Quill of Bill

2011-09-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

Recently I have been asked what our duty or responsibility is. After doing a little reading I came across this scripture, I believe it states it all:

¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)

It is so simple, do you love God?

then this is what God says about that: "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15)

We then usually ask, which ones?

What do you think?

2011-03-30T14:47:00.000-07:00

Your life may be the only Bible people read

How I came to find the Lord...

2008-01-24T12:00:00.000-08:00

I feel compelled to relay my testimony for all to read. I am truly joyed at the thought that Christ died for me.

On July 6 2001 when I responded to a domestic dispute… a man with a “gun” at a local convenience store. I was to be first on scene.

I heard Chief Gurr arrive on scene, as I pulled up, I heard gunfire. It was over as I exited; the Chief was dead. He had taken my place.

I took the gift God had given me for granted and crumpled it away like a piece of used paper to be tossed into the garbage. I thought salvation could be tailored to suit my lifestyle… I thought I could live as I wanted. I realized I was wrong… on 1 January 2005 I was involved in a one vehicle accident.

If I had died on this day, I would be in Hell.

Since then I have picked up my Bible and not looked back.

I was led to Christ through my beautiful wife and my oldest son.

I thank God for His patience and for His forgiveness.

Thanksgiving

2007-11-22T18:45:00.000-08:00

In this time of thanks giving we need to remember who to be thankful for the most. In my opinion we should all be thankful for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I am especially thankful for these simple words, “…I have finished the work which though gavest me to do” (John 17:4).

The greatest note of triumph that ever sounded in the ears of this universe was sounded on Calvary, with Christ upon the Cross – “it is finished”. This is the last word in the Redemption of man.

Anything that belittles the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ. We must never allow the thought that Jesus Christ stands with us against God out of pity or compassion. Neither should we preach on forgiveness or that our Father loves us and will forgives us because He loves us. This would make the Cross unnecessary and the Redemption “much ado about nothing”. If God does forgive sin it is because of the Death of Christ. God could forgive men in no other way than by the death of His Son…Jesus. Jesus is exalted to be Savior because of His death. Christ has given himself, God has given himself…these simple words are quite possibly the most inspirational, the most desirable, and definitely the sweetest melody we can imagine…”it is finished”

A Mansion in Heaven for me?

2007-11-10T16:40:00.000-08:00

A Mansion in Heaven for me?

The most common answer is, yes. God provided for Job when he was faithful, God provided for Abraham when he was faithful. God provided for both of these men for following His commandments. God also provided riches for many other prophets and/or kings when they followed his commandments. God provided immeasurable amounts by today’s standards to all these men.

However, we must keep in mind that these examples are all in the Old Testament. They lived the standards of the Old Testament (blood atonements and/or sacrifices for their sins and/or trespasses).

In the New Testament we are no longer held or required to sacrifice animals for our sins. Jesus Christ (our Lord and Savoir) has taken it upon Himself to pay for our sins. He has paid the ultimate price for each of us.

Jesus also gave us some new instructions in the New Testament about money and homes or houses. In Matthew (6:19-20) and John (14:2-3) we are given examples that we do not need a home here unless this is where we want to live, subjecting our homes to “where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal” (Mat 6:19, KJV).

We need to build ourselves a home; we must allow God to build our mansion in heaven (John 14:2-3) where all is safe. We need to place our trust in Jesus, not in man. Jesus Christ already has a mansion for us with Him; it is up to us to fill it.

However, if we as man are still desirous to have all the money we can and let money (or earthly desires, which are ruled by Satan) and they wish to build their grand homes and receive their lush rewards here on earth. Then these individuals who make this choice need to be prepared to live up to the Old Testament standard i.e. 10+ commandments given in Exodus and Deuteronomy. This is a tough standard to say the least. I know of only one man that was able to manage this standard successfully, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

As for me I will allow Christ to build my home, my mansion. I choose to follow Christ and accept His death and resurrection, His suffering, His pain as may wage for my sin. As for the rest of you which scoff at this, I hope and pray you too will see the way. Until then I hope you have a large supply of unblemished sacrificial livestock at your disposal.

In His Loving Arms...

2007-10-11T06:03:00.000-07:00

When we start to go astray why do we always want to go it alone? why do we forget that God is there for us, to hold us in His arms, to protect us from harm if we only allow him.

Many times in life as we face various struggles we lose our focus. Unfortunately this just compounds our struggle. If we do not remember that God, loves us. Then we will eventually lose our faith in Him...thoughts of doubt, seeds of doubt will creep in.

Paul addresses this in Romans 8:28-39, God let us know (through Paul) that we have sanctification through him, and that He loves us very much. "who shall separate us from the love of Christ" (v35), nothing height, nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

the next time you are struggling with anything in life, tribulation distress or persecution, peril, famine or sword remember that you are in, His Loving Arms.

Weeds

2007-10-09T07:50:00.000-07:00

Where do weeds come from? As gardeners we really don't know. They seem to just magically appear in the garden growing wildly choking out our fruit producing plants, seemingly from nowhere and nothing.

In life we also have weeds that grow. However, here we can actually see where they come from. They come from seeds sown when we go astray from the teaching of our Lord and Savior.

Satan is the great weed seed planter. He enjoys planting seeds of doubt, seeds of deceit, seeds of pride, seeds of lust.....

We need to be aware as we go through life that even though Satan may spread his seeds everywhere that these seeds are different...if they are hit with Light...they whither and die and do not become weeds in our lives.

We cannot place all the blame on Satan. Once the seeds are planted, we are the ones which allow the seed to germinate and become a weed in our life...just the same we can choose to pluck this weed as soon as it sprouts, and leave it on the Cross. Do not let Satan choke out your life in Christ...don't let Satan lead you astray away from the eternal life promised and gained.

How many weeds will you let grow...?

don't know what happened

2007-09-28T12:15:00.000-07:00

I recently lost my blog page. I am not certain what I had to do to get to this point, but I have no blogs here they were all erased. Positive thing about this is I can re-write some of them

Thanks

Bill