Revelation 1:7 cf. Eph2:8a; 2Cor5:7; Heb11:6
So shall we hasten it or hinder it?
Revelation 1:7 cf. Eph2:8a; 2Cor5:7; Heb11:6
So shall we hasten it or hinder it?
I, Caleb Suresh Motupalli, a witness of the resurrected Jesus Christ/عيسى المسيح/ישוע המשיח in spirit form, write to all Muslims, Christians and Jews scattered around the world:
Let me begin by addressing Muslims, and as a byproduct also cover the urgent need of shallow Christians and Jews.
Unlike what Calvinists say, we do have a freewill. Without freewill the concept of God’s love itself is in question. So freewill is sacrosanct. But it is not enough knowing that we have a freewill; we must say with Jesus, “Not my will Father, but thine be done.” And that is what being a true Muslim is all about as expounded in this article.
The so-called Muslims do not KNOW the WILL of Allah/God in order to submit to it. What are they submitting to then? The answer is a bold, YES! Surely, they are submitting to impurity and as a result waging evil-Jihads in the name of Allah/God. A True Muslim (مسلم) seeks first to know the true will of Allah/God before he can even submit to it. Now, what is that universal true will of Allah/God?
Role models are key to under-standing who a true Muslim is and what He submitted to. We have Isa al-Masih/Jesus Christ as our role model of a True Muslim, who SUBMITTED to an allah/god, who is LOVE (1John4:8), even in His death and said, “Not my will, Father, but thine be done” (Injeel Luke 22:42). Others merely brandished a sword. But Isa/Jesus too showed He can brandish a sword as well. But only to show the greater power, namely, that He can heal (an attribute of Creator Allah/God alone) a ghastly wound inflicted by a sword (Injeel Luke22:36-38, 47-51).
Truth does not need a prop such as the Bible, Quran or the Gita for it to stand. It is self-evident.
Islam is true and holy. Just as the Law was present from the beginning before Moses even gave it, Islam was present before Muhammad even gave it. Islam means submission to the will of Allah/God.
Injil Luke 9:23; Rom 8:13 KJV
Submission is emphatically taught by Isa al-Masih/Jesus Christ (Matt7:21-27; 12:50) and kept even in His death (Injeel Luke 22:42). That mankind must submit to His Creator, is self-evident, something that has eluded the Church-at-large in favor of Lutheran & Calvinistic theories. While the sacrifice of Isa/Jesus atoned (paid for) our past sins (Rom3; 2Pet1), Isa’s righteousness is Isa’s. That Isa’s righteousness is ours–even a righteousness of one who has died for his neighbor–supposedly imputed to us by the work of Christ on the cross, is a false teaching, and is condemned. As a result, Submission (Islam-in-essence) is seen as a demoted works-based religion. That future sins have not been paid for, is alone sufficient to debunk Luther! (For details see: Luther Debunked). Calvinism is debunked here. What’s more, we all need to become “True Muslims,” in the true sense of the term! But Satan does this sort of thing (uses evil-Jihad to try and convert everyone to Muslim), to smear and tarnish our efforts, black. But news about the emergence of “Lordship Salvation” by Ray Comfort is really a comfort, instilling hope in His Church to this weary soldier of the Lord.
But Muhammad’s Islam as against Isa’s Islam is like comparing a thorny bush with a rose plant. Thorny bushes, like all evil, are neither surprising nor terrorising to true saints of God. Thorny bushes grow wildly everywhere, requiring neither cultivation, beauty to attract good, nor water or light. Rather it thrives in the ugly & the evil. And like all fascism, it offers rather challenge-sounding, “struggle, danger & death” sound-bites to those spoiling for a kill. While at the same time they are impervious to any sort of persuasion, having a “forced certainty” (Maher Samuel) about them. This must not be, my dear Muslim brethren!
Muhammad merely offered people a prophet’s reward from Allah. But as Sons of Allah, like Isa before us, we lead True Muslims to receive from Allah, a Son-of-God reward as per Isa’s own Words of gold in Matt10:41.
As to the nature of יהוה/God/الله/ईश्वर, anything can be ascribed to Him. But what is the truth? Let Bible speak, and let Quran speak, and let Gita speak, and if there is any other source of truth, let that too speak. If it is of God, it will stand, otherwise it will fall. Agreed? But desist from patronizing your own merely because it is your own. The truth in this quote by Clint Eastwood sounds vulgar at first glance but on closer examination is pointedly self-evident: “Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone has them; but everyone else’s stinks.”
If, as the Quran says in 33:40, Muhammad is the last prophet, has Allah/God stopped speaking? Or worse, has Allah/God died? Far be it for me to even hypothesize that way! The fact of the matter is: Allah/God is not dead and is still speaking and uses His prophets as well as other sons of His to speak to the world.
If Muhammad, as the Islamists say, is a prophet, so am i. What is more, i am more than a prophet. I am a son of Allah like Isa/Jesus perhaps? Now note that “the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets” (1Cor14:32). So whatever Muhammad had written or said should withstand the test.
The word ‘Muslim’ means: submitting to Him (Allah/God). Which is excellent. But in order to submit, we need to know what to submit to. First of all, we need to find out what the will of Allah/God is, even for any moment in time, to which we must submit to.
Now, what does that statement by יהוה/God/الله/ईश्वर in Hosea6:6NKJV, referred to by Isa/Jesus in Matthew 12:7, mean?
In the context of evil Jihadists slaughtering precious “aid workers,” whose worth is more than ten thousand, i repeat the statement made by Jesus Christ/عيسى المسيح/ישוע המשיח :
“If you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.”
How do we understand this verse? Paraphrasing it, we can say that Allah/God is saying: “I desire the way of mercy/compassion, and not the way of sacrifice”. I seek to show mercy/compassion to people more than i seek sacrifice from them. At first glance, it may appear as if Allah/God is not preferring the way of Jesus, who is said to have been the sacrifice for us and wants to simply pardon His people just as Muhammad says in Quran 24:22 that Allah is “ever-forgiving and most-merciful”. For Allah to be most merciful, should He simply wink at our sin and allow us into paradise by the backdoor? Just ponder over that for a minute. If He simply forgives a murderer, for instance, who was not caught on earth by the governing bodies, won’t He be an unjust God? Yes, absolutely! But when Allah Himself provides the sacrifice and pays the penalty for your sin, then He is really the “most-merciful” (Quran 24:22), don’t you think? Indeed! Now, the cross to you has taken on a new meaning than a mere idol. As Apologist Ravi Zacharias puts it, “On the cross, the Love of Allah, the Justice of Allah, and the Mercy of Allah, meet.” Or as James Emory White puts it, “The cross is where justice met mercy, and both were satisfied.” Rephrasing Rom8:1-3, Timothy Keller writes, “Because of the cross, God can be both Just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.”
That, my friend, is being most-merciful!
So note this carefully:
Alah/God desires and wills that you avail this sacrifice/provision of Allah/God and not be a sacrifice yourself. Allah’s/God’s will is that you take up the way of mercy (where Allah/God Himself provides you with the sacrifice) than for you to take up the way of sacrifice (where you must provide your own sacrifice–the penalty for your sins).
Submission now, as Pastor Rob Jacobs puts it, is no longer a dreary drudgery…but rather…an affectionate acceptance.
I believe, we can term it as ‘yielding’, and not even ‘submission.’
“So Peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)”
A. Jusuf Ali wrote in the footnote number 2485 of his translation of the Holy Quran (1975): “…those who believe that he (Jesus) never died should ponder over this verse.”
What Quaran 4:157 simply says is that you can never kill Jesus permanently–He will rise from the dead!
We don’t even need Quran or even the Bible to support our argument.
That we are sinners, needing a Savior is self-evident. Even Hindu vedas teach that.
A dead man comes back to life to show that a man need not die if he is clean (Rom1:3-4; cf. Rom6:23; Gen2:17). That a totally innocent man needs to be put to death so that “his blood would be upon us and our children” (Injeel Matt27:25; Lev17:11; Heb9:22) and then for him to rise again from the dead to show that our sins have “SUCCESSFULLY” (HT: Bro. Sukumar Rachapudi) been forgiven IN him, is self-evident, requiring no evidence to defend it actually. Muhammad made Ishmaelites believe in a lie, impudently uttering Quran 4: 171 & Quran 19:88-92. Now, do not make me an enemy for telling you the truth like it is. We don’t believe in walking on egg-shells just because some rogue individual or state might issue a fathwa against us. This is your Agape Justice giving you counsel. Also, other teachers and Islamic scholars widely interpreted Muhammad as having said Isa never died and therefore never rose from the dead (Quran 4:156-159). I proved in my article why He must not only die but must also be raised from the dead. Therefore, in light of my thesis, Muhammad is silenced if not rubbished! “For the spirits of the prophets are subject to prophets” (1Cor14:29-32). And what’s more, i am more than a prophet. I too am a son of God/Allah.
So who, can we say, is the true Muslim? One who finds out the perfect will of God and submits to that will, at all costs, is the True Muslim. But Allah/God has nothing to do with will-power religion. The choice is in your hands. It is up to you to choose Isa/Jesus as your Savior and Lord or reject His offer. But penalty for your sins, you must pay somehow. Why reject such a great offer of salvation? “For whoever [tries to] keep the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it” (James2:10). Who rejects such great love…agape love? The proud luciferian! Yes, like Lucifer, he/she is one who rejects good authority. Does it not hurt when someone rejects your love? How much more should it hurt Allah/God and His Son, who loved us with such goodness and sacrificed that precious life for you and for me? That is true and good authority, my friend! “He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love” ~ C. S. Lewis.
“Rebellion/insubordination in the light of justice is black, but in the light of love it is devilish” (Charles Spurgeon).
Isa/Jesus left His heavenly abode and came down to earth as a human being, only to identify with you and me, and to die for you and for me. Won’t you love it even when someone speaks your language in a foreign land? Or you find someone of your own skin color? Yes, Isa/Jesus was with Allah/God as co-creator from the beginning of creation, as the scriptures declare. He emptied Himself of His divinity and took the form of a servant, a human, in order to identify with us and be a perfect sacrifice for you and for me. Read more about Isa al-Masih here: Mystery of Christ: Revealed.
And once again, this is the perfect will of Allah/God in order for one to be a True Muslim:
Alah/God desires and wills that you avail this sacrifice/provision of Allah/God and not be a sacrifice yourself. Allah’s/God’s will is that you take up the way of mercy (where Allah/God Himself provides you with the sacrifice, namely His Son Isa al-Masih) than for you to take up the way of sacrifice (where you must provide your own sacrifice–the penalty for your sins).
One last thing. I want to take you to higher ground.
Firstly, Isa al-Masih did say that He is the Son of Allah/God (Read: Who has Monopoly on Allah) in Injeel John10:33-38 but clearly correcting the self-righteous mobsters, who were impatiently judgmental and trigger-happily concluded that He was equating Himself with Father God:
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ‘? If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God‘? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
Having been born of a Virgin (attested by both Quran & Bible), it is clear that he came down from heaven, also clearly claimed by Isa/Jesus Himself in John 6:51:
“I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
This is a self-evident truth worthy of everyone’s acceptance: Like respect, worship is never demanded; it is earned and is given/offered in reverence. We “render to ALL their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor” (Rom13:7). On Judgment Day, mere Muslims, i mean the ones who believe that Isa is merely a prophet like Muhammad, will be given, merely a prophet’s reward as per Isa’s own Words of self-evident truth in Matt10:41 (“He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward”) in light of the Golden Rule (Injeel Matt7:12). But as for us, we are after a Son-of-God’s reward. Even though Isa is the Firstborn of all creation and also the Firstborn from the Dead, he NEVER asked anyone to worship Him nor even hinted so. However, Isa/Jesus readily accepted worship at the time of his ascension. We will see why?
Being Firstborn and co-creator with God/Allah (Injeel John 1:3; Colossians 1:15-17; Philippians 2:10-11; Koran 2:116) is enough reason to worship Him. Not only just that; we worship the Son on our own accord, for what He did for us. Of course, we reserve the greatest respect/honor/worship for Abba Akbar, the Father, who created us in the first place. God is love (1Jn4:8), fully demonstrated by the SON. Those who do not honor the Son (SEEN), do not honor the Father (unseen). When you honor/worship the Firstborn (of all creation & also from the dead), you effectively worship/honor the Father. That is why Jesus Himself said in Jn5:21-23NASB:
“For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son EVEN as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.”
Isa/Jesus is the Bread of life that came down from heaven (Jn6:51). We eat this Bread symbolically, effectively eating His flesh, because it is on account of His sacrifice that we now live, and not because we eat ordinary bread for sustenance. If someone CLAIMS to worship the unseen יהוה/God/الله/ईश्वर, but does not give respect due to a worthy seen brother, he is a LIAR (1Jn4:20).
Isaiah 45:21-22 (“Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”) is TRUE. And the Ten Commandments (Exodus20:1-17), which says:
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.“You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me”
is holy and true!
And the Shema, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deut6:4) is also holy and true.
Now consider…
Why did Isa/Jesus say: “I and the Father are ONE” (Injeel Jn10:30)? Because Isa and the Father are NOT partners, in the sense of two separate entities coming together for one purpose. They are one and the same. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (Injeel Jn1:1). Now consider this ijtihad through this little illustration: With respect to others, Caleb’s head and his arm are one, right? Both, the head and the arm, can claim to be Caleb, without a shadow of doubt. But with respect to each other, arm listens to the head. One serves the other. Now read Isaiah53:1; Ex15:16 & Job40:9 and note that Isa/Jesus is Arm of Abba Akbar. Monotheism! This is not shrik business. Nor is it Al-Mushrikun (those who worship others alongside with Allah). This is true Tawhid! Since not even Muhammad nor anyone else died for you and me, expect Isa al-Masih, Jn14:6 (‘Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”‘) is TRUE. Since Isa is the only one who died for us and is therefore the only way, we pray to the Father IN ISA’S/JESUS’ NAME ALONE by which we have access to the Father. That is why Isa says in John 14:14 – “If you ask [the Father] anything in My name, I will do it.” Isa/Jesus shed His precious blood on that cruel cross of Calvary and made us partakers with Him of the heavenly riches, even making us sons of God together with Himself, the Firstborn. For that, we do worship Him, on our own accord, even though He Himself affirmed Ex20:2-5; Deut6:13-15; 10:20 and told us to worship and serve the Father and Him alone (Injeel Matt4:10). You see, without Isa/Jesus, we are nothing; to dust we must have had to return. Moreover, though Isa/Jesus Himself was created by the Father in the beginning of all creation (Col1:15; Rev3:14), Isa/Jesus was there from the beginning of eternity (Micah5:2) and together with Father they created the rest of creation (Injeel Jn1:3; Isa48:13; Job38:5). It is true that Allah/God has no partners (Isa44:8; 45:6). Isa/Jesus and Father Allah/God are One (Injeel Jn10:30). Both of them are agape (sacrificial) love; the Father, by nature, and the Son, by demonstration. We too will all become One with the Father ultimately (1Cor15:24). But right now we are all One with Isa/Jesus, having been grafted to a branch in the vine (Jn15:1-10; Rom11:17-21) through the born-again resurrection experience (scholars may check this out), baptism and the laying on of hands (Jn3:5), receiving the sap (Holy Spirit/WORD – Jn6:63) as adopted sons of Allah/God, who too are gods (Jn10:35) as He engineers us and qualifies us for heaven (Eph5:26).
Just as the wife respects her husband, but reserves the greater respect to al-Masih/Christ, we too, do offer our worship to Jesus Christ/عيسى المسيح/ישוע המשיח and call Him Lord as King David did in Ps110:1, saying “The LORD said to my Lord….” We reserve the greater worship for the Father. God is the big LORD and big GOD; Isa/Jesus is small Lord and the small God. And so are we. Therefore, together with us–who have now been reconciled with יהוה/God/الله/ईश्वर–Isa/Jesus/Yeshua Himself calls יהוה/God/الله/ईश्वर, “my Father and your Father, My God and your God” (Jn20:17). Isa/Jesus–the Firstborn–is King of kings, and the Lord of lords (Rev17:14; 19:16).
In my view, all Muslims–those who truly submit to Allah/God–will look, really good before Allah, if they receive and put on al-Masih/Christ!
Best of grace to you for Judgment Day, that will soon come upon the whole world! As for those die-hard Muhammad followers, who want to stick to their guns, we will see them on that DAY!
Lovingly,
A mere servant of Isa al-Masih/Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, who is the real lover of your soul!
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Billy Graham: Pope of the Protestant Church | Agape Ambassador | “Great Trumpet” of Matthew 24:31.
“It would be hard to overestimate Billy Graham’s influence…” – Rick Warren.
Matt24:31
The “Great Trumpet” of God mentioned in Matthew 24:31 is Agape Ambassador Dr. Billy Graham.
His leaving the earth itself constitutes the blowing of the ultimate trump of God spoken of in Matthew 24:31:
“And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”
As for the announcement by Father God Himself was done on 20 April 2015 itself:
Joel2:15-17; 1:15; cf. Matt24:36
From: Caleb@AgapeTiE.org [mailto:caleb@agapetie.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:51 PM
To: Lakhavani, Kumar
Subject: RE: Important letter to Franklin Graham
August 23, 2006
Brother Lakhavani Kumar
Regional Director for Asia
Samaritan’s Purse
Boone , NC 28607 , USA
Dear Brother Kumar,
Greetings in the name of Lord Yeshua, who came to give us eternal life as we abide in Him!
Thank you for your prompt response to my email to Franklin Graham dated August 11, 2006. I have taken it as a real blessing in disguise. Discussing Project Agape TiE with another person from Asia has given me added hope to accomplish this purpose of God in my life.
To begin with, though i am located in the West Indies on my wife’s work-permit, my Ecumenical ministry spans the globe as i use IT to meet ministry objectives. My story begins with my coming to the United States with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering to pursue a Masters in Computer Information Science in the Fall of 1988. Before i completed the program i had applied to a Ph.D. program in Management of Information Systems in the Fall of 1989. In the Statement of Purpose, which i submitted as part of the application, TiE–which is today called Agape TiE–was born. I tried to get intellectual property protection for the baby but Satan bound me for almost eighteen long years now. But the baby in me has been growing slowly but steadily. To reassure me that i am in the center of God’s will the Lord showed me the events that took place on September 11, 2001 four days in advance in a dream very vividly.
Recently, the Lord told me that Billy Graham would be the “Great Trumpet” of Matthew 24:31 who will usher the gathering together of His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other with Agape TiE. Indeed on 6/6/06 as an affront to Satan i believe, in the Decision email devotional, Billy Graham commenting on the Lord’s Command that we should love one another just as He loved us, wrote about “visible unity” in the Church.
Now what is Agape TiE?
Agape TiE is an Information Technology that facilitates the reembodiment of Christ corporate by the lifting up of Christ as Head in an organized manner by the putting to use of each member’s gifts and talents. “So that whoever believes, will IN HIM have eternal life” (John 3:15 NASB emphasis mine). The IT component of Agape TiE is a Totally Integrated Environment of a digital nervous system of Christ’s body. It enables Christians and local churches to be plugged into Christ corporate as each member exercises his/her Gifts and Talents in Him. It can be thought of as an Enterprise Resource Planner on the Internet for the body that is distributed around the globe, enabling her to move from individuals/churches thinking and taking action independently, to the whole body thinking and taking action as one. With Agape TiE, it is expected that the digital nervous system of Christ’s body can reach and “touch” literate and the illiterate alike, reachable and the unreachable. Agape TiE can serve as an e-governing environment or a throne for our Lord Yeshua to rule.
Even though there is no functional system in place yet, Agape TiE is expected to succeed because it has brand-equity by virtue of the Lord’s involvement. What i need today is your commitment to support the development of Agape TiE in every which way you can.
Luke 9:46-48; 8:19-21; John 20:24,25
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Caleb Motupalli
Servant of the Word
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Basseterre , St. Kitts & Nevis, West Indies
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After all is said and done, we can only but sing…
John 13:10a :-
‘Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed (baptized — taken a full cleansing as a full sinner) needs only to wash his feet (to clean the FEW sins accumulated since the last cleansing), but is completely clean.”‘
యోహాను సువార్త 13:10a
‘యేసు అతని చూచి స్నానముచేసినవాడు (బాప్టిజం – పూర్తి పాపిగా, పూర్తి శుదీకరణ తీసుకున్నావాడు) పాదములు తప్ప (గత శుద్ధీకరణ నుండి సేకరించిన కొన్ని పాపాలను శుభ్రం చేయడానికి) మరేమియు కడుగు కొన నక్కరలేదు, అతడు పవిత్రుడు.’
1 Corinthians 11:27-29 :-
“Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.”
1 కొరింథీయులకు 11:27-29
“కాబట్టి యెవడు అయోగ్యముగా ప్రభువు యొక్క రొట్టెను తినునో, లేక ఆయన పాత్రలోనిది త్రాగునో, వాడు ప్రభువుయొక్క శరీరమును గూర్చియు రక్తమును గూర్చియు అపరాధియగును. కాబట్టి ప్రతి మనుష్యుడు తన్ను తాను పరీక్షించుకొనవలెను; ఆలాగుచేసి ఆ రొట్టెను తిని, ఆ పాత్రలోనిది త్రాగవలెను.
ప్రభువు శరీరమని వివేచింపక తిని త్రాగువాడు తనకు శిక్షావిధి కలుగుటకే తిని త్రాగుచున్నాడు.”
Because you are a biased person, in your eyes, your son, Sudeep, is a holy cleansed person without taking Baptism.
నీవు పక్షపాతి కాబట్టి, నీదృష్టిలో నీ కొడుకు (సుదీప్) బాప్టిజం తీసుకోకుండానే శుద్ధి చేయబడియున్నవాడే (పరిశుధుడు) అనుకుంటున్నావు.
1 Peter 3:21 :-
“Baptism SAVES – it is not the removal of dirt [but rather of sin and] a pledge of a good conscience — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
1 పేతురు 3:21 :-
“సాదృశ్యమైన బాప్తిస్మము ఇప్పుడు మిమ్మును రక్షించు చున్నది; అదేదనగా శరీరమాలిన్యము తీసివేయుట కాదు గాని [పాపం కడగడం] యేసుక్రీస్తు పునరుత్థాన మూలముగా దేవుని విష యము నిర్మలమైన మనస్సాక్షినిచ్చు ప్రత్యుత్తరమే.”
It is a testimony to the world that you now no longer belong to sin but to Jesus. It also serves as a metaphorical memory device of a cleansing that took place at a point in time to stay committed to holy living and to Jesus during fiery trials that will come upon us after the cleansing just as it did the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1 (Then [after Baptism] Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.)
మీరు ఇప్పుడు ఇకపై పాపములకు చెందిన వాళు కాదు అని ప్రపంచానికి అది సాక్ష్యంగా ఉంది. ఇది పవిత్ర జీవన కట్టుబడి ఉండడానికి ఒక సమయంలో శుదీకరణ జరిగిందిఅని మనకి గుర్తుగా ఉంటుంది. అది ప్రభు యేసు క్రీస్తుకు మరియు పవిత్ర జీవనకు కట్టుబడి ఉండడానికి ఉపయోగించబడుతుంది. ఈ శుదీకరణ తర్వాత మనమీద వచ్చే ఆ మండుతున్న పరీక్షలు గుండా వెళ్ళవలసినప్పుడు సమయంలో ఇది ఒక శుద్ధీకరణ మెమరీ పరికరంగా పనిచేస్తుంది. (మత్తయి సువార్త 4:1 – అప్పుడు [బాప్టిజం తర్వాత] యేసు అపవాదిచేత శోధింపబడుటకు ఆత్మ వలన అరణ్యమునకు కొనిపోబడెను.)
Therefore, it is clear that taking part in the Lord’s Table/Communion in an unworthy manner is dangerous. That’s not all! “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it wouldbe better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matt18:6).
అందువలన, ప్రభు భల్లలో అయోగ్యముగా పాల్గొనడం ప్రమాదకరం అని స్పష్టం అవుతుంది.
అదొక్కటే కాదు.
“నాయందు విశ్వాసముంచు ఈ చిన్న వారిలో ఒకనిని అభ్యంతరపరచువాడెవడో, వాడు మెడకు పెద్ద తిరుగటిరాయి కట్టబడినవాడై మిక్కిలి లోతైన సముద్ర ములో ముంచి వేయబడుట వానికి మేలు” (మత్తయి సువార్త 18:6).
May God bless you!
దేవుడు నిన్ను దీవించునుగాక!
Your elder son, brother, and Servant of God,
Caleb Suresh Motupalli
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