Believing in Jesus Christ

 

 Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord

To say that one who wishes to be saved can be saved without believing in Jesus Christ is heresy of the worst kind. Clearly, believing in Jesus Christ is necessary for our salvation. Believing in Jesus Christ is the only thing that gives us eternal life. We get to heaven by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Believing in Jesus Christ is easy but for many people getting to the point of believing can be most difficult because Satan has deceived them and they are confused. Believing in Jesus Christ is the most important decision you will make in life! You are not alone.
Believing in Jesus Christ is more than accepting a fact. It involves accepting a life altering fact. Believing in Jesus Christ is a Spiritual decision. The Holy Spirit makes the gospel clear to the unregenerate person so that he or she can choose Salvation. Believing in Jesus Christ is the only way you can be saved. (John 14:6) Believing in Jesus Christ is the only Way to get into Heaven and be reconciled back to God.
The world gives glitter and false hopes, but believing in Jesus Christ is the real deal. Jesus can make your life have real meaning. Believing in Jesus Christ is not a blanket insurance policy that you will never suffer trials. Only those who know God as a living, indwelling presence are God's children. Believing in Jesus Christ is an important part of the full truth about God.
Believing in Jesus Christ is not a religion. Once you start reading the Bible, you will actually find that He was opposed to religion. Being a Christian is more than calling yourself one if it is popular for you to do so. Believing in Jesus Christ is only a part of Christianity, abiding by his teachings is also a major part of the religion. Christianity, "the way" whatever you call believing in Jesus Christ is the "one true" religion. Therefore, this believing in Jesus Christ is not a one-time deal and it is all over with. You must be committed unto Him or else you are no longer a believer and NOT The Way to Heaven, according to the Bible. You are Christian, even if you have a different way of looking at the religion then another. Believing in Jesus Christ is what makes you a Christian.
Believing in Jesus Christ is believing the power of love is greater than the power of evil. Are you willing to trust Jesus, and to believe in the power of love? It is declared that more than believing in Jesus Christ is required, and the reality is that if believing in Jesus Christ is not accompanied by evidence of good works, there is no real belief in Jesus as Lord and Saviour. Not only that, but believing in Jesus Christ is the means by which the gift of decreed goodness in God's eyes is given, along with the ability to do Good.
Believing in Jesus Christ is obeying Him. Believing in Jesus Christ is ALL that you need in your life. He ALONE is able to hold your future together forever, enabling you to go all the way through life. Instead of men sacrificing their sons, God sacrificed his own son for the sins of men. Believing in Jesus Christ is the only thing that will bring mankind true happiness. This is what gives us "joy unspeakable and full of glory."

Story of Christ Jesus

Parables of Jesus

 Parables of Jesus. Everyone loves to read or listen to stories. Of all movies I personally love the ones based on a true story. If you are the same way, you will understand why Jesus used so many parables in His teachings. There are just 26 parables in the Old Testament, while there are 70 Parables by Jesus in the Four Gospels.
Well, what is a parable actually? And why were the parables of Jesus so important?
The Greek word parabole means: a comparison, a figure of speech, a proverb, an illustration. By using such, people can grasp the meaning and significance of what we are trying to say, in a spiritual way, without them being offended. This is a great advantage, as we will not be the ones trying to force people into something, but by using parables we are letting the Holy Spirit work in their spirit, mind and conscience. Finis Jennings Dake, author of the Dake's Annotated Reference Bible says that in the case of the parables of Jesus, Jesus used stories which the people in His time were well familiar with, e.g. in the Parables He used real stories to convey spiritual meaning to the people. In this way, the parables of Jesus illustrated truth and made it so clear, that often the Bible says: "and they understood that He spoke to them about..."
Because of their interesting form, the parables of Jesus created more interest and spiritual hunger in the listeners, in the same way now we have a saying: A picture is worth a thousand words and A movie is worth a thousand pictures. People's mind loves to investigate, search out mysteries, make comparisons and find out hidden meanings by making parallels with things already known. On the other hand, the Jesus parables concealed the truth from the rebellious and disinterested hearers, who just did not understand anything. In this way, the ones who are interested, hungry and seeking get the meaning and act accordingly, changing their attitudes, ways and actions, while the ones not interested just go on without being turned off completely.
Because the Lord has given us a free will to choose to follow Him by our own decision, and not by compulsion, that's why He sometimes uses these parables - because they will add revelation and understanding only to the ones already seeking him. As for the rebels and anti-Christ folks, Jesus said: "Do not throw your pearls to the swine, because they will not understand the meaning of pearls, but instead will turn and trample them under their foot and they may even turn and hurt you" (Matthew 7:6).

FRIENDS IN HEAVEN

FRIENDS IN HEAVEN

What I am about to tell you will bring some consolation to your heart?

And that is why I bring this message to you. For some time I

Have been reading in books some very remarkable facts, which seem to show that our dead friends are not really dead, but have passed on to another

World, and that they are progressing in happiness; and that we on the earth, under certain conditions, can communicate with them.

How do we know that this is not some fraud practiced upon us?

Does not human experience show that men have been dying for centuries, and why should we now think we are able to talk with the dead?

I know there are many who deny that there is even such a thing as a spirit being; but did not Jesus of Nazareth go and preach to the spirits in prison,

And does not that prove that men who had previously died were then alive and able to hear his preaching? And if so, is it at all unreasonable to think that they can communicate with us? Let me encourage you to investigate this,      

You will observe that all the evidence tending to prove that the living can talk with the dead is founded upon the great teaching that the soul of man is immortal. Is it not true that the Catholic and Protestant churches,

almost without a single exception, for many centuries have taught that the soul is immortal, that it cannot die hence when one dies it is merely the body that is dead, but the soul lives on?

The evidence now available proving that the living can talk with the dead is so cumulative and overwhelming that I attempt to present it to you,

With confidence that I will convince your reasonable mind of the correctness of the claim; and if I do, then I am certain I have done you a great good and

Brought much comfort to your heart                         

THE LORD'S PRAYER

    

LORDS PRAYER

                             

                                 Teach Us How to Pray

I have never known how to make use of prayer in speaking to God.
My Divine Master! Teach me this silent language that says so much. Teach me to keep myself in interior and exterior silence in Thy presence; to adore Thee from the very depths of my being, to expect all from Thee without asking for anything but the fulfilment of Thy will... Teach' me to let Thee act upon my soul and in it produce the simple and general prayer which puts nothing 
Into words, and says everything, which specifies nothing and includes everything. If Thou Grant I this grace how faithfully shall I consecrate to Thee a fixed time each day for prayer!
With what joy shall I fulfil this duty, and what care shall I not always take to preserve so precious a gift! But O Lord I know not what I am saying. I speak as if I were capable of making promises, or keeping them, if made, by my own strength, and as if my promises could cause Thee to do me
Any good I look at Thy bounty alone; grant me this favour for the glory of Thy name, and add the grace of making good use of it and of meriting its increase Amen
We all teach our children to repeat the Lord's Prayer: and yet we must often have been painfully aware that they were using words of which they did not know the meaning.
We could not pray to God rightly unless He taught us.
Now if I am actually told what to say, is there anything more I want before I may feel sure God will hear me when I pray? Yes: I must understand when I use these words, what the Words mean.

THE LIFE OF JESUS

JESUS

Far across the great ocean, where the big ships sail, there is a land 

That used to be called the land of Israel. In that land, more than 

Eighteen hundred years ago, a young woman lived whose name was 

Mary. And God sent one of His good angels down from heaven to 

Speak to Mary. 

When she saw the angel she was afraid. But he told her not to be 

Afraid, for he said that God was pleased with her, and would give her a 

Son whose name should be Jesus. And Jesus should be a King, the 

Angel said, greater than any king in the world, because He would be the 

Son of God                                                                                                 

After the angel had told Mary this, he went up to heaven again. 

Now Mary was not rich or great, she was only a poor young woman. 

And her husband was poor too; his name was Joseph, and he was a 

Carpenter. 

After these things Mary and Joseph came to a city named Bethlehem. 

They did not live in Bethlehem; it was not their home. They came 

There to stay only a little while, so they went to the inn, or place where 

Travellers stopped to sleep. But the inn was full of people, and there 

Was no room for them? Then they went into the stable to sleep. 

And while they were there, God gave Mary the little son that the 

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Angel had promised her. And she named the child Jesus. 

It was not in a beautiful house, such as rich people have, 

that Jesus Was born He was born in the stable in Bethlehem. 

Perhaps the Cows and oxen were around Him, lying down asleep, or 

were eating Their food out of the trough, or manger   

And His mother had no nice bed, or cradle, to lay Him in there 

in The stable so when she had wrapt some clothes around Him, 

she laid Him in the manger for His cradle

Now in that country the people used to have a great Many sheep and these sheep

 stayed out in the fields To eat the grass but the fields had no fences around  

Them to keep the sheep from getting lost  And beside the danger of getting lost, 

there were Wild beasts in that land, such as wolves and bears,

 That sometimes came into the fields to kill the sheep. 

Therefore Somebody had to stay with them all the time, 

to keep them from getting Lost or killed.   

The men who stayed with them were called shepherds. 

They stayed With the sheep not only in the day, but in the night too, 

for that was The time when the wild beasts would come to kill them  

 And on the night that Jesus was born, some shepherds were keeping  

Watch over their flocks out in the field. 

And all at once a bright lightShone around them, and an angel came down from heaven

 and spoke To them the shepherds saw the angel and heard his voice, 

and were Very much afraid; for I suppose they had never seen an angel before.

 But the angel told them not to be afraid, for he had come to bring Good news to them,

 and to all the people. There had been born for Them, he said, in the city of Bethlehem,

 a little child who was the Saviour. The angel meant Jesus. 

He called Him the Saviour because He 


 Was the one who had come down from heaven (as I told you before) to?

 Change our wicked hearts into good hearts, and to make us good, 

and To save us from being punished at the Judgment Day   

Then the angel told the shepherds that if they would go to Bethlehem 

they could see this little child. They would know Him, he said, 

By the clothes His mother had wrapped around Him, and by finding Him 

Lay in a manger. 

As soon as the angel had told the shepherds this, there came a 

Great many more angels from heaven, and they all began to speak, and 

To praise God, and to tell how good and kind He is to the people who 

Live in this world. Then the angels went away, up into heaven again.