The Day Of Pentecost

Acts  2:1  

"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 

they were all with one accord in one place." 

   We may never know exactly what happened on the Day of Pentecost but we do know that it was one of the great days of the Christian Church. On that day the Holy Spirit came to the Christian Church in a very special way. We speak of the events at Pentecost as the coming of the Holy Spirit. The danger is that we may think that the Holy Spirit came into existence at that time. That is not so; God is eternally Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In fact Acts makes that quite clear. The Spirit was speaking in David (Acts 1:16); the Spirit spoke through Isaiah (Acts 28:25); Stephen accuses the Jews of opposing the Spirit, all through their history, (Acts 7:51). In that sense the Spirit is God in every age revealing his truth to men. But at the same time something special happened at Pentecost.

  My Friends, The Holy Spirit was and still is the source of day to day courage and power, for all that has received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives the Christian courage to meet the dangerous situation, and the Christian power to cope with life. Acts 5:32 "And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." This has in it the great truth that the measure of the Spirit which a man can possess is conditioned by the kind of man he is. It means that the man who is honestly trying to do the will of God will experience more and more of the wonder of the Holy Spirit. 

Amen!

Reading: Acts 1:6-11

               Acts Chap 2

Devotional Scripture 

Ref: HG SB; DSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr. 

The Cross Life Ministry

A New Ministry

2 Corinthians 3:7-8  

"But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, 

so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses 

for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 

How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?"  

   The old covenant was based on a written document. The story of it's initiation is in Exodus 24:1-8. Moses took the book of the covenant and read it to the people and they agreed to it. The new covenant is based on the power of the life giving Spirit. A written document is something that is external; whereas the work of the Spirit is internal and changes a mans very heart. A man may obey the written law while all the time he wishes to disobey it; but when the Spirit comes into his heart and controls it, not only does he not break the law, he does not even wish to break it, because he is a changed man. A written letter can change the law; only the Spirit can change human nature. 

  The old covenant was deadly because it killed certain things. It killed hope. There was never any hope that any man could keep, because human nature being like it is. Therefore it could cause nothing but frustration. It killed life. Under it a man could earn nothing but condemnation; and condemnation meant death. It killed strength. It was perfectly able to tell a man what to do, but it could not help him to do it. 

  The new covenant was quite different. It was a relationship of love. It came into being because God so loved the world. It was a relationship between a father and his sons. Man was no longer the criminal in default, he was the son of God, even if a disobedient son. It changed a man's life, not by imposing a new written law on him, but by changing his heart.

  My Friends, When the sun rises, the lamps seems to have no use. So many people still cling to the old when the best has been offered, "Jesus Christ."  Churches all over the world cling to the old and refuse the new. Listen, just because something was always done, don't make it right, and because a thing was never done, don't make it wrong. We must be careful not to worship the stages instead of the goal, and not to cling to the second best while the best is waiting, Lets not refuse the new glories that God is opening to us, each day of our earthly life.

Amen!

Reading: 2 Cor. 3:4-11

Ref: HG SB; DSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Jesus' Resurrection And Ours

1Co 15:20-22  

"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits 

of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came

also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, 

even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 

    For the Greek immortality lay precisely in getting rid of the body. For him the resurrection of the body was unthinkable. Paul's view was quite different than the Greeks. If we begin with one fact, the rest will become clear. The Christian belief is that after death, individuality will survive, that you will still be you and I will still be me. Beside that lets look at another fact. To the Greek the body could not be consecrated (not sacred). To them it was matter, the source of all evil, the prison house of the soul. But to the Christian the body is not evil. Jesus, the Son of God, has taken this human body upon Him and therefore it is not contemptible because it has been inhabited by God. To the Christian, therefore the life to come involves the total man, body and soul. 

   But Paul never said that we would rise with the body we had at death. He insisted that we would have a spiritual body. And with that spiritual body, a man's personality would survive. It is almost impossible to conceive of personality without a body, because it is through the body that the personality expresses itself. What Paul is saying here is that after death the individual remains.

  My Friends, Paul believed in the resurrection of the whole man. He will still be himself; he will survive as a person. That is what Paul means by the resurrection of the body. Everything of the body and of the soul that is necessary to make a man a person will survive, but, at the same time, all things will be new, and body and spirit will "alike" be very different from earthly things, for they will "alike" be divine. 

Amen!

Reading: 1 Cor 15:1-58

Ref: HG SB; BSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

Necessity Of Self-Denial

1 Corinthians 9:10  

"Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, 

this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; 

and that he that thresheth in hope should 

be partaker of his hope."  

    At first sight this chapter seems quite disconnected from what goes before, but in fact it is not. The whole point lies in this. The Corinthians who considered themselves mature Christians have been claiming that they are in such a privileged position that they are free to eat meat offered to idols if they wanted to. Their Christian freedom gave them, as they thought, a special position in which they could do things that might not be permissible to lesser men. Paul's way of answering that argument, was to set forth the many privileges, which he himself had a perfect right to claim. Paul did not claim them, in case they should turn out to be stumbling blocks to others and hindrances to the effectiveness of the gospel.

   The same problem still shows it's face in our Christian communities today. There are so many Christians that believe they are privileged in many things inside and outside God's House. The Fact is, no person in God's eye is privileged over another. 

   My Friends We must be aware and do nothing that would bring discredit on the gospel or hinder it. Men judge a message by the life and character of the man who brings it; and Paul was determined that his hands would be clean. We who spread The Gospel Of Jesus Christ should not allow nothing in our life that would contradict the message we preach. Someone once said to a preacher, "I cannot hear what you say for listening to what you are." No one could ever say that to Paul. 

Amen! 

Reading: 1 Cor. 9:1-16

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

   

Jesus Answers, Would Be Followers

Luke 9:62  

And Jesus said unto him, "No man, having put his hand to the plough, 

and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."  

   Jesus' told these men point blank what it meant to follow Him. To the first man, Jesus" advice was, "Before you follow me, count the cost." No one can ever say that he was induced to follow Jesus under false pretenses.  It might be that we have caused great hurt to our Churches by letting people think that church membership is just a membership. We ought to tell them that is only but a part of  counting the cost of following Christ! We might have fewer people; but those we had would be really pledged to Christ. 
   Jesus' words to the second man sound harsh, "Let the dead bury the dead." In all probability the man's father was not dead, and not even nearly dead. His saying most likely meant, "I will Follow you after my father has died." The point Jesus was making is that in everything there is a crucial moment; if that moment is missed the thing most likely will never be done at all. The man in the story had stirrings in his heart to get out of his spiritually dead surroundings; if he missed that moment he would never get out.   
   Jesus'  words to the third man state a truth which no one can deny. No plowman ever plowed a straight furrow looking back over his shoulder. There are some whose hearts are in the past. They walk forever looking backwards and thinking of the good old days.
   My Friends, Those furrows of the past will get you off your path of Hope today, So don't look back, look forward and follow Christ; Because the kingdom is not, "Backwards!" but, "Forwards!" To these men and all others as well; Jesus is not saying either, "Follow!" or, "Return!" He is saying, "I accept no lukewarm service," and lets us make our own decision.
Amen!

Reading; Luke:9:57-62
Ref: HG SB

God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry  

   

A Blessed Future

Zechariah 8:22  

"Yea, many people and strong nations shall come 

to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, 

and to pray before the LORD." 

   When God comes towards us in ways of mercy, we must meet Him with joy and thankfulness. Therefore be faithful and honest in all your dealings; and let it be a pleasure to you to be so, and live peaceably with all men. Let the truths of God rule in your heads, and let the peace of God rule in your hearts. "A great increase to the church shall be made." The Jews had been prone to learn the idolatries of other nations; but more unlikely than that, they should teach religion to their conquerors, and to all the principal nations of the earth!  All this was foretold, and it came to pass. The prophecy has been wonderfully fulfilled, and no doubt future events will explain it further. 

   My Friends, It is good to be with those who have God with them; if we take God for our God, we must take his people for our people, and be willing to take our part with them. But let not any one think, that mere zeal, either for Jews or Gentiles, will stand in the place of Christianity. Let us be living epistles of Christ, known and read of all men, so that others may wish to go with us, and to have their portion with us in Heaven. 

Amen!

Reading: Zech: 8:16-23

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr

The Cross Life Ministry

Measure Of Iniquities

Zechariah 5:1-2  

"Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; 

the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits" 

    A vast large scroll of parchment which had been rolled up, and is therefore called a roll, was now unrolled and expanded; this roll was flying upon the wings of the wind, carried swiftly through the air in open view. As the command of the law is in writing, for certainty and perpetuity, so is the curse of the law; it writes bitter things against the sinner. “What I have written I have written and what is written remains.” 
   The Scriptures of The Old Testament and The New, are rolls, in which God has written to us the great things of His law and gospel. Christ is the Master of the rolls. They are large rolls, and have much in them. They are flying rolls; the angel that had the everlasting gospel to preach flew in the midst of heaven, "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," (Rev. 14:6).  God's word runs swift and sure.   
   God was removing wickedness from His land. For Joshua the priest and Zerubbabel
this presented a challenged to make sure the land was purged of wickedness. This would have been impossible without God's assistance. The woman sitting in the midst of the ephah with the lead cast in her mouth may represent the sinful church and nation of the Jews, in their latter and corrupt age. Guilt is upon the sinner as a weight of lead, to sink him to the lowest hell. This may mean the condemnation of the Jews, after they filled the measure of their iniquities by crucifying Christ and rejecting His Gospel. 
   My Friends, That same guilt is upon all generations as a weight of lead, and it will sink those who fills their measure of iniquities to hell, Seek, "Jesus Christ As Your Savoir Today!"
Amen!

Reading: Zech. 5:1-11
Ref:HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Jeremiah Complains To God

Jeremiah 20:7  

"O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: 

thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: 

I am in derision daily,

every one mocketh me." 

   We see here why Jeremiah was called "the weeping prophet." He was man with a heart just like us, and one who was chosen to carry out God's work. Jeremiah was subject to the same emotions that are common to all men. Yet through it all, Jeremiah continued to preach God's message, because he was compelled by God's Call. "Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay," (Jer. 20:9)
   Jeremiah is not accusing the Lord of misrepresentation but is giving vent to his sorrow at the situation he is in. God has called him to stand alone against constant opposition, and has gradually led him into the position were He wants him to be; "one that involves great misery for Jeremiah." Jeremiah expresses his anguish in extreme language;however it is not to be taken as merely the expression of sinful or erroneous human thoughts.
   My Friends, The sorrow of Jeremiah echoes the sorrow of God Himself as He sees His own people  going on in sin and unbelief, ignoring His goodness toward them. That same sorrow still echoes today, it's just louder. Listen, God never deceives His people. But Jeremiah thought that God had deceived him because he had failed to understand the full concept of divine revelation concerning impending judgment. No one has an excuse, not then, not now! God had plainly warned the people of Israel, and now God is warning us of the impending judgment through His Written "Word." 
Amen!

Reading: Jer. 20:7-18
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

      

Our Source Of Sufficiency

Zechariah 4:6  

"Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word 

of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor 

by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." 

    Zerubbabel faced a task of building the temple, and here in v-6 the prophet describes the source of Zerubbabel's sufficiency; it is God's "Spirit" which will sustain him. Even though he is the governor of a seemingly insignificant province of  the larger Persian Empire; he is assured that he will complete the temple that he had begun to build. The angel lets the prophet know, in general, that this vision was designed to illustrate a word which the Lord had to say to Zerubbabel, to encourage him to go on with the building of the temple. Let him know that he is a worker together with God in it, and that it is a work which God will own and crown. God will carry on and complete this work, as he had begun their deliverance from Babylon, 

   My Friends, We may faltered in our walk as a Believer and can't seem to get reconstructed, and have a practically lost heart. Here is encouragement to renew our efforts and persevere us. We might be weak and flexible as a wick but none of our deficiencies could hinder us from finishing our life work, if only our spirit was kindled with the divine fire and fed by the grace of the Holy Spirit. God will carry on and complete our life work, because God is in it with us, and the work God will own, God will crown. 

Amen!

Reading: Zech: 4:1-14

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The Humble And Contrite

Isaiah 57:15  

"For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; 

I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite 

and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, 

and to revive the heart of the contrite ones"  

   God dwells in the High and Holy Place, and will have all the world to know it. Whoever has any business with God must direct it to Him as their Father in heaven, for that's where He dwells. In His grace and mercy;  He has a tender pity for the humble and contrite. If they Are His people, He will not overlook them, though they are poor and low in the world, and despised and trampled upon by men. God will have a tender regard to those who, being in affliction, and accommodate themselves to their affliction, no matter how low or ever had sad and sorely broken; those that are truly penitent for sin, and who mourn in secret for it, and have a dread of the wrath of God, and are submissive under all his rebukes; With These God Will Dwell!

   He will visit them graciously, will converse familiarly with them by His word and Spirit, as a man does with those of his own family; He will be always nigh to them and present with them. He that dwells in the highest heavens dwells in the lowest hearts and inhabits sincerity as surely as He inhabits eternity. In These He Delights! He will revive their heart and spirit, will speak that to them, and work that in them by the word and Spirit of His grace. 
   My Friends, When troubles come, the spirit even of good men sometimes fails. His comfort with God is gone, and despair sets in; and then the spirit fails. It is for this reason, that God will not contend forever; for God will not forsake the work of His own hands nor defeat the purchase of His Son's blood. The reason is taken not from our merit, but from our weakness and infirmity; for He remembers that we are flesh and that flesh is weak. "I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him," (Is. 57:19). 
Amen!

Reading: Is. 57:15-21
Ref: HG SB
                                                                   May God Bless You
                                                                    And Your Family
                                                              Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                                The Cross Life Ministry

The "Word"

John 1:1-2 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God. The same was 

in the beginning with God." 

   When John wrote of the beginning, he was paralleling the words of the creation account. John called Jesus, “the Word.” John did not identify this person immediately, but described His nature and purpose before revealing His name. As the Word, the Son of God fully conveys and communicates God. "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ," (John 1:17). In the Hebrew language of the Old Testament, “the Word” is described as an agent of creation, "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth,"(Ps. 33:6). 
   John may have had these ideas in mind, but his description shows clearly that he spoke of Jesus as a human being he knew and loved who was at the same time the Creator of the universe, the ultimate revelation of God, and also the living picture of God’s holiness.  By using the expression, He was with God,  "the Word" (the Son) and God (the Father) already enjoyed an intimate, personal relationship in the beginning. 

   My Friends, Not only was the Son with God, He was Himself God.  John’s Gospel, more than most books in the New Testament, asserts Jesus’ divinity. One of the most compelling reasons to believe the doctrine of the Trinity comes from the fact that it was revealed through the people most likely to reject it the Hebrews. In a world populated by many gods, it took the tough minded Hebrews to clarify the revelation of God’s oneness expressed through “three-in-oneness.”  The Holy Trinity. 
Amen!

Reading: John 1:1-18
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You 

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Abraham's Faith

Romans 4:3  

"For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, 

and it was counted unto him for righteousness." 

   Paul is seeking to prove that what makes a man right with God is not the performance of the works,  but the simple trust that takes God at His word and believes that He still loves us even when we have done nothing to deserve that love. It was not the fact that Abraham had performed the demands of the law that put him into his special relationship with God, it was his complete trust in God and his complete willingness to abandon his life to Him. That for Paul was faith, and it was Abraham's faith which made God regard him as a good man.

   Abraham was the only righteous man of his generation, therefore he was chosen to be the ancestor of God's special people. The question might be; How could Abraham keep the law when he lived hundreds of years before it was given? "He kept the law of the Most High,"and was taken into covenant with God. Therefore God assured him by an oath that the nations should be blessed in his seed. "As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations," (Gen 17:4).

   The basic thought of Christianity is that all a man can do is to take God at His word and stake everything on the faith that His promises are true. Paul's argument was, and he was exactly right, is that Abraham entered into a right relationship with God, "not" because he did all kinds of legal works, but because he cast himself, just as he was, on God's promise. 

   My Friends, During our Christian life, we do not need to torture ourselves with a losing battle to earn God's love, but rather we need to accept in perfect trust, the love which God offers to us.  "Very True," after that, any man of honour is under the life long obligation to show himself worthy of that love. But he is no longer a criminal seeking to obey an impossible law; he is a lover offering his all to one who loved him when he did not deserve it. I have been talking about faith. If you want to see what faith is, read and look over the history of Abraham." 

Amen!

Reading: Rom. 4:1-8

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

Faith Defied The Facts

Luke 22:69  

"Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on 

the right hand of the power of God." 

    During the night Jesus had been brought before the High Priest. That was a private and unofficial examination. Its purpose was for the authorities to question Jesus and beat him, while trying to trip him up in cross examination so that a charge could be brought against him. The next morning Jesus was taken in front of the council. The trial began; "Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, "If I tell you, ye will not believe:" (Luke 22:67). They did not believe!

   Sentence of death could never be carried out on the day on which it was given; a night must pass so the court could sleep on it, so that, by chance, their condemnation might turn to mercy. The whole procedure was designed for mercy; and, even from Luke's summary account, it is clear that the council, when it tried Jesus, was far from keeping its own rules and regulations. It is very clear that the charge the council finally produced against Jesus was one of blasphemy. To claim to be the Son of God was an insult to God's majesty and therefore blasphemy, and punishable by death. However Jesus was and is the Son of God. 

   My Friends, It is tragic, that when Jesus asked for love, He did not even receive simple justice. He had emerged from a night of questioning, even when He had been mocked and scourged, still had  confidence that He would set down at the right hand of God and that His triumph was sure. His faith defied the facts. Jesus never for a moment believed that men in the end could defeat the purposes of God. God has a purpose for all of us and it would be in our best interest, not to go against the purposes of God!!!

Amen!

Reading: Luke: 22:63-71

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

God Recognizes Service

Luke 22:24  

"And there was also a strife among 

them, which of them should be 

accounted the greatest."

    It is one of the most tragic things in the gospel story that the disciples could quarrel about, "precedence" in the very shadow of the cross. They wanted to know who among them should be accounted the greatest. How inconsistent is this with the verse before (V-23)? They wanted to know who would be the traitor, and now here, which should be the greatest. What a self-contradiction is the deceitful heart of man. 

   What the world needs is service. The odd thing is that the business world knows this. You will find by the roadside, over and over again, the sign, Service Station. They will crawl under your car and get themselves dirtier than any of us." The strange thing is that there is more argument about precedence, and more concern about peoples "places" in the church than anywhere else. The world needs and recognizes service.  It is only the man who will agree to serve more than anyone else who will really rise high. It frequently happens that the ordinary worker will go home at 5.30 p.m. to forget his or her job until next morning, while the light will be burning in the office of the chief executive long after that. 

   My Friends, We can found our life either on giving or on getting; but the plain fact is that if we found it on getting we shall miss both the friendship of man and the reward of God, for no one ever loved a man who was always out for himself. Jesus finished His warning by promising His disciples, that those who had stood by Him through thick and thin would in the end reign with Him. God will be in no man's debt. Those who have shared in the bearing of Christ's cross will some day share in the wearing of His crown.  

Amen!

Reading: Luke 22:24-30

Ref:HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry  

"Woe;" It's Your Choice To Make

Luke 6:24  

"But woe unto you that are rich! for 

ye have received your consolation." 

   Those are blessed indeed whom Christ blesses, but those are dreadfully miserable who fall under his woe and curse! What a vast advantage will the saint have over the sinner in the other world! 

The key to this is in Luke 6:24; "ye have received" The word Jesus uses here is used for receiving payment in full of an account. What Jesus is saying is this, "If you set your heart and spend your whole energies to obtain the things which the world values, you will get them, but that is all you will ever get. In other words, literally, you have had it! But if on the other hand you set your heart and bend all your energies to be utterly loyal to God and true to Christ, you will run into all kinds of trouble, you may by the world's standards look unhappy, but much of your payment is still to come; and it will be joy eternal. 

   We are here face to face with an eternal choice which begins in childhood and never ends till life ends. Will you take the easy way which yields immediate pleasure and profit? or, Will you take the hard way which yields immediate toil and sometimes suffering? Will you seize on the pleasure and the profit of the moment? or, Are you willing to look ahead and sacrifice them for the greater good? Will you concentrate on the world's rewards? or, Will you concentrate on Christ? If you take the world's way, you must abandon the values of Christ. If you take Christ's way, you must abandon the values of the world.
   My Friends, It is your choice to make. God wants all His children to be happy and to have what they need, and also more. But if you have more you should in turn, give to the needed, and to the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.     
Amen!

Reading: Devotional Study
                Luke 6:20-24
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

 

Personal Touch

Luke 6:19  

"And the whole multitude sought to touch him: 

for there went virtue out of him, 

and healed them all."

   Those who do not have faithful preaching near them, had better travel far than be without it. It is indeed worth while to go a long way to hear the word of Christ, than to make way for some other business of much less importance. They came to be cured by Him, and He healed them. There is a fullness of grace in Christ, and healing virtue in Him, ready to go out from Him, that is enough for all, enough for each. Men regard the diseases of the body as greater evils than those of their souls; but the Scripture teaches us differently.

   My Friends, The work of Jesus is not in the hands of men whom the world calls great, but in the hands of ordinary people like ourselves. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father," (Luke 14:12). 

   When men are really Christian the most diverse and divergent types can live at peace together. It is only in Christ that we can solve the problem of living together; because even the most opposite people may be united in their love for Him. If we really love Him, we will also love each other. 

Amen!

Reading: Luke 6:17:19

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless

You And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

When Jesus Comes Again

Luke 17:24  

"For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one 

part under heaven, shineth unto the other part 

under heaven; so shall also the 

Son of man be in his day." 

   What did Jesus mean when He answered the Pharisees, "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you," (V-20b, V-21). I believe He meant just what He said, "The kingdom of God is within you." That is to say, the kingdom of God works in men's hearts; it is to produce not new things, but new people. It is not a revolution in material things that we are to look for, but a revolution in the hearts of men. God will not hold a man guiltless, who, on the road of life, sends a younger or a weaker brother on the wrong path. 
   There will be times when the Christian will long for the coming of Christ. Like the martyred saints he will cry out, "And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth,"(Rev. 6:10).  But he will need to learn to light a candle of patience and wait. God takes his own time! 

   My Friends, The coming of Christ is certain, but its time is unknown. Speculation would be in vain. People will come with false prophecies and false predictions; Therefore we must stand our ground and we must not forsake our faith or our duties to follow them. The best way that Christ can come upon a man is when he is faithfully and humbly and watchfully doing his duty.  "No man will foresee it, but all men will see it."  

Amen!

Reading: Luke 17:20-24

Ref: HGSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry