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Cheap Grace - July 27, 2010
SFU -- The University of Prayer - January 06, 2010
Greater Things - April 29, 2010
The Birth - December 12, 2009
Flame Jumpers - March 30, 2010
Worshiping Gad - February 08, 2010
Worshiping Gad - February 08, 2010
Bible Burners - March 30, 2010
Set Your House in Order - October 18, 2009
Who Is Jesus? - February 05, 2009
The Truly Saved - December 31, 2007
The Blessing - February 04, 2009
God's People and Plan - February 16, 2009
Can I Say That? - February 16, 2009
The Wolves are Gone - September 16, 2008
Jesus, Hold My Hand - April 27, 2009

Reading of the Week

Flame Jumpers

Called to do good deeds and to not cease in doing so the Bible says (Gal. 6:9) there will be a season in the hereinafter to reap immortality, eternal life (Rom. 2:7) and stored up treasures (Mt. 6:20) in heaven. Any suffering on this earth is better done for doing good rather than for doing evil (1 Peter 3:17).

Some endeavour to topple God’s Word in an attempt to dismantle it from its faith/works axis. Despite that, those who have faith and no works in conjunction with those who have works and no faith both have naught. James 2:17 (James 2:26) explains that faith without works is dead and vice versa. Every tree of righteousness must bear fruit; otherwise, the fruitless are rootless.

Jesus states that He is the vine and His friends are the branches (John 15:5) and they that serve Him will bear fruit. The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off. Nary a branch can bear fruit to last that is not grafted into Christ. So, to argue contrary to God’s
Word is indeed fruitless; better it will be to abide in it. For certain, the fruit bearers are disciples of Jesus (8).

The half-hearted and somewhat above lukewarm, the off again/on again, those with weak faith (though the Bible calls all to accept those whose faith is weak) could very well be the flame jumpers so depicted in 1 Corinthians 3:15. All that this group does or fails to do in the assessment of the Lord could very well see their efforts burned up. The individual will be saved like “…someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.”

Better it will be to get to heaven, of course, coming close to being scorched than not to get in at all; nonetheless, once there, heaven will present your test scores. Late it will be for faith to grow; however, quick it will be for “if I had only” realizations.

But there is a way to get beyond the weak faith, a way to turn up one’s “believer”, a way to have treasures stored up in heaven awaiting your arrival. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17) means that the more you are inclined to hear God’s Word, read God’s Word, learn God’s Word, and live by God’s Word, the greater faith you will have. Greater too will be your service. You won’t have to be a flame jumper.