Of God and Mankind

Revelation 5:15-19 (AMPC)  “ I (Jesus Christ) know your [record of] works  and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!   16 So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!   17 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered  and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize  and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. [Hos. 12:8.]   18 Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined  and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.   19 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 ze...

1 Timothy 5:24-25 (AMPC)  “ 24 The sins of some men are conspicuous (openly evident to all eyes), going before them to the judgment [seat]  and proclaiming their sentence in advance; but the sins of others appear later [following the offender to the bar of judgment and coming into view there].   25 So also, good deeds are evident  and conspicuous, and even when they are not, they cannot remain hidden [indefinitely].”   Dear people of God, today’s lead Holy Bible text confirms to us that nothing can be hidden indefinitely.   Some people murder others, some commit adultery with another person’s husband or wife, some steal company funds, some steal church funds, some pastors sleep with their female members, some fathers sleep with their daughters, some guardians mess up their wards they should care for, some hide to watch pornography, some tell lies to cover up their deeds.   All these people believe no one sees them.   On the other hand, s...

Luke 6:46-49 (AMPC) “Why do you call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not [practi s e] what I tell you?   47 For everyone who comes to Me and listens to My Words [in order to heed their teaching] and does them, I will show you what he is like:   48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood arose, the torrent broke against that house and could not shake  or move it, because it had been securely built  or founded on a rock .   49 But he who merely hears and does not practi s e doing My Words is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, against which the torrent burst, and immediately it collapsed  and fell, and the breaking  and ruin of that house was great.”     Dear people of God, every Christian knows and agrees that Jesus Christ is his or her Saviour and rightly so. However, from today’s lead Holy Bible text, not every Christian has Jesus C...