Sharing

In today’s industrialized world we want to escape for a better life, not realizing that love and sharing is all that we need to do and have. A life of consumption is at hand and well publicized to reach the mass population. Democracies around the world are much alike where we find the rich, the middle class and the poor.

In Quebec a social net is well in place. So now we can say that the government will take care of the poor, putting aside our personal charity. Forgetting the meaning of charity, unions or syndicates grow in popularity where solidarity is now proclaimed.  Politically from the left, the right or the center, winning votes is often a means without scruples. To me, honesty must include justice where a good life must be hopeful for all classes of people.

Governments are formed by people; there humanity may be put to test depending on their responsibilities. But charity remains an individual affair and cannot be automated by someone else. Charity cannot be a question of administration; it is a matter of conscious where each one of us must recognize oneself.

To me charity as no boundaries, it is a matter of personal love and spirituality. We live in a world of consumption and entertainment, where it is very easy to forget those that are in distress close or far away. Our conscious is so much solicited by publicity that all that seems to matter is the next best thing. We must stay alert and understand what we really need for our work or leisure time.

Entertainment can be important, like sports, arts, may it be static, energetic, creative, dreamlike or spectacular. There is a lot of talent to be shared between citizens of the modern world; but we forget our own people, those of the last rank of our society, the sick, and the lonely of different means. So many are abandoned and neglected in this fast paced world where we always look for the finer things; we even forget the existence of orphans.

How can we explain the foolishness of a world so rich that claims to be humanely concern? I remember decades ago in Quebec that we where announcing a leisure society for the future, liberty 55 was greatly publicized where 55 is the age of retirement, true for only a minority. Now retirement is push forward, 67 years old instead of 65. Retirement may be well deserved for some leisure time but there is always a possibility to help others.

The orphans are often those that we forget. We are now able to adopt babies from other countries and I do find it very admirable, but what about those around us, too old or maybe handicapped? Still a minority of people think of adopting.

The children and adults of countries or regions struck by famine count poorly when we are on a ski hill, an ice ring, or in a ball park. Restaurants are everywhere, theaters, we can wine and dine, dance and be merry. But for thousands of years, we where thought to share those riches. Is our world truly modern, what is it about our evolution?

Deuteronomy 24 (New International Version) 19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!

Learning, understanding, relating…

We often go trough out life as all is due to us. Going about everything as it comes along and so be it. The young might prove to be excessive or rebellious and the adults respond can be patronizing. Engulf in this world preoccupation and speed up modernization, we may go about our religious belief like everything else as if all is due to us by just going through the motions.

Schooling is obviously a plus for everyone; but nowadays, we are looking more to philosophy for the young, it may result in some understanding of situation but I fear that it is debilitating our love and charity which defines our relation with God.

I believe that we should recognize that we are God’s creation and that we must pursue our better evolution which is to develop our spirit, our hearth with the help of the all mighty. We must put the time to develop our inside to obtain results like we did for the outside with the evolution of science.

Many scholars believe in the theory of evolution, yet accept the Big Bang theory; I find it to be ironic.

Obviously we can only teach what we know, and someone that wants to learn must inform oneself. To know God we must read the book that describes him. God is love and may be found everywhere but the bible is a direct link to God’s handout to mankind. The all mighty as universal love for mankind, a solution that heals the body and the hearth, a strength that comes from within, always a blessing, sometimes resembling the Big Bang showing love where there was none our like moving a giant rock that blocked the flowing for resurrection.

Colossians 2,8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces  of this world rather than on Christ.

Christ procured grace for all times, We are for always under the watchful eyes of the father who cares for his creation that suffers and needs his help throughout his preferred son Jesus Christ.

John 12, 44-50 44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!

God loves us

How can we define or acknowledge God. I believe that God may choose to reach us rather than us being successful to find him just by looking for him. From the word of the bible and love from within, he explains to us what can be perfection for mankind. We are full of faults yet we can be perfected by his grace. Sometimes I believe that we chose to run away from God, otherwise we would  know him much better because he is constantly talking to us; by looking at the greatness of the universe is in a way listening to God if we open our hearth to him.

God is magnificent and beyond our understanding, yet he has given us a way to understand where we come from and where we may end; all we have to do is to study the bible. We may recognize a good part of him simply by paying attention to our surroundings and listening to our hearth.

Today science will explain evolution where a long process was at hand. Eventually we arrive to man as we know him today. Historically man gave a name to what he could recognize, like did Adam in the bible, the first man from creation, the humanity that God wants us to recognise as our beginning and our ancestor for the start of our spiritual evolution reaching justice with Abraham and true redemption with Jesus Christ. Adam is the example of our present physiognomy and weakness, we are sinners saved by the grace of Jesus Christ.

 Man identifies with what he knows, and everything man knows has a name, so recalls the bible.

Nowadays everything seems to be accelerated, commodities and distractions are making us very presumptuous, believing like always that we can be self sufficient by having earthly forces, and forgetting all concept of being under a greater power and will.

We must admit that intelligence, man’s intelligence, had its beginning and if it really was spontaneous in the creation, man still had to go through apprenticeship. Intelligence, consciousness, state of mind, love, and other attributes, are all in togetherness with our soul. God wants us to be healthy so that we may have eternal life. So our soul is what we must be more concerned about.

The way to eternal life is given in the bible. Jesus-Christ is the saviour of mankind; now we must do our best to better ourselves and be grateful to have our saviour and lord Jesus Christ. The bible contains the word of God which explains everything trough the experience of the Jews.

Mankind will cry for help when all is lost and all powerful God is merciful to reach and strengthen his people. Thousands of years have passed by and mankind is still the same. The strong are not questioning themselves, the weak are suffering, and those in the middle are usually contempt and do not want to make waves, so crime, wars and love stories remain the same. But the history of the Jews recalls how God disapproved abused over his people.

Man came to identify that blood is what is the most valuable, that blood gives life and blood purifies. A blood sacrifice would be what appeases God the most and cleans someone of his sins so was the belief, but God never asked for sacrifices. God for man’s sake had to put an end to foolishness by sharing man’s hurt and implementing true meanings in suffering hearths.

After the old covenant where10 written laws were given by God to Moses, and multiple other laws were added, we now live under the New Testament which is the grace of God.

Jeremiah 31:33 (New International Version) “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,  or say to one another, ‘Know the lord,’because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,”declares the Lord.“For I will forgive their wickedness  and will remember their sins no more.”

Matthew 12,7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

God answers prayers:

The Old Testament is full of interventions where God or “I am” favours justice. I believe that I am is the most appropriate name for our creator, recalling our faith; many other names are meaningful, the most common being God. The Old Testament recalls today’s man full of interior constraints between God and social requirement, what was then approved by the elders. There are the Ten Commandments and different Jewish laws that we can find in the bible. Some laws are often what we would conceder as being mostly sanitary rather than purification, others relate to the Sabbath. If the law was a cause of committing faults the New Testament brings redemption to all men.

Today some people like to believe that they can save themselves, at least to what tends to their life on earth. That by thinking positively and believing to be in contact with the universe is all that is needed to realise their enterprise. But there are missing a link to this union of force, which is love and the manifestation of love. (1 cor.13) Why would someone want to invent what already exists or go around the blessed requirements and renouncing believing in the history with the recollection of miraculous happenings?

Realising that good has been universalised is a great plus for mankind, and God’s  blessing, where education and charity improves. Jesus uses the term truth surely for the better universal sense. Thousands of years of love past and where is humanity today?

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,   but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings  you were not pleased.7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’” 8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all!

Christ and the world

In 2008 everything came apart where the capitalist system had to deploy there reserves to save banks around the world. All because of cupidity and what could be recognise as criminal administration, but did not come out much in the news.

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I do believe that Satan exists but I rarely mention him because I think for now that we must recognise that we must evolve without him. So I will instead talk about the fault of men as unscrupulous.

Being carefree is a game that should be reserved for children. How much can evil manifest itself when we put aside our better sense? Our better sense is being open to God.

I believe the bible to have a true language where we practice yes for yes and no for no. The Jews believed in signs to orient them to please God. Facts are retained to describe prophesies, we can recall the corner stone or Jonas in the whale. But fiction books may also hide truth to come like “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, “1984” by George Orwell our “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. We can often recognise the manipulators and the victims as also those victims of themselves.

Often are victims those that want to be, I believe that the lack of consciousness and prayer will keep a person carefree until it is too late. One day’s trouble may be enough but when we also think of others.

If we do not look for truthfulness, blood thirsty creatures will find for us what we are missing making us believe what they want, like the Morlocks of H.G.Wells.

Today we know what is happening around the world instantly, what is our excuse for not helping others?

As I wrote in 2008 in my French blog, I was driving and the vehicle in front of me had a bumper sticker saying something like my business is my name our my work is my name. When someone looses is name business wise it’s downhill all the way, I think we all understand that. Everyone wants to keep a good name. It is to me a little peculiar why so many people are looking for the real name of God. I believe it to be well mention when we read “He is the God of Abraham, He is the God of Isaac, He is the God of Jacob” He is the God of generations; his name is even much longer than that. His name is the total of his works. If someone feels love using a form of his name, that is the name of God.

We may think that God was severe through the ages but how much patience has he showed during the thousands of years of prophesies of the coming of his only son: Love for the true way.

Gods name is his word and his works. His word was reported by the prophets, than by Jesus Christ himself God made man who came to make everything come true. By Adam’s disobedience comes death and by Christ obedience comes life. Following the old law keeps life, disobeying it recalls Adam and death but recalling Jesus and recognising Jesus Christ, love, will save for eternity.

Revelation 21 New International Version 1984 1 then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Considering that I am writing this on April first, I do not want to be funny because of april fool day, on the contrary but I did ad something to my French blog consisting of some alike situation of the world that I thought I was going to had here aside a practically word for word translation of my December 12 2008 blog post. I think that we must be alert to face anything but the word of God is what we really need. Doing our best and repenting for our wrong doing is all that we really have to do. Praying and praising the Lord is among our best doing.

Take care and God bless everyone!

Jesus lives!

Many among us are complaining with a full belly. What then can be said about the misery of the third world? We choose to persevere in a righteous way still hoping for more financial freedom. After all, good intentions remain where we can raise a family or participate in charity works. Perseverance brings an answer.

I am not being sarcastic, facts remain that we are all sinners. We must humble ourselves and pray because we do not know the day he will come. I find it very comforting to ear successful preachers but at the same time I ask myself this question: Is limiting the family the way to success? I believe not, therefore poverty can be a blessing where making ends meet by praying the Lord brings joy to the children at the table.

We must always try to better ourselves, and to each one of us the means comes from the word of God. We must give blessing to what ever we have. But we must never give up. Sometime we just pray for the wrong thing or we believe that our situation is not of our own making like if our reason for being poor was not cause by foolish spending.

We must pray and persevere in a better way to be part of God’s family where Jesus is the groom.

New Living Translation John 3,17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

Luc 11,9-10 9 “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Romans 6, 14-16 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.

15 Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.

Knowing that we sin is recognising our faults. We must continuously try to do better and deserve forgiveness.

New Living Translation Romans 13,10 Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God's law.

Bless are those accomplishing God’s will not knowing it. But how fragile can our love be? How easily we can turn on one another?

Like Jesus that multiplied the bread taken among the people we must give the bread that we have so that the grace of God can be fruitful. We can save a multitude sharing the bread of life which is the word of God that we easily find in the bible. Jesus the son of God made man suffered and died for our sins and the father resurrected him from the dead.

John 6,35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

The Jews blessed God as much as they could. By Adam they recognise the weakness of humanity through sin. Searching to be just under God’s authority they received divine intervention when deserved.

Knowing Jesus is knowing the truth. What can we hope for more? The one that really knows Jesus does not sin. May God have mercy on the sinners that we are.

New International Version 1984 Romans 5 1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— 13for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. 14Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

18Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. 19For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

20The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Jews had many laws in regard to their faith. I have not studied them except for the Ten Commandments. What I believe is that Jesus ask us to do what we know to be our most accomplished part of ourselves, and that is to love God above all and our neighbour as ourselves.

Mathew 5, 17-19 17“Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. 19So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

John 13, 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other

New Living Translation Romans 6, 4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!

Where is justice, love, light?

New International Version 1984 Mathew 5, 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

We must work to better ourselves to be a blessing for others. The New Jerusalem is where we want to end but there is so much that we must all change. I am a poor example of what I can truly achieve. How can I stop making so many terrible sins like drinking too much every now and then? It can be so simple to please God and yet… I can only cry on myself.

The world is as it as always been, full of unconsciousness causing pain and grief. Daring to go into details may bring unwanted strife but today we are plunge in a monstrous state of despair facing universal justice. How can we admit loving our fellow man?

World English Bible 1 Timothy 6, 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

In reference of the world’s market crisis, we are now taking away money intended to help poor countries to replenish banks where the managers have flaunted their assets. A monster called commercial papers has collapse bringing down every hill advised. We may recall the tower of Babel like idolatry our simple stupidity. In this case there seams to be evident manipulation where greed is the center. With so much teaching available with the bible, how can we be so faded to practically disappear into nothingness not knowing what to conceive?

New Living Translation 1 john 2,29 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God's children.

We want to be saved so we believe that Jesus died for everyone in redemption for our sins. But what is sin? Sin is doing what we know is wrong, sin is relevant to each one of us. We must always try to do what is right. Christianity is the way to life. Believing in Jesus is practicing his teaching. We are all sinners and we will all die as such, only the blood of Christ can wash us clean where we can recognize true love. Love makes the world go round yet evil tries to destroy everything.

The parable of the lamp

New American Standard Bible Luc8,16-18 16“Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light. 17 “For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. 18 “So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him.”

If the light shines on us we must show it. We must share what we know to be the most beneficial. Even big sinners may have their moment that is the blessing of the Lord where everyone can be comforting by announcing redemption and eternal life. Everything is in the bible; all we need is to take note of it. The one that does not have is the one that did not understand. I learned that when someone reads a text and does not retain or remember the sense, the reason is that there is a word ore some words that the signification is not clear. It is the same with the bible, the meaning must be clear and the sum of it all is love. Sometimes it may not be obvious, so what we must do is read more and eventually we find the answer. The more we read the bible, the more we understand. A great way to reach love is by praying. Reading the word and sharing the word brings light to the world.

New American Standard Bible Romans 10, 8-11 8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”

Whoever truly believes, acts accordingly.

In the parable of the Sower.

GOD'S WORD Translation 1995 Luc 8, 15 The seeds that were planted on good ground are people who also hear the word. But they keep it in their good and honest hearts and produce what is good despite what life may bring.

Life can be diminishing for many among us, so we must remember the passion of the lord carrying his cross to save every last one of us; we must than persevere in a better way.

New International Version 1984 John 15,1-8 1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

It is beneficial to be on the vine near Jesus feeling free and away from temptation. I believe fruits to be the value we bring to our surrounding and inside of us the value of our perception, a true reality that we must preach by the grace of Jesus. When we truly love like Jesus, our love can be contagious.

New International Version 1984 Mathew 5, 13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

We must understand that salt is use as a preservative, as example, for meat, marinades etc. How can we resalt the salt? The warning is not to be diminish, the danger is life threatening. We must repent for having lost our way and return to the word of God to recreate what was gone to know that miracles happen every day.

Jesus is god made man, alpha and omega. We must love to survive. It is evident that humanity is sick because of the lack of love; still God as the word available to save the world.

GOD'S WORD Translation 1995 Revelation 22,21 The good will of the Lord Jesus be with all of you. Amen!

The Sacrifice

Faith is a gift given by the grace of God; but it is still demanding to be an inspired teacher or preacher. I try to be true by giving proper verses to what I want to put forward, but the facts are that I am still learning. In a way a true believer does not have to learn, because praising the Lord is all that is necessary and the way is given by faith. Still they are so many passages that surprise me every now and than when I here someone else talk about it or when I just come across them by myself. I believe that everyone should be teaching and preaching even when knowing few bible verses.

By faith we know the bible to be true. The truthiness of the bible is in fact it’s teaching for the well being of our soul. I can not really explain what the soul is or what will survive next to Jesus, but I truly believe that he will care for his children. When our soul is healthy all our being is healthy. I can not explain the sickness and all the injuries but what I can say is that Jesus cured every human suffering when he was on earth and his heritage is still going strong.

Today’s scientists are doing their best to explain the miracles of the Old and the New Testament. The plagues of Egypt that eventually gave freedom to the Jews are explain by the eruption of a volcano probably Santorini that may coincide with the time period. Similar phenomena’s have happened in our modern time with the eruption of volcanoes; water turning orange red, gas killing people sleeping on the ground like for the first born of the Egyptian. Natural or not the crossing of the red sea comes by a fantastic timing.

The Passover where the Jews saved their family from an angel of death by putting the blood of a sheep on their door is in fact the announcement of the coming of the Lord where the Father has his revenge saving all life that he chooses with the faithfulness of his son.

The New Testament is about Jesus and his miracles are spontaneous. We must now live by the light of Jesus, looking to him when the devil bights us. Our wrongs are washed away by our belief in the blood of Christ.

About Jesus who was sacrifice

Mark 12, 28-31 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

29“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Mathew 18, 1-5 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Jesus has an obedient child accepts his fathers decisions

Mathew 16, 21-23 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Mathew 23, 11The greatest among you will be your servant.

Righteous people will sometime sacrifice themselves for the love of God by living a secluded life like so many congregations have done through the years. I do not believe in sacrifice without production, still God must appreciate every effort to please him. We must help others but we must also be in accordance with God. If God can destroy the world because mankind is ruining the better aspect of creation where spirituality exist like the shining light of love, God can also bring meaning to everything.

Luke 19 39-40 and some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples. 40 And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

Jesus man made flesh said:

John 19 … Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Mathew 12, 40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives

Luc 22, 42-44 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. 44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Was the sweat already blood or blood to be? To me it is the same greatness of reality where a divine healer will be put to the test of resurrection. Still we must consider the torture of our God made man in obedience to the greater part of himself, the father of all creation.

Jesus, who loved everyone, healed the sick, thought charity and the path to follow, had to pray for his soul in the pursuit of his# accomplishment. Jesus is God and said so himself in simple terms. He is God’s only son, light born from light. We must understand that such purity will be strong at its return. Jesus was on a mission for the father.

When I was an adolescent I read science-fiction comics and I still like the related cinema and series like Star Trek, they had good moral and meaning. What I mean to say is that it feels like reliving with Jesus what I often contemplated, that man has the universe inside of himself, for the simple reason that I believe that what ever we may think or imagine, exist in a dimension somewhere, what ever we learn exist and we are just comparing the notes that we find; this said, we must be careful not to sin by thought because it might affect our reality.

I like the following verses showing how Jesus is God.

Colossians 1, 12-20 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Those verses always have an interesting translation but the following might be more southing for the sinners that we are.

Colossians 1, 21-23 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

The good news of the Gospel is love resurrected, when we reach for that divine reality, our caprices become less interesting. It is impossible to have the smallest place in heaven unless we are saint. But we all had a moment when we felt love and charity and by so we know with what we must identify. The fact is that we just have to remember our redeemer. I must better myself a lot because the old man is still within me and the child must grow. Grace is always at hand but we must be careful of the worldly content surrounding us that can very easily impregnate us, so we must always remember that we are sinners and recall our Guide and try to imitate him. Every day we have occasions to redeem ourselves but we must keep hope that all is done by Jesus-Christ our saviour and remember him so.

The following verses show how mankind has not change for thousands of years, as Paul reminds us of philosophy.

Colossians 2, 6-10 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority

Today, I belie that we can have the luxury of philosophy in a learning process, as long as it does not interfere with our faith. I find it very surprising even shocking that so many people of different culture or social classes have a substantial library at their home but have never read the Bible or the New Testament that is so easy to go through. God knows the heart, which is why I ask for a small place in heaven; note that it is still making me a saint. The secret is to let him in and to recognise our faults that we want to be rid of and to pray and hope. Most importantly when we have faith is to keep it, we must regret our faults or our sins and repent, we must better ourselves in works and charity, and in some we must exercise ourselves in pleasing God. When we are honest in recognizing our true value for moving in the proper direction we can find our way with the help of God.

Mathew 7, 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

God knows our hearts and we can not cheat him.

Acts 4, 32-37 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.

36 Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”), 37 sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 5, 1-11 1 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

7 About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

9 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

Truthfulness is having. Someone who is truthful does is best.

Mathew 25, 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them

We must not just think of helping others, we must act.

Mathew 25, 31-36 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

The good news is that God resurrected his son our Lord. We can now profit from his grace and from the help of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit helps us to understand the suffering of the cross, which I believe to be the thirst of mankind calling for help and the resurrection is the hope that we keep.

1 Corinthians 1, 30-31 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

Bad news awaits those that do not believe in the innocence of God.

Hosea 6, 6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

This past verse tells me that God did not sacrifice Jesus but mankind did take that decision. Jesus obeyed the father’s whish and the father left mankind free to choose. God gave a ram caught to Abraham to free him from the grief of sacrificing his son. But effectively God demonstrated his power and his tolerance as his mercy rendering Jesus into flesh. We may very well comprehend what is the Lamb of God. To me it is the tenderness of a child. The scriptures may have been accomplished but I do believe that better sense from mankind would have pleased God. Compared to the parable of the vine growers, here, the son his resurrected but the faith of the wrong doers will be alike so let us not be so vein as not to admit our sins but to regret them and accept Jesus redemption. We must practice ourselves to do better with the help of prayers and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus has accomplished the scriptures and is the corner stone; he his symbolic for different Christian cultures and his origin is undeniable.

Hebrew 13, 9-16 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so 10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. 14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

John 6, 27-29 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” 28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

Ephesians 2, 8-10

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

1 John 4, 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

We understand very well that Jesus suffered as a martyr, died and was resurrected. Now we have an example to follow in hope for forgiveness and redemption for life. The more we pray the more we near God.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.