There are two extremes coming from the American pulpit! Prosperity preaching that says you can get it all if you just believe and the poverty message that if you just abstain from these vanities you will be blessed in the after life! Jesus said give us this day our daily bread! It was not give us more than we need or less than we need but what we need for today! Do not store up or throw away but trust Him for today! Do not worry about the next day but trust Him for today! If you do this you will be able to sleep tonight and the peace that the world longs for but cannot find! Your peace will come from following Jesus and just doing what He told us to do! He is the Prince of Peace!
Month: February 2017
Suffering and Success! Acts 9:15-16
It seems that everyone is trying to show the world how successful they are! The American dream! Mansions, land, gold, money, private jets, limo’s, fame, status and the rest of the vanities! However though everyone wants it there is a problem? Success tends to put the spotlight on us rather than God! Our failures can put the spotlight on Jesus rather than us! God delivered me from the death bed! Jesus raised me from the dead! I was a street person but now He has given me a family and a home! No one else ever cared for me like Jesus! He loved me when no one else would! The disciples were afraid of Paul and rightly so but Jesus told them that Paul was going to be a great leader in the church and suffer many things for my name! In my weakness i find His perfect strength! Much of the modern church has adopted the ways of the world! Then they wonder why there is no power to do the things Jesus commanded them to do? You cannot do it without Him and the Cross you must carry! Pastor Robert Jeffress, Southern Baptist Missions
Jewish Quotes!
People ask how a Jewish kid from the Bronx do peppy clothes? Does it have to do with class or money? It has to do with dreams! Ralph Lauren Comment: Our Bible talks a lot about dreams! Some men dream to destroy the world and some to save the world! We have producers and consumers! Producers dream and the consumers purchase their dreams! The Jews have a unique ability to dream big! Ask God to give you dreams that would make our world a better place! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Christian Persecution?
Being a foreign student and attending Duke University which is a hub for atheist did you not feel intimidated and marginalized there? Quite the contrary! I felt it was a land of opportunity with so many unbelievers! The problem was i did not know where to start? I felt like a lonely fly that had just discovered a nudist colony along the beach! Dinesh D”Souza
Are Neanderthals in the Bible? Genesis 6:4
The Hebrew word for giants is “Nephilim.” The word translates a Divine being that co-habituated with women! Most but not all Bible scholars believe the Divine beings were fallen angels! So why would Satan and his followers want to cross breed with women on earth? We know from the scriptures Satan will never repent and salvation is not possible for him and his followers! The reason Satan did this was to spoil the redemption plan God had for man! Only a pure human race could be redeemed! Only God becoming man could bring about redemption! So what did God do to solve this problem? He brought a world wide flood and saved only Noah and his family! This brings a challenge to the church in that science now has developed animals with human blood and organs! There is fossil evidence of humans dying in the flood! These humans are known as the Neanderthal men! The difference between the Neanderthal’s and modern man is about 1.3 percent of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Here are some questions and answers that will help us! How did the Neanderthals go extinct? They died in the flood. Why is there no evidence of a pre-flood man? There is much evidence of pre-flood men! They are the Neanderthals! Why is the Neanderthals genetically distinct from modern man? Neanderthals had only the first genetic reset, but modern man had both the first and second genetic reset! Why do we have his Neanderthal genetic mutations but he does not have ours (modern man). He is our ancestor. Our mutations were developed after the flood, so we have both Neanderthals and modern man mutations; he has only pre-flood mutations! Why did Neanderthals interbreed with modern man? He could not! Modern man was separated from him by the flood! Why are Neanderthals found in such diverse places? The flood deposited them over large geographical area’s. Why is Neanderthals physiologically and anatomically superior? His DNA is closer to Adam! Where does Neanderthals fit into post flood Biblical genealogy? He does not! We know from DNA tables of nation peoples (Genesis Chapter 10) and subsequent generations; none has the Neanderthals genetic signature! Source: Back to Genesis
Public Worship! Hebrews 10:25
The message here is to the Gentile-Jewish Christians! It is believed by Biblical scholars that the Book of Hebrews was written prior to the destruction of the Jewish Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. What was Paul trying to tell us? Why should we not forsake public worship? First let us look at Heaven! Do the believers in Heaven forsake assembling together? Is one believer on the golf course and one working a Sunday job? Believers by the billions are surrounding the Throne of God worshiping! Our High Priest is in Heaven! Remember the part of our Lord’s prayer that says, “On earth as it is in Heaven!” Jesus said where two or three are gathered in my name so will i be there!” Satan’s followers are gathered together warring against the Saints and have a congregation in Hell. Paul went on to say we are to exhort and encourage each other! What did Paul mean by the day approaching? Some scholars believe Paul was warning the church of the coming destruction of the Jewish Temple and the city of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Jesus predicted this! Some scholars think Paul was talking about Jesus second coming! Paul could have been talking about both events! Paul was also warning people who claimed to be Christian yet have forsaken public worship! We are to practice Holiness here on earth! This life is dress rehearsal for Heaven! If we are doing something different than we would do in Heaven while on earth we have missed the Ark! Remember Jesus taught and worshiped in the Jewish Temple! So did Paul. Paul knew that the Christians would be scattered throughout the realm after the 70 A.D. apocalypse! He wanted the flock to regroup and continue worship after the pattern set before them in Heaven! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
The Incarnation! Philippians 2:6-8 (Greek Translation)
“Who came into existence in the affirmation of human existence as supreme divinity thought it not plunder to be the actual perception of God! And of the same Father emptied Himself and made a clear affirmation of human existence became a slave in a humbled and despised position in the resemblance of a common person! And being found in the figure of a common man He humiliated Himself and became poor and needy to submit to the extinction of life by violence on an instrument of capital punishment!”
The Incarnation! Philippians 2: 5-8
These are the ten creatures science has already created! Genetically modified cattle with human DNA. Human mouse hybrids with freekishly large brains. Rats with human kidneys. Hunanized milk producing goats. Mice with human anal splinters. Rabbit eggs with human cells. Pigs with human blood. Sheep with human livers. Cow eggs with human cells. Cat-human hybrid cells. Comment: Cannibalism could be alive and well at your local grocery store! Normally two species need to be in the same family and have enough generic material for the sperm and egg to recognize each other. That is why a cat and a dog cannot cross breed! The horse and the donkey are in the same family so they can cross breed. It is not necessary for animals to have the same number of chromosomes to cross bread! The horse and donkey have different numbers of chromosomes. However the mule and the hinny cannot reproduce because their sex cells are sterile! So where does this lead us? A science report like this cannot help me but to think of the incarnation! If God did create everything then He is the DNA pool. I would love to have Jesus DNA sample! Because He lives within believers His genes are in us and His love, peace and joy flows out of us! Born again! If God did create man and we were created in His image then we are of the same family and cross breeding would be possible! Most theology says Jesus was 100 percent man and 100 percent God! When we look at science then why would the incarnation be so difficult for most to comprehend or believe? Science and faith will always compliment each other! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Church! Make America Great Again!
The millennial generation sometimes know as the Y generation is made up of people between the age group of 22-35 years old. The Great Recession has hit this generation the hardest! Not only do they suffer from high unemployment rates they have abandoned the church! According to the Barna Group and other studies only 2 in 10 attend church services! 59 percent of millennials who were raised in church have dropped out! 35 percent of millennials have an anti-church stance believing the church does more harm than good? Millennials are the least talked about age group in church! Can you sense the hopelessness here? If the church is going to help make America great again we have to catch this generation! If not the church in America is just one generation from extinction! There are some underlying possible reasons for the exodus! The baby boomer generation neglected their kids while pursuing the American dream! The teaching by secular public funded schools promoting evolution and other atheist doctrines! They feel abandoned by the low economic status and abandoned by the culture! We have to restore hope to this generation and the first step of the church of Jesus Christ is to identify the problem and then to do something about it! Perhaps our mission programs need to also make America first and focus on this generation as they feel like foreigners in a strange land! Let us not abandon them to Islam and the socialist Bernie Sanders types! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Democrats against Republicans! Luke 21:10
Jesus said two of the signs of His second coming would be; “Nation would rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.” Comment: So what is the difference between a nation and a kingdom? When you look the Greek words up it becomes clear! The word nation means the non-Jewish nations warring against each other! The word kingdom is very different! It means a dominion or realm of people living in a territory under political leadership. So this would describe an internal fight between a peoples within a nation. It would describe a civil war! Like Syria or American civil war over slavery. Is America heading for another civil war? We hope and pray not but the good news is that Jesus predictions of His second coming is really about the bad news bring the good news! Look up for your redemption draweth nigh! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com