COVID-19 - Who can you trust in this crisis?

There’s only one way to survive in this world today - trust in God! And, surrounded as they were by aggressive and powerful nations, there was only one way for God’s people, Israel, to survive in the promised land God had given them. The history of the children of Israel is pretty much a dismal record of how they didn’t trust their Lord. In fact their history includes a period in which they were kicked out of their land for persistently refusing to go God‘s way, but the flip side is that it is also an amazing record of God’s patient plans with people who fail big time and of God’s amazing willingness to use weak people who do trust their God. 

What has gone wrong with the world? Do you think our world is doing ok?

Do you ever hear people say - 'just has gone wrong with the world?'

As we watch the television or read the news we constantly hear of murders, abuse, cruelty and a constant stream of evil. The most unlikely people commit these crimes. We would like to think that we would not do the same, but can we be so sure?

Why is it like this? Does it have to be so? Contrary to popular belief the Bible states that we all do wrong - ‘all have sinned and come short of the glory of God’. It explains that the evil in the world came as a result of one mans actions long ago - ‘by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin’. 

The Bible says that we are in danger of eternal separation from God. What bad news! But it is the truth - God cannot lie. If we were left to die in our sins it would be so sad but there is good news! ‘God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved’. God can save each of us because the Lord Jesus ‘suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God’.

Turn from your sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ today! 

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Radicalised Christians!

In recent times we have all become familiar with a rather sinister word - radicalisation. After an act of terrorism, investigations will begin to determine how the terrorists were radicalised. A person is considered radicalised when they take the words of their prophet and their holy book literally.

I was wondering what a radicalized Christian would look like, someone who takes the words of Christ literally.

Would people in shopping malls or concert halls or school classrooms have anything to fear from radicalized Christians?

Radicalised Christians will love their families, their neighbours, and their enemies.

They will seek to save life, not to destroy it.
They will forgive those who wrong them, and bless those who hate them.
They will pray for their government and pay their taxes.
They will give honour to whom honour is due.
They will live sacrificial lives for the blessing and relief of others.
They will comfort those who mourn.
They will hunger after righteousness, show mercy, seek to be pure, make peace, will not kill, will not commit adultery, will turn the other cheek to those who smite them.
They will live their lives for the glory of God and for the welfare of their fellow men.
They will be thankful, kind, honest, faithful, pure and forgiving.
They will travel enormous distances and make huge sacrifices to share the gospel with others.
Their great motivation in life will firstly be love for God, and secondly love for their neighbour.

Do you know any radicalized Christians?

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What next?

One cannot fail to have noticed the changes that are taking place globally with alarming rapidity and frequency. On an unprecedented scale in the history of our world, geographically, climatically, financially, socially and morally; changes of seismic proportion are taking place. The debt crisis in the Eurozone is becoming frightening, engulfing more and more countries, threatening the economy of the entire world; the instability in Africa and the Middle East and the popular uprisings that have already toppled leaders who seemed to be invincible and held power with an iron grip, are spreading at a worrying pace. The preoccupation of many countries with climate change and the alleged far-reaching consequences highlighted by scientists, have left millions with almost paralysing fear and a sense of despair and hopelessness. Wars; famines; violence; the dark spectre of terrorism; tsunamis; earthquakes; floods: we begin to wonder, "What next?"

Many fear that the world is careering out of control towards destruction and there is no one who appears to have the power to stop the downwards spiral. It seems that each passing day but adds its quota of gloom to the preceding day and hope is in short supply.

What has happened to all the predictions that we are improving and man is edging his way inexorably towards Utopia? Science has made us free; it will provide us with all the answers and we can confidently reject out of hand, the authority of the Almighty. Or can we? No matter how much men try to pretend that there is no God, doubts creep into the minds of many that perhaps we have gone in the wrong direction and we would need to reappraise our present position. Is there anywhere or anyone to whom we can turn for answers or must we bravely sail on in the dense mists of ignorance and rebellion towards an uncertain future?

The Holy Bible, the inspired Word of God, containing timeless truth from the Creator Himself, sheds light on the future of this world and the destiny of every human being on this revolving globe. It clearly reminds us that the next great, momentous event is the return of the Lord Jesus. He has been here before: it is an historically attested fact beyond all doubt that Jesus, the Nazarene, as they contemptuously referred to Him, lived in this very world for over thirty-three years and died outside Jerusalem at a place called Calvary. He had come for one specific reason: to provide salvation for all mankind; to provide a way of escape from the inevitable judgment our sins will incur if not forgiven.

This could be accomplished only by His death as He assumed responsibility for our sins and bore the penalty we deserved. "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree …" 1Peter 2.24. "Christ died for our sins …" 1Corinthians 15.3. God has been satisfied by the death of the Lord Jesus and it but remains for us to trust Him as our personal Saviour and depend alone upon His sacrifice to gain acceptance with God.

All the events taking place presently are a wake-up call from God Himself that the return of Christ is imminent and in a moment, millions will be caught away from this world These events are not merely coincidental happenings that can be easily explained. You must prepare for this great event with all urgency. Many are unaware of what’s next and dread what is going to happen because of ignorance and uncertainty but you have no such excuse. "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." Matthew 24.44

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