He changes your past
Your sins are all forgiven.
Unto Him that loves us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood . . . (Revelation 1:5)
Your old nature is changed.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new. (II Corinthians 5:17)
The power of Satan is broken
To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. (Acts 26:18)
Your fear of death is removed.
And free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Hebrews 2:15)
He enriches your present
He gives you peace and joy.
And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7)
He helps you in every trouble.
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. (Isaiah 41:10)
You join the family of God.
To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. (John 1: 12)
You find purpose and meaning in life.
I have come that they many have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)
He secures your future
All things work for your good.
We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. (Romans 8:28)
He is preparing a home for you in heaven.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2)
You need not fear death.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. (Psalm 23:4)
You will be cleared at the Judgment
Who will bring any charge against those who God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died -- more than that, who was raised to life -- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. (Romans 8:33,34)
What love! What mercy! What blessings! What power! What hope! What glory! Do not delay! Come to Jesus now! Pray this prayer:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God who died for my sins and rose again. I repent of my sins and ask forgiveness. Send Your Spirit into my heart to give me power to fight evil and to lead me into all truth. Help me to love You above all and my neighbour as myself. Make me Your child and care for me now and forever. Amen.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Eternal Life is a Free Gift
The Lord Jesus Christ paid the full price for the salvation of your soul He "gave himself for our sins," (Galations 1:4a). Jesus, the Son of God, "loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galations 2:20b) Now because "by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." There remains no price for us to pay! (Hebrews 9:12b) We are "justified freely by His grace." (Romans 3:24a) "It is finished." (John 19:30b)
DOING GOOD WORKS CANNOT SAVE YOU.
Salvation is "Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:9) God "hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." (II Timothy 1:9b)
The Bible, God's Word, says, "As it is written, There is non righteous, no, not one:" (Romans 3:10) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23) Sin is the problem, and even belonging to a church will not take it away. Jesus Christ Himself said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3b) As the Bible says, "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (Romans 3:28) "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." (Ephesians 2:8)
YOU CANNOT TAKE YOUR CHANCES
The Bible says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" (Hebrews 9:27) You really don't know for sure how much time is left of your life. "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." (James 4:14)
YOU CANNOT SAVE YOURSELF
The Bible says, "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law," (Galations 2:16a) It also says, "we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;" (Isaiah 64:6a)
SALVATION IS FREE TO ALL.
The Bible says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13) The Bible says, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;" (I Timothy 1:15b) "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God," (I Peter 3:18a)
IF YOU DO NOT GET SAVED . . .
The Bible says, "And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night," (Revelation 14:11a). "For the wages of sin is death;" (Romans 6:23a) This death is more than just physical death. It is an "eternal burning!" The Bible says, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." (Revelation 21:8)
HOW YOU CAN BE SAVED.
The Bible calls for "repentance toward God." (Acts 20:21b) Repentance is a change of heart which causes you to turn toward God and away from your present way of life. Accept the Bible facts that you are guilty as a sinner before Him, and you are unable to deliver yourself from the punishment of hell, which is due you because of your sin.
The Bible also calls for "faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." (Acts 20:21b) Faith is putting complete trust in Jesus Christ as your only means of clearing your guilt and delivering your soul from the punishment of hell. The Bible says, "...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved," (Acts 16:31a) If you will receive Jesus Christ into your heart, by trusting Him to save your soul, you will become a son of God and spend eternity in heaven. "But as many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:" (John 1:12) God promises He will save you if you will trust Jesus Christ as your Saviour. "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9) Please accept the "free gift" of eternal life God is offering you.
If you will accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, please pray with all your heart: Dear God, be merciful to me a sinner. I am sorry for my sins, and now trust the Lord Jesus Christ to save me. I now take Him as my Lord and Saviour. I ask for eternal life that He paid for with His own blood. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
All This I Did For Thee
I CAME...because of your sin.
"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." (1 Timothy 1:15a).
"As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one:" (Romans 3:10).
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23).
I DIED...to pay for your sin.
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (Romans 5:8, 9).
"But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53: 5).
"In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins." (Colossians 1:14).
I AROSE...to keep you saved eternally.
"And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." (1 John 5:11).
"Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." (Hebrews 7:25).
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. (John 10: 27, 28).
YOU MUST REPENT...admitting you are guilty, that you cannot do anything to save or help save yourself, and that you need Jesus Christ.
"I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3).
"Let the wicked forsake His way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord; and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord." (Isaiah 55: 7, 8).
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us." (Titus 3:5a).
"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." (Romans 4:5).
YOU MUST TRUST...putting your complete faith in Jesus Christ to save you.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16).
"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was also able to perform." (Romans 4: 20-21).
"To declare, i say, at this time His righteousness; that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus...Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (Romans 3: 26, 28).
WHAT IS YOUR DECISION?
- I choose to trust in Jesus as my Saviour.
"He that believeth on Him is not condemned." (John 3: 18a).
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10: 13).
- I choose to reject Jesus and keep my way.
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20: 15).
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Tongue-Speaker's Q-Ray
QT, Inc. of Elkgrove Village, Illinois, markets "ionized" bracelets which claim to benefit people by balancing the body's flow of "electro magnetic energy." It is said to have been invented in 1973 by Manuel L. Polo, a chiropractor living on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
In 1997 and 1998, the manufacturer's website stated: The Q-RAY bracelet is designed to achieve many of the same goals as traditional Chinese acupuncture. Acupuncture was developed to balance the body's yin (negative ions) and yang (positive ions), the two inseparable, complimentary energies that permanently circulate in the human body. When these energies become unbalanced the body's functioning is thought to be altered -- which can be at least very annoying and at worst debilitating. Acupuncture is BELIEVED to regulate these two energies.
In the human body, which is electro-magnetic by nature, bio magnetic alpha and beta waves circulate throughout the vital centres. When the flow is cut off and these alpha and beta waves become stagnant in one particular area of the body, bio-electrical alterations and ionic imbalances can result.
The Q-RAY bracelet's effectiveness is grounded in the phenomenon of radioelectrical "Resonance", balancing of positive and negative ions within the human body. Because of its unique characteristics and specialized configuration, the bracelet is considered to be an excellent Resonator of electro magnetic waves. (www.quackwatch.org)
For several years QT Inc., claimed that its bracelets could restore health, relieve cancer pain, improve muscle flexibility, improve sports performance, restore energy, and provide other health benefits. It was also claimed to "energize your whole body instantly." In 2000, an infomercial stated: "When you have a severe injury or a chronic injury or a chronic problem like arthritis, you have build-up of positive ions, wherever that is you are going to have pain. In order to remove this pain, Q-RAY bracelet rips it right out of the body!"
The above descriptions of bodily electrical energy flow are nonsense. Ions exist in solution throughout the body. There is no such thing as an "ionized bracelet" because solid objects are not ionized. There is no such thing as an ionic imbalance of the body, and no scientifically recognized connection between allegedly "ionized" objects and pain relief. Furthermore, the Q-RAY bracelet has no power source so even if "ionic imbalance" could exist, the claim that the Q-RAY could influence the body's "electrical energy" supply is preposterous.
In 2002, researchers from the Mayo Clinic published the results of a 4-week study involving 710 participants who wore either a Q-RAY bracelet (said to be "ionized") or an identical-looking placebo bracelet (said to be "non-ionized"). Subjective improvement in pain scores was equivalent in both groups, which indicates that the bracelet exerted no special effect.
Consumer Protection Actions
In June 2003, the FTC charged QT, Inc. Q-RAY Company, Bio-Metal, Inc., and their principals, Que Te (Andrew) Park and Jung Joo Park, with false advertising, and the Federal District Court in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order freezing their assets and prohibiting further use of misleading claims.
In September 2006, the Chicago Court sided with the Federal Trade Commission and ordered Que Te Park and his companies to turn over $22.5 million in net profits and provide up to $64.5 million in refunds to consumers who had bought the bracelets. During the trial, Park testified that he could not define the term "ionization" but picked it because it was simple and easy to remember. The court concluded that his testimony on ionization was "contradictory and full of obfuscation" and that "he is a clever marketer but a poor witness." Park also acknowledged that QT had at least a 25% refund rate from dissatisfied customers (more than 100,000 people). In January 2008, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court in an opinion which stated that the marketers "made statements about Q-RAYS, ionization, and bio-energy that they knew to be POPPYCOCK."
The Bottom Line
The Q-RAY bracelet is a line of costume jewellery that has been claimed to relieve pain and to provide various health benefits. It is claimed to work by balancing "energy" that cannot be measured with scientific instrumentation. Its supposed mechanism of "ionic" action is preposterous. The only published scientific study of the device found that it had no special effect against pain. Its marketing claims were greatly turned down by a private consumer protection lawsuit filed in California but I believe that the manufacturer still exaggerates what the bracelet can do. The Balanced Bracelet has been marketed with claims that were equally false.
Excerpts from "CBC MarketPlace"
Sandra Post, a famous Canadian athlete, who wears one was asked "what do they do?" She said that her arthritis was helped. When told that it makes no medical claims re. pain, she said that it had cured her pain for two years. She also said she doesn't know how it works but she believes that it does.
Due to deceptive advertising the company has been ordered to repay $87 million re. pain claims and for defrauding people. Over 150,000 bracelets have been sold in Canada at approximately $200 a pop using deceptive, misleading advertising and claiming that it has the ability to take pain away. The maker of the product said we can't control how vendors market and we can't dictate how they run their businesses. It's just jewellery. There's no harm in it.
The made-up science consists of performance enhancement, energy balance in the body and increased vitality. A serious performance bracelet claiming to achieve a state of Chi can cost up to $500. Golfers are the biggest fans -- it's a miracle!
It's all in your head. Claims about pain are a tricky business. All vendors are still making claims of pain relief. Over 600 retailers continue to sell the product while talking about its benefits for relief of pain. Retailers are not getting the message that ionization, analyzed in a lab, is not ionized at all.
GIBBERISH IS THE TONGUE-SPEAKER'S Q-RAY
When you are speaking gibberish, you are not actually speaking in tongues but that doesn't matter. What really matters is that you BELIEVE that you are speaking in tongues. It's not necessary for you to actually be speaking in tongues as long as you BELIEVE that you are. Gibberish creates this illusion for you. You actually believe that you are speaking in tongues when you really are not. Any child can do it and any non-Christian can do it. It can be taught to any man on the street. It is not divine, it is Satanic. Satan will do anything to throw Christians off the tracks, move them away from keeping the main thing - the main thing, keeping them in bondage to a wrong focus, and dragging the truth through the mud. Speaking gibberish accomplishes all of these things and much more for Satan. When you are speaking gibberish, you are assisting and supporting Satan's efforts in this area. He is working tirelessly to eliminate true Christianity and replace it with falsehoods.
The fraud that is being foisted on Pentecostals/Charismatics/Victory Churches people is that what they are claiming to be tongues is not tongues. Biblical tongues was an actual language which had a specific purpose at a specific time when the church was in the early stages. Scripture teaches that tongues will cease. "Restoring the fire" (Barrie Victory Centre's motto) is really the fire of hell. Speaking in tongues was not mentioned in the majority of the latter books of the New Testament which means that they had ceased and the Greek word for cease means permanent, never to be started up again. Speaking gibberish is the biggest hoax that has been perpetuated in the church in all of its history. Speaking gibberish is also very dangerous. It is addictive behaviour which acts like a drug that you cannot live without. It's primary purpose is to control and manipulate you so that you will remain with the cult which you are involved with and keep giving your money to provide the leader's lavish lifestyle.
Pentecostal healings and miracles, visions and divine revelations all have a Q-RAY element to them. Most of them are fraudulent and need to be purged out of the church. They are making false claims and promises which cannot be delivered.
The bottom line in all this is that you should not be speaking in "gibberish". It is Satan's most useful tool for distraction from truth. When you participate in gibberish, you are aiding and abetting Satan's efforts to derail Christianity. In actual fact, gibberish speakers are all Satan's accomplices in crime. The more people do it, the more successful he is!
GIBBERISH IS FRAUD. JUST LIKE THE Q-RAY, YOU THINK IT WORKS.
THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE AND THEY SPEAK GIBBERISH.
In 1997 and 1998, the manufacturer's website stated: The Q-RAY bracelet is designed to achieve many of the same goals as traditional Chinese acupuncture. Acupuncture was developed to balance the body's yin (negative ions) and yang (positive ions), the two inseparable, complimentary energies that permanently circulate in the human body. When these energies become unbalanced the body's functioning is thought to be altered -- which can be at least very annoying and at worst debilitating. Acupuncture is BELIEVED to regulate these two energies.
In the human body, which is electro-magnetic by nature, bio magnetic alpha and beta waves circulate throughout the vital centres. When the flow is cut off and these alpha and beta waves become stagnant in one particular area of the body, bio-electrical alterations and ionic imbalances can result.
The Q-RAY bracelet's effectiveness is grounded in the phenomenon of radioelectrical "Resonance", balancing of positive and negative ions within the human body. Because of its unique characteristics and specialized configuration, the bracelet is considered to be an excellent Resonator of electro magnetic waves. (www.quackwatch.org)
For several years QT Inc., claimed that its bracelets could restore health, relieve cancer pain, improve muscle flexibility, improve sports performance, restore energy, and provide other health benefits. It was also claimed to "energize your whole body instantly." In 2000, an infomercial stated: "When you have a severe injury or a chronic injury or a chronic problem like arthritis, you have build-up of positive ions, wherever that is you are going to have pain. In order to remove this pain, Q-RAY bracelet rips it right out of the body!"
The above descriptions of bodily electrical energy flow are nonsense. Ions exist in solution throughout the body. There is no such thing as an "ionized bracelet" because solid objects are not ionized. There is no such thing as an ionic imbalance of the body, and no scientifically recognized connection between allegedly "ionized" objects and pain relief. Furthermore, the Q-RAY bracelet has no power source so even if "ionic imbalance" could exist, the claim that the Q-RAY could influence the body's "electrical energy" supply is preposterous.
In 2002, researchers from the Mayo Clinic published the results of a 4-week study involving 710 participants who wore either a Q-RAY bracelet (said to be "ionized") or an identical-looking placebo bracelet (said to be "non-ionized"). Subjective improvement in pain scores was equivalent in both groups, which indicates that the bracelet exerted no special effect.
Consumer Protection Actions
In June 2003, the FTC charged QT, Inc. Q-RAY Company, Bio-Metal, Inc., and their principals, Que Te (Andrew) Park and Jung Joo Park, with false advertising, and the Federal District Court in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order freezing their assets and prohibiting further use of misleading claims.
In September 2006, the Chicago Court sided with the Federal Trade Commission and ordered Que Te Park and his companies to turn over $22.5 million in net profits and provide up to $64.5 million in refunds to consumers who had bought the bracelets. During the trial, Park testified that he could not define the term "ionization" but picked it because it was simple and easy to remember. The court concluded that his testimony on ionization was "contradictory and full of obfuscation" and that "he is a clever marketer but a poor witness." Park also acknowledged that QT had at least a 25% refund rate from dissatisfied customers (more than 100,000 people). In January 2008, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court in an opinion which stated that the marketers "made statements about Q-RAYS, ionization, and bio-energy that they knew to be POPPYCOCK."
The Bottom Line
The Q-RAY bracelet is a line of costume jewellery that has been claimed to relieve pain and to provide various health benefits. It is claimed to work by balancing "energy" that cannot be measured with scientific instrumentation. Its supposed mechanism of "ionic" action is preposterous. The only published scientific study of the device found that it had no special effect against pain. Its marketing claims were greatly turned down by a private consumer protection lawsuit filed in California but I believe that the manufacturer still exaggerates what the bracelet can do. The Balanced Bracelet has been marketed with claims that were equally false.
Excerpts from "CBC MarketPlace"
Sandra Post, a famous Canadian athlete, who wears one was asked "what do they do?" She said that her arthritis was helped. When told that it makes no medical claims re. pain, she said that it had cured her pain for two years. She also said she doesn't know how it works but she believes that it does.
Due to deceptive advertising the company has been ordered to repay $87 million re. pain claims and for defrauding people. Over 150,000 bracelets have been sold in Canada at approximately $200 a pop using deceptive, misleading advertising and claiming that it has the ability to take pain away. The maker of the product said we can't control how vendors market and we can't dictate how they run their businesses. It's just jewellery. There's no harm in it.
The made-up science consists of performance enhancement, energy balance in the body and increased vitality. A serious performance bracelet claiming to achieve a state of Chi can cost up to $500. Golfers are the biggest fans -- it's a miracle!
It's all in your head. Claims about pain are a tricky business. All vendors are still making claims of pain relief. Over 600 retailers continue to sell the product while talking about its benefits for relief of pain. Retailers are not getting the message that ionization, analyzed in a lab, is not ionized at all.
GIBBERISH IS THE TONGUE-SPEAKER'S Q-RAY
When you are speaking gibberish, you are not actually speaking in tongues but that doesn't matter. What really matters is that you BELIEVE that you are speaking in tongues. It's not necessary for you to actually be speaking in tongues as long as you BELIEVE that you are. Gibberish creates this illusion for you. You actually believe that you are speaking in tongues when you really are not. Any child can do it and any non-Christian can do it. It can be taught to any man on the street. It is not divine, it is Satanic. Satan will do anything to throw Christians off the tracks, move them away from keeping the main thing - the main thing, keeping them in bondage to a wrong focus, and dragging the truth through the mud. Speaking gibberish accomplishes all of these things and much more for Satan. When you are speaking gibberish, you are assisting and supporting Satan's efforts in this area. He is working tirelessly to eliminate true Christianity and replace it with falsehoods.
The fraud that is being foisted on Pentecostals/Charismatics/Victory Churches people is that what they are claiming to be tongues is not tongues. Biblical tongues was an actual language which had a specific purpose at a specific time when the church was in the early stages. Scripture teaches that tongues will cease. "Restoring the fire" (Barrie Victory Centre's motto) is really the fire of hell. Speaking in tongues was not mentioned in the majority of the latter books of the New Testament which means that they had ceased and the Greek word for cease means permanent, never to be started up again. Speaking gibberish is the biggest hoax that has been perpetuated in the church in all of its history. Speaking gibberish is also very dangerous. It is addictive behaviour which acts like a drug that you cannot live without. It's primary purpose is to control and manipulate you so that you will remain with the cult which you are involved with and keep giving your money to provide the leader's lavish lifestyle.
Pentecostal healings and miracles, visions and divine revelations all have a Q-RAY element to them. Most of them are fraudulent and need to be purged out of the church. They are making false claims and promises which cannot be delivered.
The bottom line in all this is that you should not be speaking in "gibberish". It is Satan's most useful tool for distraction from truth. When you participate in gibberish, you are aiding and abetting Satan's efforts to derail Christianity. In actual fact, gibberish speakers are all Satan's accomplices in crime. The more people do it, the more successful he is!
GIBBERISH IS FRAUD. JUST LIKE THE Q-RAY, YOU THINK IT WORKS.
THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE AND THEY SPEAK GIBBERISH.
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