Showing posts with label will of god. Show all posts
Showing posts with label will of god. Show all posts

Friday 1 October 2010

Rapture articles

In so many letters I receive I am questioned about dead, life after dead, purgatory, hell, heaven and about a rapture, that I find int necessary to publish my articles on the Rapture already before I got totally ready with restoring all the pages of the Belgian Christadelphian Website.

Unamended Christadelphians feel that the Amended will not accept them for their stand that "covenant relationship brings responsibility" not that "knowledge brings responsibility" that the Amended teach according to them.
We think every person is responsible for what he or she is doing and at the end times all people shall be brought forwards to appear in front of the judgement-seat of Jesus Christ.
At the appearing of Christ prior to the establishment of the Kingdom, the responsible (faithful and unfaithful), dead and living of both classes, will be summoned before his judgement-seat, because all the dead shall be brought back to life.  We look in the articles how those resurrected shall have to come forwards to be judged according to their works; and receive in body according to what they have done, whether it be good or bad.
It is not because you are baptised that you can go into unlawful or immoral actions, because you are saved. Every baptised person has to live accordingly his faith and the Will of God.
Is it not so that if we know something we do have to react to it or handle according to it. When we got to know God, do we not have to place Him somewhere in our life? Then when we get to know Jesus and accept him as our saviour, do we not have to follow this master teacher? Therefore if people want to honour God do they not have to act properly to the wishes of this God. So this knowledge of God and His son would bring certain responsibilities, would it not?
If we do not live according to the wishes and the Will of God, we may forget it. then we shall be sinners and be judged likewise.
On how this judgement is going to fulfilment the Rapture articles try to bring an answer.

The Rapture


Rapture Exposed
1.       Rapture what does it mean?
2.       The Rapture or admittance with Christ
3.       Gather together with Jesus Christ
4.       Raptured in clouds





Atonement

Dead and after

Destination of righteous

Destination of the earth

Evil in the Bible

Fallen Angels

God's design in the creation of theworld

God's His reward

God's promises

Hope

Kingdom of God what will it be like

New covenant

One mediator

Patient waiting

Ressurection of Jesus Christ

Satan or the devil

Sheol or the grave

Soul

Thursday 3 June 2010

Heavenly creatures do they exist

We can see people around us and some of them say they have some unseen creatures on their right and left shoulder. Some people say they have a guardian angel.

What do you believe? Are there such things which are called angels, and what or whom do they present?

Are angels imaginable creations or just figments of the artist's imagination in religious paintings down the centuries? Is there really something out there we ought to know about? Is it important to know if they exist?

Several Christians believe in good and bad angels. They think devils are angels who followed the Cherub Satan who riposted against God. If devils are angels who did not follow the Will of God, you could say that it where angels who sinned, because when we do not follow the Will of God we sin. But can angels sin?

POSSIBLE ANSWERS:

- Yes. Lucifer was an angel and he sinned.
- Angels can do nothing as they are mythological creatures.
- Angel means messenger. Human messengers can sin. Heavenly ones cannot sin.
- Angels are immortal and therefore cannot sin.
- Don't know.

GO TO www.thisisyourbible.com TO SUBMIT YOUR ANSWER.

We as Christadelphians believe that for everything in life we can find the answers in the Holy Scriptures. But when taking up the Bible we do have to take inconsideration what is meant by certain words.

The English word "angel" comes from the Greek angelos, which means 'messenger'. In the Old Testament, with two exceptions, the Hebrew word for "angel" is malak, also meaning 'messenger'. The prophet Malachi took his name from this word. He was himself a messenger, and he prophesied about the coming of "the messenger of the covenant", Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:1).
Although the word "angel" in the Bible, meaning a messenger, nearly always applies to heavenly beings, it can occasionally apply to human messengers. Malachi himself said a priest was a messenger (malak) of the LORD of hosts (Malachi 2:7), and in the Book of Revelation the elders of the seven churches of Asia were called angels (1:20; 2:1 etc.). But when we meet messengers doing supernatural things, there is no doubt they are heavenly beings - God's messengers, working for Him and for the ultimate benefit of mankind.
We as Christadelphians believe that God works on man's behalf through His hosts of messenger servants.

We believe that there are forces which are God's forces. They are "his angels", "his hosts", and they are "his ministers", doing His pleasure. In other words, the Only One Creator God of gods has total control over them and all other members of His creation. Those angels which have been at work on behalf of God and man "excel" in strength and they have more than enough power to complete their commissions.

Find some further answers:

Evil in the bible

Satan or the devil

Lucifer

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Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Bestaat er iets als engelen en kunnen die zondigen

Tuesday 9 March 2010

God’s word…is a comfort to the one who yields to God’s will

‘God’s word…is a comfort to the one who yields to God’s will. It will be felt as a
threat and a warning to the one who stubbornly resists it.’ (John Watts,
Isaiah 34–66, Waco: Word, 1987, pp. 247)

Thursday 3 December 2009

Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside

"... the beauty of holiness, the expression of worship, is something which breaks through from inside. It is centred in a heart filled with reverent fear, seeking to discover the will of God and to answer it in humble joy; a life trembling at His word and responsive to His command; walking in the way of God’s appointment, whatever it may be, like sheep content with the pasture which the shepherd has selected; a life of holiness unfolding the beauty which glorifies God.

The phrase occurs in Psalm 29:2, one more proof that worship is achieved by giving glory to God: “Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” If we seek to do the first in the regular exercise of the life of faith, we shall thereby worship the great God in the daily experience of discipleship.

Psalm 115 reveals a great principle—that men become like the God they worship—false or true. The end of true worship is Godlikeness. This principle is at the root of a great New Testament word: “We shall be like him”. But one thing is essential—that the worship is true."

- Dennis Gillett
The Genius of Discipleship
Worship - Part 2
The Beauty of Holiness
Continue reading > Doctrine and Conduct Cause and Effect
+ Acknowledge the majesty of the Lord’s reputation!
+ Prayer: Blessed be the name of Jehovah

Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling > Schoonheid van heiligheid

worship
worship (Photo credit: vicki wolkins)

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Friday 17 April 2009

Commit your self to the trustworthy creator

Dutch version / Nederlands > Verbindt u met de geloofwaardige Schepper

“So, then, also let those doing good continue to suffer in harmony with the will of The God, committing their souls to a trustworthy Creator.” (1Pe 4:19 MHM)
“For it is better for persons to suffer because of doing good–if that be the wish and will of The God–than be persons suffering for doing bad.” (1Pe 3:17 MHM)
“And so I continue to suffer as I do. However, I am not ashamed, for I know the One in whom I believe, and I am persuaded he is able to guard what I have laid up in trust until that Day.” (2Ti 1:12 MHM)
“Because this is the will of The God that those doing good muzzle ignorant and senseless persons.” (1Pe 2:15 MHM)

“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:” (Ps 146:5 ASV)

“Devolve upon Jehovah thy ways, And trust in him, and he will bring it to pass.” (Ps 37:5 Calvin_Bible)
“Into thy hand I will commend my spirit; For thou hast redeemed me, O Jehovah! God of truth.” (Ps 31:5 Calvin_Bible)
“I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;” (Isa 51:12 ASV)
“[The God] will reward each one in harmony with [their] works. Indeed, to those who endure in good works–glory, honor, and incorruption to those searching for everlasting life. But, to those who out of selfishness disobey the truth, obeying rather unrighteousness–wrath, anger,” (Ro 2:6-8 MHM)


Friday 30 January 2009

Man's plans prevailed by God's purpose


Proverbs 19:20-21 Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.





Thoughts
Phil Ware    "What are your plans for today?" If you are like me, you prayerfully try to plan your day. You make appointments with people in the future so you can address their needs, hear their concerns, or discuss issues and projects. But, we need to always live humbly, recognizing that none of our plans will be of value unless those plans come from the Father!

Prayer
    Holy God and righteous Father, please bless me as I seek to discern your will in my decisions today. I recognize that each breath that I take is a gift and that each success is because of your grace. Please use me to your glory and help me find your path for my life. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

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Friday 23 January 2009

Bric-a-brac of the Bible

SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

The Bible, so we are told by the Rev. Roswell D. Hitchcock in a book published in 1870, contains exactly 773,692 words. Of these, 592,439 are in the Old Testament and 181,253 are in the New Testament. The Rev. Mr. Hitchcock was quite a Biblical statistician. He writes just how many chapters there are, how many verses, and, if you have a head for figures, how many letters (!) there are in the Authorized Version. (All right, if you must know: there are 3,566,480 letters in the Bible, of which 838,380 are in the New Testament; a simple exercise in subtraction will give you the number in the Old Testament, though I don’t think that knowing this will help you much.”

  Nor does it lift your soul much higher to know that the middle verse of the Bible is Psalm 118:8; or that the word “Jehovah” occurs 6,855 times and the word “and” is used 46,227 times, 10,684 of them in the New Testament. But to the Rev. Mr. Hitchcock these things were important - though imagine, if you will, the painstaking care he must have taken to establish his facts! And consider how irritated he would justifiably have been if he had lived to see a computer do all this mammoth chore in a matter of minutes or less!

  No, these things, although perhaps of passing interest, are not the stuff of which salvation is made; they are the mere bric-a-brac of the Bible, yet they suggest something that might be worthy of our consideration. WHY did the reverend gentleman spend his time counting the letters of the Bible? No one, to my knowledge, has ever counted the words that Shakespeare wrote - nor would anyone want to. And certainly no one ever pored over Shakespeare to find out how many letters there are in his complete works. Why then, do people do this to the Bible?

  Ah, we may say, that is the point. And the point is this: the Bible has a fascination that no other book or collection of books has. Moreover, its fascination lies in its unity and its diversity, its simplicity and its complexity, its singularity and its variety. For a book with all the possibilities of confusion, it has a marvellous clarity of message. But H.L. Hastings says this so much better:
  “The authorship of this book is wonderful. Here are words written by kings, by emperors, by princes, by poets, by sages, by philosophers, by fishermen, by statesmen; by men learned in the wisdom of Egypt, educated in the schools of Babylon, trained up at the feet of rabbis in Jerusalem. It was written by men in exile, in the desert, in shepherds’ tents, in “green pastures” and “beside still waters.” Among its authors we find the tax-gatherer, the herdsman, the gatherer of sycamore fruit; we find poor men, rich men, statesmen, preachers, exiles, captains, legislators, judges; men of every grade and class are represented in this wonderful volume, which is in reality a library filled with history, genealogy, ethnology, law, ethics, prophecy, poetry, eloquence, medicine, sanitary science, political economy and perfect rules for the conduct of personal and social life. It contains all kinds of writing; but what a jumble it would be if sixty-six books were written in this way by ordinary men!”

  Indeed, what a jumble! But yet this Book was, in a sense, written by “ordinary men” - though there was precious little opportunity for collaboration between most of them. As one writer says on the point:

  “Altogether about forty persons, in all stations of life, were engaged in the writing of these oracles, the work of which was spread over a period of about 1,600 years.

  And herein lies the sum of the troubles of mankind, whether he be agnostic or theologian, saint or infidel, churchman or atheist. And what is more, here is the issue on which Christendom has split itself down the middle for centuries: its attitude to the Word of God! Incredible but true. Some have torn this Book to shreds; others have enthusiastically acknowledged it without question. Hastings says (not without irony): “The Bible is a book which has been refuted, demolished, overthrown, and exploded more times than any other book you ever heard of .....They overthrew the Bible in Voltaire’s time - entirely demolished the whole thing. In less than a hundred years, said Voltaire, Christianity will have been swept from existence, and will have passed into history ....But the Word of God “lives and abides for ever.” And in the same house where this same Voltaire lived, there is now a printing press which operates for the Bible Society, daily giving the lie to Voltaire’s sceptical prediction.

  By way of contrast to Voltaire and his friends, consider the famous statement made by Dr. Chillingworth nearly one hundred and thirty years ago: “The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants! .... I for my part, after a long and impartial search of the true way to eternal happiness, do profess plainly that I cannot find any rest for the sole of my foot but upon this rock only. There is no sufficient certainty but of Scripture only for any considering man to build upon. This, therefore, and this only, I have reason to believe; this I will profess; according to this I will live, and for this if there be occasion, I will not only willingly, but even gladly, lose my life, though I should be sorry that Christians should take it from me. Propose me anything out of this Book, and require whether I believe it or no, and seem it never so incomprehensible to human reason, I will subscribe it with hands and heart, as knowing no demonstration can be stronger than this: God has said so, therefore it is true.”

  There is something in us that responds to the old fashioned ring which that plain statement has to it. Would to God that our modern theologians and all our leading ecclesiastics would make statements like that today - instead of sniping at the authenticity of the Word of God, instead of questioning its inspiration, instead of branding it a collection of myths and fables. We need ten thousand Dr. Chillingworths in our pulpits today; with declarations such as that afore-mentioned, the preachers would set their pulpits on fire and their congregations would flock to hear them.

  Or, if there were no Dr. Chillingworths around, perhaps a Robert F. Horton would do just as well. Listen to what he wrote about the Scriptures in 1891:

  “On what ground do we believe that the Bible is inspired? Some will give the ready answer, ‘We believe that the Bible is inspired because the church says so.’ Others there are who, when asked why they believe the Bible to be inspired, would reply, ‘It is because we have found it to be so practically; by reading we have found our way to God; by searching it the will of God has become clearer to us; by living according to its precepts we have proved that it is Divine; and now its words move us as no other words do: other books delight us, instruct us, thrill us, but this book speaks with a demonstrable truthfulness concerning the temporal and the unseen.’..... The people who answer in this way certainly seem to render a more solid reason than those who found their assertion about inspiration upon the tradition of an authoritative church.”

  That is the crux of the whole matter; the Good Book is God’s Book. It is best known, as Robert Horton has just reminded us, “by reading, .... by searching .... by living its precepts.” Anyone who has any doubts of its power and its authorship need only follow this simple formula to find out the indisputable truth.

 - John Aldersley