Are Unbelievers Also Disciplined By God?

How Does God Discipline His Children?

Question : How does God discipline his children? Are unbelievers also disciplined by God?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Let me be very clear in this, God has clearly expressed in his Word that, "6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.” 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?" (Heb 12:6-7). This means that all the true children of God, God will chasten. But only those who accept his chastening willingly by faith, will be considered by Him in the status of sons, and will be purified for our own eternal profit and be used for His service according to the level of the quality we have achieved in our spiritual life to withstand evil forces that are against us (Gal 3:26; 2 Tim 2:19-20, 21).

Then, Does not the Lord loves the unbelievers? Yes, the Lord loves the unbelievers, that is why Jesus said, "16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." (John 3:16). This love of God towards unbelievers is the unconditional love that He shows to them so that all of them might have the opportunity to accept His love in Christ Jesus and be saved from sin which leads all people to hell (1 Tim 2:3-4).

But the love towards God's children is different than that of the unbeliever who were revealed as "by nature children of wrath" (Eph 2:3), but the Lord God loves us like a father and pities us as we fear Him, He knows that we are weak and powerless dust before Him (Psa 103:13-14). As for the unbeliever God wants them to become His children through which they can deny the wrath of God by receiving His love through Christ Jesus, but for the believer His love is an everlasting love that never ceases for eternity ahead (Jer 31:3; Rom 5:9; 1 Thess 1:10; 2 Thess 1:7-8, 9-10).

UNBELIEVERS are not rightfully disciplined but rather warned of wrath to come because of the Love of God towards them in the following ways:

(i) REPENT OR PERISH: Warned to repent through the unexpected death of fellow humans around them, so that they can look to God and get saved from sin and wrath to come (Luke 13:2-3, 4-5; Isa 45:22).

(ii) VISIONS OF THE NIGHT AND DREAMS: Through visions of the night and dreams God warns the unbelievers, to turn from their evil deeds and conceal pride from man, to keep his life from perishing by the sword and his soul from the pit of hell fire (Job 33:14-18). God does his best to save sinners from hell fire now through Jesus Christ, because He sincerely desire all humans to be saved and be in relationship with Him for eternity ahead which is what is eternal life (1 Tim 2:4; John 17:3).

(iii) THROUGH SICKNESS AND NATURAL DISASTERS: Jesus clearly said that a person who is born blind neither sinned nor his parents, but for the Glory of God to be revealed to all people that he was born like that (John 9:2-3). In other words, though God created some as differently abled, but the root of it all came through sin which brought the curse that caused all these infirmities to come to humankind (Exo 4:11; Gen 3:17-19; 1 Tim 2:13-15). Through it all God wants human to seek God intensely for the solution to find it, and in turn find Him who is the Savior (Acts 17:27). Even the end time prediction of Jesus regarding chaos of rumours of wars, wars, nation rising against nation with hate, kingdom rising against kingdom with hate, famines, pestilences and earth quakes in various places are all allowed by God to shake him out of apathy and make him aware of the eternal life or eternal judgment that awaits the unsaved (Matt 24:6-7).

(iv) THROUGH THE HOLY LIFE OF SAINTS: God wants His children to live holy, so that the unbelievers who see it might get affected by such life that glorifies the Father in heaven (Matt 5:16). Jesus wanted all the brethren with in the Church to love on another in such a way as Christ loved them (Eph 4:32), so that through it the world of people may come to know and believe in Christ as the only one who was sent to save all people alike from sin and self (John 17:20, 21, 22, 23). A holy life of a Christian is a rebuke to those who continue to sin and are living as unsaved, but it becomes a lesson and a guidance to those unsaved who are seeking the true God and the truth of salvation from sin. Peter the apostle clearly told to all believers in this regard saying, "Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he judges the world in righteousness and visits them for the last time to give them what they deserve." (1 Pet 2:12).

(V) JUDICIAL WRATH AGAINST WICKED PEOPLE: God instituted justice – including punishment against lawbreakers – down here on earth because it reflects his just character (Rom 13:1-7). That is called the judicial wrath of God. God’s wrath is part and parcel of his judgment against wrongdoing, injustice and evil. A few times his judgment and justice was administered quickly and at other time He waits (Dan 4:31-32, 33, 34, 35; Acts 12:22-23; 13:8-12). Some times because God delays his judgment against sinners, the sinners are hell bent in doing evil, not understanding the mercies of God that is trying to save them from sin and hell fire (Eccl 8:11-13; Psa 50:21-22; Isa 26:9-10; Gen 18:25; Psa 9:8, 17, 19-20). The Lord administers justice on earth now by making the wicked get snared by the work of his own hands (Psa 9:16; Gal 6:7; Prov 29:2; 24:17). God would not be the God of justice if he let wrongs slide by undealt with, so His justice is rather like a judge who would punish the serial offender without losing his own coolness of justice even when it is his son or daughter. But all sin including sinful words will also be judged for every unbeliever one day very soon at the White Throne Judgment (Matt 12:36-37; Rev 20:11-15; Isa 59:18). Many times God waits and waits, before He sends a big judgment of wrath upon the offenders and sinners who live as though they need no repentance (Nah 1:3).

(vi) GOD WAITS FOR SINNERS TO REPENT: God waits because He wants the sinner to repent and be saved from sin (2 Peter 3:8-9). Remember, wrath of God means His judgment against injustice, wrongdoing, and sin. When judges commit injustice, God reinstates new people whom He expects to rule righteously (Prov 29:2; 28:28). God's brings an end to all the wicked in his time as He rules over them all (Psa 11:5; Prov 14:32; Eccl 5:8). God in His mercies, does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked because He wants all to be saved from sin (Ezek 18:23; 1 Tim 2:4). When injustice seems to prevail, God is testing people to know who will stand for justice to the end, both the righteous and the wicked will be rewarded by God according to their works at the end of it all (Eccl 3:16-17, 18-20; Prov 31:9; Isa 1:17). We should never be envious at the prosperity of the wicked and boastful, who are always at ease, and increase in riches (Psa 73:1-12), because God has set them in slippery places, and have cast them down to destruction (John 3:18, 19-20), they are actually brought to desolation in a moment they do not even expect, they shall be consumed with terrors of evil (Psa 73:18-19, 27).

BELIEVERS are those whom God loves them with a fatherly love (John 20:17), so he wants his children to repent of their sins and run to Him voluntarily (Luke 15:17-19, 20-24), but when they fail to repent and turn towards Him, He does go after them to find them in the wilderness of hopelessness through allowing trials and tribulation in their way, to take them back and lay them on his shoulders till they learn to walk in his way and not be lost again (Luke 15:1-2, 3-7; Jer 31:2-3; 32:40-41; Hos 11:4; 2:14).

In this fatherly love, just like a earthly father will not want a child to remain in Kinder Garten for more than a year or two, so does our heavenly Father also does not want us to remain in spiritual kinder garten of eating milky food forever, but wants to move us to higher level of eating solid food to become glorious sons of God for His Glory just like His only begotten Son Jesus Christ (Heb 5:12, 13-14; Rom 8:18-19, 29). Jesus the Son of God suffered to learn obedience to the Father, how much more we as the sons of God need to walk the same way as Jesus to become like Him in our character (Heb 5:8; 12:10, 11, 12-13, 14). Without pursuing holiness, no one can see the activities of God in their lives coming from within for every good work which He has prepared beforehand for us to do (Eph 2:10; Tit 3:8; Php 2:13).

When believers do sin and become stubborn and rebellious against God, these are the following ways in which God deals and discipline them:

(i) GOD LEAVES US TO WALK IN OUR OWN WAY: Many times when the children of God are self-willed and stubborn, God lets us walk in our own way until we get caught in the foolishness of our act (Psa 81:11-12). For those who see the world to take part in the wickedness that God hates, will eat the fruit of their doing (Prov 1:31). For example, a sexual perverse spirit that oppresses a believer will make him/her miserable and restless until he or she gets delivered from the act of evil through the merciful hand of the Lord delivering them, so that God's blessing and provision might follow a child of God as he turns to the Lord for deliverance (Psa 81:13-16).

(ii) WHEN WE ARE DISRESPECTFUL TOWARDS HOLY THINGS OF COVENANT, WEAKNESS, SICKNESS AND EVEN DEATH MAY FOLLOW: For example, the blood Covenant that the Lord has made with us through Jesus Christ is the most important part of Christianity (Heb 10:29). Some of the Corinthian believers did not really give proper respect to the Lord's table. They had hate in their heart toward one another, all kinds of sinful involvement without fear of God, then they had fight over who will first eat the bread and wine of the communion first, so that they could have a jolly good time within the Church. Then the Lord's anger was stirred, and many had sicknesses and some even lost their lives, of which Paul the apostle saw and told them, "27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world." (1 Cor 11:27-32).

(iii) MOST OF THE ISRAELITES DID NOT ENTER THE REST OF GOD IN THEIR SOUL: In the same way all the Christians who are baptized in water and then in the Spirit (Matt 28:19; 3:11), the Israelites too had similar initial experience of salvation. Many Israelites did not enter the rest that God provides without works after salvation, we too as Christians may not be able to enter the rest which God provides in the soul after salvation if we too continue in our sinful evil unbelief of the old nature, instead of living by the impulse of the new nature which God has given to us (Heb 3:12-13, 14, 17). All the Israelites symbolically were baptized through the sea for salvation and under the cloud for Spirit filling them, they partook of the communion of God through eating of the lamb and by applying of its blood in the lintels of their door on Passover (Exo 12:7-8), the bread of the Manna of Heaven [i.e. enlightened Word of God] and drank the water of the spiritual drink [i.e. being filled with the water of the Holy Spirit] which was received through releasing faith in Christ who is the source of it all (1 Cor 10:1-4). But God was not pleased with most of them and they died in the wilderness, because they lusted after evil things (1 Cor 10:5-6). In today's scenario we know that all the sexual lust that are enflamed by pornography, masturbation, anal perversions within the family life, is lusting after evil things, and therefore if we continue to walk without asking God to help us overcome these lusts, we will die in our spiritual life in the spiritual wilderness without the rest of peace, joy and righteousness in the Holy Spirit which is the real rest we must experience in our lives within us all the time by faith (Rom 14:17, 23). These Israelites were trying to please God by their works, they could not enter in to the Canaan's land because of their unbelief (Heb 3:19). In the same way, we Christian believers who try to please God with our works by being religious and living without real faith will not enter in to the heavenly rest of peace, joy and righteousness which comes to us apart from our works to make us rest in our spiritual lives (Heb 4:2, 3; Php 4:4, 6-7; 1 Peter 1:7-8; Matt 6:33; 2 Cor 5:21).

(iv) LET US NOT TEMPT CHRIST: We know as Christians all the spiritual blessings of heaven are upon us in Christ by God's decree (Eph 1:3), so let us not run after the idols of the heart in our lives, let it be money, wife, children, father, mother, property, wine, sex, power, unbridled lust, greed, etc... (Matt 10:34-39; Luke 16:13; Eph 4:22; 5:3, 18)....which could easily ensnare us to make our heart become filled with unbelief due to the influence of our old evil heart which must be switched off by our good choices we take in our day to day life (Prov 22:25; 1 Cor 15:33; Deut 7:25).

Ezekiel the prophet was asked by God this following question, ""Son of man, these people are devoted to their idols in their hearts and minds, and they are allowing themselves to fall into sin. Should they be allowed to ask me for help?" (Ezek 14:3). We should understand that because the Lord is holy in all His ways (Psa 145:17; 1 Pet 1:16), He will not answer our prayer if we continue to regard iniquity in our heart and have idols within us (Psa 66:18). If we do not conceal our sins and instead confess our sins, and forsake to renounce the old pattern of thinking in the lustful evil desire of our soul, we will be shown mercy by God again and again, and therefore will be forgiven and helped in all our time of need (Prov 28:131 John 1:7, 9). So walking willfully in the stubborn nature of our old self instead of the new nature and mind of Christ which God has given us, will make us tempt Christ which may lead to a wilderness kind of experience in our soul instead of experiencing Canaan's experience like Joshua and Caleb through the spirit of faith (1 Cor 2:16; 2 Tim 1:7; Col 3:1-2; Num 14:24; Jos 1:3). As repentance in itself is a gift of Christ to us, if we continue to harden our hearts by sin of evil desire and lust, without confession, we may end up falling away without repentance which will make our lives to be lived in the wilderness, full of fruitless and dry desert life without the tangible Presence of God within us, and will be only having within us the fearful expectation of judgment that is to come as upon His enemies (Heb 6:6; 10:26-27). What a wasted life!

(v) OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS A RIGHTEOUS JUDGE AND A LOVING FATHER: Only one side of the coin is shown, and only one side of the spiritual currency for soul profit and promotion are mostly printed within our churches. What does it means? Unless a coin or currency is not printed on both sides, it becomes a dubious counterfeit one in the natural kingdoms of the world. The same can be applied in our spiritual life too in the Kingdom of God, (i.e.) unless we consider both "the goodness and severity of God: [as] on those who fell [from faith like the Israelites], severity because of their unbelief [in rejecting Jesus their Messiah]; but toward us, goodness because of our faith [in Christ Jesus], if we continue in His goodness. Otherwise if we too become namesake Christians without really having any obedience to Jesus Christ, God will also cut us off like He did the namesake Israelites." (Rom 11:22, Paraphrased).

There are many examples of personal chastening in the Bible, as well, even upon those in whom the Lord most delighted—Adam (Gen 3:17-19), Noah (Gen 9:22, 24-25), Abraham (20:9, 10), Moses (Numbers 27:12), David (1 Chronicles 28:3), and Solomon (1 Kings 11:11), to name a few. Notice that, although these men made mistakes and were chastened for them by God and even sometimes allowed by God to be rebuked by men, God did not stop loving or using them. God always brings chastisement appropriate to the crime and then always forgives the sins and restores His fellowship with them. He is the righteous judge to execute right justice, and at the same time a loving Father who shares fellowship with his sons. In other words, when we sin and fall below the righteous requirement of God, we cannot stop the consequence of the wages of sin in the natural, but with it no more spiritual wages because Jesus took it all upon Himself so that we can be free from condemnation of sin (John 19:30; 2 Cor 5:21; Rom 8:1), so we can expect God to use it to sharpen our character and learn from it not to repeat it in like fashion, but instead inculcate within us a new renewed mind to overcome it by the grace that He provides through our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 6:14). Because He loves us, He desires us to live holy lives and become more and more like Jesus, so that God as a loving Father could have deeper fellowship with us and make us more and more conformed to the Character of Christ which is His ultimate for us to live blessed now and forever along with Him (1 Peter 1:15-16; Romans 8:29).

What if someone as a believer claims the title of a Christian, but never wants to pursue holiness in his life?

If someone professes to know Christ but is living a lifestyle of unrepentant sin and claims to “feel fine about it,” with no qualms, and also you see no external evidence of the discipline of the Lord happening in his life, then that person is not a legitimate child of God (Revelation 3:19; Hebrews 12:5-11; Job 5:17; Psalm 94:12; I John 3:4-12). God “punishes everyone he accepts as a son” (Hebrews 12:6), there is no partiality with God in this for all humans alike (Acts 10:34-35; Rom 2:11). Holiness is not a option for a child of God, rather it is a calling to which he/she is called to fulfill in this earthly life as a saint of the Most High God. That is why Paul the apostle clearly expressed in his letter to his spiritual son Timothy, "19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” (2 Tim 2:19). In other words, those who say they are Christians must be more concerned whether they are known by God personally than to worry about whether they know God, and again a person who calls himself a Christian should not be doing things that are wrong continually as a pleasure, if he does without any remorse or conviction of sin after committing it (Luke 22:61-62; 15:18-19; John 16:7-8), then he/she should check themselves up whether they are really a saved Christian who has true faith within which has the internal evidence of salvation from the Holy Spirit who ensures us about it without a iota of doubt (2 Cor 13:5-6; Rom 8:16; Eph 1:13-14; 1 John 4:13). Only when we come to understand the tri-unity of the Father, and the Son living in us through the Spirit, then the supernatural work of the Spirit in inter-joining our spirit with Himself after our salvation becomes a reality to experience God in His fullness in our daily life as a Christian (John 14:20; 14:23; 1 Cor 6:17).

Much Blessings.....

I am Confused About The Permanence Of Salvation, Please Clarify!

Do You Believe Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS)?

Question: So I have a quick question, do you believe once saved always Saved? Hell is real, as Heaven is real, and I have been taught that we must keep our cloths clean, without wrinkles, and our lamps filled with oil, for we don't know when the Groom will come for his bride. We must be like Christ, always seeking, and looking for the Kingdom of GOD which is at hand. So what I am reading is that by Grace we are saved, I understand Works don't save us, We must submit to God and be different from the world. Look, walk, speak, and act different from the world, to stand apart.. So I guess I am confused?? Can you Clarify?

Note: The Acronym for OSAS is Once Saved Always Saved, which will be used to mean the doctrine of the permanence of salvation through out this article.

Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name! I understand the dogma you are holding, and I also appreciate your sincere desire to know more from the Word of God.

But let us get in to the Word first, "4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men." (Titus 3:4-8).

Here we go....The kindness and love of God our Savior appeared towards humans two thousand years ago...when the Lord God the Creator of all things (Col 1:16), chose to become a human baby (Luke 2:11-12), then went through all the day to day hardships of all humans (Luke 2:51), grew up having no sin but choosing to stay without sinning even one time (1 Pet 2:22; 2 Cor 5:21; Heb 4:15; 1 John 3:5). Then around thirty years of age started to do good works going everywhere God wanted him to go and spread his message of love through healing all who were oppressed by the devil (Acts 10:38), then after three and half years of ministry, chose to die on a cross according to God's will for the sins of us all to be forgiven (Heb 9:11-14; Col 1:14), buried for three days which symbolically buried our sin nature (Rom 6:3-4, 5-6), and rose again on the third day victoriously declaring that humans are now justified by faith and by grace before God if they believe Him (Rom 6:8-9; 5:1; Tit 3:7). In other words, God saw the anguish of Christ's soul because of sin and was satisfied by His sacrifice of Himself even unto death, so now therefore "by His [i.e. Jesus'] knowledge...[have] justified many" by giving them the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of the future salvation (Isa 53:10-11; Eph 1:13-14).

So the purpose we are saved is to become a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another [(i.e.) Jesus] on that person's death, so that we can become and live as the child of God on earth (John 1:12; Gal 3:26). In other words, through receiving salvation from Jesus, we become a heir of God (Rom 8:17), which means we inherit and continue the work of our predecessor who is Jesus our example, which gives us the hope of a eternal life to come (1 Peter 2:21; 1 Cor 15:19).

The early apostles were facing a lot of trouble from unbelievers within the Church, who professed themselves to be saved, but in fact they were never saved at all. So they took the grace of God as a licentiousness to sin (Jude 1:4). The believers were affected by the lifestyle of these ungodly men who acted as though they were saved, but their lives were very ungodly. So apostle Paul who wanted this kind of deceit to end within the Church, so he said to the believers to constantly affirm and tell publicly to encourage believers, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works, not because they will go to hell fire as there is no condemnation now for all believers (Rom 8:1), but it is good and profitable to men who are saved by God for eternity (Heb 5:9).

Only the circumcised heart of the flesh of believers can obey Jesus in their day to day lives and repent by confessing to Jesus when they sin (Ezek 36:26; 1 John 1:9; 2:1).

There are two things in the Scripture we should not confuse and get confused ourselves, one is Union and the other is fellowship. There are Scriptures that speak about union and there are Scriptures that speak about fellowship. Union of a believer with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit happens when we are saved (1 Cor 6:17), this union can never be cut off for eternity ahead and Jesus Himself is the guarantee of this union, and by depositing the seal of the Holy Spirit with in us when we were saved, Jesus have given evidence of this OSAS within us (Rom 8:34, 35-39; John 10:27-30; Eph 1:13-14). Once the seal of the guarantee of the Holy Spirit within the eternal salvation gift has been given through the union Scriptures (Eph 2:8-9), nowhere else the Scripture ever speaks or warns about a unsealing due to our works. In fact, we get a lot of encouragement, admonishing and even warning from the apostles of the lack of fellowship with God that we will suffer because of letting sin in to our lives, and these are fellowship Scriptures (1 John 1:3-4; 2:1; 1 Thess 3-8; Heb 13:1-6; 6:4, 6; 8; 10:26-30; 1 Peter 4:17).

This story will give you an understanding of the Union and Fellowship part of a believers life a little better. Once there was a great rich man who had a great palatial house and farm all around his house, he had so many servants in his house to serve him. He had a Son who died valiantly for a noble purpose of uplifting humanity and securing the border of their country. After this, he had a great desire to adopt children as he had no child for a long long time. So he took many babies from very poor background and adopted them to be his real children legally (Rom 8:17; Eph 1:5). The servants in the house of this man were very jealous of these babies who were given the privilege of the very Son who had died, but they themselves being the rich man's servant their babies were never given the same privilege (Heb 2:16). So as these children grew, their Father loved all of them equally and wanted them to become obedient under the tutelage of the servant who were all very well learnt (Gal 3:24).

One day as a particular child of the Father was playing in the garden, he was throwing stones at the birds that was flying away in groups, so as to scare them all away, and the little fellow was enjoying it though he knew that he should not throw stones high in the air as it might unexpectedly hit someone and cause injury or even death.

Lo and behold, as the little child kept throwing stones one after the other and was having the time of his life, suddenly one stone hit one big duck that the Father had recently purchased for breeding it in the farm. The servant who was in charge of the little boy came at that time and told the little fellow, that he knew what has happened by him throwing stones at the duck, so he tried to intimidate the little fellow from that day on.

Due to fear the little boy never told his Father of what has happened, but from that time onwards, he was not able to love back his father as he loved him unconditionally the same way as before the incident happened. In fact, the servant slowly became the master of the little child and was blackmailing the child to do chores that he should actually do for the child.

The fellowship with the Father was no more available because of fear within the child, but then the child chose to confess his sins to the father one day out of great burden and bondage that he experienced, and could bear it no more. The Father hearing the child, ran towards him and embraced him, saying, 'I have forgiven you, do not worry I knew it.'

The next day the servant not knowing what has happened between the Father and the little child, expected the little boy to do the same household chores for him. But them the child rebuked the servant to do his job and not be lazy. When the servant threatened to reveal the secret sin of his, he told him that he has already confessed it to his Father and he has forgiven him. Saddened sadistically, the servant obeyed the child and began to serve him from that day onward as he ought to serve the child of the owner whom he serves.

Here in this story, the child is us who are believers, the servant is the devil, the Father is our heavenly Father, we have been adopted in to His family legally by Him through Jesus the only begotten Son who died for our cause. The moment we have accepted ourselves as His baby through Jesus, we have become our Heavenly Father's child (John 1:12). This is Union which cannot be changed by our behavior. Now whenever we sin, fear accompanies it and keeps us in bondage to the devil (Heb 2:14, 15). When we confess it to our Heavenly Father, we no more have to fearfully obey the devil anymore (Luke 15:20-21;1 John 1:7, 9; Rom 6:16; Jam 4:7). We become the authority of who we actually are (i.e.) child of God, once we have fellowship with our Heavenly Father (1 John 1:3-4; 1 Peter 5:8; 2 Peter 1:9-11; 1 John 2:14, 13).

Yes God wants us to look, walk, speak, and act different from the world, because we are already the children of God who are called to be like Jesus and become conformed to His image, but even this only God can help us to glorify us with His character as we cooperate with Him day by day (Rom 8:29, 30; Php 1:6). Our Heavenly Father wants us to mature in our Character and grow in grace that we might become like Jesus Christ and bring glory to God in various levels and degrees (2 Peter 1:8; 3:18). No earthly father will want a child of his to spend more years in the pre-kindergarten, let alone for the entire life. How much more our Heavenly Father will want all his children to grow in wisdom and spiritual stature and in favor with God and men just like Jesus (Luke 2:52).

Sin makes us weak spiritually and takes us away from the very Presence of the fellowship of our Father in Heaven (Isa 59:2), usually these are the times when we question all the promises of God and let unbelief harden our hearts (Heb 3:12). There comes a rest for the people of God apart from the works we do for God (Heb 4:9-10), if we have entered this rest of God through faith, we will cease from works as God did His, and let God continue to work through us to let us enjoy the works we do for God out of our love for God (John 5:17), rather than do the works out of fear wrongly thinking that we should be saved by doing it which actually becomes dead works at the end of it all (Heb 6:1; Php 2:12-13). In other words, as God works for us from the day of our salvation, we co-operate with Him to work through us from the day of salvation.

Just because I say OSAS is right doesn't mean that I condone sin in any way. God hated sin in the garden of Eden, and still does so where ever He finds it still, because sin takes away from God the humans whom He loves. God's call for holiness is non negotiable, whatever stage of spiritual life we are in, whether it is a baby stage or a mature stage. What did the great apostle Paul reveal to us in this matter? "Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”" (2 Tim 2:19). In other words, Paul the apostle emphasizes here that the Lord knows who are all saved, and those who are not saved but just profess that they are Christians. So He does say to us, if we are saved, we should depart from the very nature of sin which works within us as flesh and deteriorates and takes our life away from God without His fellowship. In fact, we know that those who think that they are saved without having the proof of the fruit of the Spirit which are all the good character of God displayed in us (Gal 5:22-23), have no proof even to prove to themselves that they are saved, and therefore will not inherit the Kingdom of God if they continue to delude themselves by thinking that they are saved , when they are not (Gal 5:19-21). In other words, a person is either saved for eternity, or is remaining unsaved, there is no other intermediate level in salvation. Further in context, Paul reveals that if someone is already saved, and departs from iniquity regularly, he or she will be used for the Master Jesus in His service and will become a vessel of honor whom the Lord will use to bless all others around them (2 Tim 2:21).

If we are saved and have become a child of God, peace with people and holiness with God is very much essential to see the activity of the Lord's salvation in display in our lives (Heb 12:14). If we know that we are saved and the Holy Spirit have spoken within our heart and have assured us, only then we know that we are very safe which is in the hands of the Lord (1 John 3:24; 4:13; John 10:27-28, 29).

Hell is real, and Heaven is real, those who have believed in Jesus the Christ and have repented of their sins are those who will have the Kingdom of God within to enter it spiritually (John 3:17-18). The narrow way of faith is the one that leads to life, broad is the way of works that delude people to hell fire because by working their way to God they make themselves debtors to God by setting aside the grace of God, as they delude and deceive themselves to think wrongly that righteousness comes through keeping of the Law when it actually condemns them as sinners (Matt 7:13-14; Rom 4:4; 11:35; Gal 2:31).

Yes we must keep our cloths clean, without wrinkles, and our lamps filled with oil, for we don't know when the Groom will come for his bride? But when the truth explained is seen contextually, we come to know that only those who are saved by Jesus are those who are blessed to wash their robes clean in the blood of Jesus (Heb 9:14), "that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city." (Rev 22:14). Only those who are saved can be able to keep their garments clean (Matt 22:12; 1 John 5:4-5; Rev 3:4-5), all others will defile themselves with dirt because they were not saved at all, they prove the truth of this proverb: "A dog returns to its vomit." And another says, "A washed pig returns to the mud." (2 Peter 2:22). Only those who are really saved are the only ones who are filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit even when they were sleeping along with the unsaved who had no oil (Matt 25:3, 4, 5; Rom 8:9). When the bridegroom came, only the wise who were saved went along with him, and the unsaved who had no oil were left alone or left behind as they went searching for those who supply oil, as the suppliers also will be raptured, they will have to knock the door of the gospel of Jesus by faith to find that the door to eternal life was already shut with in the Church (Matt 25:9; 7:7, 11; John 10:9; Luke 11:9, 13) and that those who want to stay in faith must die as martyrs during the Tribulation of those days (Rev 13:7-8, 10; Matt 24:21-22; Mark 13:19-20). Jesus tells only those unsaved as those whom He never knew, and it is a fact and He never ever knew them because they were not saved at all (Matt 25:11-13).

As the time of the Church is the acceptable time of the Lord to receive salvation through faith (Isa 61:2; 2 Cor 7:10; 6:2), we must all repent to be saved first, so that we could answer the call to be like Christ to receive the reward (Rom 8:29; 1 Cor 9:24-25; 2 Tim 2:12; Rev 22:12), always seeking, and looking for the Kingdom of GOD which is at hand (Luke 17:21; Rom 14:17). So fellowship is a call to holiness which is life long process, but union is a call to salvation from sin and is a one time event. Either you are saved from sin or you are not. So fellowship can be restored, but salvation can only be inherited once to retain it by the power of God forever. We do nothing to gain salvation, in the same way we can do nothing to lose salvation. By the life of Jesus we are saved (Rom 5:10), but by our holy life of works we are profited and rewarded by God now and for eternity (Heb 12:14, 10-11).

Much Blessings.....

Anal Sex: Can This Be A Blessing Within The Boundary Of Marriage?

What Does The Bible Say About Anal Sex?

Question: What does the Bible say about Anal Sex? I know it is a topic of taboo within the Church circle, but why I asked this question is to find out the truth whether what the world says and expresses is right or not according to the Bible. Can this be a blessing within the boundary of marriage?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Yes I understand that it has been a topic of taboo within the Church circle, but we must understand that it is very very important to know the Biblical perspective and stand on it in faith to overcome the world. I myself am a student of the Word of God who is ever eager to learn and then teach after doing a thorough research regarding these important questions that are arising like never before in our generation, so that we as the children of God could overcome the world as Jesus did live victoriously in his generation and also became a example for all the generations to follow in his footsteps (Rev 3:21; 21:7; 1 Peter 2:21).

I want to give some important points to prove to you why Anal sex is a perversion and not a blessing as I have come to understand from the Bible and also scientifically.

The very words 'Anal' means 'relating to or situated near the anus.' So anal sex is something that denotes 'sexual activity involving penetration of the anus.'

The natural way in which a man and a woman consummate in a relationship is through sexual intercourse. Wikipedia says, 'Sexual intercourse, or coitus or copulation, is principally the insertion and thrusting of the penis, usually when erect, into the vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both. This is also known as vaginal intercourse or vaginal sex.' I believe why the very term 'vaginal sex' have come, is because many people have added 'Anal Sex' as a part of their sexual activity and it is very sad that the knowledge regarding this within the Church circle is so poor, that time has come for all of us to talk openly to oppose the perversion from influencing our life or our family for its well being both naturally and spiritually.

Paul the apostle speaks about the wrath of God that is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Rom 1:18). Then further he speaks that if a human is unthankful for all the goodness of God shown in his life, the breath, the life, the air of clean oxygen, nature, water, good health, etc...after knowing that there is God who has created them who has shown the face of His goodness through all the life sustaining things of the world and its fullness (Psa 24:1; Matt 5:45; 1 Cor 10:26), then God gives up such a human to walk in their own foolishness of their imagination which ends up in idolatry, these people end up being like their own idol full of foolishness and vainness (Rom 1:20-21, 22-23; Psa 115:5, 8). Idolatry in not just worshiping of the image made, but it also includes each person's heart turning to money as the reason for their existence, the one who loves money and have made it a idol will never be satisfied with it (Matt 6:24; Eccl 5:10; 1 Tim 6:10). In other words, worship of money, comfort, etc...other than the One True God who created it is still idolatry.

The most important thing that God reveals through Paul the apostle is that, when a person comes to that stage of idolatry in his spiritual life, there comes a certain lust of their hearts when God gives them up to their own evil ways, to dishonor their bodies among themselves which makes them believe the lie for truth and serve the creature of imaginations of their heart instead of the blessed Creator (Rom 1:23-24).

Paul clearly reveals that the vile passions of unnatural lust comes within the heart of the idolater to have homosexual (i.e.) gay and lesbian sex which he calls, "exchanged the natural use for what is against nature" (Rom 1:26). The very language apostle Paul used shows that the natural use of a woman's vagina is through the insertion of a male penis within the covenant of marriage, which is know as sexual intercourse for producing offspring and for pleasure. The unnatural use of the penis is to seek a similar kind of experience with the same sex, which further brings a perversion of inserting it in the anus of another male or a female.

Thus Anal sex is a perversion and a abomination to God (Leviticus 18:22).

God says in Lev 20:13, "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them." In other words, when the world wants to stand for Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Perversion, God's has not only pronounced such acts and lifestyles as abomination to Him which He hates, but also it is a crime against humanity which deserves death to the offender or initiator of such perversion. Those who partake in it when punished their blood be upon their own head, which actually means the cause of the death of their life when punished by government law or religious one is due to their own foolishness of being involved in such God prohibited perversion.

Just because people of this world seems to be more and more involved in such LGBT perversion day by day doesn't mean, God has changed his views about it. Hebrews 13:8 states that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever; he does not change as man changes his mind day by day, in fact because of this unchanging nature of God He is able to show His mercy to all mankind abundantly as much as possible (Mal 3:6; Num 23:19). God laws are unchanging in nature as God Himself is, if man breaks the law of God in the homosexual issues to practice anal sex, the grave result of it in their lives will be:

(1) Humankind when they deny the truth of the right path of God which is a male naturally using the female within marriage, they will start to burn with unnatural desires of men using men, and even women using women for sexual perversion.

(2) Thus by committing this shameful act of homosexuality both men and women dishonor their bodies (Rom 1:24), those involved in it will not only receive "a debased mind" which destroys the existence of God in their knowledge, thus "receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due", but it also leads them to practice that which is not fitting before God and humans around them without even a slightest remorse for what they do against humanity which God has created for his own purpose under the law He set for them to keep their boundaries for it to be blessed by Him (Romans 1:26-27, 28). Homosexuality produces no children, and therefore it stand in direct opposition to God who said, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; Have dominion over...." (Gen 1:28).

(3) God says that not only those who practice homosexuality are deserving of death under the righteous judgment of God, but also those who approve of those who practice them deserve the same death under the righteous judgment of God. The question I ask all those Pastors, Preachers, Deacons, Elders and Teachers of the Word of God, knowing that God is serious enough to say that He is ready to punish righteously and in the same way equally those who practice it and those who support those who practice it, Can a Minister of God ever choose to support or even speak for such a cause which God hates? In other words, are you ready to spend your life in hell fire supporting Homosexual LGBT causes, if you think you are ready check yourself whether you are truly saved first of all (Rom 1:32; 2 Cor 13:5-6)?

(4) So Anal sex is moving of the penis in to anus for unnatural sexual pleasure, which is sodomy. You might say, “how about if it’s between husband and wife,” but God didn’t intend men to put their penis inside an anus, period. That is why God call it unnatural use. All sexual immorality is a sin. Jesus said, what is taken in a food comes out as waste through anus (Mark 7:19). So that we can know that anus is not made for sex activity naturally, as all human faeces carries unsterile things which are not free from living organisms and microorganisms. So as the medical community reveals that the anus is highly contaminated, whereas the reproductive tract is sterile in men and clean in women. When the penis enters the anus, there is high risk of infections and prostate problems. If the penis enters the vagina after having been in the anus, the woman’s reproductive tract can easily become infected. In addition, the rectum is not designed for entry and thrusting. The small blood vessels along the wall of the anus and rectum break. We do not recommend anal sex the medical community says. So we know that the fetishes and obsessions of anal sex does not come from the Bible, but rather it comes from the world of "sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater" (Eph 5:5), who does not want to either obey God or the medical science which discourages such perversion of anal unnatural sex.

(5) If we really want to honor marriage which is an institution of God and keep the bed undefiled (Heb 13:4; Rom 1:24), we should not only be careful never to indulge in fornication [i.e. Sex before marriage] or adultery [i.e. Sex after marriage with anybody other than our spouse], but specifically also in anal sex as it dishonors the natural way of God's creation of copulation. Most of this evil idea of anal sex comes from pornography, which is the way the devil is propagating his rebellion against God in our end of end times generation of ours, to create unnatural desire in men and women to destroy the blessings of God in their familial lives and degrade God's order to be considered as disorder. Too many people practicing perversion cannot make any of such unnatural act to become natural and good in the sight of God, never forget that God destroyed the whole world and saved physically only 8 people of Noah's family during the destruction of the world by flood, because only those eight people agreed with God to say sin as sin in their lives and others (1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 3:6). We individually have to give account to God for all our own choices we have taken within our marriage life (Rom 14:12; 2 Cor 5:10), when we appear before our Creator God. And the result of breaking God's righteous law will have its evil effect on us and our families in this life itself. If we are a believer God wants us to put away to death the sinful things of sexual immorality [i.e. Anal Sex], impurity, lust [that gets inflamed through pornography and masturbation], and evil desires [that gets fed in to us through pornography] which are all things of the world that is lurking within us (Mark 7:21-23), ever ready to defile and consume us to become punished and chastised by God (Col 3:5-6; Heb 10:30-31; 12:7-8, 11). So fear God and live blessed!

(6) Anal sex historically has been included in the definition of the word “sodomy.” Actually the sin of Sodom was the sin of gay pride and practice within an environment of all abundance and security, only self-centered and without a heart of concern or support for the poor and needy (Eze 16:49; Prov 19:17).

The words sodomy and sodomize come from a biblical account. Sodomy is, literally, “the sin of Sodom.” This word was framed from that Biblical account of the men of Sodom who came to know that angels have visited Lot's house, wanted to bring out from his house these angels with an intense lust to gang rape through anal sex. Here is what the Bible says regarding this, "1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 2 And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.” 3 But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.” 6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, 7 and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!" (Gen 19:1-3, 4-6).

What do we learn from the above Biblical account of Sodom? Sodomy accurately mean from the above account “forcible anal sex, with one male homosexually raping another male anally.” In a broader understanding of the word 'Sodomy', many have wrongly included oral sex along with anal sex in it. But we know “sodomy” cannot include oral sex [i.e. fellatio and cunnilingus] as it is a Biblical term described as a legal activity within the marriage setting when it is consensual (Sos 2:3; 5:1). Even consensual masturbation between the husband and the wife doing one for the other, is a Biblically legal thing that is described within the setting of marriage pleasure (Sos 5:4). God used the word sodomite in reference to homosexuals only (1 Kings 14:24; 15:12).

But the Bible clearly and explicitly condemns homosexuality as an immoral and unnatural sin and also in the same way any forced sex on someone else against their will which is rape (1 Corinthians 6:9; Deut 22:25-27).

Even though in the spirit of mutual consent, anal sex within marriage cannot be definitively categorized as a sin with a chapter and a verse, yet the apostle Peter says in the Bible "Husbands, ... be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers," (1 Peter 3:7, NIV) which means after knowing the fact that Anal Sex is very dangerous even according to Medical facts of truth to ones wife, as it has the potential to increase the risk of std’s infections because this sex activity is done using anus which is full of bacteria, can increase the risk of anal cancer, can weaken the anal sphincter, can cause anal fissures, how can we ever with love and consideration towards our wives, keep doing the same and expect our prayer to God to be answered? It will be hypocrisy. What ever done without faith is sin, and so is anal sex spiritually and physically as it causes harm to our loved ones internally and destroys the temple of God which is our wives body (Rom 14:23; Prov 17:13; 1 Cor 6:17; 7:2-6; Gen 2:24).

Do Christian wives have to submit to requests for anal sex by their husbands?

I believe when God Himself has said that this anal sex is not the natural way to have sex within a man and a woman relationship inside the covenant of marriage, so the wife should express the 'NO' clearly to her husband even if he is a unbeliever (1 Cor 7:14-15). So a wife does not have to submit to this type of sinful request of the husband based on the Biblical principle that “We ought to obey God rather than men.”(Acts 5:29).

The bottom line in a Christian marriage is, it is more than sex it is intimacy between the partners that starts spiritually with God in the midst of them, and deepens emotionally by sex physically and oneness in all areas of thought and action, which is the ideal every Christian should look forward to within it.

(7) WHAT GOD EXPECTS US? Now sexual immorality [i.e. sins of actions], impurity [i.e. sins of the heart, like masturbation and pornography], promiscuity [i.e. sex beyond marriage boundaries, like wife swap, threesome, group sex, homosexuality, etc] are all a clear indication of the actions of the flesh (Gal 5:19).

God expects a Christian to be separate from the world's way of thinking and grow in the knowledge and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor 6:17-18; 7:1; 2 Peter 1:2-4; 3:18). That means before we were saved we would have struggled with sins of action (1 Cor 6:11), but after salvation we may end up struggling with the sins of our heart and thoughts (1 Peter 2:24), so when we travel our Christian path in a godly way by living a life pleasing to God through denying our self and carrying our Cross of the will of God (Luke 9:23-24), then we will be desiring to be clean even in our thought life and will avoid all the sins of promiscuity and uncleanness which is immoral and displeasing to God (Gal 5:24).

God knew this huge LGBT movement would happen in our generation of the end of the end times (Isa 1:10; 3:8-9), we read in Judges 19:22-25, a crowd of troublemakers from a town surrounded the house of a old man who had received a stranger for a evening for him to stay, they wanted the old man to send out the stranger so that they could have forced homosexual activity with him, the old man begged the perverts not to do this perversion to the stranger, and instead the man brought his concubine to them, who they abused all night will both vaginal and anal group forced sex that in the morning she came to the house where her owner stayed and fell down and died. God condemned such a evil act and because of this, the whole tribe of Benjamin nearly would have forever got extinct if not for the grace and mercy of the Lord which He showed to them.

So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire (Jude 1:7).

Even apostle Peter expressed the same when he said, "Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people in the end times who indulge in shameful sexual activity of homosexuality and anal sex. But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick and tormented in his soul of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. So understand that God rescues even the least saint from their trials and keeps the wicked under the punishment of homosexuality until the final day of judgment. He will be especially hard on those who follow their own twisted unnatural sexual desire and despise God-appointed authority of the Church for the saved and government for the unsaved. Those people who parade their sin without shame and scoff even the angelic messengers of God who gave the law of God through Moses (Gal 3:19; John 1:17), ought to tremble because the wrath of God is coming upon all of the unsaved who practice sin (2 Peter 2:6-10; Col 3:5-6; Gal 5:19-21; 1 Thess 1:10; 2 Thess 1:7-8; 1 John 3:6, 10).

God has condemned such homosexual act as wickedness and "very grievous" (Gen 18:20-21) in his eyes, and therefore will avenge any homosexual anal sex that happens forced or consensual. So any person who is not saved, should look to the Lord Jesus Christ and confess such a sin as a sin before Him, and receive his forgiveness to live a life pleasing to Him. Repent!

Charles Spurgeon the great preacher of all preachers said concerning homosexuality, "This once brought hell out of heaven on Sodom.” Today the writing is on the wall for all the world to see, a hell is let loose on this present earth through hurricanes, earth quake, Tsunami, plagues outbreak, famine, pestilence, deterioration of air, water and soil, wars and rumors of wars, hate between people groups, intolerance, religious fanaticism leading to violence, terrorism, ice melting in the arctic and antarctic regions which is making the sea roar further and further more, etc...because of open LGBT embrace of the world governments. May God have mercy on us all!

Much Blessings....

Are Christians No Better Than Muslim In Their Taking Vengeance?

Were The Crusaders As Bad As Muslim Savagery?

Question: When I was speaking to a Muslim and debating with him how the Muslims in the past have been brutal savagery, and they were those who killed all others than those Muslims to be mercilessly killed, raped and all their things taken as booty, while Jesus speaks about loving one's neighbor and blessing them that curse them for no other reason except for following Christ and His love for all mankind. Instantly he told me, you people as Christians are no better than what we have been. Then he told that the Crusaders who are christian people did the same to the Muslims in the name of Jesus to us Muslims. Is that right he asked me? What do you think about it?

Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!

First of all I want you to understand that there are two stream in the present time while we are living in this earth. One is a political stream and the other is a religious stream.

All the religions which do have religion as the stream does not necessarily hundred percentage of time act spiritual in nature, to a certain and equal percentage both the streams will mix in various area of the world according to the culture and tradition because no matter what religion it is, all have time, space and matter boundaries that God has put them within (Acts 17:26, 27, 28). In fact all religions of this world were made by Man to fill the God shaped hole within Man which only God could do it as it is kept for Himself to fill it and bring meaning to this temporal human life on earth (Eccl 3:11). To a certain percentage all the religions in the world except Christianity acts purely spiritually.

Even the Jewish religion and Law which God gave to the nation of Israel is also political and spiritual stream. That is why we see an eye for an eye, a life for life justice being given to those who follow it in their lives (Deut 19:21). The true justice of righteousness in the political life stream of any nation is something that should be valued by other nations or else every nation that is marked in safety by God but oppressed by other neighbors who are more powerful than they are, has the right to defend themselves by fighting against their enemies, and the Bible never opposes war when injustice prevails rather than peace in the nations around the world (Gen 9:1-4, 5-6; 10:8-9, 10; Luke 14:31-32; Prov 20:18; Rom 13:1-7; Job 40:15; Deut 20:1-20). In fact God has told the Christians to pray for their political leaders who have been appointed by Him to bring justice to all humans who live in their country (1 Tim 2:1-2). When sin enters any nation and causes devastation to human life and animals and environment, God Himself judges them through other instruments on earth (Prov 14:34; 21:1; Psa 9:8; 98:9; Jer 27:6; Gen 15:16; Lev 18:24-30; Num 35:29-34; Deut 5:9; 8:11, 19-20). There is a time for peace and also a time for war (Eccl 3:8).

If you ask me, how only Christianity can act purely spiritually without a political stream being mixed with it? To find the answer we need to understand who Jesus is and how he has established Christianity as a spiritual force without political stream being mixed in it?

A lot of times when Jesus started doing signs, wonders, miracles and all the good works by the anointing of the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38), the people whose needs were met by God through Jesus when he was ministering on earth wanted to ask whether He is the king that God promised to Israel as a political solutions against their enemies which was Rome at that time which was ruling over them, and wanted to make Him their king by force, Jesus fled away from these fleshly men (John 6:15). In fact the biggest question for the fleshly minded Jews who did not think according to the will of God was, is Jesus the Messiah King to rule the world from the nation of Israel (Matt 11:3; Luke 7:19; Acts 1:6-7)? God had set a time for everything on earth, so the first coming of Jesus was to set a spiritual Kingdom of theocracy on earth without a drop of political stream of men mixed in it (Matt 16:16; Luke 19:10; Mark 2:17). To fulfill this will of God, God's idea was for Jesus to live without a drop of sin, so that Jesus could represent the fellow humans sinners before Him by becoming a substitute for them, so that He could become a Mediator for them to then establish a worldwide Kingdom on behalf of God (1 Tim 2:5-6; 2 Cor 5:21; Matt 4:17; Luke 17:20-21), so that Satan will be dethroned from his authority that he stole from our forefather Adam, who had lost it due to sin which brought rebellion within him against God, due to obeying Satan (John 14:30; Eph 2:2; 1 John 5:19; Matt 4:10-11; Luke 4:6-7; John 12:31-32, 33; 1 Cor 2:8; Rev 1:18). Christ Jesus after gaining his authority over the whole world, wanted to share it with all the fellow humans who wanted to live and enjoy God in his theocratic kingdom.

The time when all political forces of his contemporary times were afraid of losing their power (Matt 2:16-18; Luke 23:12), Jesus told about the nature of the pure spiritually theocratic kingdom that he had come to establish to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” (John 18:36). In fact, God took the authority Satan had over the kingdoms of the world and gave to Jesus after he rose up from the dead on the third day justifying all those who believe Him, so that now Jesus Christ our Lord can rule righteously over all the people of the earth who willingly subject themselves to God's theocratic Kingdom to rule over their lives (Matt 6:10). Thus I prove that Christianity is a pure spiritual Kingdom without even a drop of political stream mixed in it. Only God has this Kind of power to rule spiritually over the whole wide world which He does through the Man Christ Jesus (1 Tim 2:5), because He does need man and will not rule without man on earth as it is illegal for any spirit to rule the earth directly. This is the reason even Satan and his demons cannot do anything on earth, except through influencing man to dance to his whims and fancies by influencing him to act independently under his evil direction.

So I can safely say that Islam is not a purely 100% spiritual religion, but it is rather a beast of politics that has a nomadic religious overtones to control every aspect of the life of the believer, which actually makes them to become more intolerant and full of hate towards other non-believers. And it leads the Islamic believers even to the extent of deceiving unbelievers to death by 'Taqiyya' which is a specific favorable situation for a Muslim in which he/she is allowed, under Sharia law, to lie in order to maintain unity and growth among Muslims, hence it is propagated by the Sword toward the unbeliever either to accept it or die; has encouraged Slavery, Polygamy and the degradation of Womanhood. Hence it is a tradition of the medieval times which has become a politico-religious doctrine to dominate the world through force, and is not a purely spiritual force like Christianity. Muslim because of hate for generations, always take vengeance and live with that hate to take vengeance down the generations, as they all live in the flesh and die in the flesh. They have a very short fuse and act like donkeys to fight against even their own brothers, so that their hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and they will always be wild men in their character (Gen 16:11-12).

Having said the above, still I see the European crusaders not as a pure spiritual force, but rather a political force of their times who were a little better in term of the spirituality because they followed the Biblical principles to build their nations upon it, so that things like Slavery, Polygamy and the degradation of Womanhood were not as exactly similar to Islamist of their times, but were much better with human rights and dignity in their lives because of the spiritual force of the Bible that became their light at least in many of their lives individually.

In giving reasons for our belief in Christianity, we have to differentiate the spirituality of Christianity as purely spiritual and tell them of the political mixture in their Islam which is mixed with the political world and the desire to have dominion over the entire earth through it.

That is why when Jesus said the following, He was setting a new trend in all the world religion until then, and lifted spirituality as high as heaven even to the very height of being like the Father God in Heaven whose children the Christians who follow Jesus have become, "43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." (Matt 5:43-48).

Clearly the very spiritual message from Jesus allows Christians that no matter who stands against them, God wants them not to resist evil, but rather overcome evil with good to stand fast in faith to let God take the Vengeance that belongs to him (Rom 8:31; 12:19, 21; 1 John 5:4). This above personal message of Jesus to believers should not be applied for nations politically, because they are political stream appointed by God. This is for individuals of purely spiritual stream of Christians to practice their faith and let God do the talking against evil which comes against them personally. Only when a nations head or whoever it is tells us to do something against the Word of God or our conscience, we should stand against giving in to their demand expecting the Lord to rescue us or die for Him as a martyr if God allows us to face it for His Glory (Acts 4:18-19; Dan 3:14-15, 16-18, 19-25, 26-30; 1 John 3:21; 1 Peter 4:14, 16). In other words, Christian do not take vengeance as God will take vengeance on their enemies who come against them.

Of all the religious system of the world, the Law of Moses and the prophets were the perfect righteousness, and external morality man could achieve even in this modern times as the Bible of the Old Testament has been the basis for good governing of many nations for centuries and centuries even until today and even for the Millennium rule of Jesus Christ on earth (Psa 19:7; John 1:17; Isa 60:3; 62:2; Zech 8:23; Heb 8:13).

In the Battle of Tours, France (A.D. 732), one of the decisive battles of the world, in it Charles Martel defeated the Moslem army, and saved Europe from Mohammedanism which was at that time sweeping the world like a tidal wave. But for that victory Christianity may have been completely submerged.

The Crusades is the effort of Christendom to regain the Holy Land from the Mohammedans. There were seven:

FIRST (1095-1099); Captured Jerusalem.

SECOND (1147-1149); postponed the fall of Jerusalem.

THIRD (1189-1191); army failed to reach Jerusalem.

FOURTH (1201-1204); captured and plundered Constantinople.

FIFTH (1228-1229); took Jerusalem, but soon lost it.

SIXTH (1248-1254); a failure.

SEVENTH (1270-1272); came to naught.

The Crusades were of influence in saving Europe from the Turks, and in opening up intercourse between Europe and the East, paving the way for the Revival of Learning.

Arabians dominated the Mohammedan world (622-1058). The capital was moved to Damascus (662); to Baghdad in 750, where it remained till 1258.

Fall of Constantinople (1453), to the Turks, brought to an end the Eastern Roman Empire, and jarred Europe with a second threat of Mohammedan control, which, later was stopped by John Sobieski in the battle of Vienna (1683).

Turks have ruled the Mohammedan world from 1058 to modern times. They were far more intolerant and cruel than the Arabians. Their barbarous treatment of Christians in Palestine led to the Crusades.

According to me the Crusaders were a political reaction to the invasion of their own territory from the prying eyes and cruel torture to death by sword that awaited them from the Muslim invaders. They in fact fought to deny their own demise from the hands of their enemies who wanted to kill them. So we cannot compare the Crusaders with the savagery of the Muslim invasions of the past.

Much Blessings....