Author: Jim

Jesus the Man Part 4

Have you looked into the Scripture to learn about HIM? As we look, pay particular attention to what He did. We saw what he said, what others thought.
John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
John 2 At the wedding of Cana He turned water into wine.
Matthew 8:23-27 He calmed the storm.
Mark 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark 8:8 So they did eat (the 5,000), and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
Mark 2:12 (Healed the lame) And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
Mark 2:5 (forgave sin) When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Mark 9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
John 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
1 Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
He has all authority (Power) in Heaven and Earth. He has the power to save:
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

THOUGHT: Christ paid the price for the gift of salvation – But it’s not yours unless you believe.

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Jesus the Man Part 5

As Jesus walked the face of this world, he went about healing the sick, setting the captive free, and teaching with authority. At a young age he suffered and dies a martyrs death, he was buried and three days later he arose from the dead.
Did this mean anything then?
Does it mean anything now?
Does it mean anything to you?
Look at the words of Christ concerning these things concerning end times:
Luke 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
And to the High Priest Matthew 26:64 … Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
The angels said: Acts 1:11 … Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Yes, Jesus will return to this earth, the scripture makes this very clear.
But when? Jesus warned us to be ready.
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
And added Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Jesus states the reason for His return in Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
And again Matthew 25:31-34 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
The Scriptures speak much of the second coming of Christ, of course, there are scoffers. Peter wrote of them 2 Peter 3:3-4 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Yes, there is much confusion about the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because people refuse to look into the Scripture and to rightly divide the Word, or study it.

THOUGHT: The world says SHOW ME and I’ll believe: God says BELIEVE and I’ll SHOW YOU!

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Jesus of Nazareth Part 5

As Jesus walked on earth, he went about healing the sick, raising the dead, performing miracles, and teaching with authority. At a young age he suffered and died a martyrs death, was buried 3 days later rose from his tomb.
Did this mean anything then?
Does it mean anything now?
Does it mean anything to you?
Look at the words of Jesus concerning these things:
Luke 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Matthew 26:64 (To the high priest) Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Acts 1:11 The angels said: … Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Yes, Jesus, The Lord Jesus Christ, is going to return to this earth, His word makes that very clear. BUT WHEN? He warned us to be ready.
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
The scripture speaks much of His second coming, to rule and reign over all the earth. Of course there are scoffers.
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Yes, there is confusion about the second coming of the Lord Jesus, because people refuse to look into the Scripture and see what God has to say.

Thot: The world says SHOW ME and I’LL BELIEVE. God says BELIEVE and I’LL SHOW YOU.

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Jesus of Nazareth Part 4

Who was this man? Have YOU looked into the Scriptures to learn about HIM?
As we look into the scripture, Pay particular attention to what he did, not what he said.
John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
John states: John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
His works included power over the natural forces:
He changed water into wine. John 2
He rebuked the winds and the sea and there was great calm. Matthew 8:23-27
He healed the sick. Mark 2:12
He multiplied the fish and loafs. Mark 8:8
He rebuked a fig tree. Mark 11:14
His works included power over spiritual forces:
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Mark 9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
He had power over death:
John 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 … 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:
He has all authority (power) in Heaven and Earth:
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Romans 8:24 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Thot: Christ paid the price for the Gift of salvation… But it’s not yours unless you believe it!

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Jesus of Nazareth Part 3

Just who was this one, who walked about doing miracles, healing the sick, raising the dead making bold statements about God and Himself?
What place, if any, does he have in your life?
What place should he have in your life?

To evaluate this, look at the testimony of a few that came into contact with him.
John 1:29 (the words of John the Baptist) Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 1:49 (the words of Nathanael) Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
Mark 5:7 (the words of demons) What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Matthew 16:16 (the words of Peter) Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
John 11:27 (the words of Martha) Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Mark 15:39 (the words of the centurion) Truly this man was the Son of God.
John 20:28 (the words of Thomas) My LORD and my God.

What think ye of Christ? Have you acknowledged Him as the Son of God? Have you made Him your lord and God?

Thot: Christ isn’t valued at all unless He is valued above all!

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Jesus of Nazareth Part 2

Approximately 2000 years ago a man appeared and made claims about himself, such as “He was the Son of God”. The Scripture records some of the other claims He made:
John 6:35 … I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 8:12 … I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
John 11:25 … I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
John 8:23 … I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 8:58 … I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
John 14:6 … I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
For a man to claim all these things about himself, he must fall into one of three categories:
1 – He is a LIAR
2 – He is a Lunatic
3 – He is what he says he is, the Son of God.
If either of the first two are true, we can ignore him and throw out the Scriptures.
But if the 3 is true, we owe Him our love and worship.

Thot: If Christ is the way, why waste time traveling some other way!

Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

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Ambassador

an accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country.
a person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity.

Ephesians 6:20  For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

This is true of all those who accept the Death, Burial and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, know Him to be God. At death, believers are acceptable in the heavenlies but we are left here on earth to be Ambassadors.

1. To share the Faith with our family, friends and even our foes.

2. To see others become believers.

3. To live a life that honors our God.

And we will be rewarded (1 Corinthians 3:11-16) for our efforts.

2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

Are you an Ambassador?

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How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”
“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years.”
“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:”

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to over twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.


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Letters of Paul

The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. was very important in the early church time period, and that the New Testament shows evidence of being written before that date. 

The Apostle Paul wrote letters to the churches he had established during his missionary journeys. He also wrote several personal letters. They were written in many cases to answer questions they had and to remind them of what he had taught them. Remember, these were letters and they did not have chapters and verses. These were added many years later as an aid to study them. Also, Paul never knew he was writing part of the New Testament.

Dates and order of letters are best estimates.

⇛  Galatians
⇛  1 Thessalonians
⇛  2 Thessalonians
⇛  1 Corinthians
⇛  2 Corinthians
⇛  Romans
⇛  1 Timothy
⇛  Titus
⇛  Ephesians
⇛  Philippians
⇛  Philemon
⇛  Colossians
⇛  2 Timothy
⇛  Hebrews

A.D. 49-50
A.D. 51
A.D. 52
A.D. 55
A.D. 56
A.D. 56-57
A.D. 56-57
A.D. 57-58
A.D. 60-62
A.D. 61-62
A.D. 61-62
A.D. 61-62
A.D. 63
A.D. 66-67

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The Most High


The Gentiles referred to God as the Most High. Later the Jews when dealing with Gentiles also referred to God as the Most High. This term means “there is none higher”.

Before Israel: Abram (Abraham) meets with Melchizedek.
Genesis 14:18-22 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. …And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
After Israel came out of Egypt: Balaam (the false prophet)
Numbers 24:16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
Moses, speaking to all of Israel:
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
David praises God:
2 Samuel 22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
The Psalmist(s) refer to God as the most High:
Psalm 21:7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Psalm 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
Psalm 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalm 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalm 56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Psalm 57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Psalm 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalm 77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
Psalm 78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psalm 78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalm 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalm 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalm 91:9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
Psalm 92:1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High:
Psalm 92:8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
Psalm 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

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