The Three Most Powerful
Things
On The Face Of The Earth
9/3/06
The Word of God
Unequaled by anything else on
the face of the earth!
The only source of true
undefiled revelation of the true God, His character, His ways, His promises,
His laws, His grace and mercy are only revealed in the Living Word of God!
The Koran is not the source
of truth, the Bible, the Word of God is!
The church of Scientology
founded by L. Ron Hubbard is not the source of truth, the Word of God is.
The Book of Mormon written by
Joseph Smith is not the source of truth, the Word of God is.
One day in 1820, while
praying in the woods, Joseph Smith, Jr., received his fabled vision of
God. In 1823 he supposedly received
another angelic visitor, the angels name was Moroni (no relative of Dave
Maragni). The angel claimed to be the
son of Mormon, the departed leader of an American race known as Nephites. Moroni told him about a book of plates that
contained “the fullness of the everlasting Gospel.” Four years later Smith unearthed the plates. Buried with them were a pair of large
supernatural spectacles known as the Urim and Thummim which were to be used in
translating the plates. Smith later
claimed that John the Baptist sent by Peter, James and John, appeared to him
and administered a divine ordination.
The Donny-and-Marie-Osmond
image is no sham. Mormons are known to have nothing to do with tobacco,
cigarettes, caffeine, and premarital sex while respecting family life and free
enterprise.
They have a low cancer rate
and score higher than the general populace when it comes to physical fitness.
Who wouldn't admire a religious group that promotes the Boy Scouts and receives
"fast offerings" to care for widows as well as the poor and
destitute? The suspicious history and strange beliefs of Mormonism are often
overlooked on the assumption that sound morals make a good religion.
Apparently, Joseph Smith
didn’t read the rest of the book!
Rev.
22:18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the
prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the
plagues described in this book. 19And
if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from
him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in
this book.
The Bible is God’s letter to
humanity collected into 66 books written by 40 divinely inspired writers. These
writers come from all walks of life (i.e., kings to fishermen) and spans over a
period of 1,500 years or more.
Mat. 24:35 Heaven and earth
will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Heb.
11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do
appear.
Nothing can equal the
encouragement we receive from the Word of God.
Rom.
15:4 For everything that was written in the past was
written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the
Scriptures we might have hope.
Our minds are renewed and
changed by the Word of God.
Rom. 12:2 Do not conform any
longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind.
It is the Word of God that is
the Christians Armour.
Eph. 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your
stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual
forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the
day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done
everything, to stand. 14Stand firm
then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of
righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the
readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with
which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God.
The Blood of Jesus
Nothing equals the blood of
Jesus Christ!
Heb. 10:19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the
Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain,
that is, his body, 21and since we
have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near to God
with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to
cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure
water.
Understanding the Blood of
Jesus (or lack of understanding) is the
dividing line between being religious and being made right with God.
Jo.
6:52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?”
53Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever
eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at
the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real
drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in
me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I
live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate
manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59He
said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a
hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this,
Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? 62What if you see the Son
of Man ascend to where he was before! 63The Spirit gives life; the
flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they
are life. 64Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus
had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray
him. 65He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can
come to me unless the Father has enabled him.”
66From this time many of his disciples turned back and
no longer followed him.
Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the
Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God,
which he bought with his own blood.
There is nothing that can
take away sin except the Blood of Jesus Christ!
Heb.
9:11 When Christ came as high priest of the good
things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation. 12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves;
but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having
obtained eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the
ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them
so that they are outwardly clean. 14How
much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead
to death, so that we may serve the living God!
1
Pet. 1:18 For you know that it was not with
perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty
way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, 19but with the
precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was
revealed in these last times for your sake. 21Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the
dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
Rev.
5:6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been
slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living
creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the
seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who
sat on the throne. 8And when he had taken it, the four living
creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a
harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of
the saints. 9And they sang a new
song:
and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
and with your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
10 You
have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
and they will
reign on the earth.”
11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many
angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten
thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
and honor
and glory and praise!”
13
Then I heard every
creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all
that is in them, singing:
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and
ever!”
14The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders
fell down and worshiped.
The Power of the Living Holy
Spirit
Our lives are not changed
because we have the personal power to change, our lives are changed because of
the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit!
Rom.
7:4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through
the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised
from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. 5For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the
sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore
fruit for death. 6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have
been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and
not in the old way of the written code.
1 Jo. 4:4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them,
because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
Rom. 8:12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to
the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will
die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will
live, 14because those who are led
by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you did not receive a
spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of son
ship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are
God’s children.
Revelation comes through the
Holy Spirit in us.
1
Cor. 2:9 However, as it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what
God has prepared for those who love him”—
10but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit
searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s
spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the
Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the
world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has
freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by
human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in
spiritual words. 14The man without the Spirit does not accept
the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him,
and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.