Short Christian articles in English

PRAYER

“Living faith is impossible without prayer. It must be admitted that
the idea of prayer of modern people does not express its essence.
People think that you need to pray on holidays, and even in the
morning, in the evening, before meals, after meals; and they do not
know that prayer can be unquenchable, eternally warming in the depths
of a human being. Prayer has countless forms and contents, for it
accompanies a believer throughout his life.”

One day, I got into a conversation at a bus stop with an elderly
woman. We talked about our problems and also about our relationship
with God. She was somehow very calm, despite her worries of those
days. I have often noticed this state in elderly, deeply religious
people. Out of our entire conversation, I was surprised by her story
about her evening prayer. The fact is that she did not have a prayer
book, a collection of prayers, and she was worried about how correct
her appeal to God in prayer was.

Regretting this, she told me that she simply talks with God as with
the One who is very close to her, in whom she loves and in whom she
hopes. And I understood her that at this time nothing else exists for
her, she only tells Him about her life and consults with Him about
everything that worries her, rushing to Him with all her thoughts with
hope and love. And her words flow easily, as if someone is helping her
with this about the entire past day and its worries. She told Him what
she managed to do and what didn’t turn out the way she wanted. And she
asked Him about this, knowing that God would answer her. And she will
wait for His answer and the help for which she asks Him. Her entire
conversation was intertwined with words of gratitude and sometimes
tears. This was her prayer, which left in me the memory of her warmth
and deep trust in God. Our intimacy with God should never be
interrupted. We must ALWAYS REMEMBER that we are connected to God by
LOVE, His love for us and ours for Him.

LOVE AND MUSIC

Is it possible to talk about your love with music?
It turns out that it is possible when she is divine:
1) James Last "The Lonely Shepherd"
2) Chopin "Melody of Paradise"
3) Sole Mio Pavarotti and others
         
Should a husband fulfill his wife;s words?

Two interesting notes: At the beginning of the Bible it says that the
husband (Adam) fulfilled the words of his wife and ate the forbidden
fruit. Adam committed a sin and lost salvation, and in the end the
husband (Pilate) did not fulfill the words of his wife and also
committed a sin - he handed Christ over to execution. “As he sat in
the judgment seat, his wife sent him to say: “Do not harm the
Righteous One, for now I have suffered much for Him in a dream”
(Matthew 27:19).

Therefore, the head of the family must be guided by reason and make a
decision based on the advice of his wife, wisely. This is true? Yes,
this is true, because the head of the family, including for the wife,
according to the Bible, is the husband. The husband must understand
that if what the wife says is pleasing to the Lord, then it must be
done with gratitude for God and for the wife. But Pilate still
understood that Christ was from God and the advice from his wife was a
reminder to him to do what was pleasing to God. Eve, however, spoke,
unlike Pilate;s wife, what was displeasing to God. Yes, the wife is an
adviser. Sometimes this is a bad adviser, sometimes a good one. The
husband must take into account his wife’s words and make decisions. He
is responsible for these decisions. Consultation is necessary and
beneficial: “Discord comes from arrogance, but wisdom comes from those
who consult” (Proverbs 13:10).

The meaning of baptism, short text.

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“Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his
ministry” (Luke 3:23)
“According to Jewish tradition, a man reaches responsibility and
spiritual maturity at age 30, and only at this age can he begin to
teach and preach. This means that in matters of faith, adult society
did not respect or listen to the words of a person under 30 years
of age. Thus, here too the Lord Jesus Christ demonstrates great
humility and waits for his 30th birthday to legally begin his public
ministry" https://dzen.ru/a/ZCPWaGzpbAqL

Christ performed baptism as a necessary rite for believers in
order to become priests of God for all people on earth. The Son
of God showed people, while in the human body, an EXAMPLE
of fulfilling baptism for SERVING believers to God and people in
their upcoming, everyday life. Thus, baptism is a NECESSARY
rite of dedication of a BELIEVER for Christian SERVICE to God
and people.
And if the Birth from Again can take place up to the age of 30,
then baptism is intended to take place at the age of thirty and
older, ACCORDING TO THE EXAMPLE OF Christ. Christ is an example
for believers in everything, including at the age of
baptism NOT earlier than THIRTY years. “Whoever says that he
abides in Him must walk as He walked” (1John 2:6).

The question of the Lord;s decision to be baptized at the age
of thirty remains OPEN and here;s why: “Whoever says he abides
in Him must DO as He DID” (1 John 2:6). Every believer who
decides to perform baptism must FIRST repent before God!
Only repentance before God must be performed by every believer.
Otherwise the baptism will not be true. CONFESSION of sins to people
and church ministers CANNOT BE CONFUSED with repentance.
Baptism is intended only for the believer;s ministry in his life with
people, only for the fulfillment of his upcoming priesthood. The
Apostle Peter admonishes Christians, saying: “build yourselves
into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood.” (1 Peter 2:5). The
priesthood designates a ministry for every believer. Repentance
and Birth again always occur at the same time. The Holy Spirit
carries out the Birth from above and participates in repentance,
helps the believer, but the beginning of repentance is carried out
by the believer himself. Baptism is also carried out by the Holy
Spirit, but only for those who have fulfilled repentance and
received the Birth from above.

Of course, ministry includes bringing the Word of God to people,
but not only, since our actions in life often tell people more than j
ust our explanation of Bible truths. Therefore, the age of the
believer who is baptized is of great importance when serving
people, so people trust more adult preachers of the Word of God.
Therefore, the question of the Lord’s decision to be baptized at
the age of thirty remains OPEN and here’s why: “Whoever says he abides
in Him must DO as He DID” (1 John 2:6).

Why does God need people?

Why did God create people and why does God need people? Here is my
answer: FIRST reason LONELINESS is alien to God. The feeling of
loneliness is a very sad, bad state. Apparently, therefore, at the
beginning of all eternity, God created His Son and the Holy Spirit
through the separation of His essence. So God never had loneliness.
Later God created angels, and later the first people.

The SECOND reason is the joy of CREATIVITY. I realized this when I
worked as an engineer (designer).

THIRST for mutual love is the THIRD reason. If we love someone, we
always want to have love in return, that is, to be loved too. Mutual
love brings the highest happiness: both for God and for man. And all
this is inherent in God. Only people who love God, that is, those born
again, can be with God in eternity. The article “You must be born
again. The main commandment of God” speaks about this.
http://proza.ru/2022/11/07/276

Those who are born again receive the Holy Spirit from God into their
spirit, and therefore love. The Bible states that love is the Divine
state of man, the presence of God by His Spirit in us, the presence of
the Holy Spirit in man. “The love of God has been poured out into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (1 John 5:5).
The born again are children of God who love God and their love for God
is MUTUAL love for God, giving God joy and happiness.

PARABLE

I would like to give you a human parable. This parable is about our
lamentation and grumbling: One man came to God with a complaint that
his cross, his fate, was too heavy...The Lord takes him to the barn,
opens the locks, and there is a huge number of crosses - very
different: metal, wooden, carved , big, small and says: “Choose which
one you like.” The man was delighted, chose for a long time, tried it
on, tried it for weight, and finally brought out the thinnest and
lightest one and joyfully shouted: “Here, this one, why didn’t you
give it to me right away?” To which the Lord replies: “So this is your
cross.” At first I was delighted by the beautiful parable, but upon
coming to my senses I immediately realized that this parable was about
my entire past life. And bitter memories came and engulfed me, from
which there was no escape and nowhere to hide...

On the attitude of Christians towards non-believers and
people of other faiths
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The Bible verse is very important for the relationship of Christians
with people: “Try have peace with everyone and holiness, without
which no one will see the Lord.” (Heb. 12:14). Two questions about
peace are addressed here: peace with everyone and peace with
God and what it is.

1) In the relationship of Christians to people non-believers
and people of other faiths should be guided by the words
Gentlemen. In Mark 9:40, the Lord says to the disciples:
the Lord tells the disciples, “For whoever is not against you
 is for you.”
Any person who is not against me can treat me in two ways:
either he treats me friendly or indifferent. Both in this and in
Otherwise this person is not against me. He can be my friend
and comrade. People may not be close to each other, but they
are not enemies either.

2) For God, a person who don;t need God, cannot
be with God together.  Jesus talks about this in The Gospel
of Luke (11-23) says: “Whoever is not with Me is against Me.”
That is, a person of any other faith is responsible for the
correct your choice in life before God. Moreover, we
understand that no one will be condemned without hearing
he Word of Salvation from God, including children from
abortions. Despite all the bad things that the media gives
to the people of the land, through them, through the mass
publication of Bible books, through missionaries of the Word Salvation
extends "to theends of the earth."

God and fate

In one of the conversations about life, my reader asked me:
“According to my concepts, the years of life on Earth are
determined by Fate. “CAN a person decide for himself or at
someone else’s direction to live or die if the heart stops working?”

ANSWER: Only God can. “Are not two little birds sold for an assar?
And not one of them will fall to the ground without the will of your
Father; but even the hairs of your head are all numbered”(Matth10:29-30).
 God knows everything, including the future of man according to His
Divinity and foreknowledge. No other DIVINE exists except God. The
word fate was invented by people when they could not understand the
reasons for what was happening in their lives.

Wikipedia: “Fate is the totality of all events and circumstances that
are predetermined, the predetermination of events, actions; fate, a
higher power that can be thought of as nature or a deity, rock, fate,
fortune,”
As I understand it, this word arose during the period of paganism,
when the sun was recognized as a deity, etc. Everyone who believes
in fate, by their concept, denies the existence of God the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.

“The main features of Slavic paganism as a worldview are considered to
be the spiritualization of nature, cults of ancestors and supernatural
forces, the idea of the constant presence of the latter and their
participation in human life, developed lower mythology, the idea of the
ability to influence the state of affairs through primitive magic.

Foundation of the Christian Faith
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When a person does not need God, then he cannot become a believer.
Believers build their relationship with God on the basis of love,
not self-interest. All believers were non-believersfor some
time, but became believers and changed their faith
towards God. If a person realizes that he has made a mistake
in his beliefs, then he should not be afraid to abandon them.

To say that a person changed his beliefs because of gain
when he became a believer is this is of course disgusting.
So, THOSE WHO NEED God become children of God.
This is understandable based on the earthly family, when
children love their father. Likewise, among Christians, faith
is not based on profit, but is the result of love for God.

Reincarnation theory

Gennady: I once asked a follower of the theory of reincarnation, what
does the transmigration of souls give a person? He answered me:
perfection. I asked: How can you tell me that I was someone else?
He: According to individual memories: you accidentally hit your head
against the wall and start remembering whether this happened to you
somewhere in a past life.

Gennady: Yes, I hit myself somehow, but I
don’t remember anything like that in a past life, and I don’t remember
anything about this life, maybe I need to hit myself a few more times?
He: this is not given to everyone, but only to the gifted.

I realized that I was not one of the gifted, but still asked again: If
I do not have the memory of the entire past, and therefore the past
mind, then this speaks of the death of a person, but you assure that
the person continues to live. However, why does a person need to die
every time in order to become better? Maybe it would be better to
improve during life? Then may your God simply lengthen your life for
this. He: don’t do too much philosophy, remember more, maybe you’ll
remember something, not everyone is given this.

Gennady: then I have one more question for you. A person can turn into
an animal after death: a mosquito or a pig? He: yes, why not? Gennady:
Here is a man who was a professor during his lifetime, and then he was
reincarnated as a pig, and now he will receive more perfection?
He: maybe a person will correct his shortcomings during his life as a
pig.

Gennady: will being a pig help him do this? He: I don’t want to
talk with you, because your examples are somehow bad, since a
professor can become not only a pig, but also another animal, and he
can also remain a human.
Gennady: Thank you very much, I liked your last words, that the
professor may not be a pig and will remain a man. At this point we
parted.


Why did God give birth to the Son, but why did he not give birth to
the Holy Spirit?!

We have a misconception about the birth of the Son of God and the time
of His life in the unknown former eternity, and this happens to us
when we read the Gospel of John 3:16, where it is said that the Son of
God is the “only begotten” Son. Much, of course, is unattainable for
our understanding, but what is necessary for us to understand
everything contained in the Bible is explained by this word. And we
say that God has only one Son and that the Heavenly Father begat His
Son. The word BIRTH explains to people the relatedness with God, but
does not say at all that God gave birth to the Son like the birth of a
human woman.

It is difficult for people to understand how a father can give birth
to a child, since a woman-mother gives birth to children. The answer
to this is given to us by the Bible, its beginning, where it is said
that God created woman from the rib of a man. God took part of a man's
flesh and from that part he created another man. Nothing is impossible
with God, and therefore we can say that this part helped the creation,
since it contained the necessary data for this. God created His Son
from Himself. God the Son is a part separated by God. Likewise, the
Holy Spirit is a part separated by God from Himself. The essence of
Everyone has its own direction in being. But all Three are separate
Persons, united in Their actions according to the Will of the Heavenly
Father.

The Son of God and the Holy Spirit are each God in their essence, but
all creating according to the will of the Father. However, the Bible
does not say that God BEGOTTEN the Holy Spirit and here is why this is
so: God separated the Holy Spirit differently from the separation of
the Son.
The Son, upon separation from the Father, received His Body, Soul and
Spirit of God. Holy Spirit upon separation from the Father received
part of His body and part of His Soul, but God’s Spirit remained
common with the Father and the Holy Spirit, not separate. The Son of
God is completely separated from the Father, not only by Body and
Soul, but also by the Spirit of God.
The Holy Spirit, as a Person, is known to us according to the
Scriptures by many of His actions, including these:

1) The Spirit intercedes for believers, demonstrating independent
activity, which means it thinks and has reason. Example: Rom.8:26,27.
2) The Spirit gives Gifts to believers (1 Cor. 12:11), “dividing as He
pleases,” that is, according to His MIND and WILL, which He has.
3) Has emotions, may be upset by our insults, and the Apostle calls us
not to do this (Eph. 4:30.
4) An unbeliever can reject the Spirit, resist Him (Acts 7:51) and
quench Him (1 Thess. 5:19). He is offended (Heb. 10:29). He teaches,
instructs, leads and directs, and is a COMFORTER for believers (John
chapter 16).