The Truth is in The Bible



2Ti 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. John 8:31-32 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
If you do not believe the Bible is true, how will you believe in God or Heaven, or Hell, or Jesus Christ who will lead you to God in Heaven? If you don’t believe the Bible is true then how will you know that Satan has you in his palm, and the only end is damnation and eternal suffering? The Bible is a door to eternal truth, and life, a vault of treasure. If you open it, and study the scriptures, claimed to be inspired and breathed by God, it is very likely that you will find the answer to all the questions in your life. It is probable that you will find the peace that you so desire. It is very possible that the God of the Universe and beyond will open your eyes and let you see his truth. Are you afraid of that? I am amazed that this Holy Book that is more than 6000 years old, that claims to be the Word of God, is not taken more seriously. Prophets were tortured and killed for proclaiming it. There are over 500 prophecies in the Old Testament that came true hundreds and hundreds of years later in the birth, life and death of Jesus Christ. Aren’t you curious about that? The Bible is a book of life. It covers every topic. Why wouldn’t you, out of sheer curiosity, read it, and then make up your own mind about it. The Bible is the highest selling book of all time and every year it ranks number one on the world wide chart. And you have to admit, because you have seen it with your own eyes, the words in this book, changes peoples lives. People often quote what they have heard from another source about the Bible. They speak with authority about what they think about God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit without ever going to the real wealth of information that is in the gospels, and the truth that will set them free. What truth, free from what, you ask? The answer is in the Bible. If you believe that the Bible is the word of God, you will believe the truth about Jesus. You will be free from sin, and saved from the fires of eternal Hell. Do you think that you don’t sin? Do you think you are a good person? If you have forsaken and rejected the Holy God and creator, and the man, who was God, who came to make the ultimate sacrifice that only God could make, then you are committing the biggest sin of all! You ask me if I believe the Bible? My answer is yes, every word, and every story. It is true simply because, God is God! May you pick up that precious book and read it, and may God, the heavenly Father, open your eyes, and take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh to understand his Holy Words and believe. Amen!　
 
Mat 4:4
But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Col 4:3At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison--
 Sa 22:31 This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
 2Ti 1:8-12
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

Eze 11:19-20
 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  
2Ti 2:7-9
Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. Remember
Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
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Praise to the Lord

 
Luk 10:22  All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

 

There's a furry, warm, soft purring cat sleeping on my lap this morning as I make my devotions to you. She is so content to be there, peaceful, trusting, asking nothing of me more than to be close to me. I am like that with you this morning my Father! There are Dove's cooing in the morning air. The birds are chirping, and a gentle cool breeze floating in through my screen door. Oh what could it be like in heaven, when here on this earth we only see a glimpse of your majesty! Hear my devotion and adoration for you this morning. Lord incline your ear to my prayers. I beseech you in your holy name. I love you my Lord. You are God, you became a man to die on the cross in my place. No sin that I could ever commit is worse than creation turning its back on you, forsaking your love, even denying your presence. But you oh Lord choose a people for your own, a people to forgive, and bring salvation to, to save from what they deserve for forsaking a holy God. Continue to reveal yourself to me in ways that I might not ever imagine! Let me know you more! Show your powerful saving grace in my life! I love you my Savior, thank you God for saving me. Thank you God for eternity with you in paradise! Amen!

Hell is a Real Place

20 Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."

The sickening stench of rotten burning flesh tinges my nostrils as shrieks of anguish fill the darkness in the unquenchable fire.

1 Thousands of tortured tormented red and weeping eyes gaze in agony in all directions. 2 Arms are reaching out to emptiness, no peace, no rest, nothing to do, no where to go. 3 The chains dangle around their necks, arms and feet as flesh oozes from their bones in this gloomy darkness of fear and dread. 4 Some are just lying on the ground shriveling and twisting and gnashing their teeth 5 as they screech in torment. 6 I've been swallowed alive! 7 Down in this murky pit, 8 my heart is pounding; I’m filled with terror every second of every living moment. 9 I’m burning! My body is boiling. I’m drowning in the Lake of Fire. 10 Oh this horror, this anguish! It hurts, oh the pain! It burns! Help me it burns! IT BURNS! 11 My body is blistering in this fiery furnace. 12 It reeks and nausea overwhelms me. I vomit from the foul repugnant smell of my own scalding flesh. I fall onto a mass of a slimy sizzling human something. I can’t tell what it is anymore. I lay there in a bed of maggots, worms cover me. 13 These bars surround me. 14 The whip slices through the pain. 15 I'm beaten down. I want to get out of this place but I'm imprisoned, entangle by cords 16 as I grasp out slapping and grabbing only to find myself utterly trapped, my form consumed and no place to dwell. 17 This chamber of death is never satisfied. 18 My body and my senses are alive 19 but serve me only to feel the sorrow, 20 see the suffering, taste the sulpher and scorched air, smell the putrid aroma and hear the hissing and tormented screams.  If only I’d die, or go out of my mind, but it never ends. It never ends. It never ends. IT NEVER, NEVER ENDS!!!! 21

1 Mat 5:22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Mar 9:43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Psa 116:3 The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
2 Mat 13:50 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 Luk 16:23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."

3 Ecc 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. Job 7:9 As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
4 Jud 1:6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day--
2Pe 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
5 Mat 8:12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Mat 13:50 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
6 Luk 16:23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Luk 16:28 for I have five brothers--so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' Num 16:30 But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."
7 Isa 5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.
Pro 1:12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; Pro 1:12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
8 Psa 30:3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. Psa 116:3 The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
10 Rev 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." 9 Rev 20:15
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
11 Luk 16:24 And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'
Mat 5:22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. 12 Mat 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,
Mat 13:42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
13 Isa 14:11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.
 Mar 9:47 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
Mar 9:48 'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'
14 Job 17:16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
15 Isa 28:15 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";
16 Psa 18:5 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
17 Psa 49:14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell. 18 Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
Pro 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
19 Num 16:30 But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."
Num 16:33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. Gen 42:38 But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the j
ourney that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
21 Rev 14:10 he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb20 Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."
 Mat 25:41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
 2Th 1:9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

There is a chasm and on the other side is God in glory, Lord Jesus is revealed there. There is an awe-inspiring light, brighter than the sun, and the dew of heaven. There are angels, and people singing……….

TO BE CONTINUED.....

　

Morning Has Broken

1Co 2:9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--

My eyes sprang open in the wee hours of the morning. Rest was accomplished and His thoughts filled my mind for the new day. A silent song of praise played in my head, a song only He and I could hear. Downstairs in the dimly lit kitchen I put on a pot of coffee and welcomed the pleasant aroma surrounding me in the warm coziness of the room. The first glimpse of the coming day was already peeking quietly through the window, and my Lord beckoned me to share the sunrise with Him.

Up on the balcony, coffee in hand, posed for the event, I wasn’t prepared for the glorious spectacular that unfolded before my eyes. The crescent moon was shining silver, high in the sky and looked down at me smiling in mischievous anticipation.

Humming birds were dancing busily around the flowered trees in the shadows of the morning.

A gentle golden light began to fill the bottom of the black night. It glistened like honey oozing over a jar.

A rooster crowed announcing the dawn. Then beautiful music filled my ears as a chorus of mother birds sang out cheerfully while taking to flight over the tree tops in search of food for a thousand baby birds that all seemed to harmonize at once in a melodic tune.

It took only a few moments for the soft glow at the base to fade the black night to a dim grey then a subtle blue. Pink cotton candy clouds emerged from the darkness and were surrounded by flamingo colored images in every shape and size. A fresh new day began.

The best was yet to come when a ball of fire gingerly floated onto the horizon sending out from its core glorious illuminated rays of white, purple and orange. The beams reached up, up into the heavens and transformed the sky to a magnificent radiance. The feathered creatures became still in a moment of silence while God’s majesty filled the earth. I held my breath! I knew in my heart that my eyes were close to imagining and my mind was close to conceiving what God has prepared in heaven for those that love him.