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Why Hasn't Jesus Returned? It is almost 2,000 years since Jesus said he would return for His body of believers, His church. Why hasn't He come back? We learn the reason why when we read the real answer written, for our understanding, in James chapter 5 verses 7 and 8. It is important that we keep working in our portion of the Kingdom of God and patiently wait for His return. Christians must wait expectantly, just like the farmer waiting for the harvest of His crop. The Lord patiently awaits the heavenly harvest not willing that anyone, who can be saved, will miss out being saved. However, we have God's promise of His near return. Huge numbers of born again Christians have gone to be with the Lord over the past 2,000 years. Many will shortly experience the wonder of His soon coming return, when He raptures and takes home His church to heaven!

You Are Forgiven! Every person alive on planet Earth, this very day, who repents and is genuinely sorry for their sins and is willing to accept Jesus Christ of Nazareth as their own Lord and Saviour, is then forgiven of all their sins. This we learn from Psalm 103 verses 2 to 4. Their spirit, their inner person, is then recreated by the Holy Spirit, in the likeness of God and becomes a new creation. They are a child of God and their destiny is eternal life, in heaven, forever. Their sins are blotted out and remembered no more, by God.

Live Securely! We read that God's children can live securely in the knowledge and safety of God's word, the Holy Bible. This we learn from Proverbs chapter 1 verse 33. Those who are obedient to God's will and purposes will have confident trust in Him and will also be at ease even during troublesome times. They will not have fear of Satan's deceptions, nor fleshly desires, nor the dread of evil, from the surrounding worldly activities. Their peace and safety will be in their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who is well able to keep them, in His hands.

Release God's People! Even though many hundreds of millions of people have heard the gospel, during the past two thousand years and have repented and have been saved, there are many more millions of people in the world, today, who still receive and accept the gospel of salvation and eternal life. We read from Exodus chapter 5 verse 1 that God commanded Moses to tell Pharaoh to let God's people, the Hebrews, to go free from their captivity in Egypt, three thousand five hundred years ago. There are many people, who are under spiritual bondage, this very day, who are seeking freedom and release from their slavery to sin. Those who are already God's children are the ones who are chosen by God, to witness to these lost children, whether singly or in groups or in great numbers. Only the salvation hope of Jesus Christ can release those who are willing to accept the revelation knowledge of the Holy Spirit, that enables them to have eternal release and freedom from sin.

We must acknowledge that we are sinners and are in need of God's forgiveness. When we do this we become crucified with Christ, because we are now His child. No longer should we or even dare live the life we once lived. Our old man, our inner person, has been crucified with Christ. It is now Christ who lives in us. God Almighty, through the Holy Spirit, lives in and contacts us through our inner person, our recreated spirit. The life I now live is by faith, in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. This we learn from Galatians chapter 2 verse 20.

It is essential that all Christians are willing to crucify or put to death in their flesh, all the lusts and desires of the flesh, the world and the Devil. No Christian can be truly sanctified for the Lord's use until they put to death the things of the world. As Christ was crucified in the flesh, so must we be willing to be crucified to every thing that is not of God. We must not be taken captive by the world and its evil satanic schemes, which have no part with God. Those who inherit eternal life are children of God, blood bought by the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. We must be willing to crucify those thoughts, that speech and deeds of evil that are part of the world.

To be a steadfast person you need to be a born again Christian, living in a world that is dominated by Satan and his demonic hosts. These evil beings are full of lies and deceptions that craftily keep non believers in the grip of darkness and without the knowledge and wisdom of the true Lord and Saviour of mankind, Jesus Christ, the righteous Son of God the Father. Once you become a Christian through repentance of your sins and the genuine acceptance of Jesus Christ, as your personal Lord and Saviour, as well as the recreation of your spirit, you become a person who is able to remain steadfast. When you repent the Holy Spirit recreates your spirit, to be like God. Only through a daily dedicated devotion to God's ways through the direction of the Holy Spirit, can a person remain steadfast and true to God's will and purposes for their life.

Evolution Is Man Made Foolishness. The foolish invention of man's imagination is the proposition of evolution. The theory of evolution was only proposed, in recent times, in the nineteenth century, by English scientist, Charles Darwin. It dates back little more than one hundred and fifty years. This false understanding is in direct opposition to the Holy Bible, which states, in the first chapter of Genesis, that El Shaddai, the Almighty God, created all the heavens and the earth – literally the entire universe! We read from Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 that God created the heavens and the earth. Evolution is more involved only with the physical form of things, particularly mankind. The spirit and the soul – the mind, the will and the emotions- is almost bypassed and the spiritual understanding of good and evil, is completely overlooked. In fact, it is not involved at all, with mankind being principally a spiritual being. As well it is almost completely based on a false or fake understanding of the physical body. The Holy Bible states that man was created as a tripartite being – spirit, soul and body. Mankind was created in the likeness of his Creator, God.

Listen Carefully, It is absolutely essential that your spirit is willing to listen to and obey the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit always will reveal to your spirit the true meaning of a verse, in God's word, the Holy Bible. According to Proverbs chapter 1 verse 33 a person, particularly a born again believer, must be willing to listen and to obey what the Holy Spirit is telling their spirit to do. This makes all the difference to a Christian, who understands God's will and purposes for their life rather than the one who misses fulfilling what God has created them, to do. Those who listen and obey will dwell safely and be secure from fear and evil consequences.

The New Testament Covenant - God's amazing New Testament covenant is between God the Father and His born again blood bought children. This covenant supersedes all previous covenants, that God made with mankind. It is far more embracing than God's previous covenants with Noah, after the flood; with Abraham and his descendants and with Moses and the children of Israel. This was a new covenant with each individual person who repents and is baptised as an everlasting child of God, by the Holy Spirit, into the true church, the body of Christ. It far surpasses in grandeur and extent God's previous covenants with mankind. This covenant secures everlasting relationship, through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, between God the Father and His recreated Spirit filled children.

Jesus Is Lord of All. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is Lord of all both in heaven, on earth and under the earth. Every Christian who is truly born again, through the Holy Spirit, must exalt Jesus, as their own personal Lord! He is after all the One who has redeemed you and all His born again children, from the sin and darkness of Satan's kingdom. This happened as soon as your recognition of Him and your repentance of the burden of sins, at that very point, you gained eternal life, as a child of God. From then on your destiny, forever, is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. What an incredible gift of His new life has been bestowed upon you, when you were resurrected from eternal damnation to sin!

We Are Redeemed Through His Blood. Romans chapter 5 verse 8 tells us that God demonstrates or shows His love towards mankind while they still live in the sin and degradation of the world. Christ died for us while we were yet in a fallen, sinful condition. When, through sin and its deeds, we were enemies of God and His righteousness, we were able to be reconciled to God. We were reconciled when Christ died on the Cross and His shed blood enabled all mankind to be saved. We were reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and saved for eternity by His life, abiding in us.

Life Is in the Blood. We read in Leviticus chapter 17 verse 11 that our physical life is in the blood. All human existence as well as all kinds of land animals, birds and fish, can only survive, because of a flow of blood through their bodies. Without our blood flowing through our physical bodies, the life of every human being would be extinguished, almost immediately. Our spiritual life is cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on our behalf, on the Cross at Calvary. It is the blood that cleanses us from sin and shame. No Christian can be born again and have eternal life without the remission of their sins and them obtaining forgiveness of sins through the precious blood of the Lord.

God dwells with the humble. We read and learn that the everlasting God lives and dwells within His people, who have a humble and contrite spirit. Isaiah chapter 57 verse 15 informs us of this wonderful and amazing fact. In doing so God is well able to revive the distressed spirit of mankind. These are those people who are overwhelmed with sorrow, by the burden of their sins, but are then enlightened and able to serve Him, with gratitude.

God Will Supply Your Needs. Luke chapter 11 verses 8 and 9 tells us about the man who was taken by surprise, late at night, by his friend, seeking food for his travelling friend. At first his neighbour told him to go away but because of his friend's need and persistence, he finally arose and gave him as much food, as he needed. We are to keep asking the Lord, in faith, believing, He will supply our needs. If we seek Him with all our hearts we shall surely find Him and if we keep knocking on God's door it will surely be opened to us. Persistent faith filled prayer always results in magnanimous, spirit filled answers, from the Lord.