What is He telling me?

What does the God's Law tell you???

1. God's Law tells you that you are going to hell... it tells you that you are a criminal worthy of eternal damnation.. it tells you that it is impossible for you to keep even a single law... it tells you that you don't fit in heaven...  it tells you that there was never a time when you have not sinned... it tells you that after you die, only God's terrible judgment awaits you... it shows you what level of life quality God requires - PERFECTION... and anything below perfection is evil in His sight.

2. God's law tells you that Christ is our only way out... it points you to Jesus Christ... it tells you to throw away your belief that you are good enough to earn heaven.... it tells you to cling on the righteousness of Jesus Christ and rest on His perfection... it tells you that unless you repent and turn to be like Christ, you will surely be Judged... Christ is our only escape from the wrath to come...

3. And finally, God's law instructs us how to be like Christ... it shows us what love is.. it shows us how to love... and it shows us how life works out according to God's design...

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I don't know God's law!! SHOW ME!!

For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws.(James 2:10) - if you break a single law, it means that you have broken ALL!! Perfect or Nothing - that is God's standard...

Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' But I will reply, 'I never knew you. GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU WHO BREAK GOD'S LAWS!"(Matthew 7:22-23) - and who among us have not broken God's laws?? we all have sinned! nobody is righteous not even one!

(These are samples of what the law really means.... God's moral law is perfectly summarized in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS... let's see it) Exodus 20 and Deut. 5

We break the First Commandment By:

• Giving someone more room in our thoughts than God.
• Prioritizing something more than God.
• Getting joy from anything outside God.
• Promoting other people to admire anything more than God.
• Worshiping any other deity instead of The Christianity's Trinitarian Godhead.
• Not preventing other people from loving anything more than God.
• Being proud about oneself - or being insecure(self pity)

We scandalize the Second Commandment By:

• Worshiping God the wrong way (Though images, carved stones, grotto's etc. )
• Not treating God with proper respect.
• treating God as personal genie wish giver.
• having no desire to know more about God.
• treating God as personal buddy-boy best friend.
• Having no fear and awe of God.
• Being ignorant about God.
• Ignoring and not preventing false worship.

We criminalize the Third Commandment By:

• Using the name of Jesus as senseless expression. (ex., when surprised, terrified etc.)
• Using mild oaths such as: "Gosh! Darn It!", "Oh my God!", "What the heck!", "Good Lord!", "I swear to God!", "Christian Word!".
• Worshiping God in a casual, careless and insincere way.
• Using God's name for our own agenda.
• Treating God's name as common.
• Having no awe in God's name.
• Having no interest about God's name.

We trash the Fourth Commandment By:

• Having no time for God.
• Refusing to work.
• Refusing to rest.
• Refusing to Go to Church.
• Being bored about the things of God.
• Having no God-centered recreation.
• Having no recreation at all. (Yes, it is a sin to have no leisure.)
• Using the Lord's day to do our own thing.

We mock the Fifth Commandment By:

• Talking back to parents.
• Hiding anything from parents which they have the right to know.
• Not taking time to strengthen relationship with parents.
• Speaking bad things about our parents.
• Not giving our parents the care they need.
• Not respecting our employers or bosses.
• Having contempt for our government.
• Desiring to break the rules of society.
• Not paying taxes.
• Disrespecting people less privileged than us.
• Disrespect to authority.
• Not submitting to those who are in authority. (Parents, mentors, teachers, government officials, pastors, elders etc.)
• Desiring to grab the position of authority.
• Not praying about leaders and not encouraging them.
• Dishonoring people in authority whether on thought, word or deed.

We trample the Sixth Commandment By:

• Unjustly taking a legally innocent life.
• Not being concern for the safety of all.
• Failing to prevent, protect and save our neighbor from suffering bodily harm or injury when we have opportunity.
• Wishing someone were dead.
• Being envious, hateful, angry and desirous for revenge.
• Using angry words or thoughts that puts people down.
• Playing violent video games, having fist fights or anything that promotes harm to human life.
• Desiring to have abortion.
• Actually having an abortion.
• Approving and not preventing abortion, media violence, euthanasia, suicide etc..
• Not helping people in need.
• Having vices that damage health.
• Hurting oneself and others in thought or dead.

We violate the Seventh Commandment By:

• Not protecting our sexual purity and other people.
• Reading or watching sexual materials. (ex., romance novels, porns etc..)
• Fantasizing about relationships that include sexual intimacy.
• Telling dirty jokes.
• Flirting.
• Being selfish.
• Indulging in lustful sexual intercourse with someone who is not your spouse.
• Promoting homosexuality as a lifestyle.
• Desiring unlawful sex.
• Looking at someone in a lustful way.
• Having inappropriate intimacy.
• Homosexual intercourse.
• Fantasizing someone of the same sex.
• Self-gratification. (Ex. Musterbation)
• Not preventing/rebuking others from committing sexual sin in thought or in deed.
•  Not desiring purity.

We disobey the Eighth Command By:

• Taking advantage of our neighbor that results in loss to Him.
• Not using and developing our talents and gifts for God's glory.
• Not preserving sexual intimacy for our future mate or current spouse.
• not using possessions for God's glory.
• Being selfish with our time and money.
• Not being generous.
• Taking something that doesn't belong to us - however we do it.
• Not taking care of someone Else's property.
•  Giving anything less than our best efforts for our employer in our productivity at work.
• Desiring to gain by means of the loss of others.
• Not preventing others to commit theft of any kind whether in thought or deed.

We defy the Ninth Commandment By:

• Committing any form of falsehood.
• Overstating our accomplishments to put oneself in the best possible light.
• Exaggerating other people's failings, thinking and saying worst about others.
• Not using our words to honor God.
• using words to tear people down instead of building them up.
• Talking about people in a way that damages their reputation, (ex., gossip)
• Listening to a gossip.
• Not thinking and saying best about people, and not putting the best construction on what they have said and done.
• Not defending people when they are unfairly attacked.
• Using humor to damage someone else's dignity.
• Not practicing truth.
• Thinking that we are good enough.
• Not acknowledging our sinfulness.
• Thinking we have no sin.

We go against the Tenth Commandment By:

• Being envious about other people's age, looks, brains, talents etc.
• Desiring other people's situation in life: marriage, singleness, children etc.
• Desperately wanting someone else's affection.
• Wanting something that does not belong to us.
• Not being content at what we have.
• Not trusting God for His provision.
• Wanting things that God has not given us.
• Being discontent about Jesus!
• Not wanting what God wants for us.
• Not knowing what God wants for us.
• Wanting what we want for us.

You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. (Ephesians 5:5)

Don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)

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Escape the upcoming Judgment!!... you're life will be measured after you die... and you will surely fail the passing score which is total perfection... turn to Christ!! turn to Christ!!


My Own Personal Disclosure

My Own Personal Disclosure

          Yes I am guilty. I have broken all of God's laws. I deserve nothing but death, condemnation and judgement. God's wrath awaits me, and I rightfully belong to hell. I'm an Idolater, God-offender, God-hater, God-negligent, rebellious, murderer, a sexual pervert, a robber and a thief, lair and an evil covetous person. I deserve to be hated by God from head to toe. My sin defines me.
           But there is a man I know that has fulfilled all that God demands. He was without sin, perfect in every way - He is Jesus of Nazareth, He perfectly pleased God. And this is what causes tears in my eyes because such a perfect being loved me that He took my identity as a sinner and placed it on Himself, thus He became what I was. Jesus Christ became an idolater, God-offender, God-hater, God-negligent, rebellious, murderer, sexual pervert, robber and a thief, a liar and a covetous person. And as a result, God's burning wrath fell on Him - I know that was supposed to be for me. God's justice mercilessly crucified Him, He was crushed by Divine Holiness.
           To my surprise, He gave His perfect record to me, causing me to become absolutely blameless in the sight of God. I became perfectly righteous, a person that fulfilled all of God's laws and I now deserve to be rewarded eternal life. He exchanged His perfection for my corruption. He became corrupt, I became righteous. Words fail to describe what He did to me, though I still am puzzled, this is what I know - He loved me! Heaven and hell are witnesses that i don't deserve this, but what can I do? He loves me!
          Now, He is exalted as Lord over all, He overcame death and revealed what He really is and who He have been from the beginning - Christ the Creator God and the reason for the entire creation. He has no beginning, He has no end, the Alpha and the Omega.
         Even today, I stumble and fall, but He never fails to discipline me. Yes, it is painful but I'd rather have the pain of His discipline than the pain of His wrath in Hell. Again, this I know, nothing can pluck me out from His hand, and until I breath my last, He will sustain me and keep me from ever turning away from Him. I am hopeful to see my savior face to face someday, to this I long, and to this death loses it's power over me. There is no escaping from His gaze, no way out from His love.

                                                                          --- Colzzky

The BIG Misconception - Story Of Our Salvation

Because of the fall, man is unable of himself to savingly believe the gospel. The sinner is dead, blind, and deaf to the things of God; his heart is deceitful and desperately corrupt. His will is not free, it is in bondage to his evil nature, therefore, he will not – indeed he cannot – choose good over evil in the spiritual realm. Consequently, it takes much more than the Spirit’s assistance to bring a sinner to Christ – it takes regeneration by which the Spirit makes the sinner alive and gives him a new nature. Faith is not something man contributes to salvation but is itself a port of God’s gift of salvation – it is God’s gift to the sinner, not the sinner’s gift to God.

God’s choice of certain individuals unto salvation before the foundation of the world rested solely in His own sovereign will. His choice of particular sinners was not based on any foreseen response of obedience on their part, such as faith, repentance, etc. On the contrary, God gives faith and repentance to each individual whom He selected. These acts are the result, not the cause of God’s choice. Election therefore was not determined by or conditioned upon any virtuous quality or act foreseen in man. Those whom God sovereignly elected He brings through the power of the Spirit to a willing acceptance of Christ. Thus God’s choice of the sinner, not the sinner’s choice of Christ, is the ultimate cause of salvation.


Christ’s redeeming work was intended to save the elect only and actually secured salvation for them. His death was substitutionary endurance of the penalty of sin in the place of certain specified sinners. In addition to putting away the sins of His people, Christ’s redemption secured everything necessary for their salvation, including faith which unites them to Him. The gift of faith is infallibly applied by the Spirit to all for whom Christ died, therefore guaranteeing their salvation.

In addition to the outward general call to salvation which is made to everyone who hears the gospel, the Holy Spirit extends to the elect a special inward call that inevitably brings them to salvation. The internal call (which is made only to the elect) cannot be rejected; it always results in conversion. By means of this special call the Spirit irresistibly draws sinners to Christ. He is not limited in His work of applying salvation by man’s will, nor is He dependent upon man’s cooperation for success. The Spirit graciously causes the elect sinner to cooperate, to believe, to repent, to come freely and willingly to Christ. God’s grace, therefore, is invincible; it never fails to result in the salvation of those to whom it is extended.

All who are chosen by God, redeemed by Christ, and given faith by the Spirit are eternally saved. They are kept in faith by the power of Almighty God and thus persevere to the end.

Finally…
Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ’s death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.

Loraine Boettner, The Reformed Faith

Tula Para sa Akong mga Manghud

"INDAY, PATALINGHUG!"


Oh, Inday hulat sa';

Sa pag-pili yaw'g pataka;

Pugngi ang pag-hinam-hinam;

Hulati ang IYANG gi-andam;

Ang IYANG gi-andam kanimo;

Gabaga-baga sa balaang kalayo;

Di man gwapo's mata's daghang tawo;

Pero sigurado, sa mata nimo, Oo!

Ang Diyos nagbutang sa iyang kasingkasing;

Para nimo, ang gugmang long-lasting;

Pag-Pinagbahandiay manalingsing;

Puhon, tagaan ka gayud niyag singsing;

Ayaw paminaw sa imong kasingkasing;

Patalinghugi ang Ginoong nag-amping;

Kung di ka gusto magkamulitsing;

Ang kaugmaon dili ma-bad-ending;

Lunhaw ang kalipay;

Kung Ikaw KANIYA magsubay;

Way pugsanay, way balibaray;

Dapat kamo maghinulatay;

Your Labing Kuya in Christ,

The Truth About Man

(Please forgive me for using this "seemingly sensuous" picture... I am just trying to portray as much as possible the true condition of man... The supporting verses are designated by a number, pls check out below for Biblical references.)

What does the Word of God has to say about the true condition of Fallen Humanity?

1. Man is under the Prison of Sin - All human being is a slave to sin. The Prison Bars of Sin is too strong. Escaping is absolutely impossible. The issue is not that "man sometimes sin", this is the real issue - that everything that man has ever done is totally and consistently sinful. Man is sinful even before birth. Man did not became a sinner because he sinned, rather, he sinned because he is a sinner by nature and by birth.

2. Man is under the captivity of the Devil. - To worsen the problem, not only is man inside the Prison Bars of Sin, man is also tied up securely by the devil from the inside. Man is under the strong embrace of the devil - whose strength of Grip is of enormous strength. The devil has blinded man - that man can't see his own corruption. He doesn't even know his current condition. He is fully unaware at the gravity of the horrifying dreadfulness he is in.

3. Man loves the Devil(Aware or unaware). -  But the real problem lies here, Man is not kicking and screaming - though he is imprisoned by sin and held tightly by the devil. Man's heart is so corrupted by sin that he even loves his terrifying condition! He loves to be inside the Prison Bars of Sin - he loves to be held tightly by the devil (aware or unaware). The pivotal point is here, because even if the prison door is opened, and the devil defeated, man will still not go out - and even if man is to be dragged out, he will still rush back to that prison. Man's heart is the strongest enemy!

WHAT DID GOD DO?

First, He BROKE the Prison Bars of Sin!

“But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.”Rom 6:22

 “Therefore if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.”John 8:36

“Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.”Rom 6:18 

Second, He overcame, and bound the devil OUT!
“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his dwelling, his goods are in peace. But when one stronger than he comes, he overcomes him. He takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and he distributes his arms.”Luke 11:21-22

"And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." Colossians 2:15


Lastly, HE CHANGED THE HUMAN HEART!!
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36:26

“The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you may love HIM with all your heart and soul and so you may live!”
Deuteronomy 30:6

“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.”
Titus 2:14

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Prayer:
Father, we thank you deeply, because you loved us so much - that you did not leave us on our own freewill. If you hadn't changed our hearts - we wouldn't have chosen you, we would still be lovers of sin, lovers of the world and still be children of the devil. But because of your unfailing love, you rescued us from sin, the devil and from our very own hearts. Oh how can we ever repay you? This is the least thing we can do, to fill our hearts always with thanks giving, and to live a life that reflects your grace. Thank you for your love Lord!

(Sing with me brethren!)

My chains are gone! I've been set free!

My God my Savior - He ransomed me!

And Like a flood, His mercy rains!

Unending love - Amazing GRACE!

Biblical References:
1)Rom7:14,John8:34,Rom3:9,Rom6:16, Gen6:5, Rom3:9-12,Rom8:8,Matt7:18,Psalms51:5,Isaiah48:9-11...... 2)John8:34,2Tim2:25-26,2Cor4:4,Phil3:19,1Cor2:14,1Cor1:18,John8:43,Eph4:18,Rom1:21-31.....
3) John3:19-20, Jer17:9,Rom8:8,2Cor4:4,Eph4:18

Common Misconception about John 3:16

This is from D.A. Carson...

"...God so loved the world that he gave his Son (John 3:16). I know that some try to take kosmos ("world") here to refer to the elect. But that really will not do. All the evidence of the usage of the word in John's Gospel is against the suggestion. True, world in John does not so much refer to bigness as to badness. In John's vocabulary, world is primarily the moral order in willful and culpable rebellion against God. In John 3:16 God's love in sending the Lord Jesus is to be admired not because it is extended to so big a thing as the world, but to so bad a thing; not to so many people, as to such wicked people. Nevertheless elsewhere John can speak of "the whole world" (1 John 2:2), thus bringing bigness and badness together. More importantly, in Johannine theology the disciples themselves once belonged to the world but were drawn out of it (e.g., John 15:19). On this axis, God's love for the world cannot be collapsed into his love for the elect. The same lesson is learned from many passages and themes in Scripture. However much God stands in judgment over the world, he also presents himself as the God who invites and commands all human beings to repent. He orders his people to carry the Gospel to the farthest corner of the world, proclaiming it to men and women everywhere. To rebels the sovereign Lord calls out, As surely as I live ... I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel? - Ezek. 33:11"
(D.A. Carson, Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God)




 This is from John Piper...

How many of you have ever in your life at one time or another learned John 3:16 by heart? One of the reasons this verse is so widely memorized and so deeply loved is that it is such a remarkably full summary of the gospel.
The Four “D’s” of the Gospel
I am dividing it into four parts that make a natural presentation of the gospel. Four “D’s.”

1. The first “D.” The verse talks about the danger that we are in without Christ—” . . . that we might not perish.” All human beings are in danger of perishing, which is not merely dying, but is the opposite of eternal life. Eternal perishing.
2. The second “D.” The verse talks about the design of God to rescue us from perishing, namely, the design of love. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.” It’s the love of God giving his Son in incarnation and death that rescues us from perishing.
3. The third “D.” The verse talks about the duty that we must fulfill if we are going to be a part of the love of God in rescuing sinners from perishing. The duty is faith, or trust, or believing in the Son that God sends. ” . . . that whoever believes on him might not perish.”
4. Finally, the fourth “D.” The verse talks about the destiny of those who believe, eternal life. ” . . . that whoever believes on him might not perish, but have eternal life.”

Not everything important is mentioned in this verse (the glory of God; election, calling, regeneration, justification, sanctification, the atoning death of Christ, etc.), but what is here is so basic and so precious and so powerful in its straightforwardness that not many verses are more important as summaries of the gospel.

1. The danger: perishing.
2. The design: love.
3. The duty: faith.
4. The destiny: eternal life.

Does God love All men?

 Does God love all men?

No and "Yes?"....

     No, He does not love all men if we equate this "LOVE" with "All-Encompassing, Eternal, Electing, Saving Love"... This LOVE is only directed towards The Spiritual Israel/The Church/His Chosen Ones/His Elect, that before the foundation of the world, He LOVED them, elected them, given them to His Son, died for them, regenerated them, transformed their hearts, justified them, declared them perfect and blameless, sanctified them, molding them in the Image of Jesus Christ and would someday glorify them, show them the glory with which the Son had with the Father before all creation(John 17:1-26, Amos 3:2, Eph 5:25, 1John 4:9-10, Eph 1:4-13, Hebrews 12:6-8).

     Yes, if we mean love only in a restricted sense that He is long-suffering to the perishing. He is "loving" to them only in a much general term which equates to His kindness towards wicked men, that He sends them rain, sun, air, laughter, affections, friendship, technology, bread and all daily life-necessities when they supposedly deserve Quick-Sudden-Condemnation. This kind of love is directed to every human being that has ever lived, believer or non-believer, this is often called "Divine Providence". He even sends them the Gospel call to somehow restrain them from sin.(Matt 5:45, Luke 6:35, 1Tim 4:2, John 3:16).

     God truly hate unrepentant sinners who would go to Hell (Psalms 5:5, Psalms 7:11), but God is kind and long-suffering towards them still (Matt5:45,Luke6:35). And there is no conflict between God's hatred and kindness for them. Oh let's marvel at the complexity of God's Kindness and Hatred!

Let's meditate on the prayer of Jesus:

"I'm not praying for the world. I only pray for those whom You have given Me for they were always Yours. "

John 17:9