Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

Is this the beginnings of the one-world faith/religion that shall come in the Last Days?

I don’t think so because the movement has been in effect for some time, but this is definitely an open declaration that the movement is well and is being pushed to all and sundry from the United Nations, starting with the young in schools.

The movement pushes the idea that all religions are equal and reverence the same God, and it has crossed denominational lines and borders in the name of tolerance. That means that those of us who stick to the Bible’s proclamation that Jesus Christ is the only way and truth to God the Father will labeled intolerant bigots.

I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

– John 14:6

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How great is our God, for He is the living God!

What the LORD has said He has brought to pass to the day, and testified to not only in the Bible, but by archaeological facts, and even by the writings of secular historians.

Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

– Isaiah 46:8-11

This film chronicles the prophecies that have been fulfilled and shares the fulfillment of the prophecies regarding the Lord Jesus Christ. May it bless you.

And what the LORD has spoken regarding the times that we now live in, He shall bring to pass and then shall come our redemption!

Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.

– Luke 21:28

He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

– Revelation 22:20

Amen.

Everyone knows what a lamp is for — without lamps many of us would be walking blind in the darkness of night, especially me.

I have a degree of night blindness that does not allow me to see much of the landscape at night and I often go bumping into some object when on military exercises when ‘light discipline’ is enforced.

That’s why what King David wrote in Psalm 119:105 got me thinking.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

– Psalm 119:105

In the darkness, when we are lost, all we can trust is the light from a lamp. And this is what God’s Word is — without it being our light, we are lost and cannot find our way in the darkness, because there’s only darkness within and without us when God is not present.

If we say that this lamp is a light to our path, then it is, and ought to be, the only source of light that we have in the darkness to guide us. All our trust must be in the light that the lamp gives to illuminate our path — the Word of God.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.

– Proverbs 3:5-6

Lord, let your Word truly be our only a lamp to our feet and our guiding light to the path that we ought to follow, and we pray that You give us the wisdom to totally trust in your guidance, and not on our own foolish ideas and stubborn human strength.

Amen.

Photo by Brother Grimm.

If you still love secular music, this 4-part series will explicitly remind you of the warning given of God when Paul wrote:

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

– Ephesians 6:12

I’ll advise that this series will shock you. Minors are strongly advised to be accompanied by adult supervision when viewing the series.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from two of the most faithful and true teachers of God’s Word — John Piper and Paul Washer. I hope that they, too, encourage you and spur you on to examine your Christian walk.

John Piper

“Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered”

“One of the reasons we are not as Christ-centered and cross-saturated as we should be is that we have not realized that everything — everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good of his redeemed children — was purchased by the death of Christ for us. We simply take life and breath and health and friends and everything for granted. We think it is ours by right. But the fact is that it is not ours by right. We are doubly undeserving of it.”

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I have just finished watching this really interesting seven-part series that illustrates the evolution of evangelism methods from pre-20th Century to the watered-down versions of altar calls and pre-made repeat-after-me “sinner’s prayers” that we today experience.

The series is a video presentation based on the book of the same title by Patrick McIntyre. By explaining the evolution of the altar call and salvation prayer, McIntyre identifies why most Americans (and many others around the world who became Christians through such methodologies) think they are born again.

I strongly encourage you to watch this and examine if indeed you have Christ in you (truly born again), or did you just make a decision to believe in God.

Continuation:

• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7

Shalom Aleichem.

Have you ever considered why we back-slide now and then and fall away sometimes, or just don’t have the motivation to read the Bible, pray and sing praises to God?

While it’s a fact that we all go through dry spells, why then do some of us slip away so much that there’s an actual term for the condition, i.e. ‘backsliding’.

I got to thinking about this issue, because it’s not a unique problem to most Christians, including myself. I backslid down the slippery slope for years from my late teens after I left college and enlisted in the Army, and have just recently started to once again reach for the peak.

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