Jesus Is LORD
Eternity Bible College
Note for my Readers:
If thou findest me short in things, impute that to my love of brevity.
If thou findest me besides the truth in aught [any respect], impute that to my infirmity.
But if thou findest anything here that serves to your furtherance and joy of the faith, impute that to the mercy of God bestowed on thee and me.
Yours to serve you with what little I have.
- John Bunyan
The Gospel is not moral conformity, religion, neither is it self discovery, secularism. The Gospel brings restructure of the heart, removal of our sin, and reversal of our values.
- Tim Keller
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It would un-Jesus him
“If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.” 2 Timothy 2:13
“I tell you, if he were to shut you out, dear soul, whoever you may be, if you go to him, he would deny himself. He never did deny himself yet. Whenever a sinner comes to him he becomes his Savior. Whenever he meets a sick soul he acts as his Physician… . If you go to him you will find him at home and on the look-out for you. He will be more glad to receive you than you will be to be received… . As Matthew sat at the receipt of custom, waiting for the people to pay their dues, so does Christ sit at the receipt of sinners, waiting for them to mention their wants. He is watching for you. I tell you again that he cannot reject you. That would be to alter his whole character and un-Christ himself. To spurn a coming sinner would un-Jesus him and make him to be somebody else and not himself any longer. ‘He cannot deny himself.’ Go and try him; go and try him.”
C. H. Spurgeon, Treasury of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, 1950), III:862.
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College] -
News & Updates - 12 Days of Christmas - The 6th Day Challenge
December News Dear Friends, This Christmas, we’ve invited you to partner with us in giving the gift of health and hope to communities in Africa through Blood:Water’s 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. Our true love would be to meet the needs of communities yet to be served this year – from providing access to safe water so children can go to school to offering transportation to bring communities together for training, from placing biosand filters in homes to training HIV/AIDS groups in the communities – these are the true gifts that we would like to give this Christmas: Gifts that last, gifts that multiply into other gifts on which you can’t place a price tag. Take a moment to visit www.bloodwatermission.com/12days to watch the video and learn more about all of the 12 Days, and to consider ways you can give. Join us by picking a day, and changing a life.
Give today’s gift – Donate $24 in the next 24 hours and be a part of bringing 6 Years of Safe Water to a Family in Africa. Help us reach our goal of 100 Families with safe water. Continue reading below to discover what this gift truly means for a family.
We’re halfway through, making today the 6th Day – The gift of 6 years of safe water for a family. Today we reflect on what a gift access to safe water really is for a family in Africa.
It’s hard for us to conceptualize what safe water for a family means. Our lives our so dependent upon it, and yet it is so abundant, we barely give it a second thought. Trying to imagine what life would be like without safe water is hard. Research tells us that the global impact of unsafe water has a huge impact on people:- 24,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes like diarrhea contracted from unsafe water
- 90% of all deaths caused by diarrheal diseases are children under 5 years of age, mostly in developing countries.
- 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related illness.
- Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time.
- In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for collecting water for domestic use.
- Mazyopa community school in Zambia: the school’s founder, Frank Kaonga, lost 2 children to cholera. He is working with our partner to install biosand filters for the school’s 300 students and building separate boys’ and girls’ latrines.
- Cyanika, Rwanda: Mrs. Kamanzi Venantia in told us, “I used to walk from 6 a.m to 4 p.m and come back with 20 liters of water, which was not enough for my family. But, now with this tank available here, we have access to 80 liters a day and I can find time to work for my family”. BWM is working to bring rain collection systems like this for the 7,000 people living in this community.
- Abung Genga, Uganda: Regina Okeng has 8 children and has watched their health improve, saying they no longer suffer from constant stomach aches. “Our prayer is that others will be blessed with water like us”. BWM completed projects in 33 neighboring communities this fall, and they are experiencing the same blessing as Regina and her family.
From our super soft logo tees to Christmas music from supporting artists there are some great gift ideas in the Blood:Water Store. Here are a few of our favorites:
- This year we have Christmas Ornaments handmade by women in Africa affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. If you buy 5 Ornaments, you get the 6th FREE!
- We have Silly Bands! Each pack of 4 comes with 2 water drops and 2 Africa shapes. Buy a pack to trade and share your Blood:Water Mission support!
- Make a donation in someone’s name and send them a Christmas Card to show your love. Bring Health and hope to communities in Africa this holiday season.
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”This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth,
1 John 3:16-18.
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College] -
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Fleeing Quarrels and Correcting Opponents
2 Timothy 2:22-26—
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
God’s word warns us that some controversies are foolish and ignorant. They breed quarrels. We have been freed from sin and death—we ought not to be quarrelsome but kind to everyone. Instead of looking for a fight we ought to flee these sorts of vain disputations.
Does this mean that we should not correct our opponents?
To the contrary, in the same passage where Paul warns against foolish controversies he also commands Timothy (and us) to correct his opponents with gentleness. Correction of false doctrine is commanded, and so is gentleness.
It isn’t arrogant to correct our opponents, gently. God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth and escape the snare of the Devil. Without correcting them, this would not happen. The implication is that it must be done gently for God to grant it to them. Note that God is sovereign in this transaction—he “grants” repentance. We are called to trust that God blesses his own means of grace.
What happens if we do not correct gently?
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. (Galatians 6:1)
If we do not correct gently, it is probably because of pride and a lack of long-suffering. We leave ourselves wide open for temptation. Instead of running toward temptation, we ought to flee it and pray for protection from it (Matthew 6:13).
We need to return our eyes again to the cross, remembering that we were once enemies of Christ, dead in our sins. Our pride and short-suffering wranglings are not in keeping with the gospel … what do we have that we have not been given (1 Corinthians 4:7)? We might be correct in our argument, but if sin motivates our hearts rather than “faith working through love,” it is worthless (Galatians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 13:3).
So let us flee foolish controversies. But when we must correct an opponent, let us do it gently, “by faith working through love,” in order that God might grant repentance.
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Love so real it can be seen
“By this all people will know that you are my disciples.” John 13:35
“… so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:23
Francis Schaeffer proposed two ways we Christians can display observable love for one another, love that goes beyond talk and theory, love so real it can be seen:
One, “When I have failed to love my Christian brother, I go to him and say, ‘I’m sorry.’ That is first. It may seem a letdown — that the first thing we speak of should be so simple. But if you think it is easy, you have never tried to practice it… .”
Two, “There must also be open forgiveness. And though it’s hard to say ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s even harder to forgive. The Bible, however, makes plain that the world must observe a forgiving spirit in the midst of God’s people… .”
“[Does the world] observe that we say ‘I’m sorry,’ and do they observe a forgiving heart? Let me repeat: Our love will not be perfect, but it must be substantial enough for the world to be able to observe it, or it does not fit into the structure of John 13 and 17. And if the world does not observe this among true Christians, the world has a right to make the two awful judgments which these verses indicate: that we are not Christians, and that Christ was not sent by the Father.”
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