Posted on Jul 13, 2015 in False teachers, Jude |
Ever since New Testament times bad guys have snuck into local churches. Maybe you had to look twice to see the fox?
Jude 4: “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who are long before hand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness (gross immorality) and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
We have to “regularly take attendance” to spot these guys who have snack in denying the Lordship of Christ!
He is Lord. He is Lord. He is risen from the dead and he is Lord. When that is denied, gross immorality is right around the corner!
Posted on Jul 10, 2015 in 1 Peter, Spiritual Gifts |
This guy is talented but he’s also exhausted.
Quite a few believers resemble him. Diligently, they are playing so many different ministry instruments! While many passersby cheer them on without joining the band.
“As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” (1 Peter 4:10)
2 Keywords: “each” & “employ”.
Since you have a spiritual gift, you should have a ministry in the Incredible Body of Christ called Calvary Bible Church. Please pray about this. Speak to any pastor for help to find that ministry.
Posted on May 25, 2015 in Lordship of Christ |
Divorce is messy. And the children really know it!
Custody battles and their fall-out shape the futures of everyone in the fractured family.
This roadside sign is compelling.
It parallels human divorce with divine custody of God the Father’s redeemed children.
When you honestly think about it, how much custody does Christ have of you?
He deserves all of you. Because He died for all of you.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20:
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
For you have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your
body.”
Sunday Lordship finds it’s authenticity in Monday through Saturday Lordship!
7/7th Lordship of Christ. Full Custody.
With Jesus’ love for you,
Pastor Rob Elliott
Posted on May 19, 2015 in 1 Peter, Christ, Exodus, Idols, Money, Reverence, Thought Life |
I am a car license plate watcher.
This is a cool one!
No pun intended!
Who or what is #1 in your life?
God is zealous to be #1 to you!
Exodus 20:1-3
“Then God spoke all these words, saying,
‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.”
1 Peter 3:15
“… but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence …”
Making the Lord #1 in your life is a personal choice which has to be re-confirmed moment to moment.
You can call that process reverence.
With Jesus’ love for you,
Pastor Rob Elliott
Two ways to check whether or not you have an idol:
1. Ask your self ‘typically, what do I think about when I am free to think about anything at all?’
2. Note how you feel when the offering plate comes to you in the worship service?
Posted on May 19, 2015 in End Times, Evangelism, John, Luke, Urgency |
What a difference 59 years make!
This was the NYC skyline Easter weekend 1956.
We are now in the end times. Our religious freedoms are steadily declining.
We must increasingly be about Heaven’s business!
Christian, you are Christ’s ambassador!
Let down your net for a catch! (Luke 5:1-8)
It won’t be fishing season forever!
Jesus made this clear when He said:
“As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.” (John 9:4)
Pray daily for your 5. For 30 days!
Posted on May 15, 2015 in Anger, John, WWJD? |
This is a 5000 square-foot house. It sits on a large ocean front lot at the eastern edge of the city of Nassau, Bahamas.
Please notice that all of the windows have been smashed by persons throwing rocks. Please notice the wrought iron front gates have been intentionally bent over by vandals. I am sure that there is also a great deal of malicious damage on the inside.
This is someone’s property. You don’t have to live in a house for it to be property which you own.
Even if it is not a private homeowner’s due to a possible foreclosure, it is someone’s property. Perhaps a bank’s or a deceased person’s estate’s.
Of course God is not against individuals owning property either in the Old or the New Testaments.
I believe that this kind of ugly disrespect makes God mad too.
WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets used to remind believers to check their behavior against their Lord’s.
That’s fine and dandy. But John 2:13-16 is in the biblical record!
“And the Passover of the Jews wasn’t hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers seated.
And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, ‘Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house the house of merchandise’ “.
As scourge was a weapon. It inflicted pain.
WWJD? Sometimes get extremely & righteously angry!
With Jesus’ Love,
Pastor Rob Elliott
Posted on May 5, 2015 in Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Holy Spirit, James, Romans, Self-Control |
This is a cute picture. But really it’s a picture of tremendous self-control.Every dog I know loves pizza!
As followers of Jesus each of us is called to self control (Galatians 5:22-23); and each of us is equipped to have it.
God the Holy Spirit resides within us. (Romans 8:9)
The evil desires, which each of us has from time to time, due to our lingering sin natures, can & must be checked by the Holy Spirit.
Notice how happy the dog is in obedience to his master’s command not to eat!
“When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me’. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.”
(James 1:13-14)
Self-Control is not common these days. But it is possible; and it is an unexpected key to happiness and joy!
The alternative is being dragged away to an ugly place where we never imagined we’d be.
Posted on May 1, 2015 in Great Commission, Impact, Salt & Light, Spiritual Warfare |
Baltimore. Rioting outside Camden Yards. The game must go on. Fans locked out. The first major-league baseball game ever without any fans.
Seems like a metaphor for many churches relative to their needy surrounding communities.
Before the Cross, the Lord Jesus prayed to His Father for His followers:
“I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.”
(John 17:15)
Martin Luther wrote & we sing:
“And though this world with the devils filled should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed
His truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim
we tremble not for him
his rage we can endure
for lo his doom is sure
one little word shall fell him.”
Let’s believe it.
Let’s take the game out of the safe stadium and onto the streets!
With Jesus’ love for all of you,
Pastor Rob Elliott
Posted on Apr 29, 2015 in Common Grace, Providence, Psalms, Sovereignty |
We had a very gentle and steady rain throughout the night here in Nassau. It was much needed.
While we slept, God gave. We did not work and we could not work for rain. The Lord gave it.
It’s called common grace. It comes from the supremely uncommon God.
“It is vain for you to rise up early, to retire late, to eat the bread of painful labors; for He gives to his beloved even in his sleep.”
(Psalm 127:2)
Posted on Apr 29, 2015 in Evil, Isaiah, Judges, Millenial Kingdom |
Today there were no sales of peanuts, popcorn or hotdogs in Camden Yards.
Today, after a pair of postponements caused by rioting in Baltimore, the Orioles and the Chicago White Sox played at Camden Yards in what is believed to be the first game without fans in major league baseball’s 145-season history!
It wasn’t “Take me out to the Ball Game”
It was “Lock you out of the Ball Game”!
Rioters: Two wrongs don’t make a right!
Only Jesus can make rebels like all of us right.
Only Jesus can bring about a future, literal
riot-free Kingdom! (Isaiah 11:1-4)
I’m really looking forward to that!
Anarchy fixes nothing.
