The modern church teaches that you can’t love your neighbour until you love yourself. The Bible teaches the opposite. The Bible teaches that if you want to be a genuine disciple you have to hate yourself (Luke 14:26,27,33).
The twelve disciples served Jesus in love with themselves. They proved this when they told the children to go away; they proved it when they asked for thrones next to Jesus, they proved it when they wanted to call fire down from heaven; and they proved it when they deserted Jesus at the inquisition.
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Tags: elevation, envy, faith, false church, good, humility, love, repent, sin, surrender
Recently whilst on holidays I observed an incident that caught my spiritual attention. A boy put his breakfast on a table in a park then turned away to do something and a bunch of seagulls swooped and devoured it. The boy fell to the ground in despair and sobbed his heart out. Then I heard him say these words … Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: correction, envy, good, pride, repent, repentance, sin
Hurt by Authority
As a child, and even as an adult, everyone gets hurt in some way by authority. We get hurt by Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: authority, blame, blindness, elevation, envy, false church, judge, Lie, Pharisee, position, rejected, repent, sin
Jezebel came from the tribe of the Zidonians (1Kings 16:31). The Zidonians were Canaanites and were noted for their couldn’t-care, over-confident, without-caution attitude (Judges 18:7). They prided themselves in a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, no hassles, no boundaries, no accountability, and no law enforcement. Basically, just like today’s modern society, they Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: authority, elevation, envy, false church, Jezebel, judge, perfectionism, position, rejection, repentance, sin, Zidonians
In Mark 5 we read the story of the man possessed by 2000 demons. When he saw Jesus he ran and worshipped Him. It is not only possible to worship Jesus with demons in you, the reality is that most church people do this, because most church people
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Tags: authority, blindness, correction, elevation, envy, false church, good, humility, Lie, lying spirits, position, sin, spirit, submission, surrender, truth, worship
Most Christians are happy to follow Christ as long as they can still enjoy the world’s goodies and lifestyles. Christians believe they are fine to enjoy the fun, movies, music, dress and houses just like the world does as long as they are good citizens. The modern thinking is …
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Tags: Ahab, correction, Jehoshaphat, Lie, lying spirits, niceness, repent, sabbath, separation, sin
Faith is relying on God no matter what’s happening around you or to you. You can’t be saved without faith. It’s a gift from God; it can’t be self-manufactured, and it grows by
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Q. What’s faith?
In simple terms … faith is relying on God no matter what is going on around you or to you.
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