Posted on Mar 13, 2017 in Colossians, Diligence, Genesis, Work |
Being able to work is a blessing from God. Having a meaningful labor to do is also a blessing from Him. Your Lord cares about your work!
And you should care about your Lord as you work!
The first man Adam had meaningful work to do before he was given Eve and before they fell into sin.
Genesis 2:15:
“Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.”
Scripture later informs us that we are to work on our every day jobs in a way that strives to please God. The (Colossians 3:23).
Your job performance is worship just as much as your participation in the corporate worship gathering on Sundays is worship.
There’s no such thing as secular employment.
Hi-Ho, Hi -Ho, It’s off to work I go … to adore & to magnify & to serve my God!
Posted on Feb 24, 2017 in Genesis, Marriage, Oneness |
X-Rays image what’s inside. For every married person what’s inside should include their mate. The wedding ring is as visible as the bones in this particular x-ray. In part, Genesis 2:24 speaking to married partners, indicates that, by God’s design, “… the two shall become one flesh”.
As an x-ray picture of the hands could not miss the wedding ring, any examination of a married person must reveal their mate in some way.
In marriage: The wife & the husband must be one, on the same page, in every area of life. For example: Faith, Church membership, parenting, money, priorities, goals, values, purpose ETC.
Does an x-ray reveal that your mate is a part of you?
Posted on Feb 24, 2017 in Genesis, Joseph, Temptation |
I’m sure that the train track was first and the houses came later! Why would you build a house that close to a train track? The situation reminds me of a Christian and a temptation. We shouldn’t try to see how close we can get to a temptation without sinning. Instead we should try to get as far away from a temptation as we can!
Joseph did this when Potipher’s wife tried to seduce him. He ran away from her as fast as he could.
May we do the same with our temptations … they are far more more serious than train noise!
Posted on Feb 23, 2017 in Creation, Evolution, Genesis |
Genesis 1:20A reports: “Then God said, ‘Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures …’ “.
The beauties & the details of the creation demand a Creator!
Evolution requires way more faith than belief that God Almighty created!
Evolution is blind faith!
Posted on Apr 28, 2015 in 2 Corinthians, Fall of Man, Genesis, Sin |
This is the side of our house. Notice the razor & barb wire & padlocked gate.
We are told that it hasn’t always been this way for crime in the Bahamas.
We are also told in the Bible that it hasn’t always been that sin was on the scene. (Genesis 3)
” … And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel your brother?’
And he said, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?’ “. (Genesis 4: 8B-9)
When a society stops believing that individuals are other individuals’ keepers, it is inevitable that locked gates and barbed wire and razor wire and police & jails and (you fill in the blank) … become necessary.
Criminals pervert & twist God’s design that we would be each others’ keepers into a fearful & disheartening reality that some brothers are their brothers’ schemers. The only cure & prevention for criminal behavior is Jesus Christ. When a brother’s schemer is born again he or she is radically made brand-new, from the inside out!
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
Prisons which acknowledge this make an observable difference. The prisons which don’t are beating their heads against the wall.
We can thank Adam & Eve for the mess we’re in. We can share Christ to do our part to clean up the mess we are in.
Brother-keeping for God’s glory,
Pastor Rob Elliott
