I should be back on the normal email account by next Monday, we are in route heading home from south Florida. The good news is there was around 250 souls saved in Guyana for the week and two souls were saved yesterday in a church were I reached in Ft. Myers, FL. Praise the Lord!
Good Morning All,
My thoughts today come from I John 3.11"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." From the beginning? What beginning? Is it the beginning of time, the church, Israel? When Christ began His ministry here on earth, He set in motion a new covenant, a covenant based on love. The beginning John is referring to here is the time when the Lord began preaching to His disciples:
John 13.34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
But how should we love one another? The answer is found in the words of Jesus... In the same way Christ loved us: John 15.12 "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."
Jesus Christ loved us with a sacrificial love, a love that not only cost Him His life, but gave us eternal life. This is the pattern by which we can and really should love one another. How many times do we get the opportunity to really sacrifice our time, talent and treasure for benefit of others? I mean truely investing in teh lives of others... There are friends, family and co-workers in our lives which we could exercise that sacrificial love so that the Lord Jesus Christ could be seen in us. Sure, it may cost us some time and it may even cost some money to help others... However, if a lost hour results in a saved soul or just a brief moment of comfort in this life of love one or even a stranger, it is worth time and it is worth the tresure.
I ask you to look back in you life, begin numbering the people that took an extra moment, an extra mile or just an extra minute and see how much it helped you. This is the love the Lord showed...and it changed the world. We can exercise this love and maybe change someone's world. Jesus Christ said: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15.13
Today in History:
1214 - At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England.
1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia.
1663 - British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1689 - Government forces defeat the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
1777 - The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
1778 - British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.
1793 - Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
1861 - President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
1909 - Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1914 - British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels.
1921 - Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
1944 - U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam.
1953 - Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjon, Korea.
1964 - President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
1993 - Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.
Til the Shout,
Dr. B.J. Stagner Jr.
Pastor
New Testament Baptist Church
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