Believe Right!

Believer, John 3:16 isn't popular by coincidence. Christ says: " ...whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." This is the message of the cross - Christ lifted up on the cross for our salvation - but many try to add terms and conditions to it. The Message is illogical to many: "For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18. Romans 10 tells us what our salvation in Christ entails: 9 "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." Believer, believing in Jesus entails believing and confessing Jesus ...

Believers, Luke's account of the gospel (in chapters 14 and 15) shows us how three groups of people - the "Pharisees," the "Multitude" and the "Tax Collectors and Sinners" - saw our Lord Jesus Christ. These three groups can be compared to different kinds of Christians today! Jesus loves and came to save all! GROUP 1 - The Pharisees, who saw Jesus as competition for their high positions. In Chapter 14, the Pharisees invited Jesus to dine with them on the Sabbath day. They watched Him closely as He went in, trying to find fault with Him (Grace-personified) as usual. As Jesus went in, He saw a man afflicted with dropsy. Jesus knew that the Pharisees were going to accuse Him of healing on a Sabbath day when working is prohibited. So He asked them: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" But they kept silent. Jesus healed the man (freely, didn't ask him to go and keep the Law, fast or sow seed first!) and He let him go. The Pharisee...

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing who misinterpreted Romans 6:1- "What should we say then? Should we keep on sinning so that God’s grace can increase?" Aka " Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound?" Believer, beware of satanic ministers who keep you focused on what YOU must do in order to be saved (e.g. fasting, sowing seed, forgiving others, measuring your righteousness by the Ten Commandments) and not what CHRIST has done. These wolves in sheep's clothing know that this is how to get the flock cut off from Christ: "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace." Galatians 5:14. They know that this is how to keep you devourable and locked down in a cycle of sin: "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under Grace." Romans 6:14. Sin has dominion over those who are trying t...

Believer, Christ said to His disciples in John 16: 23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 25 “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” "In that day" is AFTER our Saviour's resurrection. And why did God raise Christ from the dead? See why in Romans 4:25- "who was delivered up because of our offences,...

Believers, beware of teachers of religious law in the church and religious churchgoers who teach that helpless sinners who are looking for Salvation can face judgment or die in Jesus' presence if they do not do certain things by their own power. In the gospels, no sinner ever got what they deserved or died in Jesus' presence. He saved and is still saving hopeless, helpless sinners from judgment. He FREELY gives life to all who come to Him for Salvation. The story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-12) is a fantastic illustration of what happens when the helpless sinner who is faced with judgment meets Christ. Jesus did not tell her to first go and fast, undergo "deliverance" or make vows to be good going forward first before He saved her from the judgment that had been passed on her according to the law. He saved her from death. The wages of sin, all sin, is death. It doesn't matter whether the sinner stole a pin or stole an elephant.This is why the la...

I watched the movie "The Lion King" when I was a kid back in the 90s. I saw it showing on TV a few years ago and watched it again with my kids - they'd rather play Fortnite:) It wasn't until this morning that I realised that the movie is a picture of our salvation in Christ Jesus- how the devil accuses with the aim of placing the burden of guilt and condemnation on children of the King so he can reign over our inheritance and how a rightful king cannot reign unless that burden is removed. Scar had a somewhat legal basis for accusing Simba: Mufasa did die in his bid save Simba, even though Scar orchestrated the entire incident. This is a picture of Satan orchestrating temptation. As it was with Simba who agreed to play a game with Scar without first telling his Father about it, confident in himself, Satan's temptations and subsequent accusation of guilt for what he tempts one to do is successful only on those who trust in themselves and rely on their own unde...