The Wedding Ring

A wedding ring in marriage is one of the many inventions of man to evidence perhaps the bonding or union of man & woman. Wearing it on the left ring finger means that the man and woman is engaged to be married and if worn on the right ring finger it symbolizes that they are already married. The spouse wears it to indicate a marital commitment to fidelity although this not necessary because:

1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Call it a symbol, ritual or caprice of a woman soon to be married, whatever the reasons may be, remember the very essence why that ring is worn on your finger.

Proverbs 7:1-3 My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

So for the married and the engaged, the next time you look at your finger, think not of the giver, the price or the elegance of the ring, but to remember that it is the words of God that binds there.

Circumcision Of The Heart

Never thought that the gospel was preached to Abraham beforehand.

Galatians 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.

Abraham was circumcised at the age of 99 years old - a covenant between him and God.

Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 17:10-11 This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

For he who is keeping the law, it is circumcision and will become uncircumcision when he breaks the law.

Romans 2:25 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

It's not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are.

Romans 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

Abraham is a Gentile and was circumcised of the flesh, and so are we.

2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

No Fear

All the people that I know said that the best way to die is to never wake up from a sound sleep.

One never stand to the idea of spending a lot of money, time & effort for anyone you love so dearly while under medication & hospitalization when the end result is still - death.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Who are afraid to die? May be, all of us except when you know where you're going to or may be, you lost your faith that you entertained the idea of killing yourself.

Luke 12:4 “And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

When your senses are gone, it doesn't matter whether they chop you in two, three, four or burn your body thereafter, It is still the same - you're dead. Therefore, whether the death is tragic, horrible, cruel, sudden or premature, there is nothing to fear.

Luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!

Jesus Christ The Reformist

John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

I was lead to believe that Israel being God's people have seen God in person many times.

Exodus 19:20 Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

But reading the verses below proved to me otherwise.

Acts 7:30 “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

Acts 7:38 “This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,

It was an angel of the Lord whom Moses see and giving the law of a fleshly commandment.

And by Him (Christ Jesus) who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life, everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Hebrews 9:9-10 It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience— concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

That time of reformation was done by no less than our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Indigenous People

The time of the end is now, where many shall run to and fro. The knowledge really has increased as evidenced by the emergence of online computers and transport system whether by air, by land or by sea.

Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Indigenous people are doing natural or native things out of curiosity and everyone will like it for it is something very cool, awesome and extreme. They are down-to-earth and natural with their culture. Judging from the natural way they carry themselves down below, they are the number one advocates of clean air and safe environment. It is not only us who loves them, God loves them also for not destroying the earth.

Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Anybody from the existing bikers club can join this group by visiting Manila and we will lead you the way to Baguio City - The Home of the Indigenous People.

Do not ask me how they go up or go back to where they started. It is a tedious process but walkable and it is definitely good for the health.

Unprofitable Servants

A servant of God is one who expresses submission to perform services for free. So that when a servant is accepting a fee for services rendered then he is more of a businessman treating the word of God as a merchandise for sale.

Luke 17:7-10 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

It is therefore a must for all servants of God to preach the gospel for free making this calling to serve as unprofitable.

2 Corinthians 11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Such were the apostles of Christ compared to pastors, priests and preachers of today who are receiving money as payment, call it stipend, allowance, complimentary, accommodation or whatever, it's the same banana.

Outnumbered

Often times in our struggle from anything in life, we always say, how can we succeed when all is lacking in us. Sometimes it must be this way so that when we seek help from God and we succeed, we can not say that we did it on our own. Like the struggle of Gideon to the Midianites and the Amalekites.

Judges 7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

Being too many, the number of men to fight the Midianites and the Amalekites was reduced by bringing them down the water and the people that bend their knees to drink water was removed leaving only three hundred men.

Judges 7:6 And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

Judges 7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.

Three hundred men against an enemy whose numbers are like grasshoppers in multitude?

Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

One may say, it's impossible to win, but guess what? Miraculously, Gideon turned victorious in that fight.

Judges 7:25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

Truly, if God is with us, who can be against us.

The Inheritance

For the Family whom I loved so dearly.

God shall call anyone unto him, into the house of God built by Jesus Christ - the stone which was rejected by the disobedient, which has become the chief cornerstone.

Acts 2:39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

It is the desire of my heart with a fervent prayer that all of you whom I dearly loved are with me in the house of god which is the Church of God purchased by the blood of Jesus that whosoever believe in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

1 Timothy 3:15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Like me, must even you also be under His grace for outside the Church God judges.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

1 Corinthians 5:13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.

That is why, I do not want you to be outside the Church where evil mostly dwell, rubbing elbows with those evil persons who was removed in the Church.

Ephesians 1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

This is my ardent desire, a gift and inheritance that I can left as a legacy to all of you deprive me not before I die.

If God permit and you are called, I thank Him for the grace and mercy to you it has been given.

Born Again Christian Full Gospel

Christian is one who professes belief in Jesus as Christ, one who follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus or one who lives according to the doctrines or teachings of Jesus.

One of Jesus teachings to be born again is the baptism in water and the spirit. How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?

John 3:5-6 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

But after the baptism in water, to never thirst, one has to drink the living water Jesus shall give which is a gift of God known as the gospel of Christ.

John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

Being born in spirit, we must worship God in spirit and in truth.

John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

If they call themselves born again christian, Is there a Christian who is not born again?

Some would pervert the gospel of Christ preaching another gospel disguised as full gospel which is another form of deception.

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Born again christian full gospel is a not sure sort of doctrine conceptualized by people who are not biblical at all.

Satan The Movie

Remember the scene where Satan tempted Jesus who was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness?

Matthew 4:8-9 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”

I already read this verse before but the first thing that came to my mind is the showing of only the places that can be seen by an eye far above the high mountain where the devil took Jesus.

For you to show all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, you have to use a medium with the help of a satellite. It is some kind of an illusion to make it appear in front of a viewer. It is like showing a movie.

The tempting scene showed the unlimited power of Satan but it manifested also his very limited power.

Matthew 4:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Clearly, Satan can not make the stones to become bread. It is likely more convincing for him to tempt Jesus who fasted 40 days and 40 nights if he presented a bread instead of stones.

Matthew 4:5-6 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘ He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘ In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’

Satan as a natural brute beasts, a murderer made to be taken and destroyed, can not just push and kick our Lord Jesus Christ down below the pinnacle of the temple. This is a clear manifestation of his very limited power but has the power to deceive the whole world.

Revelation 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The Naked Heart

We can not hide anything from God. Aside from the eyes looking at us from a distance, He knows anything about us through the heart.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

He knows the heart of a man including that of the angels.

Ezekiel 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Even Satan who said in his heart he likes to be the Most High was not kept in secret.

Isaias 13:12-14 “ How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘ I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

What on earth that we can do that He can't see? Nothing, nothing but nothing.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Water Of Salvation

John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

Matthew 3:3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: "A voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' "

Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

I wonder why John the Baptist makes his calling in the dessert instead of within the city. Other translation is wilderness instead of dessert. Dessert or wilderness, within the city is still the best place to make an announcement.

Luke 3:4-6 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “ The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘ Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight. Every valley shall be filled And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough ways smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

The dessert is a place where there is no water and evil spirit goes there.

Matthew 12:43 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.

A word of God that comes out of a mouth from a man's heart is a water of faith.

Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.

Romans 10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

A heart therefore with no word of God is like a dessert without water having nothing that will bring us to life. Who wants a heart with no water where evil can dwell?

Preparing the way of the Lord is to have a clean heart ever ready to receive enlightenment that you may know the hope of salvation to which He has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance.

Offending Word

What I know about idolatry is the praising and kneeling on images made by hands of men. It is only now that I know, stubbornness is also a form of idolatry.

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.

Stubborn is often perversely unyielding. They stumble at the word of the LORD. Being disobedient they will reject even the precious stone that will give them the way to everlasting life.

1 Peter 2:7-8 Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

If Jesus will speak to us again, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life, who will take this as an offending word?

People Of God

Matthew 23:34-35 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

The killing and persecution of prophets, wise men, scribes and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, I thought, is just a thing of the past as devotees and fanatics are already matured. But, this prophesy is yet to come.

Revelation 6:9-11 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.

The people of God are ready to fight, having with them the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. But, this is not a fight against flesh and blood.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

This is a fight against whose deeds are like their father Satan.

John 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

For if God is their father, they will definitely love anyone who is telling the truth.

John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.