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Bible tells us about Moses that when God called him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt then Moses says to God in Exodus 4:10, "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." Moses talks about his inability to speak to a big crowd, as he was a stammerer. But God says to Moses in Exodus 4:11-12, So the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say."We see the picture of a healing God who has power to heal our sicknesses and restore what we are lacking in our lives. And this is the same quality of God that we see all over in the Bible again and again. Not only in Old Testament but also In New Testament we can see healings and miracles taking place. When Jesus saw people with various sicknesses and in need, He was moved with compassion and did mighty miracles. He healed the sick, cast out demons, raised the dead, and gave sight to the blind. Why do we see these type of similarities in Old and New Testament? The reason is very simple - God of the Old Testament is the same God in the New Testament. His qualities are not changing in New Testament. Old and New Testament both says that God does not change or He is unchanging God as we read in Malachi 3:6, "For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob." And in Heb 13:8, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." If He is the same God who does not change then of course He did not lose His healing power or gift of miracles or gift of prophecy etc.But today many of our Churches teach that, "we do not need these gifts anymore." If someone gets healing or miracle in their lives, people will say to them, "You got healing or miracle by the power of demon because God does not heal anymore, God does not perform miracles anymore... we do not need prophecy anymore...." Isn't it surprising? People speak as if all the power of God is transferred to devil and he can heal and perform miracles but God cannot. Pastors preach messages from Church pulpit praising devil. Once I heard a message which said, "Every person has problem in his/her family and those problems cannot be solved... if anybody thinks that he/she has a family without any problem it means they are abnormal people." This is what our Christian Churches and Christian people believe. We limit God with our limited knowledge and limited power and we think that He cannot solve our family problems. No wonder many Christian homes are broken today and they do not know where to turn and whom to contact for help. We have big Church buildings; big establishments and many of us give large amounts to charities. We talk about helping poor people but we have forgotten that they have a spirit too that needs spiritual food. They need solution for their problems and they need consolation and peace in their hearts and minds. What does our churches do for the spirit of the people? I grew up in protestant church and I had a miserable life. I tried to listen to pastors every week hoping to get a real solution for my problems but I never heard messages dealing with salvation and deliverance from the miserable condition of my life. Instead I heard them saying, "We are born in Christian family... we are good people...so we are going to heaven." So very often I thought, may be my misery and pain will end when I will reach heaven. I had no idea that I can have a wonderful, peaceful and joyous life in this world itself until I met Christ in my life. Yes, our churches have failed to give the true message of Jesus Christ and His miracle working, transforming and healing power. Today our Churches need to recognize their mistake and correct it so that when Jesus comes, He may find us without wrinkle and without blame.Today our churches have to recognize that there is a God who can help you; no matter what your situation is today, no matter how big or small your problem is, no matter how much you are in trouble. His name is Jesus. He did not lose His healing power and miracle working power. He is the same as He was yesterday and He will be the same in future. What He did for Moses and the Israelites in wilderness, He will do it for you. What He did for David and other prophets of the Bible He will do it for you. They called upon the name of God in their distress and He heard and delivered them from their distress. Look to Jesus who can help you. There is nothing impossible with Him.
So far we explored three areas of Genesis account. 1.) Eye Witness account and 2.) Material evidence 3.) Purpose and Attachment In all of these so far we see that the evidence is overwhelming. Today we are going to dig a little more deeper and look into the area of the "Existance of Evil". Till 9-11 the day of World Trade Center tragedy you seldom hear the word "evil" mentioned in USA. Most message boards I visited till that time were telling that there is nothing evil that we should have tolerance and that good and evil are relative. So there is no absolute. But the tragedy of 9-11 changed every thing, we heard the word evil again and again. For example "terrorists are evil people", "Axis of evil - Iran, Iraq and North Korea", " Saddam Hussain is evil. He killed his own people using deadly gases." and so on. How did people measure "evil" in these incidents? Answer is simple. People died because of some one's action. Did this evil exist in Genesis? Gen 2:16-17, "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."Gen 4:7 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."God made it very clear in Genesis 2:16-17 and 4:7 that sin brings death. In other words brings evil. When Genesis 2:17 is talking about death it is talking about two kinds of death 1. Spiritual Death 2. Physical Death. Because of Spiritual Death, Adam and Eve realized that they had done something terribly wrong and they hid themselves. Because of sin they were separated or alienated from God. That is spiritual death. Paul talks about this Spiritual death in Romans 5:12-14. Rom 5:12-14, "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned; (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come."Then in Genesis 5:5 we see the physical death. Adam died after he lived 930 years. Wow that's long years. But had he not sinned he would have lived forever with his physical body.Gen 5:5, "So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died."The root cause of evil is sin. If we read Genesis 4:7-9 we can find that before Cain killed his brother Abel, God talked to him and tried to convey to him that his lifestyle was of sin and that was not good. Gen 4:7 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."Gen 4:8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.Gen 4:9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"Before Cain took a decision to kill his brother, Abel he was already in sin. That means he was already spiritually dead. Death reigned from Adam to Moses and Cain was part of that. And this death entered through Adam. When Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge and good, sin and death entered in this world. Many philosophers have tried to find the meaning of mystery of evil, but they could not. The reason is simple. They didn't look at it's origin. Also they did not look at the source of evil. What we see in physical is the result of spiritual things happening in and around us. The evil that is taking place today does that not fit the pattern in Genesis? Cain killed Abel. Today terrorists are killing people. Brother killing brother for property or for some material gain. People devising evil plans and plots against others. Every thing falls in the same pattern of Cain and Abel situation. Last time we looked at alienation of human being from God. Evil is the direct result of that alienation. A greater evil power works in a person motivating him to plot evil and to kill. You hear lot of incidents where people arrested are interviewed and they say that some kind of spirit guide asked them to kill people. Some times such evil spirits speak directly and some times it influences the mind. But it all fits to the very pattern of Genesis account.To find the very meaning of evil and it's origin you do not have to look here and there, it is right there in Genesis. Ok, so now you may be thinking that the terrorists are evil, but I am ok. But Genesis further confirms the evil nature of human being in Genesis 6:5 and says that every intent of the thoughts of man's heart is evil continually.Gen 6:5, "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."So you and I are included in that. That is why Romans 3:10-12 says that there is no one righteous and again Rom 3:23 says that we have all sinned.Rom 3:10-12, "As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one."Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Is there any person in the whole world who can say that he or she has never sinned? Can anybody say that he or she has never said a lie? Answer is no not one. So what could we do right now? We have taken the sinful nature of today's human being and just proved that Genesis 6:5 is 100% accurate. It cannot be more true. The very definition of evil nature and the very existence of evil nature has proved the accuracy of Genesis account.Now let us see what Jesus had to say about evil.Mat 15:18 "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.Mat 15:19 "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.In the words of Jesus it is a spiritual heart problem. You can say Spiritual Cholesterol. This Spiritual heart problem brings spiritual death. But there is a fix for this heart problem.Ezek 18:31-32, "Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore turn and live!"Ezekiel 18:31-32 says that God is willing to give us a brand new heart. Only thing we need to do is turn. We have to turn from our evil ways and turn to Jesus. Jesus is calling all those who are heavy laden with sin, He says come and I will give you rest.Mat 11:28 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Would you like to get your heart problem fixed? Jesus can do that for you. Just ask Him to cleanse you with His blood. Ask Him to become your Savior and Lord. He will gladly do that. If you want to surrender your life to Jesus Please pray this prayer from the bottom of your heart.Lord Jesus I know that I am a sinner and I need you to take my sins away. Please Lord cleanse me with your blood. Wash me clean and make me a new person today. Please come into my heart. Lord Jesus you be my savior and Lord. In Jesus name I pray. Amen
Till this time you have read that, Gulshan Fatima was paralyzed at her left side when she was only 6 months old. Her mother died when she was an infant. Her father loved her so much that he took her to England for treatment but when they heard the disappointing words of doctor, "it has no cure", their hearts broke down. Her father encouraged her and said, "We will go to Mecca and knock the door of Allah, and he will heal you." So they went to Mecca and visited Ka'aba - the house of Allah. Even she kissed the cubical shape of ka'aba but to their utter despair nothing happened. To avoid her father's troubled look, she kept her face down. Then they visited Safa and Marva from where they bought Zamzam water. She bathed with that water but nothing happened. She and her father returned home heart broken. Next blow for her was, her beloved father's death!! But while she was so disturbed, she heard a low, gentle voice telling her to read about Jesus in Quran Sura Maryam. She started reading Urdu Quran and started praying, "O Jesus, Son of Maryam, heal me!! Three years later her prayers were answered with a marvelous vision of Jesus. Jesus personally came and healed her. From the very first day, she realized the growing opposition from her relatives and acquaintance. Three weeks later she got a Bible. While reading the Bible she discovered the amazing fact that the Lord's Prayer which was taught by Jesus to her in her vision was found in the Bible word by word. Later she realized that baptism was necessary according to the Bible, so she took baptism and she was given the new name Gulshan Esther. She was rejected by her family members. Then she heard that her sister was dying. She went to see her but by that time she was dead. But God had told her that her sister will not die but will live. The miracle happened exactly. She came back to life after 14 hours. But when Gulshan returned to her school, she found that she had no job any longer. She returned to her sister's home but soon Anis's husband told her to get out of his house. So Gulshan went to Rawalpindi as advised by Anis but she was trapped....*******Gulshan was puzzled hearing the door banged close behind her. She asked the lady near her, "what's going on, where is the job I have to do?" The lady said, "Job"? You are in jail like us, what have you done to be here?" Oh, she realized that the so called family friend has tricked her and put her in jail. She went to the gate and shook it and shouted but there was no answer. The lady again spoke and said, "no matter how much you shout, no one will get you out. You have to remain here until the trial or you have someone who can give bail and take you out. She started thinking, "how long I would have to stay here? Is being Christian a crime?" Of course being a minority is not a crime but her case was different. According to the Islamic Law she was a criminal. She also remembered that Anis promised to visit her soon. She looked at her bag and found that her Bible was still in it.She looked around and saw the dirty floor, dark and airless room without any windows. Other women were sitting on dirty mats oncold, hard, dirty floor wrapping themselves with as many clothes to protect themselves from the Himalayan cold. She realized that she would not be able to sleep in that environment. She sat during the whole night without sleep. Hygiene was a problem in that cell and it really bothered her a lot. The whole room was filled with very unpleasant smell of toilet and there was no proper washing facilities. One Picher water was for all the ten people for drinking and washing purpose. Food was not good at all and the language spoken by jailers were so bad which made her uneasy. Sometimes family members of fellow prisoners visited and gave them food, clean cloths etc. They distributed among themselves and ate the food bought by family members but they had no interest in Gulshan. So they never gave her anything. Very often she heard the screams of fellow prisoners beaten up by police and wondered would it be her fate too? She could not sleep nor eat anything on her first week of stay in jail. But the only consolation for her was her precious Bible which she read very often and great peace filled her soul. She read about Peter in Acts 12:6-8 and thought that he was also in the same condition as she was but they gave thanks and praise to God and rejoiced in Him. She also started thanking and praising God for her circumstances.Her fellow prisoners were obviously criminals who broke the laws of Govt. by shop lifting, being in gangs etc. One of the women among them had murdered her husband and so she was in that jail. Gulshan's silence and continually concentrating on her Bible increased their curiosity and respect toward her. Finally one day a youngish woman whose face was full of evil asked her, "What is this that you read with this much interest?" She told further, "You were reading this book for many days without paying attention toward anybody, so it may be good, what is it about?" Gulshan asked, "Do you really want to know what is in it?" She said, "Yes, anything to pass the time." Other women also stopped their gossips to listen to their conversation. Gulshan spoke about Jesus to those women. She held her Bible in her hand and said, "This is a mirror." But she was interrupted by one of the women, "How can it be a mirror, I think it is a book." She looked around to gather support from other women. Gulshan told her, Yes, it is a book which is also a mirror because it shows how we appear to God who is the judge of all." Other woman said with a cruel laugh, "Its not a good sight." Gulshan said, "You are right, because this book shows our real image and this book shows the evil things we do whom we call "Sin". Our sins are not good deeds in the sight of men or God. If we do something wrong, men punish us for our sin. God is holy so He should punish and condemn our sins more than any human being does. God does not like sin and the penalty of sin is death. That poor woman was listening very carefully. Gulshan continued her talks and said, "then you may be thinking that there is no way out or no escape for us and we must suffer the consequences of our sins. But the mirror shows that God deals with our sins in two ways. One way leads to death and the other way leads to life and we have to choose which way we would go. Kalsoum broke the silence of that room and asked, "how does the mirror do all these?" Gulshan quoted Mat 11:28 where Jesus said, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." and said, "This mirror shows us that God Himself provided a way for sinners to get forgiveness of their sins." They were listening to the arguments very carefully. One woman said, "We are all burdened with sin that's why we are here. No one can take away what we did." Gulshan explained to her the forgiveness of God from 1 John 1:8-9, "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." They all were very much moved by this and some of them had tears in their eyes. They told their willingness to know more about this so it was arranged that Gulshan would take Bible study for them everyday in the morning. Soon she saw changes in the women's lives. Seven of them repented from their sins and promised Gulshan that they will never commit any crime again. One of them was the murderer and two of them were pickpockets. Months passed by and three of them were taken for trial and they left that cell with tears because they were leaving Gulshan behind. One day Gulshan was taken out and sent to the room of superintendent where horrified Anis sitting with her friend who put Gulshan into jail. As soon as Anis saw Gulshan she threw her arms around her then she turned to the older woman and asked, "what was the crime of my sister, why she was in jail? Did she murder anybody?" The older woman said, "She became a Christian" Her tone gave an appearance as if this was the crime more grievous than murder. Anis told her, "It is her personal belief and she found the truth. You cannot put a person in prison for this reason." The older woman had nothing to say so she said, "If you want you can take her home." Anis turned to Gulshan and said, "You must come with me home, right now."Gulshan said, "Why I should come to your home, this place is better than your home." Anis looked hurt and said, "Why you said like this?" Because your husband insulted Jesus and the cross but these women in jail at least listen to me and I can do some valuable work among them." Anis told her, "I also love Jesus and want to learn more about Him." She also told that her husband met with an accident the same day Gulshan left her home and because of it he had to stay in hospital for more than one month. My husband gave permission to bring you home, he will not do anything against you, she said. Within one hour she was in Anis' home and was thinking how long it will last? Anis' husband was more polite to her than before. Once again Anis and Gulshan had enough time to study the Bible. They read the Bible two to three hours everyday until Anis grasped the basic concept of the Bible and Christianity. Anis told later that, "Bible is very simple to understand and its verses bring peace and solace in my heart. She also said that she felt the presence of Jesus whenever she read the Bible or study the Bible." Gulshan explained to her that, "where two or three people gather together Jesus comes among them and also about the Holy Spirit who is the teacher with us." Blund Shah was not very happy with his wife's new faith. Very often he teased her saying, "Why do you go and tell everybody that Jesus raised you from the dead? He ask her not to tell. Many visitors came to meet Anis and her husband but always men and women sat on different drawing rooms or verandah and Gulshan did not like it. She thought about the unifying character of Jesus Christ and the freedom in Christianity. In the month of November Gulshan heard the news that Blund Shah was going to Lahore for his bus business and will stay there for weeks so everyone should go with him and stay in the house of Alim Shah the younger brother of Gulshan. When Anis told her, Gulshan said, "I am not coming with you to Lahore because Alim Shah's doors were shut for her as she is a Christian now. Anis was about to cry, then she said, "come with me, if Alim Shah will not let you in, I will take a rented house and I will stay with you."So Gulshan went with them on Nov. 28th. When they reached Alim Shah's home Gulshan could not believe her ears what she heard. Alim Shah welcomed them and said, "I am pleased to see you. You are most welcome in my home." Gulshan was given a nice bedroom and a maid servant. Alim told her, "you can take my car and go any where you want to go as I told my driver to take you to your friends." On Sunday morning she called driver and went to the Methodist Church. People greeted her warmly and minister shook her hand but no one asked about her whereabouts so she did not reveal her problems to anybody. Four months later one morning as Gulshan was sitting on a chair and praying to God and on other hand she had her Bible opened she heard some noise so she opened her eyes and found Alim Shah sitting in front of her with a smile on his face. She got tensed and some thoughts went through her mind. Alim Shan smiled and said, "I hope you are happy in my home with my wife and children and servants do not give any trouble to you." Gulshan said, "I am very happy in your home." "We love you very much and we want you to stay with us. We are building a bungalow for you in Gulberg, said Alim Shah" He continued, "I am going to visit Mecca, Medina and Islamic countries, are you coming with me?" Gulshan replied, "I have no problem coming with you but it will not make any difference in my faith." As soon as she finished her words, Alim jumped and took her Bible and stared at the open pages of the Bible and said, "Give me this Bible and I will send it to Bible Society so that you may not read the Bible. Give up the Bible reading and Church going and I will give you whatever you want. She spoke the Psalms 119:105, "Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path." This is the word of God and it shows me which is the right way and which is wrong, I cannot give up this book, it is part of my life, Gulshan said." She saw the angry face of Alim Shah and quickly added, "I cannot give up going to Church because Church is the house of God. Bridegroom is coming to take His bride and bride is getting ready for His coming." He jumped up and threw the Bible on the face of Gulshan and said, before next morning leave my home, I do not want to see your face."No one came to her that day in her room. The atmosphere was heavy and her heart was sad. Her sister-in-law did not say a single word to her, her brother was not there and there was no word from her sister Anis and family. With saddened heart she packed her bag with four or five dresses which was made for her by Anis. As she was going toward corridor she saw Safdar Shah coming. It was long time, she did not see him. She was about to greet him with smile but she was terrified when she saw his face and saw him carrying a gun. He took her by wrist and pulled her to the basement. He instructed, "sit here without moving." Then he went to call Alim Shah, there was dead silence in home. Gulshan looked at her brothers cruel faces, her heart was pounding and legs got numb without any strength but she remained sitting on the sofa trying to be calm. Safdar Shah passed the gun to Alim Shah and said, "Finish this curse on the family." Alim took the gun and brought to her head, with no respect he asked, "Why you want to die? Why don't you say that you do not accept Jesus as Son of God and that you may stop going to Church. If you do so, I will not kill you and you will live." His face was filled with hatred. Her father's commandment for them to love her sister had vanished from them though his father never might have thought of this type of crisis in their family. It was a terrible moment for Gulshan. She never showed any disrespect for her brothers as the Muslim custom until Jesus came to her life. She asked, "Is there any guarantee that if you will not shoot me then death will not come to me? Quran says that once a person is born in this world has to die one day. Go ahead and shoot me because I will not mind being killed for the name of Christ." She quoted the Bible verse saying, "It is written in the Bible, "He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live."(John 11:25)The gun wavered and dropped. Safdar Shah said, "You do not want to kill this Christian, she is already a curse on our home, throw her out." So they pushed her upstairs and on the way out she picked her bag from hall. She remembered the verse from the Bible, Isaiah 54:17, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD.To be continued....
A while back, I had requested Sherly to pray for my visit to the doctor For most part, it was OK. I still have to do some more blood tests, which I hope to get done perhaps tomorrow, or in the next few days. Please continue praying for me, so that God can heal me completely and also for my anxiety and fear to disappear. Thanks and God bless you!Jacob
The look and feel of your journal has greatly improved. It makes me read it from beginning to end, though the contents seem to be a little too lengthy. Pls. continue the good work..With regards,Joseph
As the Bible says in Ezekiel 22:30 "So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it." And also the Bible says in Numbers 16:48, "And he (Aaron) stood between the dead and the living; so the plague was stopped." We have fasting prayer every second Tuesday of each month. Our next fasting prayer meeting will be conducted on 16th Nov. 2015
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