Question from Asia on > Getting Hurt At Church

QUESTION RECEIVED:

I had a very bad experience with a church that I used to attend to. To make a long story short, instead of getting healed I was accosted and angrily shouted at to point of confusion. I never talked back and sought forgiveness, but in my memory, they refused to. I have been seeking the Lord ever since. I was told by a friend that the Pastor used my name as an example of a "dangerous man", to be "beware of him", in the sermon. Is this biblical? Are pastors allowed to do that?

Profile: Male 31-45 Asia

MY ANSWER:

Getting healed?  Were you there only for a physical healing and not to give glory to God or be saved?

Was the pastor mad because you were not getting healed?

Who Believes In The Fish Story About Jonah? For One King Jesus!

QUESTION RECEIVED:

In  Jonah chapter 4 why does Jonah have such a bad attitude about God's goodness?

MY ANSWER:

In chapter 1 Jonah did not like that God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach salvation to the people to avoid their destruction. Jonah judged the people of Nineveh as being unworthy of salvation from God.  Jonah as we know fled to the city of Tarshish by boat when the Lord first told him to go preach at the city of Nineveh.  In chapter 2 Jonah ended up in the belly of a great fish due to his sin of disobedience.  Jonah was vomited out from the fish after three days inside the fish after Jonah declared “Salvation is of the Lord”.  The fish was really a tomb. In Chapter 3 Jonah does evangelize Tarshsish.  Yes in chapter in 4 Jonah was angry in that that God chose him to preach repentance and salvation through the Lord to the people of Nineveh.   The result was the city of Nineveh repented and was saved.

Yes we have a pouting evangelist in chapter 4, Jonah, who was angry that the Lord saved people the evangelist had contempt for.

The Lord questioned Jonah in “Jonah4:4 Then the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Why did Jonah have a problem with God’s act of salvation?

He did not like the way God did things when Jonah knew better.

Question on Faith>RAYMOND NITSCHKE OVER FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

                         RAYMOND NITSCHKE OVER FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

                                              Faith Is A Gift Not A Philosophy

QUESTION RECEIVED:

" A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche. What's wrong with what he says?

MY ANSWER: 

(revised from an earlier article-some young guy always falls for NIETZSCHE  )

What’s wrong with Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote?

Everything.

He had no faith and hated the idea of faith.

Bible Study Colossians 3:1-11

Colossians 3 (New King James Version)

Not Carnality but Christ

1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

(We are sitting at the right hand of God? You will appear with Him in glory? Where is our identity?  We are in Christ and he is in us.)

5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

(We have a responsibility as Christians. God hates sin-He loves you-you have power over sin. Are you victories over sin for His glory)

8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

(Patience gentleness of grace what is God’s character? Exodus 34:5-7

Whole armor of God- Ephesians 6:10-18)

Watch how you react to people are you reflecting God, His character?

You are equipped to if you are a Christian.

Question received> How do a pastor and his associate need to get along?

QUESTION RECEIVED:

 How can you maintain the relationship between the senior pastors and their assistant pastor?

Profile: Male 18-30 Africa

First understand the head of the church is Christ.

Ephesians 4:15 (NKJV)

15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—

Question > Why Go To Church?

QUESTION RECEIVED:

 I always hear Christians should go to church.  I always find error from Catholic to Seventh Day Adventist churches. There are many churches and I cannot find one we like.  What should we do?

MY ANSWER:

Yes you might be a Christian.  You are not THE Christian.  As a Christian you have a King named Jesus Christ.  Jesus and His word says go to church.

QUESTION FROM AFRICA > Jesus and The Holy Spirit?

QUESTION RECEIVED:

Luke 1:15 “for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.”  Was Jesus also “filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb” or did Jesus receive the Holy Spirit after his baptism?

Profile: Male Over 60 Africa

MY ANSWER:

Here is a simple answer to a complex mind blowing biblical truth –The Father is God,