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MrPresident1:
My dear brother you are right, no one knows the day or hour

So why u come put date na? We know the times and the season cos we are the children of light...

On a serious note, i won't mind if our Lord Jesus comes this year... Am eager to meet our Saviour. This world is trash compared to the glory that will be revealed in us in heaven...

Come oh Lord Jesus!!

Atheists stay off this thread oo!!

MrPresident1:
Matthew 24:34
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

This generation is passing by sundown 19th September 2017.

All things MUST be fulfilled before this date.

Mr President you don start oo..... I heard that the world will end in September this year... Many people are preparing for it!! wahala dey.... Men and setting dates for Christ and they keep failing!!

Anyways Mr Presido, i will be here on 20th September to tell you that your date failed again....

We are in the season of the Rapture but you can't just predict a date..... We are the 11th Hour Generation ( the endtime generation that will see the coming of Our Lord in the Air)

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Jesus said, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62)

Is Jesus calling you to a life of unswerving service?

Is he saying, “You’re here to work and work hard”?

Well if he is, then he’s contradicting what he says here:

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28)

See the problem? In one verse Jesus exhorts us to “Plow” and in another he says “Rest.” Plowing is hard, back-breaking work. You can’t plow and rest at the same time, so which is it?

“It’s both,” says the mixed-up preacher. “When you come to Jesus you rest from sin and work for the Lord.”

I know a little bit about “working for the Lord.” Until recently, I was a university professor working 50-60 hours per week at a gung-ho business school. What did I do to relax? I led a church. I preached and ran meetings and did leadership trainings and organized outreaches and worship team practices and did counseling and served the poor and a hundred other “good works.” That’s assuming I was in town. Wearing my professor’s hat I travelled to conferences and wearing my pastor’s hat I travelled to more conferences. If conferences made you holy I’d be Holy Paul.

I’m not criticizing church leaders and I’m certainly not attacking those who are bi-vocational! I’m saying my life had little in common with these restful words of Jesus:

Take my yoke upon you and… find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Matt 11:29-30)

Easy? Light? Rest? Are you kidding?!

Jesus obviously didn’t know how organizations are run – how they consume people like fuel and spit them out broken. Or maybe Jesus knew exactly how they are run and wanted to offer us an alternative. Maybe he was trying to tell us, “God is not your employer.”

We are saved by grace and kept by grace. Since Jesus has done it all, he doesn’t need us to do a thing. The only true work is believing in his finished work. The only worthwhile striving is that done to enter his rest.

So why does Jesus say this?

Anyone who starts plowing and keeps looking back isn’t worth a thing to God’s kingdom! (Luk 9:62, CEV)

In the hands of a works-preacher Jesus words are whips for our backs. “You are saved by grace but now you’ve got to prove you are worthy of the kingdom. The harvest is ripe so work, work, work for Jesus!”

This sort of message will sow seeds of insecurity. It will leave you thinking, If I don’t pull my weight, I’ll no longer qualify for the kingdom.

But this is not what Jesus is saying at all! The one whose yoke is easy and light is not encouraging relentless plowing. Nor is he saying you can lose your salvation if you fail to plow (or perform). So what is he saying? He is saying we must forsake all to enter the kingdom.

Everybody dance now

Jesus doesn’t want us doing things by half. His kingdom is not something you accommodate to your life like a golf-club membership. His kingdom is like a party with the best music, food, and drink. Jesus is saying, “You’re invited, but don’t come to be a wall-flower. Get out on the dance floor with me!”

Those words about plowing are not for us for Jesus never threatens his bride. Read the verse in context and you will see that he is speaking to people who are not following him. He’s basically proposing marriage. He’s saying, “I’m an all-or-nothing proposition.” Just as you can’t be single and married at the same time, you can’t follow and not follow Jesus at the same time.

Nor does this have anything to do with being worthy or good enough for the kingdom. (Bad news: None of us is. Good news: Jesus qualifies you.)

Notice that Jesus uses the word fit as in “fit for the kingdom.” If you’ve ever been for a job interview you might have heard the expression, “You’re a good fit for our company.” Similarly, those who leap in wholeheartedly are a good fit for the kingdom. Those who don’t – those who are double-minded and unstable and insecure – are a miserable fit. They’re at the party but not on the dance floor. They’re at the banquet but they’re not eating.

If you look at the verse at the top of this post you will see that it says “fit for service.” But the words for service aren’t in the Bible! They were added by the NIV translators who evidently thought Jesus’ words needed qualification. They don’t! Check it out in a literal translation. Jesus says “fit for the reign of God” or “fit for the kingdom.” He is saying that the one who comes in wholeheartedly is going to participate in the supernaturally abounding life of God more than the one who doubts.

What is the takeaway?

The takeaway is not “Work hard for Jesus” or “Prove your worth for the kingdom through acts of service.” That sort of message will push you under the truck of guilt and condemnation in no time. It will leave you thinking, I’m not sure if I’m a good enough Christian.

The takeaway is, “Are you ready for the adventure of life shared with Christ?”

The offer of all offers is on the table. Jesus is offering you his life. This is what we were made for – to share and enjoy God’s life. But you won’t enjoy it unless you jump in with both feet. If you hang about on the fringes of his kingdom, perhaps because you think your sin is greater than God’s grace or because you believe you’re simply not good enough, you will never know and experience the fullness of the kingdom. You won’t reign in life. “Don’t be like that,” says Jesus:

No procrastination. No backward looks. You can’t put God’s kingdom off till tomorrow. Seize the day. (Lu 9:62, MSG)

Indeed, today is the day of salvation. Now is the time of God’s favor. Receive it!


https://escapetoreality.org/2014/11/20/luke-9v62-plow/

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looool ... OP when God created Adam and Eve in the beginning with all the animals, nothing destroys or attacks. It was when sin entered the world through the fall of Adam that everything went haywire..

In the beginning, i believe mosquito was not like this, even snakes. It was the presence of sin in the world that perverted their nature. But not to worry, if you are a believer in Christ, rejoice cos at the Renewal of Things during the Second Coming of Christ, the world will be renewed like it was in the Garden Of Eden.

At the 1000 Millenial Reign of Christ on earth, this world will be paradise.

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emeraldoe:
Hello.its bin over a year. Just saw dis. How is d st ives n which of the range is good for a fair skinned lady

St Ives is a good range of lotion.... All their lotions are good and it's for all skin types and complexion. The one i like best is their INTENSIVE HEALING LOTION WITH CRANBERRY SEED & GRAPE SEED OIL. Then another one is their 24 HRS DEEP RESTORING LOTION WITH ALMOND OIL.

Why i like their lotions is that its light on the skin, it doesn't make you sweat, if not i wouldn't have used them cos i don't really like rubbing lotion on my body.

Jesus never says "Change your ways first and be good, and then I will accept you when you come." Like Zacchaeus, He called us to Himself in our sinful "dead in trespasses" state and fills us with His Spirit who transforms us to the image of His glory, from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3:18.)

Like Zacchaeus, we cannot come to Him unless He calls us. In John 6:44, He says: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day." And there we were thinking "I decided by myself to follow Jesus," when the Sower (God the Father) was the one who scattered the seed (the Word-Jesus Christ) our way; He made fertile the ground (our hearts where the seed died,) made sure that Satan did not steal the seed and took care of the plant so that it became fruitful.

He raised the Vine (Christ raised from the dead and we the branches resurrected with Him.) He tends the Vine and makes sure that we the branches of the Vine bear fruit to Himself. Without Christ, we can do nothing. Our salvation has got nothing to do with what we did; it's all to do with what Christ has done.

By His grace, we understand Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."

The word "saved" here is not just being saved to go to heaven. It encompasses deliverance from the power, pleasure and penalty of sin; deliverance from molestations by the enemy and deliverance from sickness and addiction. It encompasses justification from all the things from which we could not be justified by Law of Moses, as it is written in Acts 13:38-39 -

"Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; 39 and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses."

When He causes us to realise this, it becomes difficult for us to condemn those who have not yet received their invite to His table. We realise that in Christ, the reason we are not wallowing in sin and doing the bad things that others are doing is because "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

With this realisation, instead of giving believers who are still struggling with sin more rules and regulations that they cannot keep and thinking that they are not trying hard enough to stop sinning and stay on the right path, like our Saviour Jesus in Matthew 9:36, we have compassion and pity on them-

"When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion and pity for them, because they were dispirited and distressed, like sheep without a shepherd."

You point these aimless and confused yet beloved of God to the Shepherd who loves them, because you realise that without the Shepherd, the sheep cannot stay on the right path (will continue to sin,) even you. Even as born-again Christians, we don't know the path of righteousness. Many think it is through law-keeping and doing good things to get right with God but these only serve to cut one off from Christ; according to Galatians 5:4-

"For if you are trying to make yourself right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen from God's grace."

This (trying to make yourself right with God by keeping the law,) is the wide road that leads to destruction and many are on it. It is rejecting the perfect work of Christ in making us righteous for our own human effort at attaining righteousness aka walking in the flesh. But the result is always "works of the flesh," just as it was with Peter who boasted in his flesh (human effort at doing right) but ended up denying Christ; three times.

The letter kills. By God's grace, let's not be found here. Romans 3:20 says "For no one can be made righteous in the sight of God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are."

The Lord our Shepherd leads us on the path of righteousness. He called us. Ask Him to open your eyes and rid your heart and mind of all false doctrines. He will help you. Know that "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;" Philippians 1:6.

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right.


http://rightbelieving101..com.ng/2017/07/sheep-without-shepherd.html?m=1

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Believers, acts of sin is not what makes a person a sinner. Sinners are sinners because of Adam's disobedience. The bible says "By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous." Romans 5:19.

Every human inherits this sin (old) nature by default. This root of sin is what produces acts of sin like stealing and immorality. Christ died to make us righteous (2 Cor. 5:21), making all who believe in Him and His finished work a new creation and no longer of the old nature.

As the righteousness of God in Christ, (not depending on our law-keeping to make us right with God but on that which comes from the righteous exchange that took place on the cross where our Saviour Jesus hung for our sake,) we are 100% righteous in the eyes of our heavenly Father, even when we sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

Just as the good things that we did before we became born-again could not make us right with God, as the righteousness of God in Christ, our sins have been punished in the body of our Saviour Jesus. As New Covenant believers, God does not remember our sins anymore, according to Hebrews 8:12-13 ""For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."

We do not become unrighteous when we sin because we did not work for His gift of righteousness, to begin with. It is a gift.

But God's grace is not a license to sin! Certainly not! Preachers that are under the Law (those who preach that we should do "good things" and keep the Ten Commandments in order to 'maintain our salvation" and thus are slaves to sin seem to believe that all we "grace people" want to do is wallow in sin when the exact opposite is the case (only by God's grace are we this way!) Like our heavenly Father, we “grace people” hate sin with a passion! We live right without trying, yet not us, but Christ (the Way; our Way) in us!

Believers, trying to keep the Law only results in a more sinful lifestyle according to Romans 7:5 - "When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death."

"Old nature" here is the sin nature that was obtained through "one man's disobedience" (Adam's) as recorded in Romans 5:19. The ones with this nature reject the gift of righteousness that we have by faith in Christ by depending on their "filthy rags' righteousnesses to be right with God. The more people with this nature try to keep the Ten Commandments, the more they sin.

As the righteousness of God in Christ, you will not continue to sin and neither will the devil be able to devour you - not with Christ as our Sacrifice, Advocate and our Righteousness! All have sinned and the wages of sin is death. He died this death for us, our death, fulfilling for us the righteous requirements of the Law. We died with Him and live with Him. In Him, we are a new creation. The sin nature that produces sin is dead. We are no longer under Law but under Grace! Nothing to do with our efforts; all to do with our Saviour Jesus Christ.


This is the only Way to produce a harvest of good deeds for God, as it is written in Romans 7:4- "So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God."

These false gospel preachers also forget Galatians 5:4 which says: "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

Keeping the Ten Commandments in order to get right with God is how to get cut off from Christ!

Believers, stop focusing on your ability to keep the Ten Commandments (self-righteousness) and keep your eyes on our Saviour Jesus to cause you to live right and reign in life (righteousness by faith)

A tightrope walker with a safety net installed far below to catch him if he falls will walk the tightrope with confidence and without fear because he knows that he will not die/get hurt if he falls. But the fact that the safety net is there does not make him love to fall. He doesn't deliberately fall or spend time bouncing around on the net just because it's there. He hates to fall because it would ruin his performance! And he is less likely to fall because there is no fear of falling or anxiety to make him act irrationally or lose concentration while walking.

On the other hand, the one with no safety net will be consumed with thoughts of falling and what could happen if he does fall. He cannot concentrate on the task at hand because of the fear of falling and the consequences. He wonders what will happen if he takes just one wrong step, and panics! Because he cannot concentrate on the task at hand, because the thought of death by splatting on the concrete far down below consumes him, his greatest fear - falling and splatting- comes upon him! And because there is no safety net, he dies!

This is the same way you don't see diplomats/ambassadors from rich countries going berserk and breaking laws in their poorer host country just because they have diplomatic immunity. The law cannot prosecute a diplomat/ambassador for any crime that he commits in his host country, even murder. The diplomat's home country does the sanctioning. But you don't find them going on sinning sprees. They have no reason to because their home country makes sure that they are well taken care of and well trained too. How much more us believers that are citizens of heaven and Christ's ambassadors here on earth where our Lord God, our Trainer, loads us daily with benefits! His gift of no condemnation empowers us to go and sin no more! His correction is for our profit too.

But God's grace through Christ is much more than just a safety net! In Christ, the Holy Spirit transforms us to the image of His glory, from glory to glory. When you depend on His righteousness and not your own ability to be good, you'll find that the desire to indulge in those sins and addictions that you enjoy but are ashamed of will disappear miraculously. You find that you talk about our Saviour more, give more, love more and do exploits without knowing how, yet not you but Christ in you! This is the transformation to the image of the Lord's glory, from glory to glory. It comes by beholding Jesus, not beholding the Law. This is Grace! We get to walk that tightrope successfully and in peace, without fear, yet not us, but Christ in us. And He can never fall!

True deliverance is not trying hard to resist the urge to do those bad things that you secretly enjoy when you have the urge to do them because they could have bad consequences. Even non-believers do this all the time. You don't need Jesus in your life if you can do this successfully (and no one can!) True deliverance is being freed completely from the desire to do the bad things that you used to love doing!

God hates sin but loves the sinner, much like (but waaaaaaaay better than) how a loving father who is also an expert oncologist hates the cancer in his beloved child. So what does our heavenly Father do? He fills us with the only effective sin "chemo" that He has made available to all believers in Christ - the Holy Spirit. His eyes burn at and destroy sin but radiate perfect love for the sinner. His Spirit transforms us to the image of His glory, from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18.) We get to be free from the clutches of sin and live right and not by our efforts but Christ in us!

Ask the Lord to lead you on the path of righteousness today. No long prayer or anything. A simple "Lord, help me, for I don't know what to do" will suffice. Like our heavenly Father, we prefer our kids' badly drawn/written birthday cards to the fanciest Hallmark card in the world. He loves you!

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right!

http://rightbelieving101..com.ng/2017/02/forever-righteous-even-when-we-sin.html?m=1

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