Differences between God and the devil

* Luís Alberto Alves

Sometimes we fall into the trap that the devil can do something good. Especially when we face fights. Is not true. God and the devil are opposites. Satan will always do the opposite of the Lord, even if he uses beautiful wrapping and appears before our eyes as if it were a loving action.

First, God is love and righteousness, as written in the book of Isaiah, chapter 64, verse 4. When we take Satan from this angle, Satan can never love anyone, because he is hate, opposite God. The Lord came to build, the enemy to put down any beautiful work to glorify the name of Jesus Christ.

Equally political, the devil seeks to disguise his bad intentions, presenting a garb, which seems good in our eyes. This is the case of the principle of Talion, "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth." In the vision of the enemy of our souls, revenge is a good thing. It is to pay with the same coin, when someone commits us the bad.

This is the opposite logic of Jewish / Christian thinking. Apart from this, idolatry is normal, making sacrifices to strange gods (in Satanism children are killed and offered to the devil for fame, power and wealth), not to obey any commandment that has a connection with God.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

It is in the ordeas that we grow / 5

* Luís Alberto Alves

Depending on where you are reading this article, a dollar, pound, yen, ruble, peseta, weight or dinar will have little importance in your life. But when hunger comes and unemployment keeps you company, that derisory amount of money will seem like a fortune in the purchase of a meager piece of bread.

So reflect a lot on the chapter of James. Look at your life and see if it really serves God or is just an impostor disguised as a Christian in the search unbridled for some kind of blessing. You can deceive me, but from the Lord's eyes you will never be able to escape, even if you are in the most distant country on this planet Earth. The Lord knows how to find you. It is better to convert and learn from the wise words of Jesus Christ. This is also proof of wisdom.

The problem is to know how many wish to be wise. The mistake of several people is the attachment to money. They dive headlong into this river thinking that when they die they will bring fortunes to the afterlife. They develop a hallucinatory rhythm of life, abandoning the words of God, thinking only of the fattening of the checking account.

Few stop and think about the lifestyle of Solomon, one of the richest and most powerful men who has ever passed through this world. He himself knows how illusory is the fortune that comes to some. Power is ephemeral as well. It is transitory. It never stays in the same hand for a long time. The same smoke soon disappears.

Several millionaires take their own lives when faced with great ordeal. One of them is the loss of money in the Stock Exchange. Even though they are still wealthy, it is an affront for them to let a few million disappear through the fragile stream of stocks. Within the Christian churches, all is well while the heat of probation has not come. When it melts pride and vanity, few remain in this race and easily let the crown of life fall to the ground.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

It is in the ordeal that we grow / 4

* Luís Alberto Alves

We can not fall into the error that in serving Jesus Christ, everything will be a sea of ​​roses, we will not have difficulties and the problems will be solved quickly. God has his own style of working. In silence, it does not mean that he is indifferent to the pain of his servants. The problem is that the human being likes to rush the process. It requires the Lord to go out and solve the matter.

Unfortunately there are few Christians who understand these words written and left by James. They also act like ostriches, trying to bury their heads in the ground, thinking that they will escape the trials. They exist to show how low or how high our faith is. Otherwise, the Christian would have disappeared from the churches. Many go to God in the desperate search for blessing. They never desired to receive the blessing in their hearts.

As a pastor, I am disappointed with people who act this way. For me they are mercenaries. They act only to gain financial and sentimental advantages. They never had a serious commitment to the Lord. They imagine that they can use God, as they do here in this rotten world in professional, personal, and even ministerial relationships.

If James were alive today, he would be open-mouthed with the kind of Christians in the churches today. Few seek to behave in ethical standards. They take pleasure in sin and feel no bit of shame. For this vast majority the church is just a meeting point, just like shopping malls, where many exhibit the new clothing or even the newly purchased car.

They do not know how much they can learn in times of trial. Six years ago when I went through the desert of hunger, I learned to value the little. When our refrigerator (by the way, I am going to publish a book with the curious name of "empty refrigerator", where I describe the details of this test to which it has been submitted), it finds itself with nothing inside, when we decide to look upwards, in search of the divine help of Jesus Christ.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

It is in the ordeal that we grow / 3

* Luís Alberto Alves

People feel angry at those who are still honest, like what is right. In countries of Muslim faith, Christians are killed, churches burned, women raped and children decapitated. The communist nations (China, Vietnam and Cuba) are not behind in this sad aspect of violence. Missionaries die when the authorities find out they preach the Word of the Lord.

In large corporations and universities, evangelicals are humiliated. Radical labels, just because they obey what is written in the Bible, live moments of solitude. So many men and women face the same difficulties. In the vision of this world, which lies in the evil one, good people are those who pass over the commandments written by God.

It is at this moment that the Christian needs to look up, where the Lord lives, to ask for wisdom and his sweet companionship. Life in the spirit world is considered a drop of dew when compared to eternity. So the few bad moments that the Christian goes through, that he or she never lose sight of the end of the race, where the great walk of eternity begins, in a place where God reigns supreme.

Our body will return to the dust, from which we leave one day, and the Spirit, created by God, returns to the hands of the creator. Catch the good fight. Do not be sad or disheartened with the fights. They will serve to make you stronger and more prepared. The important thing is to keep the crown of life firmly on the head. Do not trade it for nothing in this world. Everything here is fleeting. Eternity exists only in Heaven. It is worth marching and being part of this wonderful Army, whose general is Jesus Christ, who never lost and will never lose any battle.

God is the supreme commander who will never leave a warrior of his troops on the battlefield. He rescues, heals the wounds and keeps him standing. In moments of fierce battle, when you feel your strength fading slowly, pray to the Lord and ask Him to strengthen you. From the high heavens he will send the aid quickly, and everything will be well again. In the past, James wrote these recommendations to the 12 tribes of Israel. Today, these words are for all of us who accept Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

It is in the ordeal that we grow / 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

It is not easy to keep Christian ideals facing difficulties, especially with the threat of losing one's life. But James, used by God, brought this message to the people of Israel, so that he might ask the Lord for wisdom when he had to face the evil day; Moment that few friends are next to the servant of God.

Bringing it to the present day, James' words warn the church about the bad times the Christian will have to face, without letting the crown of life fall to the ground. In a world where honesty is synonymous with idiocy, love is carefree and worshiping God is a sign of madness, only Christians filled with the anointing to continue standing, fighting the good fight, visualizing the future in the Heavens.

But the servants of the Lord must never forget that trials increase our dependence on God. After all, it is in times of great difficulty that we look at Jesus Christ, we ask for the strength and wisdom to overcome the challenges that are terrible for us.

In these moments we should never throw in our garbage our honesty and commitment to the Lord. Even though we feel the heat of the enemy's attack on our skin, we need to keep the faith that God is with us, watching over us. In fact, He never leaves an abandoned servant. Instead hold firmly in your hands to help you on the hike.

These few verses of chapter 1, written by James, are important to understand the reason for so much tragedy that happens in this world, seeking to take the life of the Christian, as well as seeking, at all costs, to divert him from the path to Heaven. The world has never been so depraved as in this century.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

It is in the ordeal that we grow / 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

The apostle James, brother of Jesus Christ, and leader of the Jerusalem church, wrote in chapter 1, verses 1 to 6, warning the 12 tribes of Israel that temptations would come, but that they would be strong maintaining honesty and running the race Stipulated by Jesus Christ, being careful not to drop the crown of life from the head.

We need to pay close attention to this detail: ordeal! Today, Christians do not like the gospel that speaks of ordeal, that is, of the struggles they will have to face in order to enter Heaven. They worship the gospel of ease, where all is permitted, not a mistaken view that God overlooks sin. Worse: they reversed the word when Jesus said he loves the sinner, but they feel the disgust of sin.

It was not in vain that the Lord told the sinner to go to church the way he is, plunged into the mire of error and iniquity, but that he did not remain in that situation. Change for the better, being a new creature. In this text, James warns the 12 tribes of Israel about the future of that nation. Even under a lot of fighting and destruction, they would not leave honesty aside.

Alerted by the Holy Spirit, James knew that after his death in 62 AD, eight years later Jerusalem would be destroyed by the Roman army, with the majority of the population slain by the sword, crucified, women raped, children and old men annihilated, and the city under rubble .

The terror implanted by the Romans was so great that the few survivors spread throughout the world in the movement known as diaspora. They wandered for 1878 years until the return to Israel as territory. In this period they suffered enough in the hands of other people. Four years before the return to homeland, 6 million Jews were charred in the Nazi ovens in World War II.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus summons defective parts

* Luís Alberto Alves

The manufacturer of all human beings is summoning the manufactured parts, regardless of the brand or year, due to a serious defect in the main and central component of the heart, occurred in the original units called Adam and Eve, after misuse of the series item called Free Arbitration, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in all subsequent units.

This defect was technically referred to as SIN (Weakened Part with Anomalies Detected in the Original), whose main symptom is: loss of moral judgment. (Integrity).

Other symptoms:

(A) prostitution,
B) impurities,
C) lasciviousness,
D) idolatry,
E) witchcraft,
F) enmities,
G) strikes,
H) jealousy,
I) iras,
J) discord,
K) dissensions,
L) factions,
M) envy
N) bebedices,
O) gluttony
P) among other similar things.

The manufacturer, just out of love, provides repair and service, free of charge, to fix the SIN problem.

Contact with the manufacturer is: via PRAYER.

The password is: In the name of Jesus

When connected, delete the SIN executable using the
REPENTANCE.

Then load the NEW CREATURE program into Christ Jesus.

No matter the size of the defect SIN, NEW PERSONALITY will replace it with:

The. Love
B. Joy
w. Peace
D. Long-suffering
and. Benignity
F. Goodness
G. Loyalty
H. Meekness
I. Own domain

Please see the instruction manual, Holy Bible, for more details. Based on John 3:16

Important warning:

Continuing to operate the human unit uncorrected, voids the manufacturer's warranty, exposing the owner to too many hazards and problems for a listing and the human drive will be permanently picked up from the market !!! Marcos. 16: 17-18.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor