What the Bible says about Jesus

The True Light "In him, (the Lord Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world,…the world didn’t recognize him." John 1:4,9.
The Good Seed and the Weeds The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. Matthew 13:24,25.

Saturday, March 18, 2023

A Reflection on Love.

Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon

Love always hopes. When everything seems hopeless to the world, the Christian has hope in God working out His will and plan for the ultimate best.

We can do more than praying after we have prayed.

We cannot do more than praying until we have prayed.

In Corinthians, we have love defined by its nature and principles, in Ephesians Paul calls the believers to understand and grow into the dimensional aspect of love.

The Corinthians being immature needed to learn the ABCs, the rudiments of doctrine, they needed things to be spelled out for them.

In Corinthians 10:7, Paul tells them: You are looking only on the surface of things.

Again in 2 Cor 3:15 he tells them: “So fix your eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal”.

In 2 Cor 5:12, he talks about those who take pride in what is seen rather than what is in the heart.

The Corinthians had all the external trappings of religion, the experience of the emotional release that can be found in and is similar to any gathering of people coming together for whatever the happening is football game, movie, circus, concert, etc.

The danger present in the situation is that they would revert back to the kind of worship and life style that was prevalent in Corinth among the pagan cults they came out of and wouldn’t know the difference.

This is why Paul took time to explain to them the principles of godly agape love, not some kind of philosophical, cerebral, ethereal, or emotional kind of love, but a love that has practical application in its outward manifestation as willful and deliberate attitudes of the heart, a relational love resulting in works of love.

Now contrast this with the prayer found in Ephesians 3:16 through 3:19

Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians

I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.…

If in Corinthians Paul writes about the nature of love and what to do, in Ephesians, he writes about the dimensional aspect of love and how this love is manifested.

The qualities and nature of Christ’s love as it is expressed through the believer’s life have width, length, height and depth which implies the ability to be measured and the possibility of increasing.

Sometimes, time and space which we consider to be limitations in the natural state of man can be turned around for our ultimate good and our benefit in the development of the qualities of love, if we understand them properly and apply them accordingly in their dimensional aspects and grow into “being filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” that Paul speaks of in Ephesians 3:19.

Psalms 71 declares:“My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long though I do not know its measure”.



A Prophetic Timeline of the End | Pastor Jimmy Evans

 
 
 Note: The Bible teaching starts at marker 24 minutes.
 

Friday, March 17, 2023

A Prophetic Timeline of the End | Pastor Jimmy Evans

Politically Incorrect Hand Painted Love Poem

 A Breakfast Poem Baked with Love in the Sun

Written and posted by Jean-Louis 02/2011, Edited and amplified in 03/2033.

I am hereby registering my lament 
At the high court of discontent. 
If you can´t read The  Book 
Without giving me that "Woke" look
You won´t see
What you get,
When you get
What we see. 
 
In this world of Yin and Yang
We are forced to choose
To have our life hang
With the one or the other,
As in father or mother.
Or friends and foes 
Just to add to our woes
To win or lose
As in topsy-turvy or willy-nilly.
 
I am not talking about race
No, at least not the one you think
The kind that´s in your face
As antiquated antics
From the bully pulpit
From pie in the sky 
To pie in your face

Dems are touchy-feely no more
Reps are namby-pamby encore.
As for me, I am free,
Being right that I left,
Not being in the fold
Not fitting in the mold.
Not being one of the foxes
Feeling small in their boxes

Some like it hot
Some like it cold
Me, I declare my passion,
And choose the middle motion.

Having my country left,
Being right in the middle,
Where I want to  be  found
In the middle of your arms,           
Sipping coconut water,
Being enthralled
By the power of your charms.

Since we make such a great team
To add to my irreverence
I'll blow off some steam
And have a little blast
Playing the part of the iconoclast.

Some people declare seriously:
"Tis better to have loved and lost
Than to have not loved at all".
My slogan forever will be

engraved in bold
in honor of you and me,
"Tis better to be held than to behold".

Jean-Louis.

Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Feet of the Messenger

The Feet of the Messenger

How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of the messenger who announces peace,
who brings good news,
who announces salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Isaiah 52:7

 

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. John 13:14-17

And with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the the gospel of peace. Ephesians 6:15

 

 

It´s been two months                                

Since you appeared at my door

You came in gently without fanfare

And simply sat on the floor


Your grateful sheepish smile

Welcomed my invitation

To let you sit down

In a corner for a while


Like a young aphonic boy

His head among the stars

Under the veiled power

Of your unveiled charm


I invited you to sit on the throne

For it is not proper to offer the guest

A corner of the rug belonging

To the devoted servant


Then, taking a cushion

To rest your feet

Tired from the long voyage

I removed the used sandals

Full of dust covering

Their rare beauty


I took a basin and tenderly

I washed and dried them

Then, leaning to pray,

I warmed and blessed them

For these beautiful and fragile feet

Belong to the docile messenger

Proclaiming the Gospel of Peace.


Jean-Louis


A Short Single Sentence that Saved my Life

Finish What you Started - Part 3

  Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon This is my testimony of one of the experiences with my Heavenly Father´s provisions that he pr...

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