A Great Catechism

1. Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?

A. That I, with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful saviour Jesus Christ

a foolish cross?

I was e-mailed this quote yesterday:

"[o]f all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to?"

then remembered what God said:

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing" 1 Corinthians 1v18.

We see that opponants of the cross are fulfilling the Bible

"Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?"
1 Corinthians 1v20

Samuel is a type of Christ

1 Samuel 2v26 - "Now the young man Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favour with the Lord and also with man"

Luke 2v40 - "And the child (Jesus) grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favour of God was upon him"

Luke 2v52 - "And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man"

Now we just need to work out who Samuel was/ what he did

Eternal life in John 3

Was looking at Jesus today in John chapter 3.

3v3 Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God"

3v4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?"

3v5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

3v6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit"

3v7 "Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again'"

3v8 "The wind blows where it wishes, and you here its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit"

3v14-15 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life"

3v16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life"

3v36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him".

So after the name of the mission I am about to go on. CHOOSE LIFE!