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Chat Notes for Friday, March 20, 2015 "Let's Chat About What's Approvable . . . FTLOG Who should come first in your life? Chatting with Jesus.  Choosing Jesus Remember to send your questions to barringtonbrenne@gmail.com Or WhatsApp at 477 4002   Dear students, it has been a wonderful week chatting with you. I have been blessed and I hope you have been blessed. Today’s topic is Let’s Chat About What’s Approvable. . . FTLOG (For The love of God) Who should come first in your life? This morning we are having a baptism at the Berea Seventh-day Adventist Church, just down the road. I am going to make another appeal this morning. The first one will be for everyone. It does not matter if you are an Adventist, Baptist, Catholic, Church of God. I will an appeal for a serious commitment for Godly living--a life of sexual purity, social purity, spiritual purity. I will not be asking you to tell me anything about what you did or didn’t do. Responding to the appeal will not mean that you have done anything wrong. It may only mean a public commitment to live a Godly life. Listen as I sing this old-fashioned song “No ever cared for me like Jesus.” I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus, Since I found in Him a friend so strong and true; I would tell you how He changed my life completely, He did something that no other friend could do. No one ever cared for me like Jesus, There's no other friend so kind as He; No one else could take the sin and darkness from me, O how much He cared for me. Ev'ry day He comes to me with new assurance, More and more I understand His words of love; But I'll never know just why He came to save me, Till some day I see His blessed face above. No one ever cared for me like Jesus, There's no other friend so kind as He; No one else could take the sin and darkness from me, O how much He cared for me Perhaps the most power message and most favorite Bible test is John 3:16. Let us repeat together.  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. God’s infinite love was demonstrated on Calvary. How can we ignore that, young people? Here are four reasons why you should choose Jesus first today. I got a few of these from “The Easy Bible” official website: Because he first loved us. Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus loves us no matter what we have done. He takes us a molds us and changes us. Anybody, at anytime, in any place, under any condition. Because Jesus fixes things that are broken. Jesus is sick and tired of our mess but he is not giving up on us. He wants to fix us. We are all broken. We are all sinners. Listen to what Romans 1:22-32 says about our brokenness: 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. Because our choices have consequences. At some point, each of us must stand before God and answer how we chose to live our lives. Our choices have consequences. We know that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life. But we also know that John 10:10 say this about Jesus: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Because Christianity and Christ is the best answer. All other religions can stand the test and rigors of this world, only Christianity. Why, because it has Jesus and something more.  Here is why the online site shares: "Buddhism blames all our problems on ambitions. Give up all your desires and achieve Nirvana. I say, if you give up all your desires, you cease to be human. If I need to choose between God as a noble silence (Buddhism) and God as a loving Father (Christianity), I’ll take the Father any day of the week. I like having a God I can talk to, and One who just might talk to me. Hinduism teaches reincarnation, a try, try again religion where you never consciously face the consequences of your choices. That goes completely against my concept of justice. Islam means “submission.” God is judge. Absolute obedience is required. No relationship is possible. If you’re good enough, you earn your way to paradise. But how do you know if you’re good enough? Even the best person has faults. Why are one person’s faults tolerated and the next person’s are not? I don’t see a remedy for the flaws that infect every human being on the planet. Christianity offers grace. Christianity is founded on the premise that God loves humans so much that He became a human, that as a human He suffered and died to demonstrate how much He cares about us, and that He came back to life to demonstrate His power over death. The followers of Jesus Christ are taught that we don’t get connected to God because we do good, but rather we do good because we are connected with God."   Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast Chose Jesus today. Put him first in your life   Change my heart oh God Make it ever true Change my heart oh God May I be like You Change my heart oh God Make it ever true Change my heart oh God May I be like You You are the potter I am the clay Mold me and make me This is what I pray Change my heart oh God Make it ever true Change my heart oh God May I be like You   Home Questions Photos Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday