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online today!What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
If you do not know today the great joy of salvation, perhaps it is because you have never personally responded to Jesus Christ. Why not do so right now? Then you will know what’s so great about salvation!
by bcjenny | somewhere in B.C., British Columbia Canada | Apr 30online today!What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
. We should joyfully endure present suffering in light of future glory.
This point stems from the context of our text. Peter is arguing that our salvation is so great that whatever we must endure for Christ’s sake now is nothing compared with the glory that awaits us. Just as Jesus first wore the crown of thorns and then the crown of glory, so with us who follow Him. We may suffer now, but we already have tasted of this great salvation that the prophets foretold and into which the angels long to look. We can’t even fathom all the riches which God has in store for those who love Him. So when you suffer for Jesus’ sake, hang in there with joy, knowing that glory lies ahead!
Conclusion;
When you study your Bible, one secret is to look for words that are repeated for emphasis. Sometimes these words are not significant in themselves, but their repetition makes them significant. In our text, there is a word that occurs once in 1:10 and three times in 1:12 that drives home Peter’s message: the word “you.” He writes of “the grace that would come to you“ (1:10); “they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven” (1:12). The point is simple: Even though the message of God’s salvation is the greatest message in human history, it does you no good unless you personally lay hold of it by faith.
I began this message by asking, “What consistently gives you the most joy in life?” The Reformed Heidelberg Catechism of 1563 begins with a similar question: What is your only comfort in life and death? It’s a personal question with both temporal and eternal implications. If your honest answer is anything other than, “Jesus Christ and the salvation He has given to me by faith,” you need to do some serious soul-searching. You may be a church member or even involved in Christian ministry, but if you’ve never responded personally to the great salvation God provided in Jesus Christ, you are lost. I fear that as in Jesus’ day, so today it is often the most outwardly religious who have the most difficulty responding to the salvation Christ provides because it requires admitting that we are not good people; we’re undeserving sinners.
Years ago, Bishop John Taylor Smith, a former chaplain general of the British army, was preaching in a large cathedral on the text, “You must be born again.” He said, “My dear people, do not substitute anything for the new birth. You may be a member of a church, ... but church membership is not new birth, and our text says, ‘You must be born again.’ The rector was sitting on his left. He continued, “You may be a clergyman like my friend the rector here and not be born again, and you must be born again.” On his right sat the archdeacon. Pointing at him, he continued, “You might even be an archdeacon like my friend here and still not be born again, but you must be born again. You might even be a bishop like myself and not be born again, but you must be born again.”
He finished his message and went his way. But several days later he received a letter from the archdeacon which read, in part, “My dear Bishop: You have found me out. I have been a clergyman for over 30 years, but I have never known anything of the joy that Christians speak of. I could never understand it. But when you pointed at me and said that a person could be an archdeacon and not be born again, I understood what the trouble was. Would you please come and talk with me?” Of course, Bishop Smith did talk with him and the archdeacon responded to Christ’s call to salvation (H. A. Ironside, Illustrations of Biblical Truth [Moody Press], pp. 49-50).
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
I say that is because that was a very ignorant statement you made about how one man can't make a difference.
I have seen two great men in my lifetime make such a huge difference with the change my country wanted and needed fir the better.
I have also seen three other president's run my country into the ground while on office. I have lived through it here and witnessed it.
online now!Once you go black...
Quiet Riot often played in South Florida. I went to a few of their concerts.
They would do a 'meet & greet' after each show to take photos, sell shirts/CD's and things. The drummer Frankie is in one of my profile photos.
online today!RE: Palistine versus Jews.
If he could only boast of having had an Uncle eaten by Cannibals!
by Conrad73 | Zurich, Switzerland | Apr 30
online today!RE: So over getting older
by germanspitz | ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, England UK | Apr 30online today!RE: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Whomever gets elected as President affects us all not just U.S. citizens.After all you mentioned Trump in your opening post.
by germanspitz | ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, England UK | Apr 30
online now!RE: Once you go black...
i love that band , i remember listening to that song when i was young i had the cassette.
by marlindap | Clearwater, British Columbia Canada | Apr 30online today!RE: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Why do you presume that
I've been around a hell of a lot longer than you and watched them come and go but none so controversial as Trump.
I was a child when Truman ,after 2 weeks in the White House and much pressure,ordered the atomic bomb attack on Japan. What was Oppenheimer's response "I have blood on my hands"
Look back at your past and you will see so much corruption within the White House.Do you honestly believe that the charges piled up against Trump are all false just to keep him out of the White House
Your choice will never "make America great again" especially the rantings that are taking place at this moment in time .No country for old men as they say and what person would threaten violence once again from his supporters if he loses.
That's a "gun to the head speech" if ever I've heard one.
online now!Once you go black...
Slick Black Cadillac
by chatillion | Boca Raton, Florida USA | Apr 30Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Ah, but you really have no clue as to how much a difference things can be with what type of president you have here in the U.S.
by ShawnSuperstar | New Boston/Portsmouth, Ohio USA | Apr 30online now!RE: Once you go black...
i just love the idea of painting cars, you should get what you want :)
by marlindap | Clearwater, British Columbia Canada | Apr 30Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
My question was directed for U.S. citizens. I should have been more clearer in my blog.
by ShawnSuperstar | New Boston/Portsmouth, Ohio USA | Apr 30online today!RE: So over getting older
44 today, its all over bar the shouting.
by MysteriousGirl80 | Waterford, Ireland | Apr 30
online today!RE: Things that reallypissme off...
"Okay, I'll try this YOUR WAY and downloaded the app, but it was asking all kinds of bullshit questions like alternate phone numbers and email addresses. Just get me to the setup page! Well... that didn't happen."
All this before you've even bought the stuff? If you do buy, what might you expect from "customer service?"
online today!RE: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
"If more people stopped spending, maybe stores would get the hint."
Yes. Boycott. That's the only thing that would work. Perhaps you remember the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Every 60-ish American should. Anybody who thinks T-Rump would support this may as well punt and buy one of his damned Bibles.
online today!Am. Literature society
https://youtu.be/ATDk4m7IZ1s?si=hiTyzyVk-53Yhin_
Brilliant exposition on everyone's fave bird
. } AMURACA.
mcbob. } . deadly segue to Amerika.
online now!Once you go black...
I can beat the EPA estimates for my car, but city only in 'aggressive mode' I'm getting 25 miles per gallon. If I purchase a Prius, that number should go to 55 miles per gallon.
I'll easily lose $5,000 in the trade up and interest rates aren't favorable right now.
I'm guessing a quality paint job to be in the $4,000 range and you have to deal with the 2-tone remaining when you open the door and all the surrounding parts weren't painted down to the rubber gaskets. It's an ugly appearance and my car would actually lose value when I trade it.
Vinyl wrapping the roof would be a consideration... except it's got a tinted sun roof and that's partly where the sun beats down making the interior get hot.
online today!RE: So over getting older
I like your sense of humour.That's what keeps me going.
by germanspitz | ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, England UK | Apr 30
online today!RE: So over getting older
Really...if it weren't for all my medical and allied health appointments, I wouldn't have a social life. The nurses are always so kind to this feeble old fart.
by oldaussiebloke | Corinella, Victoria Australia | Apr 30
online today!RE: Palistine versus Jews.
Trump's not giving a damn about the establishment is the modern equivalent of the snake oil salesman.
by snowlynx | galway, Galway Ireland | Apr 30online today!RE: Palistine versus Jews.
So why is your pal peddling the Bible.
All I see in the U.S. is gerontocracy.
online today!RE: Palistine versus Jews.
You never said a truer word but he actually doesn't give a crap about anyone except himself.
Narcissism at its worst.
online today!RE: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
You said it all for me Suzie .
That past four years have caused problems everywhere and now with ongoing conflicts across the World prices will rise even more.
The change in our weather has also made a huge difference to prices as Spain itself has suffered drought which has affected the economy with regards to crop growing and prices.We on the other hand have suffered floods which have ruined the farmer's crops.
How people can think that one man will be the World's saviour is beyond comprehension ,although they could ask him for a loan I guess.Wonder what his rates are
online today!Useless trivia
A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and two police officers today in the East London community of Hainault before being arrested, police said.
The incident is not being treated as terror-related.
RE: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Better off than I was in April 2020, when Spain was in lockdown with the pandemic?
Actually yes. Along with many other people. Because 4 years ago was a pretty bad place to be, and 3 years ago, and 2 years still had a few issues. Finally the powers that be decided the pandemic had ended.
Am I paying the same for things that I did 4 years ago? No. Between the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, prices have gone up up up up up
Am I paying the same for things that I did 10 years ago? NO. 20 years ago? NO. Somebody should do something! 50 years ago houses and cars were a fraction of the price, and a breadwinner would think current salaries were lottery wins!
Do I think things will magically revert to what they were if your carnival barker gets back into the White House?
I shouldn't laugh. If you believe he'll make everything in your life come right, and maybe even personally find you a nice rich woman who will adore you, because he can do anything, then I'm sure you're right.
online today!RE: About the "Meet Me" part of Connecting Singles
This, it seems, is a ubiquitous problem on CS. I've been on CS since 2011 for a number of reasons, two of the three being the usual, but one is definitely atypical. Since first becoming a member here, 20,641 supposed woman have viewed my profile, with 1,087 "Likes." Concerning the views, I've determined that approximately 90% of them have been fraudsters, most trying immediately to get me to converse with them via a means other than on CS. So, that begs the question, Why is it that CS does nothing significant about that problem other than deleting them, because those types are right back at it the next day? Well, I know something ...! Similarly with the "Likes," ~90% are using that interaction method to make it seem that they are not fraudsters while also getting a few of the not-so-bright individuals to contact them; and, as soon as you do, they'll ask you to move off CS for conversation. Of the ~10% that are who they say they are in their profiles, all have found that the requirements outlined in my profile are either too much too deal with or outlandishly absurd, and that's the way I like it. :-) I don't need to get involved in a relationship which isn't going to work well for either of us. So, though, the aforementioned doesn't definitively answer your question as to why women don't want to meet up with you, it's info about how few are actually honest and sincere here, on CS. Good luck.
by notofthistime | Poulsbo, Washington USA | Apr 30online today!Useless trivia
Chae Kyong An, from Washington, beat, stabbed and bound his wife Young An before taking her to nearby bushland and burying her alive in October 2022.
The terrified 42-year-old mother was tossed into a shallow grave and had dirt thrown on top of her.
Young An managed to wriggle her way to freedom after 12 hours of being trapped in the grave.
online today!Useless trivia
Three officers on a US Marshals Task Force serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and five other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.
Shots were fired at the officers by the wanted suspect as they approached the suburban home in Charlotte and they killed him in the front yard, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said at a news conference.
A second person then fired on officers from inside the home where a high-powered rifle was found, Jennings added.
A woman and a 17-year-old male were found in the home after a three-hour standoff that included armoured vehicles crashing into the suburban home in a tree-lined neighbourhood and tearing off doorways and windows. The two are being questioned, Jennings said.
"Today we lost some heroes who were out simply trying to keep our community safe," Jennings said.
online now!RE: Once you go black...
get it painted, so many combos you can choose from , if you like a silver base, paint that , then an interference pearl. pimp that car out, no need to buy a different one.
by marlindap | Clearwater, British Columbia Canada | Apr 29Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Yeah, okay.
I pay more for gasoline, food, and goods than I was four years ago.
online today!What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Thus our salvation is great because it is the message of God’s grace; it was predicted by the Old Testament prophets; it is revealed by God to man.
D. OUR SALVATION IS GREAT BECAUSE IT IS A MYSTERY TO THE ANGELS.
Peter says that even the angels long to look into our salvation! The word “look” means to stoop to look into (it was used of Peter stooping to look into the empty tomb--John 20:5) or to gaze intently at something (James 1:25). It implies intense interest. When Satan and the other fallen angels sinned, God did not provide salvation for them. He provided it only for fallen human beings, and that at great cost: He took on human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ and died in our place on the cross. His plan is that His manifold wisdom might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places (Eph. 3:10). Jesus taught that the angels rejoice over the salvation of one repentant sinner (Luke 15:10).
Whatever angels know, we can assume that they know a lot about God. They stand in His holy presence (Isa. 6:1-3). They are sent out to do His will (Heb. 1:14). They have tremendous authority and power (2 Pet. 2:11; Jude 8-9). They’re impressive beings! And yet, there is something about the majesty of God’s Being that He is teaching even the angels through our salvation! How privileged we are to enjoy such a great salvation!
E. OUR SALVATION IS GREAT BECAUSE IT INVOLVES THE SUFFERINGS AND GLORIES OF CHRIST.
Jesus Christ is the center of world history. His coming to this earth, His dying for our sins, His resurrection, His ascension into heaven, and His promise to return bodily, are the most important facts in human history. Nothing else comes close by way of comparison. He is the center of all Scripture. As the risen Savior spoke to the men on the Emmaus road, “‘O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?’ And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:25-27). Christ is at the center both of human history and of Scripture.
And the cross is the central reason Christ came to this earth. Thus, as Alexander Maclaren declares (Expositions of Holy Scripture , 1 Peter, p. 47), it is not enough to preach Christ; we must preach Christ crucified. It is not enough to preach the ethical teachings of Jesus, although we must seek to live by them. It is not enough to point to Jesus as our great example, although His life should be our model. It is not even enough to speak of His death as a brave sacrifice, unless we make it clear that He “died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3). “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15). He accomplished that salvation through His death on the cross.
When Paul reasoned from the Scriptures with the Jews in Thessalonica, he explained and gave evidence “that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead,” saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ” (Acts 17:3). The sufferings of Christ refer to His death that satisfied the justice of God as payment for our sins. The glories of Christ refer to His resurrection, His ascension, His present exalted place at the right hand of the Father, His bodily return, and His future reign in power and glory. Our salvation is great because it is centered on these, the most crucial truths in history.
online today!What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Two applications: (1) Read the Old Testament! So many Christians neglect the Old Testament, complaining that it’s too hard to understand. It is hard to understand in places. Daniel himself had trouble! But it speaks to us of Christ. We will be impoverished if we neglect it.
(2) Apply yourself diligently to understand the Bible. I confess that I’ve never sought the Lord with prayer, fasting, sackcloth and ashes, and confession of sin as Daniel did to understand a portion of Scripture! But so often we just give up in frustration rather than applying ourselves to try to understand and obey God’s Word. Peter admits (2 Pet. 3:16) that some of Paul’s stuff is hard to understand. But God saw fit to put it in Scripture, so we need to seek Him to grow in respect to our salvation.
C. OUR SALVATION IS GREAT BECAUSE IT IS REVEALED BY GOD TO MAN.
The prophets weren’t religious geniuses who invented all the things in the Bible. They got their stuff from the Holy Spirit. Verse 11 establishes the divine inspiration of the Old Testament. As Peter explains (2 Pet. 1:21), “No prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” The apostles didn’t cook up their own message, either. Peter tells his readers that those who preached the gospel to them did so “by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven” (1 Pet. 1:12).
When we talk about the inspiration of the Bible, we mean that “God superintended the human authors of Scripture so that using their own personalities they composed and recorded without error His message” (Charles Ryrie, Study Graph, “Bible Doctrine I” [Moody Bible Institute]). As Charles Hodge put it (Systematic Theology , 1:154), “Inspiration was an influence of the Holy Spirit on the minds of certain select men, which rendered them the organs of God for the infallible communication of his mind and will. They were in such a sense the organs of God that what they said, God said.”
A critic may argue that we’re reasoning in a circle: We say that the Bible is inspired because the Bible says it’s inspired. Any book can make that claim for itself. But if you sands of years, there is a unity and integrity to the Bible that could not exist apart from supernatural influence. Furthermore, if you reject the divine inspiration of the Old Testament, you must reject the teachings of Jesus Himself, because He repeatedly taught that Scripture is from God (Matt. 5:17-18; 22:31-32, 43; John 10:35).read the Bible, you discover that it is a self-authenticating book. Though written by many different authors over thousands of years
online today!Useless trivia
Time marches on and all good things must come to an end. But don’t tell that to The Rolling Stones.
What many believe to be the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world showed no signs of slowing down anytime soon as they kicked off their latest tour Sunday night at Houston’s NRG Stadium.
The Stones have been touring for more than 60 years. Frontman Mick Jagger and lead guitarist Keith Richards are both 80, with guitarist Ronnie Wood not far behind at 76. Their tour is being sponsored in part by AARP.
But during a vibrant two-hour show, the Stones played with the energy of band that was on tour for the first time.
online today!Useless trivia
A dam collapsed in western Kenya early this morning, killing at least 45 people and leaving dozens missing after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, the Interior Ministry said.
by Bluekiwi | Te apua, Northland New Zealand | Apr 29