Titles of Satan

1. Beelzebub
Matthew 12:24
Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”

2. Morning star
Isaiah 14:12
“How you are fallen from heaven,
 O Lucifer, son of the morning!
 How you are cut down to the ground,
 You who weakened the nations!

3. The prince of this world
John  14:30
The firstborn of the poor will feed,
 And the needy will lie down in safety;
 I will kill your roots with famine,
 And it will slay your remnant.

4. The god of this age
2 Corinthians 4:4
whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

5. The ruler of the kingdom of the air
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

6. The powers of this dark world
Ephesians 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

7. The angel (of the Abyss)
Revelation  9:11
And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

[Message No: 7044]

Good Things That Does not Save a Soul – Acts 10:3

Seeing Vision – Acts 10:3
One day at about three in the afternoon  he had a vision.  He distinctly saw an angel  of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

Being Righteous – Acts 10:22
The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man,  who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”

Good Testimony – Acts 10:22
The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man,  who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”

1 Corinthians 9:19

“Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.”

Grace frees us from the law of sin and death. But, our freedom is not to be used for rebellion or for self-gratification. Instead, we are to use our freedom redemptively, just as Jesus did (cf. Philippians 2:5-11).

We can voluntarily limit that freedom to help others still caught in bondage to sin and false ideas about God. We can use the freedom of the Spirit to be transformed to be like Christ (2 Corinthians 3:17-18). Let's use our freedom to rejoice and to bless.

Questions in 2 Chronicles

10:9
He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

1:16
When all Israel  saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:
  “What share do we have in David,
 what part in Jesse’s son?
 To your tents, Israel!
 Look after your own house, David!”
  So all the Israelites went home.

[Message No: 7043]

The Word of God – Nehemiah 8:1-8

When Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in 444 B.C.,  Ezra was already there, instructing the people of God’s  law. When the work of rebuilding was completed, Ezra held a great “Bible conference” during the Feast of Tabernacles. The emphasis in chapter 8 is on “the Book” [vv. 1,3,5,8,18].
They  honoured God’s Word by standing when it was opened [v.5], listening when it was  read, and seeking to understand it when it was explained [vv.2-3, 7-8, 12-13].
They  rejoiced  at understanding the Word  [v. 12] and at obeying the Word [v. 17; James 1:25]

Questions in 1 Chronicles

19:3
the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Haven’t his envoys come to you only to explore and spy out  the country and overthrow it?”

21:3
But Joab replied, “May the Lord multiply his troops a hundred times over.  My lord the king, are they not all my lord’s subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

21:17
David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd, have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep.  What have they done? Lord my God, let your hand fall on me and my family,  but do not let this plague remain on your people.”

Deuteronomy 10:21

“He is your praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.”

He is our praise! The God who parted the Red Sea and supplied manna to the Israelites in the wilderness is also the God who did the most amazing miracles in us — he has turned our selfish hearts to do his will and turned our lives to do his eternal work in the world. Then, after doing those things in us, he has gifted us and empowered us to do those things he has placed in our hearts. He is our praise, the One we worship and the One who makes us worthy worshipers!

[Message No: 7042]

Questions in Romans – 3

6:2
Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

6:3
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

6:15
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

6:16
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

6:21
What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

7:1
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

7:13
Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Thoughts 

"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after." - Thomas Fuller

[Message No: 7041]

The never failing God

Psalm 25:14
The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him,
 And He will show them His covenant.

God Say-So

Hebrew 13:5-6
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we may boldly say:
  “The Lord is my helper;
 I will not fear.
 What can man do to me?”

The Poor 

Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty,
 But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.

Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not rob the poor because he is poor,
 Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
  For the Lord will plead their cause,
 And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

Proverbs 22:7
The rich rules over the poor,
 And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Work out what God works In

Philippians 2:12-13
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

[Message No: 7040]

Reverence

Joshua 4:24

He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God. —

God brought the Israelites miraculously through the Jordan River during the flood season because of his love and grace and to fulfil his promises to them.

But he was also making an important statement about himself and his people. He always wanted Israel to "reverence" him. In addition, he wanted Israel's enemies to quake with fear. They did. And God won a great victory for himself and his people because of his faith.

Christians must not practice evil:

They must put away all evil – 1 Peter 2:1
Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking

They must not use  their liberty as a cover  for wickedness – 1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

They abhor (hate) evil -Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

They overcome evil with good – Romans 12:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

God’s Voice Then and Now

Genesis 12:1-7
To understand how God may be speaking to us today, we should first examine how He spoke in the past. What made His voice so clear to the heroes of faith?

Through the various methods, the Lord has continually reassured His people that He cares for them and is present at their side. This is certainly much-needed encouragement for our lives. Yet God may not choose to convey a message in the same way He’s done in the past. However, we know His voice is always clear in His Word when we’re willing to listen.

[Message No: 7039]

The Victorious Life

1 Samuel 17:12-51

This is truly an amazing story—we rarely hear of anything this miraculous in our world today. But we, like David, can live triumphantly, even in the midst of terrifying and seemingly impossible circumstances. First, we need to understand success from the Lord’s perspective: Goals should align with Scripture; then our Father directs us, and we follow with confidence.

Teaching on Separation

From the world – John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you  out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

From the Sinners – Hebrew 7:26
Such a high priest  truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners,  exalted above the heavens

From Unbelievers – 2 Corinthians 6:14
 Do not be yoked together  with unbelievers.  For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore,
  “Come out from them
 and be separate,
 says the Lord.
 Touch no unclean thing,
 and I will receive you.”

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." —

We have two choices for our lives. Either we can live by faith or by sight. We can trust in God's abiding presence and power or we can depend upon our own resources. But wealth, like health, status, and reputation are all subject to decay and disappearance. Only one Source is always there for us and we know we can depend upon him, because he has been there for so many who have come before us. Never is forever and this one never I cherish: "Never will I forsake you!"

[Message No: 7038]

God never says “NO”

[God never says “NO” to anyone who comes to Him in Faith]

Matthew 7:7-11
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Matthew 17:20
So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Yes – But

Luke 9:61
And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”

God First

John 2:24-25
But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.

Matthew 1:20-21

An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." —

Jesus first had to become the sins of the people before he could save them (us) from those sins (2 Cor. 5:21; 1 John 4:10). His own people rejected him before his forgiveness could be received. Jesus' gift of salvation was incredibly costly to him. It is a reminder of two great truths: God loves us incredibly and salvation is a precious gift. In Jesus we know and experience both truths!

[Message No: 7037]