March

the passion of the christ

Praise the Lord, If you are a regular visitor to our website you have noticed we seem to have gone backwards a bit. I crashed the site somehow trying to reduce the number of photos in a folder and then messed up by replacing the site with my backup! Great plan except I had not updated my backup since November so lost all of December, January, and February updates! I took a little time away from the web to regroup and I will try to get things decently updated. Thanks for your patience. " The Passion of the Christ" opens tonight and is all the buzz. We taught last Sunday on the stripes Jesus bore assures us that healing belongs to us and this Sunday we will teach on the "Blood" and receive communion. We are believing this movie will be one of the vehicles to bring more in 2004. The Word of God declares "where sin did abound Grace did MUCH MORE abound" President Bush yesterday called for a constitutional amendment defining "marriage" in America. One of his gay supporters said I can't believe he (Bush) would split the country right in half, implying that the country was half gay and half straight. The latest survey I saw published estimated that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals composed less than three percent of the population of the U.S. They still have a very loud voice as they did in Sodom crying out for Lot to bring out the two new boys in town so they could have them. I am not a gay basher and have no personal agenda against them. Quite the contrary, I am proud to be an American where we are all free to pursue happiness as we choose. I just can't understand how it is the rule of majority to allow three percent to change our Biblically founded laws. I can't understand why if it is against the law in California for same sex marriages, the governor of that state has not taken action to enforce the law instead of engaging in rhetoric. Well, this is supposed to be a Bible lesson, and it is! The Bible says "in the LAST days evil men will grow worse and worse." "As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be when the Son of Man returns." "When you see these things begin to come to pass LOOK UP." Let's get busy for Jesus! Are you prepared to explain to anyone who asks why Jesus had to do that!! To explain that it was YOU who put Jesus on the cross and not the Jews or the Romans. That he did it for your salvation, for your justification, for your healing ,for your blessing; to restore to you the Righteousness Adam and Eve sold out in the garden. I pray this movie will bring millions to question and I pray WE (the church) are ready with the correct answers. I see millions in the valley of decision. Katherine Kullman once said " one short life, will soon be passed; only things done for Christ will last."

The passion of the Christ was to "do the will of the father." The will of the father was to fulfill His covenant with Abraham and provide himself a sacrifice thus paying the FULL cost of redemption and restoring you (and me) to right standing (righteousness) with himself so we could again enjoy all the benefits of fellowship with him. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:.... That the blessing of Abraham might come on the gentiles through jesus christ;...".

Gal:3: 13,14

I pray it will become our passion to tell the world to accept the reconciliation, freely given, but so costly to obtain. selah... see you in the rapture!!

Yours In Him, Jim

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