dW 06.08.07

scripture
John 6:44
Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Matthew 7:13-14
Jesus explains, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
thought
All religions are not the same. If they were then why did Christ himself say the things above? This country speaks of religious freedom. The freedom to believe as you wish but when it comes to Christianity, and a Christian says the very things that Christ taught then we become extremists, or bigots. This country does not emphasize freedom, nor tolerance but full fledge acceptance. If we can look at someone and say that it does not matter who or what they worship or how they live then we do not follow Christ. We are just like Peter who denied he even knew Jesus. May God rise up bigots who do not fear man but fear God!
quote
Why in God’s name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? If the world could not get along with the holiest man alive (Jesus Christ) then how does it get along with you and I? Are we compromised? Do we have no spiritual stature? -taken from the “Revival Hymn”

dW 06.07.07

scripture

Luke 18:9-14

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

quote

Prayer is the language of the poor. The self sufficient does not need to pray. The self satisfied don’t want to pray. The self righteous can’t pray. The only ones of us that can pray are those that realize that we need a power outside of ourselves. – Leonard Ravenhill

dW 06.06.07

scripture

Romans 6:5-7

If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from in.

quotes

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.  There is a silly idea that good people don't know what temptation means. – C.S. Lewis

Jesus did not come in the world to make bad men good. Jesus came into the world to make dead men live. – Leonard Ravenhill

dW 06.05.07

scripture

Romans 12:1 & 2

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

quote

There were no bible schools in the New Testament. The only reason why we have bible schools is because we have bankrupt preaching. That’s why. Mister Spurgeon said 100 years ago that the bible suffers more from its exponents than it opponents. A witty American said not long ago, “Sure the bible is infallible. Otherwise how do you think it has survived so much bad preaching?” Oh brothers let’s get back and preach the book. Preach what God says about it, about sin, about redemption, about the Holy Ghost, about His coming, about war and tribulation. Why, this is the most exciting book in the whole world! – Leonard Ravenhill

pictures

dW 05.31.07 spoke of an experience I had in the Middle East a few years ago.

I had many that wanted to see the pictures that I spoke of. Here they are.

dW 06.04.07

REPENTANCE

scripture

1 Chronicles 21:8
And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. But now, I beseech You, take away the hateful wickedness of Your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

quote

Sin should not be seen as something hurting people but as something hurting God. People who were screaming a few years ago, “It is wrong to go to war in Vietnam. It is wrong to go to war.” “Why?” “Because you are killing people.” And now they kill babies before they get out of the womb. You think God Almighty is going to put up with America much longer? I don’t. – Leonard Ravenhill

song lyrics

Happy Birthday...so make a wish

Verse 1:

Please accept my apologies, wonder what would have been

Would you've been a little angel or an angel of sin?

Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys.

Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes?

I paid for the murder before they determined the sex

Choosing our life over your life meant your death

And you never got'a chance to even open your eyes

Sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you fought for your life?

Would you have been a little genius in love with math?

Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?

Would you have been a little rapper like your papa da Piper?

Would you have made me quit smokin' by finding one of my lighters?

I wonder about your skintone and shape of your nose?

And the way you would have laughed and talked fast or slow?

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been

Happy birthday...

Flipsyde – Happy Birthday