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Politicians generally have a poor reputation. Young political minds generally aspire to become politicians to try and fix the problems caused by current politicians. Rarely is a politician looked upon favourably, although there are some. Most often the reason politicians have a poor reputation is because they make all sorts of promises, but then never really act on them. A politician who makes extravagant claims but does not act upon them is not to be trusted. He is a liar and the reason for why politicians have such bad reputations. However, a politician who makes claims and backs them up by putting them into practice is to be trusted, for he has proven that he is credible. The same principle is true for the Bible. The Bible makes extravagant claims, however unlike politicians; the Bible goes further and backs up its claims with actions. This is how we know that the Bible can be trusted as God’s Word. Our trust is not based on the claims alone. It is based on the f...

There is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ. In John 14:6 Jesus states “I am the way the truth and the life, nobody comes to the Father except through Me.” However there are two ways we can approach God. We can either approach God based on His goodness or we can approach God based on our sin and shortcomings. We can praise God for His goodness or we can seek God and cry out in repentance of our sin. The Psalms uses these two approaches throughout. Many Psalms praise the goodness of the Lord and his attributes, whilst others cry out to Him in anguish of the writer’s sin. Psalm 45 focuses solely on God’s goodness. Psalm 45:2-3 “Everyday I will bless You and I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.” Psalm 118 too focuses upon God’s goodness: Psalm 118:1 “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.” Nothing is greater t...

The final chapter in Joshua: Joshua, before his death in verse 29, speaks to the people of Israel , whom He had led into the promised land, at Shechem, remembering all that the Lord had done for them and makes a covenant with God to serve Him and only Him. Joshua 24:13-14 13  I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’ 14  “Now therefore, fear the Lord , serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt . Serve the Lord ! Here we are given yet another picture of the gospel of Christ and the mercy of God toward His people. Verse 13: God has blessed his people immensely. He has taken them out of Egypt were they were slaves and brought them into a land of great abundance. There, He delivered to them cities which they did not build and vineyards an...

Matthew 5:16 " Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." Have we begun to misunderstand the meaning of shining our light before men? People have come to interpret this command as living a life of good works and happy smiles, as if this make themselves a 'better Christian' and somehow points others towards God, but this is a grave misinterpretation. Many cowardly Christians, the most cowardly of all, use this verse as an excuse not to confess Christ before men. They state that actions speak louder than words and therefore devote their lives to actions and charitable deeds whilst staying quiet; not because of any sincere belief that they hold to, but rather because it is convenient for them to hide away from their duty to preach the Gospel of Christ behind their good works. By shining their light, these types of people are are not showing the glory of God any more than the unsaved charitable person...

This is not a post on whether we as Christians can hear God's voice and guidance in our personal lives. Of course we can and as witnesses of God and children adopted into His family we can come to Him with confidence that He hears and answers us. This post is regarding whether God speaks to us His word today directly, as He did in Bible times. Every now and then you come across certain people who claim to be prophets of God. You hear people begin sentences with words such as "Thus says the Lord...". If you hear people say this, do not listen. Everything in the motions of redemptive history has been completed. From the physical claiming of a nation and land to the incarnation of Christ Jesus who made salvation available to us all. For now, in this age God's revelation to us is complete. Through the Bible we now know the mystery of the gospel, which was revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. The ability to speak God's Word has nothing to do with time periods or ...

Leviticus 25 tells us about the year of Jubilee. The year of Jubilee occured every 50 years. There were 49 years and then the 50th year would be the Jubilee year. ( Leviticus 25:8 ). The Jubilee was known as the Sabbath of Sabbaths. It was ultimate thing, just as the inner santuary of the Tabernacle was known as the Holy of Holies, or Jesus is the King of Kings. The sabbath was the seventh day of the week. In Leviticus 25:1-7 God instructs the Israelites not only to keep the sabbath on the seventh day of the week, but also to keep the seventh year as a sabbath year of rest for the land. Leviticus 25:1-7: And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2  “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord . 3  Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; 4  but in the seventh year there shall be a sabba...

Imagine if you and your best friend are in a life and death situation, and your friend chooses to die so that you may live. Your friend volunteers himself to die instead of you. If this were to happen, how would you live your life? You would try your utmost to ensure that you lived your life from that moment on in a way that bears a good testimony to the sacrifice your friend has made for you. You would live your life in a way that would be worthy of the sacrifice made. You would not waste a second of your precious life, because you would know at what great a cost it has been bought with - your friend's life. You would make sure as many people as possible knew what your friend had done for you. You would try your hardest to make sure you live a worthwhile life and help others, just as your friend helped you. You would do this because you would be so grateful to your friend and what he did and also because you would consider it unconscionable to not live in a way that would br...

If you read any of the other blogs on this page then it will be common knowledge to you that one day you must stand before God to be held accountable according to His law - a law, from which we know that we have all broken by reading the 10 Commandments. If you have broken God's law, then justice demands that you must bear the punishment, just in the same way as if you appeared in your local criminal court and had been found guilty of a crime you would have to pay the price. If you were found guilty of a crime in your local criminal court, it would not matter how sorry you are, or how much of a good person you usually are; if you have broken the law then you must bear the punishment. But, what about if you were to make a guilty plea?  In English law, a person has the chance to reduce their sentence by choosing to plead guilty. How much their sentence will be reduced by will depend upon when they makes their guilty plea. In English law it is possible to have your sentence ...

Genesis 24 is a fine picture of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this chapter Abraham makes a covenant with his servant, that his servant will not take a daughter from Cannaan to become Isaac's wife, but will find one from Abraham's country. The servant with the help of the angel of the Lord (v.7) travels to Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq) to find a wife for Isaac. Here we begin to recognise the picture. Abraham, as always, represents God the Father, whilst Isaac the son represents Jesus who is searching for a bride. Marriage is a picture of the relationship with God that we can enjoy through Christ. As believers we become spiritually married to Christ. Hosea 2:19-20 "And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. I will take you for my wife in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord." John 3:29 "You yourself bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Chr...

Does God hear the prayer of a sinner who has not put his trust in Christ, or is He only able to hear the prayers and supplications of those who are saved by Christ? In answering this question it is important that you do not allow your emotions to cloud your judgment, for this question carries many emotional connotations. For from this question, many specific questions can be asked such as, were the prayers of those in Autswitch heard by God or, where the prayers of those unsaved in 9/11 heard? Such questions are endless and divert the focus of the question from the infallible truth of God to our own fallible emotions.   With regards to such questions it is important to understand two things: 1.          In terrible events where people have suffered and died, it seems unconscionable to our way of thinking that some of those people who died in grave circumstances would be apart from God or that God would not have heard their prayers b...

The church has been fooled and hoodwinked. The individuals within the church have become unknowingly decieved. Many Christians have become misguided and warped in their personal application of their well-intentioned faith in God. Many Christians have lost sight of what being a Christian is. The devil has been able to bring this state about with little opposition or struggle because he has cleverly played on our greatest weakness - our pride. The same pride that led the devil to believe he was as great as God, resulting in him being cast down to earth from heaven - like lightening he fell, that same pride that so easily ensnares us, the devil has used to puff us up to the point where we have lost sight of what faith in God really is. A principle of our nature that will never change is that we love to exalt ourselves. It is this trait that is so natural to us that has allowed the devil to so easily infiltrate our reltionship with God. That self-exalting nature that we possess is so s...