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Psa 52:5-53:3

Prov 1:20-33

Mark 6:1-29

Rom 14:13-15:13

Lev 19:2, “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.”

Dear brothers and sisters,

Loving greetings in Jesus name. Today let us see about the importance of listening to the voice of God and fulfilling his commandments in our lives to get acceptance of the lord. There are four spiritual principles let us see today. We see God told Moses to tell the people to tell these things to the people. Because God wants his people to do these things. The first spiritual principle God says to Moses to announce to all the people of God to observe is Holiness in life. God says about His holiness because we are living in world which is not holy but we are having a God who is holy as in Lev 19:2, “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.” The prophet Isaiah says about the Holiness of God as He is worshipped in the heaven by all the heavenly angels as a holy one as in Isa 6:3, “And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.” In the same way in the New Testament also the heavenly beings worship him as a holy God as in Rev 4:8, “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” That is why Apostle Paul says to us in Eph 1:4, “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love” Also in 1 Th 4:7, “For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

The second principle what God gave to the people through Moses his servant is to honor their parents as in Lev 19:3, “'Each of you must respect his mother and father.” I have already written about the two types of parents we may all possibly have in this world on the 26th Feb. 2005 Rhema. The earthly father who by the grace of God begotten us and about the God chosen instrument through whom God has revealed himself to us that we may accept the Lord and come closer to the kingdom of God. The bible says we must respect them and the spiritual elders should be doubly honored as in 1 Tim 5:17, “The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.” Since they teach us some thing which will take us to the heaven and to be with the Lord for ever and ever.

Third spiritual principle is that we must know how to honor the day of the Lord as in Lev.19:3, “and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.” When we respect the day of the Lord we will be greatly blessed as in Isa 58:13 & 14, "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, Vs.14, (1.), then you will find your joy in the LORD, and (2.), I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and (3.), to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." The mouth of the LORD has spoken.” In the New Testament it says in Heb 10:25, “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

Fourth principle is that we should not have any idol worship Lev 19:4 “'Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. Also in Exo 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Vs. 5, “You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,”

May the Lord help each one of us to do the will of God by strictly following these four principles in our lives. Amen.

Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev. Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam

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Prov 1:33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."

Psa 52:9 I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.

1 Pet 1:15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
1 Pet 1:16 for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
Col 1:22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
Col 3:12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
1 Th 2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.
1 Th 3:13, May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
1 Th 4:4 that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,
1 Th 4:7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
2 Pet 3:11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
Lev 26:1, "'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

Belgium

1 The slow, but steady growth of the small evangelical witness
2 Flemish areas have long had far fewer Evangelicals than the French-speaking south, but in the last 10 years have had the greater growth
3 A growing mutual respect between historical Protestants and evangelical networks
Challenges for Prayer
1 Belgium is a deeply divided nation
2 The Protestant Church is only now recovering from the destruction of its 600 congregations by the Spanish Inquisition
3 The population is culturally Catholic but rapidly secularizing
4 The nation was shocked in the 1990s by the exposure of murderous paedophile rings, some with Satanist practices
5 Protestantism has hardly grown over the past 30 years
a) The division between the EPUB and evangelical networks was heightened by the former’s efforts to claim to speak at government level for all Protestants
b) The strengthening of fellowship and ministry links between denominations
6 The lack of Belgian, and especially Flemish, Christian workers and pastors is crippling
7 Vision for growth
a) Of Flanders’ 308 administrative districts, 116 had no evangelical witness
b) Of Wallonia’s 281 administrative districts, 168 had no evangelical witness
8 Goals for achievement by the year 2015
a) Increase Francophone churches
b) Increase Flemish churches
c) In 2000, the Flemish Pentecostal churches (VVP) launched the vision of planting 120 churches
d) BEM’s ongoing vision for distributing gospel packets with a personal explanation
9 Specific outreach challenges:
a) Belgium, as a nation, is spiritually one of the neediest countries in Europe
b) The provinces with the greatest need — Flemish Brabant and East Flanders, also the Francophone Liège, Namur and Luxembourg
c) Brussels is a strategic city
d) Antwerp has only 40 or so evangelical congregations
e) North Africans (predominantly Moroccan) have increased through legal and illegal immigration
f) Turks and Kurds have proved hard to reach
g) The German-speaking cantons on the eastern border were neglected by Evangelicals until recently
h) The student population of 135,000 in 17 universities and colleges
10 Christian media ministries
a) Christian literature
b) Christian bookstores
c) Christian radio and TV