DON'T STAY BEHIND!!! ABANDON SIN!

SINS ARE WRITTEN ON THE CHAINS OF THE IMAGE: PRIDE, VICES, REVENGE, IDOLATRY, HATE, LIE, FALSENESS, GOSSIP, HURT, ENVY, ADULTERY, GREED AND UNBELIEF

 

10 ADVICE BILLY GRAHAM LEFT TO YOUNG CHRISTIANS:

1) Avoid bad company. If you hang around bad elements, you will be dominated by them. The Bible says: "Leave yourselves from among them, and do not touch unclean things" (II Cor. 6).

2) Avoid second glances. You can't control the first, but you can avoid the second, which becomes greed.

3) Discipline your conversations. Avoid jokes and stories with questionable meaning. "Bad conversations corrupt good morals" (1 Cor 15:33)

4) Be careful with the way you dress. It should be a matter between you and God what clothes you wear. A recently converted young woman said: From now on I will dress as if Jesus were my companion.

5) Choose carefully the films and television programs you watch.

6) Be careful what you read. Much contemporary literature appeals to the sexual instinct.

7) Be on guard about your time off. David had time on his hands, he saw Bethsheba and fell into complications.

😎 Make it a rule to never engage in "hard" dating. Young Christians should pray before each meeting. The girl who has Jesus Christ in her heart has a supernatural power to say "no" to any boy's advances. And the boy who knows Jesus Christ has the power to discipline his life.

9) Spend a lot of time in the Scriptures. The psalmist said, "I keep your word in my heart, so that I may not sin against you." (Ps 119:11). Memorize verses and, when temptation comes, quote them. The word of God is the only thing that Satan cannot oppose.

10) Have Jesus Christ in your heart and life. God loves you and a strong faith in Him has kept many men and women from committing immorality (1 John 2:14).

 Pray for people in pain, but know that there will be no peace. These are prophetic greetings...

Chaos needs to be established. It is the prophetic setting for the appearance of the Antichrist and the false "Peace Agreement"

Israel in general does not believe in Jesus as the Son of God. They are waiting for the son of God to this day!

They will be deceived and believe in the Antichrist as their "expected savior"

¹ Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, when your spoils will be divided among you.

👉² For I will gather🚨 all the nations⚠️ to fight against Jerusalem; and the city will be taken, and the houses will be plundered, and the women forced; and half the city will go into captivity, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.👈

³ And the Lord will go out, and fight against these nations, as he fought in the day of battle.

⁴ And in that day his feet will stand on the mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in the middle, east and west, and there will be a very large valley; and half of the mountain will separate toward the north, and the other half of it toward the south.

⁵ And you will flee through the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; and you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with you.

⁶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be neither precious light nor thick darkness.

⁷ But it will be a day known to the Lord; it will be neither day nor night; but it shall come to pass that when evening comes, there will be light.

⁸ In that day it will also happen that living waters will come out of Jerusalem, half of them towards the eastern sea, and half of them towards the western sea; This will happen in summer and winter.

⁹ And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day one will be the Lord, and one will be his name.

Zechariah 14:1-9

One of the most frequent questions I get asked is: "How can we know that Christianity is true when there are all the other religions in the world?"

The first thing I address is that biblical Christianity is not a religion, but I quickly move on and say that we will get to that shortly because I feel that this explanation is always best to go along with the gospel; The contrast between Christianity and all other religions helps bring clarity to the gospel of grace.

Now back to the big question. I believe that proving the truth of the Bible as a whole is the best way to do this. Within this you will discover that Christianity is how God is working with men today.

Now faith is not to be blind. Faith must be rooted in logic, reason and, above all, truth. Well then surely there has to be a foolproof way, right? Tangible evidence that we can all understand that can lead us to the truth? Of course there is.

Here is a list of various angles one could take on their journey to discover the truth. Please know that these will be difficult for me to summarize because I feel as if I could provide endless examples in each listing.

Prophecy:

The Bible is axiomatic, meaning it proves to be true. If you have never thought about this before, humanity is not capable of writing such prophecies thousands of years in advance and making them happen accurately. Maybe random chance could allow some over such a long period of time, sure. But the Bible has over 3,000 prophecies and counting. The only explanation is that these are the written words of God.

Archeology:

Great discoveries have been made regarding many of the Old Testament stories. Discoveries such as the fragmented rock of Horeb, chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea crossing, pure sulfur at the geographic location of Sodom and Gomorrah, the black top of Mount Sinai with biblically accurate surroundings, even the remains of Noah's Ark complete with animal remains/DNA.

History:

It's no secret that Jesus Christ existed two thousand years ago, even his favorite famous atheist will recognize this. So he was just another lunatic with strange claims? Or was he really who he said he was, God in the flesh coming to die for the sin of the world? There are many eyewitness accounts and testimonies to all of this, by the way. Another example to consider is the fact that all cultures have a worldwide flood that even our natural world agrees on.

Science:

The Bible is a perfect and scientifically accurate book. The search for truth along this avenue is typically the least traveled because it requires not only common sense and critical thinking skills, but a desire for truth so strong that one must overcome a life of indoctrination and confirmation bias. Understanding biblical cosmology will almost instantly demolish Satan's house of cards while providing strong validation for the Bible.

View of the World:

If the Bible is just a book of fairy tales and lies, why is it banned in more than 50 countries? Why is Jesus Christ always the object of religious mockery in Hollywood? Why is HIS name always blasphemed? Why can't the name of Jesus Christ be spoken in places like NASA or Area 51? Why does the Bible know the condition of man's heart and desires so much better than man does? How has the Bible proven to be the proverbial roadmap to our reality time and time again throughout human history?

It's possible that any one of these different angles I've listed could be enough to validate the Bible, but imagine having ALL of them. The evidence quickly becomes overwhelming! If someone sets out to prove that the Bible is true (or false), they will always come to the same conclusion. By God's design, this is how truth works.

I have now had people tell me that they have researched/considered all the evidence I have brought to their attention, but they still claim that there is no evidence for God or that the Bible is true. This tells me one of two things. Chances are they have never heard of most of this information, but are too proud/arrogant to admit it. Or that they are lying to themselves about the matter, and their cognitive dissonance will not allow them to accept any of the truth simply because they don't want it to be true. With these people, there is no amount of evidence (no matter how perfectly presented) that can bring them to the knowledge of the truth. Ultimately, whatever the case, it is clear that they did not truly seek the truth of the matter for themselves; They either have a closed mind or haven't put in the time/effort. As I alluded to above, it is simply not possible to have all this fact-based knowledge and still honestly deny the validity of the Bible.

I haven't met a single person who I thought wasn't smart enough to understand any of this information. I would argue that in over 99% of cases of a Christ rejecting life, it is not a matter of intellect... It is a heart problem.

Humble yourself. Realize that you don't know everything. Admit that you are a sinner in need of a savior. Believe that Jesus lived a sinless life, shed his blood for your sins, died, and rose from the grave three days later. Trust in Christ's finished redemptive work on the cross as if his life depended on it, because it does.

Jeremiah 29:13 (KJB)

13 And you will seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

 

 

 

 

¹ Beloved, I now write to you this second letter, in both of which I awaken your sincere spirit with exhortation;

² That you may remember the words that were first spoken by the holy prophets, and our commandment, as apostles of the Lord and Savior.

³ Knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will come, walking after their own lusts,

⁴ And saying: Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of creation.

⁵ They willfully ignore this, that by the word of God the heavens existed from ancient times, and the earth, which was taken out of the water and remains in the midst of the water.

⁶ By what things did the world then perish, covered with the waters of the flood,

⁷ But the heavens and the earth which now exist by the same word are reserved as treasures, and are kept in store against the fire, until the day of judgment, and the destruction of ungodly men.

⁸ But, beloved, do not be ignorant of one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

⁹ The Lord does not delay his promise, although some consider it delay; But he is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt on fire, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

¹¹ Therefore if all these things perish, what persons should you be in holy conversation and godliness,

¹² Waiting and hastening for the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens, in fire, will dissolve, and the elements, burning, will merge?

¹³ But we, according to his promise, await new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, waiting for these things, seek that you may be found of him spotless and blameless in peace.

¹⁵ And count the longsuffering of our Lord as salvation; just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom that was given to him;

¹⁶ Speaking of this, as in all his epistles, among which there are points difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable twist, and likewise the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest by the deceit of abominable men you be taken away together, and fall from your steadfastness;

¹⁸ Rather, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen.

2 Peter 3:1-18📖🙏