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SIX SIMPLE SECRETS TO STUDY THE BIBLE
(Part IV)
The fourth secret is timing. Ephesians 5:15-16 gives us the following advice: "See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." There is much waste of time, lots of light and frivolous use of time, as if it were an unlimited, renewable resource, but it is not. Every day you have less time than the previous day. How long you have left, how can afford to lose things without eternal value? The fool does not look like go and spend the time, not use it. The sage considers how to use time well, and discipline to use it. Friend, you and I choose to be wise or foolish. This has many applications, but here we talk about the time you need to study the Bible, because it is essential to have time to study. What little attention is paid to this secret! You can not study the Bible in his spare time, or leisure, and study the Bible is not for the idle. What we are going to cheat? It's work, and requires the exclusive focus for a period of time you spend studying completely. Here meat is often accused, we do not like to sit down and dedicate the work to study. Better to say that you do not like our meat because Ecclesiastes 12:12 says that "much study is weariness of the flesh" . Fatigue does not say that the spirit but the flesh. The body gets tired of sitting, and the mind to concentrate and think well. As a result, instead of persisting in school, we usually get up or distracted by anything. That's why some people find it easier to make crafts, take a walk, hand out leaflets, travel for visits, or almost anything except sit and study a couple of hours without leaving your desk. But studying takes time, and there are no good shortcuts. A little time spent studying means little study and little understanding achieved. A person who is easy to talk, you can cover the shallowness of his studies with a monologue of comments and interesting anecdotes. Maybe you think of comments on the fly and can keep talking, but has no knowledge that result from having studied as it should, because he has not done. And how little study, some are satisfied!
However, if you go looking for gold, you can not do it in five minutes or half an hour. At this time one can pick flowers, but can not extract gold. The study of the Bible is true. There are things as basic observations, truths, and precepts that we can see, appreciate and collect in a short time, they're like some "flowers" spiritually speaking. They are there on the surface, the sight and reach of almost everyone. But God designed the Bible so that other discoveries, truths, precepts, lessons for our lives that are like jewels and precious metals to be mine. You can not make these treasures at random, or looking slightly out of time and effort. As the miner must work hard and sweat to get the gold and silver, so it is with the study of the Bible. For those who have difficulty remain seated, almost design a study with a seat belt does not open for a predetermined time. Maybe then they learn the discipline to sit and applied to the task of studying!
And speaking of time, we must recognize that time must be devoted exclusively to the Bible. You can not study the Bible and watching TV. May not even have a TV, because time-wasting. There was life before television and there's life after her too. If you do, you know what it takes, throw it away or sell it and buy the books you need to study the Bible. Nor can study the Bible and listen radio, or be leafing through a newspaper or a magazine. You have to remove these things from the place where you spend studying the Bible. You can not study the Bible well if you get up every five minutes to talk by telephone or other things. We must prepare the time to study without interruptions or distractions if possible. And some people do, to sit down to study, they begin to clean or organize the desk or across the room. No, no, if you go to school, I repeat, disciplínate to study and nothing else. Otherwise you're wasting time and fooling yourself, because that is not to study. (to be continued, dv)
of BOOK DIVINE WORD BELOVED, by Carlos Thomas Knott
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Where Is Your Heart ?
Text: Matthew 6:19-23 Christ warns against laying up treasures on earth. A matter of living for this life or the coming kingdom. Christ says first the advantages of transferring our treasure to heaven, where neither hinder nor thieves, nor rust nor moth. Then, touch the heart of the matter, that is, the human heart. States: "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (6:21). The Lord wants our heart. Do not want us to have double vision, with eyes on the treasures in heaven and earthly at the same time (6:22-23). That would prevent us from seeing anything clearly. He does not want to work for two masters. This would be unsatisfactory to both a master to another. We can not live for the world and heaven. We can not serve God and money.
Note that the two prohibitions have to do with sight. We can make justice to be seen of men, to win glory, or we can do it secretly, trusting in our Father which seeth in secret so that He rewards us openly. So we must ask where are wearing our eyes - in earthly or heavenly treasures. Have we tried to focus on both the result of double vision? Our eyes symbolize our ambitions and motivations - where we focus. The true follower of Christ say, has its eyes on the heavenly reward. The man with double vision is dark (6:23). It is a false disciple.
AW Wilson, from his book Matthew's Messiah ("The Matthew Messiah "), pg. 92
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"THE GOD FOFO"
Nicholas Van Hoffman wrote a series of articles on "The God FOFO" of our times. Read it, friend, two or three times, and perhaps cry and indignant to read how you talk about the gross misrepresentation that make Santa Deity. Hoffman says
"God has appeared Fofo millionaires in golf. Appears to politicians when they cut ties to open public buildings, and clergy when they make the invocation on TV for the national convention of the Republicans or the Democrats. Spongy God's presence is palpable during the "Week of Brotherhood" and when the Rotary (civic association) meet. Inanimate is the deity to which he referred to former President Carter (USA) when he said that peace could be realized in the Middle East because the President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Israel, both worshiped the Great Being Fofo .
The God Fofo has almost no theology, because it's made of something like divine meal. Spongy God has no particular creed or articles of faith, nothing that would make it difficult to believers and unbelievers both bowed their heads reverently when he announces that Reverend, Rabbi, Father, Mufti, or whatever will lead us in a prayer never hurt anyone, because this god of meetings and public events is not a jealous god. Although you can invoke to start a convention of harlots, and he or she will not be offended. God
Rotary, Optimist God ... the great God is Lord of the ritual Fofo secular, forms necessary but hypocritical procedures and protocols to appease the divisive and contentious. God is a god helpful Fofo, whose laws are not written in stone but in sand, and are open to be modified, qualified and void. It is a surrender to god you look good, makes provision for all, declare all holy wars and all the sacred peace. "
"God has appeared Fofo millionaires in golf. Appears to politicians when they cut ties to open public buildings, and clergy when they make the invocation on TV for the national convention of the Republicans or the Democrats. Spongy God's presence is palpable during the "Week of Brotherhood" and when the Rotary (civic association) meet. Inanimate is the deity to which he referred to former President Carter (USA) when he said that peace could be realized in the Middle East because the President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Israel, both worshiped the Great Being Fofo .
The God Fofo has almost no theology, because it's made of something like divine meal. Spongy God has no particular creed or articles of faith, nothing that would make it difficult to believers and unbelievers both bowed their heads reverently when he announces that Reverend, Rabbi, Father, Mufti, or whatever will lead us in a prayer never hurt anyone, because this god of meetings and public events is not a jealous god. Although you can invoke to start a convention of harlots, and he or she will not be offended. God
Rotary, Optimist God ... the great God is Lord of the ritual Fofo secular, forms necessary but hypocritical procedures and protocols to appease the divisive and contentious. God is a god helpful Fofo, whose laws are not written in stone but in sand, and are open to be modified, qualified and void. It is a surrender to god you look good, makes provision for all, declare all holy wars and all the sacred peace. "
extract of the treaty: "Be angry, do not sin" by Leonard Ravenhill
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SURVEY TO THE BIBLE
According to the Word of God:
1. Who is the only Savior?
"Be it known to you all, and all the people of Israel, who in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands before you healthy presence. This is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the capstone. And there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given among men, we must be saved. " (Acts 4:10-12)
2. Who can save even the greatest sinners?
faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. " (1 Timothy 1:15)
3. Who is the only mediator between God and men?
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, to which he testified in due time." (1 Timothy 2 :5-6)
4. Who is the only road that leads to the presence of God the Father?
"Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
5. Who is the refuge of sinners?
"And one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, being in the same sentence? We, indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this done nothing wrong. And he said unto Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Then Jesus said, Verily I tell you today will be with me in paradise ". (Luke 23:39-43)
6. Who is the only basis?
" No one can put other basis than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. " (1 Corinthians 3:11)
7. Who is the Advocate of the Christian who has sinned?
" My little children, these things I write to you from sin, and if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. " (1 John 2:1)
8. Who is the Relief of those who are tempted?
" For because he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to help the that are tempted. " (Hebrews 2:18)
9. Who is the Hope of God's people?
" Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ our hope. " (1 Timothy 1:1)
10. Who is the Comforter of the afflicted?
" Come unto me all ye that labor and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest for your souls For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. " (Matthew 11:28-30)
11. Who can satisfy the human soul?
"Jesus said: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst" . (John 6:35)
1. Who is the only Savior?
"Be it known to you all, and all the people of Israel, who in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands before you healthy presence. This is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the capstone. And there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given among men, we must be saved. " (Acts 4:10-12)
2. Who can save even the greatest sinners?
faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. " (1 Timothy 1:15)
3. Who is the only mediator between God and men?
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, to which he testified in due time." (1 Timothy 2 :5-6)
4. Who is the only road that leads to the presence of God the Father?
"Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
5. Who is the refuge of sinners?
"And one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, being in the same sentence? We, indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this done nothing wrong. And he said unto Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Then Jesus said, Verily I tell you today will be with me in paradise ". (Luke 23:39-43)
6. Who is the only basis?
" No one can put other basis than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. " (1 Corinthians 3:11)
7. Who is the Advocate of the Christian who has sinned?
" My little children, these things I write to you from sin, and if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. " (1 John 2:1)
8. Who is the Relief of those who are tempted?
" For because he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to help the that are tempted. " (Hebrews 2:18)
9. Who is the Hope of God's people?
" Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ our hope. " (1 Timothy 1:1)
10. Who is the Comforter of the afflicted?
" Come unto me all ye that labor and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest for your souls For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. " (Matthew 11:28-30)
11. Who can satisfy the human soul?
"Jesus said: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst" . (John 6:35)
thanks to Brother Benedict L. Alonso in Valencia for sending this survey
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ALL OR NADA
(Part III)
The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the believers living in Rome . Consider what he says there about this issue - look it up in Romans 6:1-23. These comments were written to warn about an error. It is the mistake of believing that if we sin and God is forgiving, this is more for the glory of God so was manifest more mercy and grace. Paul says: "What shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? No way. For those who have died to sin, how we live in it? ... So count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Not therefore reign, sin in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness ... For sin shall not have dominion over you ... But thanks to God that though were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered, and free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness ... But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end eternal life. For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. "
Later, in Romans 8:12-14, the apostle says doctrinally:
"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if by the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live, for all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. "
Gypsy Smith, a great evangelist of the last century, said this about the absolute necessity of repentance and what it means:
"If you've been trying to live a life Christian, but she has no joy, no victory, no song - I know why. Is that you never regret. You started poorly, giving a false step. "
"Repentance is one of the most neglected teachings of the New Testament, and the least popular. People do not like being called to repentance, and do not hear much preaching. However, the Bible is a manual of repentance. The demand, supports, and backs it up so that this is not acceptable substitutes. "
"More than sixty times the Scriptures insist on repentance, and all the letters were written to teach men how to repent, so that no one need be confused about what it means repentance , but there are crowds of confused people. "
"A false repentance means a false Christian life. And the reason why many of those who attend evangelical churches have not really neither joy nor peace in the Lord is because they have not obeyed the Scriptures - ' Repent and believe the gospel' (Mark 1:15). "
"What does it mean to repent? It is turning from sin to God repent is as if cogieras by the hair of his head and violently uprooted that curses you. Pride, lust, self-righteousness, hypocrisy, duplicity - the sin in your life enslaves you - throw it out! Kill him, and everything else in your life that is not right will leave with their tails between their legs like a dog punished. "
"So what is repentance? It is the moral response of the soul awakens to the call of God, the hope of the soul. Have you repented? Are you out of your sins to God? "
Gypsy Smith As the preacher said, there is usually at least a sin that has enslaved you. What is this sin that drags you to hell, dear reader? Is dishonesty, envy, greed, deceit, fornication, infidelity, immodesty or other sexual sins, lust, pride, hypocrisy, double face, the claim, impatience, slander, swearing and blaspheming, lying either words or acts, thefts, the drunkenness, drugs or other harmful things to your body and your morals, evil thoughts, the love of money, love of comfort, the pleasures or material goods? Makes this wicked thing to the Lord, because if not, then you die and your destruction!
When this sin that haunts you has been surrendered to God in repentance, the rest can be delivered with less struggle. It is God who will complete work feedback in your life, but this step of repentance it's your turn. The evangelist RATorrey said
"Nobody can be saved unless born again by the power of the Spirit of God. In John 3:7 Jesus says: "Ye must be born again" . This requirement is absolute and indispensable - "must be born again" . Can be orthodox in terms of all other Christian doctrines and still be a soul eternally lost. You have to be changed, really, back in the depths of your being. "
"When submitting Christ your heart He will completely transform you in a moment. No matter how worldly or sinful, or how hard you've been. Anyone who today opens his heart to let Jesus Christ come to rule and reign, it will become a new creature in a moment, by God! "
mentioned before that the work of Regeneration in our hearts and minds is something that God makes. You might ask: How can we have something to do with the regeneration of our lives if it is God who does the work of regeneration? Let me explain what the Bible says about how the new birth is performed.
The apostle John spoke well of the new birth: "which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1:13). Throughout the New Testament will find sentences like this, who speak of being born of God, born of the Spirit, born of Him, etc. The apostle Peter
more light shed on this subject when he said: "Being born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever" (1 Peter 1 : 23). The apostle Paul in his epistle to the Ephesians, speaks of "sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Ephesians 6:17). In many other texts in the New Testament we see that the Word of God has an important role in our conversion. This does not contradict the texts say that we are born of God, etc, because it is God who does the work, but does it through His Word. He uses the truth of His Word to convict the sinner of his sin, and to convince him that all he hopes is a terrible trial. Then, He uses His Word to communicate His love for the sinner and that you repent and believe the gospel, will be forgiven through His Son Jesus Christ who died instead the sinner.
addition of the words that God uses also often God uses the circumstances of a providential way to awaken the sinner about his condition and his great need. Circumstances may be an illness, accident or death of a friend, neighbor or relative. God uses different media to convince us of our need to settle accounts with him
Paul speaks of how she was in travail about some people needing born again. Yes, God is limited to use us, human beings, to bring His Word to one another. But it is God who blesses His Word and makes it through the heart and mind of the sinner.
So with all this you can understand a little better about how God is working for the new birth takes place in your life. But you can also see that he has left the decision in your hands. God will intercede and persuade, and sometimes shocking ways used to make you see how short and uncertain that it is your life and how you're close to face with Him and His trial, unless you repent. Then, when you are convinced God will accept from you only unconditional surrender. This is your party.
God told the Israelites: "and seek me and find me, search for Me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). This is the absolute and unconditional surrender to God demands. He puts the condition is that you give all your heart. Withhold not tolerate even a dark corner for you or for your sin. Anything less than "all" means you continue in rebellion, with the reins in your hands.
Once when talking with a group of people about this issue, a true Christian friend told me: "When I became simply trusted Christ for forgiveness. I knew nothing about the need for repentance and submission to God. But by faith in Him I know I'm born again, and I am a new person. "
My answer was: "I understand, because it is so in many cases. But the moment that you surrender to Christ for forgiveness, you realize that you had disliked and your desire, even without express It was nice and pay your heart. The attitude of your heart was right, surrender without conditions, without reservations, but nobody talked about the Lordship of Christ. is the attitude of heart that God seeks, and because of this God forgave you and Queen in your life. "
"However, this is not true for those who only believe and ask forgiveness through Christ. You were honest with God, you knew it or not, but there are many who really rely on "faith in Christ" while still living in rebellion against God. These are the people that need to be awakened about his lost condition. "
might ask: "But what of the Christian who realizes that he has been doing something wrong, but did not consider it as bad before? Would you say that someone like that is not a Christian because he has been living in sin? "
No, because that person had no knowledge of this sin, that is, that though sin was not something done as a conscious rebellion. God says: "and who knows to do good, and it does it is sin" (Stg.4: 17). God demands a surrendered heart. At the time to believe and give your heart to the Lord by faith and the person becomes born again. So begins a new life and Christian growth and learning with our reading of the Word of God and through other means used to nurture your spirit and move forward.
continue, dv in the following
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