AMEN!
Amen is a word extremely vital to the heart expressing approval so that says. Many congregations could use it more often in their meetings.
The word is found 68 times in the Bible. It is clear from 1 Corinthians 14:15-16, which was used in the meetings of the early church. So we can be sure that the use of the Amen is eminently scriptural.
Not only that, but it is an imperative. The sublime nature of the truths we deal with requires a keen intelligent expression recognition. Ingratitude seem to hear such truths and never show it audibly.
For one who preaches is always prompted his audience say "Amen" at the points of the message that touch sensitive areas for the congregation. This indicates that people are following the message and share your spiritual and emotional exuberance.
is good one to say the Amen. It keeps you involved as an attentive listener and keeps you from becoming apathetic when to wonder.
is also good for those coming from outside the church, they see that Christians are enthusiasts, who enjoy their faith and really believe in what they believe. The use of life and expresses Amen fervor. Their absence speaks of monotony and death.
The Amen is one of the three words of the Bible that are virtually universal. In most languages \u200b\u200bthese words are the same, so you can go almost anywhere and say "Maranatha! Hallelujah! Amen, "and people will understand that you say" The Lord is coming! Praise the Lord! So be it! "
Of course, the word" Amen "should be used with discernment. It would be inappropriate to use it to express excitement at the misfortune, tragedy or sadness.
is a shame that some Christian groups no longer use the Amen because it has abused it in meetings given the extreme emotionalism. Like all good things, we can use it or we can spend. But anyway, we should not deprive us of this biblical practice just because some people use it without understanding. "Amen?
The word is found 68 times in the Bible. It is clear from 1 Corinthians 14:15-16, which was used in the meetings of the early church. So we can be sure that the use of the Amen is eminently scriptural.
Not only that, but it is an imperative. The sublime nature of the truths we deal with requires a keen intelligent expression recognition. Ingratitude seem to hear such truths and never show it audibly.
For one who preaches is always prompted his audience say "Amen" at the points of the message that touch sensitive areas for the congregation. This indicates that people are following the message and share your spiritual and emotional exuberance.
is good one to say the Amen. It keeps you involved as an attentive listener and keeps you from becoming apathetic when to wonder.
is also good for those coming from outside the church, they see that Christians are enthusiasts, who enjoy their faith and really believe in what they believe. The use of life and expresses Amen fervor. Their absence speaks of monotony and death.
The Amen is one of the three words of the Bible that are virtually universal. In most languages \u200b\u200bthese words are the same, so you can go almost anywhere and say "Maranatha! Hallelujah! Amen, "and people will understand that you say" The Lord is coming! Praise the Lord! So be it! "
Of course, the word" Amen "should be used with discernment. It would be inappropriate to use it to express excitement at the misfortune, tragedy or sadness.
is a shame that some Christian groups no longer use the Amen because it has abused it in meetings given the extreme emotionalism. Like all good things, we can use it or we can spend. But anyway, we should not deprive us of this biblical practice just because some people use it without understanding. "Amen?
William MacDonald, day by day, reading for September 22, CLIE
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
COMMUNION WITH THE ETERNAL
This psalm begins with a beautiful statement: " Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation" . When I read such words in the Psalms, saying: "My God, who can speak how are you people?" It is clear the answer. Them only because they were inspired by God. If God guides and teaches us, we can express things like that - not for inspiration obviously - but I mean I talk to know the Lord and in biblical language that pleases the Lord. This is the psalm of the brevity and fragility of human beings, because of sin. The man born as grass and soon disappears. Is rapidly aging and no longer has the ideas or the strength as before.
Moses was about eighty years to write this psalm, and had seen the death of many Israelites in the desert for forty years of punishment. I was impressed by the forty years of carnage for which he had been Israel. He died a generation of unbelievers, sometimes dramatically, sometimes simply because of illness or old age, but all that generation disappeared except Caleb and Joshua. But God was still there and He would be the refuge for the next generation. I wanted to be their God. Is it always is. Therefore it is important to make our short life to walk in communion with Him according to His will, for to do otherwise is to waste life.
The Lord is the best friend we have. It is the eternal refuge of His people, that is, those who trust in Him because only they are His people. He is with us always, and we must be close to Him, cultivating and caring for intimate communion. The Christian life must be lived daily, not "Sunday" as many. The Apostle Paul declared: "on it we live and move " (Acts 17:28). God is inescapable, because it is ubiquitous as Psalm 139 reminds us. He does not want to visit you on Sunday morning, but we walk in fellowship with Him is God who can handle it our way, and should be so our daily lives.
When the Lord led the children of Israel in the wilderness, there appeared to them only once, but constantly through the cloud and the pillar of fire. Exodus 13:21 says: "The Lord went before them ... to guide ". Is what we always want to do. "He took not away " (v. 22). They separated them but not him, because he is not cheating or variable like us. So in Psalm 90:1 we see the proof of the eternal God, faithful and unchanging. We see the contrast between God and His ancient people, and still the thing today because the so-called God's people today do not seem better, but equal to or worse as more sinned against light.
In Psalm 27:4 David declares his desire to be in the presence of God every day of your life. What is the application for us? Although we have no temple like David, we should be in the presence of God every day, reading His Word, meditating and praying. And when you meet God's people must be there between them, because there is the Lord as promised. But God wants to see us every day, and hear our voices every day. The Lord remains faithful. In Psalm 27:10 we see that parents may disappear, perhaps by death, but God remains and pick us up if we trust Him He is faithful. Learn to be faithful as He
In a study released by Luke Battle, the January 13, 2011
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"Glued to the TV ,
Or The Bible?
"Television is so woven into the family life of American parents can not imagine living without it and are willing to overlook the potential risks for their children, according to a report released recently.
Researchers know that the time spent watching TV is very large: 83% of children 6 years and under watch TV an average of two hours, and 43% of them have a TV in his room. Now we know why. The parents see TV as a babysitter, how to maintain their busy schedules to keep the peace and facilitate routines such as meals and bedtime. Only secondary meaning parents see TV as something educational, but it's enough to make them feel "less guilty and more grateful," said Vicky Rideout, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the group that conducted the study. "
(from the newspaper "Santa Barbara News-Press, May 25, 2006).
The impotent spiritual, and worldliness of many who profess to be Christians, even leaders, is due in part to his addiction to TV. They wake up in the morning and immediately turned on the TV. She speaks and influences all day. Woe to those who spend more time with her than with the Bible, which are up to date with the news but back to the Lord. Be brave, turn off the TV and stick to the Bible! There is blessing in it.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Pastors OR SHOP?
"Be diligent to know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds" (Proverbs 27:23).
There is an application in verse 23 for the elders of the assembly, as shepherds of the flock of God. They must do diligent pastoral work, watching, listening, visiting and sharing with the saints to know their spiritual condition. It would be difficult to do this simply greeting them before or after a meeting. Grazing requires much more than act as the shop owner. The shopkeeper comes to his store just before opening time, turn on the lights, fix things, and then opens door and wait for customers. When you enter, he greets you, then do their sales, and at the end of the day off the lights and close the door. But the church is not a store with a public opening hours, is the flock of God. Pastors must be diligent watching and taking care of the flock, it is their responsibility. In 1 Peter 5:1-4 we learn that on the shepherds is the Chief Shepherd, Jesus, and they will be accountable for how they care for the flock of God.
"Be diligent to know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds" (Proverbs 27:23). There is an application in verse 23 for the elders of the assembly, as shepherds of the flock of God. They must do diligent pastoral work, watching, listening, visiting and sharing with the saints to know their spiritual condition. It would be difficult to do this simply greeting them before or after a meeting. Grazing requires much more than act as the shop owner. The shopkeeper comes to his store just before opening time, turn on the lights, fix things, and then opens door and wait for customers. When you enter, he greets you, then do their sales, and at the end of the day off the lights and close the door. But the church is not a store with a public opening hours, is the flock of God. Pastors must be diligent watching and taking care of the flock, it is their responsibility. In 1 Peter 5:1-4 we learn that on the shepherds is the Chief Shepherd, Jesus, and they will be accountable for how they care for the flock of God.
William MacDonald, in his book in English on Proverbs
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
LESSONS OF JONAH
Text: Jonah 1 :1-17
This prophetic book was written 800 years BC. He has been ridiculed by the world because they believe that a big fish and swallow a man. They think legend. But the Lord Jesus Christ in His ministry said Jonah in Matthew 16:4, giving it credibility.
The book not only describes the behavior of John, but also to many of us. Christ said: "Id" , but we settled down and we chapels and cathedrals, and tell people "come here and I will post things of Christ." But the Lord told us "ID" . So, we like Jonah, what we think, instead of what he said.
God sent him to Nineveh, but in the exact opposite, to Tarshish, land of southern Spain - Hispalia. He tried to avoid responsibility, but God reached out and corrected it with the trial of the storm, reprimand of sailors Gentiles and the time the big fish. It was a time of correction and humiliation for his disobedience, for God corrects His own as we know from Hebrews 12.
Chapter 2 begins with "then" because it refers to Jonah's reaction to the correction. Before he did not want to approach God, but then, yes. You need many times that God goal in distress situations to correct us. Is the path that God knows us back to obedience. Jonah 2:2 says "I called in my affliction unto the Lord" . God is merciful. Want to approach him, and he knows how.
In Ephesians 2:1-3 we see that we were dead in trespasses and sins, rebellious and disobedient, but God, plenteous in mercy, made us alive (vv. 4-5). It's what he wants. Jonah 2:1-2 we see in the way that God put him and that gets us to bring us back to Him God had not gone in the sense of abandon to Jonah, but he was teaching His servant to go and stay close (see Isaiah 26:16). Wants to take us as His children in the path of obedience, because that is the blessing and glory. We do not like this fix, but it is necessary, for our good.
In Jonah verse 7 says: "When my soul fainted" , and thus describes the end to which he arrived. While we have health, strength, natural energy we tend not to want to ignore it. "I remembered the Lord" Jonah said was in great distress, but not before. We often have to pass this way to learn. We must do what God has said. And at 2:10, after the anguish and prayer, God answered. He finished his time of trouble the Prophet. And here and in Chapter 3 Jonah is restored. God had not abandoned but it was teaching. Hebrews 12:10 says that the purpose of correction is to be partakers of His holiness.
3:2 In God again commanded to do what he had said at first. The will of God had not changed simply because Jonah had left it. He now had to replay the same instruction, with an opportunity to express his regret for his obedience. This is the divine instruction, insisting until we learn the lesson. In verse 3, this time complied, complied with the commission. Then God's teaching was effective, because Jonah learned obedience. We must ask whether it is well with us.
Nineveh's reaction was: "believed God" (v. 5), and the king (vv. 6-9) claimed that they turned from their evil way (v. 10). This is repentance. God saw their repentance, because when one repents, this is the attitude and deeds. The result was that they were punished. Then God said to Israel through the prophet Ezekiel: "I live, saith the Lord, I do not want the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, why will ye die, O house of Israel? " (Ezekiel 33:11). But they ignored her, and perished. Sometimes this happens the world to hear the Word of God are more impacted than those who profess to be His people, who always hear the word but does not act on it.
God does not want the man's death. It is something that the man chose to Eden. It was not part of the plan or the will of God in the beginning, but man chose. Romans 5 tells us that upon entering the world of sin, death came. He had to walk in the way of life that marked the Creator, but did not. Chose in his freedom, and being seduced and deceived, the path of death instead of the way of life and communion. Took this decision and was free path death. Proverbs 14:12 remarked well that there is a way which seems right, but its end is death. How many decisions have been made by his will, defiance of what God had set, and ended up losing?
why I said at first that Jonah illustrates much the human condition. Again we see here in chapter 4. Was grieved to see God's mercy with those of Nineveh. I felt bad that God would forgive him, because he wanted the destruction of them. Then God again begins to teach and correct Jonah. Use the vine (vv. 6-8) to teach again. Jonah, like us, rejoiced in the blessing of it, but again was saddened greatly when God removed.
This prophetic book was written 800 years BC. He has been ridiculed by the world because they believe that a big fish and swallow a man. They think legend. But the Lord Jesus Christ in His ministry said Jonah in Matthew 16:4, giving it credibility.
The book not only describes the behavior of John, but also to many of us. Christ said: "Id" , but we settled down and we chapels and cathedrals, and tell people "come here and I will post things of Christ." But the Lord told us "ID" . So, we like Jonah, what we think, instead of what he said.
God sent him to Nineveh, but in the exact opposite, to Tarshish, land of southern Spain - Hispalia. He tried to avoid responsibility, but God reached out and corrected it with the trial of the storm, reprimand of sailors Gentiles and the time the big fish. It was a time of correction and humiliation for his disobedience, for God corrects His own as we know from Hebrews 12.
Chapter 2 begins with "then" because it refers to Jonah's reaction to the correction. Before he did not want to approach God, but then, yes. You need many times that God goal in distress situations to correct us. Is the path that God knows us back to obedience. Jonah 2:2 says "I called in my affliction unto the Lord" . God is merciful. Want to approach him, and he knows how.
In Ephesians 2:1-3 we see that we were dead in trespasses and sins, rebellious and disobedient, but God, plenteous in mercy, made us alive (vv. 4-5). It's what he wants. Jonah 2:1-2 we see in the way that God put him and that gets us to bring us back to Him God had not gone in the sense of abandon to Jonah, but he was teaching His servant to go and stay close (see Isaiah 26:16). Wants to take us as His children in the path of obedience, because that is the blessing and glory. We do not like this fix, but it is necessary, for our good.
In Jonah verse 7 says: "When my soul fainted" , and thus describes the end to which he arrived. While we have health, strength, natural energy we tend not to want to ignore it. "I remembered the Lord" Jonah said was in great distress, but not before. We often have to pass this way to learn. We must do what God has said. And at 2:10, after the anguish and prayer, God answered. He finished his time of trouble the Prophet. And here and in Chapter 3 Jonah is restored. God had not abandoned but it was teaching. Hebrews 12:10 says that the purpose of correction is to be partakers of His holiness.
3:2 In God again commanded to do what he had said at first. The will of God had not changed simply because Jonah had left it. He now had to replay the same instruction, with an opportunity to express his regret for his obedience. This is the divine instruction, insisting until we learn the lesson. In verse 3, this time complied, complied with the commission. Then God's teaching was effective, because Jonah learned obedience. We must ask whether it is well with us.
Nineveh's reaction was: "believed God" (v. 5), and the king (vv. 6-9) claimed that they turned from their evil way (v. 10). This is repentance. God saw their repentance, because when one repents, this is the attitude and deeds. The result was that they were punished. Then God said to Israel through the prophet Ezekiel: "I live, saith the Lord, I do not want the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, why will ye die, O house of Israel? " (Ezekiel 33:11). But they ignored her, and perished. Sometimes this happens the world to hear the Word of God are more impacted than those who profess to be His people, who always hear the word but does not act on it.
God does not want the man's death. It is something that the man chose to Eden. It was not part of the plan or the will of God in the beginning, but man chose. Romans 5 tells us that upon entering the world of sin, death came. He had to walk in the way of life that marked the Creator, but did not. Chose in his freedom, and being seduced and deceived, the path of death instead of the way of life and communion. Took this decision and was free path death. Proverbs 14:12 remarked well that there is a way which seems right, but its end is death. How many decisions have been made by his will, defiance of what God had set, and ended up losing?
why I said at first that Jonah illustrates much the human condition. Again we see here in chapter 4. Was grieved to see God's mercy with those of Nineveh. I felt bad that God would forgive him, because he wanted the destruction of them. Then God again begins to teach and correct Jonah. Use the vine (vv. 6-8) to teach again. Jonah, like us, rejoiced in the blessing of it, but again was saddened greatly when God removed.
He was angry, was angry and even depressed, but all his own fault . God taught him a lesson, and also wants to teach us, because why we have this book.
God have pity on those who are perishing, but we just lost our blessings. "Did not I spare ...?" says the Lord. God is, and wants us, His people and His servants, we are also well. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). Is the message that touches us still. What have we pity? What our gourd, or the souls of our Nineveh to which we sent to preach the gospel? Who we pity?
God have pity on those who are perishing, but we just lost our blessings. "Did not I spare ...?" says the Lord. God is, and wants us, His people and His servants, we are also well. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). Is the message that touches us still. What have we pity? What our gourd, or the souls of our Nineveh to which we sent to preach the gospel? Who we pity?
a given study by JA, the January 16, 2011
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0 comments:
Post a Comment