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Have you Passed from Death to Life? As we celebrate this Easter, we need to make clear and reassured of what we are celebrating. People feel sorry for Jesus and weep for the events that led to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Feelings are good but not enough. “27 And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.” (Luke 23:27-28). The real issue is whether we have “passed from death to life”. “24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life” (John 5:24). If you have by believing in Jesus then Easter is for you and me. If not there is nothing to celebrate. In John 5, we encounter a man who had been impotent/paralyzed for thirty eight years. We are not told the exact c...

Waiting for a Miracle to Believe? You would think that with all the miracles we have observed, heard about and witnessed in our lives and those of others, we would just believe in God without question and doubts. If fact, there should not be anyone who does not believe in God. There have been many miraculous stories of our time where thousands were saved from natural disasters. There was the earthquake of Haiti where many were recovered after more than a week under rubbles and they lived. There are the recent miracles from Sandy storm that hit east coast of USA. There are the many miraculous births of babies that had no chance of survival. On and on and on even in our lives and around us. God gave my wife and me a baby after 15 years of infertility and barrenness. The list goes on and it is endless. So why would anyone not believe in God and Jesus Christ His Son and Savior of the whole World? Jesus helps us gain insight into this question. Jesus said to a nobleman and actually to...

Worship In Spirit and Truth I recently bought Microsoft Office 2010 software on EBay. It was advertised for $86 and was to ship from Florida within 14 days. I waited and waited for about a month and it finally arrived. I was deceived. The product was shipped from China and it was made in Singapore. I tried to install it and found that the product key was fake and not an authorized official Microsoft product key for activation. I am now working with EBay to get my full refund. It is now obvious that I was dealing with a different “spirit” and no “truth” whatsoever on this EBay transaction. Have you been duped/deceived before? Religion will deceive you and it is deceiving many today. In John 4, Jesus told the woman at the well, “22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 Go...

Refused CPR Sin has separated humans from our relationship with God our creator. When Adam and Eve sinned (disobeyed God and fell out of their original relationship with God), the punishment for sin was declared and went into effect. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2: 16-17. Spiritually speaking, humans are dead living corpses. A dead person will either remain dead or a new breath is breathed into the person to live again. About two weeks ago in California, a nurse refused to perform CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) on a dying elderly woman and she never regained consciousness and died. The nurse had called emergency services (911) for help and the 911 dispatcher instructed and begged the nurse to perform CPR before help got there. The nurse refused to perform CPR citing that it...

His Disciples Believed My son Jonathan (7 years) would often ask me, “Where is God? I cannot see Him.” I would answer and say,” Yes, we cannot see Him now because God is a spirit but He is here and everywhere”. Jonathan would then say okay. What will it take us to believe that Jesus is God? Apostle John’s primary aim in the Gospel of John is “that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name”. You can mingle and hang out with Jesus and still not know and believe in Him. We need a divine revelation of the Christ to believe and have a relationship with Him. The first person to believe in Jesus is Mary, the mother of Jesus. She of all people understood without doubt who Jesus is and where He came from. You can doubt who Jesus is but Mary will never. She knew she did not sleep with Joseph (or any other man) to conceive Jesus. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. For years Mary has kept this in her heart but now no longer a...

Who Are You? I have a confession to make. I had been struggling and negotiating with God and finding reasons not to write this blog after my sabbatical. Well, I was woken up by the death of my extended cousin last week. My cousin CY had been ill for some months but the call on Friday, March 1, 2013 saddened me and at the same time jolted me to action. You see, I did not have a chance to speak with my cousin in his last months and days. But he used to read my blog and will occasionally send emails to thank and encourage me. I am hoping that my cousin made peace with God and that I will see him at the resurrection. I am now writing in memory of him and for God’s glory who has given me a second chance to be obedient. I pray you will be delivered from your own procrastination if any. There was another man who had a famous cousin. His name is John the Baptist. John was the cousin of Jesus (Luke 1:36). “19 Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from ...

That You May Believe On Friday, March 1, 2013, CNN reported the following: “A Florida man fell into a sinkhole that opened suddenly Thursday night beneath the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, calling out to his brother for help as he fell, the brother said Friday. "I ran toward my brother's bedroom because I heard my brother scream," Jeremy Bush told CNN's "AC360." "Everything was gone. My brother's bed, my brother's dresser, my brother's TV. My brother was gone." Since Thursday, the rescue teams have tried without success to recover the body and they have given up. The authorities said that the hole is about 50-60 feet deep and the ground around it is still unstable. Hard to believe! Well the earth has swallowed people before. Check it out in the Bible, “the ground split apart under them, 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods” (Numbers 16:...