Monday, January 31, 2011

Jesus is our cure for death!?!

       So i was at bible study on day and we were at the discussion of if someone came up to you and told you, " hey, listen I have Discovered the cure for Cancer.", wouldn't you tell the whole world everything about the cure for cancer? wouldn't you jump up and down and scream. I have the Cure for Cancer and no one listens? what if people looked at you funny and pushed you away everytime you talked about it and didnt want to listen to it. Thats how i feel sometimes, or many people may feel, when i/they talk about Jesus Christ in school, streets, and to our families. people look and say oh he is the Christian boy or oh im glad your becoming a church boy. It gets Frustrating at times going to school with something so amazing that you want to share with the whole world and people just push you away, especially when you know the cure for death.
       At first, I didn't understand at first why Jesus died on the cross and people say oh, he died for our sins. yea.. but it goes more deeper then that. ok so the wage or payment, trade-if you will- for sin is death. so the trade for sin is death. ok so back then when people sinned they would sacrifice a lamb. with me so far? so the lamb would be sacrificed therefore death was sacrificed. ok now, God had one son(people now in days know how precious their children are to them ). so the Virgin Mary, which she didn't know a man, which ment she was a virgin hence the virgin Mary. Had Gods Son. ok now the Only son of God was Perfect, Jesus never tapped. now if you take Past,present and future of people and their sins (6-8 billion) people in the world, not included how many there were in the past, into one man-the perfect man Gods Only begotten Son who was Perfect- one person or hence "THE LAMB" has died for us to recieve Gods Grace(which means something you dont deserve). now this is why Jesus Sweated Blood around the time he was to be Crucified. when your in a lot of stress you are able to sweat blood. Now i can't imagine my father,niece, nephew, or anyone go through what Jesus went through. Imagine you Daughter/Son on a cross nailed and died. You knew he was going to die at that. Jesus Knew He was going to Die. and yet he did not run away from it.
 Jesus was crucified and one man to his left says to the people basically "we deserve to be killed but this man has done nothing wrong" "he prays for you" he asks Jesus please dont forget us when your in paradis" so he repents in a way and asks for gods forgiveness and was forgiven. he was going to die and yet jesus listen to him after all his stress and after all he was going through. the other guy said" if your  the son of god why dont you bring us down" but god is merciful and is loving and if you are truely sorry in your heart and want to be forgiven then you will be.  Jesus did not do anything wrong, i feel that i should be crucified on the cross because i deserve to die and go to hell. we as people do not deserve Gods Grace, but he was Perfect. he was the person to raise people from the dead and heal people by words and physically heal them. and yet he was crucified for saying that he was the messiah and preaching what he preached. when he was crucified he still asked god to forgive the people who were the reason to nail him to the cross and he still would do it again if he had the oppertunity too. now this is gods love. He loved us so much, that he gave us his son, his only son , the Lamb, to be crucified for our sins. now i dont think i could be that loving to anyone to have my only son nailed to a cross after being nearly tortered and crucified. if thats not love i dont know what is because god wants us to be loving and to be like The man J.C to love people and to live your life for your neighbor.
     Jesus died not only for our sins but he rose from the dead after he was crucified. and brought to a tomb where a big boulder in front of it. He did rise from the dead. now i had an uncle that past away last semester in November and it was horrible. i cant imagine what the people who loved Jesus at the time were going through, but to see his torture and to see him die in front of you is devistating. BUT heres the amazing part! He Rises from the DEAD. how incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i still am amazed and i wasnt even there let alone the people who were who saw him. he said this before that he was going to be crucified and that he was going to be risen from the dead and he was going to show his wounds from his hands and feet and he did as said. His promise that he will be risen from the dead, he kept his word and kept his promise. now To Recieve Gods Grace and to enter into his KINGDOM we have to believe in Jesus Christ for he died for our sins and he was the son of God. Also we have to believe what he lived for and what he tought us. which makes sense because people are sinners and to show us how to live and how to love. what more of a way to show us how to love and the definition of love then to have your son and to have your son crucified for our sins and then wake up from the dead. basically like a teacher of the world. Words from Frances Chan is that god is basically proposing to  you, he wants a loving relationship with you and he wants to love you. he wants you to love and be happy. its like a hall way. god is at one side and your at the other. around god is a paradise of beauti and happiness and he is jumping up and down telling you to come over and be with him he is waving you over. but it is your choice and you have to walk over to him. people dont believe in him because it sounds strange to people or rediculous to poeple. well, can you hold your breathe for 4 mins with out a breathe being taken? a baby is in the womb for 9 months in fluid with out a single breathe. the universe in to go on forever and is gigantic beyond knowledge. there are dreams we have that we can see touch and feel even taste whats not there. people cant see wind or grasp the voice in our heads. people in the word think its ridiculous to believe in god but whats even for redicoulous is people killing, raping, murdering, and wasting their life away. what is wrong to believe that someone loves us and wants to love us and for us to have faith that god will be there for us and not to worry about whats going to happen in life. whats wrong with knowing that there is a paradise. or that  no matter what happends god will b there to have our backs. I dont have a worry in my life because if i put as much effort as i possibly can in life that Jesus our lord will finish for us. I am Happy in life knowing that god is there for me or that god wants me to be a man of his image. To live with love and faith that god will be there no matter what is a thought beyond my control, and the people who have faith in him and believe in him are crazy ones? my uncle said what if im wrong? well if im wrong then i was foolish, i lived my life with love and lived to love people and to do for others. i lived my life a happy life and i lived my life as Jesus as my role model. but what if your wrong. your at the gates of heaven and god asks you. "why should i let you in my kingdom" what will you say? Jesus Promises us that we shall recieve salvation through him if we have faith in him and live the way he wants us to live. Jesus Conquered Death and is our Cure For Death.
God Is merciful

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

He is our father and maker

    So... people think that god is mean and god punishes you or god doesn't love you when really he loves you more then anyone else could. in my opinion, if any one has a father figure or father in their life, which that father would want his son/daughter to not murder anyone or steal anything from anyone. fathers would want their kids to wait till marriage before being sexually active because sex before marriage leads to problems which is in a discussion in itself, but our father figures would want us to be good to people and would rather us not smoke and drink and party every night. sometimes our parents discipline us, some may use disipline physically or put us in time out. our parents put us in situations for us to learn from which is right and wrong. God and our lord Jesus Christ is kinda like that but a billion times more and takes it even further then even our parents would tell/want us to do. Our God wants us to be loving towards everyone and our selves and to live life in harmony to forgive and to open our homes to people to cloth the naked shelter the homeless feed the hungry and thirsty visit our neighbor in prison and never give up our faith in him. some of our parents believe in if someone hits you then you have the right to hit them back but God wants you to love your enemy's and forgive that person. some parents tell you to make money and to turn the other cheek when you see a homeless person. usually because of safety reasons but god wants us to help that person in need when no one else will. some times our parents would say,well most of the fathers, to go ahead and have sex with multiple partners and tell us to have abortions when something slips but god wants something for us so much greater. parents punishes us in a way we think they dont love us or we may get angry when they do something we dont like but really they love us they do it in love. god can work in the same way. sometimes you may believe god doesnt love you or can get so mad at god you don't understand why he did this to me or why he done that to me when really god may put that hurdle in front of us to make us better or for us to learn something that will improve who we are as people. god wants us to prosper and to bloom into his image and at first we may not like what he does to us but to get to where he wants us to be we have to suffer first.
       i was watching this show on tv his name i cant remember but i never watched him on tv before i always change the channel when he is on but what he said made sense. he says that there was a tea pot its was a tea pot that had beautiful designs with blue and baby blue colors that was shiny and valueble. and he said that if the tea pot could talk the tea pot would say "i wasn't always like this, at first i was a plump of mud, and my maker put this powder on me and kept touching me and hurting me so i told him Stop! that hurts please thats uncomfortable leave me alone.then he put me on a spinning wheel. i kept going around and around i thought i was going to throw up i said please stop im getting dizzy, i cant do this.  he kept molding me into a shape i didnt like. i asked why are you doing this to me, and my maker just looked at me with a smile. After he molded me he put me in an oven and it was so hot i thought i was going to die i screamed help me! im going to die. i cant breathe! i cant catch my breathe. i was sweating so much and was hopeless. there was a clear window where my make popped his head to see me and he just stared and smiled at me. i yelled let me out of here, and the maker said with a grin, " not yet". he took me out and put me on a shelf  high above where no one could see me. i felt alone and i didnt know if he forgot about me or if he was just going to leave me. i felt ugly as time slowed down. time was passing me by and i felt as if i was going no where. i yelled let me down from here!! please im alone and cold. the maker looked at me and grinned and said," not yet". so he took me down and put me in another oven which was twice as hot, and this time i was sure i wasnt going to make it i was going to die for sure i started kicking an screaming for my maker to let me out before i burn alive in the heat becuase he was standing right there and he was just looking at me and he could of took me out anytime he wanted too but he didnt. he just grinned and said, " not yet". then when he took me out he put me on a table and started to put this icky ink on me. it was sticky and wet. i didnt like the colors that were going on my body i felt ugly and icky now with wet paint. im dirty and wet. i wondered why this person would do this to me. i didnt do anything to him why is he putting me through all this crap. then he smiled. he grabbed a mirror and put it in front of me and what i seen was a graceful, elegant tea pot.
God is graceful

Monday, January 24, 2011

Chris Tomlin - Our God is Greater

Jesus never bragged

       No one likes people who brag a lot usually someone who brags about this and brags about that is someone who really isnt much of anything. Actions speak louder then words. Jesus never came up to someone and shook his hand and said, "hey, im the son of god whats your name? or " i healed this person on this day i walked on water the other day and i raised this person from the dead today. no he spoke the word of god and showed people the love and compasion by motion. he showed the word of god by action and yes spreaded his seed of love and wisdom into us that grows higher then any tree could. jesus walked the walk more then he talk the talk.
 Jesus was the person to ask someone, i forget who it was, but he asked him three times if he loved him and he kept saying yes i do love you i do love you and Jesus Replied "then feed my sheep" and in todays world we cannot say we love jesus and we are believers if we do not act upon it. we cant be all bark and no bite. god would rather us show his love and give action into our everyday lifes until we die then brag about loving him and dont apply it in our lifes at all. Jesus talked about what god wants for us and everything he says will make us better as a person. even a non believer didnt believe in him but did what he asks then to the world he would be a good person. So believers or non believers what ever you may believe first see how Jesus wants you to do and you never know it could change you what do yu have to lose?
God is love