HOPE
FINDING HOPE is connected to faith and love, but fear is connected to violence and the power others have over you. To have stability, courage, and strength in your life, you need a lifestyle that is balanced, real and true. Most people do not want you to know what is real and true, so they are hiding behind a façade while giving you false signals. For example, would all the products and services offered in the Media sell so well if the truth about them were known? And again, what about philosophies and religious faiths that do not satisfy your inner emptiness or answer your fears? Others gain advantage over you through falsehood and the temptations of lust. However when faith is based on reality and tempered with love, then there is hope for this life and the one hereafter.
If you compare all religions, you will find that you are required to follow a set of works to gain acceptance by their god or demon masters. They can not give true hope, because they do not have an adequate answer to one vital question. How can the clean come out of the unclean? Our lives are full of the unclean and our guilty hearts prove it. If you were able through great efforts and good works to not error again, how would you get rid of your old guilt's and get your slate clean?
The true Master to follow is one who can provide Divine forgiveness based upon full payment for all your faults and guilt's. Since the Creator God knows that you have a bent toward selfishness at the expense of others, he has provided a way that His holy and pure Law can be satisfied. God sent his Son, Jesus Christ, in unique circumstances to save us from spiritual death by paying for our wrongs and making our hearts clean before God. Bible Writers in their day put the message of hope this way: "and you, with the help of wicked men, put him (Jesus) to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him." (Acts 2:22-24 NIVUS) "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off-- for all whom the Lord our God will call." (Acts 2:36-40 NIVUS) GO TO "THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION." Click on CONNECTION.
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