The Grace Faith

Today is the great day, the day known to be the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is not true and unscriptural that our Lord Jesus Christ was born today on the 25th December, however, the point is, He was born and we celebrate that. The bible records that as He was born, by the night the angel of the Lord appeared to shepherds and said, “...Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths lying in a manger” (Luke 2:9-12). Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the city of David, yet when He was born the bible says He was put in a manger for there was no room for them in the Inn. This is the Son of David; He has every right to be inside the Inn, in the comfortable place. But hey, He was born in the poorest place although He was rich. The bible states it correctly that although...

One of the most confusing topics in the Christian society today is the one of confessing your sins to be forgiven by God. Well, I am going to take you on a spiritual tour whereby I will be quoting on scriptures on what exactly it means to confess your sins. I have touched on this in one of the topics but not in a profound perspective. So we have to be careful on this topic as some Christians practise this as a norm. The bible says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).  When John wrote this he was not referring to believers but to some Jewish Christians. Now do we confess all of our sins for the Lord to forgive us? Well, let me take you on a logical journey in the spiritual realm. Let us consider when John the Baptist first came, “Then all the la...

  “Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ Then He said, ‘Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.’ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him”  (Genesis 22:1-3). This is the part I call ‘God’s love story towards mankind.’ I describe this as the allegory of the sacrificial death of our Lord Jesus on the cross. God showed love upon us human beings when He sent His only begotten Son on the cross to die for the sins of mankind. This is in no way suggesting that we have to give back our all in terms of finances to God because what God did here was to test Abraham. However, let’s look at this wi...

The return of our Lord Jesus is near as we can see what is happening in the world today. The bible teaches us that His rapture is something which will happen suddenly, meaning no one will know when He will come. The Lord Jesus said to His disciples, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mark 13:32). So the Lord did not want us to know the exact day or year in which He will return but only have an idea. However, we have an example of the rapture in the bible when the angels of the Lord came to rescue Lot from the land of Sodom. The apostle Peter said of this event, “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawl...