Word for the week - John 1:6 03.08.22
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” I think just about everyone knows someone called John. But do you know the meaning of his name? John's family naturally thought he should be called after his father Zacharias - a priest, but it was Zacharias who wrote on his tablet "He is called John," (Luke 1:63). John means 'God is gracious,' very suitable for a man who was sent to announce the greatest display of grace this world has seen,'for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ,' John 1:17. While John was sent from God like the Christ He would announce, John would be gracious enough to point out the glorious difference - 'He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.' John 1:15. Jesus Christ the majestic subject of this Gospel is the eternal Word and has no beginning unlike John. That is why Zacharias said of his son, 'And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins," The next time you meet someone called John remember how gracious God is in providing salvation for guilty sinners who never deserved it, (for by grace are ye saved through faith) who could never earn it, (it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast, Eph 2:8,) - but who all need it if they are ever to be in Heaven. Jonathan Black 
TEN FAMOUS ATHEISTS’ LAST WORDS:
1. ANTON LaVEY—Author of the Satanic Bible and high priest of the religion dedicated to the worship of Satan. One of his famous quotes was: “There is a beast in man that needs to be exercised, not exorcised”. His dying words were: "Oh my, oh my, what have I done, there is something very wrong. . . there is something very wrong.” 2. SIR THOMAS SCOTT—Chancellor of England: "Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty." 3. CAESAR BORGIA—Italian nobleman, politician, and cardinal: "While I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared to die." 4. THOMAS HOBBS—Political philosopher: "I say again, if I had the whole world at my disposal, I would give it to live one day. I am about to take a leap into the dark." 5. THOMAS PAINE—The leading atheistic writer in American colonies: "Stay with me, for God's sake; I cannot bear to be left alone , O Lord, help me! O God, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter? I would give worlds if I had them, that The Age of Reason had never been published. 0 Lord, help me! Christ, help me! No, don't leave; stay with me! Send even a child to stay with me; for I am on the edge of hell here alone. If ever the Devil had an agent, I have been that one." 6. VOLTAIRE—famous anti-christian atheist: "I have swallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with the incense that turned my head. I am abandoned by God and man.” He said to his physician, Dr. Fochin: “I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months of life." When he was told this was not possible, he said “Then I shall die and go to hell!" His nurse said: “For all the money in Europe I wouldn’t want to see another unbeliever die! All night long he cried for forgiveness.” 7. DAVID HUME—Atheist philosopher famous for his philosophy of empiricism and skepticism of religion: He cried loud on his death bed "I am in flames!" It is said his desperation was a horrible scene. 8. CHARLES IX—The French king. Urged on by his mother, he gave the order for the massacre of the French Huguenots, in which 15,000 souls were slaughtered in Paris alone and 100,000 in other sections of France, for no other reason than that they loved Christ. The guilty king suffered miserably for years after that event. He finally died, bathed in blood bursting from his veins. To his physicians, he said in his last hours: "Asleep or awake, I see the mangled forms of the Huguenots passing before me. They drop with blood. They point at their open wounds. Oh! That I had spared at least the little infants at the bosom! What blood! I know not where I am. How will all this end? What shall I do? I am lost forever! I know it. Oh, I have done wrong." 9. JOSEF STALIN—Soviet Georgian revolutionary and politician. In a Newsweek interview with Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin, she told of her father's death: "My father died a difficult and terrible death. . .God grants an easy death only to the just. At what seemed the very last moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and cast a glance over everyone in the room. It was a terrible glance, insane or perhaps angry. His left hand was raised, as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. The gesture was full of menace. . .the next moment he was dead." 10. GANDHI—At his death, he said, “For the first time in 50 years, I find myself in the slough of despond. All about me is darkness. . .I am praying for light.” Compare these last words from atheists, with these last words, from these saints of God: THE APOSTLE PAUL: “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:” AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY (1710-1778): Toplady will ever be famous as the author of one of the most evangelical hymns of the eighteenth century, “Rock of Ages,” which was first published in 1776. During the final illness, near his last, awaking from a sleep, he said: “Oh, what delights! Who can fathom the joy of the third heaven? The sky is clear, there is no cloud; come Lord Jesus, come quickly!” He died saying:”No mortal man can live after the glories which God has manifested to my soul.” Compiled by Jonathan Black / www.neverthirstagain.co.uk |
JUBiLEE LINESTANMOREThe end of the line... What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 1 Peter 4:17 DISTRICT LINEMANSION HOUSEA mansion in Heaven or a man in hell? In My Father's house are many mansions... John 14:2 UNDERGROUND QUESTIONS
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THE GREATEST MISTAKE IS
FOLLOWING THE CROWD
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Prov 14v12
JESUS SAID 'I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME. JOhn 14:6
IF YOU WERE TO DIE TODAY, WHERE WOULD YOUR SOUL BE? HEAVEN OR HELL? THIS IS THE ULTIMATE QUESTION. YOUR ANSWER WILL DEPEND ON WHAT YOU DO WITH JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD. GOD HAS DONE EVERYTHING TO SAVE YOU FROM HELL THAT IS WHY CHRIST SUFFERED SO MUCH ON THE CROSS. BELIEVE ON THE Lord JESUS CHRIST AND YOU WILL BE SAVED TODAY. Acts 16:31
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