Monday, October 31, 2022
Peaceful Acoustic Worship! 4 Hours of the BEST HYMNS of all time played on Guitar
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Thank You for Keeping Us Safe Almighty Father
PRAYER FOR TONIGHT
Almighty Father, Thank You for bringing us safe to the end of this day.
Thank You for Your endless Love and Mercy.
May You keep us under Your mighty wings, safe from all dangers and illnesses. Continue to guard us as we sleep
Lord. May the Holy Spirit renew our hearts and give us Peace. I ask this prayer through Christ, Our Saviour, Amen!
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Powerful Keys To Unlocking God's Word (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner Episode
Powerful Keys To Unlocking God's Word (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince |
Gospel Partner Episode
When Jesus is your ONLY HOPE
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Graves Into Gardens ft. Brandon Lake | Live | Elevation Worship
Friday, October 7, 2022
The Right Definition of Righteousness 8October 2022
What has a right understanding of your righteousness got to do with expecting good to happen to you today? Everything!
Many believers associate righteousness with a list of things that they have to do, and if they fulfill this list, they feel "righteous." Conversely, when they fail in terms of their behavior, they feel "unrighteous." But this is the wrong definition and understanding of righteousness.
Let's go back to what the Bible has to say. Look at 2 Corinthians 5:21: "For He [God] made Him [Jesus Christ] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him [Jesus Christ]." We are not righteous because we do right. We became righteous because of what Jesus did for us at the cross. "Righteousness," therefore, is not based on our right doing. It is based entirely on Jesus' right doing. Christianity is not about doing right to become righteous. It is all about believing right in Jesus to become righteous.
Do you realize that we have been conditioned to associate being blessed with doing right? Most belief systems are based on a system of merit whereby you need to fulfill certain requirements—give to the poor, do good to others and care for the underprivileged—to attain a certain state of righteousness. It all sounds very noble, self-sacrificial and appealing to our flesh, which likes to feel that our good works have earned us our righteousness.
But God is not looking at your nobility, sacrifices or good works to justify you. He is only interested in Jesus' humility at the cross. He looks at His Son's perfect sacrifice at Calvary to justify you and make you righteous! Attempting to be justified by your good works and trying your best to keep the Ten Commandments to become righteous is to negate the cross of Jesus Christ. It is as good as saying, "The cross is not enough to justify me. I need to depend on my good works to make myself clean and righteous before God."
The apostle Paul said, "I do not frustrate the grace [unmerited favor] of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." My friend, consider carefully what Paul is saying here. He is effectively saying that if you are depending on your good works, your doing and your ability to keep perfectly the Ten Commandments to become righteous, then Jesus died for nothing! That's what "in vain" means—for nothing! So don't frustrate the grace of God by depending on your good works to make yourself righteous and put God on your side. Jesus' sacrifice is more than enough to justify you! And when you know that you are justified, you can be confident that the unmerited favor of God is on your side and expect good to happen to you today!
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
When Jesus said “IT IS FINISHED!”
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
He said, “IT IS FINISHED!: and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.
John 19:30
19:30. It is finished: His passive (Lat. patior, "suffering") ministry is now completed.
17:4. I have finished (teleiosas) means "I have made perfect or completed." This verb is in
the active voice, indicating Christ had finished His active ministry (cf. 4:34). He now assumes a He prince passive role. In 19:30 ("It is finished")
the passive voice suggests that He has by then finished His passive ministry as well.
The words of Jesus on the cross are significant:
The first words concern the Roman soldiers who were crucifying Him: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). The second statement is made to the penitent thief: "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). The third statement comes while looking at His grief-stricken mother."Woman, behold thy son!" To John He says, "Behold thy mother!" (vv. 26, 27). The fourth cry is addressed to God at the ninth hour and comes from Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34). The fifth statement is "I thirst" (v. 28), followed by His taking of vinegar from a sponge. The sixth cry is 'It is finished" (v. 30). (See comments on 17:4.) The seventh cry was addressed to His Father: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"
(Luke 23:46).
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, ( for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. John 19:31
*19:31. The preparation was Friday, the day before the sabbath (cf. vv. 14, 42). (See especially Mark 15:42.) It was a high day because it was the Sabbath during the Passover week. The Jews did not mind putting an innocent man to death, even the Son of God, but they were very careful not to break the Sabbath,