LIVE IN THE LIGHT without a shadow of darkness

I PROMISED TO TRY AND CATCH THE PASTOR and HIS WIFE on camera, and so here they both are.     They are a Gift from the LORD to the whole work, and Esther and I are very glad and thankful to have them both so joyfully with us.     Jacinta and Mike KYALO.


INITIALLY I was a little startled to read this quote from Islam.    But of course it is true.
King DAVID, a man after God's own heart, is a case in point.     He loved and wanted God's approval more than his sinning, and thus was always brought to repentance when he slipped up.     A little bit of 'Light'?  Perhaps but not in any way ALL of it.    After all we should not get to the place of taking 'forgiveness' for granted.  We are told to turn away from sin altogether.


Thus the comment on the right hand.   Yet the hymn writer, Robert Robinson, 1735-1790 writes in the third verse of his hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every blessing',

'Prone (inclined) to wander Lord, I feel it,

Prone  to leave the God I love...  

God's Word teaches us that SIN lives in the Flesh.

It consistently refuses to give up tempting us to give in to it.

I believe Robertson expressed what he believed was the real experience of every man - only those who found a love for God would come to find the Answer, even as this same hymn goes on to say.

The Apostle Paul was in the same condition finally crying out in his frustration 'O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death (his flesh).  Romans 7v24.    Then to demonstrate that LIGHT had come to him and concluding in verse 25 - 'I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.'    JESUS sets the sinner free!

TOMORROW, I shall be sharing again at our Fellowship.     I hope to do my best in His Name to  speak on the need for Light Bringers in our darkening world.

I believe there are millions of souls all at sea in our present day and world; millions who would please the promptings of God within them, but are constantly confronted with myriad confusing thoughts and temptations that keep them running in the opposite direction.      Inwardly I believe their soul is crying out to be Rescued.

GOD understands this, and was the first to cry out in agony at our predicament, and the absence of any to go to open  their eyes.    And His Right Hand, The Word of God, said.   Father I will  go; SEND ME!     And so God, or Father, sent Him, and He came, the LIGHT of the WORLD, and said to those who followed him ' YOU are the Light of the world,  Don't hide that LIGHT (Knowledge)

GO into all the world and let it SHINE out of you.

AND, so the Hymn writer Charles Gabriel in 1890 wrote his Hymn ' SEND THE LIGHT '    - there are souls to rescue, there are souls to save.

Have you ever read these words in Proverbs 24v11-12

Deliver those who are drawn away to death,

and those who are tottering to the slaughter;

hold them back from their doom.

If you profess ignorance, and say we did not know this (this demand on us)

Does not He who weighs and ponders the heart, perceive and consider it?

And He Who guards your life, does He not know know it?

And shall He not render to you, and every man. according to his work?

These verses are usually meant to encourage us from ignoring the hurt or exploitation of the poor around us.    We often prefer not to see their condition.    BUT those who stand with and in God should be ever ready to step in and to DELIVER those worse off, and bearing a heavier load.   Yes, indeed it IS the Will of God that we should do so, and that even without any kind of partiality or judgement.

NOTICE THE PARABLE of the Good Samaritan found in the Gospel of Luke 10v30-37 - read it all slowly and thoughtfully.     The man, beaten up, robbed, and left to die, needed help.

Three men noticed him - they saw him - they even took in his condition, but did not stop but crossed the street, away from him, to avoid actually coming into contact with him.    ONLY THE SAMARITAN, a man himself despised by society, stopped, got down from his donkey and ministered to the man's need..    And then carried him to a place of safety and help, paying for it out of his own pocket, and later followed up to find out how he had recovered.

ALL THOSE who pretend they do not see what may be very plainly set in front of them, and who even take steps to AVOID seeing, bring judgement upon themselves, finally.   God knows what is in our heart - a callous selfishness that is unwilling to help the helpless - God sees AND takes note of it

PSALM 82 v4 underlines our need to get involved

'DELIVER the poor and needy

RESCUE them out of the hand of the wicked.

WE have news, we have the means to bind up hearts, and to set free those captive to their habits.  We who HAVE CHRIST IN US have LIGHT to dispel ignorance and to open  the door of life's prisons and even mental dungeons into true happiness dependent on nothing but the Goodness of God.  I MUST go and open up the GOOD NEWS.   I MUST - YOU must.

In 1. Peter 4v.2 it is written by the Apostle

'SO since Christ suffered in the flesh for US, for you and for me, arm yourselves with the same thought (mind) and purpose, (patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God)  For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased with intentional sin, and stopped pleasing himself, and the world, and pleases GOD  -  so that he  can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by his human appetites, and desires, but he lives for what God Wills / wants.

Give up pretending you do not KNOW this is what God Wants.

REMEMBER   - NOT EVERYONE who says Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven

But only those who actually DO what God, our Father in Heaven, wants.  - Matthew 7v21

JESUS said

The fields (of the world) are white unto harvest (ready for bringing in)

BUT

the labourers are few

(This is not purely to the clergy, missionaries and Sunday School Teachers
it is for each and every Blood Bought Disciple of Christ.
WE are SENT to ILLUMINATE THE DARKNESS of men and women's minds
wherever we are, all the time,

IF WE DO NOT DO THIS
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO PERISH FOR LACK OF LIGHT.
We will at once be disowned by God, and made to account for it.

Have we turned our back on the perishing

Have we hidden our Light, the precious Gospel Light?

Dear Brothers and Sisters take the shade off your Light

Talk about your Saviour, be not ashamed of the Cross that bore your Salvation
Let the LIGHT, the Good News that is in you, BE SEEN

GOD BLESS you all, and keep you all sharp enough to cut through Satan's nets.        We were rescued today through the love of many showered upon us all by a word from AENON.     Our usual update and acknowledgment will soon be in the post

Love to each and every one

John, Esther and Daryl Green