NCarolinian

I would like to strongly encourage my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ with this message to perform an inventory check of all your attachments in life - people, places, things but especially behaviors - and hold each one accountable to God's will for your life then save or delete as appropriate. I am assuming that my fellow Christians are in a healthy relationship with Christ - reading His Word daily, listening to His Holy Spirit, praying, obeying His leadings and serving Him in some capacity. If this is you, wonderful because even the best of us is tempted to return or at least sample the Old Life we shed after we accepted Christ's lifestyle by acknowledging His Lordship over our lives - We Should Know Better. In  Ephesians 4:17-32  Paul tackles the Christians behavior. These are items on a list believers could entitle - We Should Know Better - and they are found in the second half of this chapter as instructions for Christian living. Therefore each of you must put off ...

Matthew 24:30 records Jesus prophesying a future time when there will be a sign in heaven representing Christ Jesus. Then every person on the planet will witness His return in glory and awesome power, from the sky, on clouds. Christ’s words describing this future event are – “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.” However, back some two thousand plus years ago Jesus was seen as regularly arriving on and in a different cloud . The Pharisees, Sadducees and religious leaders of that time were already set against Jesus. Christ always seemed to be their dark cloud that rained on their parade because His popularity was greater than theirs and they couldn’t have that, they valued their positions more than having the possibility of the actual Messiah visit. These many instances in Scripture, especially in The Gospels, when the rel...

There are two lights in Scripture that compliment each other - "the Lamp unto our feet and the Light unto our path." ( Ps. 119:105 ) The first of these lights, the Lamp, is meant for illuminating the area closest around us so we can see people, places, things and make our steps successfully. The second of these lights, the Light on our path, is a further revelation of the road ahead. Just as the sun would be the one source to brighten our immediate area and distant path, so too is The S-O-N of God or The Word of God that one source for the believer's life for the near vision and future sight. "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." The wonderful aspect about the nearsighted Word of God is that it points to and emphasizes as important what the future sight is highlighting - an awesome flipping of the next chapter with God for believers. Such things are the rapture of the church, the Bema Seat, the Marriage of the Lamb, the destruction of the Antic...