Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Legitimate Pride

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Revelation 4:11 KJV)

There is only one being who can feel proud and not sin. He is God. Because He is worthy to receive glory and honour and power, for He created all things, and all things existed for Him and because of Him.

Monday, March 14, 2022

Karma Samsara Moksha Nirvana

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. (Psalm 103:8-10 ESV)

The Bible says we do not always get what we deserve. If the Bible is true, then karma is false.

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. (Hebrews 9:27-28 ESV)

The Bible says we live and die once. If the Bible is true, then samsara is false. If there is no samsara, there is no moksha or nirvana.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Ruling With Christ

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. (Revelation 20:6 CSB)

Today's Christians, those who passed on or raptured, and all believers who have passed on since the creation will be resurrected to rule with the Anointed One for a thousand years.

But as it is written, What no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived - God has prepared these things for those who love him. (1 Corinthians 2:9 CSB)

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Wrong View Of Religion

Many people thought that religions are choices. You can choose to be a Buddhist, Christian, Hindu or Muslim and it is all the same. Religions teach you to be good, give you some assurance and also give you some god or gods or ideas or beings bigger than mankind to believe in. It did not occur to many people that they should test their religion to see if it is true.

But the Bible tells us that there is only one true God who created the heavens and the earth. You have to believe in Him and none else.

The gods of other nations are mere idols, but the LORD made the heavens! (Psalm 96:5 NLT)

You are to say this to them: "The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens." (Jeremiah 10:11 CSB)

Furthermore, the God who created the heavens and the earth choose from the nations of the earth a nation for Himself and prove that His Word is true by the His prophecies about that nation.

Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? (Deuteronomy 4:34 CSB)

Friday, March 11, 2022

Fear of God

Fear of the LORD is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment. (Proverbs 9:10 NLT)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10 NIV)

Above all, fear the LORD and worship him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things he has done for you. (1 Samuel 12:24 CSB)

Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. (Psalm 33:18-19 ESV)

How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you. (Psalm 31:19 NIV)

Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. (Psalm 25:12 ESV)

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. (Psalm 112:1-2 ESV)

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. (Psalm 128:1-2 ESV)

The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short. (Proverbs 10:27 ESV)

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. (Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV)

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Three And Four

"There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman. (Proverbs 30:18-19 NIV)

There is one thing, then two things and now three and four things: air, land, sea and sex.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

One Thing

One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. (Psalm 27:4 ESV)

But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." (Luke 10:41-42 ESV)

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." (Mark 10:21 NIV)
See also Luke 18:22.

He answered, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." (John 9:25 ESV)

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14 ESV)

One thing to desire, one thing that is necessary, one thing that lacked, one thing to know and one thing to do. Then again, there are two things to desire (Proverbs 30:7-9).