Sunday, October 9, 2016
Sunday, October 2, 2016
HE DID IT ALL FOR ME
HE DID IT ALL FOR ME
I Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins” in his
body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for
righteousness;
How I can not think of a thing so personal as sin and salvation. When the Bible says, "For all have sinned", I am persuaded to think, "all but me". And when the Word says, "There is none righteous, no not one", I want to add, "except me". When God speaks and says, "There is not a just man upon the earth". I want to say, "How about me?" I am righteous and sinless and others that do not mean me. Jn. 3:16 ... "all but me?"
I-HE CAME INTO A SINNER’S WORLD.
A. This is a sinner’s world and a world of sinners. It is a world of pain and grief, of disease, depravation, war and starvation. It is a world torn by storm, earthquake, and eruption, populated by men torn by crime, war, lies and corruption.
b. Yes, there is concern in heaven for the plight of sinful men. For John 3:16 is true, God does love AND God cares -- Matt. 10:29-31
A. This is a sinner’s world and a world of sinners. It is a world of pain and grief, of disease, depravation, war and starvation. It is a world torn by storm, earthquake, and eruption, populated by men torn by crime, war, lies and corruption.
b. Yes, there is concern in heaven for the plight of sinful men. For John 3:16 is true, God does love AND God cares -- Matt. 10:29-31
II. HE LIVED THE
SINNER’S LIFE.
A. Not a sinner’s life, but the life of ordinary men or the ordinary life of men. With his hands he labored in the carpenter’s shop; he attended weddings1. He knew the heart rending pain that accompanies a funeral. He ate, he drank, he slept. He sailed in a boat with his fishermen friends; he sat weary at the well and was hungry in the sharp morning air.
2. He was familiar with all the things you and I are familiar with. You and I face temptation to sin but he was face to face with the master of sin after he had been alone, neither eating or drinking, for 40 days.
A. Not a sinner’s life, but the life of ordinary men or the ordinary life of men. With his hands he labored in the carpenter’s shop; he attended weddings1. He knew the heart rending pain that accompanies a funeral. He ate, he drank, he slept. He sailed in a boat with his fishermen friends; he sat weary at the well and was hungry in the sharp morning air.
2. He was familiar with all the things you and I are familiar with. You and I face temptation to sin but he was face to face with the master of sin after he had been alone, neither eating or drinking, for 40 days.
III. HE SYMPATHIZED
WITH SINNER’S GRIEFS.
A. Our Saviour knows the feeling of pain, of the flesh, in the spirit, and of the heart. He knows disappointment as when one is rejected.
1. Rich young ruler. Peter’s denial. Judas betrayal. His rejection by the people before Pilate.
2. He knows the pain of not being believed.
A. Our Saviour knows the feeling of pain, of the flesh, in the spirit, and of the heart. He knows disappointment as when one is rejected.
1. Rich young ruler. Peter’s denial. Judas betrayal. His rejection by the people before Pilate.
2. He knows the pain of not being believed.
IV. HE DIED THE
SINNER’S DEATH.
A. He was wounded for our transgressions. He had no sin, he was not guilty of any crime either before men or God.
1. He was treated as the scapegoat, the outcast leper, the sin offering of the whole human family.
2. The iniquities of us all met in Him.
A. He was wounded for our transgressions. He had no sin, he was not guilty of any crime either before men or God.
1. He was treated as the scapegoat, the outcast leper, the sin offering of the whole human family.
2. The iniquities of us all met in Him.
3. He stood as our substitute, sacrifice and satisfaction.
All the guilt, and curse and penalty of God’s broken Law borne up and exhausted
in his suffering body.
a. Isaiah. 53:3-5 “by his wounds you have been healed.”
b. II Cor. 5:21
c. Rejected by His own father -- "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
B. He didn’t have to. The only law driving him to take my place and suffer for my sins was his own Law of Love.
1. (Rom. 5:8) -- "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
a. Isaiah. 53:3-5 “by his wounds you have been healed.”
b. II Cor. 5:21
c. Rejected by His own father -- "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
B. He didn’t have to. The only law driving him to take my place and suffer for my sins was his own Law of Love.
1. (Rom. 5:8) -- "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
V. HE IS PREPARING THE
SINNER’S HOME.
A. "I go to prepare a place for you." FOR ME! FOR YOU!! For an old sinner like me He is preparing heaven’s best.
2. And what of the wedding dinner, of lamb...the old saints,...the family circle.
A. "I go to prepare a place for you." FOR ME! FOR YOU!! For an old sinner like me He is preparing heaven’s best.
2. And what of the wedding dinner, of lamb...the old saints,...the family circle.
If you are
a lost sinner than it is my joy to tell you the good new. God loves you. Jesus
died for you. He suffered the agony of the cross because of his love for you.
Yes, he did it all for you.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
A glorious grace of God
Pastor Eduardo Alves was in Lord's Super service with blessed people of Ministerios Adoracion church:
A glorious grace of God
we have received the grace of God through Jesus Christ, in
fact, we see how wonderful and incomparable is this grace. However, what is the
meaning of the expression of God's grace?
1Corinthians 15:10 "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace
to me has not been in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them - yet not I,
but the grace of God with me. "
Definition of the Grace of God - How theologians defined?
"What is grace? By the grace of the New Testament means God's love in action
towards men who deserve the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and
earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save himself. Grace means
God sending his only son to descend into hell on the cross for us, the culprits
can be reconciled with God and received into heaven. "(God) has made it sin for
us, that knew no sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in him
"(2 Corinthians 5:21) .1
"Grace can be defined as unmerited favor or undeserving of God to those who are under
condemnation." - Enns2
Definition of the Grace of God - What does the Bible say? "This
righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. There
is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and come short of
the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that came by Christ Jesus "(Romans 3: 22-24).
The Declaration of the Grace of God Throughout the Bible, God's grace manifested in three stages. In the first, God revealed His goodness and grace to show mercy
and love for all men in general, but particularly in Israel. In the second stage, God expressed or
presented his grace, clarity, through Jesus Christ, who came into the
world to pay for the sins of mankind through His sacrificial death on the
cross. In the third, the grace of
God offers salvation and sanctification of all who, by faith, trust in
Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of their lives. "In him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace" (Ephesians 1: 7).
Saving grace
The word salvation is a broad term. It refers to the redemptive act of God by
which, at present, redeems the penalty and power of individual sin, and in the
future, frees the believer in Christ the presence of sin at the time of the
exaltation of the saved. Salvation is a free gift of God, given to a person
under grace, by faith, irrespective of any work or merit of the person who
receives it. At the time of salvation, the unmerited grace and faith of the
believer are gifts that come directly from the Lord to those who put their
faith in Christ (Eph 2.8-9).
"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God. Not of works, lest anyone should boast For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance to do
"(Ephesians 2: 8-10).
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Experience God's Will
Experience God's Will
The term "acceptable" means "pleasant". Some people say that they believe that God is good, but they can not practice. They feel that this does not suit your character. This is low levels of comfort or welfare. Either way, the Bible teaches that God's will is acceptable. Who better to know what suits your needs that he who created you and gave you life?
Excellence of the Will of God
"Perfect" means complete, lacking nothing. Following God's will you will never reach a cul de sac. to begin the will of God will take a lifetime for you to fail and leave you lost without knowing what follows. God's will is complete without nothing lacking.
When you think to follow God's plan for your life, a plan that is good, pleasant and nothing lacking; because being afraid? How to get bored? How to become confused?
When you seek God's will, His purpose for your life, it is crucial to fully understand that God's will is good, acceptable and perfect.
Discovering God's Will ...
In Jonah 1:13 “ we read word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amitai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; because its wickedness has come before me. But Jonah rose up to flee from the presence of the Lord to Tarshish ...”
In this passage, we see Jonah fleeing from the presence of the Lord; Jonah was actually really running away from God's will. When he fled, Jonah went down to Joppa a ship looking out for Tarshish. There he found a ship that was exactly where he wanted. Notably, Jonah had just the amount of money the passage; this must be the will of God! You have heard of someone who had just the right amount of money for something? His reason, "Oh, God supplied the money, it must be his will." Jonah boarded the ship, the ship went to sleep. If Jonah had peace, this must be the will of God. If we count Jonah's life, there is only one problem; Jonah disobeyed God's direct command.
Today many people are convinced herself that they are doing the will of God and have some of the same arguments as, "The circumstances were favorable." "The ship was there." "I had just the right amount of money. "I felt such a peace that went to sleep" .Jonás was out of the will of God because he disobeyed God's command.
God's will is revealed in the Word of God. If you want to find the will of God opens the Bible!
Delighting in the will of God
Anyway; God does not do things in parts. His ways are understandable, involving the three: intellect, emotion and will; all channeled through the Word of God. The Problem of Jonah was disobeying the Word of God.
The final appearance in the know and do the will of God, is delighting in what he gives you to do. In Ephesians 6: 6, the Apostle Paul wrote ... Not with eye service, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of the heart of God.
I fear some people who do the will of God only intellectually and not your heart. It was Jonah to Nineveh? Yes, he did eventually, but he went with his head, not his heart.
You can not delight in God's heart but you do. The way to do heart is convincing yourself once and for all that God's will is good, acceptable and perfect.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Directions
Directions
One of the things most crave is to have steps to discern the will of God. If you were given a role and I asked you to describe God's will, what would you write? God's will is an essential part of the walk of a Christian; an aspect that every believer must strive to understand. In Romans 12: 1 we read these words, So brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy and pleasing sacrifice to God which is your reasonable service.
These three misconceptions we take when looking for direction for our lives:
1. We search other tips that direction we should take
2. We take our own direction same knowing they are wrong.
3. Being confused, in doubt about which direction to take.
These three misconceptions about seeking a direction arise from a wrong perspective. Because of these false perspectives, it is that people are fearing, fleeing and fighting against God's will.
Why they are frightened by God's direction?
To the extent that you consider God's will, you will see that it is an issue where there are many different opinions ... For example, some people are fearful when they consider the will of God and see it as a tremendous cloud over their heads. They contemplate God as severe and even sadistic. what they have is fear of God and think that if they.
Young people often think they can not trust God concerning his future life. They fear that following God's direction will be losing their youth, not enjoying the good life.
Others are bored with God's will. They see it as something dull and trite. They want adventure and are determined to make their own choices.
There is another group of people who are confused about the will of God. For them it is a great extremely difficult puzzles; They are simply confused
In Romans 12: 1 Paul says, "I pray (I beg you) by the mercies of God, (for all that God has done for you) that ye present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God, which is your spiritual worship rational "(that is the only reasonable way to praise God). Then in Romans 12: 2, he talks about what and how we think: Do not be conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, to prove what is the will of God, acceptable and perfect . (English version) At the conclusion of this verse Paul is directed to the will of God
The essence of God's Will you aware that the concept of "good" comes from God? We read in Mark 10: 18 ... Jesus said to him: Why do you call me good? No one is good, but only one God. "Good" is a characteristic of God! James 1: 17th says, Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
One of the games that Satan likes to play with people is to make them think that God is not "good". When the snake confronted Eve, before the fall of man told Eve that God did not want them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Satan was attacking the character of God saying that He really is not "good". I wish your personal experience you have come to know that God is good. The mistake of being fearful, bored or confused with the will of God is that we fail to see that the will of God is good because God is good!
Sunday, August 28, 2016
The
Valley Psalm 84 "Being and Staying in God brings blessings and spiritual
growth" The wonderful thing when we develop intimacy with
God, it is not only being but remain in the presence of God. It is something
that can not be explained with words, but experience.
Maybe you
started your day, with faith, but since then come the fears of lack of money,
fear of others, rebellious children, problems at work, are the winds and waves
that want to divert your faith in God, the
valley of struggle and see it as difficult as you can get out of this
difficulty. If you keep trusting God view will win, if eyes down and you just
go with obstacles, discouragement or despair, will cost you see your miracle
Be
and remain in the presence of God it leads to a new spiritual dimension
1. The true
personal fulfillment is to remain in God, in His Presence (v. 4) "Blessed
are those who dwell in your house; Perpetually they will praise you. Selah
"
2. Our strength
in all circumstances depends on God (v. 5) "Blessed is the man who has his strength
in you, in whose heart are thy ways."
3. When you have
been in the Presence of God, we yearn to stay with Him (v. 5b) "Blessed
is the man who has his strength in you, in whose heart are thy ways.
They see God in
Zion. "
4. You searches
prayer (v. 8) "Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; Listen, O God of Jacob. Selah
"
5. Take all your
needs to God (v. 9) "Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon the face of your
anointed"
God
shows his kindness and protection to those who are and remain in the Presence
of God
1. Who is and
remains in the Presence of God, through adversity (v.5) “Passing
through the valley of Baca make it a well; When the rain fills the pools.”
2. The adverse
circumstances and obstacles not due to those and remains in the Presence
of God (v 7.) “will go power in power;”
3. Find
Protection in God (v. 11) "Better is one day in your courts than
a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For a sun and shield is the Lord God;
Give grace and glory the Lord. It will not remove the good from those who walk
uprightly. "
4-. God blesses
those who trust in Him (v. 12) "Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who
trusts in you."
Conclusion:. Be
and remain,
they are two different things, because who was he may not have been in the
presence, but who has his heart certainly enjoy this Stay. Today is the day to
make a decision that mark your life forever and allow him to develop constant
intimacy with God.
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