Moving-on To Maturity (MTM)

The essentials of both wings Many times, you will come across, when scriptures speak of certain matters, it speaks of the necessity of two things. For eg.  🔸For Salvation two things are essential -  Faith and repentance. 🔸True worship - Spirit and truth. 🔸Jesus came with - Grace and truth. And the list goes on...... We shall see today, what are the two things( two wings ) that are essential for our spiritual growth, let us read the scripture given below. *"Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby....,  "* I Peter 2:1‭-‬2 . Two things are  : Taking heeds to sins - verse 1 Taking God's Word in our life - verse 2 Many a times we hear a sermon on verse 2  ( Reading /hearing the Word )and the second verse ( laying aside sins ) is normally ignored . In this article, we shall learn about verse one. ( 1 pet 2:1 above ) Paul said we must (decide...

Water baptism is not a ritual that a person , who believes in Christ undertakes.  Who can be Water Baptized? There are two important conditions that validate a Water baptism. Belief : A person needs to put their personal trust and believe from the heart that Jesus died for their sins and rose again from the dead.  Repent : A person needs to acknowledge that he is a sinner and has sinned before God and now is willing to turn away from his old ways of life. If the two conditions are now being understood by the person then the person should get water baptized as soon as possible. What is the significance of water baptism? "Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death ....." Baptism is not a ritual but we are buried into His death.  What death is  Paul talking about?  Surely it is not the death on the cross. That death only Jesus could die for our sins since He was sinless. He was talking about the dying to sin,( Rom 6:2 , 3, 11, 13 )which Jesu...

 Discouragement. Discouragement is a common thing , that we come across , many times in our life. Discouragement comes knocking , when things don't turn out as we had expected. It is very normal to have expectations in different areas of our life and it is normal to pray regarding them. Remember that God has promised to fulfill our desires . (Ps 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.) But there are times when our wishes/desires do not come to pass, one of the main reason could be that it was not the "will of God" or it could be God wants us to "wait on Him". If we involve God in all our "unpleasant" circumstances , then it becomes easy to digest as we begin to see the hand of God in these things . We can thus seek for God's grace ( enabling power) to go through these circumstances. Others Faced it The people of Isralities were very happy as they ventured into the a new life, as they left the ol...