Jesus Reconciled Us to God

The main reason God sent Jesus was so that through his sacrifice we could be reconciled to God his Father.  Jesus in the beginning was a Spirit like his Father (John 4:24), but He became human to be able to pay the price of dying for us, so that we would be freed from the power of sin and the fear of death (John 1:14; Hebrews 2:14-15).

Once we turn to God, and are baptized in water into Christ Jesus, and receive the Holy Spirit, we are then set free from sin (John 3:1-8; Acts 2:37-39).  And therefore our friendship with God the Father is restored, and we have fellowship with Him and with his Son, through the Spirit and Word of God (John 4:23 -24; Luke 10:38-42; 1 John 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; Jude 1:20-21).

And the ultimate goal of receiving the Holy Spirit is so that we can obey the GREAT TASK of reconciling others to God the Father through the Spirit of Christ in us (Galatians 2:20; 4:6; 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 ).

Some Scriptures on Reconciliation

   "God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God."

Romans 5:8 - 11

   "Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 

   "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 

   "And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this Task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful Message of Reconciliation. 

   "So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin by making him sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ."

2 Corinthians 5:14 - 15 ,17 - 21

   "All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 

   "Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 

   "So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding."

Ephesians 1:3‭-‬8

   "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross."

Colossians 1:19‭-‬20

   "Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ. 

   "For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups.   

   "Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. 

   "He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near. Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us."

Ephesians 2:11‭-‬18 

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The Power in Praising & Thanking God for Everything

Here is an excellent book about the power of praising and thanking God for the good things and for the bad things as well. 

If we meditate and know and believe the Holy Scriptures, then we will understand that it's through praising and thanking God in all things, that we find the fullness of peace to face any difficult situation we might be going through. 

And not only that, but it's through praise and thanksgiving that we ignite God's miraculous power to change things for our good! Praise God! 

Power In Praise:

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Power In Praise (audiobook):

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Power In Praise (audio Bible compilation):

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"Come Out From Among Them & Be Separate!"

We are entering in very difficult and dangerous, but exciting times. In fact, the church is going to be divided in two factions between:  1) those who compromise and ignore the Word of God, being solely interested in following the lukewarm and worldly ecumenical, established Christian church;  and 2) those who are outside of all human hierarchy, and wholeheartedly follow and obey the Lord Jesus and the truth of God's Word, who really love each other and work together and sacrifice themselves to advance the Kingdom.

The Bible exhort us:  "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.' Therefore 'Come out from among them and be separate [from all ECCLESIASTIC PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURE], says the Lord God. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.' 'I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord God Almighty.'" (2Corinthians 6:14-18)

We are separated, thank God, from all pyramidal, ecclesiastical structure of man for several years now. We are only part of the body of Christ, the true spiritual church made up of faithful living stones--the family of God! (See 1Corinthians 3:1-17; Ephesians 2:11-22; 1Peter 1:1-10.)

We are committed to obey and follow our Lord Jesus and his Word, proclaiming  to every person the Gospel of redemption of the soul from sin, through his sacrifice and resurrection; and also equipping new disciples for God's service. (See Acts chapter 2; 2Corinthians 5:14-21.) 

Naturally, the devil doesn't like the fact that we are Bible fundamentalist and active disciples of Jesus Christ, who bear witness of the faith continuously and openly.  And of course the opposition and persecution are guaranteed at any time. (See John 15:18-27; 2Timothy 3:10-17; Jude 3-4,16-25.)

Jesus warned us:  "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:9-14)

The apostles John and Paul made it clear in the letters that there are many deceiving antichrists who have come from the congregation of faith; and that the greatest deceiver, the Antichrist, was about to come one day to declare himself as "Christ" and "God" of this world. (See 2Thessalonians 2:1-4.)

“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. (1John 2:18-19)

After studying the Word of God on Bible prophecy for several years, we believe that the Antichrist currently knows very well that his world ecumenical alliance will not be well received and respected for a long time by all, for instance, by the radical fundamentalist Muslims.

Because of this, the 'man of sin' is engineering behind the scenes a sinister plan to break the ecumenical pact between religions at any given time. He will convince everyone that he is the true "Christ" and "Saviour", who solves all the problems of the world, proclaiming himself as the world leader and even "God". (See Daniel 8:23-25; 9:27; 11:28-45; 2Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:3-10; chapter 17.)

He will force all humans to worship him (the Beast) and the devil (the Dragon), with the help of the False Prophet. This one will deceive the whole world by performing false miracles, and will introduce the Abomination of Desolation (or Mark of the Beast). This appears to be a high-tech microchip inserted into the human body of everyone who worships the Antichrist, to be able to buy or sell.  In this way, every human being will be controlled by this sinister totalitarian regime. (See Revelation chapter 13.)

Of course, our King Jesus will come just after the great tribulation that will last three and a half years, to rescue his own and destroy the wicked men and rule over the whole Earth with righteousness. Praise God! Hallelujah! (See Daniel 7:7-14; Matthew 24:15-31; Mark 13:14-27; Revelation 6:12-17; 14:14-20; 19:11-21; 20:1-6.)

Here is a question we should all ask:  "Am I a lukewarm Christian simply following the structure of the passive and compromising Christian church, based on worship services and on teachings and traditions of men?  Or am I a vibrant disciple of Jesus Christ, ready to even give my life for proclaiming his name and the Gospel to the lost at every opportunity?"

 We pray that many will be found true disciples of Jesus, who love and serve God actively and sincerely and without compromise; and who are ready to suffer shame, persecution, deprivation, anguish, pain and even death, to openly proclaim the Gospel of Jesus, the true Christ and Lord and Son of God! (See Mark 8:34-38; 16:15-20; Philippians 3:7-21; 2Timothy 2:1-13; chapter 3; 4:1-8; James 1:2-4,12; 1Peter 1:3-9; 4:12-19.)

"And calling the crowd and his disciples, Jesus said to them: 'If anyone wants to come after me, deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses  his life because of me and the gospel will save her. Well, what good is it for a man to win the whole world and lose his soul?  Well, what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.'" (Mark 8:34-38)

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35-39)

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Are You A Courageous Soldier Of Jesus Christ?

This audio will encourage you to EXAMINE your heart if JESUS is really in YOU or not. And if so, you will be a courageous SOLDIER who is ready to trust and obey the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Commander in Chief of the Lord God's army! 

God is after those who show complete FAITH and TRUST in Him through their obedience and actions; and not after fearful soldiers who melt away in front of adversity or persecution or trouble or distress!

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Are You A Born-Again Disciple Of Jesus?

If you are really BORN AGAIN in Christ Jesus and filled of God's heavenly NATURE, then the passion for spending INTIMATE TIME with GOD by meditating on his Word and praying in his Spirit daily; and the passion for being the LIGHT and a faithful WITNESS of Jesus by preaching the Gospel to the lost at every opportunity, will be a REALITY in your LIFE!! (Read John 3:1-21.)

What JESUS said about it?

““Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall LOVE the LORD your GOD with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall LOVE your NEIGHBOUR as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”” (Matthew 22:36-40)

"But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will WORSHIP the FATHER in Spirit and Truth; for the Father is seeking such to WORSHIP Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth.”” (John 4:23-24)

 "You are the LIGHT of the WORLD. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let YOUR LIGHT so shine before men, that they may see YOUR GOOD WORKS [of the Kingdom] and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16)

“But you shall receive POWER when the HOLY SPIRIT has come upon you; and you shall be my WITNESSES in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

What the apostle PAUL said about it?

"For by GRACE you have been SAVED through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works [of your own], lest anyone should boast. For we are His WORKMANSHIP, created in Christ Jesus to DO GOOD WORKS [of worshipping God and preaching the Gospel], which God prepared beforehand that we SHOULD WALK in them.” (Ephesians 2:8-10)

“Therefore by Him let us continually offer the SACRIFICE of PRAISE to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. But do not forget to DO GOOD and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” (Hebrews 13:15-16)

“For the LOVE of CHRIST COMPELS us, because we judge thus: that if Jesus died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that THOSE who live SHOULD LIVE no longer for themselves, but FOR JESUS who died for them and rose again. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 

Now all things are of God, who has RECONCILED us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the MINISTRY of RECONCILIATION, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the MESSAGE of RECONCILIATION. 

Now then, we are AMBASSADORS of CHRIST, as though God were pleading the world through us: 'We implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God!'" (2Corinthians 5:14-15,17-20)

"How then shall they CALL on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they BELIEVE in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they HEAR without anyone PREACHING to them? And how shall they PREACH unless they are SENT? As it is written: “How beautiful are the FEET of those who PREACH the GOSPEL of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”” (Romans 10:14-15)

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