Of God and Mankind

Revelation 3:19-20 (AMPC) “ Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude]. [Prov. 3:12.]   20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.”   Dear people of God, it is not every comment or advice one must listen to because anyone can give advice, but the right advice must have qualities or attributes attached to it, which is the basis of today’s message.   If someone gives advice, the first question you would expect to ask is, why should I listen to this advice and what benefit do I stand to gain from it?   Now, I want to introduce you to a Being called Jesus Christ and why you MUST listen to Him.  ...

Mark 13:35-36 (AMPC) “ Therefore watch (give strict attention, be cautious and alert), for you do not know when the Master of the house is coming–in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning–   36 [Watch, I say] lest He come suddenly and unexpectedly and find you asleep.”   Dear people of God, today’s main Holy Bible text is about the Lord Jesus Christ’s warning to everyone and Christians in particular not to be spiritually asleep when He returns to take His children in Rapture, an event that is imminent.   Since the beginning of the year 2021, the number of persons I have either met or known personally who have died is 10, with 5 of them in total in the month of October 2021 alone including a close friend’s father.   Since I was born, I have never had such shocking experience in any one year and so you can just imagine how surprising this was for me.   It’s not that it is a scary experience, or that it frightens me but it is a...

2 Timothy 3:1-5 (AMPC) “ BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].   2 For people will be lovers of self and[utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.   3 [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.   4 [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. ...

Luke 10:19 (AMPC) “ Behold! I (Jesus Christ) have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you.”   Dear people of God, the devil, though a creation of God Almighty as the Arch Angel Lucifer (bearer of light) existed with other angels before humans were created.   It was the devil’s rebellion along with a third of the angels against their Creator God Almighty and Father of my Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ that made God expel them out of heaven – Revelation 12:7-9.   Since then, the devil came into the world and succeeded in deceiving man into sinning against God and took over the dominion God gave to man.   However, the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, came into this world to redeem mankind from the damage the devil inflicted at the beginning and gave victory back to mankind.   Jesus Christ al...