Born.Again.Christian.

The best thing a person can do when studying God is to step outside of oneself, to think outside of ones mind and to not interpret God through their own experiences or opinions. The biggest vice to the work of the Lord is our human emotions, for they blind us to the truth and convince us of what is incorrect. We must remember that God is an objective being. God does not alter in accordance with our mind set. People today interpret God in a subjective way. They allow their own experience of life to determine who God is. The more advance in life the person becomes the more experiences they encounter that further alter their perception of God, until there comes a point when their God is exactly that; he is their God, a figment of the imagination, something which they have sub-consciously created. They may have good-intentions and be wholly unaware of what they have done, but the god which they follow has in fact become themselves. They have begun to worship the creature rather than the c...

Jonah 1:17 – 2:10 After being thrown into the sea, Jonah is swallowed by a big fish (verse 17). Three days he resides in the belly of the fish before being vomited back up onto dry land (Jonah 2:10). This is a picture of the Lord Jesus who after being crucified descended into the depths of the earth in Sheol to preach to those in the grave and to retrieve the keys to death before rising up again on the third day. Matthew 27:50-52 “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His Spirit. Then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raise.” Ephesians 4:9 “Now this ‘He ascended’ – what does it mean but that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth?” Revelation 1:18 “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of dea...

Jonah 1:10-16 10  Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the  Lord , because he had told them.  11  Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?”—for the sea was growing more tempestuous.  12  And he said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest  is  because of me.”  13  Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them.  14  Therefore they cried out to the  Lord  and said, “We pray, O  Lord , please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O  Lord , have done as it pleased You.”  15  So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and ...

Jonah who gets eaten by a whale and vomited onto the beach after 3 days inside the fishes belly before going to preach to the city of Ninevah. From reading the well-known four-chapters long book, we can see the Lord Jesus portrayed through the character of Jonah and an illustration of God’s plan for salvation that He was to put in place through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Storm Read Jonah 1:3-9 and also the accounts of the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 & Luke 8:22-25. Jonah 1:3-9, Matthew 8:23-27, Luke 8:22-25 As we read, Jonah is on a boat going to Tarshish. A great storm comes. Jonah 1:4 states, “there was a mighty tempest on the sea.” In the same way Matthew 8:24 tells us how when the Lord Jesus and His disciples were crossing over the lake “a great tempest arose on the sea.” In both accounts Jonah and the Lord Jesus fall asleep during the storm whilst the other men onboard are incredibly afraid. ( Jonah 1:5 & Matthew 8:24 ) Both men are content d...

Today the word hope can be included in the same bracket as luck. The definition of the word in its modern sense is a desire. There is no basis in a hope today. It is mostly empty. When people say ‘I hope this happens’, the odds may be fifty fifty. The person may not have any control over the situation they are referring to, therefore all that is left for them to do is sit tight and ‘hope’ that the outcome is in their favour. Sometimes when you ask people if they think they are going to heaven after they die they reply ‘I hope so’; the word hope being used in the same context as when they hope some situation they’re in will turn out for their good, or when they hope that their favorite sports team will win. We only get one chance at this life. Hebrews 9:27 states that we have all been appointed a time to die once. This is literally a life and death situation. I don’t know about you but I do not want my destination after I die to be based upon a fleeting hope. It is to...

People often mock Christianity saying it is a crutch for the weak. I agree. Christianity is a crutch for the weak. I recognize that I am very weak in myself, incapable of doing even the small things correctly. I understand the fact that I do need a crutch to support me. My crutch is the Lord Jesus Christ and I lean on Him everyday. If I didn’t I would surely fall. If Phillipians 4:13 said, “I can do all things”, it would probably be the most popular verse in the Bible, but Philippians   4:13 doesn’t say that, instead it says “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. Matthew 10:27 agrees, stating “with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Christianity is a crutch, however when I lean on my stoop I am higher than all of those around me. People without this crutch go through their whole lives trying to live in their own strength, trying to become something in their own strength, but they will never find true rest. They wil...