Category: FMM

Friday Morning Manna                                     

January 17, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                           

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What Christians Should Be Vigilant Over this New Year

    “I know your works, that you have a name that your are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.”

Rev. 1-3, N.K.J.V.

Nominal Christianity. Even before this term came into use today, it was already one of the great problems besieging early Christianity, a grave threat to its purity and undermining its mission. God to Jesus to the angel to John (Rev. 1: 1-3) was shown all that was to happen in the last days and was ordered to write it to the churches, in this specific order of transmission. Rev. 1: 1-4. Apostle Paul quickly picked it up and magnified it in his work. This is a clear description of a spiritually dead “chosen” people, or whoever claims to be “His people,”—beginning with rebellious ancient Israel, a generally spiritually dead church and an individually spiritually dead, professing Christian. “You have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.” Not dead or alive but alive yet dead. What an irony! Such is the nefarious work of the mystery of iniquity!

Friday Morning Manna

 January 3, 2020

By Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                       

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Only New Hearts and Renewed Minds Can Make A Year New

      “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jer. 17: 9. “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” 

Ps. 51: 10.

It is a new year, again. Thank God for gently yet protectively shepherding us through   tumultuous 2019 and step into the new year alive, still rational and relatively physically healthy to still afford us the precious jewel of a rational and discerning mind.

Friday Morning Manna                                                      

December 20, 2019

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                            

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Lord, I Want to be a Christian. But What Kind?

“Lord I want to be a Christian, in my heart.” So goes the opening lyrics of that simple yet moving spiritual, likely composed in 1750s Virginia by enslaved African Americans moved by the preaching of evangelist Samuel Davies, first published in 1907. (See Wikipedia). I first heard that song when I was in the grades back in old PUC and still can sing it today. These words are still repeated today, even without singing its melody our aloud, for, as it says, “in my heart.” But this time it is with growing skepticism expressed in this legitimate question: What kind of Christian?  As some say, “Will the real Christian please stand up?” “Oh no, not you! Not you, too.” Then who?

Friday Morning Manna

December 13, 2019
Nathaniel Fajardo                                     

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The Listless Unconcern Over Another Gift from Heaven

Generic church and specific denominational histories clearly reveal that the remnant people or chosen ones of the last days identified at the tail end of the long prophetic chain that began in Genesis and ends in Revelation are: (1) “they that keep the commandments of God and faith of Jesus” and (2)  “have the testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy.” Rev. 14: 12; 12: 17; 19: 10.      

Ah, the “spirit of prophecy” and the “spirit of Christmas!” It is to the latter distinction of “the spirit of prophecy” and as a natural extension of our running topic on the mystery of the incarnation and the nature of Christ— the Gift of all gifts,  that we refer to as we address this 2019 Christmas season—where “gifts, gifts and more gifts” are in all lips, whether good or bad. And what gifts are appreciated or ignored. 

Friday Morning Manna                                                           

December 6, 2019 Nathaniel Fajardo 

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The Creator Given a Human Body and Will in the Incarnation

“I delight to do Thy will, O My God, yea Thy law is written in My heart.”

Ps. 40: 8, K.J.V.

Here we have the first revelation of the not-yet incarnated Creator, expressing through the psalmist by way of prophecy, what His will was, is, and ever will simply because “He is the same yesterday, today and forever.” Heb. 13: 8.

It was, and is the only-begotten Son’s delight from the beginning to do the will of the Father whom He loves, willingly, voluntarily, purposefully, untiringly and spontaneously. Such love is divine, excelling, and undying. Without such a will, such kind of love, such delightful obedience to do God’s will by obeying His law from the heart, is impossible.