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CLAIMING THE MERITS OF CHRIST’S CLOSING WORK OF ATONEMENT

May 5, 2020

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

CLAIMING THE MERITS OF CHRIST’S CLOSING WORK OF ATONEMENT

Mainstream Christianity clings to the mistaken idea that Christ’s work for the redemption of sinners ended at the cross. When Jesus said, “It is finished” as He was expiring, it was the sacrifice of His life and and shedding of His blood that was “finished” as the “Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.”

He then resurrected after His death to become our merciful High Priest, pleading His own blood in behalf of all penitent sinners who are repenting and confessing their sins. This is how the repentant sinner is justified by the blood of Christ, never by his “works!!”

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BEHOLD THE SUN NOT THE CLOUDS, THE ROSES NOT THE THORNS.

March 26, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

BEHOLD THE SUN NOT THE CLOUDS, THE ROSES NOT THE THORNS. 

  “But unto you that fear My name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings.” Mal. 4:2. “We also have the prophetic word made sure, which you would do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Morning Star arises in your hearts.” 2 Pet.1:19, NKJV.

The counterfeits Sun of righteousness is the “son of perdition,” the “man of sin”(2 Thess. 2:3)—symbols of Satan whose vicegerent on earth is the Antichrist, the papacy— who has a lot to do with what is taking the world by storm in this current covid-19 crisis, in case you don’t know or lost sight of in the manufactures excitement, panic, confusion and fear-mongering. It has been said that “Back of the clouds the sun is always shining.”  That is, behind and far higher than the dark, foreboding, glowering storm clouds is the steady bright sun, always shining, never dark. By nature, we tend to absorb what we gaze at and then bounce it off or reflect it on others as either a “savor of life unto life or death unto death”(2 Cor.2:15,16).

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ONLY SAFETY: LIVE LIKE A WATCHMAN!

Feb 26 2020
MID-WEEK MESSAGE FROM YOUR UNCLE NAT’S DESK:

ONLY SAFETY: LIVE LIKE A WATCHMAN!

“Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” Eph. 6:18, KJV. 

“Praying and watching there unto are necessary for advancement in the divine life. Your only safety is to live like a watchman. Watch and pray always. Oh, what a preventive against yielding to temptation and falling into the snares of the world! WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR: Mark 13:33. First you are to watch. WATCH lest you speak hastily, fretfully and impatiently.

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WISE OR FOOLISH VIRGINS?

February 5, 2020

MID-WEEK MESSAGE FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

WISE OR FOOLISH VIRGINS?

“Behold, The Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him!” Matt. 25:6.— “The great controversy is nearing its end. Every report of calamity by sea or land is a testimony to the fact that the end to all things is at hand. Wars and rumors of wars declare it. Is there a Christian whose pulse does not beat faster as he anticipates the great events opening before us? The Lord is coming. We hear the footsteps of an approaching God.” OHC346. 

What/Who are the Foolish virgins? “The state of the CHURCH represented by the foolish virgins, is also spoken of as the Laodicean state.” 2RH420. 

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Kobe Bryant’s Sudden Death Reminds All: Today May Be Our Last. How Well Did We Live It?

Kobe Bryant 1978-2020

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January 31, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                   

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Kobe Bryant’s Sudden Death Reminds All: Today May Be Our Last. How Well Did We Live It?

It is fallen human propensity. We mortals forget what we should remember, and sadly, more often than not, in that general forgetfulness, miss and even lose what matters most. For this reason, reminders are indispensable and may prove to be a life saver. We  need to be reminded of what we should never miss, even if we forget the rest.   

So, while it is still fresh in the consciousness of countless grieving fans and admirers nationally and even globally, holding its own amidst the crush of cascading events, prominent of which are the U.S. history-making current impeachment trial of  president Donald Trump, dovetailing into the approaching 2020 presidential election, the steadily mounting unrests, conflicts and wars in an increasingly angry, edgy, and violent world, and one quickly following the other without hardly a break—the devastations of record-breaking wildfires, uptick of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, outbreaks of new, deadly diseases attributed to what they call “global warming,” etc.,– let’s do something together with our hearts and minds. Consider the following:

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KOBE’S SUDDEN DEATH REMINDS US TO LIVE EACH DAY AS OUR TOMORROW

January 27 2020

KOBE’S SUDDEN DEATH REMINDS US TO LIVE EACH DAY AS OUR TOMORROW.

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, but and sell and make profit, whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears a little time then vanished away.

Instead you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. But now you boast of your ignorance. All such boasting is evil.” James 4 :13-17, NKJV. — We are being reminded lest we forget or are deceived as to the uncertainty of the future outside and independent of Christ the Life-giver.

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The “Fullness of Time” Never Specified Specific Time

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December 27, 2019
By Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                                                                                                           email:[email protected]

The “Fullness of Time” Never Specified Specific Time

      “But When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the [condemnation] of the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”  

Gal. 4: 4, 5, N.K.J.V.

Sent forth by the Father, the only-begotten Son of God was “born of a woman” and became the Son of man “when the fullness of time had come,” not a “twinkling of an eye” earlier or later. As the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, He was the subject of the first and beginning of all promises and propheciesof the Bible, coming first as “the seed” (Gen. 3: 15) and at last, “the Lord Jesus,” “King of kings and Lord of lords” in His glorious second coming!  

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Thank God for Blending Divine Nature with Human Nature Forever!

"Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632" Source: Wikipedia

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November 29, 2019

Nathaniel Fajardo                                  

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Thank God for Blending Divine Nature with Human Nature Forever!

     And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels [both evil and good], preached among the Gentiles [and the chosen people] believed on in the world, received up in glory [as a Victor over Satan, temptation, death, and the grave].”

1 Tim. 3: 16. 

This Thanksgiving 2019 we should thank and praise God “with all our heart, soul, strength and mind” (Luke 10: 27) for patiently, gradually and progressively unfolding to the astonished eyes of earnest truth-seekers the great mystery of godliness that is revealed in the Creator’s incarnation! Ever after that priceless, precious, precise moment in time that no finite mind exactly knows when and how, humanity quietly and effortlessly blended with divinity for eternity!

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