Everlasting Love

John 3:16 

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,

but have everlasting life"

    Today is Valentines Day and I'm sure we all know that don't we? We set this day aside to show love and appreciation to our spouses. So this one day we make or try to make it special for each other. Things are done that has never been done before. We buy Flowers, cards, balloons, and sometime a very expensive gift for the one we love. 

    But today I want to make This Valentines Day about Our Lord and Savior.  Jesus performed many miracles while He was with mankind. He gave them sight, He made them walk again, He healed them of their sickness and disease. Then one day, Jesus gave His Life for all, and carried the worlds sin to the Cross with Him; My Friends, that was and still is the day that love was shown  to the world.
    Let me ask; Does your Lord or your Spouse only show you love on certain days. My answer to that is "NO"! Our Lord's Love is An Everlasting Love for us, and He shows it daily to us all. My Friends, for us to be faithful to our Lord and Savior, and our Spouse; Showing love and Passion should happen ever time we take a breath. When you truly show love, that spot on your heart that says "My Love For You Is An Everlasting Love;"  Our Face Will Glow and Our Hearts Will Pound with Pure Joy and Love.
Amen!

Reading: {Search Your Heart}
Ref: (Yourself)                                                 

HAPPY VALENTINES

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The Marred Belt

Jeremiah 13:10 

"This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination

of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them,

and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,

which is good for nothing."

    There is reason to assume that this passage describes an actual event, not a mere vision or imaginary story. The time was prior to the final Babylonian attack. The event is the "Marred Belt." Now why would God have Jeremiah purchase a "linen belt, put it on, and make sure it gets no water on it, and then God tells Jeremiah to go hide it, (bury it) in a cleft of a rock at the Euphrates? 
    The instructions to Jeremiah are some what like a parable, and the reason for the marred belt was to give God's people a striking symbol, (a wake up call). Because God's people had their minds on everything but their God and they would not hear. 
    The linen belt, (girdle or sash) that God told Jeremiah to put upon his loins, symbolizes the people when they were more pure and less corrupted. When they shared his affection, when they cleaved unto Him and gave God praise and glory. Then God told Jeremiah not to put water on it, in a sense not to wash it or whiten it. He wanted Jeremiah to wear it as it was, to symbolize that God took His people just as they were; At God's mercy, without merits, rough, unwashed, unpolished. Then He buried it. Why? Because  as he wore it, it became soiled with sweat, and not to be washed, would rot much sooner. This symbolizes the state of the people, corrupt and filthy. 
    My Friends, The humiliation of the best produces the worst, and nothing more strikingly sets forth the condition to which those may sink who have abused the highest possibilities, than the condition of this marred and profitless belt (girdle). Let us beware! since capable of God’s best and highest, we are also liable to the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
Amen!

Reading: ( Jer. 13:1-27)
Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

 

     
     

    

Dusted Or Cleansed

Psalms 19:7 

"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul:

the testimony of the LORD is sure,

making wise the simple."

     David only had a very small part of the Scriptures, if a fragment, and that being the darkest and most historical portion, "be perfect;" what must the entire volume be? How much more perfect is the Bible which contains the clearest display of "Divine Love," and gives us a clear vision of "Redeeming Grace." There are no redundancies and no omissions in the Word of God or in the plan of Grace. So why do men try to paint this lily of the valley and try to gild this refined gold? The gospel is perfect in all aspects, and perfect as a whole. It is a crime to add to it, treason to alter it, and a felony to take from it.

    The effect of the word of God is to turn the man to himself, to his God, and to holiness; and the turn or conversion is not outward alone, "it's the soul" is moved by the Spirit of God and renewed. The means of conversion of sinners , is The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. His Life, Death, and Resurrection, which is the Gift of God. The more closely we stay to it in our ministry the more likely we are to be more educated, and a stronger mouth piece for God. 
    It's God's Word and not man's comment on God's Word, that makes mighty souls in God's Army. When the law drives and the gospel draws, the action may be different but the end is one, for by God's Spirit the soul is made to yield, and cries, "Save me and I shall be saved." 

    My Friends, We must go on to prove its certainty by experience. The perfection of the gospel converts, but its sureness edifies; if we be edified, we must not stagger at the promise through unbelief, for a doubted gospel cannot make us wise, but truth of which we are assured will be our establishment. 

Amen!

Reading: (Ps.197-14)

Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry 

When God Calls Be There!

Exodus 24:12 

"And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount,

and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law,

and commandments which I have written;

that thou mayest teach them." 

    In this passage we have four groups of people, let's say four concentric circles of people gathered around Divine Presence. in the outer circle, we have the people, Ex. 24:2; Ex.24:17. Next, we have the seventy elders, Ex. 24:9; Ex. 24:14; then we have Joshua, Ex.24:13; and lastly, Moses, Ex. 24:18.
    These represent respectively, the unenlightened; those whose religious life is hindered by their excessive devotion to the flesh; then the few whose fellowship is liable to be interrupted by a call to war or another duty.. Then there is those who have been made nigh unto God in Jesus Christ our Lord, and have been baptized into the Holy Spirit. In which group would you be in?
    My Friends, We are invited to draw nigh, let us act on the invitation, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" (Heb. 10:19-20). There is always room at the top, and there we may stand, beholding, as in a glass, the glory of Lord. Notice that God said, Come up unto Me, (Ex. 24:1) He longs to have our love and faith. His delights are with the sons of men. At a great cost He has opened the door for us, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God," (Rom. 5:1-2).
    My Friends, We need God, but God wants us, and therefore the construction of the Tabernacle is next on His list, so that He may dwell with man upon the New Earth.
Amen!

Reading: (Ex. 24:1-18)
Ref:(HG SB)

May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry  

Faith Of Others

Luke 5:20 

"And when he saw their faith, he said unto him,

Man, thy sins are forgiven thee." 

    What does this passage about forgiving sins mean? We must remember that sin was always connected to suffering in early Bible days. The sufferer often had even a morbid sense of sin. That's why Jesus began by telling this Paralytic man his sins were forgiven. Without that the man would never believe that he could be cured. This shows how the scribes and Pharisees were routed in belief.
    They objected to Jesus claiming to extend forgiveness to the  Paralytic men. But their own arguments and assumptions were that the man was ill because he had sinned, and if he was cured that was proof that his sins were forgiven. Well needless to say, the outcome left the Pharisees speechless.
    The wonderful thing is that here is a man who was saved by the faith of his friends. When Jesus saw their faith; that eager faith of those who stopped at nothing to bring their friend to Jesus and he received his cure.
    My Friends, our faith can change other peoples lives. There is nothing like a warrior prayer chain. You and your "Faith," alone can change things in other peoples lives, Just Think Faith in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ Saved and Changed You"!
Amen!

Reading:(Luke 5:18-26)
Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry 

Putting The Blame On God

James 1:13 

"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God:

for God cannot be tempted with evil,

neither tempteth he any man:"

     All of us, at some time in our life has said these words "Please Lord don't tempt me you know I'm weak." And I'm sure, most of us that tempted God was rebuked by another believer.  That is what James is doing here, rebuking the man who puts the blame for temptation on God. God is holy, and without iniquity, nor does he delight in sin, but hates and abhors it; nor can he commit it, it is contrary to his nature.

    Truthfully, no one can tempt another to sin, unless he is sinful himself, and delights in sin, and  those that commit it. Those who tempt others to sin cannot; without committing it themselves; and yet sinful men are still blaming God with their sins, and temptations as well,

    God has tempted man but no temptations have never been based on sin. He tempted Abraham, to try his faith, love, and obedience to him; He tempted the Israelites in the wilderness, to try them and humble them, and prove what was in their hearts; and He tempted Job, and tried his faith and patience; and so He tempts and tries all his righteous ones, by afflictions, more or less. God never tempts or solicits anyone to sin. My Friends, let no man who is tempted to sin; Say, I am tempted of God because, "God tempts no man to sin."
Amen!

Reading: (James 1;12-18)
Ref: (HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry

The Value Of Knowing

Matthew 24:42 

"Watch therefore: for ye know not what

hour your Lord doth come."
     

    Since the day and the hour of the coming of Christ are known to only God, then all life must be in constant preparation for His coming. To live without watchfulness invites disaster. A thief does not send a letter saying when he is going to burglarize a house; his principal weapon in his undertakings is surprise; therefore a homeowner who has valuables in his house must maintain a constant guard. But to get this picture right, we must remember that the watching of the Christian for the coming of Christ is not that of terror-stricken fear and shivering apprehension; it is the watching of eager expectation for the coming of "Glory and Joy." 
    The spirit which leads to disaster is the spirit which says there is plenty of time. It is that  comfortable delusion of man, that there is plenty of time to make things right with God before Christ returns. The most dangerous of all delusions is that there is plenty of time. The most dangerous day in a man's life is when he learns that there is such a word as tomorrow. There are things which must not be put off, for no man knows if for him tomorrow will ever come. 
    My Friends, what we must do is this, when Christ returns, He will find us doing no better and greater task than our duty, "Being Faithful and True To Him."
Amen!

Reading: (Matt. 24:42-51)

Ref:(HG SB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry