MESSAGE
260,000 baptisms in Papua New Guinea PNG.
God is looking for disciples, not church members! Disciple: Someone who is following Jesus, being changed by Jesus and is committed to the mission of Jesus. Everyone who is baptized into Christ is raised to a new life as a missionary or disciple.
Example of Mission and of discipleship. Pr. Roberto Costa & the politician in Mexico City.
Do whatever the blessed Virgin Mary says. John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
Do you think that is good advice?
Both Christ and Satan offer the human race eternal life. God – eternity in a perfect world. Satan – Life in heaven but with the same problems as we are experiencing here because according to him you can continue to sin and go to heaven. Or eternity in an ever-burning hell.
The reality taught in the Bible is eternal death to both the followers of Christ and to the followers of Satan. BUT YOU HAVE A CHOICE. Eternal death to our pride followed by resurrection to eternal life with Jesus. John 14:1-3 “That where I am there ye may be also”. Rom 6:3 We are baptized into His death.
He died the death we must die to have eternal life. The death to self. Matt 26:39 When we die to self, here is what God will do in us and for us: Ezek 26:25-27.
How many of you would make a firm decision for the death to self over the eternal death from the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels?
The deepest interest manifested among men in the decisions of earthly tribunals but faintly represents the interest yevinced in the heavenly courts when the names entered in the book of life come up in review before the Judge of all the earth. The divine Intercessor presents the plea that all who have overcome through faith in His blood be forgiven their transgressions, that they be restored to their Eden home, and crowned as joint heirs with Himself to “the first dominion.” Micah 4:8. Satan in his efforts to deceive and tempt our race had thought to frustrate the divine plan in man's creation; but Christ now asks that this plan be carried into effect as if man had never fallen. He asks for His people not only pardon and justification, full and complete, but a share in His glory and a seat upon His throne.
While Jesus is pleading for the subjects of His grace, Satan accuses them before God as transgressors. The great deceiver has sought to lead them into skepticism, to cause them to lose confidence in God, to separate themselves from His love, and to break His law. Now he points to the record of their lives, to the defects of character, the unlikeness to Christ, which has dishonored their Redeemer, to all the sins that he has tempted them to commit, and because of these he claims them as his subjects.
Jesus does not excuse their sins, but shows their penitence and faith, and, claiming for them forgiveness, He lifts His wounded hands before the Father and the holy angels, saying: I know them by name. I have graven them on the palms of My hands. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.” Psalm 51:17. And to the accuser of His people He declares: “The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?” Zechariah 3:2. Christ will clothe His faithful ones with His own righteousness, that He may present them to His Father “a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.” Ephesians 5:27. Their names stand enrolled in the book of life, and concerning them it is written: “They shall walk with Me in white: for they are worthy.” Revelation 3:4.