Seven national crimes:How much more important are you than God...?

I came across this and I thought it was very useful for many of us, specially for Christians and basically all of us because we do live in a world in which many things do happen and we tend to turn our back  or simply pretend to look the other way... 


Seven national crimes: 


1. I don’t think. 
2. I don’t know. 
3. I don’t care. 
4. I am too busy. 
5. I leave well enough alone. 
6. I have no time to read and find out. 
7. I am not interested.


                by: Rev. William J.H. Boetcker


But the question is, is that being a Christian? At least for a full time Christian.


     1.To not Think? are you a robot? I wouldn't even call you a robot... at least the robot processes some things.

     2. I don't know? To say I don't know is to tell me that you choose not to know, did God not give you the ability to question everything.... I tell you, when you talk to a teenager in these days and you ask them about something, doesn't matter what it is, all they'll reply will be "I dunno" not even a real reply...and then it gets me to question  how far are these teenagers planning to get in life, again...?


    3. I don't care? if i really get into this one we won't finish today but really, how dare you say, I don't care.... so much I don't care will get me thinking, "no wonder no one cares about you"...  can I ask, what's the name of your heart, rock, solid rock?


To care is to love and if you don't care you don't love, you have no sensitivity towards the things or people that surround you, that do care... you either have had enough pain that you no longer feel pain, nothing hurts, nada. But wasn't Jesus in full pain constantly, did he not sacrifice himself just because he cared. 


 BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU THEREFORE HE CARED FOR YOU!!!!




 And if God is love, why don't I care to think, to know, to care, to take time aside for others. Doesn't Jesus  tell us that he is in every "little" person among us, in the ill, in the poor, in the hopeless, lost, and in the broken.  And didn't Jesus teach us to love one another, that we have to care for others and things that happen around and not just around but for entire humanity itself. He says that Everyone is your brother and sister, that no matter which ethnic you belong to, your language, how poor or rich, your color skin, no matter what, you are still my brother and my sister because Jesus said so. Period. 


The rest are self explained. But in this busy world and busy system, we tend to let ourselves get involved too much in it ... we  often end up wrapped inside our own egos, inside of where we perhaps didn't want to end for starters but we still end up saying "the world made me who I am today" ...Ha ha, really? you allow yourself to be who you are because you wanted to not because the world made you! Stop fooling yourself. The world gave you nothing neither does it owe you anything.  All you are and all you have is by grace of my God, Period!


Once we understand that these thoughts or ways to respond unto life is unacceptable and begin to think that we are all put in this world for a purpose and not just for your own selfish purpose but for humanity, to make a difference, to be the difference you wish to see in the world, you will experience life a little different and might even begin to love every single ray of light that shines..... Because you are Gods creation, God dwells in you, loves you and why not begin to love him back by appreciating the things you have right next to you, start by admiring nature, the sun, the moon, the sea and the skies, the clouds, the way the wind blows and the smell of it... little sounds around you, its a plain beauty once you begin to notice and you will begin to care much about the rest of things and those around you.


Once you love every detail of nature and life itself, you can begin to say you do know the least yet the most important things of life, the small details are the things that counts; you can also begin to care as your hearts begins to soften up in gratitude, that you do think, you are interested and not too busy. 


Because God is never busy, always cares, always knows, always thinks, always has time and is always interest because you are as important to him you... as the nature that surrounds you right now and perhaps more.


  So the question is, How much more important are you than God to live within these national crimes which by the way are the keys to being a real leader just as his son Jesus Christ was.

Blessings to all!
LMRz

A Prayer for WhenTimes Advice Won't Fix

 I found this piece of work, this well written masterpiece of poem. I am a great fan of poems, as I have my own writting of poems... but this one was well recieved in my heart and I thought I would share it... make sure you read it to the very last line of it.


It's a wonderful message.

O God, where are you?      I'm so lonely!
My heart is like a hollow tomb.
  My life echoes with emptiness.
    My arms ache to hold and to be held.
      My ears strain for Your voice.
I need a friend!
Are you there?
Do you care?


O God, where are you?      I'm so broken!
I know that I deserve it, but that doesn't help.
  I knew it was wrong.
    I knew it was dangerous.
      I knew there'd be hell to pay.
Can I never be whole?
Are you there?
Do you care?


O God, where are you?      I'm so weary!
If I can't lean on you I'll fall and pray that I never get up.
  It's not enough for you to support me - you must carry me.
    I've scrapped my dreams, all that's left is survival.
      My strength is spent I need someone else's.
I can't go on!
Are you there?
Do you care?


O God, where are you?      I hurt so bad!
I need a shoulder to cry on.
  I need a hand to cling to.
    I'm sick of hearing of the stages of grief.
      I'll scream the next time I hear, "Think positive."
I need help!
Are you there?
Do you care?


Yes Lord, you are there!      You do care!
I felt your love in John's hug.
  I heard your voice as bill read your word.
    I soaked up your compassion in Lou’s counsel.
      I received your strength through Mark’s prayer.
I tasted your goodness in Linda's casserole.
  I saw your help as Ivan worked on my house.
    I experienced your faithfulness through Janet’s note.
      I heard your laughter at the church picnic.
No wonder you call them your body!
Yes Lord, you are there! You do care!

A Prayer for Perspective

My Lord: 

You have the wisdom to advance the gospel and your very own ways and through people and events.

Give me your perspective on my circumstances. 

Grant me eyes to focus on the eternal good rather than the temporary affliction.  

Give me a heart that feels more intensely the joy in the advance of the gospel than the pain of personal offense or loss.

Protect me from becoming envious, defensive, bitter, hard or cynical.  

Let the life of Jesus Christ course my veins so that when I bleed in death, 

I bleed the love of Jesus. 

Amen.

The Reality about Ciggarette Smokers

After reading a personal experience it drove me to think on a mere truth of a cruel reality which most addictions drive us into while we think we driving it.  If we really drive it.

Are we really the drivers? Do we control our addictions? Have you stopped and monitored your own addiction, for a whole week?  You will come to the conclusion : We addicts don't drive the addiction, it's the addiction that drives us, wraps us up and poisons our thinking to a point that we decieve ouselves with saying that we do control what we do, to saying  "I can control it, it doesn't really affect me".

Oh boy, this is when we really need to analyze ourselves the most, no offense consumers, but really, you do.

Let's face it, if when we wake up and make a quick recap of what you need to do on that day, and if in those thoughts there is a big giant picture of  you enjoying a cigarrette, you need to stop the tape. 

Should that really go there?

  Now, many smokers today, specially those who have been smoking for a long time now, when being reborn in christ, we don't usually think it's a must to stop smoking...since there were major things or sins in our lives or since there was something else that we think that at that point was actually consuming our lives and pulling us down into a deeper tunnel. 

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

Honestly I think that to stay with the need, the thought, the "smoking habit"  it really being the secondary addiction or sin is just a pure excuse of leaving it all behind, it's as if we want to stay with something, something that we can enjoy or that resembles something about us. So to think, it resembles to the others, or that we really enjoy. 

I think that we our just afraid of leaving it all behind, leaving the old person or some things that we enjoyed behind but we thought did no harm; yet just that it was one of the simple most complex detail to what  summed up to our sinking, of what drove us to sink more. The fact that we smoke. It was as if through our smoking we let the doors open for more sins to be welcomed  into our lives and take possession of it.

‎"Stand fast therefore in the liberty, wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1

  Sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, why do we still want to carry with the old. 

I just read the excuse that because the bible doesn't state "cigarrettes" or anything as such, it is not really considered as a sin, and so my brothers and sisters, if it doesn't state anything about the smoking sticks then I'll have to ask you what does it states about addiction? Do you recall? 

Allow me to remind you, that the addiction scriptures defines addiction as a sin of self-will and determination. Whoever chooses to live their life without accepting and submitting to God’s will for the humanity, pays back of his acts. Sometimes self-sufficiency can take us away from God and eventually, the reality of life. 

Recovery is eventually a process. God is working within our souls to renovate us and to bring us back to health and sanity. The challenge for the human being is to replace the pleasurable thoughts that come from drinking, drugs or foods with something that is really worth giving attention to. 

At times, growth within spirituality can be painful and scary yet there cannot be growth without change, there is no change without fear or loss and there is no loss without pain.

Every change brings along some sort of loss, it is necessary for you to untangle yourself of your old customs in order to experience the new ones.


Many of us,  manage to construct our identities around our flaws or defects to such extent that we eventually say "it is who I am"  carrying an unconscience worry of "who will I be if I let myself go".

 Sadly but true, this fear would definitely stop your growth.

 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin  because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Romans 6:6-7

 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.  Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.  For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.  Romans 6:12-14

  Understanding how strong this addiction can be, how it can manipulate us completely to the point as it states in Romans 6:16, that we become its servants in obedience; ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 

By doing this, we are not sickening our bodies but also sickening our souls. And this, I can asure you, as a personal experience, every time Christ would cleanse me from this addiction and I would still smoke and I would feel this same way, as if I were sickening the spirit inside of me. It felt as something strong inside of me and a strong voice, no longer small voice, saying "you are poisoning me."

I began  to dislike the sin, the smell, the pleasure but I still felt as if  something pushed me to it, I didn't want to smoke but my carnal desire made me smoke.

 ¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 

 ²¹ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. Romans 7:14-21




It wasn't until I finally admitted that I was being driven by this force, this evil force which I detested so much and finally requesting my LORD to not allow anything to control my life other than him, was the day he cut my addiction like a sword.

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." John 8:36 

To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

In full gratitude.

LmR

Modern christians? Am I really being a Christian?

I woke up one morning, I prayed and I began to feel mad, aggrevated by a thought that had come to my head and I've been meaning to say this and its a thought which hasn't gone away and I really feel that until I don't say it out loud it will not go away...


I didn't really pay much attention while searching the internet and coming across it but  after that morning, it just makes me go mad every time I search the internet and find something that goes like this:

" A website dedicated to modern christians"

Really?  Who on EARTH  said that we need to be modern christians? did Jesus tell you personally that we need to be modern christians... it almost feels as if we have modified his laws to a modern law!

Jesus taught something and his words were eternal, for all times.. not only for when he was around but for your time and my time and for the time to come, all generations and he never included the word, modernization, I don't think I've come across that word in the bible, if you do, please let me know.

I don't understand, many people want to be religious, modern christians, but what does it really mean, that you are able to cover your sins and fool yourselves; what does it mean?

Did God not warn us about adding or substracting anything to the bible or his laws...

This is an insult to God, it's like we are going to believe but do things our way, the way we feel good about it, then again, is this not selffish thinking? dare to ask Jesus wether he wanted to carry his cross, your sins, and be tortured for what you did... not him.

I believe we should turn and head back to our fathers directions and ways of thinking, not ours.

Ask yourselves, if by being a modern christian, Am I really being a Christian?


Thanks Jesus, for the thought.
All we are and all we have
is all a gift from God above.

Thank you for reading.

Should you get a Tattoo?

What is the point of a Tattoo?

Are you trying to stand out ?


He was about to make the worst decision of his entire life.

Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."

He came to me commenting about wanting a tattoo and honestly, according to this modern world I was the worst counselor to tell him not to.

On a personal level,  and as a person who is running back to God after realizing the cruel reality of what the world has to offer, you can now picture me trying to hide under God and Jesus' throne. I have come to realize that having a tattoo not only are people trying to get noticed but a desire to show the world who they are through them, they also seem to be lacking or showing a desperate need of "freedom of expression"

Deuteronomy 4:16

  so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman.


Have they not realized that the world is so busy trying to get on it's own two feet to notice you? To stop and ask you what your tattoos really mean? No one really cares except for those minutes in which they sat and talk to you; because everyone seems to be running in the "who is the most selffish person, marathon."

     The world is as corrupted as it is...

Perhaps they will notice you, yes, but have you asked them under which tag they placed you in their own personal classification?
    And of course, someone will ask you why you chose that design, everyone knows that each tattoo in someones body resembles a story with perhaps a meaning, depends on who listens; On wether its revelant to them or not.


       Does this means that now you can belong to a group, a place, a family or to what really?
Have you fullfiled your own desires, those which you had, your primary thoughts for freedom of expression.
            
Whether those who possesses them may not think they are not in a cage where they're desperately in need of being noticed or express something, they are in silent suffering... no matter who well or beautiful you want to put it, these people are in a silent suffering, period.

And yes,  there are many of them who are judged as criminals, many troubled one who have tattoos but there are also a giant pool of them that aren't criminals but you can be sure that they are in some desperate need, a shout of something. Many disguise their personality by being really friendly, as a matter of fact, the most friendliest people in the world, so to say, very socialable. Yet this doesn't mean they can't have emotional problems or be broken hearted and lost.

   If you come to realize, many of the designed tattoos contain a meaning for the person who has them, they come to express an emotional story,  love or affliction for someone or something; you should ask them if whatever it resembles, is it accomplished or what.



Deuteronomy 27:15
  "Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol--a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman's hands--and sets it up in secret." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

Often we go about in this world thinking that having a tattoo is the best thing we can do, perhaps because we have a message to give, someone's attention to call but what we blind ourselves to realize is that we are screaming our hearts out. The question is, "but to whom?"

Does people not know, that these are evil influences, who are you to tell your daughter or son to not get one, if you yourself have one. What type of model will you be?
  Some times a man begins with a desire of  a tattoo because it resembles something strong, a "tough" look. What he has no clue is that he is expressing that he needs to prove people that he is "tough" through a tattoo... think about it, that is vague, why would you need someone else to understand how much of a bad ass you are? Is it a threat?

Think instead, how much damage you are placing your self into your own body, first of all, this is something that does not belong to your skin, second, it is ink which you carving into your body, third, it is an insult to your own body not accepting it as it is...

If I only knew this before...

Ezekiel 20:7

  And I said to them, "Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God."

Amen.

What You Don't Know

It isn't easy to admit the fact that many times while you walk down the streets and someone that looks sort of untidy walks too close to you or even takes a detailed look at you, you suddenly begin to feel freaked out. 


Why? Only because he has a scratchy type of look on the outside....?

Have you taken a minute to analyse why you felt freaked out?

Did you take the time to sit and talk to that person, did you ask him why he looks untidy, why his skin looks like that, do you know whether he chose or not to look like that? do you know whether he likes how he feels? what are his circumstances?

Have you thought on the how insane your thoughts were,  You pre-qualified and already Have a conclusion ...!

 but wait...you haven't even taken the time to sit with that person... but you already pictured in your head how that person is.

You ALREADY Judged.

Most importantly, can you tell whether he noticed how you felt? Did you ask him how YOU made him feel? Not to mention how much worse it will be if its a woman, as tough as they seem to be, they are vulnerable and very weak.

Most likely once again you made him feel like the rest of the people around him, as a reject.  

Many times while I walked down the streets, I was looking a bit like Amy Winehouse, very skinny and malnourished. Not that I was realizing it, I guess my strong addiction got me blind into my own looks but I somehow knew that my life was being consumed by myself! I must of been back then, around seventy pounds or less. 

What people don't understand is that there comes a time when the addict no longer wants to be an addict  but  his hopelessness makes him despise himself to a point that they don't know how to deal or come out of  the tunnel which they have been put in. Many times after they realize it, they choose to stay there, not because they want to but because they feel they are too weak over the powerful addiction they have so eventually they commit suicide, or don't seem to care much of an overdose, even tho they love life very much. Society has deprived them of all hopes causing them much suffering, pain, misery and sorrows by the people that surround them to stay as an addict.




    In other words, as a suggestion, don't point fingers at an addict, don't give them the "filthy" look,  many unconscious actions we make, the addict perceives it and worse, he might not react at the moment upon it but for sure, he will take it into account.


 Another thing is, addict many times when they are caught in trouble, understand that it's not them but their addiction that causes them to do things and act in such a way which they themselves never imagine. Don't think that you're the only one  surprised to see them act or think this way, for them too is a surprise. Once you get to know an addict in an intimate side, you will understand that many times when on their own or between people they trust the most, they come to acknowledge many actions that they never thought they would commit. They just want to make us feel tough and so they rather place a wall to cover their hearts. This is because they are very vulnerable within them,  they are very weak, they are very gentile, fragile, loving and sweet but again, there are tired, weary of all the pain caused by so many people that makes them fill like useless and so invaluable in life.


 Deep within these are people only asking for someone to deposit a drop of love into them every day, every minute that can be deposit. 


 Instead of showing disapproval, try to show them a little bit of understanding and compassion.
 The last thing an addict needs is another person reminding them what they are or what they are not.


It's as when a man has cheated on his wife, they need not to be reminded always of what they have done. Women love to do this even if ten years have passed away! Women please Stop!!!
     So should you every time an addict causes your attention...




It's like if there were a force, a force driving them to be the opposite of Gods most precious Gem yet they are. 

Romans 7:14-21

 ¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
 ²¹ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.





As soon as an addict begins to feel better within physical and mental health, he will begin to feel physically competent without drugs other than with it, he will stop recurring or depending on it.


"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." 2 Corinthians 12




"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
John 8:36


"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17




"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:  but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Romans 8:12-13 




Amen and Blessings to you.


Thanks for reading.

Ecumenism, Divided Faith and a Message of Hope

Ecumenism, Divided Faith and a Message of Hope

Ecumenism is a movement promoting worldwide unity among all Christian Churches. It sets aside all theological differences between all Churches, all doctrines, in order to work together helping each other within the aspects of faith which all churches agree upon, through an organization and cooperation of all believer in Christ.

Even my 1 year old niece would clearly understand that unity in the faith would be impossible without a doctrine, the doctrine of Christ. Ecumenism need the doctrine of Christ in order to cut through the differences between a non-believer and a believer with the Sword of the Word to win.

Then again,

ALL Christian faiths show tremendous judgment against each other and against those who are not part of their church and these divisions are meant to happen, because Jesus said:

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. “Luke 12:51

Division between us humans, in all aspects but today we are going to talk about division between religions

Everyone at some point in their given life has come across the comment about Catholics being sinners.

Which has puzzled me, I have began asking myself; what really stand for the right doctrine, which one inclines more towards  “the doctrine of Christ?”  which one brings us together, the thought of Ecumenism or which one is the actually doctrine, is it just the bible, itself?

If we began to say that Catholics are sinners than those who point catholics are even more sinners because they are pointing and judging catholics. That isn't christian at all.

If Catholics begin to comment on the absurd thought of the Evangelicals who say "in order for you to be baptised within the Holy Spirit, you need to bring 10 people into church for them to repent.. REALLY? Are you KIDDING ME?

I hope this is a JOKE!!

So putting worldly comments and visions aside, let's begin to talk about the bible says:

After reading the book of Revelations and coming across chapter 17 under the title of: “Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast”  where the Angel tells John:

“Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.

First, Babylon stands for a false religion which is a great harlot.

In the Bible harlot stands for false gods, false worship, false religion, and false devotion. It basically stands for idolatry. It is worshiping something other than God Himself.

As it states in Matthew, you are only to worship the Lord your God:

‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ Matthew 4:10 & in Exodus 20:2-7

2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

A person commits spiritual harlotry or prostitution when following an earthly religion and its rituals, and worshiping images and teachings instead of following Jesus Christ as revealed in the Scriptures.

So we can all agree that at some point we have committed sin, we have prostituted ourselves... as much as you hate to admit it, even those who love the money itself has committed adultery.

As we are all born sinners, we have all committed adultery within the physical and spiritual sense, therefore the question lies in there being the possibility of God designating someone on earth the task of fulfilling his purpose until he claims his authority?

17. “ For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled.” Revelations 17:17

For example; 

The Vatican is obsessed with earthly enterprises, as posted on the Washington Post by Paula Kirby:

“The Roman Catholic Church is a giant multinational corporation, differing from its business equivalents only in that they pay their taxes. Like any corporate business, the Vatican's focus is all on the bottom line: profits rather than prophets; financial rather than spiritual growth. 

Everything else is just a means to an end. And in order to achieve this end, it deploys all the tactics that have served the corporate world so well: dodgy marketing techniques, products that are not fit for purpose, the refusal (or inability, in the church's case) to honor guarantees and warranties, advertising based on unproven claims, corrupt trading practices, and obscene rewards for its Chief Executive whilst workers on the shop-floor struggle to make ends meet on poverty wages: these are the daily business of the multinational corporation that is the Roman Catholic Church.   

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

And then again, Jesus advices us (Matthew 23:15) to only obey and do what they tell us to.

3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

Seven Woes

1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

“Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; “they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them ‘Rabbi.’

“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your servant. “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

14Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Therefore you will be punished more severely.

15“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

and it clearly states that he will come and punish those who do what these do, in Isaiahs’ visions concerning Jerusalem where it states how the city has prostituted itself, the Catholic Church has prostituted itself and soon God will take revenge upon his enemies:

Unfaithful Jerusalem

21 See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.

22 Once like pure silver, you have become like worthless slag. Once so pure, you are now like watered-down wine.

23 Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

24 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “I will take revenge on my enemies and pay back my foes!

25 I will raise my fist against you. I will melt you down and skim off your slag. I will remove all your impurities.

26 Then I will give you good  judges again and wise counselors like you used to have. Then Jerusalem will again be called the Home of Justice and the Faithful City.”

27 Zion will be restored by justice; those who repent will be revived by righteousness.

28 But rebels and sinners will be completely destroyed, and those who desert the LORD will be consumed.

Again, Johns visions in Revelations 17: 15-18



15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 

16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 

17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled. 

18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”



If we analyse it, the description fits well.



Babylon, The Prostitute on the Beast.



16. “The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute” ... the beast is the Anti-Christ.

18. “The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.” 


...the woman is a city, that city is Rome, the Vatican City- “called the city of seven hills, that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now confined”-  as stated by the Catholic Encyclopedia. The Vatican City claims to have been the worldwide headquarters of Christianity since its beginning and maintains its claim to this day. The Pope enthroned in Rome, which has long been known as the “Babylon” (Babylon is the symbolic name for Rome), as Peters’ statement:

13. Your sister church here in Babylon sends you greetings, and so does my son Mark. (1 Peter 5:13). This proves that Peter was writing from Rome. Which Rome claims to be the exclusive representative of God, the vicar of Christ and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and in that too is incomparable.

To my personal opinion, I think I will follow Jesus Christ Doctrine from the bible together with the Holy spirits guides, teachings and comforts; for I am sure all of these doctrines follow this one book and with Jesus companionship. I might use a few things here and there, as he says, “do what they tell you in accordance to the scripture but do not copy what they do”

In the meantime, regardless of our divided faiths, whether its’ ecumenism, Catholic faith, Evangelical Faith, Adventist's, or Pentecostal, always remember that regardless of your social status, your spiritual growth and struggle to find yourself in a doctrine which you can trust, there is a world out there in need of someone to  deliver them the message of Jesus Christ to them.



Will it be you?

In this world there is a 40% of the complete world population who hasn't heard of the name Jesus, this represents about 2.4 thousands of millions of people who have never heard of Jesus. They've never heard of him in a song, or even in a history book, the great majority doesn't even have a history book for they are Illiterate. Many of them are those who live Isolated from society within the mountains, in the deserts of the earth, marginalised and forgotten by the rest.



While our different churches, our group religions, waste time in discussions, arguments fights and divisions, these thousands of millions depart to an eternity without Jesus. What will you and I do? Will we be the generation that takes them the message of hope? "Marcos Witt"

Romans 10:14-15
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”