The apostle Peter, on the day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit started preaching to the Jews, few years after it spread to non-Jews, which are known as Gentiles. But this is not what Christianity is in this so-called modern world. One could say that it is now, more or less, as I have said, a geographical situation, countries that are called ‘Christian’, are grouped in two main streams, the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. So, some are Roman Catholics, some are Protestants, and because it happens that they are born or live in Scotland, France, Germany, or whatever other so-called Christian country, like that young man they are Christians because they are English! The phenomenon is that the majority of the citizens of those; so called Christian nations, do not know who Jesus reall... read more

Thus most people slotted in as Christians do not relate to Jesus or know Him, they even give Christ a bad name! Thus, we should go back to the origin of the Church age, when from the time Jesus began to call men to follow Him, they were called ‘disciples.’ A student has many masters (teachers) a disciple has only one. Thus, the disciples called Jesus - ‘Master’! ‘Rabbouni’ They had no other! He is the MASTER to all true Christian, their Saviour, their Lord, whom they revere and adore! and will be till the last one is called!

When Jesus left Nazareth to be baptised in the Jordan by John-Baptist, soon after he began His ministry, at first He started to call His disciples. It is written: ‘As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon calle... read more

Thus, to this very day, what is called Christianity started in Jerusalem with a big bang! On the first feast of Pentecost since the Lord’s ascension, the disciples of the Lord were filled with the Holy Spirit, and their enthusiasm attracted a crowd of people who wandered what had happened to them, for with great joy they were praising God so much so that people thought they were drunk. To cut the story short the apostle Peter stood up and told them what had happened to them and began to preach to the many people that gathered there, after listening to Him and all he said about Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, many believed in Jesus, it is written that. ‘Those who accepted the message were baptised, and about three thousand were added to their number on that da... read more

Therefore, to conclude what is written and introduce what will follow, let me quote the following. ‘For God (our Creator) so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.’ (John 3: 16-17)

An awful lot is said about the first of these few verses... read more

People continue to bear the weight of sin and try to rid themselves from it by various  rituals all depending on what God they worship for there are many gods, men have even corrupted the Cristian faith and put burdens on people burdens that Jesus Christ delivers completely and forever those that accept Him as their Saviour. Roman Catholics are taught to confess their sins constantly and never go any further and deal with priests, men that love to be in that position of power, thus they get to know all they can about their flock, and can subdue them to fear and uncertainty, no man on earth can forgive sins and wash away their stains! It is written: ‘In Him (Jesus) we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the ric... read more

But, after two thousand years nothing has changed, the opposition to the preaching of the Cross, which is at the centre of the Gospel message, is mainly organised and promoted by what is called the establishment. I remember an instance that happened on a farm, often used by the principal of the College where I was a student, and later as a member of the faculty. It says that after few days of heavy rain, the ground was a bit too soft, yet the farmer with his son had to attend to things that were urgent! It was in the days when horses were still generally widely used. One morning, as they had to move things around, the cart that was pulled by two horses got stuck, trying hard to get the horses to do the impossible, they tried to help each working on the wheels, b... read more

We have shared thus far some wonderful stories of what conversion is and how the Holy Spirit lit a great fire, great conviction was generated by the power of the Holt Spirit, thousands were brought into the kingdom of God, coming out of death into life and from darkness into light, and from Satan to God! Few months after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which happened on the day of the Feast of Pentecost, ten days after Jesus was taken to heaven, this happened in Jerusalem the where the Church grew to five thousand souls. This obviously spurred the Jews to try and stop it. So, coming back to Saul of Tarsus, having now letters from the high priest giving him ‘carte-blanche’, to do what he wanted, left Jerusalem to go to Damascus! It was quite a journey, it woul... read more

How can a puny man, with his minute intellect, know who he is dealing with? God in His power, His wisdom and mercy, can convert the worst of sinners, just as He can convert a self-righteous one, who is often seems to be the hardest to convert, into a servant of Christ and into a member of His great family! God has His plan and He is still working at it. The Holy Spirit as long as there remains a sinner to save will remain on earth to do it! The conversion of Saul of Tarsus, is an outstanding miracle, but all conversions are miracles, the Holy Spirit alone can bring such a change, but not all are as that of Paul, yet all point to the grace of God and His amazing love for lost undeserving sinners! Turning a sinner into a son of God takes all the power and the grea... read more

I have a reason to stay with the apostle Paul, and mention what he also wrote to a young Pastor, Timothy, whom he knew from a very young age, he also knew his mother and grandmother. With time, as they worked together, Timothy became to him like a son, in his introduction to the first epistle, he wrote: ‘To Timothy my true son in the faith!’ What he mentions to him about his past will lead us later, to discover what he taught the people that he led to Christ, as a most faithful and dedicated apostle! This is what he writes: ‘I thank Christ Jesus my Lord, who has given me strength, that He considered me faithful, appointing me to His service. Even though I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbe... read more

One has to approach the Holy Scriptures with great humility. A passage I quoted in the previous Link, is a testimony to the grace of God and to the love which He and His Son, Jesus of Nazareth, have proved to be so deep, so real and unchanging. Although for centuries, even before Jesus was born into the world, they have suffered a lot of grief and insults from men before the flood; many years after, they got it from the Israelites, then from an untold number of Gentiles. All men have done and said about God and His Son have not altered their determination to save the elect and having done all, to replace this old polluted earth with a brand new one, in which God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit will dwell with men forever! Even so come Lord Jesus.

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We are still living in the days of grace! for how long I do not know, because the teaching of the Lord is that a time will come, when the door of salvation will close and it will all end. Nowadays, people are convinced, due to the modern belief of a great majority is that all that we read in the Bible is not true, that God does not exist that the world has ever been and will be forever! But millions like the apostle Paul, like me and millions of other in this so-called modern age, have been touched by the Holy Spirit, converted and are immensely grateful to God, that Jesus, who was hated without a cause, is now alive, exalted, sitting at his right hand, and is soon coming again! God breaks down people in this way, and humbles the proudest, for without this almig... read more

The apostle Paul, as a converted Jew, states: ‘All of us, also lived like them.’ Like those Gentiles that the Jews so despise. The Ten Commandments, have been broken by every Jew, as it is written: ‘Because they (the Israelites) did not remain faithful to my covenant, says the Lord…I turned away from them, declares the Lord.’ After being warned so often by many prophets that they did not believe, yet finally it happened and to this day they bear the curse! The Cross of Christ, put an end to God’s favours and they also need to believe in Christ to be reconciled with God whom they have offended! Having written what Paul wrote to the Jews, what did he write to the Gentiles? Because most churches in His days had converted Jews and Gentiles in their pews. Look at the... read more

I understand that Jesus was actually weeping aloud, ‘aux sanglots’as it is said in French. He was heartbroken. At Lazarus’ grave, He was moved to tears sharing human sorrows with many others! But outside Jerusalem Jesus was sobbing all on His own, for he alone knew its past and future. Previously He said: ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you; you will not see me again until you see me until you say. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ (Matthew 23.37-39)

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If the Jews are still under this curse because of their deep unbelief and what they have done to Jesus the Son of God! The Gentiles have not done better and they also still bear the curse, for in this spiritual state they remain separated from God, which is real death, cut off from the living God! It is obvious that having the Ten Commandments has not made any difference to the character of man, whether he be a Jew or a Gentile. I will just remind you of a couple of verses written to the Roman Christians which I mentioned before: ‘The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of men that suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known of God is plain to them, because God has made it plain... read more

History proves that generation after generation men have not change, unbelievers get worse and offend God more and more, idols are still idols and they still are as dead as they were centuries ago! Therefore, there is no positive way for man to get out of this situation. In days of old, people in their spiritual blindness, went as far as sacrificing their children to some idol-gods, they did it to pacify a bit of stone or metal, and spare things that have no feelingsfrom their wroth, they go to such ends to find forgiveness, but there is none! how could there be? This has left men with the idea that God is this monster; they have this fear of a statue that th... read more

Without faith and surrender to Jesus Christ, man remains condemned, lost, dead in sin, without hope, any hope, and outside of Jesus Christ there is no one else that can help a sinner out of the hell he is destined to! For it is written: ‘Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from His presence and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead great and small, standing before the throne and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they have done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what h... read more

Something that Jesus mentioned in His prayer confirms all I have said about the Gospel, for He said: ‘I have revealed you to those that you have given me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I have given them the words you gave me and they have accepted them.They knew with certainty that I came from you and they believed that you sent me! I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, (all non-Christian) but for those you have given me, for they are yours!’ (John 17: 6-9) Then Jesus adds: ‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who wil... read more

It is during the forty days that followed His resurrection that Jesus told His disciples not to depart from Jerusalem until they were filled with the Holy Spirit. After they saw Him disappear in a cloud they returned to Jerusalem and in the upper room they faithfullywaited, just as Jesus told them to! The upper room, where they lived together since the Passover feast with Jesus, became a sacred place? I do not know if it was big enough to house a hundred and twenty souls, but on the day of Pentecost they were together! and suddenly after ten days of waiting, they were all baptised with the Holy Spirit! Till then Pentecost was an important feast of the Jews, but to the disciples of the Lord thi... read more

This baptism is therefore a great blessing that God only gives to His sons, you cannot be a son of God of your own choosing, I have explained it fully in previous ‘Links.’ The apostle John states clearly that a true Christian is born again of the Holy-Spirit, by the will of God, and it goes deeper than that, for the apostle John says that every son of His, is ‘born of God.’ Humanly speaking we can say that only a child has his father’s genes, therefore, a son of God has God’s nature, pure sinless and eternal! This is tremendous, it deals with the new man that lives in every true Christian, this new creation is a newly created spirit! The disciples were all sons of God before they were baptised with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. Jesus was the eternal S... read more

Therefore, I conclude this first part of my answer as to ‘Who is a Christian’ with the following verses: ‘Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor male prostitute, not homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor thieves nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.’ (1 Corinthians 6: 9-11) Therefore a Christians is a walking miracle! No other religions can convert such sinners into new creatures in Christ pure and spotless! True religion is not something that men can ha... read more

So, what follows in this series of verses is just as certain! ‘Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come.’ (2 Corinthians 1: 18-22) The King James version chooses the word earnest instead of deposit, which eventually means the same, for the Oxford dictionary says that earnest, means: Money paid as an instalment. – To confirm a contract. – It is a token of what is to come, now all this is what the Gift of the Holy Spirit guaranties to every believer.

Paul says also the following; ‘Now it is God who has made us for this purpose and has given us the Spirit (meaning the Holy Spirit) as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.’... read more

Because God cannot be seen, because He speaks in His own way and we cannot hear Him, faith can only come by a revelation given by the Holy Spirit, one cannot do it by working things out, by human wisdom followed by an act of what is called ‘free-will.’ Sinners have not got a free will, sin has mastered them, they need the Holy Spirit to wake them up to the truth of God, so that they can see the light of a new day! Faith demands yielding one’s life, to trust oneself completely to someone, GOD, who through the Holy Spirit, acting in Christ’s name lights up the darkness of man’s heart, things happen that one does not see, hear, or touch, yet the by the miracle of true faith renders them very real to the mind and the heart which is the source of all human feelings and sense! The tragedy of... read more

These various ideas are sponsored by people that do not know God. Traditions handed down from generation to generation, when true apostolic doctrine was contaminated by pagan rites helped by the Roman Catholic Church which has lost the way of truth long ago. I could continue on this subject, but friends, whoever you may be, God says that it is: ‘Christ, who died for your sins.’ The apostle Paul thought it important to remind this very thing to Christians in Corinth, declaring ‘Now, brethren, I want to remind you of the Gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this Gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly, to the words I preached to you. Otherwise,... read more

If you reject this gospel, Christ’s words, you reject the only way to eternal safety, that God made possible through His Son Jesus Christ! The apostle Paul wrote and said ‘I know whom I have believed and am convinced! Persuaded!’ whatever one believes may seem satisfactory to one, but to be sure and saved one has to believe in Christ, the apostle Paul was a strong pharisee, he believed something that He thought was absolutely God given, but he found how wrong he was! By the grace of God, he believed in Jesus Christ and so he says: ‘I know whom I have believed.’! With true faith comes a conviction; this brings me to my second point. A truly converted man becomes certain of some important changes as to his new relationship with G... read more

No man could write things so correctly just of His own thinking! King David was a prophet and he was inspired by the Holy Spirit, as were all the other prophets through centuries, foretelling that the death of Christ was unavoidable, for without an atonement there was no other way to save men from sin and servitude to Satan, and get rid of Him forever! He had to die in our place so that we could be delivered from this awful curse, and a life in sin! Our human mind cannot fathom what it cost Jesus to leave heaven and come among a cruel and violent world and suffer so much, at the handsof corrupt men? Roman soldiers were without scruples or feelings, ‘blasé’, for they cr... read more

Jesus’ Gethsemane trial was going to be so awful, that He prayed His Father to spare Him of it, saying: ‘Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done. Angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened Him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. (Luke 22: 41-43) By saying in his prayer, ‘This cup’ Jesus did not mean the Cross, for he knew before He came into the world that He had to face it. He meant what he had to suffer in that Garden, at that moment, in a place He loved so much. We shall never really know what temptations He endured!

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Thus, Jesus humbled Himself to suffer a horrible death and by it experienced what death, really is, it is a total rejection from a righteous and Holy God, a casting away, Jesus suffered this bitter rejection, for he cried: ‘My god! My God! why have you forsaken me’? (Matthew 27: 46) It seems like He did not expect it? Because God is righteous, He must punish sin, for it was born in the very heart of Satan, when he fell through pride taking legions of angels down with him. In His great love God sacrificed His own Son to atone for the sins of all that would believe on Him and went into hell itself, to proclaim that by the death which He just suff... read more

As a baby he needed to drink his mother’s milk, having this baby, His parents must have been over the moon! Handling this charming new born, God’s Son! they must have felt as I felt when handling my four children and more! Joseph, a godly man, must have felt very blest to be chosen as a guardian of, and to care for the Son of God! Jesus needed sleep, his nappies had to be changed! Joseph, with Mary and the child, had to flee from Bethlehem to Egypt, to save God’s Son from the murderous hands of King Herod, a maniac, who wanted him dead. I could go on, but if you have a Bible read about Him, and meditate, give yourself time! because reading about Jesus Christ, the... read more

The general attitude of men to the Bible is twofold, they either ignore what God says in it, or explain it to suit their theories. It appears that only those God calls that believe it! His call started with Abraham and God still callas men to this very day! Men’s treatment of it, deprives them, of the true blessing of becoming a child of God through divine revelation. John could have written his gospel forty or fifty years after he, with many other disciples, werein the upper room and heard Jesus pray to His father before they went with Him to the garden of Gethsemane, where He allowed Hims... read more

The following verses confirm the secured eternal position of every true Christian, it is written: ‘In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those that are made holy are of the same family. So, Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says: I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation, I will sing your praises. (Psalm 22: 22) I will put my trust in Him. (Isaiah 8: 17) And again He says: Here am I, and the children God has given me! (Isaiah 8: 18) Since the children have flesh and blood (since they are hum... read more

When Jesus died, there was silence in heaven, until early on the Sunday morning, the third day, when God raised Jesus from the dead, He is now alive in heaven forever! It is written: ‘Jesus, the Son, is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word! After he had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.’ (Hebrews 1: 3-4) It is from there that He will return. From His exalted position, Jesus is still the only way for man to repent and return justified back to God! He remains the only man, to this very day, that rose from the dead, and who, in His glorified body, ascended into the very presence of God;... read more

So, the short cut to salvation, forgiveness of sins, and life eternal if given freely to those that: ‘Believe on the lord Jesus Christ and (you will be saved) … are saved’! And become as certain as every other Christian that Jesus is enough, he does not need any helpers to save and look after His sheep, I have said it already, but I repeat it because men have complicated so much what is so simple! We have access to God, because Jesus Christ opened the way, and it is still that simple: so, I say it again ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved!’ (Acts 16: 31)

In ‘Link 82’ I introduced this second point which leads a believer into various... read more

The spiritual condition that Christians were in before their conversion to Christ, is perfectly explained in the epistles to the Ephesians, where it is written: ‘You were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of the world and of the rulers of the kingdom of the air, the spirit that is now at work in those that are disobedient. All of us (Christians Jews) lived among them (Gentiles) at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest (the Gentiles) we were by nature objects of wrath. In other words, the state of all, Jews, and Gentiles, was hopeless. All are sinners, utterly corrupt in the eyes of... read more

This happened according to a preconceived plan. God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His great wisdom He planned a way, by which, through Christ He now, provides forgiveness from sins, which by faith in Him, leads to life eternal! ‘In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the pleasure of His will – to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One he loves IN HIM (Jesus)we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.’ (Ephesians 1: 4-8) It has all been planned and thought out by God, and it cannot fail... read more

While on earth, all born again Christians live to do the will of God, as servants of the ‘Most High God,’ children of their heavenly Father, ‘GOD & SONS’ act together to bring in the Kingdom of God to as many as possible! True Christians are not people doing all they can to get saved, for they are safe and saved already, what they do individually or together is to live to glorify God, it is as it is written: ‘Like the rest, (of men) we were (Jews and Gentiles) by nature objects of wrath. But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ an... read more

Anyone reading the verses I have quoted, may have problems to understand them fully and to take hold of such truths, this I understand fully, for I have experienced it in my own lifetime; but I have found that living in trust and faith in Christ, this assurance grew stronger with time. It is like a seed that is sown and seems to lie dormant, but it is there and watered by the Holy Spirit, it grows;I am now fully convinced that it is real and that I, as well as all who have been converted into a new man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, have received eternal life there and then, for God cannot lie, my salvation was secured and was real even before I was born, for it is written that: ‘ God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Chr... read more

Thus, Arminians (from Jacob Arminius) are Christians who are strong on ‘free will’. They want to know that it is all up to them, it is all up to the choices they make, thus no-one cannot be sure of anything ‘til the end. I bought a book of ‘Daily Readings.’ I read it quite a lot, nearly the whole year through. The writer was obviously an Arminian. It may even be his book that started me thinking. I got so tired of it, because he was constantly mentioning his free will, so much so that I said to myself: ‘my dear man your ‘free will’ is your God’. He most probably hoped that he had done enough to be safe on judgment day! 

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Therefore, the whole emphasis, right through the New Testament, is constantly on what God has done to free men from the curse, and what God is still doing according to His plan, as detailed in the New Testament. We can never mention those truths too often. They alone reveal the true God and Jesus Christ His only Son! In His grace, God saved those that would believe in Jesus Christ, and it is clearly stated that they believe in Him because as states the Apostle Paul, they have been chosen in Christ, even before the creation of the earth as we know it, men and women, predestined according to that plan. They are all in Christ Jesus, converted from sinners into saints, from children of darkness, into Children of God. 

A Christian does not become one when he is filled with the Holy Spirit, he becomes one when He believes in Christ, at that very moment, a new spirit is created in Him, this new spirit is obviously holy, but the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a separate act of Christ, that follows the conversion of a man and creates a new man, born of God, (John 1: 13) Such a convert becomes a Son of God! As it is stated: ‘You are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ … Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit that calls out: Abba Father! – So, you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a so... read more

The next day, John seeing the Lord, said: ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.’ (John 1: 29) John the Baptistsaid mote about the Lord Jesus, but it is often overlooked, and bye passed, by far too many preachers and priests, to the great loss totoo many folk, I quote: ‘Then John gave this testimony: I saw The Holy Spirit come down from heaven as a dove an remain on Him. I would not have known Him (or recognise who He was) except that the one who sent me (God) to baptise with water told me. The man on whom you see the Holy Spirit come down and remain, HE is the one who will baptise with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and I testify that this (He – Jesus) is the SON of God.&n... read more