An Herald's Cry!

  Because you have chosen originality over the fakeness of life doesn't mean that the people who seek originality will always find you. Because you love God doesn't mean you will be Loved by everyone. In the last episode of my podcast (Heralds Hub), I talk about "rules", Those circumstances our subconscious has registered as "always true". Really, life happens. And I tell you. It is never predictable.  There's no special rule about how things goes or rather, there shouldn't be. But because what you expect doesn't align with what you get doesn't mean you should quit. Living original and in liberty of Christ is simply accepting both huddles and flat grounds with the same smile. You can't always be respected. You can't always be praised. You can't always be loved. You can't always be recommended. You can't always be trending. You service to God sometime may seem in vain because you do not get the results that you expect. But ...

 Is the Sermon On The Mount Meant for Everyone? The teaching of Jesus from Matt 5 up to Matt 7:28 is called “The Sermon on the Mount” because Jesus preached it on a mountain side. This sermon shows what Jesus meant when He commanded people to repent. It reveals what entering God's kingdom means, both in one's inner experience and outward behavior. It reveals principles which operate in the kingdom, and those things which exclude people from the kingdom. The sermon begins with the word “blessed”. So we can say the sermon sets forth the blessed life – who the blessed are and how they should behave. The blessed are those in the kingdom of heaven (Matt 5:3). This sermon does not give specific instructions as to how to enter God's kingdom but shows what sort of people are in it, and what they should seek to become and do. This sermon, for the most part, is for disciples of the Lord Jesus, not for everyone. However, it seems clear from Matt 7:28 that many other people besides H...

 The Wise Men Visits Jesus Here is the first time after Jesus came to earth that people of another nation and religion recognized His greatness and came to worship Him. The wise were the first of a great multitude to come. And i think there's much more wisdom in these wise men knowing that Christ is Lord and leaving their towns to find Him so that they can worship Him. What we know is that they were truly wise as they were wise enough to seek Jesus. They were wise enough to seek information. They were wise enough to worship Jesus when they found Him. Christ's Gospel is for all men. He is the Saviour of all who trust in Him, regardless of nationality and background. Notice the Wise men were not from Jerusalem and may have not been Jews. The wise men had to go to Jerusalem to seek information on where to find the Messiah. The religious leaders and scholars of Jerusalem knew that the Messiah would come and knew the place of His birth. But they made no effort, it seems, to find Him...

  The name “Jesus”, like the Hebrew name Joshua, means “the LORD (Jehovah) saves”. The word “Christ” is from the Greek language and means “anointed one”. Its meaning is the same as “Messiah” taken from the Hebrew.  The Messiah was to be anointed by God – that is, set apart and consecrated by God, to fulfill the promises of the Old Testament. He was to be prophet, king, and priest. According to the Old Testament the Messiah had to be a descendant of Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation, and of David, Israel's greatest king. To show that this was true of the Lord Jesus, Matthew gives this genealogy in Matthew 1 which shows how Jesus relates to David and Abraham by Ancestry.   Jesus as to His human nature was descended from David who lived a thousand years before Him, and from Abraham who lived nearly two thousand years before Him. The women whose name showed up on this genealogy (Rahab, Bethseba and Ruth) teaches us of God's wonderful grace and mercy towards sinful peop...