It was important for the Holy Spirit to convey the truth to us, and show through the written word how much Jesus loved his disciples, and how He acted towards them after His resurrection, to heal and comfort them, from the trauma that they went through. I know that they all forsook Jesus when He was apprehended in the garden of Gethsemane, but He was aware that it would happen! We know that Peter went as far as denying on oath, that he knew Him and had anything to do with Him. But before we become judges, like so many are, ask yourself how you would react in a similar situation! Jesus warned Peter and said to Him: ‘Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you (you in plural)) but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you are turned back, (repent) strengthen y... read more

The statements I made in previous ‘Links’ are describing the relationship that a true believer in Jesus Christ has with Him and through Him with His/our heavenly Father, forever. So, I wonder how many Christians, being born of God, (John 1: 13), born of the Spirit. (John 3: 8) are aware of this oneness and enjoy this unity sealed by the Holy Spirit! In His prayer, which may be the only one Jesus ever prayed aloud, for He made sure that his disciples heard it, to establish in their hearts, how important it was for them to know that they are one with Him forever and through Him with His and their Father. Years later, the apostle John was led to write it, so that every Christian to this day could also know it, and enjoy it! To be ignorant of this fact, the privilege and joy of his true one... read more

In His Prayer (John 17) Jesus makes it very clear that a big change happened to all His disciples, for He says to God that: ‘I have revealed you to those you have given me out of the world. SO, every man and woman, in whatever state He is, does belong to God, just as all the Universe is His. The apostle Paul says in his message to the Athenians: ‘God made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth … He, Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. Acts 17: 25-26)) So Jesus confirms it and says: ‘They were yours and you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.’ (John 17: 6-7) So the big change, therefore, happens when one obeys the WORD! And as such every convert belongs to Jesus, and... read more

I am concentrating on this point, because what Christians must realise/believe is, that a Christian is not just a religious person, by going to Church, as it is believed by so many, a Christian is new creation, a new man, born of God, all believers in Jesus Christ must really believe, that being one of his children, only then, can one be baptised in water and seek to be baptised with the Holy Spirit. He must accept that being a son, means that he is also an heir, a co-heir with Christ! For it is written: ‘But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, (a Jew) to redeem those under the law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the (Holy) Spirit who calls out, ‘Ab... read more

The greatest struggle a Christian, born again of God, has, is to realise fully the reality and the depth of his Father’s love, and that this great salvation is totally planned and willed by Him. Thus, the people that are saved, are saved according to a decision He made, as I have said it, before He ever sent Jesus to the earth. (Ephesians 1:4) The first man that God created was Adam, as written in Genesis. ‘On the sixth day, God said, (Elohim said, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit): ‘Let us create man in our image, in our likeness … So, Elohim Created man in His own image, in the image of God, He created him.’ (Genesis 1: 25-26)

According to all the genealogies we find in the Old and New Testament, it happened three thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight/nine years before t... read more

When the apostle John wrote his epistles, he was eighty-five/ninety years of age. He was exiled to a rocky isle of Patmos, in the Aegean sea, together with many other criminals, his crime was for being a disciple of Christ and a preacher of the gospel. Patmos, is a small rocky island off the coasts of Turkey, it now belongs to Greece. As I stated previously, He was an old man, who was the spiritual father to most of those he was writing to, an assembly of people from two or three generations. He wrote: ‘And now dear children, continue in Him, so that when He (Jesus) appears we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right (or righteous) has been born of Him. (2: 28-29) Birth is when life begins, b... read more

So, the importance of the statements I made are said by Jesus Christ after He was baptised and filled with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit led Him to declare them. To this very day, it is the Holy Spirit that leads the true disciples, they make up the Church of Christ, and where the Holy Spirit cannot lead and inspire, there is death, and no growth of the work of the Lord. It follows that God does not add to dead churches, which are in contradiction to the will of God, and He does not add to them those that should be saved. (Acts 2: 47) No one can be saved without the convicting work of the Holy Spirit, for it is the plain teaching of the New Testament, that from the moment a person truly repents of its sins, the Holy Spirit alone, according to the will of God, is at work, and He alone... read more

In that Upper Room, on the Thursday of the Lord’s Jesus last week of life in a mortal body, started a new beginning to everything. From John chapter 13 to 17, Jesus was alone with his apostles. He uttered words by which He laid the foundation to much of the Christian doctrine – resting on the institution of the Lord’s supper – the New covenant Luke 22 -- the Christians’ rapture to heaven! -- The Christians’ fruit bearing, their life’s commitment -- the coming/baptism with the Holy Spirit! -- The Christians guided, and taught by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit -- the anointing of the new priesthood! Amazing statements of Christ concerning those present and His future disciples. As the apostle Peter says: ‘A chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a pe... read more

This great event was coming down on earth of the Holy Spirit, as commanded by the Lord who said: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you heard me speak about, for John baptised you with/in water, but in a few days, you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit!’ (Acts 1: 4-5) They did not know how or when this would happen, they had been waiting for ten days already, some may have left Jerusalem for various reasons, yet according to verse fifteen of the same chapter of Acts, it is written that they were a group of a hundred and twenty heavenly citizens, disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ! 

It is written, that when the Lord was taken up and disappeared from their sight, that: ‘They returned from the mount of Olives … When they arrive... read more

So, Jesus was in fact, declared publicly, by God, that He was His Son, this happened after He was baptised in water. As such He is Eternal, and existed long before John the Baptist did. Now it must be accepted that the true purpose of Christ’s ministry, is to raise up a new people, zealous of Good works. True Christians are not just a sect among so many others in the world, they are an entity completely outside of it all, a separated, chosen people, a new humanity, men born of God, born from above! Separated for a special mission while on earth, and, in God’s time she is destined to reign eternally with Jesus Christ! The apostle Paul was most probably the most zealous man that ever-served Jesus-Christ, writing to Titus one of his co-workers, says: ‘Jesus Christ who gave Himself for... read more