21st Century Jeremiah Introduction Video Link

In an effort to herald the message of God’s Word via the Prophet Jeremiah, I have recorded a video of me sharing what I have learned.

Please click on the attached link below to view the introductory video of 21st Century Jeremiah.

https://youtu.be/cAaNHlKcPgw?si=ZdI0Ke9or0ycUUuj

I hope to create and post more videos in the weeks to come.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Faith in Christ Alone

“By one offering He [Jesus Christ] has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,’ then He adds, 'Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.’” Hebrews 10:14-17

I am grateful to Jesus Christ for offering Himself up for my sins and yours so that God remembers our sin no more when we believe in and profess His Son Jesus as our Lord and Savior.

I am grateful that once He forgives our sins, we receive His Holy Spirit who helps us to believe and enjoy the Word of God.

Otherwise, we would have no hope of being with God forever after we breathe our last breath here on earth.

But has it is, God has done everything necessary for our salvation by sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins, raising Him from the dead, and giving us His Holy Spirit to help us believe and profess God’s Word. HE, not us, saves us as we surrender our hope of salvation to faith in Christ alone.

To God be the glory!

How My Heart Yearns Within Me

“Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! Sing out the honor of His Name; make His praise glorious.” Psalm 66:1-2

It is good and appropriate to shout to sing to and praise the Lord each day. There is much to be grateful for every day.

I have been thinking lately about being with the Lord forever. Why should I wait until I get to heaven to start making the lifestyle change? I can live with joy, gratitude and rejoicing TODAY because Jesus has done all that is necessary to bring me there.

“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” Job 19:25-27

In His presence is fullness of joy. His kingdom is a kingdom of love and peace. There is harmony. There is forever happiness.

Broken Hearts and Bodies Healed

They asked Jesus, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” —that they might accuse Him. Jesus asked them if they rescued animals on the Sabbath, which obviously they did. He asked them, “Of how much more value then, is a man than a sheep? Therefore, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” Jesus healed. They plotted to destroy Him. [1]

The love of Christ for hurting people offends certain types of mindsets, but this does not stop Jesus from healing those who want to be healed.

A day is coming when those who seek to hinder and to halt healing will be over.

At the end of the age, “The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” [2]

In a sense, offending those who oppose Jesus is also a ministry of love. How will they ever be convicted of their offensive behavior towards God and how they will ever have an opportunity to see themselves for what they really are unless someone demonstrates God’s unconditional love for them? They need Jesus.

The love of Christ is good news for those who want Him and can be good news for those who oppose Him, that is, if they repent and ask the Lord to forgive and save them.

Jesus invites us to ask Him for help: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” [3]

Jesus invites us to persist in asking for His help until His answer is manifested in a tangible way for us. See Luke 18:1-14.

“He [the Lord] heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” [4]

[1] Matthew 12:10-14
[2] Matthew 13:41-43
[3] Matthew 7:7-11
[4] Psalm 147:3

Reach Out

"Reach out touch somebody's hand. Make this world a better place if you can."

Or better yet...

"Reach out with the Gospel to somebody's soul, Jesus can renew them and make them whole."

Believing in Jesus Christ

Praying that many will come to know the blessing of faith in Jesus.

Faith in Christ is about receptivity, that is, to receive Christ’s sacrifice for our sins (so our sins are forgiven) and to receive His Holy Spirit who fills His believers with love, joy and peace.

To be convicted of not believing in Jesus is good thing because it is an opportunity to repent and to start believing in Him. It is an opportunity to know what is right and wrong by God’s Spirit and by God’s Word. It is vindication to know that the one who has caused all the evil in the world, namely the devil, will be condemned and neutralized. It is to know that a day of righteousness, peace and joy is coming and it will never end.

Following Jesus

I heard a needed message last night from Mark 8:34-38. I developed the attached slide to share just a small part of the message.

This morning, I heard Adrian Rogers speaking on the radio about the Apostle Paul's ministry style.

The conclusion of the matter is that sharing the saving Gospel with people who need it but don't prefer to hear it may involve hardships, but when we get to heaven and see people who we shared the Gospel with there, it will be worth it.

Power is from God

“We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” [1]

Have you a hunger and thirst for God and a desire to feed others with His Word even as He feeds you? In the passage below, the Apostle Paul speaks of the grace that he received from God to help others be fellow heirs and partakers of salvation by sharing the Gospel with them. His ministry was given to him as a gift of God’s powerful and effective grace.

“For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the Gospel, of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.” [2]

[1] 2 Corinthians 4:7
[2] Ephesians 4:1-7

Redeemed – How I Love to Proclaim It!

What a wonderful thing God has done for us!

“In Him [Jesus Christ] we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” [1]

We were guilty. We committed sins against God and against people. God responded to our dilemma with grace. He sent His Son to take the condemnation and punishment that our sins deserved.

“In Him [Jesus Christ] you also trusted, after you heard the Word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” [2]

After forgiving our sins, making us aware of what He did for us, and bringing us to faith in Him, He sealed our inheritance by giving to us His Holy Spirit to live and abide in us. Such grace! Praise the Lord!

“God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).” [3]

Dead in trespasses means that we were unable to rescue ourselves. We were not even aware of how grievous our trespasses were to God and to those around us. God’s wealth was revealed to us not with silver or gold, but with the blood of His Son who died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. Then, Christ resurrected from the dead on the third day and revealed to us that there is life after the grave… a good life… a never ending life! A Promised Land better than any place on earth!

“You were once without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.” [4]

Not just a Promised Land, but also a promised home. A home with God! Accepted into His family, loved, honored and enjoyed! Praise the Lord!

[1] Ephesians 1:7
[2] Ephesians 1:13-14
[3] Ephesians 2:4-5
[4] Ephesians 2:12-13, 19

A Beautiful Savior in a Beautiful City

A Beautiful Savior in a Beautiful City who paid the price for our sins on the cross so that by simply believing in Him and receiving His shepherding help we receive a lifetime membership with Him forever.

“The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city [New Jerusalem] was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the 1st foundation was jasper, the 2nd sapphire, the 3rd chalcedony, the 4th emerald, the 5th sardonyx, the 6th sardius, the 7th chrysolite, the 8th beryl, the 9th topaz, the 10th chrysoprase, the 11th jacinth, and the 12th amethyst. The 12 gates were 12 pearls: each individual gate was of 1 pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Revelation 21:18-27

How do you get your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life? By having a relationship with Him here on earth.

Grateful to Be Forgiven and Livin’ for the Lord Jesus Christ

Like Hezekiah in the Bible passage below, I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for bringing me to a place where I knew I needed Him to save me. When I asked the Lord Jesus to forgive all my sins, He did. He cast my sins behind His back. His atoning blood washed them away. They are forgiven. His Holy Spirit has brought such peace, joy and love into my life. Today, I plan to go to the house of the Lord and sing His praises.

“Indeed it was for my own peace that I had great bitterness; but You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth. The living, the living man, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make known Your truth to the children. The Lord was ready to save me; therefore, we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.” Isaiah 38:17-20