#Paul encouraged the Corinthian #Christians to cleanse themselves from anything that might defile them so they might work toward #holiness before God. 

Paul also had taught how we have all #sinned and cannot earn our #salvation and how we are reckoned as holy and righteous because of #Jesus' redemptive #sacrifice.

#Paul encouraged the Corinthian #Christians to cleanse themselves from anything that might defile them so they might work toward #holiness before God. 

Paul also had taught how we have all #sinned and cannot earn our #salvation and how we are reckoned as holy and righteous because of #Jesus' redemptive #sacrifice.

The Islamic Mahdi versus the Christian Messiah

Now, does the concept of the Islamic Mahdi sound a bit strange to you? But you believe that Jesus is coming back, don’t you? That might sound strange to them.
Yet, we believe Jesus is coming back. And that it’s not up to us to try and make war to bring Him back.

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https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/islam-issues/the-islamic-mahdi-versus-the-christian-messiah/

What's really behind the US war on Iran?

And part of what the BRICS nations actually want to do is to ‘dethrone’ the dollar because they know that if they can do that, then they can break the power of America and they can stop America doing things like putting sanctions on Russia and other countries.

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https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/israel-and-the-middle-east/whats-really-behind-the-us-war-on-iran/

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What are the actual consequences of the Iran war?

So, you got a potential situation that affects the whole world. And once it’s started, it is very difficult to stop these things. If they do start firing at tankers, then that’ll be not just a material disaster, it’ll be an ecological disaster as well.

#BRICS #churchleadership #dollar #Israel #jesus #Messiah #salvation #SignsOfTheTimes #usa

https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/globalisation/what-are-the-actual-consequences-of-the-iran-war/

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Babel, the division of languages and the consequences

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https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/hebrew-prophets/babel-the-division-of-languages-and-the-consequences/

Pelagius

He was a Christian theologian known as an ascetic monk & promoting a system of doctrines (termed Pelagianism by the Catholic Church), which emphasized human choice in salvation & denied original sin.

Pelagius was accused of heresy at the Synod of Diospolis in 415. His doctrines were harshly criticized by Augustine of Hippo, especially the Pelagian views about mankind’s good nature & individual responsibility for choosing asceticism. Pelagius especially stressed the freedom of human will.

Pelagius was active between circa 390 & 418. Pelagius was tall & portly in appearance. He was also highly educated, spoke, & wrote Latin & Greek with great fluency. He was well-versed in theology. Pelagius became better known around 380 when he moved to Rome. There, he enjoyed a reputation for austerity. When Alaric sacked Rome in 410, Pelagius & his follower, Caelestius, fled to Carthage, where he continued his work.

The view that mankind can avoid sinning, & that humans can freely choose to obey God’s commandments, is held to have stood at the core of Pelagian teaching. Pelagius stressed human autonomy & freedom of will. For Pelagius, grace consisted of the gift of free will, the Law of Moses, & the teachings of Jesus.

According to Augustine, Pelagius saw baptism of infants as useless because they had no sin. Celestius, who was a disciple of Pelagius, also denied original sin & the necessity of infant baptism for salvation. Seeking to undo his condemnation, Pelagius wrote a letter &statement of belief to Pope Zosimus, Pope Innocent I’s successor, arguing that he was orthodox.

In these, he articulated his beliefs so as not to contradict what the synods condemned. Pope Zosimus was persuaded by Celestius to reopen the case. But opposition from the African bishops & Emperor Honorius forced Pope Zosimus to condemn & excommunicate Celestius & Pelagius in 418. Pelagianism was condemned at the Council of Carthage in 418. Augustine, shocked that Pelagius & Celestius weren’t denounced as heretics, had called the Council of Carthage in 418.

After his condemnation, Pelagius was expelled from Jerusalem. St. Cyril of Alexandria allowed him to settle in Egypt. He’s not heard of afterwards.

His death didn’t end his teachings. Although those who followed him may have modified those teachings. Because little info actually remains concerning Pelagius’ actual teachings, some of his doctrines possibly were subject to revision & suppression by his enemies.

Pelagius & Caelestius were declared heretics by the First Council of Ephesus in 431.

Belief in Pelagianism & Semipelagianism was common for the next few centuries. Especially in Britain, Palestine,& North Africa. St. Germanus went to Britain to fight Pelagianism in or around 429 AD. In Wales, St. David was credited with convening the Synod of Brefi & the Synod of Victory against the followers of Pelagius in the 6th century.

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“This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.”
― Mark Buchanan

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Henry Venn—Anglican minister and Church Missionary Society man—murmured that grace is no idle ornament. Reconciled heirs of God feel a gentle, pressing constraint: Christ’s love nudges them toward brotherly kindness and charity. Yet we bristle, redefine, retreat. Oh, but grace still asks: will love reach even those you disdain?

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"Jesus replied, ‘Very truly I tell you, no-one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again."

John 3:3 #Bible #JesusChrist #salvation

Friday of the Second Week in Lent

Today’s readings

Today’s two readings remind us of what Lent is all about.  During Lent, we remember that our Lord, who came down from heaven to earth to save us from our sins and re-connect us with the love of God, paid the price for our many sins by laying down his own life.  And because of that, we have the promise of going to heaven one day, if we continue to follow Jesus.

In our first reading, Joseph’s jealous brothers ended up selling him into slavery in Egypt, but in Egypt he became a powerful and talented government official who ended up saving many people, including his own brothers, from starvation during a famine.

The parallels here between Joseph and Jesus are many.  Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt; Jesus came to take away our slavery to sin.  Joseph’s own brothers plotted to kill him; Jesus was killed by us, his brothers and sisters.  Joseph fed the known world at that time by storing up grain for the day of famine; Jesus fed the multitudes, and us, with the bread that comes down from heaven.  Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver; Judas was given thirty pieces of silver to hand Jesus over to death.  Joseph, in many ways, was a foreshadowing of Jesus.

In our Gospel today, Jesus tells a parable which tells the story of what will soon happen to him.  The vineyard owner is God the Father, and he is looking for the fruit of the harvest, which is our faith.  Instead, the people of old beat and murdered the prophets who came to give God’s word, just as the messengers of the vineyard owner were beaten and murdered.  And finally, when God, the vineyard owner, sends his own Son, he was killed too.   Just like Jesus.

The people of Jesus’ day missed the message, they missed the parallels, they didn’t get that God was continually reaching out to them to gather them in faith.  But we know the story, all of it, and we can’t be like them.  We have to be ready to hear the truth and act on it, to see Jesus in other people and respond to him, to hear the Word he speaks to us and live that Word in faith each day.

God loved us so much that he gave us his only begotten Son; we have to treasure that gift and let it make us new people.  That’s what Lent is all about, friends.  Lent means “springtime,” and so Lent should be a springtime of new growth in us, so that we can be a vineyard of faith to give joy to the world.

Babel: Lessons learnt

Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. Genesis 12:4-9

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https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/hebrew-prophets/babel-lessons-learnt/

And then we have the soon-to-be #self-named #Messianic #salvation of the world, I forgot the name somebody gave him; it was the best, but raging death by blunt object decimating creation is not an overstatement of the #evil that is #Donald #Trump.

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Is the time of tribulation here and now?

And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Matthew 24:4-14

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#salvation #thesaved #tribulation

https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/video/is-the-time-of-tribulation-here-and-now/