Monday, December 6, 2010
Miracles in Nigeria 13 - Raising the Dead
I believe this is a real resurrection from the dead. I've been in Africa and have looked into the eyes of a dead body and they are lifeless like his were. I've been a part of God raising a dead baby in the womb from the dead in Uganda. Jesus is still raising the dead today where His people have faith. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Pastor Steve
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
"The Anatomy of a Salvation Message" Part 4 by Pastor Steve
The conclusion
PREACHER!!!, what type of message would you preach if you were preaching to future martyrs or persecuted Christians. Would it be soft and nice with lots of fuzzy promises of a wonderful life here on earth with all they could ever ask for, never telling them the truth of all Jesus asks of them to be His true disciple, never confronting their sin, hypocrisy or lukewarmness? Are you preaching with any type of fire so as to burn into the heart of the people the real truth about God to make sure if they would die today they would have a heart prepared to meet God? Preacher will you be able to say what Paul said when you stand before God at the Judgement Seat of Christ?
Acts 20: 25 “And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.
Galatians 1:7 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
James 3:1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
Hard stuff? Yes! It has to be said this hard truth because the time will come when we might be or those we are preaching to might be in their shoes and what will we all stand on then? The TRUTH or sinking sand?
Listen to what Oswald J Smith said in his book ""The Revival We Need" written in the 1920's but is still representative of what is mostly preached today in the 21st Century Church.
In the modern campaign the evangelist calls upon people to accept Christ, and rightly so. But oh, that we could hear sinners calling upon Christ to accept them! People take salvation today in such a cold, formal, matter-of-fact, business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God an honor in condescending to receive His offer of Redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin absent; nor is there any sign of penitence and contrition. They look upon it as a manly thing to do. But oh, if there were conviction! if they came with hearts bowed down, yea! broken and contrite, came with the cry of the guilt-laden soul: "God be merciful to me a sinner!"--came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor: "What must I do to be saved ?"--what converts they would be! But in our Twentieth Century Evangelism such is not the case. Men are urged to be saved before they know they are lost, to believe without being convicted of their need. The fruit is picked before it is ripe, and of course the work is bound to come undone. If we are to get Holy Spirit Fruit, God must prepare the ground, the Holy Spirit must convict of sin before men can truly believe. It is right to tell people to believe when God has done His work in their hearts, but first they must feel their need. Let us wait until the Spirit of God has done His part before we say: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Let us first see the signs of conviction as in the case of the Philippian jailor. And when their anguish is so deep that they are forced to cry aloud: "What must I do to be saved ?" then we will know that they are ready to be exhorted to trust and exercise faith in Christ, but not until then. "There is another Gospel, too popular in the present day, which seems to exclude conviction of sin and repentance from the scheme of Salvation; which demands from the sinner a mere intellectual assent to the fact of his guilt and sinfulness, and a like intellectual assent to the fact and sufficiency of Christ's atonement; and such assent yielded, tells him to go in peace, and to he happy in the assurance that the Lord Jesus has made all right between his soul and God; thus crying peace, peace, when there is no peace. "Flimsy and false conversions of this sort may be one reason why so many who assume the Christian profession dishonor God and bring reproach on the church by their inconsistent lives, and by their ultimate relapse into worldliness and sin. The whole counsel of God must be declared. 'By the law is the knowledge of sin.' Sin must be felt before it can be mourned. Sinners must sorrow before they can be comforted. True conversions are the great want of the times. Conversions such as were common once, and shall be again, when the church shakes off her lethargy, takes hold upon God's strength, and brings down the ancient power. Then, as of old, sinners will quail before the terror of the Lord."--J. H. Lord.
I suggest every preacher read this book as well as "Passion For Souls" if you can find a copy. "The Revival We Need" www.gospeltruth.net/OJSmith/revival_we_needch5.htm
We must preach the fullness of the truth of whole counsel of God or stand before God and be judged for all those that weren't saved or fell away because of our weak message and half truths. Are you innocent of the blood of all those you have preached to because you have told them the real truth about what a real disciple looks like and all Jesus will ask of them? My brother and sister if we or those we disciple aren't taking up our cross daily and denying themselves abstaining from sin and the lusts of this world and walking in holiness by the grace of God now, we nor our disciples surly won't stand up to torture or death. We need to prepare a generation to meet Jesus. Some might meet Him in the air while coming up and out of the grave alive and some might meet Him through spilling their blood as a martyr. Are they ready to love not their lives unto death? (Revelation 12:11)
Revelation 6:9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.
We must all now preach a salvation message, a Gospel and a Jesus that people will give their life for so if they might possibly be slain for the word of God they will have a testimony that will hold up against Satan himself.
Do You Want to Be Saved?
1 John 1:8 AMP If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we
are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth
[which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our
hearts]. 9 If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess
our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and
promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and
[continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything
not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].
Romans 10:8 But what does it say? The Word (God's message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach,
9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.11 The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.
If your now willing to totally turn from our old life to follow Jesus with all your heart, a decision made in your mind with corresponding actions (See: Matthew 3:8), admit and confess you're a sinner and have sinned against God, believe that Jesus is the only way to receive salvation from the penalty of that sin, your willing for Him to be Lord by allowing your whole life to belong to Him as your Owner and Master (See: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 & 2 Corinthians 5:14-15) in full control with the power to make all decisions for your life and He'll be the possesser and disposer of everything in your life and you will spend the rest of your life adhering to, trusting in, and relying on this truth, the Word of God and Jesus, then your ready to be saved.
Now just talk to God. He’s a real Person and ready and willing to listen to you speak to Him. He might even speak back. Be real and as honest as possible telling Him all that is on your heart confessing your sinfulness to Him and of your need for Him and freely give Him your life and freely receive His life in exchange.
This is only the beginning and there is some much more to learn and a relationship to develop with a living God who gave His life for you.
The main reason He saved you is not just to keep you from His wrath and Hell even those are really great. He saved you for the purpose of establishing and personal and real relationship with you as a son and a daughter and possibly as a close and trusted friend in the years to come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
If you have been saved then you are a whole new person on the inside that never existed before and will even be changing on the outside in speech and action as you grow and mature in your walk and relationship with God. Through Jesus Christ you've been brought back to God and you're an ambassador for Him now. So get to know Him so you can love Him for who He rally is and truly represent Him as He really is in His fullness to others.
Romans 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
No man but only the Holy Spirit can convince you that you are saved
Some Closing Wisdom For the New Disciples
I want to give you this wisdom from over 20 years of personal experience of by the grace of God, attempting to walk with Jesus as a very weak and feeble man and in life and ministry experiencing almost every crazy thing imaginable that can could happen to a Christian and minister in the Western World but cannot be compared to my brothers and sisters who suffer for their faith every day in many other nations. I'm not even fit to tie their shoes.
No matter how hard and difficult life gets, if it seems like the world, life and the Devil are kicking your brains in and it seems as if nothing God said in happening especially if you don't understand what God is doing through it all then welcome to earth and real Christianity. I can tell you from years of personal experience that there is only one way to stand and have joy in the most difficult of times. It has taken me over 20 long years to learn all of these and stand on them in the most difficult of times.
God will never leave you nor forsake you. God will not let you be tempted beyond what yo can stand. God cannot lie and His word will never ever fail.
YOU CAN HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. HE WILL TURN ALL THINGS AROUND FOR GOOD IF YOU LOVE HIM AND ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. YOU HAVE AUTHORITY OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE DEVIL THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND THE POWER TO OVERCOME ALL SIN AND THE WORLD.
Get a good Bible of which I recommend the NKJV Spirit Filled Life Bible or at least a NKJV Bible.
And lastly find a good Spirit filled Christian fellowship to attend every week to be discipled in God.
Please never forget, "IT"S ALL ABOUT JESUS AND HIS LOVE FOR US"
Watch video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14tZRDdwggU
Be Blessed!
Pastor Steve
Part 3 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-3-by.html
Part 2 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/11/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-2-by.html
Part 1 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/11/anatomy-of-salvation-message-by-pastor.html
PREACHER!!!, what type of message would you preach if you were preaching to future martyrs or persecuted Christians. Would it be soft and nice with lots of fuzzy promises of a wonderful life here on earth with all they could ever ask for, never telling them the truth of all Jesus asks of them to be His true disciple, never confronting their sin, hypocrisy or lukewarmness? Are you preaching with any type of fire so as to burn into the heart of the people the real truth about God to make sure if they would die today they would have a heart prepared to meet God? Preacher will you be able to say what Paul said when you stand before God at the Judgement Seat of Christ?
Acts 20: 25 “And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.
Galatians 1:7 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
James 3:1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
Hard stuff? Yes! It has to be said this hard truth because the time will come when we might be or those we are preaching to might be in their shoes and what will we all stand on then? The TRUTH or sinking sand?
Listen to what Oswald J Smith said in his book ""The Revival We Need" written in the 1920's but is still representative of what is mostly preached today in the 21st Century Church.
In the modern campaign the evangelist calls upon people to accept Christ, and rightly so. But oh, that we could hear sinners calling upon Christ to accept them! People take salvation today in such a cold, formal, matter-of-fact, business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God an honor in condescending to receive His offer of Redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin absent; nor is there any sign of penitence and contrition. They look upon it as a manly thing to do. But oh, if there were conviction! if they came with hearts bowed down, yea! broken and contrite, came with the cry of the guilt-laden soul: "God be merciful to me a sinner!"--came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor: "What must I do to be saved ?"--what converts they would be! But in our Twentieth Century Evangelism such is not the case. Men are urged to be saved before they know they are lost, to believe without being convicted of their need. The fruit is picked before it is ripe, and of course the work is bound to come undone. If we are to get Holy Spirit Fruit, God must prepare the ground, the Holy Spirit must convict of sin before men can truly believe. It is right to tell people to believe when God has done His work in their hearts, but first they must feel their need. Let us wait until the Spirit of God has done His part before we say: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Let us first see the signs of conviction as in the case of the Philippian jailor. And when their anguish is so deep that they are forced to cry aloud: "What must I do to be saved ?" then we will know that they are ready to be exhorted to trust and exercise faith in Christ, but not until then. "There is another Gospel, too popular in the present day, which seems to exclude conviction of sin and repentance from the scheme of Salvation; which demands from the sinner a mere intellectual assent to the fact of his guilt and sinfulness, and a like intellectual assent to the fact and sufficiency of Christ's atonement; and such assent yielded, tells him to go in peace, and to he happy in the assurance that the Lord Jesus has made all right between his soul and God; thus crying peace, peace, when there is no peace. "Flimsy and false conversions of this sort may be one reason why so many who assume the Christian profession dishonor God and bring reproach on the church by their inconsistent lives, and by their ultimate relapse into worldliness and sin. The whole counsel of God must be declared. 'By the law is the knowledge of sin.' Sin must be felt before it can be mourned. Sinners must sorrow before they can be comforted. True conversions are the great want of the times. Conversions such as were common once, and shall be again, when the church shakes off her lethargy, takes hold upon God's strength, and brings down the ancient power. Then, as of old, sinners will quail before the terror of the Lord."--J. H. Lord.
I suggest every preacher read this book as well as "Passion For Souls" if you can find a copy. "The Revival We Need" www.gospeltruth.net/OJSmith/revival_we_needch5.htm
We must preach the fullness of the truth of whole counsel of God or stand before God and be judged for all those that weren't saved or fell away because of our weak message and half truths. Are you innocent of the blood of all those you have preached to because you have told them the real truth about what a real disciple looks like and all Jesus will ask of them? My brother and sister if we or those we disciple aren't taking up our cross daily and denying themselves abstaining from sin and the lusts of this world and walking in holiness by the grace of God now, we nor our disciples surly won't stand up to torture or death. We need to prepare a generation to meet Jesus. Some might meet Him in the air while coming up and out of the grave alive and some might meet Him through spilling their blood as a martyr. Are they ready to love not their lives unto death? (Revelation 12:11)
Revelation 6:9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.
We must all now preach a salvation message, a Gospel and a Jesus that people will give their life for so if they might possibly be slain for the word of God they will have a testimony that will hold up against Satan himself.
Do You Want to Be Saved?
1 John 1:8 AMP If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we
are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth
[which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our
hearts]. 9 If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess
our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and
promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and
[continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything
not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].
Romans 10:8 But what does it say? The Word (God's message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach,
9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.11 The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.
If your now willing to totally turn from our old life to follow Jesus with all your heart, a decision made in your mind with corresponding actions (See: Matthew 3:8), admit and confess you're a sinner and have sinned against God, believe that Jesus is the only way to receive salvation from the penalty of that sin, your willing for Him to be Lord by allowing your whole life to belong to Him as your Owner and Master (See: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 & 2 Corinthians 5:14-15) in full control with the power to make all decisions for your life and He'll be the possesser and disposer of everything in your life and you will spend the rest of your life adhering to, trusting in, and relying on this truth, the Word of God and Jesus, then your ready to be saved.
Now just talk to God. He’s a real Person and ready and willing to listen to you speak to Him. He might even speak back. Be real and as honest as possible telling Him all that is on your heart confessing your sinfulness to Him and of your need for Him and freely give Him your life and freely receive His life in exchange.
This is only the beginning and there is some much more to learn and a relationship to develop with a living God who gave His life for you.
The main reason He saved you is not just to keep you from His wrath and Hell even those are really great. He saved you for the purpose of establishing and personal and real relationship with you as a son and a daughter and possibly as a close and trusted friend in the years to come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
If you have been saved then you are a whole new person on the inside that never existed before and will even be changing on the outside in speech and action as you grow and mature in your walk and relationship with God. Through Jesus Christ you've been brought back to God and you're an ambassador for Him now. So get to know Him so you can love Him for who He rally is and truly represent Him as He really is in His fullness to others.
Romans 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
No man but only the Holy Spirit can convince you that you are saved
Some Closing Wisdom For the New Disciples
I want to give you this wisdom from over 20 years of personal experience of by the grace of God, attempting to walk with Jesus as a very weak and feeble man and in life and ministry experiencing almost every crazy thing imaginable that can could happen to a Christian and minister in the Western World but cannot be compared to my brothers and sisters who suffer for their faith every day in many other nations. I'm not even fit to tie their shoes.
No matter how hard and difficult life gets, if it seems like the world, life and the Devil are kicking your brains in and it seems as if nothing God said in happening especially if you don't understand what God is doing through it all then welcome to earth and real Christianity. I can tell you from years of personal experience that there is only one way to stand and have joy in the most difficult of times. It has taken me over 20 long years to learn all of these and stand on them in the most difficult of times.
God will never leave you nor forsake you. God will not let you be tempted beyond what yo can stand. God cannot lie and His word will never ever fail.
YOU CAN HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. HE WILL TURN ALL THINGS AROUND FOR GOOD IF YOU LOVE HIM AND ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. YOU HAVE AUTHORITY OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE DEVIL THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND THE POWER TO OVERCOME ALL SIN AND THE WORLD.
Get a good Bible of which I recommend the NKJV Spirit Filled Life Bible or at least a NKJV Bible.
And lastly find a good Spirit filled Christian fellowship to attend every week to be discipled in God.
Please never forget, "IT"S ALL ABOUT JESUS AND HIS LOVE FOR US"
Watch video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14tZRDdwggU
Be Blessed!
Pastor Steve
Part 3 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-3-by.html
Part 2 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/11/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-2-by.html
Part 1 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/11/anatomy-of-salvation-message-by-pastor.html
"The Anatomy of a Salvation Message" Part 3 by Pastor Steve
Ready For Some Good News?
Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his
way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die?
Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all,
And His tender mercies are over all His works.
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He also will hear their cry and save them.
20 The LORD preserves all who love Him,
But all the wicked He will destroy.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count
slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance.
Luke 19:10 for the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) has come to seek and to
save that which was lost.”
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been
done in God.”
Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ
died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet
perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord
John 17:2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Who is this Jesus?
Matthew 3:16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Matthew 20:18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, 19 and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.”
(Read Psalm 22 & Isaiah 53 for more prophecies about Jesus' crucifixion and the eye witness account in John 18-20 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jn%2018-20&version=NKJV)
Watch the Passion of the Christ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Due3iUlaoX4
Galatians 1:4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us
from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgive
ness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Colossians 1:20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself,
by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace
through the blood of His cross.
Philippians 2:6 NLT Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to. 7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
Jesus was and is God’s own Son and Sacrificial Lamb who was sent down from heaven to live and die as a sinless Man on a cross for all of humanity to be saved. He was punished and died in our place for our sins.
God needed a way to free mankind from the bondage of sin, Satan and sins penalty which is eternal separation from God and an eternity in Hell. He needed a pure and holy sacrifice, a sinless sacrifice, a Lamb without spot or blemish which is according to the Old Testament pattern. He had a plan all along even before the foundation of the earth because He is all knowing, Omniscient and knows the beginning from the end.
1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest (Jesus Christ) who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Jesus was tempted by Satan himself and in every way imaginable but didn't sin and completely obeyed God and His Law. All Jesus did fulfilled the requirements of the law on our behalf.
Romans 5:17 CEV Death ruled like a king because Adam had sinned. But that cannot compare with what Jesus Christ has done. God has been so kind to us, and he has accepted us because of Jesus. And so we will live and rule like kings.18Everyone was going to be punished because Adam sinned. But because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life. 19Adam disobeyed God and caused many others to be sinners. But Jesus obeyed him and will make many people acceptable to God.
It's because of Jesus' obedience He was the acceptable sacrifice of all of our sins who would receive Him.
Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Jesus died on the cross, shedding His blood, rose from the dead then went into heaven and presented to God His Father, Himself as a blood sacrifice for all of mankind’s sins.
Mankind’s only way back to God the Father is through Jesus Christ because of His sacrificial death.
John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
John 10:9 I (Jesus Christ) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will
be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through Me.
How Do You Receive This Salvation?
First, “Count the Cost!”
Luke 14:25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and
said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also,
he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and
come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to
build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has
enough to finish it— 33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be
My disciple.
Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,[a] and follow Me. 24 For
whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for
My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole
world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me
and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in
His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.
You don’t make a decision that will effect you the rest of your life hear on earth and for eternity, flippantly. You need to know what God will ask of you. Salvation is a free gift received by faith (Ephesians 2:8) but you have to give up all of your life to receive all of His life. With God there are no gray areas and no half ways. It’s either His way all the way or no way for our own good. Many people want a Savior to deliver them from Hell but few really want a Lord and Master who will rule the rest of their life here on earth even though it’s done all out of love and for our own good. He’s the Creator, Master, Father and God and we are not. Our will has no place in His kingdom accept to do His will. (Matthew 7:21) “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
I've heard that the name Savior is used under 40 times and the name Lord is used over four hundred times in the New Testament. Do you think God is trying to get a point across to us? He’s Lord of all or not at all. It’s just the way it is. He’s God and we’re not.
Remember again what Lord means.
Lord - Greek Lexicon Results for kyrios (Strong's G2962) Putting this in my own very simple words is this is what the Greek meaning of the name Lord means when it is spoken of for those of you who might not know yet what a Lexicon is. That’s fine because you know now.
1) he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord
a) the possessor and disposer of a thing
1) the owner; one who has control of the person, the master
2) in the state: the sovereign, prince, chief, the Roman emperor
b) is a title of honour expressive of respect and reverence, with which servants greet their master
c) this title is given to: God, the Messiah
Another words you must be willing to make Jesus your Lord, Master and the posers and controller of all your life for the rest for your life. If not you will not be saved. He wants and needs total surrender of all your life and will over to Him for your own good so He can do the work in you needed to make you the man or woman of God He desires you to be. He loves us more than we can ever imagine and wants the very best for us and this can only happen with complete and total surrender of all our life and will for the remainder of our life.
Second, You Must Repent and Follow Jesus!
Matthew 4:17 AMP From that time Jesus began to preach, crying out, Repent
(change your mind for the better, heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence
of your past sins), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
19 And He said to them, Come after Me [as disciples--letting Me be your
Guide], follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men!
Hebrews 6:1 AMP...the foundation of repentance and abandonment
of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which
you turned] to God,
By faith which is believing what God has said in His Word you have to turn from your old life and sinful ways to Jesus Christ for the Divine exchange to take place; His life for your life. You give up your life and receive His life. You make a commitment to Him to follow Him and His Word all the days of your life left on earth at any cost and to never look back.
Matthew 10:39 CEV If you try to save your life, you will lose it. But if you give it up for me, you will surely find it.
Luke 9:57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” 61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.” 62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Let me speak for a moment to both the Believer and nonbeliever.
Here Jesus promises the possibility of homelessness, broken relationships, separation and loneliness to follow Him. In the Western World most of us have no clue about such things let alone the persecution, torture and martyrdom happening in other countries to the Church. You couldn't preach a lot of the messages to those people we preach here in the US. They suffer for their faith, go hungry, get kicked out of their homes, are hunted, they run and hid, meet in secret with the looming possibility it might be their last time to gather together and worship God. Go to this web site and see the truth of what happens around the world to Christians; The Voice of the Martyrs http://www.persecution.com/ and order the DVD “Underground Reality, Vietnam” and some of the other DVD's and books and see and read about the truth that few of us know about.
The conclusion and Part 4
http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-4-by.html
Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his
way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die?
Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all,
And His tender mercies are over all His works.
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He also will hear their cry and save them.
20 The LORD preserves all who love Him,
But all the wicked He will destroy.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count
slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance.
Luke 19:10 for the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) has come to seek and to
save that which was lost.”
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been
done in God.”
Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ
died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet
perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord
John 17:2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Who is this Jesus?
Matthew 3:16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Matthew 20:18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, 19 and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.”
(Read Psalm 22 & Isaiah 53 for more prophecies about Jesus' crucifixion and the eye witness account in John 18-20 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jn%2018-20&version=NKJV)
Watch the Passion of the Christ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Due3iUlaoX4
Galatians 1:4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us
from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgive
ness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Colossians 1:20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself,
by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace
through the blood of His cross.
Philippians 2:6 NLT Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to. 7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
Jesus was and is God’s own Son and Sacrificial Lamb who was sent down from heaven to live and die as a sinless Man on a cross for all of humanity to be saved. He was punished and died in our place for our sins.
God needed a way to free mankind from the bondage of sin, Satan and sins penalty which is eternal separation from God and an eternity in Hell. He needed a pure and holy sacrifice, a sinless sacrifice, a Lamb without spot or blemish which is according to the Old Testament pattern. He had a plan all along even before the foundation of the earth because He is all knowing, Omniscient and knows the beginning from the end.
1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest (Jesus Christ) who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Jesus was tempted by Satan himself and in every way imaginable but didn't sin and completely obeyed God and His Law. All Jesus did fulfilled the requirements of the law on our behalf.
Romans 5:17 CEV Death ruled like a king because Adam had sinned. But that cannot compare with what Jesus Christ has done. God has been so kind to us, and he has accepted us because of Jesus. And so we will live and rule like kings.18Everyone was going to be punished because Adam sinned. But because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life. 19Adam disobeyed God and caused many others to be sinners. But Jesus obeyed him and will make many people acceptable to God.
It's because of Jesus' obedience He was the acceptable sacrifice of all of our sins who would receive Him.
Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Jesus died on the cross, shedding His blood, rose from the dead then went into heaven and presented to God His Father, Himself as a blood sacrifice for all of mankind’s sins.
Mankind’s only way back to God the Father is through Jesus Christ because of His sacrificial death.
John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
John 10:9 I (Jesus Christ) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will
be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through Me.
How Do You Receive This Salvation?
First, “Count the Cost!”
Luke 14:25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and
said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also,
he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and
come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to
build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has
enough to finish it— 33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be
My disciple.
Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,[a] and follow Me. 24 For
whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for
My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole
world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me
and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in
His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.
You don’t make a decision that will effect you the rest of your life hear on earth and for eternity, flippantly. You need to know what God will ask of you. Salvation is a free gift received by faith (Ephesians 2:8) but you have to give up all of your life to receive all of His life. With God there are no gray areas and no half ways. It’s either His way all the way or no way for our own good. Many people want a Savior to deliver them from Hell but few really want a Lord and Master who will rule the rest of their life here on earth even though it’s done all out of love and for our own good. He’s the Creator, Master, Father and God and we are not. Our will has no place in His kingdom accept to do His will. (Matthew 7:21) “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
I've heard that the name Savior is used under 40 times and the name Lord is used over four hundred times in the New Testament. Do you think God is trying to get a point across to us? He’s Lord of all or not at all. It’s just the way it is. He’s God and we’re not.
Remember again what Lord means.
Lord - Greek Lexicon Results for kyrios (Strong's G2962) Putting this in my own very simple words is this is what the Greek meaning of the name Lord means when it is spoken of for those of you who might not know yet what a Lexicon is. That’s fine because you know now.
1) he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord
a) the possessor and disposer of a thing
1) the owner; one who has control of the person, the master
2) in the state: the sovereign, prince, chief, the Roman emperor
b) is a title of honour expressive of respect and reverence, with which servants greet their master
c) this title is given to: God, the Messiah
Another words you must be willing to make Jesus your Lord, Master and the posers and controller of all your life for the rest for your life. If not you will not be saved. He wants and needs total surrender of all your life and will over to Him for your own good so He can do the work in you needed to make you the man or woman of God He desires you to be. He loves us more than we can ever imagine and wants the very best for us and this can only happen with complete and total surrender of all our life and will for the remainder of our life.
Second, You Must Repent and Follow Jesus!
Matthew 4:17 AMP From that time Jesus began to preach, crying out, Repent
(change your mind for the better, heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence
of your past sins), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
19 And He said to them, Come after Me [as disciples--letting Me be your
Guide], follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men!
Hebrews 6:1 AMP...the foundation of repentance and abandonment
of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which
you turned] to God,
By faith which is believing what God has said in His Word you have to turn from your old life and sinful ways to Jesus Christ for the Divine exchange to take place; His life for your life. You give up your life and receive His life. You make a commitment to Him to follow Him and His Word all the days of your life left on earth at any cost and to never look back.
Matthew 10:39 CEV If you try to save your life, you will lose it. But if you give it up for me, you will surely find it.
Luke 9:57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” 61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.” 62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Let me speak for a moment to both the Believer and nonbeliever.
Here Jesus promises the possibility of homelessness, broken relationships, separation and loneliness to follow Him. In the Western World most of us have no clue about such things let alone the persecution, torture and martyrdom happening in other countries to the Church. You couldn't preach a lot of the messages to those people we preach here in the US. They suffer for their faith, go hungry, get kicked out of their homes, are hunted, they run and hid, meet in secret with the looming possibility it might be their last time to gather together and worship God. Go to this web site and see the truth of what happens around the world to Christians; The Voice of the Martyrs http://www.persecution.com/ and order the DVD “Underground Reality, Vietnam” and some of the other DVD's and books and see and read about the truth that few of us know about.
The conclusion and Part 4
http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-4-by.html
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