Jesus Christ the World's Greatest Hero

For God so Loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.  (Hebrews 4:16)

LOVE is POWER

God has not given us the spirit of fear. He has given us the spirit of Love and a competent mind.
Love conquers fear, because Love has Power, that creates a competent mind, that allows a person to make rational decisions and use righteous judgment to resolve or solve problems.

Through this God-given process, we are able to endure and persevere in times of hardships, and when facing a crisis. When our spirit is broken by hate, and heavy loads are placed upon us, we turn to God for strength in our storms of life. And we seek his Love to restore us to wholeness. He restores us with Hope. From within him we receive Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance as it is noted in Galatians 5:22.

Because of God's Love for us, we are able to have the patience to wait for his Power to restore us so that we are in control of our mind to over-power fear and to lead a successful life to meet our goals and create a greater opportunity filled with his blessings.

He has created us to be a victorious people. Therefore, we are able to create  far greater opportunities through Love.

God gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength. (Isaiah 40:29)

When we are broken by the storms of life, God's Love restore us. We bow before him, in a humble spirit at his throne of grace, and ask in prayer for mercy and renewed strength. It is here that we find the needed strength to forgive those who have wronged us and the Power to Love.

Those who wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.  (Isaiah 40:31)


Fear is powerless. It torments the mind and paralyzes the thought process. It causes panic. Thereby, leaving the person, feeling a sense of hopelessness and unwilling to trust others. It closes possibilities to allow for change.

The prophet Isaiah noted; Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.  (Isaiah 40:30)

And when Jesus disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a spirit," and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I, be not afraid. (Matthew 14:26, 27)

Fear is a person's worst enemy; it causes panic, that results in making irrational decisions. Such behavior is based on poor judgment, that was made due to a lack of patience, to make an adequate investigation of the situation before proceeding. The outcome will create serious problems that can cause serious harm.

LOVE is the chain that binds us together.
Do not allow hate to separate us.
There is One God
One family
One faith
One world
We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.
We are the family of God.

Written by: Ellen J. Barrier
Source of Scriptures: King James Version Bible

The Suffering Savior

Why is the Death of Jesus Christ Important to Us?

The Price God Requires for Sin is Blood

Before Jesus came to sacrifice his blood for the sins of males and females, the people would kill an animal and use its blood to pay for their sins, but they continued to sin.

Scripture:

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?

Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscious of sins.

But in those sacrifices there is no remembrance again made of sins every year.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:1-4)

The Coming of Jesus Christ to Save Man from Eternal Death was Prophesied Long before He Came

Wherefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book,) it  is written of me, to do  your will of God. (Hebrews 10: 5-7)

Why Was Jesus Christ Chosen to Become the Sacrificial Offering for Man’s Sins?

God’s first choice was to sacrifice a man from among the people on earth, to offer his blood in the place of an animal. The man had to have not sinned.  The search for such a man was not found:

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.  (Ezekiel 22:30)

Man’s Sins are Cause for the Wrath of God

Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath:  their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, said the Lord, GOD. (Ezekiel 22:31)

The People Bad Behavior Is Condemned by God

When we carefully read the bible, we find that sin is repeated in every generation, and that as time passes, the conscious of man become more defiance with God. That in return, angers God and we see the destruction of his wrath, poured out upon earth through disasters from nature.

References:

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, said the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:11)

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. (Ezekiel 22:26)

 Her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying thus said the Lord GOD, when the LORD have not spoken.  (Ezekiel 22:28)

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezekiel 22:29)

World Leadership and the Laws of the Land are at Fault

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
(Zephaniah 3:3, 4)

Woe unto you also you lawyers! For you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.

(Luke 11:46, 52)

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezekiel 22:27)

The Conclusion:

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Hebrews 2:9)

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 
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. (Hebrews 9:13-15)

For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

(Matthew 26: 28)

Written by Ellen J. Barrier

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Those Who Judge Others Should Consider Who will Judge Them

We live in a world of fear and violence among those who point their fingers and are quick to prejudge others without knowing them. Those who judge others simply for no others reasons other than bias feelings toward them should know, there is only one judge who all people will stand before.

No one is in a position to judge another individual as a sinner, while considering him/herself to be without sin. Only God is in a position to judge us according to his wisdom, based on his laws of what he considers to be a sinful act committed.

When we read the text below, we get a complete understanding that the body of which our soul dwell in will always be imperfect. Mentally, we understand that it is wrong to commit a sinful act, and many of us desire to avoid committing wrongful acts. There is within our nature a weakness to yield to temptations. In order to resist temptations we need spiritual strength.

It is impossible to live above the nature of sin. It will always be a challenge that every human being will have to deal with. Therefore, perfection is an ever pursuing goal. But, our hope to please God is through salvation for our souls. That is achieved through prayer, and treating all people the way we would want to be treated.

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 (Ephesians 6:12) K.J.V

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

For the good that I would, I do not.  But the evil which I would not, that I do.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but sin that dwells in me.

I find that there is a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.

For I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity  to the law of sin which is in my members.

O wretched man that I am!

Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

I thank God through Christ Jesus our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;

but with the flesh the law of sin. (Romans 7:18-25) K.J.V

Written by Ellen J. Barrier