Vincent's Blog 3; 07-11-2022
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Meaning and hope of eternity
The word ‘eternal’ is mentioned 47 times in the Authorised Version of the Bible (KJV) the word ‘everlasting’ 97 times. Its so important to understand yet so difficult to get your head around.
Imagine the biggest book you can imagine, now just one page of this enormously big book is like the life on earth compared to eternity. That means all those millions of other pages are yet to be lived in Glory with the Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that gives a better understanding, the Lord Jesus Christ promises us eternal life, without end, for ever and ever in the perfect Kingdom, the Kingdom of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ taught the everlasting Kingdom of God. In the gospel of Saint Matthew Chapter 4 and verse 17 it reads from that day Jesus began to preach and said: repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Repentance; remorsefully turning away from sin to live in and for the Lord Jesus Christ is rewarded with an eternity with Him in the perfect Kingdom.
I may not need reminding anyone that this world we currently live in is a fallen world, where Satan and his demons and his servants cause havoc.
Imagine the everlasting Kingdom of God where there is no Devil, just meditate on this for a moment, a Kingdom without Devil, without any evil, without corruption, without death, without poverty, but just as the Creator intended in peace and perfect harmony.
Those that are already in heaven are praying that their loved ones, keep the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and join them in heaven to be together for ever.
If you have a loved one in heaven, keep fighting the good fight of faith in Christ Jesus the Lord, live for Jesus Christ, so you’ll be together again and that time for ever and ever.
This reminds me of two scriptures:
‘But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (1 Cor 2:9) We cannot even quite understand yet the beautiful things that God has prepared for us to enjoy for eternity.
The Lord Jesus said “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2)
The Devil’s greatest trick was to convince the world he and hell don't exist, but he also convinced a majority that humans are not triune beings with a body, soul and spirit and consequently that the soul is not eternal.
However once anyone is convinced the real you is your soul, that the body is just a temporary mortal tabernacle the soul dwells in and that this your soul is created for eternity and is immortal thus cannot die, then anyone will become concerned where they will spend eternity?
The Lord Jesus Christ taught us how to pray and in that very daily prayer, the we are daily reminded of eternity in the last verse.
I like you to join me in praying this now:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Love and blessings
Evangelist Vincent
Vincent's Blog 2; 18 October 2022
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Half of them were not allowed to enter!
I am sharing an urgent Word from the Lord with you about the parable of the ten virgins as recorded in the gospel of St Matthew chapter 25.
These ten virgins all knew the Lord, they all followed the Lord, but five out of ten, that is half of them, were not allowed to enter and the Lord rebuked them saying ‘I know you not!’
It’s a terrible and dreadful thing if the Lord does not know you. The warning is that the five foolish virgins, half of them, knew the Lord but the Lord Jesus Christ knew them not. Please understand these five foolish virgins were convinced the Lord did knew them and they were also very convinced to meet the bridegroom, but their names were not written in the Lamb’s book of life. Just like the Lord Jesus Christ says in the seventh chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Mat 7: 21)
I am placing the emphasis on the fact that the foolish virgins, the great number of half of all, were convinced to meet the bridegroom, this is a stern warning. May I remind you that the seven churches described in the first chapters of the Revelation, represent seven different churches and believers and apart from just a single one; all were told to repent.
In this parable of the ten virgins, the Lord Jesus Christ describes this end time period we are in, as well as the spiritual state of the believers, the soon catching up of the saints, otherwise known as the rapture followed by the marriage supper of the Lamb in heaven.
See the lovely illustration as well.
The born again believers are called the bride of Christ and the Lord is the Bridegroom.
The shout at midnight represents the Groom coming for His bride to bring her home, at the blast of the trumpet, this is the rapture:
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thes 4:16-17)
The marriage supper of the Lamb is also described by Apostle John in the Revelation “And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” (Rev 19:9)
In Jewish tradition the feast after the marriage lasts seven days drawing a parallel with the tribulation period lasts 7 years. Which indicates to me that Lord will catch up His bride before the tribulation period of seven years, as the Bride of Christ is not appointed unto wrath.
“For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.” (1 Thes 5:9-10)
So now that we know and understand this, we must address the question why five virgins were called foolish and were not allowed to enter, because the Lord kew them not. He had no relationship with them. The foolish were in fact fooled for they had a form of godliness but denied the power thereof.
(2 Tim 3:5)
Both the foolish and the wise virgins, were getting ready to meet the Lord, they all knew the Lord. The only difference mentioned in the parable is that the wise virgins took oil with them and the foolish did not take oil with them.
While the Lord tarried and they were sleeping, but only when the cry came at midnight to meet the Lord, the foolish virgins noticed their lamps had ran out of oil and had gone out.
They first commanded the wise virgins to give them their oil, which points to their proud and ungodly attitude, the wise said no not so otherwise we do not have enough, so the foolish virgins had to go back to buy oil, whilst they went back to buy oil, the scriptures say:
“And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” (Mat 25:10-13)
The oil throughout scripture represents the Holy Spirit and holiness. The moment the foolish virgins realised they had ran out of oil, it was too late already. If the Lord finds fault and tells six out of seven believers to repent, please take heed of what the Sprit says.
The Lord is calling you and me to pray and ask for Him to reveal anything that is not holy and right in His sight so we can repent and pray for His help to overcome in those areas so that we may indeed be found of him without spot or blemish. That we are indeed doing what He wants us to do, to not be left behind.
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” (Rev 22:12)
Love and blessings
Evangelist Vincent
Vincent's Blog 1; 27 September 2022
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Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. (Phil 4:4)
Dear friends
I pray it is well with you and your loved ones. I greet you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be encouraged to know that I am keeping you all in prayers as my friends of the ministry and of my newsletter/ blog.
In a minute I’ll explain why the Lord gave me the above scripture for you. But before that I like to update you on the good news that from now on the ministry outreach website is accessible in 30 languages and so will the weekly blog also go out in all these languages.
Jesus said we must reach every nation with the Gospel of the kingdom of God, hallelujah.
I’ll recommend some links of the great outreach pages below later.
Yesterday was an important day namely Rosh Hashanah which is the Jewish new year. This is very important friends, because it's the Lord original calendar still adhered to by the Jewish people and by God himself. Remember the warning in the Bible from Daniel that the devil will change times and laws. Proven in one sentence from the ten commandments reference ‘remembering the Sabbath’ i.E. the seventh day, but in the modern calendar there are no numbered days neither the name Sabbath.
So we are now in the year of the Lord 5783.
Rosh Hashanah, literally “Head of the Year” in Hebrew, is the beginning of the Jewish new year. It is the first of the High Holidays or “Days of Awe,” ending 10 days later with Yom Kippur.
This two-day festival marks the anniversary of human’s creation—and the special relationship between humans and God, the creator.
So yes indeed dinosaurs are not real and the earth with its immense firmament spanned above it, which King David so marvellously called ‘God’s handywork’ was created 5783 Biblical years ago.
Rosh Hashanah begins with the sounding of the shofar. The sound of the shofar is also a call to repentance—to wake up and re-examine our commitment to God and to correct our ways. Thus begins the “Ten Days of Repentance” which ends with Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement.”
So these ten days are important, let us allow and ask the Holy Spirit to search us and convict of any sin and unrighteousness and repent.
And also to worship the Lord, after all we were created to worship Him.
Now as promised back to the scripture for you today as seen in the title, rejoice in the Lord always. Especially if something negative has happened remember and apply this the quickest way out of that negativity is to rejoice in the Lord always.
Did someone steal from you or did someone upset you or accused you falsely? The devil will work through people to steel your joy! Don’t let him! That’s why Apostle Paul wrote to rejoice in the Lord always and to make sure you don’t forget, he goes on to say: “again I say on to you rejoice”
Praise the Lord friends, and when you apply this and rejoice in the Lord, you are reminded that only the Lord matters, that He will provide for you, that He will judge your adversaries and that He knows the truth, because He is the truth. And the joy of the Lord will flow back through you removing all negativity, rejoice.
I’l leave it there and see you next week on Vincent's Blog, the blogs will be at least weekly and the podcasts as well, but we first had to do all the important hard technical work with a team of experts on the website so that we now reach the other 29 languages as well.
Have a look at these two particular pages on the site that you may not have seen yet and feel free to share them here are the links below
https://www.bornagainministry.org/how-to-get-to-heaven/
And a mind blowing audio listen that will change your prayer life big time:
https://www.bornagainministry.org/the-truth-about-hell/
Stay blessed and see you next week
Love and blessings
Evangelist Vincent
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