“Upon this I awaked and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.” In the new creation of Jesus’ day of resurrection from the dead he awoke and beheld. Healed of his sacrificial wounds, he awoke to find … a “Bride” elect being prepared for the “marriage of the Lamb”, for which we are still… Read More Today’s Thought (August 10): Upon this I awaked
Today’s thought “Who has heard such a thing?” (July 10) Isaiah completes his prophecy as a message, not to kings, the high and mighty, but to a particular class of people. “Hear the word of the LORD you who tremble at his word” (66:5). Then comes a strange statement. “Before she was in labour she… Read More Today’s thought “Who has heard such a thing?” (July 10)
Today’s thought “… who delivers us from the wrath to come” (November 16) Nehemiah 3 is a wonderful illustration of the team work Nehemiah inspired – for the rebuilding of the broken down walls of Jerusalem. But what of the broken down walls of this world – that has allowed godlessness to come flooding in!… Read More Today’s thought “… who delivers us from the wrath to come” (November 16)
Today’s thought “Bind them on your heart” (March 28) God’s word again directs our thoughts to the vital importance of our attitude of “heart” as the most vital thing in our thought processes. We saw in Luke recently that Jesus “told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not… Read More Today’s thought “Bind them on your heart” (March 28)
“25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; 26 and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?” (Joh 11:25-26 ASV) * To remember Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the… Read More Extra verses to memorise John 11:25-26 Believing in the light, resurrection and the life
Today’s thought “Do you believe this?” (April 18) John 11 Who asked, “Do you believe this?”. Jesus, of course. And to whom did he address this question? He addressed the question to Martha who came to him at Bethany four days after her brother Lazarus had died. And what was she challenged to believe? Jesus… Read More Today’s thought “Do you believe this?” (April 18)
Today Matthew’s record of the life of our Lord reveals how events were building up to a climax. Jesus was becoming more challenging in his contact with the Pharisees and Sadducees; he bluntly tells the Sadducees they “are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God” (22:29) in refusing to believe… Read More Today’s thought “Which is the great commandment …?” (January 20)
Each individual has to make their own choices, making up their mind what they do want to believe and whom they would like to follow. Having looked at the key elements of the Bible we must consider what we really want to do,keeping to follow this world and holding fast to worldly traditions or following the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua (Jesus christ) and becoming a real Christian or a Christadelphian to go through life as a Brother or Sister in Christ.… Read More Concluding thought by the article series “Key to the Bible”
Lots of Christian who think the hell is a place of eternal torture do forget that Jesus was three days in hell and that Israel’s patriarch Jacob was convinced he would also go to hell. In this article we look at the real biblical meaning of sheol, hades or hell. According to the bible sheol or the grave is the abode or place were both righteous and wicked remain until the call of Jesus at the Last Days and the resurrection of the dead.… Read More Is Hell-fire something to fear
There are churches which teach that people when they die go to purgatory, heaven or hell. In which way is that according bible writings, where is told that the living beings (souls) when they die shall deteriorate or decay to become dust, not feeling anything and not able to do anything?… Read More Where do we go when we die?
The Bible tells about suffering and dying, a resurrection of the dead and about a first and a second death and about an everlasting life in the Kingdom of God. In this article we look at what the Bible teaches on the soul, eternal life and immortality.… Read More Realities concerning Human Life and Death
Our recent Dutch posting “De opgestane Heer” looks at the essence of our faith but also at the reality of these days there being clergymen who claim that we do not have to believe in a literal resurrection of Jeshua the Christ from the dead. We are used to hearing such statements from the mouth… Read More The resurrected Lord
*** LUKE 20:27______ 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any RESURRECTION; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 36 The God of the living and Resurrection
In this world we may find as much craziness perhaps as Paul could find by the Galatians, him even wondering if someone put a hex on them and if they had perhaps lost their senses. Today we may find lots of Christians who put on an attitude totally against the teachings of rabbi Jeshua. They… Read More Lost senses or a clear focus on the one at the stake
“Greatly annoyed” (April 27) Have you ever been greatly annoyed? Of course you have! It’s human nature. Sometimes such feelings are justified; usually they are not. We read today in Acts 4 of a group of people who were greatly annoyed. Why? Chapter 3 tells us of a most remarkable healing, a man over 40… Read More Greatly annoyed
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