Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Ten Virgin


At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
“At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
“Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
“‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
“But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
“But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

This Parable is about being prepared on the day when they will meet God.
The ten virgin represent churches or group of people. One group of people was foolish and the other group was wise. The foolish one that did not take oil with them represent a group of people who have no patience, who lives by faith without works, who prophecy and calculate the time of God’s coming, and thinking they will all be save by exalting themselves to be worthy of the kingdom. These groups of people are prophets of pre-rapture and made God as a money making machine by selling books as to mislead people. These false prophets are the one who calculate God’s time and expect God to come on those days but when God is delaying and did not come as they expected him to be, their followers lost hope and went away as to lose their faith in God.
One day, there is a call. “God is coming and prepare yourself to meet him!”
Then people were alarmed by the call and did not know what to expect. The foolish group said…
“How can this be when we already believe and did not come? Should I believe the second time? Shed us some light that we might believe again in God! God is not real I have believe in God but God did not come to me. There is no God! God is just a pigment of your own imagination he is not real.”
But the wise do not know how to help the other 5 virgin because they had lost their hope in God and said…
“He will surely come just have some patience. You have to have faith in God again because we know that He will fulfill his promise.”
Then the group went to seek for faith again and could not find it. Then God came in and let in the other group who is prepared and the door was shut.
Later the others also came but God did not open it up for them and said “I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.” God said this because they did not believe in his promise and had no patience.

Related verses…

Ways of the 5 foolish virgin
There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (1Timothy 6:9-10)

Ways of the 5 wise virgin
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, (2 Timothy 3:10-12)

So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. (2 Peter 3:14-15)

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;(2 Corinthians 6:4-6)

Losing Faith by False Prophecy
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” (2 Peter 3:3-4)

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. (1Timothy 4:1-2)

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for [that day will not come] until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4)

Patience is the Key to Salvation
Remember God made Abraham wait for a son to test his faith or remember Israel waited for 40 days at Mt. Sinai just to receive the Laws. It is all about testing patience. Remember what the disciples said about Patience….

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants." And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised. (Hebrews 6:12-15)

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. (Proverbs 25:15)

Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. (Revelation 3:10)

Concerning God’s coming
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. (2 Peter 3:10)

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. (Matthew 24:36)

God’s final answer
He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (Revelation 21:7-8)

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (Revelation 22:14-15)

Friday, February 12, 2010

The King Son's Wedding


“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.
“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

This parable is about the rejection of the Jewish nation or the rejection of each individual person. It is about the choosing of God whether if you are righteous or not to him and whether if you accepted God and His statues. This parable also tells you that God called to his covenants (Israel) but unwilling to come. Instead on fallowing God and his commandment they went back on their business as to do evil things such as plotting to kill someone who is knowledgeable about God. Yashua is referring to the scripture that says...
“The stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief corner stone.”
He is also saying to the chief priest and the Pharisees that the kingdom of God will be taken away from them and it will be given to the other people who are worthy. When the Pharisees heard this they understood what He is talking about and they still pay no attention to His warning. They went back to their business as to mistreat Jesus and to conspire to kill him and the rest of his disciples. And because of this they angered God and God will send out his army of angels to destroyed those murderers. That is the 7 seals tribulation, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls.
Then God said to his servants (prophets and disciples), “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
Who do you think God is referring to?
If the Jewish priest are unwilling, God will invite or call to whomever he finds in the street.
God said “Go out to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find… Good or bad”
So the servants went out and called out “Get ready! For the wedding of the King's son!"
The room was filled with guess whether young, old, rich, poor, different race, different religion, atheist, theist, pagan, and Jew. The whole world will be gathered but if God see you being wicked he will throw you out to be destroyed also.
(Not being prepared means that he did not repent to God and doesn't do good deeds to others.)
Many will be invited but only few will be chosen to go.
How can you be ready?
Clean your clothes (soul) and Repent! Be humble and blameless.

Related verses…
so I also will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring upon them what they dread.
For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened.
They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.” (Isaiah 66:4)

Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus God has said, 'Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.” So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the LORD. (2 Chronicles 24:20-21)

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him. (Matthew 26:3-4)

After many days had gone by, the Jews conspired to kill him, but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. (Acts 9:23-24)

If you have been foolish in exalting yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand on your mouth. (Proverbs 30:32)

For the king trusts in the Lord;
through the unfailing love of the Most High
he will not be shaken.
Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies;
your right hand will seize your foes.
At the time of your appearing
you will make them like a fiery furnace.
In his wrath the Lord will swallow them up,
and his fire will consume them.
You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
their posterity from mankind.
Though they plot evil against you
and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed;
for you will make them turn their backs
when you aim at them with drawn bow.
Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength;
we will sing and praise your might. (Psalm 21:7-13)

“He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” (Revelation 21:7-9)
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (Revelation 22: 14-15)

The Wicked Tenants


“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
“The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
“But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

This parable is about Evil man vs. Children of God.
God is the landowner who made all things in this world and God made man and woman to watch over the land. Many years later he rented it out to Abraham saying “Come, to the land which I will show you.” So Abraham went and settles to the promise land. Many years later when the harvest time is approaching He sent his Prophets to collect his people. The wicked tenants (kings and Jewish people) seized the prophets; they beat one, killed another, and stone a third. Then God sent other prophets more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Then God sent his son Yashua thinking that they will respect him. But when the tenants knew that He is the son of God they said to themselves “Come! Let’s kill him and take his inheritance.” So they took him and killed him.
What will God do to those tenants?
It is true that God will cut off Israel and give it to the Gentiles and the Gentiles will give God’s people back.

Related verse…

Elijah said; “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” (1 kings 19:14)

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who had admonished them so that they might return to You, And they committed great blasphemies. (Nehemiah 9:26)

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, And let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name be remembered no more." (Jeremiah 11:19)

“Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred prophets of the Lord by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? (1 Kings 18:13)

Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus God has said, 'Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.” So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the LORD. (2 Chronicles 24:20-21)

“You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel. (2 Kings 9:7-8)

“Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them. So you testify that you approve of what your forefathers did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. Because of this, God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.’ Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all. (Luke 11:47-51)

Who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, (1 Thessalonians 2:15)

What can I do with you, Ephraim?
What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets. I killed you with the words of my mouth;
my judgments flashed like lightning upon you. For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. (Hosea 6:4-6)

And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.”
Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. (Revelation 19:17-21)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Two Sons


What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
“‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.

This parable tells you about hypocrisy of the Pharisee who serves God but did not obey God as to do his will, to show compassion, and to love with all of their heart, mind, and souls. Yashua is telling them that they are hypocrites in the sight of God and most of the people that are true to God are people who had sin and do the will of God later on. People like Matthew who is a tax collector or Mary Magdalene who is a prostitute.
In the same manner, Yashua is also talking about the future generation who will be also teacher and become just like the Pharisee who exalted themselves before God and never show compassion to the sinners. There are teachers who preach but never practice what they are preaching.
Related verse…

So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full (Matthew 6:2)

"When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. (Matthew 6:5)

"Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. (Matthew 6:16)

"So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matthew 23:28)


He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain;
their teachings are but rules taught by men.’
You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” (Mark 7:6-8)

"Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. (Luke 6:42)

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. (1Timothy 4:1-2)

But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him?
"And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?" (Luke 13:15-16)

The Laborers in the Vineyard


“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
“About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.
“He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
“The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”


This parable is about recognition in the Kingdom of God between Abraham’s descendants and the Gentiles.

1st
When Abraham was called by God, God told him “Go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you…”
Abraham obeys God’s commandment and went to the land.

3rd hour
Many years later his descendants was scattered and went to Egypt. And God called again to his servants (Jacob’s descendants under prophet Mosses) out of Egypt saying “Let my people go! that they may celebrate a feast to me in the wilderness.” So, Jacob's descendant went out of Egypt and to the mountain to worship God.

6th hour
Then many years later, they were scattered again by God and God called again to his servant (Israel’s tribe under prophet Jeremiah) saying “Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.” Israel listened and returned and built the second temple to worship God.

9th hour
Then many years later God came in the name of Yashua to destroy the second temple and to worship God by hearts (which Jeremiah prophesied) and He scattered the tribes of Israel saying “Behold Your house is being left to you desolate! For I say to you, from now on you will not see me until you say “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!”
Jesus made a new temple which no man can profane and defile. This temple is the human heart and the twelve gates are the twelve disciples. (This is spoken in Revelation 21 where it says “no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.)

11th hour
Then many years later, Saul came to persecute Jesus’ disciples and God spoke to Saul saying “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” and he said “Who are you Lord?” and He said “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city and it will be told you what you must do.” Saul was later called disciple Paul and Holy Spirit is with him to preach to the Gentile and the Gentile fallowed God and received the Holy Spirit.
End of the Lobor and Getting paid.
When the Disciples of Jesus learned that God also wanted to give the gifts of Holy Spirit to the Gentiles, the disciples (Jews) grumbled to themselves and said “How come the Gentile made equal to us?”

The whole point of this parables is to not exalt yourself but let God exalt you.
Being humble is the characteristic of God's children, so let us not exalt ourselves whether we have done more than the others.


Related verses…

"Therefore if God gave to them (Gentile) the same gift as He gave to us (Jew) also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?" (Acts 11:17)

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: (2 Peter 1:1)

…“I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:10-12)

"But many who are first will be last; and the last, first. (Matthew 19:30)

…“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to be first among you shall be you servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 21:25-28)


Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Unmerciful Slave


“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
“The servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.
“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’
“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”


Jesus was preaching to his disciples about being merciful to his brothers and sisters as God had forgiven their sins no matter how big they are. Jesus said to Simon Peter not only 7 times that he must forgive a person but seventy times seven because if he does not forgive he will lose treasure in heaven. The Father in heaven will treat him like the way he treated others.
In this generation people do not know how to forgive even when they hear and learn the word “to forgive one another” specially your enemy. People are more concern on how much damage they can give to one another just to justify themselves. It is hard for them to forgive because they always think that they will always sin and they should be punished. He does not care for the person who is sinning because he is not the one that he is being punished he only cares for himself but when the time comes that he himself sin he ask for forgiveness and when he finds out that his sin is not forgiven he will realize what the other person must have felt when he did not forgive him. So therefore we must always forgive so we are also be forgiven by God. Do not concern yourself about being justified whether who sin the most or how much justification we can give ourselves but concern yourself whether if you will be forgiven also if you ask for forgiveness.
Jesus teach that...
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. Matthew 7:1
"In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 7:12)

“If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
“I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will bed bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will bee loosed in heaven. Matthew 18:15-18


What does the meaning “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.”?

It means that Jesus and God can forgive but the Holy Spirit that resides a person heart like the deciples of God cannot forgive. These are the gifts of the Holy Spirit that Jesus gave to his disciples.

What is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is your guide into all truth. He speak what he hears and disclose to you what is to come.
When Jesus ascended to heaven he gave the Holy Spirit to his disciples it is written in John 20:22-23 Jesus said…
"Receive the Holy Spirit. "If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained."

For Example: Acts 5 the sin of Ananias and Sapphira
Simone Peter finds out that Ananias and Sapphira lied about the money and did not ask to be forgiven and for this reason they are sinning against the Holy Spirit that they receive once they were Baptist with water. The Holy Spirit killed their souls.

"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (matthew 10:28)
Related verses…

“Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. [“But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions.”] ( Mark 11:25-26]
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. (1 John 1:9-10)

"Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. (Luke 6:37)
Joseph Father's instruction
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.
But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them. (Genesis 50:15-21)

The Net


Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

This is like the wheat and tares parables. This is about Revelation taking out the unrighteous people from the righteous people. This will be just like the days of Lot or the days of Noah when people did not expect God. This will be the day when men are totally wicked and only few good men are found. God will took all the wicked to be killed and leave the good one to inherit the land.

Remember Lot’s wife! She could not bear to leave her house so she looks back and by doing so she becomes the pillar of salt. Revelation will be like this when the angels will come and instruct people what to do. So we better trust and fallow the instruction of the angel not to turn back on what we use to do. We must lose everything we have to carry on. We must not turn back to get some things.

Remember Noah when people are mocking him and when the ark is finish the flood came and killed all the wicked people. Noah’s family inherits the land.
Related verse…

He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (Revelation 21:7-8)

"And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. (Matthew 24:31)

“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:36-39)

Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. (Matthew 24:40-41)

but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:13-14)

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (matthew 10:28)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Hidden Treasure


The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.
These are people who seek for the mystery and power of God and when He finds it he keeps it in his heart and rejoices. He left his old ways of living and fallowed the teaching of God. This is what the disciples did in Jesus time and received great power in heaven to heal and cast out evil on earth.
Related verses…
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. (Matthew 6:24)

“You know the commandments, ‘DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.’” And he said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up.” Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But at these words he was saddened, and he went away grieving, for he was one who owned much property. (Mark 10:20-22)

Peter began to say to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You.” Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. “But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.” (Mark 10:29-31)