Of God and Mankind

Revelation 3:20 (AMPC)   “ 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, see what my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is saying to you in today’s lead Scripture.   There are very many people who say they don’t need Jesus. As far as they are concerned, they are free to live their lives the way they choose and so nobody should bother them with any Gospel message about Repentance, Salvation, Prayer, Church, Eternity, Heaven, Hell, Righteousness, Holiness, etc.   For this set of people, they want to go to night clubs, drink alcohol, chase the opposite gender whether they are married or not to commit fornication and adultery, watch immoral movies, crack immoral jokes, read immoral literature, etc.   There are a second set of people who speak of a different Jesus from what God’s Word in the Bible tells u...

Hebrews 2:14-15 (AMPC) “Since, therefore, [these His] children share in flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human beings], He [Himself]- Jesus Christ - in a similar manner partook of the same [nature], that by [going through] death He might bring to nought and make of no effect, him who had the power of death–that is, the devil– 15  And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.” Dear people of God, in 2020 the news media was awash with unfortunate stories of people of all ethnic nationalities, ages, social and financial status, religious inclination dying of the coronavirus or covid-19 virus pandemic. Medical and non-medical folks were daily giving advice on how to stay safe from contracting the virus because of the ease with which it is killing people every day. As of early May 2020, a little over 20 million human beings were reported to have died of ...

Titus 2:7-8 (AMPC)   “And show your own self in all respects to be a pattern  and a model of good deeds  and works, teaching what is unadulterated, showing gravity [having the strictest regard for truth and purity of motive], with dignity  and seriousness.   8 And let your instruction be sound  and fit  and wise  and wholesome, vigorous  and irrefutable  and above censure, so that the opponent may be put to shame, finding nothing discrediting  or evil to say about us.”   Dear people of God, whenever and wherever a Believer in Jesus Christ stands to minister to others, he is acting as an ambassador of Jesus Christ.   He is representing Jesus Christ because Jesus has commanded all believers to go and preach to everyone the Gospel or Good News concerning Repentance and Salvation found only in Him.   Jesus Christ our Lord was a Preacher of Righteousness while He was here on earth as a human being.   There was no...

2 Timothy 4:1-5 (AMPC)   “ 1  I CHARGE [you] in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, Who is to judge the living and the dead, and by (in the light of) His coming and His K ingdom:   2  Herald  and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favo u rable or unfavo u rable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking  and correcting, warning  and urging  and encouraging them, being unflagging  and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.   3  For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound  and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own li...

2 Peter 2:20-22 (AMPC)  “ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through [the full, personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savio u r Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition is worse [for them] than the first.   21 For never to have obtained a [full, personal] knowledge of the way of righteousness would have been better for them than, having obtained [such knowledge], to turn back from the holy commandment which was [verbally] delivered to them.   22 There has befallen them the thing spoken of in the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and, The sow is washed only to wallow again in the mire. [Prov. 26:11.]”   Dear people of God, during morning devotion this past Saturday April 18, 2020, the Lord placed it upon my heart to visit a certain area within our neighbourhood for our weekly Evangelism.   I told my partner and then after prayers, we proceeded for the Evangelism. The...

2 Corinthian 2:17 (AMPC)   “ For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God's Word [short changing and adulterating the D ivine message]; but like [men] of sincerity  and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight  and presence of God.”   Dear people, once a year, Christians all over the world commemorate one of the greatest events, the Good Friday, in which the Lord Jesus Christ years ago suffered at the hands of sinful men, His creation, and died for their sins and for all mankind’s sins just to destroy the devil’s work when he (devil) deceived Adam and Eve and made them sin against God through disobedience.   This singular act of love by the Lord Jesus for mankind reconciled us spiritually to God and restored all mankind’s lost privileges and rights in Christ Jesus.   Unfortunately, there are many Christians who do not understand the import of th...

Colossians 1:22-23 (AMPC)   “Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.   23 [And this He will do] provided that you continue to stay with  and in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled  and steadfast, not shifting  or moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached [as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven,”   Dear people of God, the Gospel of Christ Jesus is about preaching the Truth of the Good News to make people realise they have not been living right as far as God is concerned, genuine repentance from sin, confessing and forsaking sin, accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord and a committed life thereafter in righteousness and holy living.   The r...