Following Jesus

Following Jesus is an act of trust and obedience. Before I follow anyone I want to know their qualifications and authority to lead. Many people follow the hype of a personality and charisma into destruction. I could go on to list the many men and women who deceived people that were seeking God, but took the wrong way to their own peril. "Jesus is qualified to lead" When we search the scriptures seeking the truth of God rather than the justification of our way opposed to the way of God, we begin to receive revelation knowledge Luke 4:36(NKJV)says 36 Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” Did you catch that these are people who are identified as enemies of Jesus, are witnessing to us of the qualifications and authority of Jesus over the kingdom of Satan, Jesus who has the power to forgive sin. Jesus went through the Land healing all manner of sickness and disease, not only that He quieted a storm by speaking peace be still to the storm and the storm obeyed Him, And then incredibly He shows His authority over death speaking to a dead girl by speaking to her saying damsel arise and she arose alive again, he also calls Lazarus from the dead a man whose been dead for four days and what does Jesus do? He says Lazarus come forth, and Lazarus comes hopping up and down full of life and Jesus says lose the man and let him go. Here is what I call the ultimate qualification, Jesus died for our sin on the cross He had been beaten all night long the flesh was ripped from His body the beard is pulled out of His face He is suffering the shame that was ours to bare. He took our suffering and shame so that we wouldn't have to and so He states "It is finished". He's buried in Joseph's new tomb and on the third day He rose from the dead, these are His qualifications. Will you follow Him? Jesus is the only way. until next time. God bless,

God's Way Out

Not long after the beginning mankind has been distracted looking at other ways that promise to lead one to God or to become a god, but rather lead to destruction separating man from God. This all started in the garden of Eden as Satan uses a serpent to persuade Eve to eat of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In Genesis chapter 3:1-7 we find that the serpent has an attractive offer for Eve, and she is deceived but then we have Adam who is the federal head of human leadership who willingly disobeys God and eats the fruit of the knowlege of good and evil and at that moment mankind is plunged into sin, in other words sin enters the blood of mankind, and the world (mankind) now needs a way out of the hopeless lonely darkness they have never known; they are lost. Genesis 3(KJV) 3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. You will be told many things in life that will sound like a sure thing or even the truth I mean it will seem right but it will be a lie that has been cleverly devised to deceive one into ruin I believe the scripture below says it best. Proverbs 14:12(NKJV) 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. If the story stopped there we would only be able to scream in terror; but God has made a way for us He gave us His Son. John 3:16(NKJV) 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Through the perfect sacrifice, with His sinless blood, Jesus has made the way for us reconciling us back to GOD. Until next time God bless you, and remember Jesus is our way out of sin, and our only way into heaven.