Day: September 23, 2017
Keep Looking Up – by Hal Lindsey
09/23/2017 Terrorists struck again in England last week. It’s fortunate that these would-be bombers weren’t such great bombmakers. The crude bucket bomb was placed on a commuter train, but failed to fully detonate. The explosive flash injured 29 people, but a proper detonation could have killed dozens. ISIS claimed credit. The government raised the national threat level to “Critical.” London’s streets were flooded with police, fully armed, not just carrying their usual nightsticks. The forced Islamization of Britain has been going on for years. But the real consequences are just beginning to be realized. Five years ago, 12 Pakistanis living …
Mark Hitchcock: Russia’s Rise in Prophecy
Sitting on the northern border of Israel are two dangerous nations that are referenced in the ancient prophecies of the Bible. The 38th chapter of Ezekiel describes a coalition of nations that come down from the uttermost parts of the north to attack the tiny nation of Israel, “in the latter days.” Russia is led by self-perceived strongman and President, Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative. Is Putin, who many believe to be the richest man in the world, the individual the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel calls Gog from the Land of Magog? Is Magog the land of Russia? Or …
“To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”— Ephesians 1:6
What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term “acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should be the objects of divine love! But it is only “in the beloved.” Some Christians seem to be accepted in their own experience, at least, that is their apprehension. When their spirit is lively, and their hopes bright, they think God accepts them, for they feel so high, so heavenly-minded, so drawn above the earth! …
What Is The Gospel?
By Dr. Harry Ironside (1876-1951) “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). It might seem almost a work of supererogation …
“Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe.” Mark 9:23
A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he was bidden to bring his son to him, he said to Jesus, “If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.” Now there was an “if” in the question, but the poor trembling father had put the “if” in the wrong place: Jesus Christ, therefore, without commanding him to retract the “if,” kindly puts it in …
He…said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem…” —Luke 18:31
In our natural life our ambitions change as we grow, but in the Christian life the goal is given at the very beginning, and the beginning and the end are exactly the same, namely, our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him— “…till we all come…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ…” (Ephesians 4:13), not simply to our own idea of what the Christian life should be. The goal of the missionary is to do God’s will, not to be useful or to win the lost. A missionary is useful and he …
Question: “What can we learn from the thief on the cross?
“Answer: When seeking what we can learn from the thief on the cross, it should be remembered that at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, two thieves were crucified beside Him (Luke 23:33–43), and both began their time on the cross by mocking and blaspheming Him, as did many of the spectators. One of the thieves responded in faith to the message of salvation and was taken to paradise that very day. He is the one usually referred to as the thief on the cross, while the other man did not respond in faith and is now suffering from a deadly …