Shaken by the Gospel – Takum, Nigeria – Day 2 | Danielkolenda.com
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Ask your questions
Ask your questions about knowing Jesus as an Evangelist will be happy to give you answers that bothers you.
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GEORGE FOX
George Fox was born at a time when there was a lot of religious confusion here and there. He was born in 1624 at Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire. His father was a puritan, a weaver who was nicknamed “Righteous Christer” because of his strong conviction for holiness.
George, from his childhood, possessed a gravity and sturdy mind and spirit not usually found in children. As a boy of eleven, he was said to have been sensitive to God and claimed to have experienced the pureness of God’s divine presence.
One day, he accompanied two puritans to a fair and joined in a drinking session. He saw the great difference in the peoples’ religious profession and their moral behaviour. That made him to quickly pay for his drink and leave the place. That set him on a three year search for perfection. He interacted with clergymen (ministers) and separatists but got no satisfactory response from any of them that could give him assurance of salvation and victory over sin.
He then turned to the Bible. He spent long hours in lonely places reading the Bible and praying. In 1647, at the age of 23, he became genuinely saved. Hear what he said afterwards: “When all my hope in them were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly left to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, I heard a voice which said,
“There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition’, and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy”.
He soon became a minister, an itinerant preacher called ‘to go abroad into the world’. In one of his messages, he said: ‘Christ has been too long locked up in the mass or in the Book, let him be your Prophet, Priest and King. Obey him’. His messages were very powerful bringing hundreds repentant sinners into God’s kingdom.
In 1691, he went to be with Jesus his Lord after a well spent and fulfilled life.
Challenge: Are you really saved? Are you righteous or just religious? Are you born again or you are just a professor of salvation. Give your life to Jesus and live a fulfilled life.
George, from his childhood, possessed a gravity and sturdy mind and spirit not usually found in children. As a boy of eleven, he was said to have been sensitive to God and claimed to have experienced the pureness of God’s divine presence.
One day, he accompanied two puritans to a fair and joined in a drinking session. He saw the great difference in the peoples’ religious profession and their moral behaviour. That made him to quickly pay for his drink and leave the place. That set him on a three year search for perfection. He interacted with clergymen (ministers) and separatists but got no satisfactory response from any of them that could give him assurance of salvation and victory over sin.
He then turned to the Bible. He spent long hours in lonely places reading the Bible and praying. In 1647, at the age of 23, he became genuinely saved. Hear what he said afterwards: “When all my hope in them were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly left to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, I heard a voice which said,
“There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition’, and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy”.
He soon became a minister, an itinerant preacher called ‘to go abroad into the world’. In one of his messages, he said: ‘Christ has been too long locked up in the mass or in the Book, let him be your Prophet, Priest and King. Obey him’. His messages were very powerful bringing hundreds repentant sinners into God’s kingdom.
In 1691, he went to be with Jesus his Lord after a well spent and fulfilled life.
Challenge: Are you really saved? Are you righteous or just religious? Are you born again or you are just a professor of salvation. Give your life to Jesus and live a fulfilled life.
Christ's Call to Repentance
Christ is calling all men everywhere to repent. He said in 2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Repentance is the turning away from ones old way of life. i.e. turning over a new leaf. God sent His only son Jesus Christ into this dirty world to die for the sins of men. Jesus was without sin but he suffered for man's own sin. He carried everything; he paid the price of salvation and gave us as a prize. That's why he said "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin..." So if you call on Jesus today, he will answer you.
If any man lives and dies in his/her sins he/she will face an endless punishment in hell fire. God is a mercyful Father, He don't want us to go to hell; he wants us to be with Him in Heaven thats why he sent Jesus to die for the sins of men.
Will you not heed to his call? Men are dieing everyday. When it gets to your turn; what excuses will you give to God for living in sin or what will you give in exchange for your soul? is it your money? what amount of money can purchase salvation? Remember the rich man with all that he had,he still went to hell. Jesus knows you well, he knows your name, he is calling you to come. He said “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28.
All you need to do is to call on him right now where ever you are for forgiveness and let Him reign righteousness upon you.
Believe in your heart and
Confess that you are saved.
Jesus loves you.
Email this message to a friend.
Repentance is the turning away from ones old way of life. i.e. turning over a new leaf. God sent His only son Jesus Christ into this dirty world to die for the sins of men. Jesus was without sin but he suffered for man's own sin. He carried everything; he paid the price of salvation and gave us as a prize. That's why he said "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin..." So if you call on Jesus today, he will answer you.
If any man lives and dies in his/her sins he/she will face an endless punishment in hell fire. God is a mercyful Father, He don't want us to go to hell; he wants us to be with Him in Heaven thats why he sent Jesus to die for the sins of men.
Will you not heed to his call? Men are dieing everyday. When it gets to your turn; what excuses will you give to God for living in sin or what will you give in exchange for your soul? is it your money? what amount of money can purchase salvation? Remember the rich man with all that he had,he still went to hell. Jesus knows you well, he knows your name, he is calling you to come. He said “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28.
All you need to do is to call on him right now where ever you are for forgiveness and let Him reign righteousness upon you.
Believe in your heart and
Confess that you are saved.
Jesus loves you.
Email this message to a friend.
A Man's Life is not His Own
Eternal salvation involving forgiveness and restoration is always an act of God. God is our Saviour now and at all times. He describes Himself as the Saviour of Israel, guiding their national and political life. Israel knew that much: “I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23). That is true for everyone on earth. “We all, like sheep, have gone astray” (Isaiah 53:6) but “we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and especially of those who believe” (1 Timothy 4:10). Jesus said, “This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” (John 6:51).
The concept of redemption brought about by a Saviour bearing the sins and iniquities of us all never crossed the mind of a single one of the world’s great religious founders or leaders. No one could ever bear such a load of sin, nor did anyone so much as think of it that would be ridiculous, wild delusions of grandeur. Only God incarnate could stand in for humankind, and He alone had the Herculean shoulders needed to bear the weight of the world’s responsibilities. The story goes that, in days gone by, the king of Nepal, who believed in the doctrine of karma, that our present life is determined by sins committed in a previous life, gave a man a bag of jewels in return for agreeing to take his sins from him. That man could carry the bag of treasure, but not the weight of the king’s sin; the sin of one man is too great for another to bear. Only God could do that.
Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, I am the bread of life. He who believes in me shall have eternal life” (John 6:32-40). Only Jesus ever used that sort of language, talking about redemptive forgiveness. Most faiths define some kind of hope, but never a power act of deliverance and love coming direct from above. Hundreds of millions follow religions which do not even have a God. They offer only one hope, oblivion to fall at last as a drop without identity into some undefined ocean of existence. In the Bible God says, “I am the Lord, and apart from me there is no saviour” (Isaiah 43:11). No other holy book contains such a claim.
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