mystery of God’s no-more remembrance is applicable to these two aspects:

(1) Repentant & Confessed Sins
When we come to Jesus Christ with a repentant heart and confess our sins to Him, God forgives all our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Every man on earth has a record before God; every sin committed is recorded in heaven against the person. But when we are sorrowful for our sins with a broken spirit and contrite heart – that is a repentant heart – the realization of our sins as sins, as terrible and displeasing to God and the readiness to forsake those sins; when God sees these in us, He cannot despise us no matter how terrible or how long the sins have been. When we sincerely realize and really ready to forsake those sinful lifestyles, God forgives us through Jesus His Son and uses the Blood of Jesus to cleanse us from all sins and also cleanse our records from all those sins.

Immediately, He does not remember all our sins any more! This is a mystery, beyond human understanding. How can all-knowing God forget what we did wrong, what we did against Him for many years? He forgets because He has forgiven through Jesus and the Blood of Jesus has wiped them away and that is forever. Those sins can not stand against us now nor forever, we become as innocent as never sinned, the righteousness of Jesus covers us and God sees only Christ’s righteousness. No remembrance, no consequence, no condemnation, but peace from the presence of God follows. Here is what God says, “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.” Ezekiel 18:21, 22.

To have this unspeakable experience, you need to realize your sins both small and great, ready to forsake all, not some, not serious ones, but all and then you confess all and ask Jesus to forgive and cleanse you. You tell Him you want to accept Him as your Lord and ask Him to save you. Thank is all! Read: 1 John 1:7-9 and Colossians 2:13-15.

(2) Going Back into Sin
When a child of God who has been previously washed and forgiven by the Blood of Jesus Christ goes back into sinful life and rejects the calls to repentance for restoration, all his righteousness, services, and labor in the kingdom of God for short or long period will be forgotten and wiped away. God will not remember all the holy living, good deeds, and effort in the services again. This is mysterious, how can God forget all the righteous living of many years, godly life, labor of love, sacrifices and services in the ministry and work of God for many years? The persecution the person endured, the preaching and evangelism the person did for God, the persistence in service, suffering, sacrificial giving, and all the holy and righteous living of the person will be forgotten by God because the person has gone back into sin or compromised with the world, because of un-confessed sin, because of secret sin, because of simple, common sin and because of it-doesn’t-matter sins.

This is really mysterious. God says, “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.” Ezekiel 18:24. God forget and He doesn’t remember or retrace the righteousness of the person anymore!

The doctrine of once saved is saved forever is doctrine of demons to deceive many to destruction. The doctrine of once saved is forever covered with the righteousness of Jesus without your righteous and holy living is satanic device to dilute God’s word and lead many to eternal doom.

Here is the Word of God, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1.

What does that means? It means you can only escape God’s condemnation if you don’t continue to walk or work according to the flesh, which is sinful desire and life. The declaration of “No condemnation” is applicable to those who repent, confess and forsake their sins and start to “walk in the spirit”. Walking in the Spirit is living righteous and holy life.

If you have not forsaken your sin, you need to repent now and confess those sins to Jesus, ask Him to forgive, cleanse and save you, and then forsake all those sin as you start to walk in the Holy Spirit by Holy Spirit for holy life. If you have gone back to sin or backslided, you need to run back to Jesus now as a matter of urgency; it is the mercy of God that has kept you from being smitten by Satan, now run back to Jesus before the next minutes. If you have given and re-dedicated your life to Jesus now, then no turning back, no going back into sin and the worldly life a minute for you may not and never have a second chance.

You are blessed as you take the right step for the right stand!

HEBREWS 10:26-29
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?”

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The Truth of The Gospel of the Bible is:
1. God has made salvation available to all men and women through Jesus Christ. – John 3:16

2. God does not condemn sinner from coming unto Him, irrespective of their past and present. Matthew 11:28.

3. God calls all men to repentance from sin so we do not continue in sinful life. Acts 3:19.

4. God does not condone sin after we have come to Him. Romans 6:1-2.

So the summary of Gospel of Jesus Christ is NO CONDEMNATION and NO CONTINUITY IN SIN. If we truly come to Jesus Christ through genuine repentance and we confess our sins, we must strive by watchfulness and prayerfulness not to continue in sin again. Genuine repentance brings about grace of God, and we cannot continue in that grace and in sin at the same time.

HOW TO HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PERIOD
What matters on Christmas is Christ that we celebrate in mass, and He must daily be celebrated in our lives. On Christmas day, Boxing Day and New Year celebration, here are the tips:

1, Share Gifts and Gospel With People. Christmas is all about sharing, “For God so loved the world that He gave His begotten Son”. Whatever you are sharing, please share the gospel with it. If you are giving gift, include a printed message of the gospel or a Christian movie that will bless and transform lives.

2, Have a Good Time With Family and Friends. In celebrating Christmas, this is an opportunity to share the message of salvation with family and friends, include it in your messages and wishes of Christmas. This is also an opportunity to reconnect, remember, or call family members and friends.

3, You Can Invite & Visit. Your family can invite brethren, family members or friends for dinner and watch Christian movies together. You can also use the period to visit, share the word of God around.

4, Reflect On Your Personal Christian Life. Yes, Christ is born, but are you born again. Is the purpose of Christ coming to the world fulfilled in your life?

The Bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16.

The primary purpose of Jesus Christ coming into this world is not to give your prosperity, healing or good life here on earth, but it is to give you everlasting life – saving you from sin and eternal damnation. Until you realize this, every other thing are unrealistic.

Have genuinely given your life to Jesus Christ since you have been celebrating Christmas?

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God bless you and Merry CHRISTmas!

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3 TYPES OF CHRISTIANS
There are three types of Christians and preachers today and only one of these three are doing it right, the two others are either ignorantly missing it or willingly making themselves messengers of Satan. Let’s look at these types of Christians from the Bible:

2 Chronicles 1:11, “ Then God said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life—but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king”

1, PROSPERITY CHRISTIANS & PREACHERS - … asked riches or wealth or honor. 2 Chronicles 1:11
This type of Christians and their ignorant preachers focus more in their prayers and preaching on earthly riches, wealth and temporal honor. These ignorant preachers spend more of their preaching and prayer time on how to be rich, prospered, succeed and make it in life; they take earthly prosperity first and make the kingdom of God last, if at all they have the time. These are the preacher who spend more time on preaching earthly riches, breakthrough, favour, success, abundant blessings, earthly glory of blessing, and they feed their Goat-Christian members with these junks , they also go ahead to make foolishness of their Christian lives.

I was listening to a message of one these prosperity preachers – Bishop Oyedepo, inside a hired car, and I was disturbed how this man was misinterpreting and misquoting the scriptures, watering them down and misleading the simple. When he mentioned SANCTIFICATION, I was like, “wow, this man also preach sanctification” but by time he would interpret it, everything centered on earthly breakthrough and blessings.

The prosperity Christians and their Satan’s anointed preachers center the majority of their times, prayers, fasting and preaching on earthly blessings and breakthrough, these are the goat-Christians and wolf preachers. The more they pray and preach on earthly blessings, the more their minds are far from heaven and the less they prepare for rapture and the second coming of Jesus Christ

2, PROBLEMATIC CHRISTIANS - …… the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life. 2 Chronicles 1:11
This is another satanic manipulated type of Christians and preachers, they are the type who focus more on prayer of “Fall down and die” of their enemies, they focus more on deliverance from satanic oppression than sinful nature, they pray and preach like never before on problems of life than progress to heaven. This type of preachers believe they have deliverance ministry, and what is the deliverance all about? Is it deliverance from sin and great tribulation and great judgment of God? NO, their type of deliverance is all about from problems of life, enemies of progress, and so on.

So these preachers and their followers can fast and pray for 100 days, they can hold vigil continuously for a month, and what do they pray and fast about? They pray that the hereditary curse in their family to die than they pray that the adamic, sinful nature in their lives should die; they pray that the enemies in their father’s and mother’s house should die than they pray for the sinners in their family to die. Problematic ministry is another end-time distraction of Satan, which he packaged for many ignorant Christians and preachers as so called “deliverance ministry”.

The more these people focus their prayers and preaching on problems of life, the more they dis-focus from the real enemy of their souls and so they miss it; the more they pray against forces of enemies, the more they are afraid of them, and the less they overcome them, and so they never stop praying and fasting against forces of darkness oppressing their lives, because they are never free.

3, PRIORITY RIGHT CHRISTIANS - …. but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king” 1 Chronicles 1:11

These are the type of Christians who set their priority right, they seek the kingdom of God first, in their daily prayer, in their joint prayer, and in their preaching, they seek the kingdom of God, they seek to prepare for the kingdom, they pray for the salvation and edification of souls than they pray against their enemies, they pray and fast on their spiritual lives and for their spiritual journey to heaven than they pray for earthly blessings or against enemies. These are the type of Christians approved by God, they are the wise virgins in these end time.

You know what? Little consciousness of heaven, little preaching and prayer for heaven, or fire brigade altar call for salvation will not take you or your followers to heaven, if you really want to make heaven and help others to make heaven, your 100 percent focus, passion, prayer and preaching must be for heaven, and God of heaven will faithfully add the additional to your life and ministry.

CHECK THESE OUT!
Genuine prosperity does not come by praying or preaching more about prosperity, you can check those pastors and their members, who focus more on prosperity, they tell lies, cheat, bribe to get contracts, they change their age and personal information to get job, they bribe and commit sexual immorality to get job, promotion, and some even join occult group to get wealth in their businesses, careers or profession. And these people still claim God’s prosperity and share testimonies.

Genuine deliverance and victory over evil forces does not come by continuous or daily prayer against enemies or by prayer of “fall down and die” or by focusing on such prayer, you can check those who are in such ministry or system, they are never delivered, they are never free from enemies; they can pray and fast for 100 days, but they are never free, they never stop praying to be free, they never believed they are free, and they never re-direct their prayer and preaching on heavenly things.

Don’t be among the ignorant in this end time, don’t be among the foolish virgins; be wise and be warned.

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33

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THE RAPTURE
Today, we are all seeing the signs which indicate the imminent of the rapture that will happen at any moment from now; the catching away of the saints who are eagerly waiting for the coming of their King with all preparation and purity, with the saints who are dead in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:51-54."Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

We need to understand that rapture is the next event to take place, it will precede Great Tribulation. We should not misplace it that Great Tribulation will take place before the rapture. Jesus Christ will catch His saints away before the Great Tribulation, and it is going to be soon and sudden. Here is what Jesus said about it in Luke 17:26-30, "And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed."

Jesus Christ said as it was in the days of Noah and the days of Lot so shall the rapture come. How? They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. Merriment and earthly concerns. It was not during tribulation, but during merriment as it is today. So Rapture will come before Great Tribulation.

Luke 17:34-36
"I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”

Rapture will be sudden and scatter the left behind. When Jesus said, "in that night" does it means He will definitely come at the night of the day? No, the night here symbolizes the ending of the world and gloomy darkness for the left behind, those who miss the rapture. Rapture is not predictable, it can come any moment. No one knows when, only God alone. “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only." Matthew 24:36.

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ATTEMPT TO HELP GOD
"And when they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark; and he died there before God. " 1 Chronicles 13:9-10

God is Almighty and All-powerful, All-sufficient and Self-existent God who lives from everlasting to everlasting. He sees all things, knows all things at the same time. He is the Helper of all and needs no help from anyone, and from Him flows all goodness and blessings. For a human being or any being to attempt to help this Almighty God is a terrible mistake and sin, because it is an act of despising, dishonoring, and reducing God to a person who needs help. Attempting to help God is a terrible mistake of all time, and that was what Uzza did, he saw that God's Ark was about to fall and he decided to help God hold it back. God was angry with Uzza and He struck him to death.

How People Attempt To Help God Today
Many are acting like Uzza today. In your personal life, you attempt to help God after you are trusting God for a blessing and then take ungodly means to help get or fast track the blessing. When you are trusting God for a particular job, contract, position or provision and you know God has been working it out for you all along, but it gets to a point, due to some circumstances and challenges, it seems the blessing may not get to you; so to avoid further delay or disappointment, you have to commit a little sin to make things work out. That is the terrible sin of helping the Almighty God.

God promised you provision, a promotion, a position or a partner, and He was working it out all along, but along the way it seemed got stuck as if it would never succeed or come to pass if you don't commit a little sin to help things work, if you don't tell little lie, if you don't reduce your age to get the job or appointment, if you don't adjust your information to get the papers and document done, if you don't compromise to keep the job or the possession, if you don't permit per-marital sex to keep the relationship, if you don't please people to get their favor, if you don't give the bribe to complete the process. "Look, everything will fall apart except you do something now, you can't say you trust God and fold your hands here, heaven helps those who help themselves. If you don't do this, you will miss everything, the life time golden opportunity."

"There is nothing wrong doing it, it is just to help what God has promised and started in your life, everything works together for God's glory, He understands." That is what Satan and people around you will suggest to you in such situation, even believers, even pastors. But it's left to you to either trust God fully and let His will be done in your life or you turn foolish like Uzza in attempt to help God to perfect what He started in your life.

When God promises or proceeds something in your life, you must trust Him to perfect it. When things gets tough and stocked or stopped along the way, just keep trusting God, don't lean on your understanding, don't be foolish like Uzza in the name of helping things out. Don't follow the multitude of ungodly counsel. God who promised, who started the good work will surely perfect it in His own way, with a better one even if the one you expected does not work; it is a test of your faith, God want to see if you really love and trust Him like Abraham who gave his Isaac, and like David who refused to kill Saul to help God's plan come to pass in his life. When we trust God with all our hearts, He turns disappointment to reappointment.

If you are a child of God, you need to answer two these questions:

(1) What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

(2) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or unclothedness, or peril, or sword?

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:31, 35, 38-39.

Prayer
LORD God, You are our Father, our Redeemer and our Helper, help us to trust and look unto You always for help. LORD, help us to reject ungodly suggestions and benefits; no matter the condition, to trust You always, no matter the trials or threats. We ask in Jesus name. Amen

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