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Easter Thoughts! Romans 6:5

“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.” Commentary: Through the incarnation Jesus identified with our birth and our death! Planted together! You have to plant a seed before you get a harvest! The Greek word (Strong’s#4854), for planted together means to be combined and united together to grow! In the likeness or resemblance of his death! We must die to self before the new birth can come! A seed must die before it produces fruit! Jesus said we must be born again! God uses his power and authority to save us at a great cost! A sacrificial lamb for our redemption! Most humans use their political power to rule over us manipulating us with lies for their benefit! It seems at times Democracy at it’s best is like electing your own slave owners! God sacrificed for us as we are to do for others! The love of God is sacrificing for others! Until you have done this you have never lived with purpose! The Kingdom of God is a sacrificial system! Not sacrificing us for his benefit but sacrificing himself for our benefit! It is hard for me to see political Americans sacrificing us for their benefit! For their own gain! Our greatest leaders here in America like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. sacrificed themselves for our benefit! The list goes on by the millions of military members over our history! What is sin? Sin is sacrificing others for your benefit! That is what Satan does! How? Through rape, murder, robbery, identity fraud, abortion, open borders, drugs, extortion, lying, false witnesses, tax cheats, ransom, kidnapping, divorce, arson and the list goes on! How about war itself? Putin wants donations to help bury thousands of their war dead! He needs to pay for all the violence done against Ukraine and his own people! What about sin in the church? Stealing money! How about the 501c tax exempt status trading free speech for money? The church was silent on Trump during the 2020 elections and Biden got in and now we pay the price for silence! If Trump were in there would be no war in the Ukraine! So we just collect money for Ukraine by the non-profits and they continue being muted to speak out exercising our 1st Amendment! Jesus came to enable us to repent of our sin however it cost him his life! Who are you living for? Sin? The battle between good and evil will continue but whose side are we on? We are to forgive our enemies but if you cannot you are on the wrong side! God’s love identifies with the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ Can we identify with Christ? Only because he first identified with us innocent yet took upon himself our sin to set us free from the guilt and bondage of Satan our accuser! Happy Easter! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com

Christmas Thoughts!

Today as I look at the colored lights on our Christmas tree and listen to Silent Night my heart moves back in time to about 65 years ago! It is Christmas morning on the farm in Nebraska! Snow and cold outside! We had an illuminated clock in our bedroom where me and my little brother Tommy slept this Christmas night! I would watch the clock all night long! With every hour that had passed I wondered if Santa Claus has come? About every hour I would peek out our bedroom door down the hall for I could see the Christmas tree! Nothing yet? Mom told me unless I stop beating up my little brother Tommy Santa was not going to bring me any gifts! Had I crossed the line? I have stopped beating up Tommy for a long time in fact it seems like forever! Yesterday Tommy told me he did not like me! I told him I did not like him but Santa Claus might be listening so I am not going to say anything! We went to the small Methodist Church for Christmas Eve in Pilger. At the end of the service we the kids got bags of candy, fruit, peanuts and other goodies! We had to sing in the children’s choir so we had to work for food! Yes me and Tommy were there for the sweets! Then all the good food my grandmother prepared for the Christmas dinners over the years! The excitement of family being together around the same table! No outside distractions like today through mobile devices! Nothing coming from the outside could influence away from family and church! No competing voices challenging our Faith! Any divisions towards Christ were not there! We believed everyone must love Jesus! We prayed in our public school! We recited the Pledge of Allegiance every morning before classes began! A United States Flag was in every classroom and a map of the United States was in every classroom! We had a Christmas play every year and sang patriotic songs in our music class everyday! God Bless America was on our lips everyday! We heard no dissenting voices of division and hate! Our Pastor’s were esteemed and supported! We viewed their authority over the state but yet supported the state! Family, school, church were the Trinity of our unity! These three were in agreement with each other and bonded us together as one people! We were protected with a father in every home! Even though poor we were secure! Neighbors helped each other! We never considered ourselves in our community as enemies of each other! Why? Unity yes but forgiveness ruled the day! Christianity held the culture together because forgiveness reigned at this time in our history! As a culture drifts away from Christ vengeance replaces forgiveness! Then everyone views themselves as enemies of each other and vengeance is executed with shootings and other violence! This problem is not about guns it is about the forgiveness of God that is not woven into our culture where as Christians we forgive each other because God has forgiven us! Christmas is about forgiveness as Christ came to die for our sin! Then we can live for him in the Spirit of forgiveness towards each other!! Be sensitive to those as you are out shopping sensitive to those suffering from unforgiveness! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Thoughts about the Star!

This star is not an astronomical object! The star appeared at the moment of Jesus birth. It was visible to the wise men of Babylon. If they saw the star over Israel, it would indicate it was not astronomical because stars do not rise in the west! They rise in the east. If it rose in the east it was very special because star gazers like these wise men would not have difficulty recognizing the planet Venus! Traditional images show the wise men traveling over the desert following a star. However Matthew 2 does not say they followed a star to Israel. In fact, it would appear, from their reaction, that the star newly reappeared in Matthew 2:9. How could a star go before the wise men? Bethlehem is to the south of Jerusalem! Stars do not move south. They move west. Stars do not settle over houses. The Greek word for star (Aster), implies something strewn! What could it be? What could it be that moves easily from west to east appearing as strewn light? A pillar of fire would be a good example! Remember the Shechinah Glory of light that moved with the Tabernacle representing the presence of God? This light could have been interpreted as a star! It is believed the wise men reached Bethlehem about 2 years after Jesus birth. That is why Herod ordered the murder of the children 2 years and younger! Source: CreationToday.org   Comment: Point here is you cannot explain this star or light naturally! It was supernatural. Very seldom does God oppose his creation! Only to deliver his people! He turned the sun and time back for Joshua to win the battle! He opened the Red Sea for Moses and drowned the pursuing army with the same sea! Mary bore Jesus yet being a virgin! Jesus raised the dead and has promised to raise those who believe and trust him! Jesus himself was raised from the dead! Peter at midnight was delivered from the prison! Do I believe in miracles! Absolutely! Jesus delivered me off my death bed some 45 years ago! Is it a stretch to believe God at his word? It is a stretch not to! God who created all this can change anything or everything at his will! He transformed me from sin to righteousness with his atoning blood! Was it a star? All things are possible with God! He can create anyone he wants to! He can create anything he wants to at anytime at any place! He came to Bethlehem so he could prepare a place for you in Heaven! Why not follow Jesus to Heaven! He will return one day soon to earth with his church! If you wait until then to follow him it will be too late! Wise men still seek him! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Memorial Day Thoughts! John 15:13

Our greatest respect for those in our military and especially those who laid down there lives for their friends as Jesus commanded us to do! Jesus commanded us to love one another! Think about this! God laid down His life through His only Son Jesus Christ for His enemies! This act is more than human! This is another reason why Jesus is God! No human would do this! Everyone ever born who accepted Jesus Christ as Savior was first the enemy of God! Yes you and me! Now we better understand why Jesus also commanded us to love our enemies! This is divine and not a capacity of mortal men! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Do You Understand? Luke 24:45

Greek Translation: ‘Then Jesus opened up their understanding or mental and intellectual perception. He stirred up and agitated their minds and comprehension. He caused them to hear and perceive God’s thoughts with their thoughts so that they could measure the scriptures against their own thoughts and actions.” Comment: It is interesting that the Greek word for “scriptures”, is the word graphe from which we get our English word graph! So what is a graph for? What purpose? It is used to measure and compare things! We need to measure and compare our life to the Word of God! To be honest when we do this we come up short! Lacking! At a loss! Missing link! So how can we measure up? If we look at a graph of ten motor vehicles comparing gas mileage you might want to buy the one that gets the most gas mileage! However if you look at another graph that shows this vehicle has the highest maintenance repairs and another graph that shows this vehicle also has the highest fatality rate then you might change your mind? I can measure my life against other men and I may look good but by other men I look like a failure! The Apostle Paul said it is unwise to compare among men! If I have a compass I can find north and find my way by the standard for direction! How does my life rank against the standard of God? If honest I can only fall at His feet asking for forgiveness and mercy! Then Jesus said we must forgive others as He has forgiven us! If you do not do this you block your own forgiveness! So how do we meet the standard set by God? We cannot in and of ourselves! Our standard was provided to us by God Himself! Through His Son Jesus Christ! God paid the penalty for our sin at the Cross! When we accept His standard in His Son’s sacrifice for our sin then we are forgiven! If we reject the standard of the sinless Savior then we stand naked before God with no covering! We will one day stand before a Holy God Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead! If we look at a graph and compare the life of Jesus to ourselves all we can do is bow our knee and confess with our tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord! If you have not do so right now before it is too late! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Easter Thoughts!

The word compassion means to suffer with! Do you see the word passion in compassion? The first use of the word compassion used in our Bible is in Exodus 2:6. Pharaoh’s daughter saw the baby Moses drifting down the river in a basket! She had compassion on the baby and rescued him! The word used here means to have pity and spare! However there is another Hebrew root word used for compassion that really got my attention! This word is used in 1 Kings 8:50 and 2 Chronicles 30:9. The word means the tender mercies of the womb! Moses was a deliverer of his people and the fruit of the womb! Compassion was born! Just as Jesus death was an act of compassion so was His birth! You cannot separate Christmas and Easter! We were not born to die but Jesus was!  We die because of sin but Christ is sinless! So Jesus suffered for us and with us at birth and at death! He took our death upon Himself so that we could live! His resurrection nullified our death! Satan threw the yellow flag with the penalty of death for our sin but Jesus protested the penalty and threw the red flag reversing the decision! The penalty on the field of life is reversed! Our new resurrected life is a 1st and 10! A fresh start! Born again! A second chance at life! His blood defeated death and has won the day and life for us! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Do We Think Outside the Box? Proverbs 23:7

Here is a quote from a genius! “I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Let us go back some 2300 years ago and hear from another genius! “The heart collects sensory input from the peripheral organs through blood vessels which are described as perception from which thoughts and emotions arise.” Aristotle. Here is a quote out of a modern science digest! “A baby’s heart begins to beat 18 days after conception and by 21 days the heart is pumping blood through a closed circulatory system. A baby’s brain waves cannot be detected until 45 days after conception.” In addition to Proverbs 23:7 and many other scriptures my Bible says a man has said in his heart there is no God! So our thought language is universal. If you were born in China you just express your thoughts in Chinese! If you were born in Germany you express your thoughts in German! This leads us to some interesting questions? The mute and deaf have thoughts just like we do! They probably have more brilliant thoughts but just cannot express them! Why is America and our Constitution allow more expressive thoughts than other nations? So our nation will prosper! What was the first language spoken here on earth before the Tower of Babel? Most cultures like to think it was their language but what does the Bible say? What language will we speak in Heaven? More important what thoughts will we have? Heaven and Hell are separated by thoughts! What language does the Holy Spirit speak? What about tongues? David said create in me a clean heart! Here is another quote from the genius! “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein. Do not let things taught to you by humans interfere with what God is trying to teach you! Read your Bible and discover the treasures God has for you that can only be found there! Do you now see why Salvation and the cleansing of our blood with the blood of God and His Christ is so important! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com