Myth and Faith - 3

Myth - If I believe in Jesus I should forsake all my pleasures, habits, friends, relatives etc

Faith - If we believe in Jesus only thing we need to forsake is SIN. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation 2 Corinthians 5:17. If you believe in Chirst, you will be transformed into a new creation whose interests will no longer be the same as that of the old being. The focus of the person actually shifts to the reality.

Believing Jesus and accepting Him as our personal saviour is an instantaneous decision. Repenting deeply for our sins and seeking the forgiveness and promise of the LORD for us is the process we go through at the time of salvation. God's grace is so abundant that He NEVER EVER rejects a person approaching Him seeking salvation. So by His grace we will be saved. 

But after being saved, sanctification is actually a process, that depends on the level of obedience and faith a person has. If the person is very obedient, has a strong faith and have strong revelation of truth,  sanctification of the person occurs very easily, and such people wont feel desire for the worldly pleasure much. They rise to be best of the pastors and leaders who lead multitudes to the LORD, like Bro.Bakth singh and Mr.N.Daniel, through whom fellowships like Hebron and LEF came up. 

More resistant the person is more lessons will be given by God to submit and surrender totally to God. In process the person may not obey God totally and be separated from SIN and WORLD, but our good LORD is patient enough to lead and protect His children (Romans 8:26) and wait upon them until they understand and experience the truth actually. 

Once the person actually understands and experiences the truth, no one need to forcefully drag him away from world and its pleasures, but he himself willingly, and lovingly submits himself to the LORD. This is the most beautiful experience of being a Christian. But nothing might actually happen simply by singing famous Hymn "I surrender all..." or forcing ones self to quit few things. It is actually a work of Holyspirit, an inside matter, which happens only on showing obedience.

But here is a DISCLAIMER. No one knows when the LORD returns or when we may die. So it is always better to show obedience when time is there...because we know not when our END is...

People who are given chances till they learn truth will be lucky enough, and people who don't get chances will become examples...which none of us want to be!

Myth and Faith - 1

Myth- I am all alone, nobody in this world loves me.

Faith- God loves you! (and its true!)

God loves you more than anyone else does!

God loves you as if you are the only one in this world, as if there is no one else in this world!

God loves every human being in this world in the same way.

You may wonder how God can do all these, and why God will do all these... Its because God is love...I John 4:16. And it is said that Jesus is the Gift of God to the mankind, for God so Loved the world Gospel according to John 3:16. 

So lets try to understand the reason behind all these. If we observe love between man and woman, they try to cling to each other life long(by getting married to each other), if they have true love on one another. This is most common understanding we all have.

So according to the scriptures, God loved the man. But if God wants to stay with man, He cannot do that because, man is unholy because of his sinful nature. No man who is clean want to sit and dine with an unclean beggar or a rouge right! So in the same way God cannot have fellowship with man even though He loves man very much. 

So, if God has to have fellowship with man, man should become holy. For the man to become holy, his sin should be punished. But the wages of sin are death, that means man should die for his sin. So to remove this death, and restore the fellowship of man with God, Jesus took mans punishment, died on the cross. But since Jesus is God, death cannot hold Him for longer, so He rose from dead. 

Now whoever believes that Jesus died for him on the cross - Romans 10:9, is saved from sin and death, which means that man is made holy, free of sin. Now the God will have fellowship with that man in the form of HolySpirit, residing in his heart. 

Now therefore, God is always there with you, to love you, to lead you, to guide you, to help you live in this world, if you believe that Jesus died for you on the cross, to remove your sin.

So you are not alone in this world if you believe in Jesus really, since He will be your everlasting friend, who will never leave you nor forsake you, no matter what!

Myth and Faith - 2

Myth- Few people wont correct themselves no matter how many times we forgive them and give chance to them to be our friends and acquaintances and relations. They keep doing wrong against us, misbehave with us, mis-handle us ill treat us, hurt us etc. We should not give second chances to such people, because they don't deserve them.

Faith- Actually no human being is worthy of a second chance. Sin in his body needs to be punished in his body, for the wages of sin is death. But God out of his love, sent his only begotten son to this world as JESUS to bore the sin of mankind, to bear the punishment of our sin in His body Isaiah 53:5. Jesus took the sin of every human being on himself, died on cross and resurrected to forgive mankind and gave second chance to live. And Jesus said we should forgive others seventy times seven mathew 18:22... meaning we should forgive a person endlessly, how many times he does the sin, those many times we need to forgive, or simply we should bear the persons weaknesses forever. If we are forgiving, we are giving second chance. Forgiveness is an unmerited favour, which is given to the one who is not worthy of it. We Christians, having received forgiveness should forgive or should be able to forgive others who wrong us, unknowingly or wantedly (Mathew18:21-35). This is the deepest meaning of Christianity.