REMAIN IN JESUS AND YOU WILL BE FRUIT!

 JESUS SAID: REMAIN IN ME AND I WILL REMAIN IN YOU...

 

John 15:1-27

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away; and every plant that bears fruit, that it may bear more fruit.

3 You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you; as the branch of itself cannot bear fruit unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.

5 I am the vine, you are the branches; who is in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; because without me you can do nothing.

6 If anyone is not in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

9 As the Father loved me, I also loved you; remain in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

11 I have told you this so that my joy may remain in you and your joy may be complete.

12 This is my commandment: That you love one another, just as I have loved you.

13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15 I will no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 This I command you: Love one another.

18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know him who sent me.

22 If I had not come or spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He who hates me hates my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else has done, they would have no sin; but now they saw them and hated me and my Father.

25 But it is to fulfill the word that is written in their law: They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me.

27 And you also will testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose trust is the Lord.

For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, which puts out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when the heat comes, but its leaf remains green; and in the year of drought it does not become weary, nor fails to bear fruit.

Jeremiah 17:7,8

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers.

Before he takes his delight in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night.

For he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season; his leaves will not wither, and whatever he does will prosper.

Not so the wicked; but they are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalms 1:1-6

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas is a time to remember that God sent his only Son to earth to die on a Cross for our sins...

Christmas is a time to give thanks for the hope of having Jesus...

Christmas is a time to reflect and understand the message of Jesus: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17)

And then Jesus is knocking at his door. You open?

PAGANISM IN THE CHURCH! DON'T DO THINGS FOR FASHIONS... UNDERSTAND THE MEANING!

 

 The so-called “Christmas Tree” has a remote origin in the Babylonian religion, being used to represent Tammuz, a name that means “shoot, shoot”, and which is a clear falsification of the true Messiah, the “shoot/shoot” (Hebrew: netser) of Yishai (Jesse) mentioned in Isaiah 11:1.

Ancient coins have been found depicting a tree stump (representing the dead Nimrod) and a small tree growing nearby (Tammuz). The idolatrous Israelites performed their rituals under trees:

“...yet on every high hill and UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE YOU WALK BROWING UP AND WHOLORYING YOURSELVES.” Jeremiah 2:20

“Only acknowledge your iniquity, which you have transgressed against YHWH your God; AND YOU HAVE EXTENDED YOUR WAYS TO STRANGERS, UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE, AND YOU HAVE NOT HEARDED MY VOICE, SAYS YHWH.” Jeremiah 3:13

It was also the custom of the apostate Hebrews to decorate the tree for the worship of idols:

“(...) Because the customs of the nations are despicable;

Because the FOREST TREE he cuts down, the work of the hands of an ax worker.

WITH SILVER AND WITH GOLD HE DECORATES IT…” (literal translation of Jeremiah 10:3-4, directly from the Hebrew).

In the text above, it is not clear whether there was a cult to the tree itself or to the idol arising from it. For some scholars, the quoted passage refers to decorating the tree for idolatrous purposes (see “All About Christmas 2,000 BCE to Date”, written by Ed Stevens and edited by James Trimm).

Ed Stevens and James Trimm teach that the Egyptians used palm trees and the Romans PINE trees for the worship of their gods, which later resulted in the “Christmas Tree” (“All About Christmas 2,000 BCE to Date”, written by Ed Stevens and edited by James Trimm).

The use of trees for idolatrous purposes has a remote origin in Babylonian religion. Many Hebrews even performed profane cults under trees, as well as decorating them in honor of the gods. A similar custom was observed by the Egyptians and the Romans. All of this ended up being syncretized in the Christmas Tree.

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GOD AND THE ENEMY ARE WATCHING!!!

THINK ABOUT IT - "My dad can't see...

My mom isn't watching...

My leader is not watching...

My pastor is not watching...

My wife, my husband are not seeing...”

"God is watching and so is the devil, and he doesn't play at being the devil"!

“Technology can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse if we don't have control...” (Débora Menezes).

*Posted by Júlio César Prado

It is impossible for any Christian who spends his nights, month after month, week after week, day after day watching the top shows: soap operas, Big Brother (BBB), movies and shows, to develop a Christian mind.

My advice? Stop watching television and cut off cable, especially Netflix. A young couple a few days ago confessed: “We canceled cable TV because we want to have time to study the Bible and read the books that will help us develop a Christian mind. The husband said: I can't control the television, I'm spending almost all my time indoors watching TV. We have radically decided to cancel cable TV.”

In an article published on the website Observatório da Imprensa, journalist and Doctor of Philosophy, Orlando Tambosi wrote that “the market war drags the television networks more and more towards vulgarity, obscenity, rudeness, the exploitation of sex and violence , without distinction of public and time”. Rede Globo's nine o'clock soap operas are totally diabolical. When you sit in the living room to watch soap operas, a legion of demons (fallen angels) accompanies you and your guardian angel turns away completely. Christians who await the return of Jesus should never watch soap operas and other TV programs because we are living in the end times.

The eroticization of the Internet is a more real phenomenon than one might imagine at first glance. International surveys show that one third of Internet accesses are made by people looking for some kind of virtual sexual activity. These include visits to "sites" with explicit sexual content and endless hours spent in so-called erotic chat rooms. The phenomenon has behavioral implications and a surprising economic implication. On the behavioral side, experts are frequently diagnosing Internet sex addiction, which ruins marriages and alienates people from normal relationships.

In Brazil, psychologists already receive patients complaining about spending 14 hours a week in front of the screen in search of virtual erotic adventures. They can't kick the habit without expert help. In exchange for virtual pleasure, many people completely lose contact with reality and need special care to get rid of the disease – just like drug addicts - As the network expands at breakneck speed, the problem tends to take on an ever-increasing dimension. bigger time.

TV and the Internet, little by little anesthetize the spiritual conscience and predispose us to the most corrupt things. If Heaven is our destination, if that's where we want to go, then we need to make radical changes that will help our spouse and children get to Heaven. Please, dear wives, don't go to sleep leaving your husband alone on the internet. The man is generally defined as a “nocturnal animal” he needs the help of a wise wife who takes him to bed earlier. “Right thoughts, and pure and holy purposes, do not come to us spontaneously, we have to fight for them” (Counsels on Health, pg. 291).

We will never have a Christian mind without reading our Bible daily with meditation. Because? Because we cannot be profoundly influenced by something we do not know and have not experienced. The apostle John, who at first was known as the “son of thunder” because of his temper, but who later became known as the “disciple of love”, gives us the hint of victory: “What was from the beginning, the what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at, and our hands have touched of the Word of Life... this we proclaim to you” (1 John 1:1, 3).

By beholding Jesus in the gospels, assimilating His character and mind through prayerful study of the Bible, our minds begin to like what Jesus likes, and the evil desires of human nature lose their hold on us. It works like a daily download of the heavenly program that is downloaded by the Holy Spirit and implanted in our minds. This heavenly program is called: The Mind of Jesus! The Holy Spirit communicates the Mind of Jesus to us, not in a day, or in a month, but during a lifetime. It's an ongoing, daily process that doesn't happen by miracle, but by fellowship alone with God and His Word. The mind of Jesus is a very heavy file that contains all of His character traits and temperament developed during His 33 years of earthly life. This heavenly download is slow and our mind, our hard disk, would not support something faster, however, it can be speeded up or delayed, and even interrupted, depending on the frequency of this communion.

“It is in good thoughts that the only safety for every soul lies. Man 'as he thinketh in his soul, so is he' (Proverbs 23:7). The faculty of mastering develops through exercise. What seemed difficult at first becomes easy by constant repetition, until pure thoughts and actions become habitual” (Counsels on Health, p. 295).

We need to develop selective awareness. “God does not want us to hear all there is to hear, nor to see all there is to see. It is a great blessing to close our ears so that we do not hear, and our eyes so that we do not see” (Mind, Character and Personality, p. 332) (Photo: Disclosure).

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TRIALS...

 Because it hurts?

It is necessary…

When Joseph was betrayed and sold into slavery by his brothers, he suffered innumerable pains; humiliated, slandered, arrested... his pain favored not only him, but countless people, including those who led him to suffering.

After his father Jacob died, his brothers were afraid that Joseph would take revenge on them.

What did he say?

You meant evil against me, but GOD meant it for good, to make it as it is this day, to save many people alive. Genesis 50:20

Paul suffered a lot for the sake of the Gospel of CHRIST, that is, to take the teachings of JESUS.

So that for Paul not to exalt himself, he was given through Satan, a thorn in the flesh; he pleaded with the LORD three times that this thorn be taken away from him.

What was the answer?

My grace is sufficient for you, because My strength is made perfect in weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:9a

  Nobody likes to be in pain; but for the greater good, it may be necessary, for the benefit of the life of one, and many...

  Joseph and Paul teach us with the pain of suffering:

  After Joseph's humiliations and pains, he was exalted;

  Joseph's pain benefited his family and other nations;

  Humiliation and pain put the person in a place of total dependence on GOD;

  There are useful and necessary pains;

  Pains will bring benefits to the sufferer, and to others;

  Do not beg the LORD to remove the thorn that causes pain;

  The thorn reminds you that the grace of the LORD JESUS is sufficient;

  His strength perfects us in our immense weakness.

  Paul suffered to bring the Gospel to humanity.

  Let's endure the pain of thorns, to generate miracles and benefits in our lives, and in other people's lives?

His grace is sufficient for us!

IT'S BETTER SUFFER NOW

God's children are continually corrected and disciplined by Him, to teach them the truth, purify their faith, teach resilience and detach their hearts from this world.

The others are left to the passions of their hearts, to the mistakes and lies common to men and even enjoy an apparently peaceful and trouble-free life. However, in that sinful slumber they will be taken suddenly and judged and justly condemned for their sins.

Happy is he whom the Lord rebukes and disciplines like a son.

HEBREWS 12.4-11

SATAN WANTS TO DESTROY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!

The devil doesn't want us to know the truth about him!

“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you!” James 4:7.

“And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." Romans 16:20.

“The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10.

“And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of his testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.'” Revelation 12:11.

“Be sober; watch; for your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom you resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are fulfilled among your brethren in the world.” 1 Peter 5:8-9.

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.” 1 John 4:4.

“Whoever commits sin is of the devil; because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8.

Satan doesn't want us to know that we have nothing to fear

“Do not fear, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.” Isaiah 41:10.

“Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.” Luke 10:19.

“For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7.

He doesn't want us to know about the power we have access to.

"What do we say, then, to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31.

“And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. That is why I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in needs, in persecutions, in anguish for Christ's sake. Because when I am weak then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13.

“No temptation has overtaken you but a human one; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13.

The devil doesn't want us to know the promises we have in Christ

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16.

“Who brought us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; In whom we have redemption through his blood, namely, the remission of sins;.” Colossians 1:13-14.

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, through sin condemned sin in the flesh; That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:1-4.

"I'm already crucified with christ; and I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.

“To wit, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.” Romans 10:9-10.

“But God proves his love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8.

“As the east is far from the west, so remove our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12.

Satan does not want us to know that there are conditions

“Not everyone who says to me: Lord, Lord! will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21.

“And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” James 1:22.

"And we are witnesses of these words, we and also the Holy Spirit, which God has given to them that obey him." Acts 5:32.

He doesn't want us to know that we have to reap what we sow

“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit, of the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6:7-8.

“Then, when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is complete, brings forth death.” James 1:15.

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, if he loses his soul? Or what will a man give as a reward for his soul?” Matthew 16:26.

The devil doesn't want us to know what the future is

“O my enemy, do not rejoice over me; though I have fallen, I will rise; if I dwell in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” Micah 7:8.

“Being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord; thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you the end you hope for.” Jeremiah 29:11.¨

Armed to win! God's Word provides us with all the weapons we need to resist Satan and destroy his works. No wonder the devil doesn't want us to know about these Bible verses! If we commit ourselves to the service of God, we will notice the angry devil, but we can be bold to fight back, because we have the promise of victory – always! The result will be confidence, rest and peace in our spirit, fruit of the Spirit will manifest in our lives and we will gain eternal life!

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CLOSE THE GAPS!!! DON'T GIVE ROOM TO THE ENEMY!!!

 

Be alert and watch. The Devil, your enemy, prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

1 Peter 5:8

For we are God's creation, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

Devote yourselves to prayer, be alert and be thankful.

Colossians 4:2

But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the men of Ashdod heard that repairs to the walls of Jerusalem had advanced and that the breaches were being closed, they were furious. Nehemiah 4:7

You shook the earth and split it open;

repair your breaches,

for it threatens to collapse. Psalms 60:2

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