Grace is God’s riches at Christ’s expense. Grace is the greatest word in the human language. It’s greater than love. What? Yes. Without grace we would be lost in sin even though God loves us. Grace is God giving us His salvation paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ. Yes love did it but without grace there is no salvation. When the Bible mentions grace it’s always about Jesus. Jesus is grace. Grace equals Jesus. How can we be strong in grace?

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Be Strong In Grace

Is James crazy to tell when everything is going wrong we should rejoice? No he is absolutely correct. How can that be? Why would we be happy when everything goes wrong? Not only is it possible but that is the way every Christian should look at every trial and every trouble!

I'm Glad When Everything Is Going Wrong

Are churches today looking for Jesus? 1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 4:8enceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. I love talking about the rapture. I still believe in it. I still look for Him everyday! This could be the day! I’ve done this since 1970. 51 years of watching for Him. Don’t you get discouraged? I must admit I didn’t think it would get this bad. “What did you think the last days would look like” says a famous Bible prophecy teacher. He’s right. Did we think we weren’t going to suffer any? There are birth pangs mentioned in the Olivet discourse. We are in the middle of them right now! I must admit that sometimes I wonder if maybe the preterists were right that the church will go through the tribulation and then Jesus will come. But then I read The passages I’m giving to you today and quickly I regain my confidence that Jesus is indeed going to rapture the church!

We Are Still Looking For Jesus

No matter how good we are to people it’s never enough. People today are not appreciative. They don’t care what you do for them as long as you do more and more. We want more government handoust and we don’t care who pays for it. We want more vaccines and we don’t care what the long term consequences will be. We want more and more and more. I remember at Christmas we would get a stocking with fruit and one toy. What do kids want today? More and More and More!

It Is Never Enough

Baal or Baalim was the name of the supreme god worshiped in ancient Canaan and Phoenicia. The practice of Baal worship infiltrated Jewish religious life during the time of the Judges (Judges 3:7), became widespread in Israel during the reign of Ahab (1 Kings 16:31-33) and also affected Judah (2 Chronicles 28:1-2). The word baal means “lord”; the plural is baalim. In general, Baal was a fertility god who was believed to enable the earth to produce crops and people to produce children. Asherah, or Ashtoreth, was the name of the chief female deity worshiped in ancient Syria, Phoenicia, and Canaan. The Phoenicians called her Astarte, the Assyrians worshiped her as Ishtar, and the Philistines had a temple of Asherah (1 Samuel 31:10). Because of Israel’s incomplete conquest of the land of Canaan, Asherah-worship survived and plagued Israel, starting as soon as Joshua was dead (Judges 2:13). Asherah was represented by a limbless tree trunk planted in the ground. The trunk was usually carved into a symbolic representation of the goddess. Because of the association with carved trees, the places of Asherah worship were commonly called “groves,” and the Hebrew word “asherah” (plural, “asherim”) could refer either to the goddess or to a grove of trees.

Baal And Ashteroth

Scales indicate something satanic. Snakes have scales. Paul was satanically blinded because he could not see the truth of Jesus Christ. Like many today are blinded by the god of this world who seeks to hide the truth of the gospel from all of us.

Scales In Their Eyes

Three steps to greatness. Graduate from high school or college, get a good job. Then get married and have children. Biblical steps to greatness….Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. But sadly people instead follow the steps to departing from God in our world today. Even Christians follow these steps every day.

Three Steps To Depart From God

What is the best thing someone ever did for you? Well your mother did a wonderful thing of bringing you into the world. Your spouse did a wonderful thing by marrying you. Soldiers have done a great thing for you by giving their life for your freedom. Your company did a good thing by giving you a job. The bank did a good thing by giving you the money to by a car or buy a house. So people have done many great things for us. But can you believe that most people could care less about these things? They sure don’t care what God has done for them. What did God do for us? He gave us life. He gave us a family. He gave us a spouse, put us in a free country, gave us a job, a house, a car, children and grandchildren and pretty good health for many of us. But we have left out the most important things God has done for us…

What God Did For Us

There are many books written about personality traits and personality types. Which type are you? I’ve read some of these books. While they are interesting and maybe even accurate to a degree what does it really matter in the long run? I am what I am because God made me that way. But according to God there are only two types of people. Wicked and Righteous! So leave it to God to really simplify it.

Two Types Of People

Blindness affects 2.2 billion people in the world today. The numbers are rising. The main reason is the lack of decent eye care. Near-sightedness can lead to blindness if not treated properly in time. Untreated Cataracts and failing eye sight in the elderly leads to blindness among the undeveloped nations of the world. Myopia or near-sightedness is exploding due to children spending so much time on their devices. Diabetes patients will all experience some kind of vision problems. The cause of Much blindness of our eyes is preventable but the poor can’t access doctors and those who can often do not. There is a spiritual blindness also. Those who are spiritually poor aren’t looking for a cure and those who know about the cure won’t access it because they both think they can see.

The Cause of Blindness

A song from the sixties had these words…..“In times like these we need a Savior, In times like these, We need an Anchor, In times like these, We need the Bible. In times like these, O be not idle. Be very sure, be very sure your anchor holds and grips the solid rock. This rock is Jesus, yes he’s the one, this rock is Jesus the only one. I’m very sure, I’m very sure my anchor holds and grips the solid rock.” In times like these we need to remember three things that God told Joshua to be……

Three Things To Be In Times Like These

There are many mysteries in the world. The mystery of Stone Henge, and the UFO’s, big foot and the Lochness monster. We have the mystery of the human mind and the mystery of who killed JFK? And Did OJ do it? One mystery has been answered. The Old Testament prophets didn’t know about Jesus Christ and the church. It was not revealed to them. It was a mystery. How can one have their sins forgiven and walk with God? How can paradises be restored that mankind lost at the garden of Eden? That has all been answered

The Mystery Revealed

We have no idea how terrible sin is in our lives. We have no idea how sin causes death. We laugh at sin. We joke about sin. We don’t take I seriously. But sin has caused despair, hopelessness, grief, tragedy, horror, depression, sickness and finally death. How can we laugh at that? We don’t realize what power sin has over us. We must realize that sin kills. Speed kills they say….well we know that sin kills. It destroys everything it touches. Sin and death go hand in hand like love and marriage, Apple pie and baseball, Duke and the Devil. No wonder their called “Blue Devils” right? Sin and death, death and life. Life and death go together in that order. But death and life do not go together. Sin brought death but Jesus changed that to bring death and life

Death and Life

In the story of the woman at the well we have three things. A woman, A well, and the way. It was just an ordinary day for her. What happened next changed her life forever!

The Woman, The Well, and The Way

We know that there are alliances today with different evil groups and they have one thing in common…They are evil! But when evil people and good people get together the good usually turn bad. Why is that? We are sinful people with a sinful nature so we are already bent to sinning. And that is the reason we always need to watch who we hang around with and where we hang out at. Unholy alliances come when unholy people somehow get into an alliance with Holy people. That should not happen. Unholy people can cause us to stray from our faith. What is an unholy person? Be ye holy as I am holy. Holy people follow Jesus who has made us holy. Unholy people DO NOT follow Jesus Christ plain and simple.

Unholy Alliances

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