tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51786140160254314772024-03-19T05:13:14.479-07:00Shining Stars Youth MissionPastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-86656041115884760742011-11-11T01:41:00.000-08:002011-11-11T02:08:49.586-08:00HONOURING PARENTS!<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span class="messageBody" ft="{"type":3}">Honor your father and mother. (Ephesians 6:2)</span></span><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{"type":1}"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYFNaN-wHkzTeGf7uGKfysiNMPQypMTz7WhX6H3tMJLLYCMsZVWriGSao-CIXvjjvOLX_iZJ0c-VZ3XcsMxhX-YGIblOO9J2TG-2On5c6Vq53tSOVvyip9ge_14SiFFchBer1sSMwoKU-/s1600/DEBORAH.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 421px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYFNaN-wHkzTeGf7uGKfysiNMPQypMTz7WhX6H3tMJLLYCMsZVWriGSao-CIXvjjvOLX_iZJ0c-VZ3XcsMxhX-YGIblOO9J2TG-2On5c6Vq53tSOVvyip9ge_14SiFFchBer1sSMwoKU-/s320/DEBORAH.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673677807850904610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="messageBody" ft="{"type":3}"><br />An important command of God is ‘Honour your father and mother’. Hence I honour them.<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />When I do not know how to honour my parents, I cannot say that I am honouring God.<br /><br />More than my money and my things, all my parents need from me is my love and companionship. Hence, I should not hesitate to honour my parents.<br /><br />My parents always think the best for me; they would do the best for me. So, it is my duty to honour them.<br /><br />Their experiences in life would be good guidance to me. Therefore I should honour them and listen to them.<br /><br />Today, if I don’t give honour to my parents, tomorrow I cannot expect that my children would honour me. So, I should honour them and set a good example before my children.<br /><br />Parents who enjoy the honour, love and respect of their children find meaning in their old age and spend their days happily. So it is my bounden duty to honour my parents.<br /><br />Your words may express your love;<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> but they can be confirmed only by the way you live.</span></span></span></span></h6>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-62864223492024254972011-10-03T10:22:00.000-07:002011-10-03T10:40:52.928-07:00PRAY FOR CHILDREN IN CONFLICT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsQkaU-3KW5-S5qU6GbKey8OHbDhtQJjc0JrYTkYUUAMq3VOddCkvBzjljzsiHMzQCloiqmI-Jau3Z3ehNTHOOn_o4ML0VuTJTDEeOn4Ob_7wH7O7Wpfifniu5e2xGS9zMS5zViODF5pV/s1600/child-soldiers.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsQkaU-3KW5-S5qU6GbKey8OHbDhtQJjc0JrYTkYUUAMq3VOddCkvBzjljzsiHMzQCloiqmI-Jau3Z3ehNTHOOn_o4ML0VuTJTDEeOn4Ob_7wH7O7Wpfifniu5e2xGS9zMS5zViODF5pV/s320/child-soldiers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659318198714285570" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>CHILDREN IN CONFLICT – THE SITUATIONS</span></strong></p><p>Hundreds of thousands of children in conflict situations around the world are still:</p><ul><li>consequentially or deliberately killed in war </li><li>recruited or abducted as soldiers </li><li>victims of landmines </li><li>forced to witness violence and killing </li><li>orphaned by violence </li><li>Children in war zones have been deliberately killed or maimed by parties to conflict, often in extremely brutal ways. </li><li>refugees and displaced persons </li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDf0a5OZa53zAl390ciT-M9CDydcCMH14O1KCjVG6mm8i1M1hoFIdHmdeqsgOwW_1HAUa7Q-VcyAXDTWB_HI7r-E6jr8wtowCltoi6HdBwVlzBKMyytdHc-t4Yxk6QDOi2l3otxjwPNv7f/s1600/1752.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDf0a5OZa53zAl390ciT-M9CDydcCMH14O1KCjVG6mm8i1M1hoFIdHmdeqsgOwW_1HAUa7Q-VcyAXDTWB_HI7r-E6jr8wtowCltoi6HdBwVlzBKMyytdHc-t4Yxk6QDOi2l3otxjwPNv7f/s320/1752.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659318537153140562" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>CHILDREN IN CONFLICT – GLOBAL STATISTICS</span></strong></p><ul><li>More than 300,000 children around the world are being used in war as soldiers. </li><li>During the last decade, 2 million children have been killed as deliberate targets of war or because they have been forced to fight. </li><li>Nearly half of the 3.6 million people killed in war since 1990 have been children. </li><li>Another 6 million children have been permanently disabled or seriously injured. </li><li>Millions of children suffer from malnutrition, disease, and sexual violence. </li><li>More than half of an estimated 20 million refugees and displaced persons around the world today are children. </li><li>Currently, an estimated 7.7 million people under UNHCR's care are children below the age of 18. </li><li>Almost 20 million war-affected children have been forced from their homes, and have no schools and no communities to offer support to them and their families. </li><li>Females of all ages are particular targets for brutality. </li><li>Entire families and communities of one ethnic group are targeted and systematically killed - genocide. </li><li>10 million children psychologically traumatized </li></ul><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYmkYVJnr-7wpcIo5BlJhwnEozQC0i4R0sS2y1a184m-mXckNxDkL3F_pobdUIvkoN5kvSzvcL2gx8Bqv57rm_CTLPXNLj9x1SSvesVPbo4Xiy5rm5vAv55-jnkk9bB9sR3wAqmj1n2jz/s1600/child_soldier_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYmkYVJnr-7wpcIo5BlJhwnEozQC0i4R0sS2y1a184m-mXckNxDkL3F_pobdUIvkoN5kvSzvcL2gx8Bqv57rm_CTLPXNLj9x1SSvesVPbo4Xiy5rm5vAv55-jnkk9bB9sR3wAqmj1n2jz/s320/child_soldier_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659318918710766834" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>CHILD SOLDIERS – GLOBAL STATISTICS</span></strong></p><ul><li>More than 300,000 children under the age of 18 around the world have been coerced or induced to take up arms as child soldiers. </li><li>Most soldiers under 15 are to be found in non-governmental military organizations. </li><li>Most child soldiers under 18 have been recruited into Governmental armed forces. </li><li>The youngest child soldiers are about 7 years old. </li><li>Over 50 countries currently recruit children under age 18 into their armed forces. </li><li>Even girls are not spared. In case studies from El Salvador, Ethiopia and Uganda, it was found that reportedly a third of child soldiers were girls. </li></ul><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifrRbcBoUHVPW0zaqgVUeJ_hVyXAmev1E5JqEWvV-Qq_X8L_UVNwGMnB5mnz-zqN4UslqGtoaZojmGIXnh1AHiQTyNOmfsIfH3WMQXqL49fAAugMdR7pIkXlD9E2KIfU2PG0Jtyef_sX-r/s1600/children-in-conflict.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifrRbcBoUHVPW0zaqgVUeJ_hVyXAmev1E5JqEWvV-Qq_X8L_UVNwGMnB5mnz-zqN4UslqGtoaZojmGIXnh1AHiQTyNOmfsIfH3WMQXqL49fAAugMdR7pIkXlD9E2KIfU2PG0Jtyef_sX-r/s320/children-in-conflict.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659319364332183314" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>CHILD SOLDIERS’ JOB</span></strong></p><ul><li>They wield assault rifles, machetes, or rocket propelled grenades on the front lines. </li><li>Others are used in "combat support" roles as </li><li>messengers </li><li>spies </li><li>cooks </li><li>mine clearers </li><li>porters </li><li>sex slaves. </li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6INIsK8Rd2rKUhHB9akq8nMVsdsE0zP0j4MeZTl8yNhwWTjDEn5E9FLoQGm-eTytWajSLL8UTAfHrmxL4gGC8-dPjuyWYdr8n6ZQICmZyCV-uHkeZreNGX5keCsozJ4OZbQcm6p2cAST/s1600/female-tamil-tiger-cadres.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6INIsK8Rd2rKUhHB9akq8nMVsdsE0zP0j4MeZTl8yNhwWTjDEn5E9FLoQGm-eTytWajSLL8UTAfHrmxL4gGC8-dPjuyWYdr8n6ZQICmZyCV-uHkeZreNGX5keCsozJ4OZbQcm6p2cAST/s320/female-tamil-tiger-cadres.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659319723278534386" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>REASONS FOR CHILDREN BECOMING CHILD SOLDIERS</span></strong></p><ul><li>Hunger and poverty drives parents to offer children for service </li><li>Children volunteer to guarantee regular meals, clothing or medical attention. </li><li>Some children become soldiers to protect themselves or their families in the face of violence and chaos around them </li><li>Others, particularly adolescents, are lured by ideology. </li><li>Children also identify with social causes, religious _expression, self-determination, national liberation or the pursuit of political freedom. </li><li>Recruiting children by force is not uncommon - Armed groups take children as they pass through villages. </li><li>Some groups have specifically recruited orphans and nurtured their loyalty. </li></ul><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdm7amrEqxXUujNdHn1ALs9wN8gkcoI-1coB3_HAW2jpOylb51cOSN2jRsKq8hWxGCfjnnFgp3n3Bf5yWTTgwdJI6mOk3Xh2yQan1PL2EpXv5dSd7SfUYlfKO_n4kIs-51phyu7079FqNa/s1600/LTTE_Child_Soldiers_84_SPUR_database.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdm7amrEqxXUujNdHn1ALs9wN8gkcoI-1coB3_HAW2jpOylb51cOSN2jRsKq8hWxGCfjnnFgp3n3Bf5yWTTgwdJI6mOk3Xh2yQan1PL2EpXv5dSd7SfUYlfKO_n4kIs-51phyu7079FqNa/s320/LTTE_Child_Soldiers_84_SPUR_database.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659320053598569058" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>REASONS FOR CHILDREN BEING CHOSEN AS CHILD SOLDIERS</span></strong></p><ul><li>Children are impressionable and can be manipulated easily into becoming ruthless and unquestioning tools of war. </li><li>Child soldiers committed some of the worst atrocities in Sierra Leone. Proliferation of lightweight weapons- requiring no physical prowess or technical expertise to manipulate- has made it possible for very young children to bear and use arms. </li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8SP9PqZURbcc6EJVIgMak0PrVrV8kyC4FbuktoMlBuz5e5QmsSkLcy2wRcUem-CttiY0qyH8V8yEbN4xW3s_k1XRAcoa-cSguBfvbd6RFx9hwr1cArMVWw9-1-pK3PmiiRzhdz3wiP80E/s1600/20c4da853d95548dd1da67718728fad9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8SP9PqZURbcc6EJVIgMak0PrVrV8kyC4FbuktoMlBuz5e5QmsSkLcy2wRcUem-CttiY0qyH8V8yEbN4xW3s_k1XRAcoa-cSguBfvbd6RFx9hwr1cArMVWw9-1-pK3PmiiRzhdz3wiP80E/s320/20c4da853d95548dd1da67718728fad9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659320337657544706" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>Key Facts about Children and Landmines</span></strong></p><ul><li>Mines kill and mutilate 8,000 - 10,000 children each year. </li><li>Children form 25% of those treated for landmine injuries in Red Cross units in the Afghan and Cambodian conflicts, and 75% of the mine related injuries in a hospital in northern Somalia. </li><li>Children are often under represented in hospitals that treat landmine injuries - many simply do not survive a landmine blast because of their size. Some are killed outright or die of sheet agony. They may not survive the huge losses of blood which result from landmine injuries. </li><li>A child who survives a mine blast is likely to be seriously injured and permanently disabled. They may lose one or both legs or arms and suffer horrific injuries to their abdomen and genitals. Shrapnel may cause blindness and disfigure their face. </li><li>Cambodia has twice as many landmines as children (7 million landmines) </li><li>Handicap International estimates that a child may have to wait up to 10 years before having a prosthetic limb fitted. </li><li>Child amputees might not be able to attend school or may be too ashamed to leave their home. </li><li>Children are particularly at risk because of their curiosity - they like to pick up and play with new objects and can mistake a landmine for a toy or harmless object. In Northern Iraq for example, some children use landmines to make go-carts. </li><li>Some antipersonnel mines, such as airborne butterfly mines, are specifically designed to attract children. </li></ul><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbrVahFM0Z2HYtSrpOhlBY-GFGCUU45GPl79-rU1sxXdDu7YNuV0qGQ9rOyk3BGKybHORXsd_46nsLE2kLPtO8f5yDopMFlAg73N8-3Sn_n1SMXsh9SAjkN4gnEgoMjdL1_vY2-JWGp4G2/s1600/tumblr_lccvgnJdws1qbgtef.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbrVahFM0Z2HYtSrpOhlBY-GFGCUU45GPl79-rU1sxXdDu7YNuV0qGQ9rOyk3BGKybHORXsd_46nsLE2kLPtO8f5yDopMFlAg73N8-3Sn_n1SMXsh9SAjkN4gnEgoMjdL1_vY2-JWGp4G2/s320/tumblr_lccvgnJdws1qbgtef.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659320695372536754" border="0" /></a>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-53677071091516632572011-09-24T03:42:00.000-07:002011-09-24T03:54:17.975-07:00PRAY FOR POVERTY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Lr1l7LHStZ-2b3NyFg5YX-SemheK6ybEaKDfL-LFrhf1l2BAB6Dl34Pg1SglOufvfqiihgjh84udCJoXrGIcta_NdlbPeg6kgjFRIbmlMptUpvBexAIWN4cf7hgaec8n3yrf-icwQJfU/s1600/18730177.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1XT5LsDbDEBq7lAKgAqLI8DiK5nw3SL_YzjsDyzRy8dqwgUr-CU-uwe9Y8yZ4M25GqiY6JWj7Gxn2Zd0GV4EWrknDZ26vOK5lWJA6sjz-Owol8q78sqtK45Se5xirIj5xKsqMWQmf43PI/s1600/poverty-in-india.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1XT5LsDbDEBq7lAKgAqLI8DiK5nw3SL_YzjsDyzRy8dqwgUr-CU-uwe9Y8yZ4M25GqiY6JWj7Gxn2Zd0GV4EWrknDZ26vOK5lWJA6sjz-Owol8q78sqtK45Se5xirIj5xKsqMWQmf43PI/s320/poverty-in-india.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655876744470508450" border="0" /></a><strong><span>POVERTY – GLOBAL STATISTICS</span></strong><ul><li>Half the world -- nearly 3 billion people -- live on less than two dollars a day. </li><li>20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods </li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Lr1l7LHStZ-2b3NyFg5YX-SemheK6ybEaKDfL-LFrhf1l2BAB6Dl34Pg1SglOufvfqiihgjh84udCJoXrGIcta_NdlbPeg6kgjFRIbmlMptUpvBexAIWN4cf7hgaec8n3yrf-icwQJfU/s1600/18730177.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Lr1l7LHStZ-2b3NyFg5YX-SemheK6ybEaKDfL-LFrhf1l2BAB6Dl34Pg1SglOufvfqiihgjh84udCJoXrGIcta_NdlbPeg6kgjFRIbmlMptUpvBexAIWN4cf7hgaec8n3yrf-icwQJfU/s320/18730177.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655876875965466498" border="0" /></a><p><strong><span>CHILDREN IN POVERTY – GLOBAL STATISTICS</span></strong></p><ul><li>Number of children in the world = 2.2 billion </li><li>Number in poverty = 1 billion (every second child) </li><li>30,000 children die EACH DAY due to poverty. </li><li>210,000 children die EACH WEEK due to poverty. </li><li>11 million children under age 5 die EACH YEAR due to poverty. </li></ul><p><em>And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death</em></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYWTwz2zbab3llX-oWmWR5-jRDUPyVSgyMZGw8K9QvkeFcgG2ymPiTfSOSETQynA7KRJ91kI1PuxEvEn9YcjHzaQKsbxYy3UAgZ3NBedM5FBr-ckQWaAAzGTE4QLHQeRE6qvhwKw6wPZP/s1600/caste-discriminaiton-in-india6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYWTwz2zbab3llX-oWmWR5-jRDUPyVSgyMZGw8K9QvkeFcgG2ymPiTfSOSETQynA7KRJ91kI1PuxEvEn9YcjHzaQKsbxYy3UAgZ3NBedM5FBr-ckQWaAAzGTE4QLHQeRE6qvhwKw6wPZP/s320/caste-discriminaiton-in-india6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655877073651772978" border="0" /></a><p><strong>Among the 1.9 billion children in the developing nations:</strong></p><ul><li>640 million children do not have adequate shelter (1 in 3) </li><li>500 million children have no access to sanitation (1 in 4) </li><li>400 million children do not have access to safe water (1 in 5) </li><li>270 million children have no access to health care services (1 in 7) </li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZekuVDe9_SmzwQX6mGI00PTJ8IViXpFdwF38tnfPusTaBAg8YtVRS3REVjvPKglGBLCxj5L9OJzFr8r5v3NuJWEApFraZhQKRVneXRWk2MKMmRxHr6ESDU9qeuWEIw3JD2bICDgZzZHQ/s1600/2095633400_4bac44baed.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZekuVDe9_SmzwQX6mGI00PTJ8IViXpFdwF38tnfPusTaBAg8YtVRS3REVjvPKglGBLCxj5L9OJzFr8r5v3NuJWEApFraZhQKRVneXRWk2MKMmRxHr6ESDU9qeuWEIw3JD2bICDgZzZHQ/s320/2095633400_4bac44baed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655877414632871954" border="0" /></a><p><strong>Global priorities in spending in </strong></p><p>Basic education for everyone in the world 6 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Cosmetics in the United States 8 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Water and sanitation for everyone in the world 9 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Ice cream in Europe 11 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Reproductive health for all women in the world 12 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Perfumes in Europe and the United States 12 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world 13 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Pet foods in Europe and the United States 17 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Business entertainment in Japan 35 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Cigarettes in Europe 50 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Alcoholic drinks in Europe 105 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Narcotics drugs in the world 400 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><p>Military spending in the world 780 <strong>$U.S. Billions</strong></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0JVMeb6MR3VMdDbR0nxL01uW9yDmU9OMzIbrTm6xPDDC7I3unSjDdd05vYxJ_PxCYGZqncYFTrm3LwR1vEmF_dkBIpklS17575j9eVOWr0_zqAMGZM4qSU2i2-uvKtKTx-K1oDJ2f9afq/s1600/Poor+Children+in+India.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0JVMeb6MR3VMdDbR0nxL01uW9yDmU9OMzIbrTm6xPDDC7I3unSjDdd05vYxJ_PxCYGZqncYFTrm3LwR1vEmF_dkBIpklS17575j9eVOWr0_zqAMGZM4qSU2i2-uvKtKTx-K1oDJ2f9afq/s320/Poor+Children+in+India.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655877598449655442" border="0" /></a>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-708901783824845522011-09-19T02:19:00.001-07:002011-09-19T02:25:26.655-07:00PRAY FOR STREET KIDS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCjw7DxwLdhXo5rN-LQdkjXiqbUzHg1aPnTpMePs9vmjASVAR599exGL8Kd15nZtMjXAZ-TTLSqvr9mj6zpB6W145IhL8XivhZQC_3mfCYV81A9sj6r6SYgbYeF2bprsMhgy99BkvVfxe1/s1600/DSCN0279.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqBd9IXYH4XgnM4SBANBORMqpFXi7A1kYIFvWN6sTHm-x973faOO64Qr9KYGmKrDVaEgtv3jTJgOCg8FMozs3rrSLBmPP_ydmLbZp9MkxaKgkk7UDUIbdtUz3s-xRh-jfz7TMqUmtpq0U/s1600/India.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTc11Mtm_kJg1vI9xiw388pxLSintxm4IyC5uDkYPLVj3XceMtNo0kFCsUUBuUibz8T7PCQiyT3kofa0HGV65457D1wUN0GJL5zf3B2pDcdiHyoQPKiR48VAZouOMfKTi5h4pZfrFn3YMj/s1600/street-kids-india.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 422px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTc11Mtm_kJg1vI9xiw388pxLSintxm4IyC5uDkYPLVj3XceMtNo0kFCsUUBuUibz8T7PCQiyT3kofa0HGV65457D1wUN0GJL5zf3B2pDcdiHyoQPKiR48VAZouOMfKTi5h4pZfrFn3YMj/s320/street-kids-india.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653998013919243090" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>STREET KIDS – THE DEFINITION</span></strong></p><p>UNICEF has defined three types of street children: Street-Living, Street-Working, Street-Family.</p><ol><li><strong>Street Living Children:</strong> children who ran away from their families and live alone on the streets and work in the streets and markets of cities selling or begging and sleep in the streets, lacking any contact with their families </li><li><strong>Street Working Children:</strong> children who spend most of their time on the streets, fending for themselves, but returning home on a regular basis. </li><li><strong>Children from Street Families:</strong> children who live on the streets with their families. </li></ol><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjusGRE6vry9bqeAvfaW8aAsl0p1j3-xXpp6UyiGRcHRl8mnu_hRHqrZSZgIssNKiIYqnEnE41Fpfqn4JbNAZob33rX2LU7BHe8V01LxL2juN2MqEyiNJx0kYUMD6T7UuQPJlSCp5SD2CiN/s1600/indiachildinrubbish-6034.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjusGRE6vry9bqeAvfaW8aAsl0p1j3-xXpp6UyiGRcHRl8mnu_hRHqrZSZgIssNKiIYqnEnE41Fpfqn4JbNAZob33rX2LU7BHe8V01LxL2juN2MqEyiNJx0kYUMD6T7UuQPJlSCp5SD2CiN/s320/indiachildinrubbish-6034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653998229152293538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p><strong><span>STREET KIDS – THE REALITY</span></strong></p><p><em>The phenomenon of street children is global, alarming and escalating. No country and virtually no city anywhere in the world today is without the presence of street children. It is a problem of both developed and developing countries, but is more prevalent in the poor nations of Latin America, Asia and Africa. Poverty, family disintegration due to health or death, neglect, abuse or abandonment, and social unrest are all common triggers for a child's life on the streets.</em></p><p><em>Murder, consistent abuse and inhumane treatment are the “norm” for these children, whose ages range from six to 18. They often resort to petty theft and prostitution for survival. They are extremely vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS.</em></p><p><em>An estimated 90% of them are addicted to inhalants such as shoe glue and paint thinner, which cause kidney failure, irreversible brain damage and, in some cases, death</em></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqBd9IXYH4XgnM4SBANBORMqpFXi7A1kYIFvWN6sTHm-x973faOO64Qr9KYGmKrDVaEgtv3jTJgOCg8FMozs3rrSLBmPP_ydmLbZp9MkxaKgkk7UDUIbdtUz3s-xRh-jfz7TMqUmtpq0U/s1600/India.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 378px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqBd9IXYH4XgnM4SBANBORMqpFXi7A1kYIFvWN6sTHm-x973faOO64Qr9KYGmKrDVaEgtv3jTJgOCg8FMozs3rrSLBmPP_ydmLbZp9MkxaKgkk7UDUIbdtUz3s-xRh-jfz7TMqUmtpq0U/s320/India.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653998516613454434" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>STREET KIDS - Worldwide</span></strong></p><p>At least 100 million children worldwide are believed to live at least part of the time on the streets. . . These street children are first and foremost working children. (UNICEF, 29 March 1994)<br /></p><p><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCjw7DxwLdhXo5rN-LQdkjXiqbUzHg1aPnTpMePs9vmjASVAR599exGL8Kd15nZtMjXAZ-TTLSqvr9mj6zpB6W145IhL8XivhZQC_3mfCYV81A9sj6r6SYgbYeF2bprsMhgy99BkvVfxe1/s1600/DSCN0279.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 405px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCjw7DxwLdhXo5rN-LQdkjXiqbUzHg1aPnTpMePs9vmjASVAR599exGL8Kd15nZtMjXAZ-TTLSqvr9mj6zpB6W145IhL8XivhZQC_3mfCYV81A9sj6r6SYgbYeF2bprsMhgy99BkvVfxe1/s320/DSCN0279.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653998906278900610" border="0" /></a><br /><p><strong><span>STREET KIDS – AROUND THE WORLD</span></strong></p><p><strong><span>Africa</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Children now make up half of the population of Africa. Many in urban areas are reduced to living on the streets, surviving through begging, theft and violence. (FEBA Radio Publication) </p><p><strong><span>Bangladesh</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>There are 10,000 street girls living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (World Vision International, 1993) </p><p><strong><span>Belgium</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Belgium has 4,000 homeless children (in the charge of homeless parents). (Council of Europe)</p><p><strong><span>Bolivia</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>In BOLIVIA there are 1,500 to 2,000 children living and sleeping in the streets. (Bolivian Government, Census Figures, 1992)</p><p><strong><span>Brazil</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Homeless children in Brazil number around 12 million. (Action International Ministries) </p> <strong><span>Cambodia</span></strong><strong> </strong><p>Phnom Penh, Cambodia has about 5,000 to 10,000 street children. (World Vision International, 1993)</p><p><strong><span> </span></strong></p><p><strong>Central America </strong></p><p><strong> </strong>It is estimated that there are at least 40 million street children in Latin America. Many are victims of abuse, sometimes murder, by police, other authorities and individuals who are supposed to protect them. (Casa Alianza Organization)</p><p><strong><span>Colombia</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>5,000 to 9,000 children live on the streets of Bogota, Colombia. (Action International Ministries)</p><p><strong><span>France</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>France has about 10,000 street children. (Council of Europe)</p><p><strong><span>Ireland</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Ireland has 500 to 1,000 street children. (Council of Europe) </p><p><strong><span>Mexico</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Mexico City has 1,900,000 underprivileged and street children. 240,000 of these are abandoned children. (Action International Ministries) </p><p>In the central area of Mexico City there are 11,172 street children. 1,020 live in the street and 10,152 work there. (City of Mexico/Fideicomiso, Report, 1991) </p><p><strong><span>Netherlands</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Street children in the Netherlands number some 7,000. (Council of Europe) </p><p><strong><span>Peru</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Up to 10,000 street and underprivileged children die in Lima, Peru every year. (Kids Alive Ministry) </p> <strong><span>Philippines</span></strong><strong> </strong><p>There are 50,000 to 70,000 street children in Manila. (Action International Ministries) </p><p>There are an estimated 1,200,000 street children in the Philippines. (Report of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (1991) from Jubilee Action, 1992) </p><p>It is estimated that there are 1.5 million street children working as pickpockets, beggars, drug traffickers and prostitutes. (End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT)) </p><p><strong><span>Romania</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>A survey funded by the European Union found around 1,500 children living on the streets of Bucharest. More than 50% were aged between 12 and 15 and 83% of them were boys. Almost 40% had been on the streets for three or more years and 30% were permanently stoned on solvents, while another 25% used them occasionally. ("The Independent", 8 July 1996) </p><p><strong><span>Russia</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>In MOSCOW 5,000 children and young people are abandoned on the streets every year. (BBC1 News, 12 October 1994) </p><p><strong><span>Turkey</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>There are 6,000 to 7,000 street children in Istanbul, Turkey. (Council of Europe) </p><p><strong><span>United Kingdom</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>According to a 'Crisis' report half of the beggars on our streets spent their childhood in care and a quarter slept on the streets before they were 16. ("IDEA" Magazine of the Evangelical Alliance, January 1995) </p><p>Nearly 100,000 young people go missing in Britain each year. (The Children's Society, "Young runaways", 1989)</p><p>Vast numbers of children in the United Kingdom run away from home and 156,000 young people are homeless in Britain every year. (according to Shelter) </p><p><strong><span>United States of America</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><p>In the United States there is a crisis situation and Federal Government revealed that there are about 500,000 under-age runaways and 'throw-aways'. ("New York Times", 5 February 1990)</p>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-35703052312066069012011-09-08T02:31:00.000-07:002011-09-08T02:50:14.991-07:00THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE QURAN<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8g0sY_PNP9ct-e9U4ZJz2qdtyyDcGinHcnDinabuy5R8RilrBsm25nvQh45kUvRGYI-QIehqIwOstK2mHhhHkjlI6eFMc6Q34zfJZCE0fiGT0r-xt4mOKb5OwRYvcAKEqaE88jlyWqkm9/s1600/9-1-11-AP-crucifixion.gif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);" lang="EN-GB">THE CRUCIFIXION</span></a><br /><br /></div> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3qIs9HEDvJ5Stwf6a3PUDnS7-uPH47-k-SGGtEjbEVmpAP-RK7zR_2N3w9aEQibf9CcT4jYJwIVLj3QDSV3y3lNg0pp4kRktY7dcfGcDNyTmYZKZ0DU5nAWhx94achlXtMHxYSUQA-wFB/s1600/9-1-11-AP-crucifixion.gif"><img style="display: block; 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">* <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" >Muslims refuse to believe Jesus was crucified out of their deep reverence for Him.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">* <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Islam sees God in terms of purity and absolute power </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" 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text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">* <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 4:157,158</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > – They say, “Because of (Jews) saying.” We killed the Messiah, Jesus Son of Mary, Allah’s messenger” they killed him not nor crucified him but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">shubbiha lahum</i> (it appeared so to them).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof except pursuit of a conjecture; they killed him not for certain.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But Allah raised him up to himself, Allah is mighty, wise.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">* <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style=" ;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB">Shabih </span></i></span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >or ‘look alike’ in the Qur’an<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">This false teaching was widespread among Christian heretics</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Basilides, the Gnostic, claimed that Simon of Cyrene consented to be crucified in Jesus’ place, so God cast on him the likeness of Jesus.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Docetists said that Jesus was not crucified at all but only appeared so to the Jews. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Docetic</i> is derived from a Greek verb which means ‘to seem’ or ‘to appear’.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">In AD 276 Mani, the Persian self proclaimed prophet said ‘the one who was crucified was the son of the widow of Nain.’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">In 380 AD, the Council of Constantinople commissioned Bishop Gregory of Nyssa to visit churches in Arabia and Jerusalem where such disturbances had broken out.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">THE MEANING OF Sura 4:157,158</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">V.157 Jews boasted “we killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">This verse does not deny the historicity of the crucifixion. </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">“They killed him not nor crucified him” may be interpreted in different ways</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Jews did not crucify Jesus but the Romans did</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Jews were not the true agents of the crucifixion because Jesus freely and voluntarily gave Himself up to be crucified (John 10:18)</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Attempt to kill Jesus was ineffective because He rose from the dead on the third day.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Disagreement about the crucifixion is an Islamic problem, not a Christian one</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">V157 says “Those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof, they have no knowledge thereof….” - Christians are not among those who disagree concerning the crucifixion</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">They were never in doubt of it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">They do not pursue conjecture.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Muslims disagree and are in doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is they who have no knowledge thereof</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">THE RESPONSE TO THIS HERESY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Jesus did not need a double – because Christ never avoided the crucifixion, He came in the first place for the redemption of man.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Jesus was All Powerful but chose not to defend Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Defending Himself would have defeated His purpose of dying for the sins of the world.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">There is a reliable, historical, evidence for the crucifixion of Christ – gospel accounts and Roman records.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">The eyewitnesses can be trusted, they were present at the event, they would have known an impostor.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">The wrong man would have resisted execution</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">CONCLUSION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">It was none other than Jesus Christ who was crucified.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Since the Quran does not explain how the killing of Jesus took place, the Injil becomes the sole natural and original source of information on this subject</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 3:55</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > – Allah said, “O Jesus I am <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">inni mutawaffika</i> causing you to die and causing you to ascend to me and I am cleansing you of those who disbelieve and I am setting those who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then to Me you will all return and I shall judge between you as to that in which you used to differ.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Mutawaffika</span></i></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">– translated </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">gathering you </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">“I end your term” (on earth so I do not leave you to your enemies, the Jews to kill you) </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">“cause you to die” – this is the interpretation of Ibn Abbas, Mohammad’s cousin, known as the Expositor of the Quran.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is also the interpretation of Ibn Ishaq, Mohammad’s biographer. This meaning is also supported in the Hadith.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 19:33</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > “Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die and the day I shall be raised alive.” Is a clear Quranic confession and prophecy from the mouth of Jesus that He became incarnate, died, and was raised from the dead</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Many Muslim scholars interpret “the day I die” as referring to the death of Jesus after his second coming but in Sura 19:15, the Quran uses the same expression for John the Baptist – so peace be upon him, on the day he was born and on the day of his death and on the day he is raised to life. </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Out of over 6,000 Quranic verses, there is not one single verse that simply says that Jesus did not die on the cross or that Jesus was not crucified. </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">There is a principle of the Quran – 3 verses must say the same thing – but in the Quran, not so regarding the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Early Muslim commentators who were contemporaries of Mohammad are supposed to have made these statements regarding Jesus’ death and resurrection:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 90pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="mso-fareast-;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Wahab bin Mumbah – “Jesus died three hours after he was crucified then Allah raised him”</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 90pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="mso-fareast-;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Ibn Hisham – “Jesus died three days after he was crucified”</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 90pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="mso-fareast-;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Salma bin Muttalib – “Jesus died after four days”</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 90pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="mso-fareast-;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Zumer bin Khattad – “Jesus died after one hour”</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">All these agree he died, difference was only in time.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">But the Muslim commentators after 12<sup>th</sup> century, said that the above mentioned commentaries are not authentic<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">BIBLICAL PROOFS OF CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;height:30.1pt"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:30.1pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Prophecies</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:30.1pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Psalm 22 written 1000 years before Christ.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Isa 53 written 700 years before Christ</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Delivering Jesus to His enemies for 30 pieces of silver</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Zach 11:12 – the fulfilment of this is in Matt 26:14</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Buying of the Potter’s field</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Zach 11:13 – fulfilment in Matt 27:3-8</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Mocking Jesus then crucifying Him</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Psalm 22:16-18 – fulfilment in Matt 27:39-42</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4;height:11.65pt"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:11.65pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Giving Him vinegar to drink</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:11.65pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Psalm 69:21 – fulfilment in John 19:28</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Soldiers dividing His clothes by lot</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Psalm 22:18 – fulfilment in John 19:23,24</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:6"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">His bones not being broken</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Psalm 34:20 – fulfilment in John 19:32</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:7"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Being pierced by a spear</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Zach 12:10 – fulfilment in John 19:34</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:8;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="width:243.0pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Dying with the wicked but being honoured also</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> <td style="width:243.0pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid black .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid black .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt" valign="top" width="324"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 18.0pt"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Isa 53:9 – fulfilment in Matt 27:57-60</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">JESUS HIMSELF WITNESSED TO THE CRUCIFIXION<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Jesus knew that the cross was coming upon Him and He prepared His followers well in advance.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Matt 16:21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Matt 17:22,23<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Matt 26:1-2<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Mark 8:31<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Mark 9:31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Mark 10:32-34<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Luke 9:22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>John 3:13-14<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>John 12:24-32<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">JEWISH CONTEMPORARIES WITNESS TO THE CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Acts 2:23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Acts 3:14-15<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>Acts 8:4</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Jews would have denied these charges if they were not true.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">SACRAMENTS WITNESS TO THE CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Rom 6:3-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Matt 26:26-28<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">THE SEVEN STATEMENTS ON THE CROSS WITNESS TO THE CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">shabih</i> would never be able to utter such things while in the throes of a painful death</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">THE EMPTY TOMB AND RESURRECTION WITNESS TO THE CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Acts 2:22-36<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>I Cor 15:3-8, 14,15<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">MEDICAL PROOF OF THE CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">John 19:34<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">PSYCHOLOGICAL PROOF OF THE CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">No group would proudly publicise the shameful death of its leader unless:</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><ol style="margin-top: 0cm; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;">the event really happened</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 36.0ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;">it led to something helpful and beneficial</span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Paul takes pride in the cross – Gal 6:14<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">The cross has been adopted as a symbol of Christianity</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">NON CHRISTIAN PROOFS OF CRUCIFIXION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Many pagan historians testified to the historicity of the crucifixion:</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Cornelius Tacitus AD 55-120 – He wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Annals </i>– mentions how Nero fastened the guilt (burnt Rome) on Christians mentioning Christ suffered extreme penalty in the reign of Tiberius and at the hands of Pontius Pilate.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Thallus AD 52 – reported darkness covered the land during the crucifixion.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Julius AD 221 – explained the darkness saying, “It was not because of an eclipse of the sun.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>he writes, “the darkness could not take place at the time of the full moon and it was at the season of the Pascal full moon that Jesus was crucified.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Josephus AD 66 – a Jew born a few years after crucifixion writes mentioning the crucifixion and resurrection</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Lucien AD 100 – outstanding Greek historian writes “the Christians worship a man to this day – one who was crucified”</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Pontius Pilate mentions in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Acts of Pontius Pilate</i> that “the crucifixion of Jesus was confirmed”</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Celsius AD 140 – an Epicurean philosopher and enemy of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He recorded the fact of the crucifixion in his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The True Discourse</i>. </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">WHY DO MUSLIMS REFUSE THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Muslims think that sin does not hurt, disturb or sadden God.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Muslims think forgiveness and the offering of paradise are God’s decisions – His Will.- So no need for the atoning death of Christ</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">WHY JESUS HAD TO DIE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><ol style="margin-top: 0cm; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;color:#00002E;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Human nature is sinful.</span></i></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Quran acknowledges the depravity of the human soul</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 2:35-38, Sura 7:19-26 - </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Quran confirms man’s fall in the garden of Eden</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 2:36 and Sura 7:24 </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">– state consequences of Adam’s sin on his descendants</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>:</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > S</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 46); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" >ura 11:9 – Man is despairing, ungrateful</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Sura 12:53 – Man is prone to evil<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Isaiah 53:6</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Sura 14:34 – Man is a wrongdoer</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Sura 3:193 – Muslims pray for forgiveness and atonement of sins</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" face="verdana" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>This is why every Muslim prays “forgive us our sins and atone (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">kafar</i>, cover) for us our evil <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>deeds and take our souls in death in the company of the righteous” Sura 3:193.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>How can this petition be granted? – tells us why Jesus had to die:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><ol style="margin-top: 0cm; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0ptcolor:#00002E;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Good deeds do not save</span></i></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 2:271, Sura 5:12,45,89, Sura 29:7</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> - Quran teaches that good deeds annul evil ones<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Eph 2:8,9, Titus 3:3-7</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"> - Bible takes different view –teaches that it is by grace that we are saved and all our good deeds are like filthy rags.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><ol style="margin-top: 0cm; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" start="3" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0ptcolor:#00002E;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">We need a ransom</span></i></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Heb 9:22</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > - without shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Gen 3:21</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>God Himself initiated this </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">Entire OT-- sacrifices continue </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >John 1:29, I Cor 5:7</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;color:#00002E;">.– all these were symbols of the one true sacrifice of Christ <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 37:107</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > -The Quran accepts the concept of ransom when it speaks about redeeming Abraham’s son with a great sacrifice –.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They celebrate Id-al-Ada (Feast of Sacrifice).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This commemorates the redemption of Abraham’s son.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" ><br /><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><ol style="margin-top: 0cm; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" start="4" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list 36.0ptcolor:#00002E;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">God’s justice and mercy must be reconciled.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></i></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 3:56</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > - Quran teaches that God is just –.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A just God will never overlook sin.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Sura 6:54</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >. - Quran also teaches that God is merciful </span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 46);font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" >Isa 53:4-6</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB" > – Jesus allowed both justice and mercy to be satisfied.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Quran does not mention about reconciling these two contradictory attitudes in our lives.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#00002E;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-7075284730445098122011-09-02T08:22:00.000-07:002011-09-02T09:03:20.674-07:00DOCTRINE OF TRINITY - WHY MUSLIMS REJECT TRINITY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiknfPM0EzKwalgH4GvR7NNugGS4kyrd1N0oNhKGtzSlKg2POL9_llZZxVQl1kJ7HNySHPRsUOAn1_ZEy6Z_cs_5FkgrhoIUCKFT3nhScMuNn_WOPVkgokayvvH5pyteJ6pu_xWdI6Ns0c0/s1600/Trinity.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiknfPM0EzKwalgH4GvR7NNugGS4kyrd1N0oNhKGtzSlKg2POL9_llZZxVQl1kJ7HNySHPRsUOAn1_ZEy6Z_cs_5FkgrhoIUCKFT3nhScMuNn_WOPVkgokayvvH5pyteJ6pu_xWdI6Ns0c0/s320/Trinity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647789129105451298" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> 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mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">DOCTRINE OF TRINITY
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<br /><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >The word ‘trinity is not found in Bible</span>
<br /><p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Probably coined in 2<sup>nd</sup> century AD by Tertulian</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >He balanced the divine unity into trinity, setting forth Father, Son and Spirit as three</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Trinity – earliest Christian creed “I believe in God the Father Almighty, in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Holy Spirit”</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoListBullet"><span style="color:#00002E;">WHY MUSLIMS REJECT TRINITY</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Mohammad</span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >’s time – a heretical Christian sect in Arabia – claimed that Mary was divine along with Jesus</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#00002E;">Sura 5:73, 116</span><span style=" font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" > - They worshipped the trinity – Father God, Mother Mary and Son Jesus <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#00002E;">Sura 53:19</span><span style="font-weight: normal;color:#00002E;" > - A pre-Islamic Arab myth said Allah had 3 daughters </span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#00002E;">Sura 6:100, 101</span><span style=" font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" > - Another myth said that Allah fathered children through intimacy with a jinn</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#00002E;">Sura 17:40</span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" > Another myth said Allah adopted females from among the angels<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#00002E;">Sura 37:151-153, 43:16</span><span style=" font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" > - Another myth – Allah having begotten children, chose the daughters for himself and gave the sons to the Meccans</span></p><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" ></span><span style="color:#00002E;"> </span> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoListBullet"><span style="color:#00002E;">IN RESPONSE</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#00002E;">Sura 36:82 (Word of God), Sura 58:22</span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" > </span><span style="color:#00002E;">(God and Spirit of God)</span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" > - Unknown to most Muslims, Quran also points to three things that are divine – God, Word of God and Spirit of God </span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet"><span style="color:#00002E;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ISLAMIC ATTACKS IN THE QURAN ARE ON HERESIES, NOT BIBLICAL TRUTHS </span>
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Muslims think, by definition, that three cannot be the same as one</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Christianity emphasizes the oneness of God, no less than Islam does but God is not a mathematical concept like 1 + 1 + 1</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >(Illustration) One building with three floors</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Christians reject worship of Mary</span></p> <p class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list: l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:normalfont-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;color:#00002E;" >Christians are monotheists, not polytheists.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Bible does not teach us to worship 3 Gods</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">QURANIC VERSES ATTACK ONLY FALSE DOCTRINES OF THE TRINITY</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">The Quran never attacks the real Christian doctrine of the trinity – it targets false doctrines: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 2:116,117</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “They say Allah has taken a son”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Christians never believe that God ‘took’ a Son, but that the son was with the father from the beginning – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">John</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 1:1, 1:14.</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>this was even before Mary was around.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 3:59</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “The likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam, he created him of dust, then he said be! And he is.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo11;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3";mso-fareast-font-family:"Wingdings 3"; mso-bidi-Wingdings 3";font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">„<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">This analogy fails because in other verses the Quran says that Jesus and Adam are different. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo11;tab-stops:list 1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Wingdings 3";mso-fareast-font-family:"Wingdings 3"; mso-bidi-Wingdings 3";font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">„<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 4:171</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> - Adam being created from dust and Jesus born by the Holy Spirit – </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Luke</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 1: 26-35</b>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo10;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Quran says Jesus resembles Adam – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sura 3:59</b> – “The similarity of Jesus before God is that of Adam.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He created Him from dust and then said to him, be! And He was.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Al-Suddi commenting on this verse said that four persons from Nijran came to Mohammad, asking his opinion about Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Mohammad said, “He is a servant of God, His spirit and His Word.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Angrily the four replied, “No, He is God.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Have you ever seen a child born without a father?”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So Mohammad was given <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sura 3:59</b> to state that Jesus was created from dust like Adam.
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">But this contradicts other Quranic verses which agree with the gospels that Jesus was not created from dust but His was a virgin birth – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sura 3:35-55, Sura 19:1-34</b>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 7:12</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> agrees with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gen 2:7</b>, creation of Adam from dust</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 2:36</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> adds that Adam sinned and led mankind to destruction, yet according to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sura 19:19</b>, Jesus is holy and sinless.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 3:64</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “We worship none but Allah, we associate no partners with him”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:55.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list 55.2pt"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">By calling Jesus, God, and Son of God, Christians do not associate partners with God.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo12;tab-stops:list 54.9pt"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">The Quran itself calls Jesus “Word of God” and a “Spirit from Him”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l5 level2 lfo12;tab-stops:list 54.9pt"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">If Muslims think that Jesus is outside God, they are implying that God is without a Word and without a mind.</span></p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 5:116-118</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “O Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to mankind “Take me and my mother for two gods apart from Allah.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Jesus never said these words.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Christians do not believe this.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>With all respect to the virgin <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Mary, scripture never includes her in the Holy Trinity.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 9:30</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> – “The Jews said, Uzzair (Ezra) is the Son of God.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Christians said Jesus is the Son of God….”
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>There is no mention in the OT that Ezra is the son of God. Possibly this was an invention <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>of a heretical cult.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is no similarity between the sonship of Jesus to God and the <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>sonship of Uzzair – the analogy does not stand. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">QURANIC ATTACKS ON DEITY OF CHRIST</span></b></p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran says Jesus is just an apostle</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sura 4:171</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran says Jesus the Man could not contain God</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Sura 5:17</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran says Jesus was too weak to be God – </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sura 5:75,76</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> – Al Razi says Jesus had a mother, He was created, He needed food, went to the bathroom, passed wind, so Jesus cannot be God. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran says Jesus claimed to be A God, apart from God</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Sura 5:116</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran says Jesus could not be God’s son</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sura 19:35</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran says Jesus is only the servant of God <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">-</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sura 19:30-31</span></b></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST</span></b></p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus existed before He was born – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">I Tim 3:16</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus is God in flesh – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Heb 1:1-3, Col 2:9, John 1:1-4, 14</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus became flesh voluntarily and returned to His state of divine glory after resurrection – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">John</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 10:17,18, John 17:4,5, Phil 2:5-11, Matt 16:13-18</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus announced Himself as God – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 14:61-64, John 5:17,18, John 8:56,59</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus confirmed His deity by word and actions – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">John</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 6:35, 8:12, 11:25,26</b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus is Son of God – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">John</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 1:18</b> – in Jewish thought, son of God meant “equal to God’</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo9; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Says Jesus lives in His followers – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gal</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 2:20, Rev 3:20</b></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">ISLAMIC PROOFS OF THE TRINITY</span></b></p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran mentions Holy Trinity</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">
<br /></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-Courier New"; font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 2:87</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “We gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear proofs and we strengthened him with the Holy Spirit.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-Courier New"; font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 5:110</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “O Jesus, son of Mary, remember my favour to you and to your mother.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-Courier New"; font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 19:17</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “Then we sent unto her our spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>In these Quranic verses, we find the Father who strengthens, Jesus the one who is <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>strengthened, and the Holy Spirit through whom the strengthening took place. </span></p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5incolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Quran considers Christians to be Monotheists</span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-Courier New"; font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 29:46</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “We believe in that which has been revealed unto us and revealed unto you; our God and your God is one and to Him we surrender.” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-Courier New"; font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 5:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “This day all things good and pure, made lawful unto you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The food of the People of the Book is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Lawful unto you in marriage are not only chaste women who are believers but chaste women among the People of the Book…”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-Courier New"; font-family:";color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sura 2:221</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> - Though the Quran allows a Muslim male to marry a Christian or Jewish female, as in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Sura 5:5</b>, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>it forbids him to marry a polytheist –. Clearly therefore the Quran distinguishes Christians from polytheists.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:181.5pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">JESUS</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> AND SALVATION</span></b></p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Muslims reject the invitation to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour because they refuse to believe what He said of himself and what the earlier prophets said of Him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Rev 1:5-18; 21, 6-8; 22:13,16. </b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">No word for ‘salvation’ in Quran – no salvation offered to Muslims </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">The name ‘Isa’ given to Jesus in the Quran, means ‘Saviour’</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sura 19:21</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> – says that Jesus would be a revelation for mankind at large</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Matt 1:21</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> talks about Jesus being Saviour for all people<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>and one who saves us from our sins</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">It would have been impossible for Jesus to save the world from sin if He were a mere CREATURE - even the highest of creatures.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">If he were a creature, His goodness and sufferings could be no proof of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u>God’s love</u></b> to men.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It would be very difficult to believe in the love and mercy of God if Jesus was a mere creature.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">However, when we accept <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">II Cor 5:9,</b> God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, we realize the truth also of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">John 3:16</b> and that He first loved us <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">I John 4:9.</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in left 181.5ptcolor:#00002E;"><span lang="EN-GB">Regarding salvation Jesus says in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">John</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> 14:6</b> – No one goes to the Father but by me.</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Despite all these explanations, only God can open the understanding of a Muslim regarding His triune self.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In His love, God will answer if the Muslims will ask.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Sura 40:60</b> the Quran quotes God as saying, “Call on me and I will answer your prayer.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let us pray that they would pray and ask.</span></p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> </span></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">IMPORTANT</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">A Muslim agrees with the NT in calling Christ the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Every Muslim must admit that those matters in which OT, NT and Quran agree must be true and all these three books agree on:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:117.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l6 level3 lfo2;tab-stops:list 117.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-;font-family:Arial;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Unity of God</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:117.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l6 level3 lfo2;tab-stops:list 117.0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-;font-family:Arial;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Jesus</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> is the Word of God</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">QUESTION</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> – how is it possible for the divine nature to be united with human nature?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> ANSWER</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> – how is it possible for spirit (the enduring) and flesh (the transient) to be united with one another in man?
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">God is Almighty; He will do anything to accomplish his plans.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">The Gospel informs us that the humanity and deity of Christ is such that one is not changed into the other just like spirit and flesh in man.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">This union of the divine and human nature in Christ took place in order that the eternal purpose of God would be accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">
<br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">SIN </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Contrary to God’s nature, it is hateful to God</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sin is ruinous and destructive to the original spiritual nature of man made in the likeness of God</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Therefore man must be free from sin</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: -.25in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Sin is the worst form of leprosy (in those days incurable) for the soul and spirit</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:#00002E;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">*<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Death frees a man from bodily leprosy but it cannot free him from spiritual leprosy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In his sinful leprous state, he is most hateful to God.
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">The Tauret of Moses in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Lev 13:45-46</b>, forbade a man whose body was leprous to enter into the camp of Israelites and associate with his fellows.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then how less possible for a man with spiritual leprosy of sin to enter paradise.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Rev 21:27</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> “there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean….”
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Leprosy </span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">of the body could not be healed by either the leper himself or a human physician.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, Jesus healed lepers bodily to show to the world that He can also heal spiritual leprosy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, Jesus could not heal bodily leprosy against the will of the leper.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Likewise, He will not heal spiritual leprosy by force, against the sinner’s will.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">The leper must have faith in Christ in order to be healed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So also with spiritual leprosy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;">Matt 1:21, John 14:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#00002E;"> tell us that this was the way God chose for the salvation of man.</span></p>
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<br />Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-18413076915449300092011-08-25T10:54:00.000-07:002011-08-25T11:00:44.469-07:00PRAY FOR CHILD LABOUR<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXmZRAO3PdTHacdB8SisoNl537PI0sb4xTfRiIaejUzyX12y132SRSA4PwoCDwyVJtWLRoifWM60SJD5TVDu5Grn_HdN4uj9eiWUSyFylC7j6Xb1gKSQthyCnBrx91GhSy8vCG2vqJdmo/s1600/child_labour_13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXmZRAO3PdTHacdB8SisoNl537PI0sb4xTfRiIaejUzyX12y132SRSA4PwoCDwyVJtWLRoifWM60SJD5TVDu5Grn_HdN4uj9eiWUSyFylC7j6Xb1gKSQthyCnBrx91GhSy8vCG2vqJdmo/s320/child_labour_13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644854645727232450" border="0" /></a>
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style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;line-height:14.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#333333">CHILD LABOUR – GLOBAL STATISTICS</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#333333"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">246 million children are child laborers. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">There are 2.5 million working children in the developed countries, and another 2.5 million in Eastern European countries. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">The largest number – 127 million – of working children age 14 and under are in the Asia-Pacific region. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">The highest proportion of working children is in Sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly one third of children age 14 and under (48 million children) are in the labour force. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">73 million working children are less than 10 years old. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">Every year, 22,000 children die in work-related accidents. </span></p>
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Street Vending and Garbage dumps, collecting items to sell. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">7% are in community, social and personal service, such as domestic work. (It is estimated that 20-60% of all working children are girls in domestic service. Because these girls work out of sight within private households they are extremely vulnerable to physical, mental and sexual abuse) </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">8.4 million children are trapped in slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, Soldiers, prostitution, pornography and other illicit activities. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">1.2 million of these children have been trafficked. </span></p>
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Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-34416001713380197502011-03-31T09:04:00.000-07:002011-03-31T09:12:11.884-07:00WITH CHRIST I AM A HERO<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzOJ1OGZw6vzo0BDGoERUyB3QqObcweSroyzk8oAGyOTrAJwpVnagyRo8YdWvPSJcCiMh7yMuT5UVJ1ob4IoPbrrY8Pv-7IX1Ly1vT5TbEZ8HuI2dMqcSsqUALSMB8Vq4rRMSs59XbF4Y_/s1600/Bensi+Deborah+Benjamin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzOJ1OGZw6vzo0BDGoERUyB3QqObcweSroyzk8oAGyOTrAJwpVnagyRo8YdWvPSJcCiMh7yMuT5UVJ1ob4IoPbrrY8Pv-7IX1Ly1vT5TbEZ8HuI2dMqcSsqUALSMB8Vq4rRMSs59XbF4Y_/s320/Bensi+Deborah+Benjamin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590277301524071890" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>WITH CHRIST I AM A HERO</strong><br /><br /><strong>“Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves but our competence comes from God.” (2 Cor. 3:5)</strong><br /><br />Many people, even believers suffer of severe inferiority complex and are unable to overcome it. The first step that a believer should do for overcoming his/her inferiority complex is to realize that he/she is in Christ. There is absolutely nothing inferior about Christ. Since we are in Him and He in us, it follows that there can be nothing inferior about us! When we have the assurance that Christ lives in us, then we will overcome the inferiority complex by the awareness – “ I no longer live but Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20). The Bible is full of numerous promises which are meant for us to claim whenever we fall low in spirit. Let us confess these promises in faith. Let us speak positively of our position in Christ. Colossians 3:3 says, “Your life is now hidden with Christ in God”. So let us declare and confess boldly, our fellowship with Jesus. A wrong confession will imprison us, but a right confession will set us free from the bondage of low self esteem.<br /><br />When we are weak, let us declare, “Let the weak say, „I am strong‟” (Joel 3:10). When we feel defeated let us say, “Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:14). When satan puts a doubt in us that we have failed as Christians, then let us confess, “I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day” (2 Timothy 1:12). When we are afraid, let us declare, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8: 31). Let us say with apostle Paul, “We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37) and “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).<br /><br />Dear friends, when the Lord leads us to do something for Him, let us not be immersed in our inferiority complex, but step out fearlessly, trusting that He will give us the ability to do what has been assigned to us. If we do so, we will certainly excel in our job far better than our counter parts. Amen.<br /><br />PRAYER: Loving Father, give me the courage to come out of my shell of fear and low self esteem. Help me to remember that it is not my own ability that I am relying upon to achieve something but it is Christ within me. I am always more than a conqueror. In Jesus‟ name I pray. AmenPastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-49331683983628390282011-02-09T04:52:00.000-08:002011-02-09T04:55:15.238-08:00GIVER OF GOOD GIFTS...GIVER OF GOOD GIFTS...<br /><br />One of my favorite Scripture passages is Matthews 7: 9-11. It says, “Which of you, if his son asks for bread will give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him.” We come to understand two important things through these verses. Firstly, we understand that our Lord is a loving Father. The love He has for us is incomparable. And secondly, we understand that He always gives us only the good and the best.<br /><br />OUR GOD - A LOVING FATHER: <br /><br />Imagine a small child hungry and impoverished standing in front of his father with an empty plate or a bowl asking him for a piece of bread...! Will the father in his good sense throw a stone in the plate and threaten him to eat? Or imagine a child asking eagerly his father for a piece of fried fish...! Will the father have the mind to give him a fried snake? Not even the most brutal and inhuman father would do so. God has put into the hearts of parents a compassionate inclination to provide for their children. Even those that have little conscience of duty will have some tenderness for their own flesh and blood. How then, will our heavenly Father who is rich in mercy and full of love give harmful things to His children? The Bible compares the loving kindness of our heavenly Father to that of earthly parents. Psalm 103:13 says, “As a father has compassion on his children so the Lord has compasssion on those who fear Him..” In Isaiah 66:13 the Lord says, “As a mother comforts her child so will I comfort you.” In Isaiah 49:15 the Lord says, “Can a mother forget a baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget I will not forget you.” Our heavenly Father’s love, tenderness and goodness far excel those of all earthly parents. His love has no comparison. His thoughts are far above their thoughts. If all the compassion and kindness of the most loving fathers in the world were crowded in a container yet compared to the tender mercies of the Lord they would be but a candle to the sun or a drop of water in the ocean. Our earthly fathers have taken care of us and we in turn have taken care of our children. Much more than all these God takes care of His children.<br /><br />OUR GOD - GIVES ONLY WHAT IS GOOD FOR US: <br /><br />Secondly, God always gives us what is good. The earthly fathers are evil - the degenerate seed of fallen Adam. Yet, they give good gifts to their children according to their needs. Whereas our heavenly Father is all knowing, He is ever loving, and ever living. He is wise, and He knows better what we need, what we desire, and what is fit for us. Psalm 84:11 says, “Nothing does He withhold from those who walk blameless. And Psalm 85: 12 says, “The Lord will indeed give what is good.” We do not know what is good for us, but He knows. Sometimes in our foolishness we ask for something that may be harmful for us. It is good for a child to ask for bread that is necessary for his life, and fish that is nutritious for his well being. But, if he in his childishness asks for a stone or a snake or a sharp knife to play with, or wants to touch a flame the father, though kind, denies his request right away. For he knows these are disastrous things. It is so with our heavenly Father too. When we ask that which will do us harm He bluntly refuses to give us what we desire.<br /><br />OUR GOD - THE ONLY SOURCE OF GOOD THINGS: <br /><br />In our daily lives, we are confused about many things. We indeed pray to God for His guidance before taking major decisions - before choosing a life partner, before accepting a new job, before getting admission for our children in a school, before fixing up an appointment with our physician for the treatment of a disease... but even after prayerfully receiving all these, we get confused whether we are on the right track. How strongly the verse encourages us while we are in such situations! When we have asked our heavenly Father for fish or bread how then can we become anxious that He may give us snake or stone? James 1: 17 says, “every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights who does not change like shifting shadows.” So once we pray for His guidance and blessings, let us steadfastly put our trust in our loving Father and rest assured that He will give us those things that are best suited to us in every single detail. Amen.<br /><br />WILL YOU PRAY FOR US ONCE A DAY? WE WILL BE THANKFUL IF YOU CAN, FOR WITHOUT PRAYER SUPPORT, WE WILL BE BIRDS WITH JUST ONE WING!Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-35126543632271918342010-12-14T05:18:00.000-08:002010-12-14T05:24:18.213-08:00Something Special...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZcqiTUsrlCWAQ3YY4YTakxyPBpil2ss8qx9wFxAs4BBi2jlksPeU46eZaZejO4MFkxnuymdlaxax8DULgkPEQVjHX3Q4nkN5i0ZwACOyconbFhbUdO5Sr7t0Jc1od18xQPLDShbFl-RU/s1600/Bensi+Deborah+002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZcqiTUsrlCWAQ3YY4YTakxyPBpil2ss8qx9wFxAs4BBi2jlksPeU46eZaZejO4MFkxnuymdlaxax8DULgkPEQVjHX3Q4nkN5i0ZwACOyconbFhbUdO5Sr7t0Jc1od18xQPLDShbFl-RU/s320/Bensi+Deborah+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550528036597335378" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2YYgO3ska6vQOA8NDFRF1kbPAp5AnrJeBSD8rd6_qU62VklMxdVOUynRdZ3nRLeE47kV7w1fCED7LLiiIolLl1DpKLBA_liIxLWyoCsY0C3PvSC1IhK7_6bAvPSB5UaqMpcuGeVb_wc1U/s1600/Bensi+Deborah+001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2YYgO3ska6vQOA8NDFRF1kbPAp5AnrJeBSD8rd6_qU62VklMxdVOUynRdZ3nRLeE47kV7w1fCED7LLiiIolLl1DpKLBA_liIxLWyoCsY0C3PvSC1IhK7_6bAvPSB5UaqMpcuGeVb_wc1U/s320/Bensi+Deborah+001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550528028278205250" /></a><br />Dear in Christ...<br /> <br />Praise to JESUS...<br /> <br />I have Good news to you that God has blessed us with Beautiful daughter BENSI DEBORAH. <br /> <br />Thank God... by God's grace one new member joined in our family on 12-12-2010 at 8.57pm... So these days are the one of the happiest days in our lives. Due to her entry we all become old. I pray God should protect the baby in this world...<br /> <br />Thank you for your prayers. May God bless you.<br />with love and prayer,<br />Pastor T. Benjamin & Hepsi BenjaminPastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-89664686157580164882010-11-30T19:41:00.000-08:002010-11-30T19:43:24.165-08:00GIVE THANKS<strong>GIVE THANKS Psalms 107: 1-2</strong><br /><br />Today is Thanksgiving Sunday. It is good to give thanks to the Lord. The first person to teach the people to give thanks was Moses. He is the first person / man of God to teach his people how to sacrifice. He taught the way God taught him.<br /><br />The Christian songs that we sing in church has always something to thank God for. The very little thank you that we do for God must be performed and said with a heart of gratitude. Leviticus 22:29 - When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.It is not by force but it must be done with a free will heart.<br /><br />In a spirit filled church, we can preach / listen to the Word of God. Some are seen to be on fire during praise and worship. But behind it all, it must be done with a gratified heart. When we offer praises to God, we are actually building an alter of offering, an alter of sacrifice, an alter of thanksgiving. Our altar should get bigger and bigger each day. We are to grow in our thanksgiving because each day our gratitude becomes greater to Jesus. We have so much in accumulation to thank Him for His goodness.<br /><br />On this day of Thanksgiving, many have placed gifts at the altar. God will surely reward you for your gratitude. No matter how much we spend for God, God will give us double fold because He is the provider and richer than any of the richest man in the world. Your gifts and sacrifices He appreciates. He is not a man to forget what you have said or done for Him. People may forget your 'thank you's but not Jesus. Yet Jesus looks at your heart. He studies the sincerity of your "thank you"s to Him.<br /><br />Psalms 107:22 - Today remember all those little sickness that Jesus healed. You may have taken medicine from the doctor but it was the prayer that healed you. Medicine too have no power, if Jesus did not will it to work. There are many who fall sick and never see a daylight. But when you ate medicine, you were healed - THATS JESUS! You have so much to thank Him for His works in your life. Psalm 69:30-31<br /><br />In John 11:41, before Jesus healed Lazarus, He gave thanks to the Father first. It is so important to say thank you - to be gratified. If you had a friend who never said thank you, or remembered your kindness, or never appreciated you for all that you have done, would you want to do much for him / her? instead you would be glad to give as much as you can for someone who thanks you from his/her heart for a small gift that you have presented. It is the same with God. The relationship between man to man and man to God does not defer much. Our feelings are the same as God's. In Genesis it is said that God created man in His own image. We are like God in feelings.<br /><br />Exodus 23:25-26 - Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.<br /><br />In Psalm 6:5, King David says "No one remembers You when he is dead. Who praises You from the grave?" Only when you are alive you can praise God. Only living things praise God. You are God's handmade. So praise Jesus when you are alive and still have the time. Use the time you have today to praise God and receive His unmatchable blessing.<br /><br /><strong>May God bless you...</strong>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-45354141934760121572010-11-24T04:07:00.000-08:002010-11-24T04:09:02.380-08:00The Goliath In Your Life<strong>The Goliath In Your Life</strong><br /><br /><strong>Today's Reading: 1 Samuel 17 - David & Goliath</strong><br /><br />David was a good looking Shepherd boy. His brothers were in the army. His father Jesse sent David to bring him good news from the dispute of Goliath and his people. Goliath was large and strong in stature and ability. Every day Goliath was challenging the children of God to battle with him. He was not challenging the people of God but he was mocking God. When we have a problem, it is also God's problem. God takes up our case.<br /><br />Today God wants to speak three things to His people. If you read throughout the Bible, we read in many places, that there was always a challenge between God's people and the uncircumcised. The same was happening here in this text. for example 1 King 18 Elijah faced his challenge with Baal. Who is greater in this world than our God? He is living and none can stand before Him. Know the Lord to know who you are. If you know who God is, then you will not be afraid of any challenges. Surely the Living God is great. <br /><br /><strong>1). Who can stand against the 'Philistines'?</strong> Someone who is for the Lord. Someone who doesn't fight for himself but for God. David did not fight for himself. He wanted to do it for God. Young people want to enjoy their youth and prefer coming to God at an old age. They slack in coming to church and doing ministry. If Christians cannot be discipline then how can non-believers come to God and be disciplined? 1 Timothy 4:12 - Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. Young people, be joyful to serve the Lord. You won’t regret this in your old age.<br /><br /><strong>2). If God is for us, who can be against us? </strong>Romans 8:36 No one can stand against people of God. People can come against and challenge us, but they won’t last long as His people. God's people are survivors. They know that God is with them. They are strong and wait for the Lord. They know that God will act for them. Are there anyone in your office, school or home challenging you? They won’t last long. If you are a walking with Jesus, they won’t last long. They will be removed.<br /> <br /><strong>3).We must be cheerful and encourage one another.</strong> Satan sometimes puts criticism about others to us. We may criticize others and others will do the same to us. But God says encourage one another. People criticized David when he wanted to fight against Goliath. People didn’t notice the God that is with David. Humans tendency is to look low upon people. If someone criticizes you, look to God.<br /><br /><strong>4) Lastly God promises to place a crown on those who are victorious.</strong> For those who stand for God till the end, they will be rewarded. David not only struck Goliath but he also used the giant's weapon to cut off his head. David must be a strong boy at a young age, to carry the weapon belonging to Goliath and to hit the giant hard enough WITH ONE STONE to kill him. It is not an ordinary feet. It is not an ordinary strength but the supernatural strength of God was with David. <br /><br /><strong>Romans 8:37 - We are more than Conquerors. Children of God, will you stand for Jesus? You will be crowned.</strong>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-84746784544882659162010-10-28T04:54:00.000-07:002010-10-28T04:56:16.119-07:00Being a Christian<strong>Being a Christian</strong><br /><br />Of late, God has been placing the burden in my heart to speak these messages to the people of God.<br /><br /><strong>1) Never Look Back.</strong><br /><br />Luke 9:62 - Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God." Once you have started to accept the Lord and worship Him, once you have already placed your feet in the ministry or into the church, God is saying not to look back at your past. He will lead you step by step to His Kingdom. He knows it is hard to live a holy life on earth. He has promised not to forsake you but you must do your past. Are you living as if you do not know where you are going? After coming to the Lord, do you believe everything you see - the other gods and witchcraft? Are you amazed by other gods' magic and works? Sometimes sin can make you fall, it does not matter. Simply pick yourself up and keep going for the Lord. Jesus will not mock or laugh at you when you 'fall'. <br /><br />Apostle Paul advices us to run the good race. 1 Corinthians 9:24 - Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Apostle is talking about looking forward to a present and medal. Let us look at the one thing to run our race and life. Your eyes must be set on Him. At times we are looking at 'she', 'he', friends, situation etc. At times we are falling and fail to look towards Jesus. <br /><br />This is a spiritual church. We can’t be perfect and that is the face of life. However we must try to be as holy as we can every passing second. Let us not come to church and continue to live ignorantly and in sin.<br /><br /><strong>2) We must decide to live for Christ.</strong><br /><br />Some people do good in the church, but when they leave the church, they are back to the worldly ways. When they are out of God's presence they live like their ungodly friends. Some Christians live a life that others don't even know that you are in the Lord. Our lifestyle must show Jesus. Our life must be a witness to others. Openly declare Jesus when you speak to people. Don't be shy. Jesus wasn't shy to carry the cross for you or love you when you were a sinner. We must be proud of Him. <br /><br /><strong>3)</strong> The third message God kept telling me is on the coming together as one body of Christ to His Church. Hebrews 10:25 - <strong>Let us not give up meeting together</strong>, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. <br /><br />Jesus is saying this because there are Christians who have failed to go to church at that time and He is telling His people today not to be like them. Jesus has given you the pre-warning that He is sending you in the midst of wolves and they will devour you. Satan is only to eager to make God's people fall. Jesus is saying that we are in a place where the devil is. Your protection is within the Church. We are not fighting with flesh and blood but with spirits. Our church has Him the Holy Spirit. There is nothing more important than God in this world. We have to set aside even our family time for God if we have to go to Church. We can put anything to hold but not God, His time and Church<br /><br /><strong>4) Take Baptism.</strong><br /><br /> If anyone here in the church has not taken baptism, please be persistent to ask God to fill you with the Holy Spirit. There is one baptism which is the water baptism to wash you away from your past sins and it makes you a new born baby in Christ. The second baptism only God can give you when you are ready and you are so eager to receive it. Holy Spirit will not fill you if you do not want Him. This baptism is very important. You will see vision, prophesy, and many other fruits and gifts follow upon receiving this Gift. This Gift is very important. You receive a peace and strength. You will feel new and fresh when you obtain this gift. <br /><br />People of God, I am getting worried looking at my church. We must live the way God has called us to. If we Christians cannot follow what God is telling us to do, how can the people outside be saved. If God cannot change the church, how can others change? God is speaking these words again and again to me. Be watchful of how we live our life as children of the Light.<br /><br />God Bless You.Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-48700776719849801462010-08-11T23:01:00.000-07:002010-08-11T23:03:39.598-07:00Positioned for Battle<strong>Positioned for Battle (1 Samuel 17: 20 – 26)</strong><br /><br /><br />There are references in the Bible which speaks of God as the Lord of Hosts / Jehovah Sabaoth.<br /><br />In 1st Samuel 17: 45 David the shepherd boy said "... I come to you in the name of the Lord our Hosts, the God of the army of Israel. Hannah cried out to the Lord in weeping because she was barren in 1 Samuel 1:3; Other references to Jehovah Sabaoth are 1 Samuel 4:4 and 17:45. Also the Lord is known as captain of the Lord of Hosts (Joshua 5:13-15) and Revelation 19:11-16 where it is stated that Jesus will come back soon on a white horse and prepare for war! The word Jehovah Sabaoth is a powerful word and a name of God. When we are in trouble, this is another mighty name to call upon. When the Lord is the God of Army, we are his soldiers and the church is the Army for God. Soldiers are called for a mission and they have to be prepared at all times for battle. The battle of a Christian is not with flesh and blood but against the dark and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm (Ephesians 6:12 NIV). In other words we are fighting against things that our naked eyes can’t see or may not realise.<br /><br />As soldiers and as an army of God there are characteristics we are to abide and follow.<br /><br /><strong>1). The church is the Army of Living God. </strong>A soldier must be a disciplined person. Do what is right and avoid wrong at all times. We have to be obedient and honest. As the body of Christ we are to live together and NOT against each other. Compare the tiger and the lion. If one tiger fights against one lion, the tiger wins because the tiger is created to fight alone. However when a group of tigers fight against a group of lions, the LION wins most definitely because the Lion was created to move and live in groups. The Lord is the LION of Judah! We are the Army of the Living God. Our God has called us to live with unity and one accord. We are the body of Christ. We have to fight together with the Lord against the enemy.<br /> <br /><strong>2). I am a soldier prepared for Battle (2 Timothy 2:3)</strong> Timothy was a soldier. A soldier needs to be alert at all times. They must know their mission "Luke 4: 18 - 19 -The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me, to preach good news to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" "Acts 1 : 8 - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth"<br /><br /><strong>3). Soldiers have been properly trained for Battle (Matthew 16:18</strong> - And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it). In ministry too, servants of God are trained for battle. We come across people who have the personality to do ministry but they do not last for a long time in a church. But a true soldier remains till the very end. It is important to give training to those in the ministry and not simply place anyone to aid God's work. A pastor must train and equip those assisting him in ministry. Or esle the aide may leave after some time without reasons or cause problem to the ministry. Training is necessary for both Christians and servants of God. It prepares us mentally, physically and emotionally to fight with the Devil. I hear church members often complaining about their pastor who didn’t shake hands with them or the pastor reprimended them. As soldiers we cannot have a "cry baby" nature but toughen up for the Lord.<br /><br />Genesis 4:7 - Sin is crouching at your door. Temptation can be found everywhere today. We have to be prepared for battle with Satan and know when the enemy is going to strike. In our lives, we do not realise that Satan is tempting us with offers. But a soldier must remain alert and smart to restrain the enemy's "charm".<br /><br /><strong>4) Soldiers develope an agressive and offensive mindset. (Matthew 16:18)</strong><br /><br />A soldier moves ahead with the aim to win and not lose. Today we see Christians giving in to Satan's work because they get weary and tired of fighting. A Church must be Offensive and NOT defensive. We are attacking the evil one in hell together with the Lord. Members of the church and those active in ministry should not be having a laid back attitude. I am sure we notice that a church service may start at 8.30 am, yet members of the church walk in after 8.30 am as a routine. And there are some churches, where the church is to start at 8.30 am but the service would start at 9 pass. We have to wait for the Holy Spirit and not the other way round. We need to come early and be in prayer for the service. We are disciplined at work and in our studies yet when it comes to Church, Christians have a laid back nature. If we have a relaxed nature in our everyday life, it is so easy for the devil to enter our life and make us weak. Devil can not only attack us but the church as well.<br /> <br /><strong>5) Signing up (2 Timothy 2:3 - Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus)</strong><br />Dear brothers and sisters after reading the message above, I hope you understand how important it is to be a soldier and not just a Christian. This Christmas, lets confess the Soldiers Pledge below:=<br /><br />I am a soldier in the army of my God. The Lord Jesus Christ is my commanding officer. The Holy Bible is my code of conduct, Faith, prayer and the Word are my weapons of warfare. I have been taught by the Holy Spirit– trained by experience, tried by adversity and tested by fire. I am a volunteer in this army, and I am enlisted for eternity. I will either retire in this army at the rapture or die in this army; but I will not get out, sell out, be talked out, or pushed out. I am faithful, reliable, capable, and dependable. If my God needs me, I am there. If He needs me in the Sunday school to teach the children, work with the youth, help adults or just sit and learn I’ll be there. He can use me because I am there! I am a soldier. I am not a baby. I do not need to be pampered, petted, primed up, pumped up, picked up, or pepped up. I am a soldier. No one has to call me, remind me, write me, visit me, entice me, or lure me. I am a soldier. I am not a wimp. I am in place saluting my King, obeying His orders, praising His name, and building His kingdom! No one has to send me flowers gifts, food, cards, candy or give me handouts. I do not need to be cuddled, cradled, cared for, or catered to. I am committed. I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to turn me around. I cannot be discouraged enough to turn me aside. I cannot lose enough to cause me to quit. If I end up with nothing, I will still come out ahead. I will win. My God has, and will continue, to supply all of my needs. I am more than a conqueror. I will always triumph. I can do all things through Christ. Devils cannot defeat me. People cannot disillusion me. Weather cannot weary me. Sickness cannot stop me. Battles cannot beat me. Money cannot buy me. Governments cannot silence me and hell cannot handle me. I am a soldier. Even death cannot destroy me. For when my Commander calls me from this battlefield He will promote me to Captain and then allow me to rule with Him. I am a soldier in the army and I’m marching, claiming victory. I will not give up. I will not turn around. I am a soldier marching, heaven bound.<br /><br /><strong>God Bless You…</strong>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-33236305503402645182010-07-29T05:11:00.000-07:002010-07-29T05:19:59.057-07:00“WARNING FOR ALL YOUTHS”“WARNING FOR ALL YOUTHS”<br /><br /> <br />Few months ago I was travelling from Chennai to Rameswaram by train. A girl was seated before me and she was about 27yrs of age. Her face was grief stricken and was crying all the way. As the train was passing I could observe that she receives many phone calls and was continuously crying. <br /><br />As the train was reaching Villupuram junction, I was reading a book and on seeing that the girl asked me “Brother! Are you a Christian?” I told her that I am a Christian and also explained about my ministerial call. Immediately she requested me to pray for her and for her future. I agreed to pray for her, but, asked her to explain about her discomfort, since she seemed to be very upset and in total distress ever since she boarded the train. She slowly started revealing her past life incidents which was the root cause of the present tribulations. <br />On hearing that, my heart broke. It was sad, but true…<br /> <br /><strong>She started like this:</strong> Brother, during my 4 years of college, I have experienced joyful moments and I used to mingle with boys & girls without any barriers. My parents had cautioned me about my flexible attitude, but not taking into account of their advices, I led a life of my own.<br /> <br /><strong>Do you know what happened?</strong> <br />After my 4 years of college I had joined in one of the leading software company in Chennai; at the same time my parents were looking for a suitable marriage partner…Almost a person was fixed and even the engagement date was confirmed. Just before my engagement, I received a phone call from one of the old friend of mine during my college days. That person all of a sudden proposed me and was very confident in marrying me and I was taken in surprise. I told him very clearly that I did not have any intention of that sort and had to turn down his request and demand. <br /><br /><strong>You know what happened then? </strong><br />The next day evening was my engagement but it was during the morning the person had sent my pictures during college days through email to the Groom. This created a big commotion which also led to the extent of stopping the engagement. My father had to pacify everyone and had convinced them and arranged my marriage with great difficulty. We had a happy life after marriage for nearly one year. After that I could sense some behavioral changes and attitude problems with my husband. He was addicted to alcohol and started to use abusive language to me and was constantly enquiring about the photographs which were taken during my college days. <br />His suspicion grew day by day. He did not trust me and I tried to explain him everything. As days passed by, his attitude did not change and he was becoming more and more cruel. He also stooped down to the level of harassing me and also threatened to kill me. Then I sensed that if I continue to stay with my husband I would probably get killed one day. So I decided and made up my mind that I have to leave him and went to my parents. To my great astonishment my parents did not accept me and instead blamed me about my life style which I had during my college days. They strictly rejected me and asked me not to come again and be a burden to them anymore. <br /><br />I am an orphan now even though I have people. With great disappointment and heavy heart I am proceeding to my friends’ house in Rameswaram. This kind of situation should never come to anyone in this world…not even my enemy. <br />As she expressed her grief from her heart, tears rolled down her checks. In short, just because of her 4 years of carefree life style she has to suffer for the rest of her life, yes, this is a very important point to be pondered at this moment.<br /> <br /><strong>My beloved young people just think for a while as to how your attitude/lifestyle is?</strong> <br />Your few days of enjoyment, pleasures and sinful lifestyle could cost your entire life. Please do repent and come out of your sinful life, bad relationships and lusts. Do not forget that your youthful lifestyle decides your future life. <br />In the Bible “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity”.(Eccl 12:8). Understand that whatever you see in this world is vanity. Repent from your sinful life and dedicate your life and heart to the living Lord JESUS, saying “Lord I am here for you – FOR YOU”. Our good God will listen to you and will bless you. <br />For it was Jesus who took the form of man and came into this world to take our sins upon him, and died for us on the cross, and rose up on the third day and says “I did all this for you, what did you do for me?”. Jesus Christ does not ask for your Gold or riches. All he asks is your heart. “My son, give me thine heart” (Proverbs 23:26) says the Bible. In these youthful days can we give our heart to this Jesus saying “Lord I give my heart for you – FOR YOU”.<br /> <br /><strong>If you wish to give your heart for our Lord Jesus please say this prayer: </strong><br />Jesus I thank you for enabling me to understand that the worldly pleasures is all Vanity. Thank you for helping me to understand and realize your great love for me. I surrender my heart and life for you. Please come into my heart and accept me and bless my future. I ask everything in Jesus name. Amen. <br /><br />(Gospel has reached to those who have received this) <br /><br />"SHINING STARS YOUTH MISSION" <br />No.3/1958, Samathanapuram (Kamarajar Nagar East), Pamban 623 521 Rameswaram Island, Ramanathapuram District. Tamil Nadu. South India. <br />Hand Phone: 00 91 98425 13842Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-41212296161555394792010-07-20T04:02:00.000-07:002010-07-20T04:04:05.332-07:00Journey with Christ<strong>Exodus 15<br /><br />Dear saint of God…! This sermon reflects on the Canaan generation. They life experience will teach us lessons to follow. As Christians, we bless God all the time. However when we face problems, that is when we are able to see our true nature. The journey they took, though a brief lesson today, but it has profound meanings to follow.<br /><br />We read in Chapter 15, The Israelite children dancing and praising God. And they coming to Mara and immediately they start to grumble. God leads His children to Mara. Mara is bitter, but God is actually trying to reveal the bitterness of man in this Scripture. It is difficult to accept but deep in us we sometimes have bitterness, and God wants to help remove it from us. Only if we allow we can be healed.<br /><br />We read in Verse 22, that they went to the Desert of Shur. "shur" in Hebrew means wall. There are times we have walls in our life that causes us not to prosper despite our prayer and fasting. That is the place of shur that God is leading them to.<br /><br />In Egypt the people saw miracles like never written before or seen before in the history of man. They were all God's doing. They came to the Red Sea and saw it departing. They walked amidst that departed sea. They experienced the miracle. They also saw the sea closing. Of course it was God's Big and Mighty Hand that held the heavy sea. They then danced and praised God which you read in Chapter 15.<br /><br />They saw His greatness and His voice. Within 3 days they spoke against God and His appointed man. Jesus did miracles before His disciples. He slept awhile and the raging sea that came to hit the boat made His disciples terrorised. And Jesus after silencing the wind and the sea asked them, "Where is your faith?"<br />I trust many people go through problems in life but I also believe that God is not the reason for your problems. But God is asking you, "Where is your faith?". Do you not think that the red sea that God held with His hands will not be able to give u a glass of water?<br /><br />When you have a problem that is when the strength of your faith is revealed. If your joy comes from the earth remember that the joy is not permanent. Unless that joy comes from heaven. Ask God for the faith of Jesus. We must always seek without fail each day for God's love, touch and care. If you have an anointing and discernment it should not only be in church. It should be everywhere you go that you can live in God's fullness. Your life will be according to His will.<br /><br />Know three things about God. 1) He is aware of your needs. He is a God who watches over us. He is knows your problems, what you need today and in your future. He knows your immediate needs. 2) God is able to meet all your needs, despite your situation and problems. 3) God has prepared a provision for you. He has prepared an answer for you though you can’t see or understand now<br /><br />In Exodus God knows His children are coming to Mara. When His children complain, He need not realise it because He knows. God knows how much you telephone bill is coming up to. He knows the problems you are going to face tomorrow. When you worship a God who knows everything it means He is a powerful God. God knows what sickness or health complications that you may have in future. God is not a God of today. Don’t live your life as if you don’t know how long you may live. Live as if you want to see Jesus in His second coming. How splendorous it will be with angels, lights, glory and thunder. And like Elijah taken up to heaven, pray that you have that same experience.<br /><br />In Verse 25, God had planted a tree because He knows His children are coming over and the water of Mara is bitter. He told Moses to cut its wood and throw into the river. The waters become sweet. In the Garden of Eden, it was cos of a tree, Adam and Eve sinned. God then again gave us a "tree".1 Peter 24 - "Jesus hung on a tree". The tree is the gospel and the salvation. With Jesus the bitterness will turn into sweetness. With Jesus you will have good health and joy. The blood of Jesus is still talking for us in heaven.<br /><br />Here God is bringing Jesus into the rivers of Mara. Then after that God takes them to Elim. Elim is a place where rivers of water continuously flow. The story does end with Mara but the journey continues. In your life, you cannot stop when God does a miracle for you. Keep walking on, for God knows what you need. When you face problems because of any wrong doing, God also knows that He needs to deliver you out. Keep walking on. God Bless You.</strong>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-21176369460276462112010-04-19T02:29:00.000-07:002010-04-19T02:32:04.012-07:00Testimony From Sis. Kiruba...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyCb-jOqw2R3AzNp7n0uc6RtaUjQ3lc0zErvrcjEAyvVmzqU9wyLIMA8PNi4H1CnGeA7Nb8pBXuTO18HcxGgs73e4T4m7Znlgsbtzpz7jFFlvsNs9hbFbbSCTswmoyJ-_Plj0dbTXBr4LQ/s1600/Kirupa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyCb-jOqw2R3AzNp7n0uc6RtaUjQ3lc0zErvrcjEAyvVmzqU9wyLIMA8PNi4H1CnGeA7Nb8pBXuTO18HcxGgs73e4T4m7Znlgsbtzpz7jFFlvsNs9hbFbbSCTswmoyJ-_Plj0dbTXBr4LQ/s320/Kirupa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461778694885327282" /></a><br /><strong>My name is Kiruba. I brought up from Christian family. I lost my father in my childhood, I have one younger brother now he is studying 12th standard. I lost my father that’s why I faced so many problems in my life. That time I am longing for world love. But I didn’t get true love in this world, but I got true love from Lord Jesus Christ. While I was studying 10th standard I received his calling but I didn’t accept his calling, after that I finished my 12th standard again I received his calling, I accepted his calling in my life. I don’t know what I am going to do I told to my mummy about my calling. She told me pray God will open the way to go to Bible college, I prayed lot. Then I spoke about this matter to Pastor , pray I will help you for your studies. By God’s grace I finished my 1st year. First of all I thank God and then Ps. Benjamin & Hepsi Benjamin. <br /> Praise to be God alone.</strong>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-58219520132590599932010-03-24T02:31:00.000-07:002010-03-24T02:40:53.632-07:00Testimony from Bro. Manova<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzw1pe9APUdByOTpGBX0BLQBsh-puR2RF5mkAjmUaLjbJThuR4KNPf4C-e834_ivLdVFPculKgtHpe1wxkgGqr4g1xyDUFhRkCI8N2uTxO4NyEW1Kf_bjdeCv8V18I0vYnw3s-U4unvwxI/s1600/Bro.+Manovah.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzw1pe9APUdByOTpGBX0BLQBsh-puR2RF5mkAjmUaLjbJThuR4KNPf4C-e834_ivLdVFPculKgtHpe1wxkgGqr4g1xyDUFhRkCI8N2uTxO4NyEW1Kf_bjdeCv8V18I0vYnw3s-U4unvwxI/s320/Bro.+Manovah.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452130991371834706" /></a><br /><br /><br />Greetings to you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I’m really thankful to God in my deep depth of my heart because He called me for his ministry and using me in a mighty way. <br /> <br />My name is Manova. I was born in a poor family, I’m in third of my family, and I have one sister and brother. My father was laborer. If one day my father didn’t go to work my family becomes bad. Though we were struggling in poverty, my parents didn’t take their trust and faithfulness from God. They didn’t backslide in their poverty. My parents had thought me the bible in my child-hood. Regularly we were attending Sunday school (I, sister and brother). Some times we didn’t have breakfast in ours life, my parents didn’t had food two three days. That much poverty in my life.<br /> <br />But I was brought up spiritually. I was first student in the Sunday school. I had interesting in music in my child- hood. I was singing cinema songs in my school days. My friends were encouraged me, that time I would like to be a good singer in cinema field. So I was learning through the music class. But I could not understand their teaching, so I stopped to go that class. <br /><br />While in those days I was changed in to a cruel man. When I was studying 8th to 10th grade I had bad friendship. I won’t give respect to others. My life was totally changed. One day we were all together and attacked my class teacher, so that school Head Master sent us out from that school. I was such in disciplined guy. I was failed in one subject in my 12th grade.<br /> <br />During this day I would like to go to job. So I joined the private company in Tirunelveli. I didn’t give full salary to my parents but I gave half salary to them because I’m youngest in my family, I was pet for them. During these days, one day the Lord Jesus Christ talked to me clearly through the Word of God. I was so confused. That time I recognized he has chosen me before I was born in my mother womb. I confessed my sin to God. I surrender myself to him that day itself my life became completely changed.<br /> <br />My parents told me to do ministry for God. I told them if it is Gods will I’ll join the Bible college otherwise I won’t do it. They told me we can’t spent money for your studies in Bible college you pray if God open the way you join and studies. I was praying for three months in God’s presence. God if you will help to join the Bible College. Every day this is my prayer in his presence. One Saturday we went and met Pastor. Benjamin, after fasting prayer over. We met pastor about my family situation and calling too. Then he asked me some questions and he told I’ll help you for your studies. According to his permission I was working with him 6th months in church he sent me to Bible collage in Madurai. While I joined that college I prayed to God, Jesus help for my studies, if 100 students studies in that college I have to come 1st in studies. He done mighty things apart from my thinking he lifted me in all the areas. Now I finished 2nd year of my bible college by the grace of God. I have one more year to complete the Course. <br /> <br />My parents doing ministry fourteen years in a small village Thalaiyuthu, Tirunelveli. It’s a small independent church. Thirty believers are coming to church and worship the Lord Jesus Christ. Please pray for my ministry and parent’s ministry. I would like thank to my pastor, he helped me all my areas, and he is a spiritual father for me. Every day praying for him and his ministry and health. I’m so happy now I’m doing ministry under him. AmenPastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-29596662144408951022010-03-10T10:44:00.001-08:002010-03-10T10:46:01.608-08:00Testimony from Our Coworker<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnC8_T2_LQgcEXY5cyQsVMdog3KvYT2RC3HE2JhKc4GRqYG4puoNHSpoXutwBO1fIZ39ne-H7UuY9I032RUwYEebSjF6-8BgxkjRfIX1aEtNaRgqOeElzQ2kZAPzvrIh131ClR2T1k-IJ/s1600-h/Sis.+Hephzi+Picture.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnC8_T2_LQgcEXY5cyQsVMdog3KvYT2RC3HE2JhKc4GRqYG4puoNHSpoXutwBO1fIZ39ne-H7UuY9I032RUwYEebSjF6-8BgxkjRfIX1aEtNaRgqOeElzQ2kZAPzvrIh131ClR2T1k-IJ/s320/Sis.+Hephzi+Picture.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447078140183924802" /></a><br />My name is Hephzibah. I was born and brought in a Hindu Orthodox family in a small village near Naguneri. I have two elder sisters and two elder brothers, one younger brother and one younger sister. My father was doing real estate business, my mother is house wife. While I was in my school and collage days I wanted to commit suicide. I must attend the suicide, this is my aim. I don’t have any idea about my future, because I don’t have peace in my mind and my family. My mother was always sick and my father lost all his wealth we became poor. Because my relatives made witch craft against my family and my father business. We lost our money and properties. We became very poor. My mother have own Hindu temple, so my grand pa, grand ma and my mother was worshiped idols. Their god enters into my mother and talked with us and my cousins too. So we believed that idol. One day it came to my mother and spoke to us, I can’t help you, because all relatives put witch craft against you. That time only we analysed which is the true God. One of my house neighbors is Christian and my house owner too. They shared to us about Jesus Christ. They said like this, Jesus only can give the complete deliverance from your bondage and hindrance in your family. They shared to us miracle of Jesus. We accepted Jesus Christ as our savior. That time I was doing BA English 2nd year in Rani Anna College, Tirunelveli (2000). After my college I took 40 days fasting prayer about my future. In that time Jesus called me for his ministry. I don’t know much more about ministry, because I came from Hindu background. 2002 Jan 26 I went to fasting prayer in my church, my pastor shared the word of God about the ministries. He has shared 5 kinds of ministry, that time he shared about missionary ministry. I don’t know about missionary ministry, he explained very clearly about that. That time I submitted to God. So 2003 May I joined Southern Asia Bible College in Bangalore. When I entered into the college, everything was new to me. The studies, ministry, culture, and worship everything brought changes in my life. God make paid all my fees. I began to grow every year in God. I did ministries in a near by church every weekends. The college gave me knowledge about God, who is God, How to do ministries for God and showed me the way to depend only upon God not to put trust man. After finishing my 3yrs Bible College Studies, now I’m working with my Pastor.T. Benjamin. I trust God for my future partner. I know my God make everything beautiful in His time. Keep in your prayer. Thank you. Amen.Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-4641976188893189052009-10-12T05:16:00.000-07:002009-10-12T05:19:30.702-07:00"YOU ARE OF CHRIST, WHAT CAN SATAN DO TO YOU?"<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000099;"><strong>I receive letters that are written with burdens and tears. And most of the letters says “please pray for me for, I am unable to pray, I feel sleepy when I read the scriptures and regular sickness in the family. Some letters states about confusion in the family, struggle at work spot, dreadful dreams during the night, bondage of witchcraft and loss in business. Satan is tormenting our family a lot and we do not know what to do”. Of late we can see God’s children who keep praising Satan for all the 24 hours and say “see the power of Satan and see how this bad Satan is tormenting us”. </strong></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000099;"><strong><div align="justify"><br />Our reason for the defeat is that we praise Satan who has been defected and bruised by Christ rather than praising Christ who victoriously defeated everything. It is true that Satan has got power. He took Jesus on the top of the mountain and the pinnacle of the temple and boldly said, “if you therefore will worship me, all shall be yours” (Luke 4:2-12) He has been described by Christ as a murderer (John 8:44) The apostles described Satan as the god of this age (II Corinthians 4:4) rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness.</div><div align="justify"><br />But the all-powerful Jesus Christ has defeated this Satan. This powerless enemy head has been bruised by Christ on the cross of Calvary, so that he may fear and tremble when he hear Jesus name. Let us closely listen to God’s counselling of how to overcome Satan and to understand how he works in our life. </div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;">SATAN IS A THIEF</span> </span></div><span style="color:#ff0000;"><div align="justify"><br /></span>Jesus Christ said a descriptive truth about Satan at John 10:10 He said, “the thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy”. Jesus has described Satan our enemy as a thief, killer and destroyer. A question arises in our hearts. What is he going to steal? What is he killing? What is he destroying? He brings sin into our lives and steals our peace. He creates sickness in our body and steals our health. He brings separation into our family and steals our union. He creates problems in our lives and steals our happiness. Likewise, he has stolen all the blessings that were given to us by God in the early stage of our life. Hence Jesus Christ called Satan a thief. He also creates unholiness to destroy holiness in our life. He creates anger to destroy love. He creates pride to destroy humility. He creates strife to destroy union.</div><div align="justify"><br />Likewise he destroys all the spiritual qualities that is found in our lives. Moreover he sends depression, sorrow, fear and doubts and kills our faith, joy, happiness and belief. Likewise he completely destroys our life. A poor lady told me about her problem when I went to her house for prayer. Brother the youth in my family who is supposed to look after the family is addicted to sins and he spends all the money unnecessarily. Hence my family is suffering in poverty. I have been afflicted by sickness because of the thought of him. Even my daughters spend their days in sorrow thinking of their brother. He does not listen to the counsel that was given to him. Is there a chance for him to change?</div><div align="justify"><br />God gave me a chance to meet this youth as according to the desire of this poor lady. As I was talking to him many things, the Holy Spirit helped me to identify an unclean spirit that was controlling him and ruining his life. This unclean spirit called him to do all the sins with great desire, which aresupposed to be avoided. It brought loss and materialistic blessings and made this family to suffer under the bondage of poverty. This unclean spirit brought this poor mother sorrow, tears and disease because of this problem. The Satan who controlled this youth stole all the blessings from the family. Not only in this family, he is also agonizing you with all the problems of sorrow, tears, loss, disease, etc., </div><div align="justify"><br />You are not going to gain anything when you say, “he has plotted against me and he has kept me in witchcraft, hence we face loss in our business”. God’s children have got one enemy in this world. He is Satan who resisted our beloved Christ and had been defeated. He is the one who makes others to stand against us, brings sickness, creates problem and sends loss into our lives. He is a stealer, destroyer and killer. </div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">CHRIST GIVES LIFE</span> </div><div align="justify"><br />Jesus Christ who spoke very clearly about Satan had also spoken more clearly about Him in John 10:10 “I have come that they may have life, and have it the full”. Satan used sin to steal God’s likeness, God’s Glory, oneness in spirit and God’s peace, that was all kept by God in the life of Adam. The son of man came into this world to give back the same blessings to the mankind, which Satan has stolen. (Romans 5:18,19) He gave his life on the cross to give back to us the lost everlasting life (Romans 6:22,23) A man receives this everlasting life when he accepts Jesus Christ into his hearts. Moreover, he also receives back all the blessings that was stolen my Satan. The parents of a youth felt very sad because of the dangerous disease of their son. They spent a lot of many on doctors. They were not able to diagnose the exact disease. They spent all the nights worrying what would happen to their son? They do not know that an unclean spirit created this disease. </div><div align="justify"><br />This unclean spirit tormented this youth with disease. And tormented the family with material loss and fear. One day this youth accepted Jesus in his heart at a Gospel meeting. The youth who was dead in sin received the everlasting life. He received the joy and peace that Jesus Christ acquired by shedding his blood on the cross. (Colossians 1:20) Satan who created this disease could not function any further, when the youth gave Jesus a complete place in his life. He received a miraculous healing from his disease. He opened up all the ways for the future. The parents were happy. </div><div align="justify"><br />“I have come that they may life and have it to the full”, these words which was spoken by Christ became true in this young man’s life. Not only for this youth, Jesus Christ is waiting to give these blessings to all those who accept Him in their hearts. When we accept this Christ, He gives us eternal life to stay with Him now and always. He gives back the health that was stolen by Satan, so that we may have the full life. He creates back the same union. He gives back the same peace. He gives holiness changing sin in our lives. He gives us boldness changing our fear. He changes our unbelief and gives us faith. He changes our anger and gives us love. He changes struggle into calmness. He changes loss and gives us profit. Why not you receive this life, the eternal one? Repent of your sins and accept Jesus into your hearts. Receive the everlasting life. </div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">YOU ARE OF CHRIST</span> </div><div align="justify"><br />The God who spoke about Satan and Himself, had also said about us in I Corinthian 3:23 through the Apostle Paul. “You are of Christ” You can feel faith, power and boldness rushing in our hearts, the more we meditate on this word. If you have been truly repented of your sins? If you have been truly accepted Christ as your saviour? If you have been truly cleansed of your sins? Then you belong to Christ. </div><div align="justify"><br />Your body soul and spirit belong to Christ. He acquired you by shedding his priceless blood (I Corinthian 6:20). You are Christ treasure. Satan has got no power to touch you. God had an hedge around His servant Job. Satan had to seek God’s permission to touch Job (Job 1:10,12) Satan had to seek permission from Jesus to test the disciples who was His treasure (Luke 22:31) Satan has got no right to touch you and me, which belong to Christ. All that you have belong to Jesus. Your education, degree, designation, business, work, wealth and family belong to Christ alone. Who can take all these things from you? Fear not! For you belong to Christ. </div><div align="justify"><br />When you struggle with Satan, be bold to say to him, “I belong to Christ. What can you do to me Satan? Most of the times, Satan will afflict me with disease and sickness in my body, when I go out for the Lord’s ministry. During these times, I used to say these words from the bottom of my heart. “Satan, you cannot do anything to me. I belong to Jesus”. “You do not have any right to touch me”. I have experienced a change in my body when I say these words. My tiredness and sickness would change. </div><div align="justify"><br />Many a times Satan will create small confusion to disturb the blessings of the meetings. During these time I say, “Satan, I belong to Jesus, you cannot disturb me”. I have seen Satan hiding himself when I say these words getting filled with the Holy Spirit. When you face problems like disease, loss, struggle, sorrow and fear be bold enough to say to Satan and keep saying, “I belong to Jesus, you cannot do anything to me”. Say it with faith and be bold when you say it. Continue to say till you receive a miracle. You can say these, only when His blood has cleansed you. So place yourself completely into the hands of God. Do not forget that you are the treasure of king of kings if His blood has washed you. You are the treasure of the Lord of Lords. You are God’s children. What can Satan do to you? Pray to the Lord with faith and you will see miracles. </div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Beloved Father,<br />I thank you for changing me into a special treasure by cleansing me with the priceless blood of y our son Jesus Christ. My body, soul and spirit belong to you. I bind and chuck out all the Satan given disease and sickness from my body, which is your wealth. Satan, I rebuke you to take away your hands from my body which is Jesus wealth. Satan, my life belong to Jesus. My education work, business, family, wealth and all other things belong to Jesus only. So you better know that you do not have any right in any part of my life, which belong to Jesus. I resist you in the powerful name of my Lord Jesus Christ. I take victory over you in the victorious name of Jesus. I pray in the victorious and beloved name of my Jesus. Amen! Amen!</span></strong></span></div>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-38584322738089071802009-08-17T19:41:00.001-07:002009-08-17T19:47:02.678-07:00What Faith Does (Lessons from Hebrews 11)<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZq3IHNo5dJcIvd5iVq8jIm0UqzpgVboOXAvhwPNo_Gc_aU6aKvKdx06wFmgItiYruY5iDLdRnbRTuc4rYBTl9sCgg9l-_0v3iuv1jRjRd9PpNRncDNpyA2GaRVPW__WoC8tH_BPltSOm/s1600-h/What+Faith+Does.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371128635159677538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 359px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 261px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZq3IHNo5dJcIvd5iVq8jIm0UqzpgVboOXAvhwPNo_Gc_aU6aKvKdx06wFmgItiYruY5iDLdRnbRTuc4rYBTl9sCgg9l-_0v3iuv1jRjRd9PpNRncDNpyA2GaRVPW__WoC8tH_BPltSOm/s320/What+Faith+Does.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">What Faith Does (Lessons from Hebrews 11)</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="color:#006600;">1.</span> Faith obtains a good testimony. (v 2)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">2.</span> Faith understands the creative power of God’s Word. (v 3)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">3.</span> Faith offers to God the first and the best. (v 4)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">4.</span> Faith seeks to please God in everything. (v 5)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">5.</span> Faith believes that God answers diligent prayer. (v 6)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">6.</span> Faith takes God’s warnings seriously. (v 7)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">7.</span> Faith obeys God without asking questions. (v 8)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">8.</span> Faith steps out to possess new territories. (v 9)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">9.</span> Faith lives with eternity in view. (v 10)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">10.</span> Faith looks to God alone and laughs at impossibilities. (v 11)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">11.</span> Faith confesses, “This world is not my home; I’m just a passing-thro’!” (vv 13,37b,38)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">12.</span> Faith is Heaven-sick. (vv 14,16)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">13.</span> Faith does not retreat. (v 15)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">14.</span> Faith readily parts with any blessing to be offered back to God. (v 17)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">15.</span> Faith counts on the resurrective power of God. (vv 19,35a)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">16.</span> Faith prophesies messages for future generations. (vv 20-22)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">17.</span> Faith fears no threats but relies on God’s power to protect. (v 23)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">18.</span> Faith is not enamoured of worldly status. (v 24)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">19.</span> Faith says no to sin. (v 25)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">20.</span> Faith identifies with God’s people voluntarily in their suffering. (v 25)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">21.</span> Faith does not worship money. (v 26)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">22.</span> Faith acts on heavenly vision fearing no power on earth. (v 27)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">23.</span> Faith takes refuge under the Blood of Christ. (v28)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">24.</span> Faith attempts the impossible. (v 29)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">25.</span> Faith does not give up. (v 30)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">26.</span> Faith abandons the devil’s majority and joins God’s miniority. (v 31)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">27.</span> Faith demonstrates righteousness. (v 33)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">28.</span> Faith expects great things from God and attempts great things for Him. (vv 32-34)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">29.</span> Faith refuses to compromise even if it means torture and death. (vv 35-37)<br /><span style="color:#006600;">30.</span> Faith ignores mockery. ( v36)</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>“Examine yourselves whether you are in the faith!” (2 Cor 13:5)</strong></span></span></div>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-88154056524499077342009-07-22T10:03:00.001-07:002009-07-22T10:08:52.588-07:00Lost in Love!<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7Q3J2uEKfEZDW4uXyXMETamv-CyLKx47FgBU3ig4z8pXKdCDgSPaHCps27XdT3HnK-ZkwNJjE86u0-bN3sFIhkpUse4wkff4Q7oxiniIjYuIdnIGZBg4TZFxGAtNB-t_W8b_GN7I_bfm/s1600-h/Lost+in+Love!.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361331487199348354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 363px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 295px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7Q3J2uEKfEZDW4uXyXMETamv-CyLKx47FgBU3ig4z8pXKdCDgSPaHCps27XdT3HnK-ZkwNJjE86u0-bN3sFIhkpUse4wkff4Q7oxiniIjYuIdnIGZBg4TZFxGAtNB-t_W8b_GN7I_bfm/s320/Lost+in+Love!.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="color:#ff0000;">Lost in Love!<br /></span></span></strong></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong>Loving Annan(Brother), </strong></span><a name="7"></a><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong>Greeting from Ravindran!<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong>At the close of your talk last Saturday in our hostel, you gave us an invitation to ask questions which had been bothering us; but to my disappointment no one brought up my problem. I too felt rather delicate to ask this in front of others. Here are my questions. Hope you won’t misunderstand me.</strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong>1. Is it sin to fall in love?<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong>2. Is petting sin?<br /></div></strong></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><strong>Please destroy this letter. Kindly mark your envelope “personal.” Thank you very much.<br />Ravi<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Loving Ravi,<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Received your frank letter. I appreciate youth openly coming out with their problems rather than covering them and ending up in a mess. Your letter is kept confidential, don’t worry! I have tried here to give you a concise answer.<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>1. It is quite natural for a young boy to desire a girl. Opposite poles attract! But you must heed some of the pitfalls. “Love is blind.” Countless youth have become victims of their emotions stirred up at first sight. They fail to be sensible. A prudent student will declare, “I have no time for a love affair.” He will make the best use of his student days for study. Even with regular attendance and hard work many students fail to get high grades. During these days of stiff competition a mere pass gets you nowhere. After you finish your studies and settle in a job, seek the help of your parents and elders of find a suitable girl. Start praying for your future even from now on.<br /><br />2. Though in love several marriages do not materialize. What damage petting will cause then! Petting does not stop there; it invariably advances to the ultimate. Are we angels? Even if you are engaged, why not reserve the thrill for the marriage bed? If you have already given your bodies to each other, it will be hypocrisy before God and men when the minister in the Church takes you through the wedding ceremony. So, please wait.<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Western culture has not been ideal.<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Here is a word of counsel for your future: “Commit your way to the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass” (Psa 37:5).<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Your brother<br /></strong></span></div><div align="justify"></div>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-4079784203791794992009-07-15T19:25:00.000-07:002009-07-15T19:38:48.577-07:00JESUS WEPT TO WIPE YOUR TEARS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkZv93f4SmpHUDqs41etI_GFTZCVzfa9CEYzQZR75vBIquvjx90ZODnwvjef545CY3vhXHke3AUN82R4P6g25NYfwUP4yg_Lstq8UrTz1mebsX3tbhJr72vw6P_WPZFCyFRtk0On7ZCRW/s1600-h/JESUS+WEPT+TO+WIPE+YOUR+TEARS.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358878719743260466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 384px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 289px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkZv93f4SmpHUDqs41etI_GFTZCVzfa9CEYzQZR75vBIquvjx90ZODnwvjef545CY3vhXHke3AUN82R4P6g25NYfwUP4yg_Lstq8UrTz1mebsX3tbhJr72vw6P_WPZFCyFRtk0On7ZCRW/s320/JESUS+WEPT+TO+WIPE+YOUR+TEARS.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;">JESUS WEPT TO WIPE YOUR TEARS</span></span></span></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong> </div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">WIPE YOUR TEARS</span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;"><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">WIPE YOUR TEARS JESUS WEPT TO WIPE YOUR TEARS</span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;">“Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord”. (Jeremiah 31:16) </span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">JESUS IN A POOR FAMILY</span></span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"> There was a village called Bethany, which was situated two miles from Jerusalem. A poor family was there in this village. The family comprised of two sisters Martha and Mary and a Brother called Lazarus. They had no parents. These children who had lost their father and mother would have spent their life in sorrow. Many a times they would have longed to have a father and mother like other family to be loved, to be inquired and to get all things bought that they deserved. At this time, there established a good relationship between Jesus Christ and this family, “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus” (John 11:5). Very often Jesus went to their house, stayed there to rest for sometime and also ate with them. How much happiness this would have brought to these poor children? The miracle working Jesus, the wonder working Jesus and the Son of God had a relationship with that poor family.<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> They would have rejoiced in Jesus forgetting the loss of their father and mother. Yes, the love and relationship of Jesus Christ would have certainly helped them to forget the loss of their father and mother. My dear God’s children! Are you dismayed because of the absence of your mother and father? Are you disarrayed because of the absence of a person to love you and to inquire you? You have Jesus, who can love you more than that of your mother. Great is the joy having Jesus living in your heart and your family. He loves you more than your mother and takes active interest in you more than your father. “Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you” (Isaiah 49:15). “As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him”. (Psalm 103:13) “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you”. (Isaiah 66:13) Why should you worry when you have Jesus to love you? Well, how did the relationship between Jesus and the poor family get established? One day, Jesus was walking through the village of Bethany. When Martha watched Him, she went near Him and asked Him to come to her house and took Him in (Luke 10:38).<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> A large crowd would have followed the miracle working Jesus. Even the village people would have gathered to watch Him. But nobody called Jesus to come into his or her house. Martha would have got down from her house, walked near Jesus and called Him in. Many questions would have risen in her heart. I am a spinster. What will my village people think of me? Will Jesus come into my house, if I call Him? But she called Jesus into her house, not being worried or ashamed of anything. And Jesus happily entered that house of the poor family. Have you accepted this Jesus in your heart? Why don’t you accept this miracle and powerful Jesus in your heart? Do not be ashamed of what people will speak about you. Do not suspect Jesus coming to your house. Certainly He will come to your house. He will make you glad. “Look I have been standing at the door. And I am always knocking. If any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in. I will fellowship with him and he with me” (Revelation 3:20)<br /></div></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">PROBLEM IN THE FAMILY<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> A problem entered the house of this poor family, which rejoiced in the relationship of Jesus having forgotten the loss of their father and mother. The brother of these two spinsters became sick. A disease that would cause death would have affected him. How much sorrow, this would have created in these poor ladies? My dear people, we should not forget that Christian life consists of problems. “God did not promise us that we may escape these problems, if we accept Christ”. But it is written, “Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows”. (John 16:33). “You have been grieved by various trials”. (II Peter 1:6). “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God”. (Act 14:22). God’s words says that, “we must go through many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God” (Act 14:22). But God will be with us among these trials and tribulations. Not to protect us from problems tormenting us, but to hold peace among these problems. When you accept Christ, the world may laugh, torment and reject you. But among all these problems your saviour Jesus will be with you.<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JESUS DELAYS<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> When faced by a problem, many questions arise in our hearts like the tides of the sea. Where to go? Whom to share with? Who will help us? But, when Lazarus was sick, what did these poor children do? They sent word to Jesus saying, “Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick”. (John 11:3) They knew that they could get help from the true loving Jesus, who can understand their burdens. But what happened? “So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was”. (John 11:6) Is this not surprising to us? They had sent word to Jesus in their times of trouble. But, Jesus delayed. Just think of the state of these poor ladies, during the delay of Jesus. They would have waited with expectation thinking that Jesus will come.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> They must have stood at the door keeping their eyes on the direction where Jesus would come. The disease increased and Jesus did not come. The neighbours in the village would have said, “Call a doctor to examine your brother otherwise he may die for Jesus had not come”. These words would have broken the hearts of the young ladies. We are dismayed in our life when God delays in answering our prayers. On one side, we have problems from the family. On the other we have problems from people and most of the time we are depressed. Martha and Mary expected Jesus till the last minute and He did not come. Lazarus died. The two sisters lamented and cried. Lazarus was buried. They wept day and night. On one side they would have had the burden that Jesus did not come for help, even after sending word. On the other side, they would have had the pain of the loss of their only brother who was supporting them. Finally they would have been sandwiched by the scoffing of the neighbours who would have said, “ Many times Jesus came into your house as a loving person and He has done miracle to all the other people. But at last he did not come in your time of trouble” What did Jesus do when these poor children were tormented? Had he forgotten this poor family? No! How can he forget?</div></span><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> Jesus takes continuous care on a man, when he accepts Him in to his heart. Then, Why did he delay? There was a reason behind His delay. He did not hold himself from anything without any special reason. He had already decided to perform a great miracle in this poor family. Hence he delayed. Before this incident, he had already risen alive the son of widow in Nain, when he was taken for burial. He had also risen the daughter of Jairus within a short span of time. He had already decided to perform a great peculiar and unforgettable miracle that would be incomparable with any other miracles of the past. Hence he delayed. Is God delaying in answering your prayers? Is God delaying to change your problems? Do not be tired. God has not forgotten you. He wants to do a great miracle in your life. Hence, He is delaying in your affairs. Fear Not! He may delay, but he is there at the right time to help you. He may delay in your affairs, but he is not too late. He will perform a miracle at the right time. “For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (Habakkuk 2 :3 )<br /></div></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JESUS WEEPS<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> Jesus came to Bethany when the body of Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. These poor ladies wept falling at the feet of Jesus. They lamented and said “We had sent word for you, if you would been early our brother would not have died. But now you have come late. Our only brother is dead, if only you would have come immediately after the death your would have risen him up”. Now what can be done? Watching these sisters, the whole crowd who had come to comfort the family started to weep. Jesus saw them crying. He was not able to be silent when he saw his children crying. Jesus groaned in the sprint and was troubled. </span><span style="color:#3333ff;">His heart was moved. He could not control his tears. “Jesus Wept” He cannot be silent when see his children crying. Jesus cannot be silent when he see his children who love him, suffering from pain and in tears. His heart will also get troubled for you. He will shed tears for you. He is a God who knows your problems and tears. Hence, He sent his angel to desert to wipe the tears of Hagar when she cried to the Lord With tears” (Gen 21:16,17) God gave a child to Hannah, when she prayed on anguish after provoked by her Husband’s second wife. (I Sam 1: 10-19) He also rose the son to the widow of Nain when He saw her crying. Jesus’ love and compassion has not changed even today. He had the experience of walking in the rugged path to understand your tears. So wipe your tears.<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JESUS PERFORMS A MIRACLE<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> Jesus is not a person who will shed crocodile tears when He sees the tears of His children. He is a God who will perform a miracle to wipe their tears. He watched the tears of these poor children and He also wept with them. He did not stop there; He came to the tomb of Lazarus. Jesus said “ take away the stone from the tomb”. Then Martha the sister of Lazarus the dead said, “ Lord, by this time there is a stench for he has been dead four days. If you would have come before his death, you could have healed him or if you would have come immediately after his death, you could have risen him up. But now the body is rotten and it stenches. How can you raise this rotten body? Martha said these words on the basis of reality. Jesus said to her, “if you would believe, you would see the glory of God” (John 11:10) Are you dismayed of some great problem? Are you thinking how this problem will change?<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> Jesus says, “if you would believe, you would see the glory of God” Yes. Does stone of unbelief block your heart? Take away that stone now then there will be a miracle. The stone was taken according to the words of Jesus. He stood before the tomb and with loud voice said “Lazarus, Come forth! ” Why should he cry with a loud voice? Will not Lazarus come out, if he would have called him in the normal manner? Mary would have thought that it would stink when the stone is removed from the tomb. He would have taken a long breath before calling him aloud. There he inhaled the stink from the body of Lazarus. “Lazarus walked alive” Today Jesus has taken the stink of our curse and sin on the Calvary. So, nothing is impossible with Him. Every thing is possible with God that is impossible with you.<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> I would like to share a true story which was happen to my friend who is my coworker. My friend was unable to walk and became bedridden, given up hope by doctors at the age of 14. Many said he cannot walk any more and they also said that his survival was a question. At that time, a beloved brother stood for him in the breach; the hand of Jesus touched him when he prayed with tears. Before the prayer, he was unable to move his legs but after the prayer he got up from his bed and sat on it. Jesus Christ gave him a miracle healing. Many said he cannot walk any more but Jesus enabled him to walk. Hallelujah! Many said he will die but Jesus has kept him alive. Hallelujah! Jesus Christ who did the miracle in my friend life can do the same in your life too. On that day, a man prayed for my friend standing in breach.<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> Today I am going to pray standing in the breach that the may do a miracle for you. </div></span><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"> Healing Father! I thank you for keeping my friend alive by doing a miracle in his life when he was forsaken and dismayed. Likewise, I stand in the breach for this brother and sister who is dismayed because of their tears. Do a miracle of their heart to wipe away their tears in the same way as you worked a miracle in my friend life to wipe the tears of my friend family. Lord, certainly wipe their tears. Let a miracle take place now in the name of Jesus! Amen!! Amen!!! </span></span></strong></div>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-34603328943254433462009-07-04T18:37:00.000-07:002009-07-04T18:46:35.818-07:00"BELEIVE YOU SHALL RECEIVE"<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDIce9rSU8_DMB5YlmQjznx9wkK39eiUbA-_naY04hOyGAdlBgMJgPHxWx1qsk8eMFgutH0jMmY8PZXTBUpoKPTRRbsEwWThLeePrga9kN4A4kwn_bVRlEXpWfVWhVNhHyk-qoqSpRp1uz/s1600-h/Believe+You+Shall.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354784469789440978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 365px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDIce9rSU8_DMB5YlmQjznx9wkK39eiUbA-_naY04hOyGAdlBgMJgPHxWx1qsk8eMFgutH0jMmY8PZXTBUpoKPTRRbsEwWThLeePrga9kN4A4kwn_bVRlEXpWfVWhVNhHyk-qoqSpRp1uz/s320/Believe+You+Shall.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">BELEIVE YOU SHALL RECEIVE</span><br /></span></span></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Beloved people, you need blessing. It may be a spiritual blessing, worldly blessing or physical blessing. God is ready to give you the blessing that you need. He is all-powerful and a God of miracle. He can certainly do a miracle for you. He can heal you. He can also meet your needs. He can change your deficiency into completeness. He is powerful to change your sorrow. He is capable of changing your problems. He can certainly open a way for you. If you want to receive a miracle from Him, He also expects a certain things from you. If you give what He expects of you, you will certainly receive the blessings. To receive the blessings from Jesus Christ… </span></strong></div><strong><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">HAVE FAITH</span> </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him”. (Heb. 11:6) When Jesus walked around this world, many people came in search of Him, to receive the blessings and miracle from Him. He expected only one thing from them and that was faith. </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Once, two blind men came to Jesus. He prayed to God that they want to receive the sight. Then Jesus said, “Do you believe that I an able to do this?” They said, “Yes, Lord”. Then Jesus touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be to you”. Immediately their eyes were opened. (Matthew 9:27-30) Though Jesus Christ had the power to do the miracles, He was able to do because of the faith of the two blind men. When I ask this question to few people who come to me for prayer, “Do you believe that Jesus can do a miracle?” They will say that they would believe him only if they receive a healing or blessing.</span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="color:#3333ff;">First we have to have faith in Him. Only then we can receive the blessings from Him. God cannot work when there is absence of faith. The Bible says that Jesus was not able to do a miracle when He came to Nazareth, the place where he grew. (Mark 6:5,6) So, first believe. You can see miracles only when you believe His power and His words. If you want to receive any kind of blessings from Jesus, first you must have faith in Him. Even if you want to receive salvation the forgiveness of sins, you have to believe Him. “For by grace you have been saved through Faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God”. (Eph 2:8)</span></span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Many years before, we conducted meetings at Pamban, Rameswaram Island every month for the whole year. After we conducted the meeting, we visited the people at house to check their growth in spiritual life. Once a lady invited us lovingly when we went to her house for prayer. She spread the mat for prayer. I asked her as I was kneeling “why should I pray for you?” Immediately she said, “pray for the forgiveness of my sins”. When I asked, “Have you ever prayed to God for the forgiveness of sins”. She said, “I was convicted as a sinner when you came here for the first time. From that day onwards I have been praying for the forgiveness of my sins. For the past six months she had been praying “Lord I am a sinner, forgive my sins” Then I said, had He not forgiven your sins, when you prayed to him after being convicted of your sins? Now she started to think. Then she said that she did not know whether He had forgiven her sins. Then I asked her for the second time, “what do your think, had He forgiven you or not? She said He had forgiven me. In that case, you have to believe that forgiveness of sins. Only then you will have the joy of salvation in your hearts, I explained to her all these truths from the Bible. Then she started praising God. She received the joy of salvation when I told her to pray in this manner, “I thank you for forgiving and forgetting my sins ”. So, to receive the blessings from God, we have to claim and believe the word of God. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">You can receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit through faith alone. “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water”. But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not, yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:38,39) You can receive healing from disease through faith alone. “And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven”. (James 5:15) </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">A lady, who had a disease for twelve years, came to know about Jesus and believed that, “She would be healed if she would touch the garment of Jesus. Immediately, the power went from Jesus and healed her sickness. Jesus did not say to her. “Be of good cheer daughter, my power has made you well”. But He said, “Daughter, your faith has made you well (Matthew 9:22). The faith that she had on the healing power of Jesus gave her miraculous healing. </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">So, when you believe power of Jesus, you can receive your miraculous healing. Be it any kind of blessing, you can receive all these from Jesus Christ through your prayer of faith. “And all things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive”. (Matthew 21:22) Jesus said, “whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them”. (Mark 11:24).</span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Is it your children’s marriage? Is it problems? Is it something regarding work? Is it childlessness? Is it your business? Be it any kind of miracle, first have faith and continue to pray with faith for you shall receive. The Bible says, when you ask God, “Ask God in faith with no doubting” (James 1:5-7) people who doubt cannot receive the blessings from God. But, I have seen, many people being dismayed and have said, “What can I do, for I don’t have faith?” Are you dismayed? Let me share this glad tiding to you. </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">FAITH IS WITHIN YOU!</span> </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Yes readers, you have this faith within you “but to think soberly, as God had dealt to each one a measure of faith” (Rom 12:3) God has kept faith within each individual. Nobody can say that they do not have faith. Suspecting the presence of God given faith, is unbelief. First accept that you have faith within you according to God’s word. You say to Him, “Lord I thank you for keeping this faith within me”. The faith that is within you is enough to receive all the blessings that you need from God. </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Once a father came to Jesus for the sake of his son who was possessed by demon. He looked at Jesus and said, “But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us”. Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes”. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord I believe: help my unbelief”. Then Jesus delivered the child. (Mark 9:22-25) Watch the answer that was given by Jesus to the father who wanted a miracle. He said, “If you can believe, all things are possible to Him who believes”. Listen to the answer of the father, “Lord, I believe” and he also said, “help my unbelief”. He had within him, the faith to receive the deliverance for his son. Hence, he said, “I believe”. Because he suspected the faith that was within, he asked Jesus to help his unbelief.</span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="color:#3333ff;">Beloved people, you too have a measure of faith that was given to you by God. Do not suspect the faith that is within you. There are people, who say, “I have limited faith, how can I receive miracles with this one?” Jesus said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you”. (Matthew 17:20) It is enough if you have faith as a mustard seed. You can receive miracles in your life. Nothing will be impossible for you. Using this same faith as mustard seed, You can receive miraculous healing. You can receive your needs. You can be delivered from the bondage of debts. You can receive the fruit of the womb. Having this limited faith, you can receive great things from the Lord. </span></span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">To strengthen your faith and to increase in your faith, you have to obey the word of God. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”. (Rom 10:17) So, the more we listen to the word of God, faith will be created in us. The more you read and hear the word of God, faith will increase is us. Hence, we have to read and meditate the Bible. It is better to hear the sermon of God rather than meeting them for individual prayer. Watch the ministry of Jesus: He did miracle to all those who came to Him, but most of the times preaching was primary, followed by healing. (Matt 4:23, Matt 9:35, Mark 6:34, Luke 5:3)</span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="color:#3333ff;">Paul, the Apostle preached in a city called Lystra. Now, there was a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting. He was crippled from his mother’s womb, who had never walked”. He was listening to Paul’s sermon. Paul observing him intendly and seeing that he had faith to be healed said with a loud voice, “stand up straight on your feet” And he leaped and walked. Observe this miracle carefully. The man, who was crippled from his childhood, heard the preaching of the gospel first.</span></span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="color:#3333ff;">Faith grew more when he heard about Jesus observing this faith; Paul asked him to stand up straight on his feet. Immediately a miracle took place. The crippled man started to walk. He received the miraculous healing. When you believe, you can also receive this miraculous healing and deliverance. I have met many people in the paths of my ministry, who have said depressed statements like these. “I pray with faith and I come to meetings with faith. But still I have not received any miracles. My prayers have not been answered and I have not received my healing”.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">FAITH WITHOUT WORK IS DEAD</span> </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without work is dead? For as the body without the spirit is dead. So faith without works is dead also. (James 2:14,19,20,26) Your faith is dead, if you say you have faith and there is no work. So, there is no use with faith that is without work. You cannot receive blessings with faith and no work. You can receive blessings from God only when you exhibit your faith with work. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;"><br />To obey the word of God is to work with faith. It is to act according to the word of God. When Jesus saw the man who had an infirmity for thirty years said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk”. He did not say to Him, “I am unable to walk and hence lying down? When he heard the words of Jesus, he tried to rise up and walk. His faith was exhibited with work when he started to use up. Immediately, he received a miracle. ( John 5:1-9) </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">A servant of God was preaching in a meeting. People unable to walk were sitting on wheel chairs near the dias. During the prayer time, he called out three people according to the leading of the Holy Spirit and said “Jesus is healing you, Rise up and walk in Jesus’ Name”. Immediately two people tried to get up from the wheel chair to walk. They started walking! They received their miraculous healing. But one man was still sitting there on the wheel chair. The servant of God said, “Rise up and walk, Jesus is healing you” But he said, I am unable to walk and that is why I am sitting here. The servant of God said, “those two people are walking”. But this sister said, “I cannot walk?” It was God’s will to heal these three people. But two people exhibited their faith with work and therefore received their healing. This sister did not receive her healing because of the faith without work. She thought that God would heal her when she attends the meeting. But she missed the healing because she was unable to exhibit her faith will work. </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">Faith without work is dead. There was no rain in a certain city and hence the whole city suffered. They believed that God can shower rain and hence they arranged a prayer meeting to pray to God for rain. Thousands of people came for the meeting. A small girl who came to the meeting brought an umbrella. Many mocked this small girl because they have not seen rain quiet sometime. A man asked her, “why have you come with an umbrella when there is no rain? Then the girl answered. “Now we are going to pray for the rain and God will answer us immediately. So I don’t want to get drenched and hence I have brought this umbrella”. The faith of this small child astonished many. This is faith with work. Though everybody came for prayer, it was only this child who exhibited her faith with work. For God will honour this kind of faith. You too believe. Exhibit your faith with work and you shall receive your healing. Believe that Jesus can do a miracle in your individual affairs, family, education, work, business, marriage, debt problem and ministry. Believe and expect your miracle and then you shall receive your miracle. Pray with faith and receive your healing right now. Please write down your problems for which you want a miracle. Immediately bend your knees and pray with faith. </span></div><span style="color:#3333ff;"><div align="justify"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#3333ff;">God of miracle, I thank you for you have been listening to my prayers all through. I pray to you to do a miracle for this particular problem this very day. I believe that you can do a miracle for this problem? I expect a miracle with faith? In Jesus name! Amen……</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000099;">YOUR MIRACLE IS ON YOUR WAY! “EXPECT YOUR MIRACLE</span></strong></div>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5178614016025431477.post-85550140763648487412009-06-29T09:51:00.000-07:002009-06-29T09:56:21.787-07:00SALT SPEAKS<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGX1vIWzrqIdC_DYh3Pa2JI-0rO7xfzT2twvkJkS3DcknWESat9RnrF0tuW0RP-X8UTbRKcv-eaJzSkCH8EpMlPYOxsmjU7asdCw1NLEjG4Iwz4TwbL0YJib4RwKMovHJnEtUCOsCNjq7/s1600-h/Salt+Speaks.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352793672160033586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 333px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 337px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGX1vIWzrqIdC_DYh3Pa2JI-0rO7xfzT2twvkJkS3DcknWESat9RnrF0tuW0RP-X8UTbRKcv-eaJzSkCH8EpMlPYOxsmjU7asdCw1NLEjG4Iwz4TwbL0YJib4RwKMovHJnEtUCOsCNjq7/s320/Salt+Speaks.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff0000;">I am the salt that Jesus spoke in His Sermon on the Mount. He wanted all God’s people to be like me. Why? Hear me as I speak through this message.<br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="font-size:130%;">1. Salvation</span><br /></span><br />I am drawn out from the sea. As long as I am in the sea, I am useless. Nobody takes the sea water to cook anything. I need to be channeled to salt beds where they crystallize me directly under the sun and finally I am made salt. So also, my dear friends, as long as you are one with the world, you are useless for God. Jesus said, “I have chosen you out of the world” (Jn 15:19). When you were lost in the world, God separated you, made the Sun of Righteousness to shine on you and made you the salt (2 Cor 4:6). That is why you are called the “Church” or in Greek, “Ecclesia” meaning “the called out.”<br /><br />These days separation is a relative term. The line of demarcation between the world and the church is shifted as per convenience and likes of individuals instead of God’s standards in God’s Word. Dear child of God, are you clear about the line of demarcation? Are you true to God who made you salt?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">2. Sanctification</span><br /></span><br />People like to use me only if I look white and dirt free. For this, I need to go through a process of cleansing in the factory. I am boiled and the scum is removed. Again when I am dried, I look cleaner and whiter and I glitter. The more I am exposed to the sun, the more I glitter. Similarly you will be liked by people when you live holy. Whiteness is symbol of holiness (Rev 7:14; 1 Jn 1:7). That is the reason Jesus prayed to His Father to sanctify you (Jn 17:8,19). You need to go through a process of sanctification to bless others. The more you expose yourself to the Sun of Righteousness the more you will shine (Psa 34:5a). Keep looking to Jesus in worship and in His Word. You will not be used if you look dull and unclean. God’s way of sanctifying you is a hard process.<br /><br />Jesus who compared you to salt also compared you to a branch of vine, and He claimed Himself to be the true Vine (Jn 15:1-5). First of all, He wants you to abide in Him. By doing that you bring forth fruits. But He wants more fruits from you. So He still cleanses you by cutting off the unwanted things from your life (v 3). Though it is sometimes painful, it is inevitable for bearing fruit faithfully and effectively. But only when you go through sanctification God will use you more and more.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">3. Service</span><br /><br />I am born to serve. There is no other purpose for me in this world. I savour anything that comes in contact with me. I make an influence. I bring about change.<br /><br />Do you know the purpose of your living? It is to serve God who made you salt. You are a powerful commodity for Him. Like me you can bring about change in whatever you come in contact with. You can change people, families, circumstances etc., When you speak to the people they will change. As salt, even right now when I speak to you through this message, you will experience some change in you. I am also a taste maker. You can influence people and make them sweet. You can bless all those whom you come across.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">4. Sacrifice</span><br /><br />Jesus mentioned both symbols of salt and light at the same time to compare them to you. There is a reason behind it. Both salt and light are a blessing to people. If it is so, both have one thing in common. That is sacrifice. When a candle gives out light, it burns out to nothing. When I am mixed in the food stuff, I also reduce to nothing. During Old Testament times, salt was added to the burnt offering. Without salt there was no burnt offering (Ezek 43:24; Mk 9:49). It is impossible to serve God without sacrifice. In other words, the more you are prepared for sacrifice, the more God uses you.<br /><br />This does not mean that you should be a pauper or a hermit. But this simply means that God is the owner of all things and you are only the user. I would like to illustrate this with a story. There was a rich businessman who announced sale of a pearl of great price. A crowd gathered around him. No body dared to throw a bid. At last one man dared to come forward. The bargain for sale cum purchase began. The businessman asked how much the buyer could pay. The buyer told him the cash amount he had taken with him to buy the pearl. The seller took note on a sheet of paper the details of all the possessions of the buyer one by one such as, his money at home, bank balance, his car, bungalow, movable and immovable properties, his wife children and finally he himself. He demanded the whole lot as the price for the pearl. The buyer because of his determination to buy the precious pearl agreed for the terms. The transaction was over.<br /><br />Then the seller slowly moved towards the buyer with the list in his hand. He said, “Look, this paper will be with me. All the items listed out will be with you. From now on I am the owner of these and you are only the user.”<br /><br />Dear reader, God does not want to deprive you of any good gift that pertain to this life. He wants you to prosper in all things as your soul prospers. But He wants that we should not be possessive of any blessings of God. Whenever He demands, we should be prepared to sacrifice it for Him.<br /><br />Jesus spoke about sacrifice in Mt 16: 24-26. Preceding this passage He spoke about the power of binding and loosing (vs 19). This means if you want power (to bind and loose) you must be prepared to lose.<br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="font-size:130%;">5. Security</span><br /></span><br />As salt, I am used to secure things from being spoiled or rotten. When you cut lemon into pieces and leave them, they will rot. But if you apply me on those pieces, they come out as delicious pickle. Cut an animal and leave the skin. It will stink. But apply me. The skin can shine and be used for your bags and belts! The same way you are to preserve this rotting world from decay. As long as the Church is in this world, the enemy is kept at bay (2 Thess 2:7,12). Once you and I are taken away from this world, the world will perish because of unrighteousness and deception (v10). This is a clarion call for you to live righteously so that you may not lose your savour. Your righteousness will preserve others from unrighteousness.<br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="font-size:130%;">6. Savour</span><br /></span><br />There is always the danger of losing my savour. Keep me in a saucer. I slowly absorb moisture from the air and become watery. The very water from which I was weaned out is always a threat to me when I am exposed. That is why when Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth,” immediately He also added, “If the salt loses its savour, how can it be seasoned?” Is it not the same with you? The very world from which you have been separated is always a threat to you to loose your savour of righteousness.<br /><br />God’s righteousness is your savour. You have a great responsibility to safeguard it. Think of the people of Israel. Though they were brought out from Egypt, the sin of Egypt kept biting their heals, trying to drag their feet back! Are you in anyway worried that some sin or temperaments of the old self still nagging you and dragging you back? Don’t worry. Though you are in the world, the world has no power over you (1 Jn 4:4). As long as Jesus is in you, you cannot lose savour.<br /><br />In Jesus times, they also used to extract me out of the rocks taken from the banks of the Dead Sea. The cut rocky salts were boiled with water in big caldrons. During the process my savour left the rocks and got dissolved in water and finally I came out as pure salt on crystallisation. They still called the rocks as salt, but without my savour. These were crushed and thrown on the murky paths for the people to walk over without soiling their feet. That was what Jesus referred to as salt without savour. But God has not made you salt to be trodden under foot but to fulfill His purpose.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">7. Sociable<br /></span><br />Well, I am known as common salt. I am commonly available to the entire world to all people. I don’t differentiate between rich or poor; male or female; high caste or low caste; wise or fool. I am used by all. To the rich I am available in beautiful ceramic salt shakers but to the poor I remain in an ordinary earthen pot. I am adaptable as told by our Apostle Paul in 1 Cor 9:19-22. I am available for all nations, every tribe and every tongue. I am a global commodity. Are you an easily approachable person? Are you ready to serve any one, any time, in any place and in any capacity?<br /><br />The people exchange me as a symbol of peace. Even nations make Salt Treaty to make peace with each other. Jesus also said, “Blessed are the peace makers” (Mt 5:9); “Have salt in yourself, and be at peace with each other” (Mk 9:50b). Let me close my story with an interesting incident that happened in a SSYM mission station in tribal village. Once, a tribal man came all the way to a weekly market walking 10 km, just to find out my price. He walked back home and brought the money walking up & down again to buy me and to take me home. Even for that poor tribal man I was so inevitable. He needed me. If you are the salt of the earth, how much more people like that tribal man needs you! They need to be reconciled with God and have peace within. According to the Indian writer, Tribal Challenge, there are 90 million tribal people in India. Only 20% of them have been reached with the gospel. What is your response if you are the SALT?<br /></span></strong><br /></div>Pastor T. Benjamin, India.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02909151134828431130noreply@blogger.com0