In the last message we looked at some background to Matt 3:8-10. We talked about the genealogy of Jesus, Jesus birth, King Herod, Pharisees and Saduccees. We also talked about how John called the Pharisees and Saduccees offsprings of snakes and asked them who warned them to flee from the wrath of God. We now pick up our message from verse 8. In verse 8-10, John tells the Pharisees and ...
According to the 2001 national census, Christians accounted for 79.7% of the population. This includes Zion Christian(11.1%), Pentecostal (Charismatic) (8.2%), Roman Catholic (7.1%), Methodist (6.8%), Dutch Reformed (6.7%), Anglican(3.8%); members of other Christian churches accounted for another 36% of the population. This stats comes from Wikipedia. Almost 80% of the population is Christian. This is what people answered when they were asked to fill in the part about religion on ...
Well, we all know that Jesus is the Son of God, God reincarnate, our Lord and Savior and the son of Mary and Joseph. I came accross this passage in Colosians that gave even more information on exactly who Jesus is. Let’s look at it. Colossians 1:15-20 (ESVST) 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Jesus is the image of the invisible God ...
2 Thessalonians 1:4-10 (ESVST) Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. 5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering — The patience and faith that those Christians in Thessalonica had ...
I remember that I used to feel very sad and angry because of what false pastors and prophets were doing to the people. I felt that the people were being taken for a ride and they are used by these false pastors and prophets not for their benefit but for the benefit of themselves. In a nutshell, I used to think that people who are deceived by these false teachers ...
John 14:27-31 (ESVST) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Peace be with you was a common way of greeting among the Jews. However, Jesus here implies that the type of peace that he gives, is different from the normal earthly peace. Jesus then gives ...
John 14:22-26 (ESVST) Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “ Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “ If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Jesus just indicated in verse 21 that he will manifest himself to ...
John 14:15-21 (ESVST) 15 “ If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. Verse 15 and 16 are ...
John 14:15 (ESVST) 15 “ If you love me, you will keep my commandments. This is one verse that has sparked quite a lot of controvesy especially among the Roman Catholic Church or similar churches and the Reformers or Protestant Churches or similar churches. This is because the Roman Catholic Church beleives in Salvation by grace through faith plus obedience to the law, while the Reformers believe in Salvation by ...
John 14:7-14 (ESVST) If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Jesus just told his disciples that he was the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through him. Now Jesus tells them that if they had known him, they would have known the Father as well ...
