Search results

How should we pray? (Part 12) Abridging: if we desire that our prayer comes to be heard with delight by Jesus, our request ought to: 1 – be an expression of gratitude for the Creator and stir up people to glorify Him: • 2Co 9:12-14 -> “For the ministry of this service is not only...

How should we pray? (Part 11) 10 – Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name (Ps 29:2; 96:8): • Mat 6:13 -> “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. *For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen*.” We need to keep in mind that the Creator...

How should we pray? (Part 10) 9 – Asking only what is good, perfect and acceptable to the eyes of the Creator (which is food for our innermost begin – Isa 55:2; Rom 12:2). • Mat 6:13 -> “*And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil*. For Yours is the kingdom, and the...

How should we pray? (Part 9) 8 – Jesus’ blessings are to reestablish bonds of love: • Mat 6:12 -> “and forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.”. If Jesus forgave all our debts in the cross of Calvary, why do we need to ask the Creator to forgive us again? The only explanation...

How should we pray? (Part 8) 7 – We ought to live one day at a time: • Mat 6:11 -> “Give us this day our daily bread;”. Instead of concerning with the future, we need to receive with gratitude Jesus’ provision for today and believe that, while we are sleeping, He will provide for us our...

How should we pray? (Part 7) And for you have an idea of how important is the Creator’s will, read below: • Rev 4:10,11 -> “the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying...

How should we pray? (Part 6) 6 – His desire is the best for us and for everyone around us. So, we need to pray always: • Mat 6:10 -> “Your kingdom come, *Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven*.”. Don’t mind how hard is the Creator’s will, His will is always the best. Hence Jesus...

How should we pray? (Part 5) 5 – His kingdom is to be present in our world: • Mat 6:10 -> “*Your kingdom come*, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”. Take heed how Jesus highlighted this in His preaching: • Luk 10:8-11 -> “Whenever you enter a town and they receive you...

How should we pray? (Part 3) 4 – The Creator has, in highly esteem, His precious name: • Exo 20:7 -> “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.”. • Isa 48:9 -> “For my name's sake I defer my anger; for...

How should we pray? (Part 4) In other words, what is the purport of our asking: increase in Jesus or in the world? See the example of Ananias and Sapphira: both were dead by Peter’s word because they lied to the Holy Spirit. This brought much fear to Jesus’ Church: • Act 5:9-11 -> “But...

How should we pray? (Part 2) Therefore, we need to think: my request is good for those who are close to me? For you understand what am I asking, see these examples: a – If someone hurt you, recall that Jesus died for Him too and wish to save them; although they deserve nemesis, it is good to...

How should we pray? (Part 1) When people are undergoing some tribulation, their lean is to do everything doable so that they can have, in a jiffy, what they wish. Many believers make the same mistake with the Creator. They use certain practices that don’t delight Him. One of them is described...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 11) And how putting these acts into practice? Going to the Creator ever because: a) He is able to preserve us without sin; b) He can present us spotless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy when Jesus comes: • Jud 1:24 -> “Now to him who is able...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 10) a) save with fear those who are in the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh: • Jud 1:23 -> “And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”. This recalls what took place in the time of...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 9) 3 - How should we act to combat their heresies? a) Being mindful of the words written in the Holy Scripture: • Jud 1:17 -> “But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:”. b) Building...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 8) a) The jeopardy of getting poor spiritually for loving the pleasures (Prov 21:17): • Jud 1:7 -> “As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 7) Note that, although the love starts in Jesus (1John 4:8.16), however it is expressed toward people close to us (1John 4:20,21). We need to grow together with our brothers in Christ: • Eph 4:15,16 -> “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 6) a) They haven’t the Holy Spirit and, for this, doesn’t belong to Him (aren’t new creature): I. Rom 8:5-9 -> “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 4) a) They corrupt the things that they know (like dumb beasts) and blaspheme what they don’t know (replace them for what they can, supposedly, control): • Jud 1:10 -> “But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally...

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 3) But, after all: 1 - Who are they? a) They are surreptitious; b) They are ungodly; c) They turn Jesus’ grace into licentiousness; d) They deny Jesus Christ as: I. Sovereign -> They don’t believe that Jesus has everything under control (see Ps 24:1; Heb 2:8...