An Incomplete Appointment of Man

Hebrews 9:27
NIV-Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
KJV-And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
NAB- Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,

Each man can have an appointement to anybody here while he is still alive.Before that appointment it requires preparation, It could be a business appointment, appointment to your jod,client,friend or love ones. The only appoinement a man could not prepare is his appointment to death. He dont know the time ,the place and the way he died. Many of the Filipinos died everyday especially this time due to the flood ondoy. But the question is are they ready to face the judgement of God. When aperson dies he will face judgemnt. There are only two place where a person can go its either heaven and hell. Of all appointments this is the most dangerous because it has no time date and place! Think of it. The best thing for you to do is to give your life to Jesus because He is our judge.

Who Am I?

I am a child of God. -John 1:12

I am fearfully and wonderfully made. –Psalm 139:14

I am a new creation. -2 Corinthians 5:17

I am God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works. -Ephesians 2:10

I am blessed. –Deuteronomy 28:1-6

I am the lender and not the borrower. –Deuteronomy 28:12

I am the head and not the tail. I am above only and not beneath. –Deuteronomy 28:13

I am Christ's friend. -John 15:15

I am always triumphant in Christ Jesus. -2 Corinthians 2:14

I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit. -John 15:16

I am a slave of righteousness, enslaved to God. -Romans 6:18, 22

I am more than a conqueror. –Romans 8:37

I am a son of God -Romans 8:14,15

I am a joint-heir with Christ. –Romans 8:17

I am a temple of the Holy Ghost. God’s Spirit dwells in me. -1 Corinthians 3:16

I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. –Ephesians 1:3

I am the salt of the earth. -Matthew 5:13

I am the light of the world. -Matthew 5:14

I am joined to the Lord and one spirit with Him. -1 Corinthians 6:17

I am a member of Christ's body. -Ephesians 5:30

I am reconciled to God and a minister of reconciliation. -2 Corinthians 5:18

I am sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be a saint. –1 Corinthians 1:2

I am a citizen of heaven. –Philippians 3:20

I am seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. -Ephesians 2:6

I am hidden with Christ in God. –Colossians 3:3

I am the elect of God, holy and dearly loved. –Colossians 3:12

I am chosen and dearly loved by God. –1 Thessalonians 1:4

I am a son of light and a son of the day. -1 Thessolonians 5:5

I am a holy brother and a partaker of a heavenly calling. -Hebrews 3:1

I am a living stone, being built up (in Christ) as a spiritual house. –1 Peter 2:5

I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own special people. -1 Peter 2:9,10

I am born of God and the devil cannot touch me. –1 John 5:18

I am what I am, but by the grace of God. -1 Corinthians 15:10

No Sin

Whoever abides in Him does not sin,
Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
1john 4:16

The bible makes two things clear about sin. First, living a lifestyle of sin indicates that you are not walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, regardless of what you say about your spiritual condition. You cannot regularly spend time studying and meditating on God's Word and walking in fellowship with the Holy Spirit , and persist in sin.

Second, if you do not hate sin the way God's does then you do not truly know Him. There are those who continue in their sin yet insist that they love and belong to Him. John makes it clear: if you have a lifestyle of sin you have not seen Him and do not know Him. You nay have prayed a sinners prayer, or made a commitment in your church, or been baptized, but the evidence of the Holy Spirit presence in your life is that you are defeating sin. This does not mean that you will never sin, but it does mean that you refuse to make sin a lifestyle and you immediately seek forgiveness when you sin (1John1:10). It means that you are oppose to sin ,as God is, and you allow the Holy Spirit to eradicate every trace of sin in your life. It means that when you sin you immediately confess it and repent of it and do whatever is necessary to avoid repeating your sin.
If you find yourself falling into a sinful habits or not grieving over your sin as you once did, this indicates that you are not abiding in Christ. Return to Him in repentance; restore your fellowship with Him; and you will once again experience victory over your sin.

Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby
Experiencing God Daily Devotionals

Believing God's Love
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in Him.
I JOHN 4:1

Report One of Four Pastor Daniel Ekechukwu and his Resurrection from the Dead

Witness the coming of one dead person who resurrect from the dead!!!

Daniel Ekechukwu from Africa will come in Cagayan de Oro City
Heaven & Hell - Raised From The Dead

The Rich man's request that a dead man will be raised to life as a warning in this generation that heaven and heal is real!

Raised from the dead ,He went back to the doctor who declared him dead but was amazed by the power of God!
Revival and Healing Gathering
When:September 26, 2009 at 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Where: CDO First Assembly of God Church, 11th-29th St. Nazareth Cagayan de Oro City
Salvation and Healing
When: September 27, 2009 at 4:00-8:00 PM
Where: Brgy Nazareth Covered Court, Cagayan de Oro City

Believe and be prayed for healing in all your sickness!

ITS FREE! Be there and witness the salvation and miracles happen....

Watch and know the details of his story. Don't be the last to know while you still have time to know God and know the destiny of the wicked. God is love but He is also just.

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Pastor Daniel Ekechukwu and his Resurrection from the Dead
By David Servant

A Pure Heart

It takes pure heart to see God. Mat.5:8. You can attend church services, read your Bible, and pray, but if sin fills your heart, you will not see God. you will know when you have encountered God because your life will no longer be the same.

Isaiah was concerned with the death of King Uzziah, the able king of Judah, but was disoriented to his heavenly King. Then something happened that forever exchanged Isaiah's life. God, in all His awesome majesty, appeared to him in the temple, surrounded by heavenly creatures. Instantly, God's presence made Isaiah aware of his sinfulness. One of the seraphim came to him with a burning coal and cleanse Isaiah. Immediately, Isaiah began to hear things he had never heard before. Now, he has aware of conversation in heaven concerning who might worthy to be God's messenger to the people. This prompted Isaiah's eager response. "Here am I! send me." Now that God had cleanse Isaiah, he was aware of heavenly concerns and prepared to offer himself in God's service. Whereas Isaiah had been preoccupied with earthly matters, now his only concern was the activity of God.
If you have become estranged from God and his activity, you need to experience His cleansing. Sanctification prepares you to see and hear God. It enables you to serve him. Only God can purify your heart. Allow Him to remove any impurities that hinder your relationship with him, and then your service to him will have meaning as you offer Him your consecrated life.

Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby
Experiencing God Daily Devotionals

Gambling and Lotteries - Is it sin or not?

Biblical perspective in opposition to gambling. The church believes gambling is an artificial and contrived risk taken for selfish gain at another’s expense. It is done without a fair return for "creative effort, useful skills, or responsible investment." A careful study of the Scriptures indicates that gambling is a form of evil that the Christian seeking to live by scriptural principles should avoid.

Scripture (Isaiah 65:11) recounts that during the Babylonian captivity of Israel some Israelites succumbed to the influence of their captors and worshiped heathen gods of "chance" or "luck." In their idolatry they denied the providence of God, trusting in luck rather than the living, sovereign Lord of the universe. Verses 12-16 shows God does not accept such activity.

Scripture further condemns the practice of gambling by showing it to be inconsistent with its teaching on work, stewardship, and love of one’s neighbor. Gambling avoids honest labor in an effort to "get something for nothing" or to "get rich quick." Thus, it violates the scriptural principle that teaches man must work for his sustenance. (See Proverbs 12:11; 28:19,20; 2 Thessalonians 3:10.) The Christian should recognize all that one possesses belongs to God (Psalms 24:1). In the Parable of Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) Jesus teaches that a person’s resources are given as a trust to be used wisely. No candid appraisal of gambling can endorse it as such. Finally, Jesus taught that love is what earmarks the Christian as His disciple (John 13:35). No Christian who seeks to love his neighbor as himself (Matthew 22:39) can justify profiting from greed and addiction that motivates so much of gambling.

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Hell-the place of punishment?Do you believe it?

Hell - The abode of condemned souls and devils in some religions; the place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death, presided over by Satan.
A state of separation from God; exclusion from God's presence.
The abode of the dead, identified with the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades; the underworld.

Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 5:22 "But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

Luke 12:5 "But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

Hebrews 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God


Hell is full of controversy either its true or not. Some may use it as a joke. There are many testimonies who shared their experiences that describes the reality of hell. Jesus spoke many times of hell in the Bible. Like a student the teacher will not give an exam without telling the coverage of the exam and the lessons to be studied. On the other hand God will not punish the people without telling the future's event. God is love but He is also just. The punishment of the wicked is eternal destruction.

Heaven, Hell, and Judgment

Does Tithing Always Pay Off?

If we faithfully give to God a tithe, that is, a tenth of all our income, will that mean that we will automatically receive a blessing every time? What is the meaning of the promise in Malachi 3:10? And is the “storehouse” to which we bring the tithe solely the local church?
God had no other recourse than to show the people one example of their failure of turning back to him: their failure to tithe and make offerings to him. This is not to imply that this was the only area where the nation had failed, but it would serve well enough for those who were unconvinced that they had turned their backs on God. They were robbing God of the tenth that belonged to him.
The tithe was generally considered to be a tenth of what a person earned, for that is what the priest of Salem (Jerusalem), Melchizedek (Gen 14:20), received from Abraham even before the law of Moses gave similar instructions (Lev 27:30). From this tithe, a tenth of it went to the priests, while others who benefited were widows, orphans and resident aliens (Deut 14:28–29).
The offerings, however, were those portions of the animal sacrifices designated for the priests (Ex 29:27–28; Lev 9:22; Num 5:9) or those gifts that were voluntarily given for a special purpose (Ex 25:2–7).
Kaiser, Walter C., et. al., Hard Sayings of the Bible, (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press) 1997.

Is Childbearing a Curse or a Blessing?

If bearing children was declared a blessing from God in Genesis 1:28, why did God totally reverse this blessing as a result of the Fall? Indeed, the “pains,” a word which reappears in verse 17 in the curse on man as well, are said to have increased. But no pain had been mentioned previously; only a blessing.
There is no doubt that this term refers to physical pain. Its root lies in a verb that means “to injure, cause pain or grief.” Whether the pain would lie in the agony of childbirth or in the related grief that accompanies raising that child cannot be finally determined; the text would seem to allow for both ideas.
Katherine C. Bushnell, in God’s Word to Woman, suggests that verse 16 be translated differently since the Hebrew text could support such a reading. She noted that some ancient versions attached the meaning of “lying in wait,” “an ambush” or “a snare” to the word generally read as “multiply.” This idea of a snare or a lying in wait, however, may have been moved back to Genesis 3:15 from its more normal position in Genesis 3:16. Bushnell would render the opening words of verse 16 this way: “Unto the woman he said, ‘A snare has increased your sorrow and sighing.’”
This translation is not all that different in meaning from the more traditional “I will greatly multiply … ” The difference between the two readings is found wholly in the interlinear Hebrew vowel signs which came as late as the eighth century of the Christian era. The difference is this (using capital letters to show the original Hebrew consonantal text and lowercase to show the late addition of the vowel letters): HaRBah AaRBeh, “I will greatly multiply,” and HiRBah AoReB, “has caused to multiply (or made great) a lying-in-wait.” The participial form ARB appears some fourteen times in Joshua and is translated as “ambush” or “a lying in wait.”
If this reading is correct (and some ancient versions read such a word just a few words back in verse 15, probably by misplacement), then that “lier-in-wait” would undoubtedly be that subtle serpent, the devil. He it was who would increase the sorrow of raising children. This is the only way we can explain why the idea of “a snare” or “lying-in-wait” still clings to this context.
But another matter demands our attention in verse 16, the word for conception. This translation is difficult because the Hebrew word HRN is not the correct way to spell conception. It is spelled correctly as HRJWN in Ruth 4:13 and Hosea 9:11. But this spelling in Genesis 3:16 is two letters short, and its vowels are also unusual. The form is regarded by lexical authorities such as Brown, Driver and Briggs as a contraction or even an error. The early Greek translation (made in the third or second century before Christ) read instead HGN, meaning “sighing.” The resultant meaning for this clause would be “A snare has increased your sorrow and sighing.”
What difference does such a rendering make? The point is simply that this curse cannot be read to mean that the right to determine when a woman will become a mother is placed totally outside her will or that this function has been placed entirely and necessarily in the hands and will of her husband.
Furthermore, it must be remembered that this statement, no matter how we shall finally interpret it, is from a curse passage. In no case should it be made normative. And if the Evil One and not God is the source of the sorrow and sighing, then it is all the more necessary for us to refuse to place any degree of normativity to such statements and describe either the ordeal of giving birth to a child, or the challenge of raising that child, as an evil originating in God. God is never the source of evil; he would rather bless women. Instead, it is Satan who has set this trap.
The next clause strengthens the one we have been discussing by adding “in sorrow [or pain] you will bring forth children.” Once again note that bearing children in itself was a blessing described in the so-called orders of creation of Genesis 1:28. The grief lies not so much in the conception or in the act of childbirth itself, but in the whole process of bringing children into the world and raising them up to be whole persons before God.

Why Didn’t Adam and Eve Die at Once?

Why did not Adam and Eve drop dead the same day that they disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit? Adam lived to be 930 years old according to Genesis 5:5. Was Satan’s word in Genesis 3:4—“You will not surely die”—a more accurate assessment of the real state of affairs than what God had said in Genesis 2:17—“When you eat of it you will surely die”? Is Satan more scrupulously honest than God himself?
This hard saying calls for an examination of at least three different concepts embraced within the quotation from Genesis 2:17—(1) the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; (2) the meaning of the phrase “when [more literally, in the day] you eat of it”; and (3) the meaning of the phrase “you will surely die.”

First the tree. There are no grounds whatsoever for believing that the tree was a magical symbol or that it contained a secret enzyme which would automatically induce a wide body of knowledge that embraced the whole gamut of good and evil. Instead it is safer to assume that the tree functioned much as the New Testament ordinance or sacrament of the Lord’s Supper or Eucharist does. The tree was a symbol embodied in an actual tree, just as the bread and wine of the Eucharist are symbols embodied in real bread and wine. In a similar way the tree of life was also a real tree, yet it symbolized the fact that life was a special gift given to individuals from God. That is also why participants are warned not to partake of the elements of the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner, for when the elements are eaten and drunk in a flippant manner and when a person has not truly confessed Christ as Savior, the unworthy partaking of these rather ordinary elements (ordinary at least from all outward appearances) will cause illness and, in some cases, death (1 Cor 11:30).

In the same way, the tree was a symbol to test the first human couple’s actions. Would they obey God or would they assert their own wills in opposition to God’s clear command? To argue that the tree had magical power to confer knowledge of good and evil would be to miss the divine point: the tree was a test of the couple’s intention to obey God. That men and women can attain the knowledge of good and evil is not in itself either undesirable or blameworthy; knowledge per se was not what was being forbidden here. The tree only represents the possibility that creatures made in God’s image could refuse to obey him. The tree served as the concrete expression of that rebellion.

It is just as naive to insist that the phrase “in the day” means that on that very day death would occur. A little knowledge of the Hebrew idiom will relieve the tension here as well. For example, in 1 Kings 2:37 King Solomon warned a seditious Shimei, “The day you leave [Jerusalem] and cross the Kidron Valley [which is immediately outside the city walls on the east side of the city], you can be sure you will die.” Neither the 1 Kings nor the Genesis text implies immediacy of action on that very same day; instead they point to the certainty of the predicted consequence that would be set in motion by the act initiated on that day. Alternate wordings include at the time when, at that time, now when and the day [when] (see Gen 5:1; Ex 6:28; 10:28; 32:34).

The final concern is over the definition of death. Scripture refers to three different types of death. Often only the context helps distinguish which is intended. There are physical death, spiritual death (the kind that forces guilty persons to hide from the presence of God, as this couple did when it was time for fellowship in the Garden, Gen 3:8) and the “second death” (to which Rev 20:14 refers, when a person is finally, totally and eternally separated from God without hope of reversal, after a lifetime of rejecting God).
In this case, spiritual death was the immediate outcome of disobedience demonstrated by a deliberate snatching of real fruit from a real tree in a real garden. Death ensued immediately: They became “dead in … transgressions and sins” (Eph 2:1). But such separation and isolation from God eventually resulted in physical death as well. This, however, was more a byproduct than a direct result of their sin. Spiritual death was the real killer!

Kaiser, Walter C., et. al., Hard Sayings of the Bible, (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press) 1997.

The Rapture of The Church

The Rapture is a concept in Christianity relating to the return of Jesus. The primary passage describing the rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, in which Paul cites "the word of the Lord" about the return of Jesus to gather his saints. Although all Christian denominations believe in Christ's return, there are two primary views regarding its nature:

1. Dispensationalist Premillennialists (such as many Evangelicals, especially in the United States) hold the return of Christ to be in two stages. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 is seen to be a preliminary event to the return described in Matthew 24:29-31. Although both describe a return of Jesus in the clouds with angelic activity, trumpets, heavenly signs, and a gathering of the saints, these are seen to be two separate events, the first unseen, and the second public. The majority of dispensationalists hold that the first event immediately precedes the period of Tribulation. (See chart for additional Dispensationalist timing views)
2. Amillennialists (such as Roman Catholics, and others), Postmillennialists (such as some Presbyterians, and others), and Historic Premillennialists (such as Calvinistic Baptists, and others) hold that the return of Christ will be a single, public event. All passages regarding the return of Christ, such as Matthew 24:29-31, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, Revelation 1:7, etc, describe the return of Jesus in the clouds amidst trumpets, angelic activity, heavenly signs, a resurrection, and a gathering of saints. Although some (such as some Amillennialists) take this event to be figurative, rather than literal, these three groups maintain that passages regarding the return of Christ describe a single event, and that the "word of the Lord" cited by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 is the Olivet Discourse which Matthew separately describes in Matthew 24:29-31. Although the doctrinal relationship of the rapture and the Second Coming are the same in these three groups, Historic Premillennialists are more likely to use the term "rapture" to clarify their position in distinction from Dispensationalists.

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