Episode 154

Pleasing God is a great privilege but very few do that. From the beginning men have failed to please God, reason they were immersed in pleasing themselves! This is the root cause of sin. Pleasing self is a charateristic of immense selfishness. Enoch pleased God in the OT and Jesus pleased God in the NT. Both of them are with God in heaven in a special way!! God pleasers have certain traits which a...

Impatience is a curse! No human being ever benefitted by impatience! God is long suffering with His creation and He has put in it to be patient to become productive! Everything is designed for its time and for this we need patience. Waiting can be good or bad depending upon the disposition of the person. Godly people have learnt to be patient because they are prudent. On the other hand the ungodly...

Christian ministry can be done in many ways and is being done in many ways - but mostly in an ungodly and unbiblical way! This is shocking and sad to any true saint of God. Christian ministry must be done as per the Scriptures of the Bible. God has set His order clearly and communicated it well to His people. It is a great responsibility to know the will of God about the work of God and do it acco...

The ability to think is a great boon to humanity! God in His grace has bestowed this supreme power to think rationally to human beings. Sin corrupted the mind and our thinking is flawed. Our education, experience and expertise cannot help us to think in a God honouring and God pleasing way. Because of our sinful nature we think sinfully. We cannot think spiritually till the day we are redeemed by...

The Second Coming of Jesus Christ is a hot topic yet the most misunderstood topic! People have created various speculations, calculations and brought in differing interpretations of the subject. It is wise to humble ourselves and go to the Scriptures to learn about our Saviour’s Second Coming from them with an open heart and by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. God will reveal the truth to all sinc...

There is power, power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the Lamb! The blood of Jesus Christ was poured out upon the cross for the remission of our sin, for the redemtion of our soul and for the restoration of our self with God. God Almighty is to be praised, worshipped, honoured and glorified for this great work of salvation. The Bible teaches much about the blood of Jesus. Some of th...

Israel is in dire situation today. There is lot of unrest and chaos in Israel. Israel though a prized possession of the Lord God Almighty yet always suffered due to its waywardness and wickedness. Gradually, liberals are growing in Israel who want to take over the nation and make it totally and sinfully secular instead of being a spiritual and special Jewish State! We as the children of God need t...

Thirst for God is normal for a true believer in Christ! After finding God as the source of life, every saint thirsts after Him day in and day out. But whenever anyone feels self-sufficient, he goes down the trail! Due to the persisiting problem with self many times believers get sidetracked from this great pursuit in life. Our souls must thirst for God all the days of our lives just as the deer pa...

All of us are guilty of displeasing the Lord in one way or the other. But as we walk with Him in sincerity and grow spiritually, we must decrease in doing it. As we mature we make it our aim to please the Lord and not cause any displeasure to His holy heart. In Christendom today, very few think on these lines and work to that end. Majority are deeply interested in pleasing themselves, even at the...

Submission to God in life is of the highest order. It is the smartest move by any person. Especially, those who claim to be believers in Christ must submit to God in all areas of life at the earliest. We must not have any reservations, any reasons or any excuses for not submitting to God. The all wise God commands us to submit to Him for a valid reason. Through submission to God’s authority we res...

Preaching and teaching the Scriptures is a sacred work. A man must be saved, sanctified, and sent to preach the Word of God to the world. In our day we find very few godly preachers who are anointed by the Holy Spirit, approved by God and are qualified to do the holy ministry. More and more unregenerate fellows are coming into the sacred space and spoiling the work of God. As Christian disciples e...

Revival is eagerly sought after by many in Christendom without much thought or willing to pay the price! Revival is not produced by human beings, it is purely divine. Men can only take an emotional experience and can hype it up so much by giving it a name ‘heaven sent revival!’ This will die down soon without producing any lasting spiritual fruit. Biblical Revivals are unique, powerful and valuabl...

For most people living life is just a matter of personal choices and worldly ambitions! They do not seek to know the purpose of life as long as they can have the pleasures of life! People do not embrace higher purpose - like knowing God and living for Him selflessly. They simply try to live without pressures and with much pleasures. God in Christ has revealed Himself and His holy purpose to us. We...

Most Christians are not obedient to the Scriptures in our day! This is quite obvious when you survey the present day Christianity! We have many professors and few practitioners! God and His Word are dishonoured in the Church by both clergy and laity! We need to repent of this sin and return to our Sovereign Lord before it is too late. We become stumbling block to all who desire to come to Christ w...

Gossip is deadly! Gossip is a disease of the soul! Gossip is a sin, it is a crime. Gossip defiles us and destroys us. God severely warned His people to shun gossip at all costs. Gossip is of the devil and the children of God must not have anything to do with it. There is much gossip in the church today which is detrimental to the body of Christ and His holy name. God’s work suffers due to sinful g...

Prayer is the breath of a believer. All said and done very few actually pray effectively and regularly. We need to learn to pray and pray more in these perilous times. Prayerlessness is eating up the lives of many so called Christians! We need to pray more for divine wisdom, strength, favour and protection upon our lives daily. We should be under God at all times in all things, only prayer can hel...

The world is full of popularity mongers - both in the country and the church! Man is by default an attention seeker. Christendom is filled with popularity craze people all over the world. This is not good for the body of Christ. Our Lord avoided popularity at every instance and taught His disicples to be service oriented and not status oriented. The born again Christians must walk after the Spirit...

God’s Word is compared to fire and hammer. Both are very powerful pictures of God’s Word in action. God’s Word is wheat and the false prophets word is chaff! Today what we need is the wheat of the Word to sustain us and not the chaff to suffocate us to death. Millions are fooled by the false prophets day in and day out. Millions are feeding upon the chaff instead of the wheat. The Lord God will us...

More and more people who claim to be Christians are tolerating sin in all of its forms! This is unbiblical and ungodly. As saints we are called to fight against sin and evil on behalf of the Lord Jesus Christ. How can a person who is filled and led by the Holy Spirit tolerate rampant wickedness, ungodliness, demonism and impurity in the church? Something is wrong very badly. All the disciples of J...

Our Lord Jesus takes the Pharisees and the Scribes to task. He exposes their gross hypocrisy and hardness of the heart. They were hardcore legalists and experts in majoring on minors and minoring on majors! This should be avoided by all means by the Christians. We must follow the Lord as per the leading of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit will enable us to live by the Holy Scriptures in the right way a...

There are many controversies about Christmas. People love it and hate it for many reasons. When we realise the true meaning behind Christmas and commemorate the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ in humble worship it becomes a blessing to us. We take the opportunity to glorify God and do good to others by sharing the Gospel with all. May we have the Spirit of Christ and exalt Christ alone in Christmas...

God commanded both the heathen and the Christian to be still before Him! The heathen must cease from their rebellion against God and the christian must cease from his running around to find solutions for his problems. God is sovereign and greatly exalted above all the earth. God solves the problems of both sinners and saints through Jesus Christ. Let all Christian believers learn to be still befor...

Blasphemy is evil and it should never take root in any heart. Men blaspheme God and man for various reasons. the Bible condemns all such blasphemy as it will result in deadly consequences. In this episode we will briefly look at some of the truths taught about blasphemy in the New Testament. If our hearts are surrendered to God through the new birth by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, then we are s...

Christians receive amazing crowns from their Lord for their faithful living and serving. The New Testament teaches us about these crowns. We must take time to study about these truths and then live in such a way to receive them. It is not for the sake of the reward but for the sake of pleasing our Lord and blessing others in the process. May we all use our God given opportunities wisely and be rew...

On 15th November 2022 the world's population crossed 8 billion mark!! As the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ we must be mindful of them and pray for their salvation. We need to ask God to send labourers into the harvest as it is ripe and plenty. We must be more focussed on eternal things and do our bidding in the strength of the Lord by the anointing of the Spirit. May we Christians sense the u...