Let’s enjoy the song, I live, I breath.

I hope you enjoyed the song.

Have you heard of the famous Filipino sayings “kasabihan”?Tumalon pag bag taon para tumangkad

(Jump during New Year’s eve so you will become tall) How many of you did that? lol… It’s genetics that plays a role in how tall we can be

We can be sincere, but end up proven sincerely wrong about the things we got used to believing.

Being shared at church right now is having a Right Foundation to progress in our christian life. Please allow me to share the notes I took.

The first foundation we need to have is to have Repentance. A changed mind that leads to a change in action. A change in lifestyle.

What is Repentance? It is a change of thought and action to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged.

Repentance is different from remorse or regret.

Let us read 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (New International Version)10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 11See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Do you remember the story of Adam and Eve when they ate the fruit from the Tree of life? After eating what God said is forbidden, they had shame in their hearts and covered themselves. What did God do? He killed an animal and covered them.

Because Man, you and I fell into sin, we need to repent and be forgiven. We can’t clean and just cover up our sins. What has to happen is for someone to die for us and cover our sins for us. It’s what Jesus Christ did for us.

Dirty laundry goes where? to the Washing Machine. Dirty clothes can’t clean themselves. We can’t clean ourselves too. We need the blood of Jesus Christ to clean us, by faith. In the presence of God, there is true forgiveness. We don’t need to do things to earn forgiveness, we just have to have faith.

No good works will ever outweigh the bad things we have done.

Isaiah 64:6 (New International Version)6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

ALL our righteous acts are like filthy rags. It is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is what will free us from all kinds of guilt and shame. It’s about accepting the love of God that he sent his one and only son for you and I so we can be forgiven and be guilt free.

How many of you dream of wanting that you can wake up and things just be new again? Guess what, you can have that today. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can save us and free us.

Have you tried the Stationary Bike? How many of you agree that no matter how hard and long you stride on these bikes, you are not gonna get anywhere? Yes, you will get tired and lose some fats and calories, but still you are in the same place.

What will get you to the place of God’s best, is what Christ has done, not what you can do. The right foundation to achieve maturity in the spirit and be strong in this life is to have a foundation of Repentance first and foremost and having faith in God.

Instead of being in a spiritual stationary bike state, be on a pedicab, sit back and let God do the driving.

One wife asked his husband: Do you love me? he answered Yes. and she asked Why? He said, I love you, period! (No conditions!) We are so used to works mentality, that we get uneasy to come across unconditional love. We are used to doing to earn love,instead of doing because we love. It’s  not what we can do, but what he has done. Jesus did die for us because he loves us, not because we did something that earns his love.

It is done, it is finished.

Receive the gift of life and freedom today! Let us repent from our old ways and have faith in God.

*This is not my personal sharing but notes on the preaching shared at Victory Christian fellowship at UP. I wrote it here so you may be blessed as it has blessed me. You are welcome to learn with me, try visiting our church’s website and listen to the Word

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite