FAITH OF OUR FATHERS

FAITH OF OUR FATHERS

Faith of our fathers living still

in spite of dungeons, fire and sword.

Our fathers chained in prisons dark

were still in heart and conscience free.

Faith of our fathers, we will love

both friend and foe, in all our strife.

And preach Thee too, as love knows how,

by kindly words and virtuous life.

Faith of our fathers, holy faith.

We will be true to thee ‘till death.

 

    The Bible is our guide-book.  God speaks to us.

    “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”  Jude 1:3 (NKJV)

    Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Matt. 28:19.

    “Satan realizes he can only get American society to topple one way: by taking the Holy Spirit out of the church and the fire out of Christ's followers.”  Charismamag

    “Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."  And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.” Acts 4:29-31 (NKJV)

    “And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).  And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.”  Rev 21:24-27 (NKJV)

 

    We gather together.

    “And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.”

1 Cor 12:26 (NKJV)

    “Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind . Every Christian is part of my own body, because we are members of Christ. What I do is also done for them and with them and by them. What they do is done in me and by me and for me. But each one of us remains responsible for his own share in the life of the whole body.” Thomas Merton

    We stand on the shoulders of those who lived before us.  And others will stand on our shoulders in the future.

  

    Tribulation? That's what Jesus said, John 16:33.

    “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."  John 16:33 (NKJV)

    “The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.”  ― Thomas Merton

 

    Sometimes we need a disaster to teach us who we are.

    “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.”  Rev 3:10 (NKJV)

     “Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.”  ― Thomas Merton

 

    Seek Victory, not defeat.

    “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”  ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

    “As a man thinketh, so is he.”  Proverbs 23:7

    It is right to oppose sin.  But by doing only this, we may be preaching defeat.  Remember: “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself “ (2 Cor 5:19-21).

 

    WE WIN!  “I looked in the back of the Book and we win!!!  The devil gets fried.  The Great Crowd of  people from all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, flood into the City of God to be with Him Forever!!!”

    “Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?"  And I said to him, "Sir, you know." So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”  Rev 7:13-14 (NKJV)