Boundaries

Today we are going to discuss about boundaries that we hate and like at the same time.

We fight to destroy and at the same time construct boundaries; we are afraid to live without it.

Boundaries limit our freedom, but freedom is meaningless without boundaries.

Boundaries are real.

We always feel in our life the presence of boundaries of traditions, beliefs and values.

Some of them are created by humans and some others exist from time immemorial.

We can break some, we do not like to break some and we cannot break some other.

Boundaries influence, limit, control and give meaning to our life.

Jacob, God’s Israel

Jacob is the towering, complex and more than life size character in the Old Testament.

His life was one of scheming, frustrations, pain, loneliness and yet spiritual.

None of his contemporaries understood his pain and despair during his life.

He had none to share his heart. He lived alone, fought alone and won alone.

He is the nation “Israel”, but he is often neglected between Abraham and Moses.

He had moments of fear and strong faith.

His family was in disorder, he silently fought to set it straight.

He was born in the Promised Land but spent most of his life in foreign lands and died in a foreign land.

Inheriting the Kingdom of God

Who shall inherit and who shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?

This question and its answer are the core subject of this discussion.

When we discuss the topic, let us keep few things in our mind about the kingdom of God.

Kingdom of God is not a democratic kingdom; it is the rule of a King who is the only authority in the Kingdom.

He is the only one King and He has no misters to discuss the rule of the Kingdom.

He is the creator and sustainer of the Kingdom.

His Will and His values are the laws of the Kingdom.

Thus the King is the Kingdom and the Kingdom is the King.

New Heaven and New Earth

Today we are intending to discuss an apocalyptic incident.

This will happen after the rapture of saints, the Millennium rule of Jesus on this earth and just after the Great White Throne Judgment.

All these incidents are spoken of in the gospels, epistles of the apostles and are seen in a vision by Apostle John.

He has recorded it in the book of Revelation.

Here in this study, I am not giving any fresh or new interpretations to the scripture, but we are only explaining the scripture as we have received it.

This is my usual method of teaching the scripture.

I am not concerned with the traditional understanding of the scripture and is not after any new interpretations.

I believe what is written in the scripture and I always aim to explain the scripture for lay men.

This study may cover up mainly three questions:

1.      What is the new heaven and new earth?

2.      What is the nature of the new heaven and earth

3.      Who are permitted to live there?

Shouts of Victory

When you meet a real soldier next time, ask him whether he likes war time or peace time.

My experience is that, he will answer that he likes war time.

War is a time of action and peace is a time of idleness.

No soldier wish to get wounded or killed in war, but he dislikes peace time.

Soldiers may not wish for war, but real soldiers like war, because it is a time of action.

Real believers like war. We have fight, a war to win. We are in a war.

But our war is different from the wars between nations on this earth.

Our weapons in the war and our intention of the war are also different.

In truth, the war of a born again Christian believer is already fought and won; the victory is declared.

We are now only effecting or implementing the victory.  

This is the core thought of this message.