Acts 18:1–17 Can a real Christian be afraid?

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I am reviewing and renewing the first 11 verses of Acts 18 on purpose because I want to do a greater underlining of certain truths that are found in them. How many many times I have been told that if you walk in the Spirit you will never be afraid? Paul shatters that falsehood. Only Christ can lift fear off of a person and it often takes Christian friends to help that happen. Timothy and Silas were the Christian friends that helped Paul become unafraid.

One of the things so often stressed by Christians not going through certain emotions at the moment or who have never gone through them yet is that negative emotions like fear, doubt, anger at God, etc. will keep God from answering that person’s prayers until they absolutely get over such emotions. But Paul feared and God kept answering his prayers. Thomas doubted and Christ showed himself to Thomas anyway and breathed the Holy Spirit into him. And Christ Himself was angry with a fig tree and His power didn’t weaken as a withered the tree.

The point is, Christians do have human emotions and a Christian’s honest emotions don’t limit the power of their prayers. God understands every human’s weaknesses and urges them to boldly come to Him so that He can meet their needs with “mercy and grace” (Hebrews 4:14–16.)

Acts 18:1–17 Can a real Christian be afraid?

Hitler Could Have Been Easily Stopped Before World War 2 Began!

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Our God is not only all-knowing, He is an absolute realist. It is God who declares there is a time for war (Ecclesiastes 3:8). If France or England had stopped Hitler as he was in the midst of conquering all of Czechoslovakia after his promise that Germany wouldn’t, they would  have ended the Second World War from ever starting. But because they didn’t want to get involved, they and all of Europe were nearly destroyed by the horror Germany wreaked on them, and other nations including our gallant military. In inHitler’s own words, he would have returned to Germany “with my tail between my legs.” But France and England had nations full of people who wanted no more war.

The people in France and England then were much like the people in America now. But France and England were nearly annihilated by the devastation the Nazis brought on them by land, sea, and air, because these two countries didn’t agree with God that “there is a time for war.”

ISIL, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the myriad of other hideous Muslim terrorist organizations are trusting, just like Hitler was, that we will let them grow and one day soon they will conquer America with their Shariah law.

When I posted the movie on Hitler’s rise to power last night, I thought that was all I’d show you until Thursday. But that was a movie and this is a fabulous documentary that will fill in the gaps the movie left out. –Ray

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Hitler Could Have Been Easily Stopped Before World War 2 Began!

ACTS 15:1–2 and GALATIANS – PAUL DEALS WITH PREJUDICE

ACTS 15:1–2 and GALATIANS – PAUL DEALS WITH PREJUDICE