JESUS PAID YOUR DEBT

We are now in debt 18 trillion dollars more money than we pay in taxes. Our share is a ton of money. Jesus said that a soul is worth more. And if that soul sinned than the soul is going to have to pay for the sin debt. Friend your sin debt is higher than alll the cash in all the world. Hell, If you die outside of Jesus you would pay more that all you had to not have to pay a debt you owe. But there is good news, the infinite God gave up all he had to pay for your debt. Jesus gave up his Glory to make it that if you trust in him he would give you a ticket to heaven. Do not wait if you do not know Jesus please get to know him so he can pay your debt

Dishing

Last night at work my dishwasher broke and they wanted me to wash by hand. I am not very good by hand and did not dent the piles and piles of dishes and they probably brought more in than I did. It made me think of my life with Jesus. I have piles and piles of sins and for me to work them off is not even possible. If it were up to me I would not even go to heaven. It is a total gift I got from the very truth that I am saved because Jesus choose me to the time I am in heaven. It is all Jesus and nothing I ever did will get me to heaven. Praise Jesus

things to thank Jesus for

Happy Thanksgiving to our lovely readers! The Duggars came up with 19 things they are thankful for:

1. We are thankful for the Bible that reveals why God made each one of us and His loving plan and purpose for our lives.

2. We are also thankful that the Bible teaches us what God wants us to do and not do.

3. We are thankful for Jesus, God’s son who came to the earth 2,000 years ago, who lived a perfect life and taught us the true meaning of life.

4. We are thankful for the Ten Commandments that make us realize that we all have lied, stolen something, or sinned in some way and need God’s mercy.

5. We are also thankful for Jesus who laid down His own life, suffered being tortured and executed to pay the penalty for the things we have done wrong.

6. We are thankful that we can know for sure that we are going to Heaven when we die by asking for Jesus's forgiveness, turning over the control of our life to Jesus, and asking Him to take us to Heaven when we die.

7. We are thankful for the joy that comes into our life when we become a follower of Jesus and how life starts to make sense.

8. We are thankful [that] as we start reading the Bible, God will start directing our lives in a supernatural way.

9. We are thankful that we can talk to Jesus and share everything with Him, and that He loves us no matter what we have done.

10. We are thankful for God’s Holy Spirit that comes into our spirit after we become a follower of Jesus and helps us navigate through life.

11. We are thankful for prayer, that it is not only us talking to Jesus, but Him also speaking to us in our heart and guiding our life.

12. We are thankful for all of the examples in the Bible of people to model our lives after.

13. We are thankful for the close fellowship and encouragement we can have with others who are also seeking to live for Jesus.

14. We are thankful for the closeness a family can have when each family member is committed to serving God and each other.

15. We are thankful for the joy that comes when we take the opportunity to share with others how they can also have a relationship with Jesus.

16. We are thankful for our country that was founded as one nation under God!

17. We are thankful for all of the women and men who are are in the military who are fighting to protect our freedom, and we are thankful for those in the past who have even given their lives for our country.

18. We are thankful we live America, a country that even though it is not perfect, it is a beacon of hope to everyone in the world!

19. We are thankful for Thanksgiving Day, when each one of us can reflect on all of the blessings God has given us, and commit to make every day a thanksgiving day!

Ten Lies I Told as a Mormon Missionary

by Loren Franck
The Bible predicts a dreadful fate for liars. For instance, while banished on the island of Patmos, the Apostle John saw that "all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" (Revelation 21:8). Similarly, the beloved disciple writes, liars are doomed to an eternity outside of God's presence (Revelation 22:15). Because Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44), lying is extremely serious sin.
As a full-time Mormon missionary from 1975 to 1977, I lied for the church countless times. Like my colleagues in the South Dakota-Rapid City Mission, which served the Dakotas and adjacent areas, I spoke truthfully about my background, but touted many Mormon teachings that contradict the Bible. After my mission ended, however, I examined these doctrines more closely. The harder I tried to reconcile the contradictions, the more evident they became. So, after extensive prayer and study, I resigned my church membership in 1984. Cheated and betrayed, I lacked spiritual life for the next 17 years. But God, knowing those who are His (John 10:14; 2 Timothy 2:19), drew me to Christ (John 6:44) and saved me in 2001. My spiritual emptiness was replaced by the abundant life only the Savior can give (John 10:10). And now, like millions of Christians worldwide, I have everlasting life through my faith in Him (John 3:36; 6:47).
I can't remember all of my missionary lies. Some were small, others grandiose, but all were false and misleading. Here are ten I'll never forget.

1. We're Not Trying to Convert You 

Of all my lies, this was the most frequent. I learned it well while in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which was my first assignment. A standard door-to-door proselyting pitch began with, "We represent The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." Interrupting, many people said they had their own religion. "Oh, we're not trying to convert you," I responded. "We're sharing a message for all faiths."
But Mormon missionaries have one overriding goal, and that's to bring converts into the church. Clearly, this was the purpose of my mission. I didn't trade the Southern California sunshine for the Dakota snow merely to build interfaith relations. My calling was to teach the church-approved missionary lessons and then baptize the people I taught.

2. The Bible is Insufficient 

According to their eighth Article of Faith, Mormons accept the Bible as the word of God only when it's translated correctly. How convenient for a missionary. When a non-Mormon's interpretation of scripture differed from mine, I frequently blamed faulty Bible translation. And since I believed the Bible was missing "many plain and precious things," as the Book of Mormon claims in 1 Nephi 13:28-29, I urged prospective converts not to trust it completely.
And yet, Mormon proof texts had few translation problems. Throughout my mission, I used only those Bible verses that steered prospects away from their church and toward Mormonism. But what kind of Christian believes that an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving God gave mankind an inadequate version of His word. Actually, the Bible is more than sufficient. With its 66 books, 1,189 chapters and nearly 740,000 words, it's the divine road map to eternal life through Jesus Christ.

3. We're the Only True Christians

For decades, the Mormon Church has tried to blend with mainstream Christianity. Accordingly, during my mission a quarter-century ago, I worked hard to convince prospects that Mormons believe in the biblical Jesus. But Paul warned of deceivers who would lure Christians away from "the simplicity that is in Christ." These false teachers preached "another Jesus" and "another gospel" (2 Corinthians 11: 3-4) and were accursed (see Galatians 1:8-9). How interesting that Paul also cautions against false apostles, such as those in the Mormon Church (2 Corinthians 11:13-14).
So which Jesus and gospel do Mormons preach? While a missionary, I taught that Christ was the firstborn spirit child of the Father in a premortal life. (The remainder of humanity was born as spirits later in this "pre-existence.") But I didn't tell prospects this was a literal birth, the result of literal fathering, as Mormon prophets and apostles have claimed. If asked, I taught that the devil was born as one of God's noble spirit sons during the pre-existence, but had rebelled and started a war in heaven.
Consistent with Mormon doctrine, then, Christ and Satan are spirit brothers. But the Bible teaches that Christ is God (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6; John 1:1), that He has always been God (Psalm 90:2), and that He always will be God (Hebrews 13:8). Born into mortality some 2,000 years ago, Jesus is "God... manifest in the flesh" (1 Timothy 3:16). He is far grander and holier than "our Elder Brother," as Mormons dub Him. Jesus and Satan aren't spirit brothers, and true Christians don't believe such blasphemy.

4. We're the Only True Church 

I usually told this lie during the first of seven 30-minute missionary lessons, which presented the Joseph Smith story. According to our script, Smith prayed in 1820 about which church to join. He claimed the Father and Son appeared and told him that all Christian churches of the day were wrong. Smith said he was forbidden to join any of them, that their creeds were abominable and their professors all corrupt. "They draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me," the Lord allegedly added. "They teach for doctrines the commandments of men" (Joseph Smith — History, verse 19). In subsequent lessons, I told prospects that Mormonism is the true church God restored through Smith.
But the Bible says such a restoration was unnecessary. Admittedly, there was partial apostasy after Christ's resurrection, but never a complete falling away. In fact, shortly before His crucifixion, Jesus promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against His church (Matthew 16:18). During my mission, however, I argued that the gates of hell did prevail against Christ's church.
Shortly after renouncing Mormonism, I learned a scriptural death blow to notions of universal apostasy. Addressing Ephesian believers 30 years after the Ascension, the Apostle Paul writes, "Unto [God] be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (Ephesians 3:21). God received glory in the Christian church from the time of Paul's writing to the present day, and He will receive such glory throughout all succeeding generations. Therefore, the church must exist from Paul's day throughout eternity. This annihilates Mormon claims of complete apostasy and makes restoration of Christ's church impossible.

5. We Have a Living Prophet 

Whether in wintry Winnipeg or the balmy Black Hills of Rapid City, I criticized Christians because their church lacked a living prophet. Mormons claim the true church must have one. My favorite Bible proof text to back this claim was Amos 3:7, which reads, "Surely, the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets."
When prospective converts remained skeptical of living prophets, I quoted Ephesians 4:11-14, which apparently requires living apostles and prophets until believers unify in the faith and understand Christ completely. However, writing in the past tense, Paul is actually referring to apostles and prophets of Jesus' day. Otherwise, verse 11 would read that the Lord "is giving" or "will give" apostles and prophets. Of course, God did reveal His will through Old Testament prophets, as Amos 3:7 affirms. But for the last 2,000 years, He has spoken to believers through Christ (Hebrews 1:1-2).
The truth about Mormonism's living prophets is further illuminated in Deuteronomy 18:22. "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord," the scripture reads, "if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." Isaiah 8:20 contains a similar warning: "To the law and the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."
False prophets who led ancient Israel astray received the death penalty (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; 18:20), and all who profess to be living prophets should consider the consequences. Mormon prophets might appear grandfatherly and sincere, but they're not God's living oracles. Since the Mormon Church was founded in 1830, its prophets have uttered a striking number of false prophecies. (See chapter 14 of Jerald and Sandra Tanner's "The Changing World of Mormonism.")

6. The Book of Mormon is Scripture 

Joseph Smith claimed that the Book of Mormon is the most correct book on earth, adding that man would become closer to God by following its precepts than by obeying any other book ("History of the Church," Vol. 4, p. 461). Replace "Book of Mormon" with "the Bible" and Smith would have told the truth.
When teaching missionary lessons, I boldly maintained that the Book of Mormon is scripture. I spent myriad hours convincing prospects that it's a sacred record of Christ's activities in the western hemisphere. Yet many Christians I contacted realized the book "borrows" heavily from the Bible and other sources. And in stark contrast to the Old and New Testaments, virtually no archaeological and anthropological evidence supports the Book of Mormon. Why not? Because it's fiction. When Christians want to read scripture, they turn to the Bible.

7. You're Saved By Works 

More than any other Mormon lie, this undermines Christ's atonement, which is the most sacred doctrine of the Bible. Mormons usually equate salvation with resurrection. Likewise, they refer to eternal life as "exaltation." I did both while teaching prospective converts. I relished the church's third Article of Faith, which claims, "through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel."
Trying to bridge the doctrinal divide between Mormons and Christians, I emphasized that salvation is by grace "after all we can do" (2 Nephi 25:23). What classic Mormon double-talk. Unmistakably, the Bible says eternal life is a gift from God (Romans 5:15; 6:23) to those who believe in Christ (John 6:47), call upon Him (Romans 10:13) and receive Him as Lord and Savior (John 1:12). Contrary to Mormon dogma, this gift cannot be awarded meritoriously.
Equally clear is that salvation results from God's grace through each believer's faith, not from obeying a checklist of laws and ordinances (Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5). All who confess Christ and believe in Him from the heart shall be saved (Romans 10:8-13).
Most Mormons know little about imputed righteousness — and neither did I during my mission. Essentially, as Christians know, the Lord credits believers with His perfect righteousness and charges their transgressions to His sinless spiritual "account." Paul explains this doctrine masterfully in Romans 4 and 2 Corinthians 5:18-21.
When teaching the Mormon gospel, though, I emphatically denied imputed righteousness, which is the essence of the atonement. I stressed that eternal life is earned by perfect obedience to all gospel laws and ordinances. Yet the Bible says that "there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not" (Ecclesiastes 7:20). As the Psalmist writes: "They are all gone aside. They are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one" (Psalm 14:3; compare Romans 3:10-18).
How many Mormons perfectly obey all gospel laws? None. As the Bible asserts, even the church's current prophet can't keep God's laws thoroughly enough to merit heaven (1 John 1:8). And if he can't, how can anyone else?

8. People Can Become Gods 

Given its explosive nature, this tenet was rarely shared with prospective converts. Missionaries try to entice people into Mormonism gradually, and presenting the doctrine of plural gods is seldom the best way. Several contacts learned the concept from their pastors or read about it on their own, but it was new to most prospects.
"Our Father in heaven loves us so much," I often said, parroting our lesson script, "that He provided a plan [Mormonism] for us to become like him." I didn't mention that Mormon godhood includes spirit procreation throughout eternity. Neither did I hint that the Mormon God was formerly a mortal man, had lived on an earth like ours, and had earned salvation through good works. However, such polytheism strips God of glory and sovereignty. No wonder the Bible condemns it so strongly. When discussing plural gods on my mission, I sidestepped Isaiah 44:8 whenever possible. "Is there a God beside me?" the passage reads. "Yea, there is no God; I know not any." Other verses amply testify that only one God exists in the universe (Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; 6:4; Isaiah 43:10-11; 45:21-23).
When confronted with these scriptures as a missionary, I usually countered with, "Those verses mean we worship only one God, that there's only one God to us." And if that failed, I lied further: "The Bible isn't clear on this subject. Fortunately, the Lord told Joseph Smith that mortals can become gods." Smith might have had a revelation, but not from God.

9. You're Born Again By Becoming a Mormon 

One of my favorite missionary scriptures was John 3:5. "Verily, verily I say unto you," the Savior explains, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." To Mormon missionaries everywhere, being born of water means baptism into the Mormon Church. Birth of the Spirit refers to the gift of the Holy Ghost, allegedly bestowed after baptism.
Unfortunately, during my mission, I didn't know what it means to be born again. I completely misinterpreted Paul's declaration that "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17; compare Galatians 6:15). According to the Bible, believers in Christ are reborn spiritually as sons and daughters of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1-2). They experience a complete Christian conversion of mind and heart. Membership in a church organization might foster social activity and fellowship, but it's not spiritual rebirth.

10. Temple Marriage is Required for Eternal Life 

I participated in well over 100 Mormon temple ceremonies from 1975 to 1982, including my own marriage in 1977. Based heavily on freemasonry, temple rites are the church's most carefully guarded secrets. And "celestial marriage," which supposedly weds men and women eternally, is probably the most important temple ordinance. While a missionary, I frequently told prospects they needed temple marriage to gain eternal life.
Yet the Lord says marriage between men and women is irrelevant to the hereafter. "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage," He declares. "But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage… for they are equal unto the angels...." (Luke 20:34-36.)
The Bible does teach eternal marriage, but not the Mormon version. The union is between Christ, the Bridegroom, and His collective body of believers, who are the bride (Matthew 25:1-13; John 3:29; Romans 7:4; 2 Corinthians 11:2).

False Testimony

I close with a few words about "testimony," which is a missionary's emergency cord. When I couldn't rebut an antagonistic statement scripturally, I fell back on my testimony. For instance, while proselyting in Grand Forks, North Dakota, I was once asked where the Bible mentions the secret undergarments Mormons wear. Caught off guard, I admitted that the Bible says nothing about them. I could merely testify that God revealed the need for these garments through living prophets. But my testimony wasn't based on scripture or other hard evidence. Rather, it was founded on personal revelation, which is extremely subjective. Essentially, my testimony was nothing more than a good feeling about the church and its teachings. In Mormon parlance, it was a "burning in the bosom." But burning or not, it wasn't from God.
If you're a Christian, I urge you to "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3). That faith, the pathway to heaven, is found only in the biblical Jesus (John 14:6). But if you're a Mormon, it's time to prayerfully re-examine your beliefs. Do you know you have everlasting life? No. Can you obey all the commandments perfectly and earn a place in heaven? You can't.
I regret the many lies I told during my Mormon mission. When I received Christ, though, I confessed them (and my other sins) and received His forgiveness (1 John 1:9; Colossians 1:13-14). "He that heareth my word," Christ assures us, "and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).

Y not vote for the good man who is a Demo? Because they tend to want to keep a agenda that is going to be like Obama. Obama has made things bad in this land. He has made this health care thing that is going to bankrupt the land and make our debt go up and up. Friends the debt is going to kill us because when the people who want to invest here are not because we got to much debt. We got a man that is not going to go to war with a muslim filled group that wants to kill us and anyone that is not into their way. He is not backing the land of the bible and God is going to make us pay for this. And we need the votes to keep the courts fair and not into banning our rights and taking our freedom away. Also we got this man making isis ok for killing christians.

my thoughts

I need to talk on 2 things. First of all it is not a good thing to be so mad about the stuff going on where the cop shot the kid. Now the black folks are all mad because the cop shot but the truth is that the kid went and stole a item from a store, Then he beat up the cop. Now if you hit a cop or beat him the cop is going to use deadly force and kill you. He was shot a bit much. It is okay to protest in this land but it is wrong to loot and take things that are not yours. I also think that if I were a judge you would be paying 168 hours of jail time and 10 grand if you looted,

Now rigt now the christians of the middle east are being killed if they do not convert to the Islamic faith, Our Leader is not doing anything about it but he is bombing the Isis but this is not enough. I think it is time to go over there and bomb the land out of to world. WE need to kill the people that are killing the people of the book (Christians) If we do not they are going to come to this land and take us apart. We need to destroy them there and now and we need to put troops into the place. People call this a war of the christians. We did nothing the Muslims are evil and they need to end.

Israel is at war with Humas. I think Israel is a nation that is a ally and it is high time to go help them out. We are to honor this land and if not then we are going to repent and not have the blessings of the Lord. Friends we do not as a land have the blessings because they are letting the gays marry and this is not in the bible and it is going to hurt any blessings from the Lord.

God is Kind

IT WAS THE kindness of God that rehab got when she trusted him in the time she let the spy's in and worked with them. God acts toward us in kindness. In rom I saw the reason is God wants us to see that he wants us to come to Jesus and repent so we can spend our time showing the way. If Jesus has woke you out of bed and let you live he is being extra kind to you. If U have a meal today God is giving that to you and if you have money your in kindness of God. So if you have Gods kindness you need to repent AND give him your life

God selects the leaders of the land. Daniel 2

OBAMA

Dear Mr Obama, you once again haver offened me and all bible loving Christians. U have made homosexuals protected and told me I have to respect them. Jesus said there is no other way to heaven but by his death. Homos do not get to live in the way of Jesus because they offend the Lord and me. U signed a order to protect them and by that you sr show two things. One you are not close to being christian and 2 you do not read or respect the bible.

To me you need to resign and get out of this land. I know you do nothing for my land when you are letting the USSR take over lands, your letting people in to this land that do not belong here and you will not stop making the debt grow and your ruining my land. Ur vactions are not right and your making things up to bypass the laws of the land. Obama you frankly are the worst president we have ever had and you hope are fired.

shad

Be a member of local church

⁴⁰ And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” ⁴¹ Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. ⁴² And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. ⁴³ Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. ⁴⁴ Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, ⁴⁵ and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

⁴⁶ So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.¹

I love this passage because it is the best one teaching about the local Church. Jesus started this and it is his Idea so we need to learn about this so we can be in a local church. They got convertedc and were baptized and then they were added to the church. I think it is important for the local church to have this in common and that we need to have a membership. Note that people were saved, they came to the personal knowledge of Jesus and a personal relationship. The person comes to the fact they are a sinner who broke Gods laws then they saw Jesus died for them. Jesus died so we need to repent and embrace the death of Jesus for the forgiveness of sin. Jesus comes into the life and one is saved. He asked us to be baptized and then added to a LOCAL place for your growth and faith. You commit to a body that commits to you. In the local church you submit to the leadership and you serve the body with your gifting.

In the church we help the needs of the members. We in our church have a fund we collect that goes to the needs of the body. We collect money to fund the things like what the poor need. In the church the family breaks bread and we do that on the first Sunday remembering the death of Jesus and what that means to each of us. We are to eat together and we are to know each other.

1 The New King James Version. (1982). (Ac 2:40–47). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

1. It’s biblical. Jesus established the local church and all the apostles did their ministry through it. The Christian life in the New Testament is church life. Christians today should expect and desire the same.
2. The church is its members. To be a church in the New Testament is to be one of its members (read through Acts). And you want to be part of the church because that’s who Jesus came to rescue and reconcile to himself.
3. It’s a prerequisite for the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is a meal for the gathered church, that is, for members (see 1 Cor. 11:20-33). And you want to take the Lord’s Supper. It’s the team flag that makes the church team visible to the nations.
4. It’s how you officially represent Jesus. Membership is the church’s affirmation that you are a citizen of Christ’s kingdom and therefore a pass-port carrying Jesus representative before the nations. And you want your representation to be authorized. Closely related to this…
5. It’s how you declare your highest allegiance. Your membership on the team, which becomes visible when you wave the flag of the Lord’s Supper, is a public testimony belongs to Jesus. Trials and persecution may come, but your only words are, “I am a Christian.”
6. It’s how you embody and experience biblical images. It’s within the accountability structures of the local church that Christians live and experience the interconnectivity of the body, the spiritual fullness of his temple, and the safety and intimacy and shared identity of his family.
7. It’s how you serve other Christians. Membership helps you know which Christians on planet Earth you are specifically responsible to love, serve, warn, and encourage. It enables you to fulfill your biblical responsibilities to Christ’s body (for example, see Eph. 4:11-16; 25-32).
8. It’s how you follow Christian leaders. Membership helps you know which Christian leaders on planet Earth you are called to obey and follow. Again, it allows you to fulfill your biblical responsibility to them (see Heb. 13:7, 17).
9. It helps Christian leaders lead. Membership lets Christian leaders know which Christians on planet Earth they will “give an account” for (Acts 20:28; 1 Pet. 5:2).
10. It enables church discipline. It gives you the biblically prescribed place to participate in the work of church discipline responsibly, wisely, and lovingly (1 Cor. 5).
11. It gives structure to your Christian life. It places an individual Christian’s claim to obey and follow Jesus into a real-life setting where authority is actually exercised over us (see John 14:15; 1 John 2:19; 4:20-21). It’s God’s discipling program. 
12. It builds a witness and invites the nations. Membership puts the alternative rule of Christ on display for the watching universe (see Matt. 5:11; John 12:34-35; Eph. 3:10; 1 Pet. 2:9-12). The very boundaries, which are drawn around the membership of a church, yield a society of people that invites the nations to something better. It’s God’s evangelism program. 
13.  
14. 1. Stimulate one another to love and good deeds (Heb 10:24)
    2. Confess your sins to one another (James 5:16)
    3. Build up one another (1 Thess 5:11)
    4. Be of the same mind as one another (Romans 12:13, 15:5)
    5. Comfort one another in the face of death (1 Thess 4:18)
    6. Employ your spiritual gifts in serving one another (1 Peter 4:10)
    7. Pray for one another (James 5:16)
    8. Be devoted to one another (Romans 12:10)
    9. Be at peace with one another (Mark 9:50)
    10. Encourage one another (1 Thess 5:11)
    11. Greet one another (2 Cor 13:12)
    12. Don’t become boastful in challenging one another (Gal 5:26)
    13. Be kind to one another (Eph 4:32)
    14. Abound in love for one another (1 Peter 1:22)
    15. Live in peace with one another (1 Thess 5:13)
    16. Love one another (2 John 5)
    17. Fervently love one another (1 Peter 1:22)
    18. Have fellowship with one another (1 John 1:7)
    19. Don’t judge one another (Romans 14:13)
    20. Take communion (the Lord’s Table) with one another (1 Cor 11:33)
    21. Accept one another (Romans 15:7)
    22. Regard one another as more important than yourself (Phil 2:3)
    23. Bear one another’s burdens (Gal 6:2)
    24. Admonish one another (Rom 15:14)
    25. Serve one another (Gal 5:13)
    26. Do not lie to one another (Col 3:9)
    27. Bear with one another (Col 3:13)
    28. Forgive one another (Col 3:13)
    29. Teach and admonish one another (Rom 15:14)
    30. Care for one another (1 Cor 12:25)
    31. Cloth yourselves with humility toward one another (1 Peter 5:5)
    32. Be hospitable to one another (1 Peter 4:9)
    33. Do not complain against one another (James 5:9)
    34. Show forbearance to one another (Eph 4:2)
    35. Speak to one anther in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs (Eph 5:19)
    36. Give preference to one another (Rom 12:10)
    37. Don’t bite and devour one another (Gal 5:15)
    38. Submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21
    39. Seek the good of one another (1 Thess 5:15)
    40. Don’t forsake assembling with one another (Heb 10:25)
     

REPENT

³⁸And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit

Here is the good news in one verse. But I want to look at a few things and the first one is repent. To repent it important to get forgiven and saved by Jesus. Repent is to changev your mine about so,ething. It is to go another way. To change your mind about the Lord. We are going to one way then we change and go another way. This is a IMPORTANT thing because without your sins forgiven you do not get in and the bible said you got to repent. So TO BE IN LINE WITH JESUS YOU MUST do this. So we given repent to be forgiven.

We are to be baptized. No this is not dunked but it is. Repent then you need to be dunked. If you were a baby and you got baptized I think you need to get dunked after you took Jesus and repented of your sin. It is not to forgiven but it is a part of the process of obeing Jesus. Have you repented then get to your local church and be baptized. Local church is a place you do this and if your church does not dunk find one that does.

. ³⁹For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” ⁴⁰And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” ⁴¹So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

sermon of peter acts

4 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams
8 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’[b]
When the bible says last days it means anytime after the cross. So Peter is going to preach the truth in the first sermon ever preached. Note that the Spirit is going to come to all flesh. This is a new thing. In the old the Spirit does not come to all flesh and God is not dwelling with all the people but there was a certain few that got to go before God in the temple. If the common person wanted to know God they went to the priest who went before God one time a year. But after the cross the gift of God is the Spirit and the fact that now God no longer is just for a few Jesus died and anyone who wills is able to come to God. Last time I thought that this Spirtirt thing is brand new so the things the people are seeing. Some of this is filled then and some is not going to be until the time when Jesus is back on earth. We see lots of signs and wonders. I think this is for a brief time on the day when the 12 are there then the bible is what we share to bring people to the truth.
Point one the Lord is into a new time.



i22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know— 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken[c] by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him:
‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’[d]
Peter is giving the truth to the Jews who killed this Man Jesus. They did not do this on their own because Jesus gave his life for us. Peter is drawing the Jews to Jesus and giving them the chance to get saved. He used Psalms 16 as a text. In this text he said For you will not leave me in Hades (means the place of the dead) but bring me to the right hand in Joy. Jesus is here dead but he is going to raise Jesus from the dead. Peter said below.



29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,[e] 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

acts 2 the Spirit is making us rich

¹When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all ^£with one accord in one place. ²And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. ³Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. ⁴And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance ⁵And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. ⁶And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. ⁷Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? ⁸And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? ⁹Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” ¹²So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”

The Spirit came and gave the followers of Jesus different languages such as french or other greek. He did not come and give them some that people could not understand. This is a gift that spread the gospel of Jesus faster in one place and got the people into the church from all over. It is a major feast when this is happening and the people are in form all over the known world. In some missions movements people thought they could go to a land that they did not know the languages and they fell flat on their face. If your going to go know the talk to share Jesus. Many think I ought to go over the false things of touges here but I do not see that point here. I see the point as it is used to prove this is the words of God and truth given to many people in a land that can then go home and share the truth.

Note they were filled with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is a refreshing thing and comforts and seals. Here are some things He does in us.

He is the part of God that fills or indwells us

He is the one who calls us to the work of God or places gifting for the things that we are to do in the church

He is the one that shows us the truth when we read the bible.

He is the one that givesv us power to serve Jesus in his church

He is the one who fills us

He is the one who Guards our salvation and He is the deposit that Guarantees salvation

He guards us for God

He helps us live for Jesus

He indwells us. Yes God lives in us

He prays for us with such intensity and God hears him. WOW HE KNOWS HOW TO PRAY FOR US more that what we do. If he knows us as he lives in us no better person to pray and intseed for us.

HE IS the one who produces the fruit in us. We do not act in faith and if we do it is all of God. God produces fruit

He is the one that convicts us of our sin. We are to confess it and stop under his power.

He is the one that makes us holy before God. Its not a behavor its being filled up in the spirit that makes us right before the Lord.

He is the one who teachs the bible. This very thing I am writing is only going to teach if the Spirit wants it or uses it to.

And the 120 r the first ones to get all this and more.

¹When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all ^£with one accord in one place. ²And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. ³Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. ⁴And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance ⁵And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. ⁶And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. ⁷Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? ⁸And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? ⁹Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” ¹²So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”

The Spirit came and gave the followers of Jesus different languages such as french or other greek. He did not come and give them some that people could not understand. This is a gift that spread the gospel of Jesus faster in one place and got the people into the church from all over. It is a major feast when this is happening and the people are in form all over the known world. In some missions movements people thought they could go to a land that they did not know the languages and they fell flat on their face. If your going to go know the talk to share Jesus. Many think I ought to go over the false things of touges here but I do not see that point here. I see the point as it is used to prove this is the words of God and truth given to many people in a land that can then go home and share the truth.

Note they were filled with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is a refreshing thing and comforts and seals. Here are some things He does in us.

He is the part of God that fills or indwells us

He is the one who calls us to the work of God or places gifting for the things that we are to do in the church

He is the one that shows us the truth when we read the bible.

He is the one that givesv us power to serve Jesus in his church

He is the one who fills us

He is the one who Guards our salvation and He is the deposit that Guarantees salvation

He guards us for God

He helps us live for Jesus

He indwells us. Yes God lives in us

He prays for us with such intensity and God hears him. WOW HE KNOWS HOW TO PRAY FOR US more that what we do. If he knows us as he lives in us no better person to pray and intseed for us.

HE IS the one who produces the fruit in us. We do not act in faith and if we do it is all of God. God produces fruit

He is the one that convicts us of our sin. We are to confess it and stop under his power.

He is the one that makes us holy before God. Its not a behavor its being filled up in the spirit that makes us right before the Lord.

He is the one who teachs the bible. This very thing I am writing is only going to teach if the Spirit wants it or uses it to.

And the 120 r the first ones to get all this and more.

acts 1 part tow

¹²Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey. ¹³And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James. ¹⁴These all continued with one accord in prayer ^£and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

They all prayed. Note the followers of Jesus prayed together in the first part of the time of the church. In the body we need to learn to pray together and pray outloud as the body of Jesus. They prayed asking for things on behalf of others. God wants us to ask him to give us all we need and also go before him on behalf of others. Also look at who was there man and woman, it is a good thing to pray in the church as a family of the Lord as sisters and brothers.

This is the last time Mary the mom of Jesus is ever in the bible. I do not see anywhere when we go to Mary for anything. Some Catholic got this wrong in thinking that we need anyone but Jesus for reaching the Lord God. Mary is not the queen of heaven or a co redeemer. We follow Jesus to salvation and his work on the cross and not another.

¹⁵And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the ^£disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said, ¹⁶“Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; ¹⁷for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry.”

Judas was not a follower of Jesus he was a fraud. He did not see the truth in Jesus and Judas was in it for one thing the cash payout. Judas never put his faith in Jesus.

¹⁸(Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out. ¹⁹And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.)

²⁰“For it is written in the Book of Psalms:

    ‘Let his dwelling place be desolate,

    And let no one live in it’;^£

and,

    ‘Let another take his ^£office.’^£

²¹“Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²²beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

To be a apostle you had to been with Jesus for the time he was working to share his message and seen Jesus alive after he died. So now there is no long the office because there is no longer the need. With out apostles there are no longer the need for the gifts they had because now the bible is the proof of God. We do not need gifts like healing or touges to show the Lord is true we have the bible. I think only in the time of the writing of the bible did God use them to prove the bible is the words of God.

²³And they proposed two: Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen ²⁵to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.” ²⁶And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

I am going off here maybe. Here is a way they and we ought to choose who leads the church? We let the ones in charge choose by the Spirit leading. I am not thinking a vote to confirm is not a bad thing but the Lord ought to appoint the leadership of His church. We do not have to cast lots cause now we have the Lord in the form of the Spirit.