Is It Possible To Live Without Sinning At All?

Can A Believer Stop Sinning?

Question : Hello .... You say that you are born again ??? .... well if you don't stop your sinning and continue in your sin, you won't make it into heaven. Read Isaiah 35:8, then read Romans 6:1 through to 6, also then read Hebrews 12:14 through to 17, then read Matthew 7:21 through to 23 ..... just because churches, men and doctrine of men let you get away with all of your mess doesn't mean that God will let you get away with it ... stop your sinning and stop it now. Did you read the Scriptures? God Bless you.

Answer : Isaiah 35:8 speaks about the highway of holiness which leads to heaven where God dwells, which is actually for the saved people of God in which the unclean unsaved people shall not ever pass over it. Jesus in the only way to God and heaven (John 14:1-4, 6). Rom 6:1-6 is the portion of the Scripture in which apostle Paul challenges the believer that if they have truly believed Jesus, they have died to sin and therefore cannot live in sin any longer. Paul says that because each believer was crucified with Jesus already according to God's viewpoint substitutionally, they should no longer be slaves of sin because they already have the power of God within them to render inoperative the body of sin. Paul guaranteed that if we die to our self will by saying no to it impulses, we will rise up spiritually in the power of ressurrection over sin which made Jesus rise up victoriously after being dead for three days. God has planned a newness of overcoming life over sin and we will enjoy it in our life if we are willing to let go of ourself and let God to do His work in and through us. Heb 12:14 says that God's activities of blessing cannot be seen in our earthly life if we do not pursue peace with all people and holiness of God. This does not speak about stopping sinning, but does speak about pursuing and going after peace and holiness to live a blessed life on earth. Then finally Matt 7:21-23 in context does not speak about saved people, but about the false prophets who were not saved but used their calling anointing to do great wonders, drive demons and prophesy to prople and bring self glory, money and enjoy the power and authority of God over people. Apostle Matthew was telling that a unsaved person no matter how powerful ministry they do, do not have the ability to show God's good character out of their lives, so they must be found as unsaved people by their character and should be avoided (Matt 7:15-20; Gal 5:22-25). No where does God speak to a believer to stop sinning completely and then come to Him. If we could stop sinning, we need not want Jesus as our Savior (Gal 2:21). Only God has the power to turn all our mess in to a message for the glory of God as we allow God and cooperate with His blue print for our life.

If a man says he has not sinned and have no sin nature which taints him after he is born again, he is actually making God a liar because God has said, "there is no one on earth who always does good and does not sin in his daily life." (Eccl 7:20), such a man is deceiving himself because the truth of God and His word is not in Him (1 John 1:8, 10). No matter how much sanctified we become after we are born again, no human can stop sinning completely until he dies physically and gets raised up in a glorious sinfree new body which will have no sin nature in it (1 John 3:2). Until then God has told us to confess all our sins back to Him and if we do, He has promised to forgive and cleanse us automatically all sins and unrighteousness which we have done, through the blood of Jesus, which will in fact help us have unhindered fellowship with both the Father God and our Lord Jesus Christ (1 John 1:7, 9, 3). Sin seperates a believer from God, confession of sin back to God unites the same believer back to God in fellowship.

Until the time of rapture in which a glorious body without sin nature will be given to us by God, we as believers might get tempted, but as we approach God's throne in humility in our time of need, we will be given God's grace to overcome more and more sins in a progressive way (1 Cor 10:13; Heb 4:15-16; James 4:6). No sin will be able to continuously enslave and have dominion over a believer because God has promised to each one that if they thirst for His righteousness continuously, they will be filled with abundant grace to overcome and rule over sin (Rom 6:14; 5:17; Matt 5:6). As days passes by, each believer will become more and more conformed to the image of Jesus Christ in their lives if they choose to be transformed in their mind through renewing it consistently with what Jesus has done for them as their substitute (Rom 8:29). If someone chooses to live in a fleshly way by resisting the voice of the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit will get grieved and they will lose their abundant life of blessings on earth and their reward for eternity ahead which could have been theirs if they had walked by faith in obeying God's voice (Rom 6:16-18; Eph 4:30; 1 Peter 3:10; Rev 3:11). We are not saved by our good works, but for good works which brings glory to God and reward to us (Eph 2:8-10). We receive salvation only by grace only by faith only through Christ to go to heaven apart from any of our good works done before or after salvation. We do good works after we are saved which God has prepared beforehand for us to walk in them (Eph 2:10), we should be careful to maintain good works because it will bring glory to God and brings spiritual profit for now and for our eternity (Titus 3:5, 8). If a believer sins intentionally, he will lose the abundant life that Jesus gives (John 10:10), but will not lose heaven as it is given to him not by his own effort but as a eternal gift which cannot be ever earned. No human born on earth can ever make themselves worthy to receive salvation by their own effort or works because God's requirement is absolute sinless perfection and only Jesus was able to attain God's standard and supply His salvation for those who come to God through Him.

Much Blessings....

How Are You Treating Your Parents?

The Grandfather’s Table and the Little Echo of the Wooden Bowl

By Abraham Israel

The one story that made a great impact during my later stage of my primary school days was a story named as 'Wooden Bowl'. As this was one of my English lesson, my teacher gave this story to be written by heart in all test. I used to keep repeating it many times in the evening and morning that Mom still say about it to remind me of those days.

As we read this story, may God help us to learn truth that will make a impact in our life and the life of our children.

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table, but the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth.

The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. “We must do something about Grandfather,” said the son. “I’ve had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor.” Therefore, the husband and wife set a small table in the corner.

There, Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. When the family glanced in Grandfather’ s direction, sometimes he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food.

The four-year-old watched it all in silence. One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?”

Just as sweetly, the boy responded, “Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in when I grow up.” The four-year-old smiled and went back to work.

The words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done.

That evening the husband took Grandfather’s hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days, he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled.

What can we learn from this story? What bad attitude we show towards our parents, our children will see it and repeat it in the later stage of their life, which will recursively become a curse down the generational line if we do not repent of it by humbling ourselves to get cleansed by our confession to God through the blood of Jesus and receive the grace of God to overcome such impatient attitude towards our parents in their old age (1 John 1:7, 9; Heb 9:14).

God cannot be deceived, He will make us reap exactly the things we sow in our parents life (Gal 6:7). If we patiently honor them in their old age by showing a good attitude towards their weakness, the same things God will make us receive through our children which will bless us to live in great satisfaction in our old age.

Recently I heard of a certain believer in our Church who has heard the gospel and has been coming to the Church for nearly two decades, I was told that he angrily spoke to his mother who is in her early nineties saying, 'Why are you giving us problems by not dying soon? Die and go!' First of all I cannot understand how a believer who has heard the word of God for such a long time could speak such words of curse towards his mother? I was deeply greived about it. I pray such people might really be saved if they are not or check themselves whether they are saved as Apostle Paul says (2 Cor 13:5), because even unbelievers show some kind of concern towards their parents (1 Cor 5:1). Every saved person cannot continue with such attitude without remorse in their heart for exhibiting such ungodly values and wishing evil upon their own parents.

The word of God says, "Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old." (Prov 23:22). God was so angry about disrespecting one's father or mother that he had said in the Old Testament Law, "For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him." (Lev 20:9). In fact, for those who are cursing their father or mother, God has promised to cut out their lamps which is the divine revelation of His word that gives spiritual sanity and life to them, and also has spoken to throw them in to utter darkness of hell if they are in case not really saved by Jesus (Prov 20:20). Do you realize how serious God is when it comes to honoring one's parents? Some of the religious and coveteous people who made a traditional law to break supporting the financial support of the sons and daughters to their father and mother in order to receive money for themselves and the temple buisness in the first century have been rebuked by Jesus for their open rebellion against the word of God and hypocrisy of thier evil hidden life (Mark 7:10-13). When some one says that they fear God and are saved, they must be honoring their old age parents and elders (Lev 19:32). Infact Paul the apostle goes on to say that if any believer does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever (1 Tim 5:8).

But the good news is, God has told that He will give a long life to those who honor their parents spiritually, emotionally, socially, physically and financially, and also they will be given a financially prosperous life (Deut 5:16). The other day, my mum was dropping some tumblers down. Young as I am, suddenly I raised my voice to ask her what was happening in the kitchen. Then mum told that she dropped a couple of tumblers again and again, then immediately I lowered my voice to reassuringly say to my mum that it was not a problem because she is becoming older and then I offered to come and help if she needed anything more. We should learn to encourage more and more our parents as they get older and come to understand that they are becoming more dependant on us as they are becoming like babies again before God takes them to His kingdom forever (1 Tim 5:1; Matt 18:3). God has promised that He will not forsake His sons and daughters when they physically become weak and old with gray hairs, but has promised to carry and save them till their very end (Isa 46:3-4). We should learn to live faithfuly like our God and surely we will become what we believe to be!

The good thing we have seen in this story is the repentant mother and father who changed their wrong attitude once they have learned the lesson through their little child. Peace, joy and righteousness of the kingdom of God gets restored in the house of the repentant, but evil will stay in the house of the unrepentant person. Every true believer in Jesus Christ will repent of such wrong attitudes when God shows it to them and will live a blessed life of satisfaction the rest of their lives. When we allow the love of God to rule in our hearts, automatically Christ will be the master of our whole family, who will hear, see and rule with His heavenly Presence and make us prosperous and joyful in Him forever. Where Christ rules, old people will be cared with much concern and care. May God help us all to live lovingly towards our parents.

"Treat your parents the way you want to be treated when you are old, because when you are old that is the way you will be treated by your children." — Abraham Israel

Much Blessings....

Philip, Apostle or Evangelist?

Are Apostle Philip and Evangelist Philip the same person or different?

Question : Are apostle Philip and evangelist Philip the same person or different?

Answer : They are two different people with the same name. The first Philip was an apostle among the 12 who were chosen by the Lord Jesus personally and trained under Him for nearly three and half years to be sent in to all the world to preach the gospel and be a unique witness (Luke 6:13-14). The other Philip was a one disciple among the seven men who were full of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, who was chosen by the people of God and appointed by the twelve apostles over the buisness of daily distribution of food to all people (Acts 6:13, 5-6). These deacons were put in place as a complaint arose against the Hebrews by the Hellenists that their widows were neglected partially in the daily distribution. The following is the main difference between apostle and evangelist Philip.

Philip the Apostle

Philip the apostle was handpicked by Jesus to be one of His twelve apostles (John 1:43), these twelve were unique in their calling and reward because in the book of revelation, John the revelator revealed that the twelve apostles of the Lamb Jesus will have their names written on the twelve memorial foundations of the wall of the city of New Jerusalem for eternity ahead (Rev 21:14). This makes them a unique twelve who can never be compared or replaced by any other person.

Philip was from the city named as Bethsaida who must have been a friend of Andrew and His Brother Simon Peter who were from the same city (John 1:44). Later Philip led Nathaniel his friend to become connected with Jesus to be His apostle (John 1:45). This city was referred in the gospel two times for Jesus miracles: healing the blind man (Mark 8:22) and the first feeding of the Multitude (Luke 9:16). Later this very city was cursed by Jesus for not responding properly in repentance to the preaching of the gospel with mighty signs (Matthew 11:2), which was later destroyed in the 4th Century A.D according to history.

Later this Philip the apostle was described by apostle John in his gospel book as the one to whom Jesus asked, "Where shall we buy bread, that these [five thousand men] may eat?" (John 6:5), which Jesus did ask to test him instead of knowing where the bread would already come from (John 6:6).

Then at another instance before Jesus crucifixion, Philip was described by John the apostle as to have been approached by some Greek men to introduce them to Jesus as he was close to Him in the inner circle (John 12:20-22). Philip was the apostle who asked the embarrassingly insultive question to Jesus to show them the Father (John 14:8-11). Philip was one of the apostle who was present in the upper room with the 120 disciples after the ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:13-15). History says that Philip preached the Gospel in Phrygia (west central Turkey) before dying or being martyred there at Hieropolis.


Philip the Evangelist

Philip the evangelist is first seen in the period of time when the christian community was growing after the day of Pentecost, in which he was described by Luke the writer of the book of Acts to be a disciple among the seven who were full of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, who was chosen by the people of God and appointed by the twelve apostles over the buisness of daily distribution of food to all people (Acts 6:13, 5-6). After the appointment of Philip by the apostles, he acted as one of the first seven deacons of the Jerusalem Church. When persecution arose against the Jersalem Church, all the disciples were scattered everywhere around Jerusalem during which Philip was said to have went to Samaria and preached Christ to them with signs and miracles (Acts 8:4-6). This Philip was the only person to have the honor of being called as a evangelist in the entire Bible (Acts 21:8). Philip also was the only person in the New Testament to have been supernaturally transported from the city of Samaria in which he conducted the miracle crusade, to a desert road down south halfway between Jerusalem and Gaza in which a eunuch of great authority from Candace the queen of Ethiopians was returning back from Jerusalem after worshiping God (Acts 8:26-27). Philip empowered by the Holy Spirit ran along with that chariot in which the royal eunuch traveled and overtook it to speak with him (Acts 8:29-30) and as Philip preached the gospel, this royal eunuch accepted the gospel and got baptized to become the first missionary to the entire nation of Ethiopia (Acts 8:35-40). Then later Philip lived in Caesarea with his family (Acts 21:8) and had four lovely unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy, who also prophesied over Paul the apostle, the future plan of God for him and his ministry (Acts 21:9).

The apostle Philip should be distinguished from Philip the "deacon" or Evangelist because of all the unique differences in the personalities and background we have seen above. They are two different person with a entirely different office, experience, background and ministry, but with the same name.

Much Blessings....

What is Song of Solomon Chapter 2 Verse 7 is all about?

Re : More On "I Love One Girl, Is It God's Will For Me To Marry Her?"

Question : What is Song of Solomon Chapter 2 Verse 7 is all about? I don't think I am familiar with this book.

Answer : Sos 2:7 says, "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases."

The interpretation for the purpose and meaning of the Book of Song of Solomon is twofold, first it speaks about the love and intimacy that should be present within the institution of marriage and then metaphorically speaks of Christ, the Son and His heavenly bride, the Church (2 Corinthians 11:1-4). This clearly shows that both asceticism and lust are sacrilegious of the holiness of marriage.

This speaks of Shulamite woman who was a shepherdess who loved the king, she said this verse as a advice to the daughters of Jerusalem. The Shulamite woman wanted to marry her beloved because of a strong heart desire to spend the rest of her life with him in intimacy within the covenant of marriage. What she was going through in her life was dejection of being seperate after their consumation before she ever married her beloved. Sex before marriage is wrong and prohibited by God, this is what the Bible calls as fornication (1 Cor 6:9). It is a sin to get involved physically or even emotionally intimate before marriage because God considers marriage as honorable among all, and wants the marriage bed to be undefiled by any wrong doing and has promised to judge all those who would not abide by His command (Heb 13:4). Marriage is God's institution for all humans and it must be respected and honored by all men and means (Gen 2:20-25). God was the first priest to conduct it in the Garden of Eden to our first father and mother. So He has every right to condemn things working against the institution of marriage and has the authority to command to abide by His law which works for the well being of His holy institution.

The daughters of Jerusalem were all virgin girls who were young and were in danger of falling in love with any young boy in their age group and thereby were in the constant danger of losing their virginity before marriage. So it is indeed a nice piece of advice to all of our young teen age boys and girls, that they should keep their physical and emotional virginity intact till marriage takes place. The very fabric of the society is the family life and chastity within it. When the devil is allowed to interfere and break the institution of marriage through unfaithfullness, evil govermental policies and adultries, only heart break, chaos and lawlessness abound to destroy the society completely (Matt 24:12). Every civilisation that did not respect the institution of marriage in the past 6000 years of human existence, has got disintergrated , broken apart and got demised in to oblivion. God's blessing of fullness and satisfaction for fulfillment in our married life comes only when we hear the voice of God and obey it in our lives completely.

It also speaks to us about the Church not to fall in love with the world and lose their spiritual virginity and advises them to keep themselves unspotted from its evil influence until the marriage of the Lamb takes place very soon after the rapture of the Church (1 John 2:15; James 1:26-27; Rev 19:7,9; 1 Thess 4:16-17; 5:23).

May God help us to stir love with in the boundary of our marriage and also help us stay faithful to Jesus spiritually as we all in the Church look forward to the great day of consummation and rejoicing in the marriage of the Lamb of God who is depicted as our bridegroom for eterntiy.

Much Blessings....

How To Find God's Will For My Life?

I Love One Girl, Is It God's Will For Me To Marry Her?

Question : I am doing ministry in Hyderabad with team. Please pray for me and family. I love one girl she is also doing ministry. Is it God's will or not for me to proceed, I don't know please pray for me. How can I find God's will in my story ???

Answer : Yes I will be praying for you and your family dear Brother. To love a girl is not wrong, but it is wrong to do it before marriage. The Bible says, "Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases." which in other words means, "...Don't excite love, don't stir it up, until the time is ripe--and you're ready." (Sos 2:7, MSG). A person is fit to arouse romatic and intimate love which in Greek is Eros, only within marriage. This is the exact God appointed time for a person to love someone deeply, intimately and physically.

Once you give in to emotional intimacy before you seek the Lord because of a soulish influence over your spiritual mind, the difference between the perfect will of God and permissive will of God will become more and more blurred as times goes by. When you have already decided internally with in your soul mind influenced by your emotion and then go to God just to get permission from Him, you will unknowingly and desirously expect God's answer to be a yes. God will let you go your own way. The way to find the perfect will of God is to abandon yourself unconditionally in to the hands of God and agree to do whatever He says you to do, whether what He says is liked by you in your soul mind or not (Rom 12:1-2). God will keep you in perfect peace when you are giving your emotional life to God and allow Him to rule over your entire life through prayer (Php 4:6-7). The peace of God within your spirit-man that passes your soulish understanding will keep your heart and mind in the heavenly knowledge that you are walking in the perfect will of God for your life. The perfect will of God is a moment to moment knowing and then proving (Php 3:8, 10; Rom 12:2). One should be desperate to know God's perfect will through loving Him and living for Him more than any other thing in his life.

Through seeking God sincerely with your whole heart, it is better to confirm first whether it is the will of God to marry this girl and then marry the girl if it is the will of God. Then love her with your whole heart the rest of your life (Eph 5:25). When you do not give in to your emotion and do the work of God wholeheartedly before marriage, you are doing the perfect will of God (1 Cor 7:35). If you feel a urge to go forward and marry to keep yourself from sexual immorality, you have not done anything wrong but have fulfilled the basic will of God (1 Cor 7:1-2). The one who walks in the basic will of God will not be greatly and completely blessed as the one who walks in the perfect will of God (Rom 12:2). If any believer cannot exercise self control until the timing of the perfect will of God, it is better to marry another believer and fulfill the basic will of God than to burn with passion and give in to temptation which will destroy God's blessing over their lives (1 Cor 7:9, 39; 2 Cor 6:14). If you can wait for God's perfect will of God, I encourage you to wait until God gives you the girl that He has in his heart for you (1 Cor 7:37). Remember God is the one who first saw the need for a helper for Adam and then brought Eve to him in His perfect timing (Gen 2:20-25). Keep seeking the face of the Lord sincerely and I believe that you will be led exactly in the center of the will of God for your life (Jer 29:13-14). It is worth all your effort to seek the Lord and wait until you find His perfect will, because His favor over you and your family will last for a lifetime and even eternity ahead (Isa 45:19; Psa 30:5).

Much Blessings.....

Overcoming Lust, How?

Be Graced To Reign!

By Abraham Israel

Jesus is the first person in the entire world to raise the moral standard sky high by saying, whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already commited spiritual adultery in his heart, whoever is angry with his brother without a just cause has already commited murder in God's eyes and therefore is ready for judgment, whoever says to his brother that he is a empty headed person is already ready for judgment and punishment of the council of godly elders and whoever says to another human being to be a fool is in danger of hell fire because all humans are created in God's image. Even by reading this expectancy of God's moral requirement, some who are used to living a good life under ten commandments or on their own standard of good and evil become very discouraged to say that no man is able to keep such a law.

The very reason Jesus raised the moral standard to internal purity of heart rather than external actions is because many people started to think that they can please God by keeping the law. The purpose Jesus gave these 'Beatitudes' is to make all humans realize that it is impossible to please God by keeping the law, and that faith in Jesus is the only means to live a life of purity.

All the religions of the world say, do good and live a good life to please God, as a result of it you will go to heaven. Only Christianity says, all men are utterly evil in their heart and no one has the ability to save them from sin and take them to heaven except through their faith in Jesus Christ, through which God saves and then justifies them who believe as though they have never sinned at all by imputing righteousness of Jesus to their spiritual account (Rom 4:6). God seals a believer with the Holy Spirit guranteeing that they belong to Him forevermore (Eph 1:13-14; 2 Cor 1:22). Once they are saved by grace through faith, they can continue to live by faith in the promises of God which makes them grow in God's divine nature which will release its power and give them victory over sin, sickness and death (2 Peter 1:2-4; 2 Cor 1:20).

Once we are saved by faith, we should receive the gift of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues to live a powerful life of witness for Jesus (Acts 1:4-5, 8; 2:2-4). Then as we continue to pray in tongues (1 Cor 14:18), our spirit-man will grow in such a way that we will know that we are no more sinners saved just by faith initially and strive by our strength to get in to heaven (Gal 3:2-3), but we are saints in Jesus Christ who are called to serve God and His people by our faith and faith only, nothing more or nothing less (Heb 10:38), and then rule and reign over sin, sickness and death by faith in the power of God (Rev 5:10; 1 Cor 2:5; Rom 6:14; John 11:25-26).

In the Jewish traditional religion, there were a sect of zealous law followers who were called as the "bleeding" Pharisees who lived during the first century AD. In Judaism, there are a total of 613 laws in the Torah [Ref : http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm]. These Pharisees in their zeal and eagerness to keep these law of Biblical commandments, they would avoid looking on a woman who passes before them by shutting their eyes and as a result of it would bump in to a wall and get bruised in their head in such a way that they would manytimes start to bleed. Then they would boast about their righteous life by showing to people the scar on their head that had come because of their so-called holy life. Such religious life are extremely pathetic because the Pharisees were very careful to filter and avoid the gnat of external influence to get tempted, but swallow the camel of religious pride which is the biggest sin of all that God hates. Satan fell from heaven because of pride and these Pharisees religiously followed Satan by exhibiting pride openly to all about their so-called religious works which was done by their carnal strength rather than by the Holy Spirit's strength. They were completely under the influence of Satan's evil in their pride rather than by God and his humility.

There is a story of a man in a village who wanted to live a holy life. So he thought that because of the external influence only, he was not able to walk holy in his life. One fine day he decided to leave the environment of all sinful men in their village and go to a cave in the forest to meditate upon God alone and thus live a holy life pleasing to Him. The he took some food for the journey and started walking towards the jungle. His friends and well wishers who met him on the way asked him where he was going? This man who wanted to live holy, told them about his plan. They all wished him well and another godly man told him, if ever he came back to the village, he should come and tell to him whether it was possible for him to acheive holiness in isolation. This man agreed and smiled as he went towards the deep jungle cave.

Then when he reached that place in the jungle, intially he felt hard to adjust with all the unusual way of life. But then as he came to lead a holy life of asceticism, he disciplined himself to live just with whatever was naturally available in nature.

Then as he started meditating upon God, day after day, month after month, he was feeling more sinful than ever because internally in his heart thoughts of sexual fantasies started to haunt him. Then anger started to rise up against himself as he failed to think holy in his mind. Still a month after this, he began to long for things that he never had. Then all of the evil thoughts started to still increase torturously more than ever he had in his entire life.

On a fine morning, he cried and cried about his evil heart within until he could cry no more. Then he honestly decided to return back to his village accepting his failure to lead a life of holiness. As he went back to his village, he remembered what the godly man said and went to see him in his house. The godly man was not surprised to see him while all others were surprised to see him back. Then as he told him his sincere desire and failure to live a holy life, the godly man said that it is not the external exposure to various circumstances that taints us with sin, but the nature of sin that lives within us is what makes us unholy, then he shared the good news of the gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus. The sincere man accepted the gospel immediately and became a great testimony of Jesus in the same village, in which many people accepted Jesus seeing a changes and tranformed life of this saved man.

What a truth! Our inner heart needs a transformation and that we cannot really be holy by disciplining ourselves to act holy externally. Jesus gives a internal holiness through His blood that cleanses us (Heb 9:14).

The next time you see a woman, and a strong lust tries to take control of you, just tell to Jesus and remind Him that it is not your own righteousness that can give you victory over this lust, but His imparted righteousness that can only help you overcome this temptation (Php 3:9). When I say to men, who are sight activated by God's design, it also applies equally to women who are also tempted to lust through emotional activity (2 Cor 11:3; 2 Tim 3:6). The moment you say this to Jesus, he will release His grace to come upon you, seeing your humility (James 4:6). It is by grace we are saved and it is by the same grace we overcome sin. Only once we are saved from sin, but we need to be saved by grace from the power of sin many times continiously.

Only once the righteousness of Christ is imputed forever in to our spiritual account in heaven, but we need to be imparted daily with the righteousness which comes from God by faith in Christ. Spiritual life is a journey and not a destination! Now as we freely and daily receive the abundance of grace to reign in this life through Christ's gift of righteousness through impartation (Rom 5:17, 21), we must cotinually offer the sacrifice of praise through our lips and give thanks to His name which is the only acceptable sacrifice of God that we will be able to give to God. Also then do good by God's guidance and share with others what you have been given by God financially, physically and spiritually, by which God will be well pleased (Rom 12:1-2; Heb 13:15-16).

May God help us to live a overcoming abundant life of grace which always without fail makes us to reign on earth over sin, sickness and death!

"The only way to master all lust is not by our self effort or discipline, but it is by trusting the Divine Master of all things to work within us through His mighty power to overcome its evil." — Abraham Israel

Believe And Live For Eternity Ahead!

Don't Believe Nothing, It Is Futile

By Abraham Israel

The term 'theism' derives from the Greek 'theos' meaning "god". The term 'atheism' originated from the Greek 'atheos', meaning "without god". Atheist are those who believe that there is no God, and are without God in a sense that they choose to go away from the thoughts of God because they do not want to glorify God and also do not choose to be thankful for the life which God has given to them as a gift. As a result of their foolish decision, they become useless in their thoughts, and with their foolish darkened mind which works without the light of God, they start to speak senselessness to all those people who are ready to listen to them. Never try to argue with an atheist because they will try to bring their knowledge and reasoning from their soulish mind and have no light to see beyond the soulish shell covering that is gained by knowlege of good and evil, deep in to their spirit from which God's voice come to guide all humans.

Why should they try hard to believe that there is no God if there is no God at all? They could just live peacefully without bothering about it. But God has put eternity in the heart of all humans (Eccl 3:11), that is why it bothers them to deny the existence of the Creator God, so that they start to honk everywhere that they do not believe in God. When the darkened minds of humans have the audacity to say that out of nothing the first cell came in to existence, why can't they logically believe that a higher power brought in to existence all the things that are seen, out of nothing. If God is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, is He able to bring something out of nothing? Absolutely yes. In God all things consist and prolong. Nothing cannot evolve by itself to become something meaningful, unless a higher power of God guides its existence. All things are created and have no power to evolve mutatively in itself. Man's DNA cannot become a monkey's DNA or vice-versa. Each DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in each cell of each kind only has the power or seed [i.e. genetic information] within itself only to duplicate and maintain the organism. God made animals according to its kind (Gen 1:25), which means that one kind cannot mix with the other except it can multiply to produce varities of minor difference within its own kind. Even the trees that yields fruit was created according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth (Gen 1:11), which again means that the fruits and vegetables can only be genetially modified by scientists according to its kind only. Once they try to mix the genetic code of different kind, it will not sustain itself as there will be no power for its existence without God's decree.

Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena. Anything that is progressively acquired cannot be a absolute, but God is an absolute as He claims Himself to be. Only a absolute can have right over that which it is sustaining. So God has all rights to claim and say "I am" to all humans alike because nobody was present when He existed alone. When Moses the prophet asked for His name, God said, "I am who I am" (Exo 3:13-14) which means "existed" or "was" in Hebrew. In other words, God is the only one who existed before all came in to existence through Him. Science explains creation and does nothing more than that. Technology builds upon science and uses it in our day to day lives neccessities and nothing more.

The first question that God asked the man of God Job when He questioned about His integrity in allowing bad thing to happen in his life was, "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?" (Job 38:4). This is the same question that He is asking all those people who are beginning to explain away the creation of all things with their futile soulish illogical mind and question about the existence of God and His power to sustain it. Where they present before millions of years to say that earth was present at that time? Or only God was present along with His host of angels when the creation took place as He says in Book of Job and also reveals in His word that the earth is roughly some six thousand plus years ago until now according to His implicit sayings and the added up lifetime of various men who lived in the Bible (Job 38:6; Gen 2:2; Exod 20:9-10; 2 Pet 3:8)? All the so called human scientific tests are something that are evolved by acquiring of knowlege that are not absolute. Children's who are exposed to the discovery, national geographic and other so called science which promotes not creation but evolution are very dangerous for the children to be exposed to it. It will completely ruin their faith which should be laid by exposing their mind to the word of God. So parents should be very careful to teach the children and explain to them about the Genesis creation early in their lives.

Atheist are plain foolish to think that God can be comprehended with their finite mind when they cannot even apprehend how many stars and planets are still there in the sky. The Bible says that God knows everything under the heavens because He sees it (Job 28:24). God with His one statement, "[I]...counts the number of the stars [and...] calls them all by name" (Psa 147:4) makes the atheists look so stupid in their own wisdom. Why? For a atheists to boasts in his own wisdom, he needs to first know how many stars and planets are there in the whole of milky way first and then the whole universe. If they cannot first know the end of something, how can they know the beginning of something? God is the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega in the Greek alphabets are symbols which are used as a beginning infinity and the end infinity to denote and define the complexities and mystries of the unknown which are beyond human description. Nothing can only create nothing, out of nothing can come nothing but nothing. If nothing is what someone believe to be something, they are actually nothing. So every human born on the planet should believe the Genesis creation story to understand God and his eternity which cannot be comprehended because of the limitation of our human mind, but can only be experienced by those who accept Jesus and have this eternal God sitting in the inside of them. God has put eterntiy in the hearts of men so that all will seek God to understand about their beginning to the end within them spiritually and logically by connecting to God who gives understanding to the simple mind (Eccl 3:11). Apart from this spiritual God experience, nothing can ever satisfy the curiosity of man's mind to know the beginning and the end of all things. GOD IS THE ONLY BEING WHO ASKS US TO BELIEVE BECAUSE ALL HUMANS HAVE FALLEN IN TO SIN AND HAVE LOST THE GLORIOUS ETERNAL STATUS AND STATE OF THE MIND OF GOD. SO BELIEVE AND LIVE! To live in unbelief you have to do nothing and can become nothing apart from the God who gives life within us to glorify Him.