Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Precious Blood Crimson Flood-Shawn Smith
In these end times we are all faced with fears, difficulties, and temptations. The apostle Peter under inspiration wrote the following passage to encourage us all as believers as we approach the end of our days here on earth, "WHEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND AND HOPE TO THE END FOR THE GRACE THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT TO YOU AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE FORMER LUSTS IN YOUR IGNORANCE BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY SO BE YE HOLY IN ALL MANNER OF CONVERSATION BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, 'BE YE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY' (1 Peter 1:13-16)."
Peter was a man faced with overwhelming fears as he saw his Lord arrested, beaten and ultimately crucified. Today you and I face fears as well as we see things unfolding in the world exactly how the apostles and prophets predicted long ago. Things today are increasingly growing worse but as believers we've been redeemed from the corruption of this world by the precious blood of Jesus Christ! Look what Peter says about our redemption, "FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YE WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS AS SILVER AND GOLD FROM YOUR VAIN CONVERSATION RECEIVED BY YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH OR SPOT(1 Peter 1:18-19)." He shed his blood like a crimson flood.
Remember what John the Baptist said about Jesus when he started his earthly ministry? He said, 'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!' Peter went on in his letter to say this about Yeshua and our faith in him and love for one another, "WHO VERILY WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU. WHOM BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD WHO RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM GLORY. SEEING YOU HAVE PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT UNTO UNFEIGNED LOVE OF THE BRETHREN, SEE THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER WITH A PURE HEART FERVENTLY (1 Peter 1:20-22)."
In the gospel of John Jesus himself told Nicodemus in order to inherit the kingdom of heaven we must be born again. Peter understood the miracle of rebirth and the importance of God's word to us all because he also said this, "BEING BORN AGAIN NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE, BY THE WORD OF GOD WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOREVER. FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS AND THE GLORY OF MAN AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERETH AND THE FLOWER THEREOF FALLETH AWAY. BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREVER. AND THIS IS THE WORD WHICH BY THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED UNTO YOU (1 Peter 1:23-25)." Jesus himself said that he is the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through him! Are you born again today and living for him or still lost and alone in all of your sin? If so then please don't delay let Jesus be Lord of your life today.
Peter was a man faced with overwhelming fears as he saw his Lord arrested, beaten and ultimately crucified. Today you and I face fears as well as we see things unfolding in the world exactly how the apostles and prophets predicted long ago. Things today are increasingly growing worse but as believers we've been redeemed from the corruption of this world by the precious blood of Jesus Christ! Look what Peter says about our redemption, "FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YE WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS AS SILVER AND GOLD FROM YOUR VAIN CONVERSATION RECEIVED BY YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH OR SPOT(1 Peter 1:18-19)." He shed his blood like a crimson flood.
Remember what John the Baptist said about Jesus when he started his earthly ministry? He said, 'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!' Peter went on in his letter to say this about Yeshua and our faith in him and love for one another, "WHO VERILY WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU. WHOM BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD WHO RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM GLORY. SEEING YOU HAVE PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT UNTO UNFEIGNED LOVE OF THE BRETHREN, SEE THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER WITH A PURE HEART FERVENTLY (1 Peter 1:20-22)."
In the gospel of John Jesus himself told Nicodemus in order to inherit the kingdom of heaven we must be born again. Peter understood the miracle of rebirth and the importance of God's word to us all because he also said this, "BEING BORN AGAIN NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE, BY THE WORD OF GOD WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOREVER. FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS AND THE GLORY OF MAN AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERETH AND THE FLOWER THEREOF FALLETH AWAY. BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREVER. AND THIS IS THE WORD WHICH BY THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED UNTO YOU (1 Peter 1:23-25)." Jesus himself said that he is the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through him! Are you born again today and living for him or still lost and alone in all of your sin? If so then please don't delay let Jesus be Lord of your life today.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Divine Plan Delivers Man-Ed Welch & Shawn Smith
Have you ever really stopped to consider the depth of God's love for you personally? Even as believers we tend to forget at times how much he truly loves us. Sadly millions today still don't believe that God even knows about them much less loves them. The fact is God is all knowing and even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Nothing escapes him or is ever hidden from him. God's plan all along for man was to redeem him from the curse of the law by sending his only Son to die on a tree. He then arose so you could be free! King David who God said was a man after his own heart once said this, "BLESS THE LORD OH MY SOUL AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME BLESS HIS HOLY NAME. WHO FORGIVETH ALL THINE INIQUITIES, WHO HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES, WHO REDEEMETH THY LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION, WHO CROWNETH THEE WITH LOVINGKINDNESS AND TENDER MERCIES (Psalm 103:1:3-4)."
So how can we know for sure that God truly loves us? Just look what the Apostle Paul said about God's love, "BUT GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS OWN LOVE FOR US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US. MUCH MORE THEN BEING NOW JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD WE SHALL BE SAVED FROM WRATH THROUGH HIM (Romans 5:8-9)." God not only loves you he is love. He proved it by sending his only Son to die on a cross for you. There's no need to ever doubt his love again. Any time you waver remember Jesus hanging in agony on that tree. Amazingly he did it all for you and for me. He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God. Let there be no doubt love is what God's all about.
You see God always knew you and I would need salvation. Long before Adam and Eve sinned in the garden he had a divine plan to deliver man. Remember what Jesus said on the cross just before he breathed his last? He said, "It is finished." He paid the ultimate price and knew exactly what he came to do. Never forget on the cross he was thinking of you. Feelings come and go but we live by faith and not by sight. The fact is God never changes no matter what you and I may be going through. GOD'S PLAN 4 MAN is posted on our website. Please visit our HOME PAGE at WWW.FULLASSURANCEMINISTRIES.COM today to assure your salvation is fully secure. The Apostle John once said we write these things so that you may "know" you have eternal life.
In addition to GOD'S PLAN 4 MAN posted there Ed Welch, a founding FAM board member, also encourages three vital steps to walking with God. After receiving Jesus as Lord we need to then, "Walk in the light and confess our sins to God (1 John 1:7-9)." Secondly we must obey, "God's commandment to love God and man (Matt 22:37-39)." And thirdly we should develop an eternal perspective in life because eternity awaits so always remember, "God has prepared a place for you to dwell with him (John 14:2-3 & Revelation 21 & 22)." Incredibly all true believers will live with God forever some day! Make sure you're there open your heart and receive him today.
So how can we know for sure that God truly loves us? Just look what the Apostle Paul said about God's love, "BUT GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS OWN LOVE FOR US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US. MUCH MORE THEN BEING NOW JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD WE SHALL BE SAVED FROM WRATH THROUGH HIM (Romans 5:8-9)." God not only loves you he is love. He proved it by sending his only Son to die on a cross for you. There's no need to ever doubt his love again. Any time you waver remember Jesus hanging in agony on that tree. Amazingly he did it all for you and for me. He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God. Let there be no doubt love is what God's all about.
You see God always knew you and I would need salvation. Long before Adam and Eve sinned in the garden he had a divine plan to deliver man. Remember what Jesus said on the cross just before he breathed his last? He said, "It is finished." He paid the ultimate price and knew exactly what he came to do. Never forget on the cross he was thinking of you. Feelings come and go but we live by faith and not by sight. The fact is God never changes no matter what you and I may be going through. GOD'S PLAN 4 MAN is posted on our website. Please visit our HOME PAGE at WWW.FULLASSURANCEMINISTRIES.COM today to assure your salvation is fully secure. The Apostle John once said we write these things so that you may "know" you have eternal life.
In addition to GOD'S PLAN 4 MAN posted there Ed Welch, a founding FAM board member, also encourages three vital steps to walking with God. After receiving Jesus as Lord we need to then, "Walk in the light and confess our sins to God (1 John 1:7-9)." Secondly we must obey, "God's commandment to love God and man (Matt 22:37-39)." And thirdly we should develop an eternal perspective in life because eternity awaits so always remember, "God has prepared a place for you to dwell with him (John 14:2-3 & Revelation 21 & 22)." Incredibly all true believers will live with God forever some day! Make sure you're there open your heart and receive him today.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Difficult Days Wayward Ways-Shawn Smith
Have you ever wondered why things in life many times make no sense at all? Once again we learn of yet another senseless tragedy. As you know by now last Friday a deranged man in Norway went on a shooting rampage killing nearly 100 people saying afterward he was simply trying to save Europe then calmly pleaded not guilty. He now claims that two other groups of allies stand ready to join his murderous campaign. Once again we see someone acting out in a way that horribly defies any human logic or reason. How could someone ever do such a thing we wonder and ask ourselves will the madness ever end?
God has clearly revealed to us in his word that in the last days perilous times will come. The human condition will become so corrupt he will eventually have to bring judgment again to earth just as he did in the days of Noah. Here's what God revealed to us in the apostle Paul's second letter to young Timothy, "THIS KNOW ALSO THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME. FOR MEN SHALL BE LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES, COVETOUS, BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, TRUCE BREAKERS, FALSE ACCUSERS, INCONTINENT, FIERCE, DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD (2 Tim 3:1-3)." Does this sound familiar today?
As you know Noah was a prophet of God called in his day to warn the people of impending judgment. If they would listen to his message they would be saved but if not they would be destroyed. Look what God had to say about the condition of mankind in those days, "AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. AND IT REPENTED THE LORD THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND IT GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART (Genesis 6:5-6)." The sin of Noah's day broke God's heart. Only Noah and his family were saved but the rest of mankind perished in the flood.
The people of Noah's day had become so sinful that they just wouldn't listen. He had provided a way of escape through one righteous man but they wouldn't hear. Many today continue ignoring the signs of the times in our day. And once again it is breaking God's heart. Look what Jesus himself had to say, "FOR AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH SO WILL BE THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. FOR AS IN THOSE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY WHEN NOAH ENTERED THE ARK AND THEY WERE UNAWARE UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME AND SWEPT THEM ALL AWAY. SO WILL BE THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (Matthew 24:37-39)." The King is coming again and he said to always watch and pray. Will we be ready that day or caught looking the other way?
God has clearly revealed to us in his word that in the last days perilous times will come. The human condition will become so corrupt he will eventually have to bring judgment again to earth just as he did in the days of Noah. Here's what God revealed to us in the apostle Paul's second letter to young Timothy, "THIS KNOW ALSO THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME. FOR MEN SHALL BE LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES, COVETOUS, BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, TRUCE BREAKERS, FALSE ACCUSERS, INCONTINENT, FIERCE, DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD (2 Tim 3:1-3)." Does this sound familiar today?
As you know Noah was a prophet of God called in his day to warn the people of impending judgment. If they would listen to his message they would be saved but if not they would be destroyed. Look what God had to say about the condition of mankind in those days, "AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. AND IT REPENTED THE LORD THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND IT GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART (Genesis 6:5-6)." The sin of Noah's day broke God's heart. Only Noah and his family were saved but the rest of mankind perished in the flood.
The people of Noah's day had become so sinful that they just wouldn't listen. He had provided a way of escape through one righteous man but they wouldn't hear. Many today continue ignoring the signs of the times in our day. And once again it is breaking God's heart. Look what Jesus himself had to say, "FOR AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH SO WILL BE THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. FOR AS IN THOSE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY WHEN NOAH ENTERED THE ARK AND THEY WERE UNAWARE UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME AND SWEPT THEM ALL AWAY. SO WILL BE THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (Matthew 24:37-39)." The King is coming again and he said to always watch and pray. Will we be ready that day or caught looking the other way?
Monday, July 4, 2011
Flagrant Lies Lasting Prize-Shawn Smith
Recently I sat on my couch with my favorite remote flipping through a myriad of channels looking for something in vain to temporarily escape reality. Eventually joined by my son in my quest for relief we began discussing the true meaning of life and just how far we've fallen in recent years as a nation. Are the messages infiltrating our homes today ones our American patriots would be proud of when they won independence for us over 200 years ago? Is this really the type of freedom they envisioned and were fighting for? Was their dream for us somehow to enjoy anything and everything anytime we please on the world wide web?
Sadly what were both once considered a positive source of information have increasingly become a smorgasbord of corruption and deceit. As we celebrate our independence today all across America I can't help but ask are we truly free? It seems we're now enslaved by an unseen enemy dressed in disguise and we've fallen for lies. We've been asleep in the light. It's time to arise and get our eyes on the prize. As believers we've been freely forgiven but do we really appreciate all we've been given?
Look what the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Philippi, "BRETHREN I COUNT NOT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED BUT THIS ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, AND REACHING FORTH UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE. I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS (Philippians 3:13-14)." In his day Paul overcame all the lies by eyeing an eternal prize! You and I today are facing an onslaught of deception and misinformation. Do we see our demise just where are our eyes?
Our freedoms here are now seriously at stake both as a nation and individually as well. Godliness is on the decline and only the truth will set us free. Look what Jesus himself had to say to the church in Laodicea one day and quite possibly to you and I and the church in America today, "I KNOW THY WORKS THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WOULD THOU WERE COLD OR HOT (Revelation 3:15). In his message he also counsels us to buy from him gold tried in the fire so we'll truly be rich! He then tells us to be zealous and repent. Deception today is clearly on the rise will we fight to win an everlasting prize?
Sadly what were both once considered a positive source of information have increasingly become a smorgasbord of corruption and deceit. As we celebrate our independence today all across America I can't help but ask are we truly free? It seems we're now enslaved by an unseen enemy dressed in disguise and we've fallen for lies. We've been asleep in the light. It's time to arise and get our eyes on the prize. As believers we've been freely forgiven but do we really appreciate all we've been given?
Look what the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Philippi, "BRETHREN I COUNT NOT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED BUT THIS ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, AND REACHING FORTH UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE. I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS (Philippians 3:13-14)." In his day Paul overcame all the lies by eyeing an eternal prize! You and I today are facing an onslaught of deception and misinformation. Do we see our demise just where are our eyes?
Our freedoms here are now seriously at stake both as a nation and individually as well. Godliness is on the decline and only the truth will set us free. Look what Jesus himself had to say to the church in Laodicea one day and quite possibly to you and I and the church in America today, "I KNOW THY WORKS THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WOULD THOU WERE COLD OR HOT (Revelation 3:15). In his message he also counsels us to buy from him gold tried in the fire so we'll truly be rich! He then tells us to be zealous and repent. Deception today is clearly on the rise will we fight to win an everlasting prize?
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