Death of India’s Democracy

The Indian freedom struggle was the most important period in the Indian history. The struggle where freedom fighters were doing everything to get rid of the British Raj, but the elders have something different to say. I have interviewed over 100 surviving elders from pre-independence era; they said that they were happier under the British rule. Although they said that they didn’t have the liberties and didn’t have right to vote, yet the civic services, water, electricity, good roads, clean environment, better living, employment and many other administrative services were above standards.

 

Today India decides their government with only 40% people casting their ballots. That’s not how a democratic society is governed. Many would argue saying that if people don’t vote then how we can have reform. But the facts are if all the political parties are founded on the basis of crime, corruption, fear, violence, brutality and breaking laws, then how can sane citizen decide whom to vote. Many parties but choice is less. One example is the Professionals Party of India (PPI), a party formed by educated people from the society. When they contested in 2009 elections their candidate was defeated by a bigger margin by a corrupt party candidate. Indians are so used to live in filth, crime, corruption and destructiveness that they are still not prepared for a reformed or a decent party to be elected.

 

It has been observed that in Five years no high level criminals are charged or sentenced to punishment. They come on the news channels under breaking news everyday like havala scam, murder, rape, bribe, terrorist links, barbarism etc., Thereafter, no news channels cover these accused and as to what really happened to them, were they sentenced, all we know is those criminals & politicians are free in the  society.

 

I wont take you very far away in the village areas, but the worst example of the failures of Indian civic administration is that just 5 kms away from Mumbai ( Bombay ) city the adjoining towns don’t have proper water and electric supplies.

 

While driving in the cities of India, one can casually break the traffic rule and escape penalty by just bribing the less than a dollor to a Policeman.

 

 

Pollution control is just not understood by the Indians. Vehicles on the road discharging black fumes, I bet take a one hour bike ride on any Indian city and then wipe your face with light colored cloth, you will find out for yourself. The Industries just don’t seem to follow any procedures that declare hazardous to the environment and also dump their toxic waste not far away from the site.

 

The lower middle class and the middle class have given up their rights to take rice, wheat, oil & kerosene from the ration shops. The reason the rice & wheat will have about 10% of small stones in it, or the ration shop doesn’t have stock, or the shop is closed, or the ration shop owner has sold it in black-market.

Further the escalating prices of basic food items have either doubled or unavailable in the stores. Fresh fruits & vegetables are only limited to the rich class because of the high prices. The majority of people in India will have rice, chapatti or lentil soup. More than 5000 children below the age of five have died in last four years everyday due to malnutrition or some sickness.

 

Health services are not worth discussing here as they really not worth discussing as I consider that these services are no longer available free or minimum cost for the impoverished class. I won’t talk about the rich class here as 80% of the Indian populations still are poor. Just four or five cities in India don’t make up for the entire Indian population. I guess that’s what makes many farmers & villagers to leave their dwellings and head to cities to start a new life or if not, atleast they can beg and earn more than farming. However, the atrocities cast upon the farmers in many states by the local landlord’s makes life nearly suicidal as these farmers are fully cheated in debts by those landlords. There is a high rate of suicides amongst the farming community all over India.

 

Crime rates in metro cities and the fast life doesn’t allow the people to look anywhere into the activities of the government. People have taken a false way of life as a real & practical way of life. The voice of the common man has been lost , very much after the Independence of India.

 

I can go on and on but even after reading this article many Indians will just nod and continue with their day to day routine. No one would dare to rise against the present anarchy and death in the face of Democracy government.

 

That’s why the elders say “wish we had not driven out the British”. Today news channels are being ransacked, reporters, journalists’ is being attacked. Where is the freedom of speech? Just because a particular party doesn’t like a news covered against them. Time & time the Police fail to nab the real culprits. The offenders are never touched and even if they are arrested then there is big uproar by their party members and the offender released.

 

Ministers can have scams of millions of worth dollars and still claim their innocence and never to be tried.

 

Terrorism is supported from within the government against its own people and we will just blame on the neighboring countries. I don’t say that those countries don’t endorse terrorism on Indian soil but how many of those incidents are related to our own or supported by within. Maoists continue to kill the Indian army personnel and poor villagers and still the government is deciding a specific strategy. Very soon this terror will spread across other Indian cities & states and we shall do nothing.

 

Indian freedom fighters did not dream of such future, all they wanted was for the people and of the people, how much has come in reality. Lets see how Indian democracy survives the burns of anarchy and evil.

Poland saves Europe

Viva Polska!

The strength, endurance, ability, determination of the Polish people has always been their spiritual gifts from God.

Although Europeans and the west never praised the Poland and look upon one of the struggling countries of the world.

History knows that it was the Polish pilots who were ultimately used by the British forces to thwart off the invading Nazis.

It was the Polish King Jan III Sobieski who fought the most decisive battles of the 17^th century to defeat the Ottoman Turks from invading Germany and to make Islamic Europe. The Vatican connection to support Ottoman Turks to destroy Germany was the agenda, Martin Luther was becoming a pain for the Pope. This second siege of Vienna ( 11^th September 1683 )was indeed the turning point in European History, which goes unrecognized as modern day Historians neglect it. After the battle, Polish King Jan III Sobieski sent the captured standard of the Turks with a victory message to the Pope thanking God alone for the victory. The King of Poland saved the Austrians, Germans and the rest of Europe, later on Austria was involved in three of Poland’s partition and Germany attacks Poland ( WWII ). Hitler was from Austria. However, if the Poles had to mind their own business and let the Turks rule over Austria & Germany then Hitler might not have been born or maybe? He could Abdul Hitler a Jihadi.

Also the Vatican was not getting taxes from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This union of Poles and the Lithuanians made Poland one of the largest empires in Europe in the 17^th Century. Thereafter Poland was for long time wiped out from the map of Europe. The Pope was always envying the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and had long sought to  wipe out Polish or atleast finish the Polish elected monarch system and to get the entire Poland under Catholic Church/Vatican.

The Polish have always been great warriors, during the battle of Monte Casino in WWII the Polish Soldiers were given the most dangerous location to combat, they did it despite heavy casualties.  The Polish played most important part in several battles in the WWII, but the sacrifices forgotten. What the west does for such valiant efforts of the Polish is unforgiveable; soon after the WWII the west serves Poland to hungry communist Russians. It was another 44 years until 1989 that the Polish got out of the Soviet clutches and becomes a Republic.

The worst fact is that Britain, France & the rest of the west forgot how Poland fought against the Russians in 1920-21 Russian Civil war. This was another turning point in the history of Europe when Poland without any assistance defeated the onslaught of the invading Russians, who wanted to transform the whole world with Communism. I guess the entire west owes to Poland and its dynamic Military leaders General Sikorski & Józef Piłsudski.

I term them the father of modern day Poland.

We have also heard lately in news about the Polish Engineer Piotr Stanczak who was beheaded by the Taliban in Pakistan for not willing to convert from Christianity to Islam.  He didn’t give up on his Faith , but indeed his killers were all praises and respect  for him after the incident because of his love for God.

I just take this as an opportunity to thank all those brave Polish people who protected the True Faith and allowed most of the world to live democratically.

Dark Side of UAE

All the sky touching towers, Mega shopping Malls, five star hotels, express highways, McDonalds, KFCs, Pizza Kings and all that which glorifies the Sheiks of the land. Indeed I never thought that UAE would be such high flying place on earth. People from all corners of the world come here to fulfill their families’ requirements and achieve their career and financial goals, but little do they know that this land has its own toll, after all it’s a place which is dwelling on desert and they are dealing with the Arabs who for centuries have been killing and slaughtering people. The only difference is that now these Arabs don’t ride on camel back but they drive 4.5Litre Land Cruisers & Hummers.

UAE might boost its amazing growth rate and a high GDP compared better than the rest of their folks in the Arabian Peninsula, but what happens here is never discussed on news channels or published in print media. They claim that they are least corrupt in administrative and bureaucratic front but lets not believe what the local news agencies have to say. Corruption is as high as any other underdeveloped country in the world, the crime statistics are never made public and the other atrocities by the locals on the expatriates are only rumored. The living conditions of the 1.6 Million Asian construction expatriate workforce are not worth describing and they live under very inhuman conditions. A ten feet by ten feet room with single toilet and bathroom will have ten to twelve workers sharing, this room will not even have a place to keep your foot. These workers have paid about Rs.100,000/- to Rs.120,000/-( Approx $ 2500 ) to a recruitment agent back in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. The worker thought that he would recover that amount within a year and he was also promised excellent wages plus lots of overtime, but when he lands in UAE. First his passport is taken by the employers PRO and he is made to sit in Minivan like a slave and dropped to his labor accommodation. The feeling for that worker only gets worse when he realizes that he has to share the room with ten more workers in a most unhygienic condition. The other workers usually will be very hostile with the new guy and they find all the reasons to vent out their frustration on this new guy. The next morning the new worker has to sign loads of documents , agreements’ & undertakings less then a minute. He is supposed to keep copies of the same or neither can he read them. These undertakings are signed to fully protect the employer not the employee. The new worker understands that his dream of becoming a rich man back home is only a dream and he has to face the fact that he will be working 12 hours a day without overtime in scorching heat of over 50 degree Celsius. He has barely any money for himself and all he thinks is how green were the pastures back home and how will he collect money for his daughters or sisters marriage or how will he educate his children. This new worker will get his vacation only after 4 years and during those 4 years he only knows work and two square meals.

Although the country doesn’t tax anybody but there are several other ways that the government gets money from the tourists and expatriates working here. You pay for the visa, identity card, for get employment, for water, for sewage, for electricity , parking, house rent tax, municipality charges, real estate charges, medical card charges and list of other services ( Note the UAE is highest in the world for its charges on services ). A person earning $ 3000 per month will barely have any savings at the end of the month as he has incurred all on the services. The government does issue a medical card but its very funny to know that the medical card doesn’t cover any medical insurance, I never understood then why issue a medical card on the first place. The amount spent for renting an apartment in UAE for two years will fetch a house for a person India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Almost 45% of the salary will go towards house rent.

Banks have their Kiosks all over, to lure the expatriate community for credit cards and personal loans. Claiming these cards are free for life without yearly charges, but one only gets fooled when realizes that even a minimum monthly payment sometimes becomes impossible. A person with a minimum salary of Dhms.2000/- ( $546 ) can also get a credit limit five times his salary or a personal loan 20 times his salary. Its only matter of time when the individual realizes that he was better off without a credit card or a personal loan. Since August 2008 many expatriates have lost their jobs due to recession and proof is hundreds of cars parked at the parking lots without the trace of the owner. However, even these cars were brought on loans. The expatriates who lost their jobs find it difficult to get jobs in their home country and many have even committed suicide.

I know one businessman Mr. Abdul Aziz who was awaiting his outstanding payment for his products sold for about 3 Million dirhams ( $ 815 thousand ) and the company owing him had fled the country. Mr. Abdul Aziz had registered a complaint to the authorities, but in vain. Eventually he was finding difficult to pay his employees, so he decided to take loan and pay them, he did release his employees to find jobs somewhere else. Little did he know that he would find difficult to pay the loan amount to the banks. Later the Bank filed a suit against Mr. Abdul Aziz, he was arrested and put into prison, his wife and children were not allowed to leave the country and they had to literally beg / borrow to even get one time meal.

Another instance I met a young expat who was cheated by his employer, mind you this employer was one of the biggest retailer in Dubai. They promised this guy named Karl a salary of Dhms.3000 per month but when he reached Dubai he was asked to sign an agreement of Dhm.900 per month for the job of Showroom Sales. Upon discovering the fraud Karl decided to approach the Ministry of Labor Department, he registered a complaint and was waiting for over a week for action to be taken by the Labor Department. Karl was living on the streets of Dubai without food or water, luckily we found him sleeping on a bench and we decided to help him. Karl said that one policeman had taken Dhm.2500 from him on a pretext to help him, thereafter the policeman supposed to be Capt. Mohammed Al Hashmi from Dubai Police wouldn’t help Karl or return his money. An official complaint was lodged at Murraqabat Police Station by Karl against Capt. Hashmi but no action was taken against him. They said “The Capt is Dubai local and a Muslim , we don’t cheat anybody , trust in Allah and one fine day the Capt would return your money”, this is not funny at all but what Karl had experienced in Dubai was one of the most horrific acts of he expats living here. We decided to lodge complaint with Indian Embassy Dubai, Indian Embassy Abu Dhabi & with the Police Head quarters so atleast Karl could get out of the country and Capt. Hashmi & Karls employer be punished. There was no response from any one of them. Finally Karl had to ask his relatives to transfer money to his employer sign an undertaking that he doesn’t have any case against the company and only then they allowed Karl to exit the country.

Now these are only some of the experiences I have mentioned above. The worst cases I have witnessed is human trafficking and children abuse. Dubai has the highest number of girls who are sold or forced into prostitution. I have seen and heard with my own eyes at one of the night clubs a Ukrainian girl being sold for Dhms. 30,000/- ( $ 8200 ). I was with one of my clients and he said these deals are very normal here sometimes girls are sold even for Dhms. 12000 ( $3300 ).

There is a very high percentage of girls from Eastern Europe, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, North Africa, East Asians being illegally brought into the country and forced into prostitution. No wonder Dubai has a Disco, Night Club and bar practically on every street. In the nights one can just see girls roaming the streets of Dubai. These girls are not even scared of a passing Police cars, as I understand that most of the Policemen are the local sponsors and owners of these girls.

All the glamour, blizz, international sporting activities doesn’t make a country developed. Neither does high rise buildings, indoor ski, water parks, seven star hotel make UAE a country to be pursued. One must not forget that it was Dubai which shelters some of the worlds most wanted criminals and refuse to handover these criminals to their respective countries.

People leave their families and head towards UAE to make their future, the laws here only protect the locals and hardly sentence the locals for any crimes against expats. Alcohol & prostitution are the major two elements where young expats get trapped and spend all of their fortune on both. Many expat females get sexually abused by their senior managers or locals without anything coming to the news. Many girls who are forcibly brought to UAE are murdered and killed and never return back to their home countries. Many expat employees get cheated and loose their savings which they had paid to the recruitment agencies, many girls get pregnant and quietly undergo abortion in UAE or fly to Mumbai to abort their unborn, high percentage of men & woman expats who leave their country have illicit or live in relationship which is unknown to their spouses back home and they say that due to financial crunch that was the only solution, many expats are locked up in the prisons of UAE for reasons unknown even to the Police. UAE and especially Dubai is the place which is very attractive but it has its own toll on the poor expats.

This country has a DARK SIDE which is world has unheard off, this is the place to magic , this is the place of curse , this is the place of material happiness or a place of life to get worse….

this is UAE.

Agents of Glory

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

A friend of mine is an agent for professional athletes. His whole career is based on representing his clients to teams in hopes of securing them the best possible salary and contract package. For each of his clients, he has a portfolio that highlights their statistics—height, weight, career highlights, awards, you name it. At a moment’s notice, he can give you a clear picture of the athlete’s accomplishments and abilities.

Every once in a while, my agent friend and I will talk about some of the athletes he represents. He has a couple of big names on his list, and I’ve found myself thinking, “Wow, you’re an agent for him? No way! That would be amazing.” But when I think about it, you and I have a far greater privilege and calling. We are agents of God—hired by the price He paid on the cross—to spread the “stats” of His glory everywhere we go.

Of course we know that God is totally self-sufficient and that His worth isn’t based on what other people think. But this fallen world needs to be reminded of how incredible and vast our God is. The psalmist points out that the heavens declare His glory. Creation speaks loud and clear about His creative power and divine nature. His Word paints a magnificent picture of His glory, recording the drama and wonder of God’s interaction with His people. And we have, on a daily basis, the responsibility of reflecting and representing God’s glory in this world.

His “portfolio” of glory staggers the imagination. It encompasses His personal, unconditional love. It draws in His broad and limitless mercy—mercy that patiently holds back His hand of judgment. His credentials include perfect wisdom, undiminished holiness, unflinching faithfulness, perfect justice, and the realities that He is all-powerful and all-knowing. Simply put, His glory is all that He is in His all-surpassing, praiseworthy, stunning perfection.

So how do we reflect His glory? On this side of heaven, as fallen sinful creatures, we do it imperfectly. However, as we begin to grasp how immense and incredible God’s glory is, it starts to show up in our lives. As we demonstrate mercy and forgiveness to a friend that has wounded us, we are agents of God’s mercy. When we remain faithful to our relationships, loving others through thick and thin, we are reflecting the glory of God’s unconditional love. When our hearts of compassion move us to act on behalf of the poor, the needy, and the marginalized, we are representing our God’s heart of justice and compassion. As our lives begin to line up with the principles of God’s Word, we highlight the glory of God’s perfect wisdom. His “portfolio” is on display for a needy and watching world.

Paul reminds the Corinthians that the purpose of our redemption—God buying us back—was that we might glorify God. You are His agent today. There is no greater privilege or calling!

YOUR JOURNEY…

Take a few minutes to write out some characteristics that would appear in God’s portfolio. Spend some time praising God for who He is and what He’s like!
List some ways you have seen some of God’s characteristics reflected in the lives of other Christians.
For each of those characteristics, write out some practical ideas about how they could be reflected in your life.
In prayer, thank God for the privilege of being an agent of His glory and ask that people would clearly see Him reflected in your life.

When babies die

What happens to the souls of aborted babies?  If the answer is they go straight to heaven, does this not make infanticide the greatest form of evangelism ever discovered and Dr. George Tiller one of the greatest evangelists of all time?
Although the scriptures do not speak to this hypothesis, are these souls possibly born in the Millennial reign of Jesus?  Such an assertion would logically suggest the same for all children that die before the age of accountability and the mentally incapacitated.

Both the Old and New Testaments make it clear that from the moment of conception until the age of accountability, children belong to God. In Romans 7:9 Paul said that he was alive apart from the Law until the commandment came, when sin sprang to life and he died.  Since he lived for many more years, it’s obvious he was talking about the spiritual death that comes upon reaching the age when we’re held accountable for our sins.  After that we must make the choice to be born again in order to remain in God’s family and avoid the penalty for our sins.
Aborted babies are just like other children who die before the age of accountability.  They belong to the Lord.  At the Rapture they’ll receive resurrection bodies and will dwell in the New Jerusalem as part of the Church.
Dr. Tiller repeatedly and with malice aforethought violated the commandment against taking an innocent life.  Although the result was beneficial for the victims, Dr. Tiller is accountable for their lives  (Genesis 9:6) unless before his death he sought forgiveness.

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

The number of spiritual, god, holy, healing and religious channels on the TV are on rise. Not because of the growth of spirituality or people following the faith, but all intended to make thousands & millions of dollars. The Media has played an important part to support the preachers, healers and the so called sons of God. The Media downplays any criticism against these preachers and controls any truth from directly affecting the beliefs of the followers. Perhaps, there have been many experts and authors who want to share the facts of religion or faith with the people. However, the media and rich people behind the preachers don’t allow these facts to be published and the outcome they declare the works of the people who uncover the facts, merely as fake or fabrication or misleading the followers.

Preachers like Billy Graham, Beny Hinn, Joel Osteen and may others are quite wealthy and fully backed by the government, rich and the elite. The backing comes  as huge sums of money is involved and it works for the government to control the people and to deceive them. The common people have been controlled and manipulated in the name of the religion. The Roman Catholics, Protestant, Jews & Muslims have all been trapped in the same hole. The whole idea of the government is to divide them and unify them and make money out of them. The different sects and religions are all the time busy in fighting each other than reconciling with each other, as the government decides. One thing is certain these Rich businessmen, politicians and preachers don’t have any religion and I wonder if they even fear God.

 

The common man / woman is always under the stress of what is the right way of worshipping God, how do I pray? Should I dance , should I sing hymns, should I clap or should I kneel down,. I have researched and witnessed that people change their churches atleast 4 to 5 minimum in their whole life time. The reason is they enter certain congregation and are overwhelmed by the praise & worship, healing, miracles, prophecies, testimonies etc., and feel that “yes, this is my church, this is where I belong, thank God I am in this congregation”. They even spent 20-30% of their earnings on the church, the pastors become rich and the church has more flamboyance and color. After experiencing holy spirit in this church ( I am not sure with all those occult practices if that’s the Holy spirit they felt). They are so sure that whatever good or bad happens in their life they thank God, the pastor programs them that in even the worst of sufferings the people are made to believe that those are the acts of God. Therefore, the pastors don’t have any real opposition or substantial criticism.  During the times of trouble I have seen people shed more than 50% of their earnings. I guess the pastors & preachers like this situation of their followers as more money and they can profess some coming soon good days. When these followers discover the real agenda of the church and a great deal of envy is created among themselves over certain key positions in the church, the believers start to fall out and look for another real church, they want to be born again once again, they want to be Christians one more time. Oh! What a sorry state they are in during this phase, as they even stop praying to God during the transition period from one church to another. Apparently the same story continues in the next church and after that and after that. The followers are just deceived in following these pastors, preachers, healers and holy men, without understanding the real meaning of the word of God or knowing the Gospel.

 

I fail to understand if God did allow suffering than I am sure he wants us to learn something from that, or maybe we are not on the path of faith. There has to be some sense. Perhaps the sufferings have befallen upon us due to our own inequities. Yet we blame God. Why do I need to sing in a certain church, dance, clap, fall in trance, music, loud shouting’s by the preacher “ You are healed”, “The spirit has touched you”, “ Jesus has touched you” and so forth and so on. I don’t think that God ever wants me to indulge in any stupid or foolish traditions of the world to follow him. Why? Don’t we have our own copy of the Holy Bible, maybe we didn’t read it properly, or maybe we just read everyday because our pastor made us feel guilty to read without really understanding what we read.

 

When we have the Gods word at our disposal and when the instructions are made clear, we fail to even follow the basic instructions given in the scriptures and get confused by so many traditions of the world. We were born of sin, sin is committed everyday, we shall commit sin tomorrow and after tomorrow, some way or the other. We forget that Jesus Christ was born, baptized and died on the cross for our sins, to wash away our sins, to forgive our sins and to lead us to salvation. Literal sense we even sometime use that “all our sins our forgiven”, so give ourselves room for allowed sins so that those words are like medicine that our sins our forgiven, it’s not the license to sin. When I understand, I know the scriptures and yet I sin than I cant call myself as Born again (Not related to any church but our spirit & mind born again).  

 

We commit many follies and disgraceful acts just in the name of the father and assuming that “ All our sins are forgiven”, a sure acts of deliberation, how can w be saved in such deceitful tactics with God. I discovered that more and more people are becoming less & less fearful of God. Or else we won’t have so many people falling into devils plans and in wrongful actions and blasphemies against God. Easily following the pastors, leaders, preachers who lead us to follow the devil. When it’s said God is within us we go and seek him in idols, holy men, miracles, churches and everywhere but do not give him a chance to live within us, all the while we try to throw him out of our body with all the unholy actions.

 

I conclude that when we are aware the exact do’s & don’ts mentioned in Gospel and yet challenge God that means we really underestimate God and don’t care for him. How we live our lives on earth in sinful ways and throw away the eternal life after judgment just because of few years of LIVE LIFE on earth. Lets not commit our follies, inequities, follow false prophets , traditions, sins, lust, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER….

Dont make God a Liar.

I have heard many people nowadays trying to challenge the word of God, for those of you who don’t know what’s that, it’s the “Bible”. Yes! I often hear from my fellow brothers and sisters in our Ministry that they are most of the times questioned by their friends, co-workers and relatives. The saddest part is when elders question and argue with my fellow ministry brothers and sisters on authentication of Bible and I am sure that’s the case with most believers throughout the world.

“He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believed not the record which God gave of his Son.” –1 John V. 10.

What is unbelief? What is it to challenge Gods word?? Why are they doing it to go against God???

Many people speak about unbelief without understanding the full context, its not the absence of Faith, Its not a negative state of mind, its also not an intelligent attitude to demand sufficient proof for Gods existence, or neither it is an ignorance of Faith or its truth, its also not disbelief or merely to say the opposite of what Bible says, unbelief is simply an act of sin what the bible says and its not a sound state of mind.

Perhaps you will call me a radical writer by now, off course if I have to live in Faith, then I must teach the world what the word of God has to say and to the disbelief of the unbelievers the Bible is true.

If unbelief is a sin then I guess it’s a voluntary state of mind. The Bible clearly tells us not to indulge in this spirit and it’s a crime that we would be accountable for. Its one of the greatest sins and we are to stay away from it. Is it really an opposite of Faith, Then I say “What is Faith”? Its not a persons intellectual conviction, we know it cannot be, because even the devil has Faith. Many wicked people, criminals, thieves, adulteress have Faith and the matter of fact the truth assents them all , that’s why they have so much trouble with it. Faith consists, then, in giving God our confidence, in voluntarily yielding ourselves up to him, confiding in him, trusting in him, casting ourselves upon him, voluntarily receiving his truth, and committing ourselves to him. It is thus that the term faith is used in the Bible; the very term that is rendered commit, is also rendered faith. “Let them commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.” And again, “But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men;” in these, and divers other instances, the word here rendered faith, is rendered commit.

So here we see that Unbelief is exactly the opposite of it, to withhold confidence without having sufficient evidence, it’s the state of heart (Mathews 6: 19-24) not of the intellect, its all in the heart. It’s the unbelief that doesn’t imply to commit to God and asks validation for the word of God, is that so??? Or maybe it’s not ready to receive the truth. We often see that state of heart which is so drowned in the treasures’ of world, that even they deny to see the truth just because they think that the word lacks evidence. Once again we clearly see that their mind & heart is stuck up in the teachings or rituals of the world or I say worldly things. We see multitudes of men on every side whose minds are made up concerning the truth of the Bible; they believe it is true; assent to it intellectually, and they call this faith: they say they believe–their opinions are settled. They can argue in defense of their principles, and they say they have faith in them. You call upon them to believe, and they say they do believe; while the fact is, when men will not commit themselves to the truth, they do not believe to the saving of their souls. Intellectual belief is nothing without confidence. The Bible says, “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith.

” Apparently how does unbelief makes God a liar, very simple there no mathematical formula, but its said in the text “he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar.” Withholding of confidence, is a practical denial that God is worthy of confidence. Now, there is nothing more unreasonable in the universe, than unbelief. God has so constituted men, that, by a necessary law of their minds, they affirm that he will not lie. Nobody ever believed that God would lie; everybody knows better, every intelligent being in earth, hell, or heaven, knows that God will not lie; and yet, wherever an individual withholds confidence in God, it is a practical denial of his trustworthiness, a practical denial of what reason and conscience affirm must be true. Indeed this is the most daring form of sin one can commit, to challenge God, who has made heaven and earth, but this sin is injurious to the self and the society. Why, who does not know that if a wife should withhold confidence from her husband, she would ruin herself and her husband too? And so, if a husband withholds confidence in his wife, he ruins his own happiness and that of his wife too. Suppose that confidence is withheld, without good reason, by a husband from his wife, how it ruins her happiness, what a trial it is for her to endure! Suppose that the husband reproaches the wife with having committed some wrong, and withholds his confidence; and, suppose the children lose confidence in her, how can she manage to govern them? What wrong is done to the family! Probably the family would be ruined. Destroy confidence in a government, and, unless it be very strong, and thus enabled to keep the people in awe, that government will very soon be ruined. So with business transactions. The world has to live by confidence in each other. There is no community whatever that is not ruined, if unbelief, want of confidence, comes to be the law of action. Withholding confidence when there is no reason, is the greatest crime a man can commit against society, or the family. Everybody must admit this.

Some of you who yourselves Christians, also fail tremendously in holding your confidence in God. How many times have you slipped from climbing your spiritual hill just because something went wrong or maybe something went absolutely right and you prospered, and prospered and fell due to PROSPERITY? When things go wrong you either run back to God or drift away from God. The Bible says “all things shall work together for good to them that love God,” So even the Christians who believe in God in bits and pieces or from time to time, I say cling on to your faith and trust in God and love him with all your heart. He never fails his children. The people who cling to unbelief will be taken care by the law of God or by the wrath. God is the only virtue of ultimate and true love for mankind , that’s why he sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ to save the world and to redeem us all from our original, past, present and future sins. Now that doesn’t give us license to just practice all out sinfulness in open, challenging God to the end. You think someone can push God to the wall, that’s blasphemy, unbelief itself is blasphemy. Something to think about through the pages of Old Testament , those chapter on flood in Noah’s time, Sodom & Gomorrah and many other fates that fell upon mankind because of sinfulness, the wrath of God we read clearly in all those chapters.

It was the unbelief that started all the other sinful acts on humans, from unbelief starts or is the root cause of all other evil elements in society. Where there is unbelief there is no Love for God, when there is no Love for God, there path is paved for all other sinful indulgences and veracity of evil heart. Have we ever witnessed or read anywhere that some person of high unbelief was able to defeat God. Its never heard or seen of, lets keep that example aside, we have seen some strong believers like David, Abraham, Samson, Noah, Joseph, Paul and even the US President who were victorious against their enemies just because of their Faith and Love for God.

 So my question is? Are you guilty of unbelief??, if so, you have just charged God of being a Liar. If you say that you need to overcome that guilt and unbelief, then you need to Love God and trust in him completely and start believing totally. The beginnings of total believe is creating peace & joy in your heart. When you have joy and peace in your heart, you will have joy & peace in everything you do. The mind cannot be reposing in the promises of God, if it has not peace and joy. Again: when persons have not power in prayer–when they have no faith in prayer, to prevail with God. In the Bible, we are told that those who have faith, have power with God, and can prevail with God, and receive the spirit of their petitions. Now, let me ask you, my hearers, if you have this confidence, this faith which makes you mighty in prayer; or, do you want this power in prayer? If the latter, then you are guilty of unbelief. Now, one of two things must be true, if these things are wanting in your soul,–if you have no confidence in the promises, no peace of mind, and no power in prayer,–either the Bible is not true, or you do not believe the Bible; because the Bible affirms that these things are true of them that believe.

“There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.”

Many live in the bondage of some form of sin, that bondage is a state of unbelief. When people live under any form of worldliness, they are under condemnation of law. Now if you are living in this state then your own conscious condemns you because of your unbelief, but what does the person so , I guess all that he does is find facts & evidences about the scriptures. Its like when I show my birth certificate, you will say that’s not true and you need evidence, funny it may sound, but that’s how people living under unbelief do with the word of God. Earlier I wrote about peace & Joy through believe, and then the power of prayer, now I say is that our spirit should be a spirit of a slave. A slave not of sin , but of our most high master “ Lord almighty God”. We must exactly do everything what our master pleases, isn’t that what slaves are supposed to do, if not they are condemned. However, we serve this master with Love. Many great people serve God through religion and they assume that they are perfect and command great respect in the community & Church. But to serve God is to serve him with the spirit of a son, I wonder how many people serve their own parents with a spirit of son or daughter, I know most of us are feeling guilty by now. Then how do we declare that we serve God in our Church, Ministry or local congregation. Just by performing our religious duties and witnessing some Sunday rituals with the obligation of guilt, one commits to the least of evil. That’s also a reason I call people that they have unbelief. Even a person holding a rosary in hand and doing novenas, offerings, etc has not submitted to our Master fully, I mean did we become his children or servants or slaves in reality. Christianity, to them, is not a peace-giving religion; it is not their life in which they have supreme delight, loving it for its own sake. It is to them something which they must attend to, something which they must not neglect, but which they would be very glad to neglect if they dared. They go to meeting, and read their Bibles, and pray, not because their hearts are filled with love to God, love to the Bible, love to their closets–not because they love to have communion with God. No! Their religious duties are regarded as a task, which they must not omit to perform. Now remember, that in every instance where persons take this view of religion, and religious duties, there is unbelief in the heart. Such persons go through a form of prayer, not from love to God, but because they think it is their duty to pray. Who does not see that to approach God from such motives is not prayer, but only an indication of a mere servile spirit, an evident manifestation of unbelief. They don’t come to God to get anything. They don’t expect to receive anything from God. The Bible has promised them great things in answer to prayer, but they don’t expect them. They pray, because it is their duty. They never run to God to make a request, as a child runs to its father for something which it wants, holding up its little hands with a smile on its face, expecting to get the favor for which it asks. They do nothing of this sort. They say their prayers, or perhaps read them; go through a form, and do what they call praying, and what for? Many persons pray, not because God has given them promises, not because they have something in their hearts that they want God to give, and because they expect to get it, but because it is their duty to make a prayer. Now, who does not see that this is a manifestation of unbelief; the evidence of a spirit directly opposite to the spirit of prayer, and everything that belongs to true religion.

Now, if any of you, my readers, have been religious because it was your duty,–have served God from a servile spirit, and not from spontaneous love; let me urge you, for once, to approach his throne to-night, and pray, expecting to receive that for which you seek. I say that now you are an unbeliever; you may call yourself what you please, but as certain as God is true–as certain as God is true, you have no faith! The very opposite of Faith is the considerations of worldliness and just living for everything but all things in this world, I don’t think there is more unbelief than this. You once give in to all the material things and evils of the world which you will think that’s its trend or modern, my dear brothers & sisters you are wrong. Can you receive God’s truth into your mind, if it is given up to other influences?

It is naturally impossible for you to serve God and the world! If you are worldly-minded, I say, it is an evidence of unbelief! Confidence in God makes the righteous like Loins ! And I will also say read the Bible with all your attention and Love for God, Nobody neglects the Bible who believe in it. Yes its true, but we don’t want to accept it, maybe superficially some might nod with me here. Once reading this is over you shall be back to the worldly routines. I don’t ask you to be a monk or a sage but what I stress upon is the ultimate desire for the treasures on heaven and the true Love for God, obedience for the Gods word, fulfilling the way scriptures have guided us to be, there are lots of promises in the Bible by God and we need to rely upon those and to rely upon those one has to be on the path of righteousness just the was Jesus Christ told us to do. a spirit of indifference in regard to the state of religion, blindness in regard to the state of sinners, no compassion for them, a want of interest in their conversion, are certain indications of unbelief; and I might point out hundreds of others.

But let me ask, who of us are guilty of unbelief? If I am guilty of unbelief, I am the very wretch that writes to you, and makes God a liar! If you are guilty of unbelief, you are the wretches who stand before God, and accuse him of being a liar! Horrible! horrible! But is it not true? Does not everybody know, that if a man withhold confidence from God, it is because he regards God as unworthy of confidence; and if unworthy of confidence, it must be that he is not a true being, but a liar! The end product or the result of unbelief is a state of heartless religion. That’s why you will find people who claim to be in religion, only self satisfying, without knowing how to truly Love, understand, or not to hurt others for selfish needs, they don’t have principles , they don’t have Joy & Peace in their lives. Their constant search for happiness leads them to live life in a worldly fashion and keep on desiring material gains. They stake their health, family, relationships, friends, co workers and everyone around. Just because their hearts are filled with unbelief, they loose their Faith, and so many things without regard to God. Oftentimes, what they call their religious duties, they perform not out of love to God, supreme regard to him, but to promote their own selfishness.

Subsequently the unbelief will risk Salvation……whoa whoa whoa , now you are asking me , “What’s this guy upto?”. Yes what I say if its false, then I will be the only one facing Gods wrath, so don’t worry I am not here to proclaim opposite to Faith, but towards Faith. Salvation is necessary and natural condition for us to lead to heaven, however as I said unbelief makes it impossible. If anybody has to go to heaven then he must prepare to go to heaven. What’s there in heaven? What will he do in heaven? What’s it like to be in heaven? What is heaven ? now if someone really needs to be there , then being Holy and living in true Faith is very important. A heart which is abiding to Gods word and obedience to God is necessary, not because someone tells you, but go check for yourself the Bible. all unbelief entirely rejects the Mediator between God and man–it rejects the office, the authority, and atonement of Christ altogether. The penalty of the law is dead against those that are unbelievers–those who believe not are condemned already, because they have not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Concluding I shall say that the first sin on earth was all because of unbelief, so you know what an obstacle unbelief is and where it could lead us into. The worst thing is that the same unbelief makes God a liar, I know what you are thinking but you gotta pause for a minute and think about Adam & Eve episode, what did they do , what did they do , it was because they didn’t believe in what God had told them. However, they were lucky to have direct dealing with God and now we have the entire Bible to tell us about Gods Love and his equal wrath upon the world. –”When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and also gave unto her husband with her, and he did eat.” All I can see in that above verse from Genesis is that it was the outcome of loosing confidence in God and stepping into unbelief. Whatever God told them was I vain, or was it not? Now, what was the particular form of sin? Why, it was first withdrawing, and then withholding, faith from God; they refused to confide in what God had said–they did not believe that he studied their good in the prohibition. They listened to the words of the tempter, and believed what he told them, that God was jealous of them; that he forbade them to eat of the tree lest they should become gods: and then they withdrew confidence in God, and suffered the consequences. Withholding confidence in God is also worst forms of evil, I tell you what’s said above is all co-relating with each other and just gets worse as humans get entangled into the web of sins and keep on falling into it. Why persons are drawn aside into vice is, because they have lost confidence in God and goodness. If a man yielded his heart to God, could he be carried away with every breath of temptation? No, indeed, he could not; but when he withdraws confidence, the mind is darkened, and error exercises its full power in his soul. How remarkable was the effect of unbelief in Adam and Eve! As soon as they withdrew confidence in God, they thought they could hide themselves from him; so grossly did they fall into darkness by withholding confidence, that they thought they could hide themselves among the trees when the Lord God walked in the garden.

Perfect FAITH could have Holiness, confidence in God could be always rendered. Complete Love for God will direct all our characteristics, in our life, , our family, our friends and in society. How beautiful it is if all follow the word and live the life scripturally and to stop living in sin. Lastly, let me urge upon you to reflect upon the awful wickedness of unbelief. Suppose you have withdrawn confidence from God, what is the state of your hearts? Why, you are playing the hypocrite and concealing the real state of your hearts, and are thus kept from being indicted for blasphemy. Unbelievers, in the sense in which I have explained, whether in the Church or out of the Church, if you were to speak out the real state of your hearts, you would be disgraced before the community and chased from society, if you should venture to persist in this unbelief. Now, in a few days you and I shall stand before God. What will be our state then? We shall stand before him whom we have accused of lying, withdrew confidence from, and would not believe! But I must not continue this strain of remark. May God have mercy on us; and let us ponder these things, and turn unto the Lord with full purpose of heart, and thus avert his wrath from us! God bless you all

Jesus Loves me, But do I ?

“Jesus loves me, but what about me, do I love Jesus”?

2 Timothy, chapter 3 1: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4: Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5: Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6: For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7: Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

God’s greatest adversary Satan has always had many plans devised towards Human race and for last 1000 years that Satan has used Gods very word to be corrupted. Alarmingly though the Last three generations have witnessed the most; we see revival all over the world, especially when it involves everything around Gods word. Just as the book of Revelation says, that end times is going to be a spiritual warfare era, I don’t know much about the end times cos Jesus tells that no one knows exactly the end times. But I pay heed to the words of Bible and assume that’s its better be prepared for my day before God then to be sorry. We don’t know really when our time before God will be, today or tomorrow or some time in the near future, why take a chance. Let’s be stuck to the word of God, because that’s what gives us confidence for our eternal survival or eternal salvation. Although Satan has been able to shipwreck many to be deceived by his questions about Gods power and allowing humans to try to become like God. We all know right from the beginning of time, the Adam & Eve period that humans have fallen prey to Satan’s deception, only damnation is guaranteed with Satan’s assurances but with Gods grace we can escape it.

2 Corinthians 4: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 1 Timothy 1: 18-20 18: This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest wage a good warfare; 19: Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 20: Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Now for me to start with 2 Timothy chapter 3 from verse 1 to 7 at the beginning of this note was very important to understand as some of you not reading their bibles. We are currently faced with perilous scenes around the world and I am not even talking about all those end times or destruction Hollywood movies. Those movies might become blockbusters for their special effects and the destructive storyline, but how much seriously have to taken the warnings given to us in the Bible. There’s happy ending here only for people truly living in Faith.

Today cult belief has crept into many Christian sects and people have been lost in the rituals rather then the real word of God. I was born in India and as a kid I was told that I was Roman Catholic, Oh! I was always asking “Why am I Roman Catholic if I am born in India, it doesn’t make sense”, I asked this question even to a Catholic priest during one of my religion classes at High School and he instead of answering me had punished me to stay away from the religion classes for the whole year. However, I did pass that exam at the end of the year as I was able to answer the question papers because of my understanding of word. Now what I emphasize here is not my life story but a very sensitive issue with Catholic Church and many other Christian churches and sects which profess contradiction to the word of God. It was always better for me to be Born Again and live my life scripturally, now when I mean born again I don’t mean by visiting some Ministry and dipping myself in a well of Holy water or pond, but to be born again spiritually and yet I endeavor to be born again each day of my life and in the process I am being born again each moment when I dedicate my life as it is said in the word of God. Keeping oneself clear from sin, pure in heart and having that confidence in Gods promises.

Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,” neither can he “enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:3, 5). I was both blind and separated from the kingdom of God until my spiritual rebirth, which Jesus declared was imperative: “Ye must be born again” (v.7).

We have never abandoned Satan or we always strive on things which are deceitfully allowing our souls to be bonded to Satan’s lies. How come we don’t take Bible seriously, didn’t we learn that all those who were not with God were indeed trapped in Satan. How much warnings do God has to give us, doesn’t the governing of Jesus Christ to be our spiritual savior mean anything to us. We are witnessing each day the Love of Jesus Christ and even proclaim the word of God , praise him at the Church every Sunday or Wednesday or Friday. Thereafter, we let Jesus Christ stay at the Church until we return back the next Sunday. Our inclination towards all the ungodly things is more than our love for God. How does that happen? Wish I could penetrate into the hearts of people and check for myself and turn them to understanding the Love of the Father & his son, but the answer lies in the very hearts of people, they all know that they are doing wrong , but its only that they have lost their fear and love for God or vice versa. One can only see through this that how people have extended their trust in Satan by stampeding the Love of God. With each passing day we come closer to our physical & spiritual extinction. Lets not commit suicide spiritually and return to the Gospel of Water & spirit, to understand Gods love , to realize and to repent and to turn our backs to Satan’s desires, to live our life for the Love of God and to love God as he has loved us.

God bless

 Amen

Kids become MTV roadies

 

We are indeed becoming a country influenced by west. I was browsing through the TV channels when I came across the MTV Roadies selection. Although I don’t watch TV much, but that minute while I was on this channel I seen something extremely strange character of the Roadies show. There were three MTV VJs who were interviewing the prospective participants for the show. One participant was asked to walk like a dog on his hands and legs, go outside the studio and bite five persons. The participant was given a choice if he doesn’t want to do it, then its ok they shall give him a different task. Fearing that the interviewers would eliminate him, the participant agreed to do so, because he was that desperate to be on the Roadies show. It was very humiliating and embarrassing as even for the sake of fun, I don’t think that a sane person would do that.

The next participant was a female, she was in her late teens, she was asked something about her mother, what does she feel about her. The female replied “Oh! These mothers and father are very irritating and very imposing”. Then she was also proudly showing a knife cut mark on her wrist that she had because she wanted to commit suicide, reason, she was angry with her dad. The interviewers asked her a last question how many boyfriends she had this year, she was trying to recollect and count on her fingers and then she came up with a figure, she said “Maybe seven but I think more than that, not sure”. When asked when did she have her first boyfriend? She replied “I had my first boyfriend at the age of 13 and ever since I have forgotten the count, can’t remember all of them and I guess I lost my virginity at 13 or 14 something like that”.

 

Now I am not upset on those kids, who portray themselves in such a filthy manner on a national TV. Perhaps I am only disgusted the way their parents have raised them and I am totally upset by the manner those parents have taken care of their kids.

 

I am not even trying to imagine what’s the future going to be like for those kids , who have lost track with morality. Somewhere into their minds the media, movies and television has played a very destroying role. They have been nurtured in sinful thinking and sinful was of life. I don’t compare Humans with animals as , one can understand they are animals, but off course, animals live on instincts and natural pattern. Animals have been living in that pattern from the beginning of time, not us.

 

Parents can either spare the rod and destroy their kids or do the other way and guide their kids to a better future.

 

 

My Religion of Shame or my faith of glory to god

How does one recognize a Christian on the street? How does one define a Christian in a society? How does one live as a Christian during his life?

 I wonder many of you have got the answers by now , but for those who are still blind enough to see and deaf enough to listen. I would explain the above in short.

Some of my non-Christians friends say that they define and recognize a Christian by the way they dress up, especially the girls who wear typical Christain dresses which are skimpy and exposing the frame of body and they recognize a Christian boy with long hair, some ear rings, tattoos, foul English language which will have some words like MF,, FY,,FO,BAS$%#^%, SON (*&^%% a and many more words probably you know better.

One of my friend emailed me list of identifying a Christian :-

• A Christian man /woman drink alcohol and allows even his kids.

• Christmas & Easter are two great seasons for dance, parties, dating, having lots of booze, proposing a girl/boy or having lots of Pork.

 • A Christian wears revealing and fashioned clothes to Church. • A Christian goes to Sunday church to check out some girls.

• A Christian boy or girl can freely have many love affairs and physical relationships with consent of their parents.

• A Christian works in Gulf, ship, hotel or call centre.

• Oh! A Christian also plays unnecessary football and neglects their studies.

• A Christian wears a cross around his /her neck or has Jesus tattoo and also a tattoo of a skull and errr devil I guess.

• A Christian can point fingers to his /her parents and talk.

• A Christian is very free minded ( I don’t what that means ??? )

• A Christian is very fearful or scared or tame, no guts.

• A Christian speaks bad English.

 • A Christian is very unspiritual and does not respect his religion.

• A Christian ,,,,,,,I guess is a bad influence on our society , I think they are DEVILS.

However, I was very much angry by the last few sentences but I was looking through the parishes of Roman Catholic Churches and other ministries around the city. I visited few Catholic Churches and I observed a very peculiar sightings what this person had mentioned above, I was alarmed by what I had observed and I really felt sad for the Christian society. If that is the way the non-Christians are going to view us, I think it’s really a bad image what we as Christians have portrayed to others.

One of the best sight I had at the Mount Mary Church during an event which marks the feast of that church at Bandra ( Mumbai ) in 2009. I saw a priest holding and almost touching some girls unnecessarily and embracing them and doing all kinds of immoral body language. I noticed that the girls were not more than teenagers and they dressed to their minimal. I thought how the celibacy of a Roman Catholic priest could control his urge of flesh. I wonder what that priest must be doing in closed doors, I didn’t see that part so I better not speak about that. Its mentioned in Bible to Glorify Gods name , is this what is called glorifying Gods name, what a shame.,

Ezekiel 13

It does not demand that Christians live a separated life dedicated to God but what demands today is being “cool”, that’s the in word. Don’t tell me to put the statistics here about crime, unemployment, corruption, rape, child abuse, human rights, abortion and so forth and so on. You can get all the details on the newspapers and news channels, it all screams there. Christianity has been reduced to moral thinking rather than moral living. Christianities revival is just a mere handshake, smile or passing of a greeting card at a prayer service or some Christian’s feasts. I know that multitudes of sects , cults and many congregations and ministries have grown. Perhaps I wish there was a revival in real terms what it meant to be Love for truth, but it isn’t. The entire revealed truth of God is not declared in the Gospel of today so the “converts” wander off after whatever religion suits their particular fancy. The keynote today is compromise. Everybody is to forget their “petty doctrinal differences” and join hands in a “great compromise.” In the midst of this kind of atmosphere false cults and religions are booming! Modernism marches on!!! the shallow carnal Christian today’s so-called “revival” produces, indeed, if it produces any Christians. May God help us to return to a gospel that glorifies God, antagonizes Satan, squelches sin, convicts sinners, produces repentance, routs false teachers, abolishes false religions, promotes sound doctrine, and brings about the miracle of regeneration that makes a hell bound sinner into a new creature in Christ Jesus.

 “ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Holy Spirit of God: For they are foolishness unto him., Neither can know them, because they are spiritually discerned” ( 1 Corinthians 2:14 ).

One of our fellow church daughters is always faced with some difficult from her teenage friends and one boy particularly often argues with her on the word of God and he tries to his best twisting and turning the word. As mentioned in 1 Corinthians 2:14 I find that verse very much for such people like this boy. However, its not a matter of surprise but today in our Christian community many youngsters and elders are drifted away from the real word of God. These Christians are not at all shameful of their perception as mentioned in the beginning of this article how the non-Christians perceive them.But they have found delight, the way they are living a false Christian life and continue to expand their sinful and ungodly horizons even a step further and being born again is just a joke for them……

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:1-7).

Now let me tell you these words from the Bible are so precise and clear to understand , I am sure that many have read these words at their church readings, bible studies, Sunday schools or maybe not. Then I ask how come there is so much indifference from certain Christians about the way Christian life is or what the word of God teaches. I understand something , these Christians have either not read their Bible or they have been drowned in wickedness and deceit that they just don’t care about God, perhaps they don’t revere or fear God.,

 I strongly feel that to know what is Christianity one has to read and understand the Bible, its quite simple, isn’t it. No it isn’t just by reading one only understands the concept but one has to live and follow and practice the word in reality. Just by wearing jeans, short skirts, t-shirts, listening to rock music, going for dance, discos and dating isn’t mentioned in the Bible , so all the Christains out there , I suggest that you stop calling yourself Christians. The Bible teaches that man is created in the image of God. God manifests Himself to mankind in the Persons of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Oh! Certainly yes, I don’t say that , but that’s what the Bible says. If you are going to read actually the Bible, you will understand what it has stored for you. God never forces anyone to accept Jesus as their Savior. He simply offers a warm invitation to anyone who wants to have their sins forgiven and go to Heaven. Salvation is a free gift (Romans 5:15), paid for by the precious blood of Jesus Christ (1st Peter 1:18,19). We must accept God’s gift of eternal life or it WILL be forever forfeited when we leave this world (die).

God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:17, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Notice, God said they would die “the day that thou eatest thereof.” Interestingly, Adam and Eve DIDN’T die physically the day they ate the fruit and disobeyed God’s command.

The reason is because they died SPIRITUALLY. Sin had entered the human race. The Bible teaches that from Adam until present time, mankind has been born spiritually dead, inherited down from Adam’s sin. This is why humanity MUST be born-again. This is only possible through the Holy Spirit of God, which makes us alive again (quickeneth the Bible says) by faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior. I know there are many real Christians who are spreading the word of God and living on the path of righteousness. I pray that together we all can bring back our other Christian brothers & sisters into the right Faith. Maybe most of the Christians around the world are used to living the life of shame and defaming Christianity by their sinful ways but I know that few of us will work towards the Glory of God.