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Who Are You?
You are a creation of God destined for eternity. You have no choice in the matter, the only question is, where will you spend it. Read more
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The Free Gift:
For God so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotton Son, that whoever believes in Him should NOT PERISH, but have eternal life.
A gift is not a gift unless it is received and accepted.
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How To Heal The Curse of Your Life, all the result of sin:
Sin & Salvation - Accept Christ Jesus as Savior.
Healing - Believe in the power of Christ to heal all infirmity.
Generational Curse - Trust the power of Christ to defeat the
wiles of Satan.
Curse of Birth - Jesus has nullified the curse resulting from the fall of
Adam & Eve
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The Tree of Life:
To survive, a child of God like a tree must be rooted where there is living water.
Rev: 22:1 - And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the
throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. And on either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for
the healing of the nations.
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The body is a masterpiece of exquisite design. Beautifully "engineered," it is governed by several hundred systems of control -- each interacting with and affecting
the other. His brain has 10 billion nerve cells to record what he sees and hears. His skin has more than 2 million tiny sweat glands -- about 3000 per square inch -- all part of the intricate system which keeps his
body at an even temperature. A "pump" in his chest makes his blood travel 168 million miles a day -- equivalent of 6720 times around the world! The lining of his stomach contains 35 million glands
secreting juices which aid the process of digestion. And these are but a few of the involved processes and chemical wonders which operate to sustain his life.
A young student had been impressed with the
fact that most new products have some "bugs" that must be ironed out before they can operate efficiently. As he stood gazing at a chart showing the organs, nerves, arteries, and glands in the human body,
he suddenly exclaimed, "Just think, the first time God put it together, it worked!"
See: Psa 139:13-16
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In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did
not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Yet strangely, she directed in her will that her grave be made so secure that if there were a resurrection, it could not reach her. On the marker were inscribed these
words: "This burial place must never be opened." In time, a seed, covered over by the stones, began to grow. Slowly it pushed its way through the soil and out from beneath them. As the trunk enlarged, the
great slabs were gradually shifted so that the steel clasps were wrenched from their sockets. A tiny seed had become a tree that had pushed aside the stones.
The dynamic life force contained in that
little seed is a faint reflection of the tremendous power of God's creative word that someday will call to life the bodies of all who are in their graves. He will also bring back every person drowned at sea,
cremated, or destroyed in some other way. This is no problem to the One who made something out of nothing when He spoke the universe into existence. Unbelief cannot deter the resurrection. But faith in the risen
Christ opens the door to blessings that His resurrection guarantees -- a glorious new spiritual body and a home in heaven. In new bodies we will be reunited with saved loved ones to live with Jesus throughout all
eternity.
See: John 5:28-29; Acts 24:14-15; 1 Cor 15:51-54
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When C.H. Spurgeon was under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, he had a clear sense of the justice of God, and sin became an intolerable burden. He didn't fear
hell as much as he despised the reality of his own wrong-doing. He said, "All the while I had upon my mind a deep concern for the honor of God's name and the integrity of His moral government. I felt that
it would not quiet my conscience if I could be forgiven without justice being satisfied. But then came the question: `How can God be just and yet justify me with all my guilt?'" Spurgeon finally came to see
that substitutionary atonement was the answer. He said, "I believe that the doctrine of Jesus paying for my sins is one of the surest proofs of the inspiration of Scripture, for who would or could have thought
of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel?"
See: Rom 5:8; Eph 2:12-13; Col 1:21-22
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It was a mountain one-room school house where severe discipline was used to keep the rowdyism of uninterested pupils in check. The noon recess was ended and the teacher was
interrogating the class with regard to the disappearance of Sally Jane's lunch. After a few minutes of verbal threats and demands, a sob was heard. It was little Billy--a thin, undernourished child. His family
was the poorest of the poor.
"Did you take Sally Jane's lunch?" demanded the teacher.
"Yes, sir," mumbled Billy through his tears. "I was hungry."
"Nevertheless, you did wrong to steal and you must be punished," declared the teacher. As the teacher removed the leather strap from its place on the wall, Billy was ordered to the front of the room and
told to remove his shirt. The arm of the teacher was raised over the bent and trembling form of little Billy.
"HOLD IT, TEACHER!" shouted a husky voice from the rear of the room. It was Big Jim
striding down the aisle removing his shirt as he came. "Let me take his whipp'n," he begged.
The teacher was aghast, but knowing that justice must be demonstrated, he consented and laid the
belt to the back of Big Jim with such force that even the stronger boy winced and his eyes watered. But Billy never forgot the day that Big Jim took his place.
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Christianity made people who were things into real men and women, more, into sons and daughters of God; it gave those who had no respect, their self-respect; it gave
those who had no life, life eternal; it told men that, even if they did not matter to other men, they still mattered intensely to God. It told men who, in the eyes of the world were worthless, that, in the eyes of
God they were worth the death of his only Son. Christianity was, and still is, the most uplifting thing in the whole universe.
See: Eph 3:16-19; 1 Pet 2:25
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In recent years there have been a number of stories in the "Life After Life" vein. One of the most moving that I have read is the story that is told by singer Johnny Cash about
the death of his brother, Jack, in 1944. Jack was two years older than Johnny and had always been his hero and model. On Saturday, May 12, 1944, Jack went to work at a workshop, cutting fence posts. Johnny had tried
to talk Jack into going to a movie with him that day but funds were low and the family needed the money.
While at the workshop Jack fell across the table saw and was badly injured. He was rushed to the
hospital, but they didn't expect him to live through the day. He lingered for a week, in and out of consciousness, sometimes hallucinating, then back into a coma. After a week of his condition worsening, it was
obvious that he was going to die. The family gathered in the hospital room. Jack was swollen from the ravages of the traumatic injury. Johnny Cash tells the story:
"I remember standing in line to
tell him good-bye. He was still unconscious. I bent over his bed and put my cheek against his and said, 'Good-bye, Jack.' That's all I could get out.
"My mother and daddy were on their
knees. At 6:30 A.M. he woke up. He opened his eyes and looked around and said, 'Why is everybody crying over me? Mama, don't cry over me. Did you see the river?'
"And she said, 'No, I didn't, Son.'
"'Well, I thought I was going toward the fire, but I'm headed in the other direction now, Mama. I was going down a river, and there
was fire on one side and heaven on the other. I was crying, 'God, I'm supposed to go to heaven. Don't You remember? Don't take me to the fire.' All of a sudden I turned, and now, Mama, can you
hear the angels singing?'
"She said, 'No, Son, I can't hear it.'
"And he squeezed her hand and shook her arm, saying, 'But Mama, you've got to hear it.'
Tears started rolling off his cheeks and he said, 'Mama, listen to the angels. I'm going there, Mama.'
"We listened with astonishment.
"'What a beautiful city,' he
said. 'And the angels singing. Oh Mama, I wish you could hear the angels singing.' Those were his last words. And he died.
"The memory of Jack's death, his vision of heaven, the effect
his life had on the lives of others, and the image of Christ he projected have been more of an inspiration to me, I suppose, than anything else that has ever come to me through any man."
Johnny Cash, Man in Black.
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