- So far I haven't lived up to half of my life, and, usually I greet Christmas from the tropics with cautious spiritual optimism.
- Today's pseudo gospel preachers, as in the past, are ready-made precept upon precept makers espousing as well as expounding on the morals and ethics of life. They cite this theologian and that theologian and quote from this passage of literature and from this book and that book thinking that they all make sense. They say, "John Calvin said this and John Knox said that. This is what Martin Luther said and so-and-so word means such-and-such in Hebrew and in Greek." However, the Bible is the unfaltering truth containing the Laws and promises revealed through Christ Jesus in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God's present to the sinless people's heart who believe in the unraveled mystery hidden in this gospel is the Holy Spirit. I pray and hope let's hold on with steadfastness the beautiful gospel of the water and the Spirit and do not depart from our true calling in Christ.
- We have to hold fast onto the words of the blessed gospel of the baptism and the blood of Jesus Christ that has power like that of a dynamite (Romans 1:16) to blot away every single sin of mankind. Indeed those who have become saints and servants of His righteousness, as well as those who have fallen asleep through His righteousness, are the true heirs in the coming Kingdom of Christ. We are pilgrims passing in this world compared to a traveler who returns back from his/her journey. On the other hand, damnation and destruction as an eternal heritage in the lake of fire awaits those who stand against the servants of His righteousness, so even shining the light of the gospel of the water, blood and the Spirit. Holding fast to our faith now more than ever there isn't any hope in the world which will be destroyed in the end times. Our only hope is in the Kingdom of Heaven. While I think about the uncertainty of the future, as the future isn't here now, and I agree with the Word in the Book of Revelation on what the future will dictate, yet without becoming resilient as an impatient man I act spontaneously. Even so, I'd ask, "How have you been, Lord?" The ideal way for us to catch up and cooperate with one another is through our true fellowship and communion with the faith centered on the gospel of the water and the Spirit. I'm systematically practicing this faith of the water and blood of Jesus and win my spiritual battles thanks to our holy God.
Revelation 21:1 says, "Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea." Here God gives us a New Heaven and Earth. Proceeding the unsightly world, the old earth, that's been ruined by the sounding of the seventh trumpet to the pouring of the seven bowls of plagues is to be followed by the simultaneous resurrection and rapture of the saints for the marriage supper in the air with the Lord Jesus Christ as the Bridegroom which becomes the dwelling place for only us the born again of the gospel of the water and the Spirit to live in with the Lord for one thousand years as kings and priests. Now because there will be many others "whose number is as the sand of the sea" (Revelation 20:8) we cannot tell if they were those who already inhabited the earth or whether they will be created anew by God, for only God knows, as a result they will be there to serve us the saints but will be killed by fire coming from the white throne as they try to stand with that serpent of old against the believers of His righteousness. And with that the New Heaven and Earth is to follow.
I am continuously being refined spiritually under the guidance of the Church led by the perfect Savior Jesus Christ. Here with Christ as the Head of the Church that is our Commander-in-Chief we are being trained spiritually through the available literature ministry as we walk in this race of faith where absolutely indispensable is not whether you come in first or complete the race as the last but above all it is for you to finish the race. This means, in other words, that our spiritual prosperity or the prosperity of your soul comes before and precedes the prosperity of the flesh and not the other way round.
It is said, I was told, that the fish's brain has a short-term memory that can span for up to just three seconds. That is tic tac, tic tac, tic tac. And it has no more remembrance of the previous memories. All forgotten and gone. For instant, if you throw a bait in a hook to catch some fish and a fish is caught after trying to poke the bait then out of your mishandling it is loosened and falls back into the water in a matter of about three seconds the fish forgets that you first attempted to catch it with a hook and returns to the same bait you dropped again moments after losing the previous catch. Put differently, we have to hold onto the gospel of our salvation well contained in the words of the water, blood and Spirit rather with the long term memories of our faith after we are born again of water and the Spirit than of our little world of experiences and bravely face our martyrdom by not throwing this faith nor in capitulating before the untrue gospels and their adherents along with Satan the Devil. You and I ought to hold fast onto this grace of our redemption in this living years till our last breath with every morsel of our abilities wholeheartedly remembering the words at the same time defending all over again of the assured faith and believe in the splendors and glory to come as our inheritance in the eternal world of the Kingdom of God—the Kingdom of Heaven, that is—through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. What we are to endure as our hardships and sufferings in this passing world are but only for a while and cannot be compared with the splendid life and glory to accompany us in the New Heaven and Earth. I give all the praise and honor to the Lord God.