Amazing Facts – Session 15

www.bibleuniversity.com/Video/CourseID2/NR15.asx

• All that live godly will suffer persecution
• If you’re not under persecution, you’re probably not much of a threat to the devil.
• The more persecution the church endures, the more pure it becomes because the ungodly are removed because they are not able to withstand the persecution.
• Christianity started, and Satan tried plan A (kill them all).  Then he had to resort to plan B – if you can’t kill them on the outside, kill them from the inside.
• A ‘day’ in prophecy is a year in time
• The 3.5 yr tribulation was from 538 to 1798 (Napoleon took the pope captive and Roman Catholic Church lost control of the Christian community)
• The pope claims infallibility
• RCC teaches that Mary was sinless and was a mediator between God and man, sacrifices Jesus every mass, bows and prays in front of images and statues, saints and priests are only special castes in the RCC community, all Christians cannot and should not know they have eternal life, calls priests ‘father’, teaches purgatory (no where in scripture), forbade Christians to read the Bible during the dark ages
• The first man to state that the RCC was the antichrist was a pope, pope Gregory

[My sister] moving in with [her boyfriend]

I heard from mom today that [my sister] has now reconsidered and is now decided to move in with [her boyfriend].  Evidently, she and [her boyfriend] weren’t on the same page, which [my sister] had said that he was fully supportive, so he got upset when she confirmed with him that he understood what her decision was.  In the end, it appears she decided to move in with him anyway because that’s what her heart told her to do.

It’s very important to understand that our hearts are not honest with us.  We are created with a sinful nature – our very being is of sin.  Our heart, therefore, will lead us astray.  We need to prepare our minds so that when we are faced with temptation of the heart, we already know what we have decided to do.

In Step With God

He created us for one purpose, and that is to have fellowship with Him.

In Step With God

Do you know who God is?  Do you know something personal about Him that goes beyond what you have learned while sitting in church or having conversations with a friend?  Do you know His ways?

Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.