Fill The Lamp

“The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.” 

But beware : faith that produces no hope ( Colossians 1:23 ), faith that produces no love ( Galatians 5:6 ), faith that produces no obedience ( Romans 1:5 ) is no saving faith

  Look to Christ. Look to him for the glory that he is in the gospel of his death and resurrection. See him and savor him as the image of the glory of God. And look to him in your suffering. Look to the things that are eternal. Look to Christ. Look to the glory of God. Taste him. Trust him. Be transformed by him.

If there are good deeds that need to be done, you don’t turn from faith to works. You lean all the more on Christ who will work in you what is pleasing in God’s sight

So, the first thing to learn about God and his response to hypocrisy is that God is just , and his just judgment is coming not only on the so-called pagan people who live in sin, but also on the moral and religious people who disdain the pagan people, while doing many things that show they don’t trust and love God . 

So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. 

“The only light in the universe that can bring light to the heart is the glory of God. If we exchange it for other things, we will live in darkness, no matter how brilliant we are or how many fires we may build or candles we may light.

Are there people in the world who have an excuse or a warrant to protest the wrath of God against them? And here is Paul’s answer: No. No one has an excuse. Everyone is guilty and deserves the wrath of God.

When we “ understand the enormity” of God’s Wrath. Believe me, this is so crucial because this is the way the gospel saves believers. If you don’t understand the gospel, if you don’t cherish it and look to it and feed on it day after day, it won’t save you..

There are people in the world right now, a couple of billion of them, who have little to no knowledge of the gospel . We don’t just go share the gospel with them among the nations because we want to. God, we do this because we must. We have an obligation to. We owe them the gospel. God, we are obligated to get the gospel to them in the church today

So, what is that face-to-face reward in relationships? It’s a unique spiritual gift that imparts unique spiritual strengthening.  

  I would submit to you that Christians should seek to be “Fanatics ” when it comes to praying.

There is a responsibility attaching to the term “Call”.  Those Called belong to Christ!  Their lives are His.

, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” The coming of the Son of God into the world was the coming of the “Son of David,” the promised King.

The gospel was promised in holy writings inspired by God; and the gospel is unfolded and preserved for us in holy writings inspired by God.   

Paul is saying that he was set apart from the time before he was born. That’s amazing. You know why that’s amazing? Because the detour between the setting apart and the Damascus road is horrendous, isn’t it? He’s a murderer. He’s a hater of Christians. He’s a persecutor of the church

If you’re a Christian today, you are doubly owned by God. You are owned by virtue of creation and you are owned by virtue of purchase. You are doubly not your own — doubly his. He owns you . 

Greed has corrupted this culture, from the least to the greatest: all are tainted with this lust for what they don’t deserve. The prophets and priests are no better . Their lives reek with deceit .   Jeremiah 6:13

True beauty, purpose, and satisfaction in marriage come when we reflect the true nature of the One that satisfies us completely and eternally Jesus Christ .    By his life and death, Jesus displays the center of marriage as self-sacrifice.

Above all, have fervent and unfailing love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins [it overlooks unkindness and unselfishly seeks the best for others ] 1Peter 4:8-10

But if you reject the one who speaks from heaven and, like Esau, prefer the fragile, shaky kingdom of this world, then you will meet the consuming fire of God as destruction and not deliverance.

There are many that are on the way to heaven who yet walk but half-heartedly and lamely in it. Such are apt to discourage one another and hinder one another; but it is their duty to take courage, and act by faith, and so help one another forward in the way to heaven.

To be tormented and to go on in sin without a rebuke, is a sad sign of separation from God; The Bible says, such are bastards, not sons. They may call him Father, because they are born in the light of the church, but they are the counterfeit offspring of another father, not of God, Heb. 12:7, 8 .

Discipline is the spiritual prescription needed, for the immature Christians life. There were no hardships that Paul come against that could ever keep him from the prize that awaited him in the end.

The Bride that He (Jesus) is coming for is not in bits and pieces, or you might say denominational or religious movements .  Leadership Must teach and expose the Sin that condemns. Repentance is the same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow