THE ISSUE IS NOT ABOUT GOD WHO FORBIDS BUT ABOUT A FATHER WHO PROTECTS!

 There are a lot of people looking for the right things in the wrong places.

Everything that anyone lacks is in Christ.

When you discover that He can do all things and you can do nothing, you surrender.

Surrender is different from acceptance.

You accept what you can master and control. Yet you master and know only that to which you have surrendered.

Surrendering to God means recognizing that what you are, what you have and what you become and have, belong to Him and return to Him.

Whoever surrenders to God stops playing and fighting with Him; stop challenging Him. The surrendered person humbly surrenders to God, and understands that he does not need all arguments and all doubts answered. The surrendered is satisfied with the simplicity of faith.

Therefore, it can be seen that surrender is not for cowards or subservients, on the contrary, it is for the brave, fearless, daring. Strong people are capable of surrender. The weak run away from it.

Surrendering to God also does not mean giving up logical reasoning. God would not waste the mind He gave us!

Surrendering is not suppressing one's personality; God wants to utilize our unique personalities. Instead of diminishing one's personality, surrender enhances it.

  C. S. Lewis observed, “The more we let God take control of us, the more authentic we become—for He made us. He invented all the different people you and I intended to be […] It is when I turn to Christ and surrender to his personality that, for the first time, I begin to have my own, real personality.”

When you heard and believed the word of truth, the gospel that saved you, you were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of those who belong to God, to the praise of his glory .

Ephesians 1:13-14

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Luke 19:10

There is no way to save someone who is saved, if you feel lost understand, Jesus is calling you to something better ✝️❤️

 

 ¹ Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from this, namely, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

² You covet, and you have nothing; you kill, and you are envious, and you can achieve nothing; You fight and make war, and you have nothing, because you do not ask.

³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity against God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world constitutes himself an enemy of God.

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: The Spirit that dwells in us is jealous?

⁶ Rather, he gives greater grace. Therefore it says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and, you of two minds, purify your hearts.

⁹ Feel your miseries, and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into weeping, and your joy into sorrow.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 4:1-10

Our first ministry is the family… we have to take care of our family.

“If anyone does not take care of his relatives, and especially those of his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” 1st Timothy 5:8

 

 “He who hides his sins will never prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes (the practice of sin) obtains mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

Achieving "mercy" does not mean that you are far from suffering consequences (good or bad) for your choices.

Ecclesiasticus 3:23-30. Pay attention to 26 and 27... “An obstinate heart accumulates suffering, and the sinner adds sin to sin. Misfortune does not cure the proud, because the plant of evil has taken root in him.” Sowing is optional, but harvesting is mandatory...

 

ONLY THE ETERNAL IS GOD!!!

¹⁹ Now therefore, command all Israel to gather to me on Mount Carmel; and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.

²⁰ Then Ahab called together all the children of Israel; and he gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.

²¹ Then Elijah approached all the people, and said: How long will you limp between two thoughts? If the Lord is God, follow him, and if Baal, follow him. But the people did not respond to him.

²² Then Elijah said to the people: I alone am left as a prophet of the Lord, and the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.

²³ So give us two calves, and let them choose one of the calves for themselves, and divide it into pieces, and put it on the wood, but do not set fire to it, and I will prepare the other calf, and put it on the wood, and I will not set it on fire.

²⁴ Then call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and it will be that the god who responds through fire will be God. And all the people answered, saying, This saying is good.

²⁵ And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: Choose for yourselves one of the calves, and prepare it first, for there are many of you, and call on the name of your god, and do not set it on fire.

²⁶ And they took the calf that he had given them, and prepared it; and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Ah! Baal, answer us! But there was neither a voice nor anyone to answer; and they jumped on the altar that they had made.

²⁷ And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry with a loud voice, for he is a god; It may be that he is talking, or that he has something to do, or that he intends to travel; perhaps he is sleeping, and will wake up.

²⁸ And they cried out with loud voices, and cut themselves with knives and lancets, as was their custom, until they shed blood on themselves.

²⁹ And it came to pass, after noon, that they prophesied, until the time for offering the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no answer, no attention whatsoever.

³⁰ Then Elijah said to all the people: Come near to me. And all the people came to him; and he restored the altar of the Lord, which was broken.

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be your name.

³² And with those stones he built the altar in the name of the Lord; Then he made a trench around the altar, the width of two measures of seed.

³³ Then he assembled the wood, and divided the calf into pieces, and laid it on the wood.

³⁴ And he said, Fill four pitchers with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it the second time; and they did it a second time. And he said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time;

³⁵ So that the water ran around the altar; and even the ditch he filled with water.

³⁶ It came to pass, when the evening sacrifice was being offered, that the prophet Elijah came and said: O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things according to your word.

³⁷ Answer me, Lord, answer me, so that these people may know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their hearts.

³⁸ Then fire fell from the Lord, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

³⁹ When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and said, Only the Lord is God! Only the Lord is God!

⁴⁰ And Elijah said to them: Lay hands on the prophets of Baal, lest any of them escape. And they laid hold of them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and there he killed them.

1 Kings 18:19-40

WHO ARE THE DOGS of Revelation 22:15?

In Revelation 22:15 it is written: “Dogs, sorcerers, those who commit sexual immorality, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lies will be left out.”

In fact, the Bible speaks of dogs more than once in this sense. Watch:

“Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of circumcision;” Philippians 3:2

"And these #dogs are greedy, they never get enough. They are shepherds who understand nothing; they all follow their own path, each one for their own greed, all without exception." Isaiah 56:11

The meaning of "dogs", mentioned in these 3 excerpts, refers to people who are among those who are God's people. Note that, in one of the two passages I cited, dogs are listed followed by "bad workers" and "circumcision", and in the other, the Bible calls these dogs "shepherds". But after all, what do dogs mean?

Analyze this fact: In a flock of sheep (in the Bible, the righteous are called God's sheep), there is always a shepherd and some "helper" animals that help the shepherd take his flock to the fold. However, in the fold, the only ones who enter are the sheep. But who are these "helper" animals? I answer: the dogs. Dogs are those who, for one reason or another, help the shepherd to take the sheep to the fold. But they (the dogs) don't enter the fold.

So the Bible talks about symbolism: we are the sheep; the Shepherd is our Lord Jesus Christ; and dogs are those church leaders (pastors, bishops, and others) who teach the Word of God but, in their hearts, do it only for their own benefit: to make money from God's work.

Dogs are those who in some way help the Shepherd, but will not enter the heavenly fold.

WHO ARE THE DOGS THAT WILL BE LEFT OUT?

Dogs refer to shepherds and false teachers who make money from God's work. False workers and teachers, shepherds who are greedy for $$$$$ and a soft life, just want to eat the fat of the sheep! Pastors who manipulate and exploit, without any embarrassment or fear, people's faith and sincerity, with the sole objective of making money.

Dogs refer to shepherds who take what little the poor have and in the name of God ask for offerings and tithes.

They are opportunists who, without shame or limits, exploit people's faith, with the pure and simple objective of getting rich without having to work, unlike many of their followers who often work under the hot sun or in extreme weather. Fraudsters of faith, parasites, exploiters who use the good faith of belief in the Sacred. They use the name of God as a means of exploring, they use the Bible and its sacred books to benefit people in need of encouragement and a caress for their souls.

“And these #dogs are greedy, they can never get enough; and they are shepherds who understand nothing; they all turn to his way, each to his greed, all without exception." Isaiah 56:11

“And, out of greed (love of $$$$$), they will make you a business (own gain), with false words (heresies, lies); on whom judgment will not be delayed for a long time, and their destruction does not slumber.” 2nd Peter 2:3