Neither ask: "Why do nations which love God fight one another?" The answer is: "They don't." You see how important is the love of God. Every person in the world is possessed: some are possessed by the devil, some are possessed by self, others are possessed by God. 

Does the fact that we are living by grace and not by law mean that we are free to sin? Of course not. - Romans 6:15 -

This broadcast is an appeal to give your to God as if it were yours no longer, for your will is yours only to make it His. Pray not to change God's will; pray rather to change your own. Measure not God's Goodness by His readiness to do your will.

Shall we call Him "Father" and still not believe He wills what is best for His children? Think not that you could do more good for souls if you were well, or you had another position. What matters in life is not where we are but whether we are doing God's will.

Trust not in God because you are good, but because He is good and you are not. Often during the day say: "God loves me, and He is on my side, by my side."

In wartime, do not ask: "If the Japanese and the English, the Germans and the Americans, pray to God; on whose side is God?" For the answer to this question is: "If we all prayed as we ought, we would all be on the same side: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Neither ask: "Why do nations which love God fight one another?" The answer is: "They don't." You see how important is the love of God.                  

                      -  F R E E I N G   F R E E D O M  -  WHEN  IT  COMES  HE  COMES  -

HE is humanity's ultimate freedom. In Him, the resurrection power, is our capacity to be increasingly free. HE is FREEDOM because HE is totally given over to the FATHER to be what GOD wills Him TO BE in His plan of salvation.

We are free when no created things, no personal ambitions inhibits us from BECOMING the persons that God wants of us in His economy of salvation.

HE is our FREEDOM. In Him, the ULTIMATE FREEDOM, we attain our liberation, our true identity, children totally given over to God.

WHEN  IT  COMES  HE  COMES - Worry not when it comes. It comes when HE comes. The "Lord" call rings out in the depth of the hearer's heart. The Comer steps out forward into the future unknown. The Comer knows not the Lord's thoughts. His spirit blows here there. Yes HE reveals to the Comer the next best step forward.

Trust in HIM. Move out. Move beyond. For HE bids us: "Come child. Come into the knowable unknown world of my Trinitarian life." To have stepped forward is to have come. Allow then, Comer, the leading of the gentle guiding silence of the Lord to show you the path.

Worry not, Comer, when it comes. Know ye. It comes when HE comes.

POEM  BY  REV.  FR. ( JOJO ) M. FUNG  S.J.

** What is freedom? There are many incomplete or even false views of freedom. There is the anarchy view according to which freedom is the right and power to do as you like, to let yourself go, to be free from every control. There is another view, the liberal, which rejects any truth or law binding on all; it permits each one to be law unto himself and herself. There is a third, the existentialist, according to which you are free only when your action has no other goal than the demonstration of your own freedom.

And a fourth, the true view, which describes freedom as the inner power of a person to put himself and herself at the service of what is good, a power that is roused and guided by its own insight into and evaluation of the good. More simply, it is the power to seek what you see is truly good for you. It reaches its highest degree when it allows itself to be led entirely by the Spirit of God which leads only to what is absolutely good. It is the freedom of the children of God.

True freedom involves a double freedom, 'freedom from' and 'freedom for'. 'Freedom from' means freedom from internal inhibiting factors like fear, compulsion, prejudice, inordinate passions, all of which paralyse the will, imprison it; or from external deterrent like human respect, adverse criticism, group pressures, majority opinions. 'Freedom for' means the power to make personal responsible choices to say 'I want this because I like it, because I see it is good for me.

'Be truly free..... What must one do to become truly free?

Presupposing that you believe in those words of the Lord Jesus Christ, "without Me you can do nothing," you may securely follow a line of action like this:

1 - Refuse to be "pushed around" by egoistic forces from within: protect your freedom against them; - 2 - Refuse to be coerced by fear from without; hold your head high against it, keep your mind's eye clear so that you may - 3 - Allow yourself to be drawn only by what you see and "feel" is truly good and deeply satisfying to you as a person who is Christian.

The "feel" of what is truly good and deeply satisfying is both the fruit of grace and the result of sincerity in searching what Christ would do in your situation. Christ is Son of God and God is love. He is inviting you in each situation to love as He loves. Exercise your mind to discover the most loving response you could make to God and to man in your present situation.

To this exercise of your mind, these will be added infallibly the light and the power of the Spirit of Christ who dwells within you, enabling you to see to "feel" unmistakably the impulse to true love/charity. To follow firmly the impulse of truth and love/charity - of Christ, that is - and each situation without being "pushed around" by egoistic forces from within or slavish fears from without, this is truly Christian freedom, freedom most deeply satisfying and self-fulfilling.

Christian maturity is the goal of all Christian formation. It is therefore important for us to discuss and know what is Christian maturity. A person who is mature is one whose potentialities - physical, psychological, spiritual - have reached their full development. These have no doubt a great influence on the development of the psychological powers. The psychological powers are the intellectual, volitional, and emotional (imaginative).

Intellectual Maturity is the ability to make judgments consistent with one's convictions. Christian Intellectual Maturity is the capacity to make judgments consistently with one's Christian convictions. This requires that a Christian deepen his personal understanding of and conviction about his Faith. Children live on borrowed convictions; they believe what their parents tell them and do what they are told is good for them. Adults go by their own convictions. They do those things which they personally believe to be good. 

A Christian is intellectually mature when he knows his and her faith, understands the reasons for it, is personally gripped by its value, and consequently lives it out of personal conviction. He and she does not go merely by what books say. His and her religious convictions are the fruit of his and her faith, his and her judgments are consistent with them. Consequently he and she will not be clannish and will be open to whatever is good and true in other peoples, in other communities, other faiths. He and she will respect the truth and the good that there is in others - in the other people, in other religions.

Volitional maturity is the ability to keep an elected goal steadily in view and make straight for it. A Christian who is volitionally mature will keep his and her Christian goal - the Law of Christ, the Love of Christ, the values of Christ, the Spirit of Christ - steadily in view and try consistently to be faithful to it without deviation or deflection, notwithstanding contrary attractions and pressures. With the ups and downs, of course.

Emotional maturity is the ability to make effective use of the feelings without being ruled by them. Christian emotional maturity can be said to consist in the ability to handle our emotions as Christ handle them, using them to express His love for His Father and His Father's love for His children. Hear Him speak to His Father. "Abba". He addresses Him affectionately; He feels love for Mary and Martha to the point of weeping with them for their brother Lazarus. Christian emotional maturity will show itself in the ability to feel love and to show it, and in general, to respond as Christ responded to the whole scale of human emotions, being master of them, not their victim.

** BY REV. FR. J. B. FERNANDES  S.J.

God's highest creation, made in God's own image is Man. Man is most fully human when fulfilling the

intention of God for him: worshiping, serving and loving God. Of all creatures, only man has been given this blessed privilege.

God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel', so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him. - CCC # 1730; Sirach 15:14 -

Man is rational and therefore like God; he is created with free will and is master over his acts. - Saint Irenaeus,Adv.haeres.4,4,3:PG7/1,983. -

Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude. - CCC # 1731 -

As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God. there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning. This freedom characterizes properly human acts. It is the basis of praise or blame, merit or reproach. - CCC # 1732 -

The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and to do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to "the slavery of sin". - CCC # 1733; Romans 6:17 -

Freedom makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. Progress in virtue, knowledge of the good, and ascesis enhance the mastery of the will over its acts. - CCC # 1734 -

Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments and other psychological or social factors. - CCC # 1735 -

Every act directly willed is imputable to its author:
Thus the Lord asked Eve after the sin in the garden: "What is this that you have done?" He asked Cain the same question. The prophet Nathan questioned David in the same way after he committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and had him murdered. - Genesis 3:13, 4:10; 2 Samuel 12:7-15 -
An action can be indirectly voluntary when it results from negligence regarding something one should have known or done: for example, an accident arising from ignorance of traffic laws. - CCC # 1736 -

An effect can be tolerated without being willed by its agent; for instance, a mother's exhaustion from tending her sick child. A bad effect is not imputable if it was not willed either as an end or as a means of an action, e.g., a death a person incurs in aiding someone in danger. For a bad effect to be imputable it must be foreseeable and the agent must have the possibility of avoiding it, as in the case of manslaughter caused by a drunken driver. - CCC # 1737 -

Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings. Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect. The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person. This right must be recognized and protected by civil authority within the limits of the common good and public order. - CCC # 1738 -

I tell you most solemnly,
everyone who commits a sin is a slave.
Now the slave's place in the house is not assured,
but the son's place is assured.
So if the Son makes you free,
you will be free indeed. - John 8:33-36 -

When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. - Galatians 5:1 -

My brothers/sisters, you were called, as you know, to liberty; but be careful, or this liberty will provide an opening for self-indulgence. Serve one another, rather, in works of love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in a single command: Love your neighbour as yourself. - Galatians 5:13-14 -

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Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!

Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -

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You must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received - Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving, love and compassion. Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some secondhand, empty, rational, philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ alone is the true head of men and angels.

In his body lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment, in the one who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power. - Colossians 2:6-10 -

Live your life according to the true faith in Christ Jesus, NOT according to the half true, fairly tale story of the Lord Jesus Christ, that emanated from and based on false teaching. "There was a lawyer who, to disconcert Jesus, stood up and said to him, 'Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' Jesus Christ said to him, 'What is written in the Law? What do you read there?' The lawyer replied, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbour (brothers and sisters) as yourself'. You have answered right,' said Jesus 'do this and life is yours.'" - Luke 10:25-28 ; Matthew 22:34-40 -  

One day while they were offering worship to the Lord Jesus Christ and keeping a fast, the Holy Spirit said, 'I want Barnabas and Saul set apart for the work to which I have called them'. So it was that after fasting and prayer they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So these two, sent on their mission by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus. They landed at Salamis and proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; John acted as their assistant. 

They travelled the whole length of the island, and at Paphos they came in contact with a Jewish magician called Bar-jesus. This false prophet was one of the attendants of the proconsul Sergius Paulus who was an extremely intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and asked to hear the word of God, but Elymas Magos-as he was called in Greek-tried to stop them so as to prevent the proconsul's conversion to the faith. Then Saul, whose other name is Paul, looked him full in the face and said, 'You utter fraud, you impostor, you son of the devil, you enemy of all true religion, why don't you stop twisting the straightforward ways of the Lord Jesus Christ? Now watch how the hand of the Lord will strike you: you will be blind, and for a time you will not see the sun.' That instant, everything went misty and dark for him/Elymas Magos, and he groped about to find someone to lead him by the hand. The proconsul, who had watched everything, became a believer, being astonished by what he had learnt about the Lord Jesus Christ. - Acts 13:2-12 - 

Saint/Apostle Paul does more than denounce false teaching. The best medicine is a firm grip on who Jesus Christ is and what He did for our salvation. In Christ Jesus are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and "in Him all fullness" dwells. In fact, "The Lord Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God." He has stripped every power opposed to Him, wiped out every accusation against us, and actually reconciled all things to Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is not only head of the Universal Church, but He stands all time and above every power, and at the end of all history. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of all creation.

He is the image of the unseen God
and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers -
all things were created through him and for him.

Before anything was created, he existed,
and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body,
he is its head.

As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead,
so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him
and all things to be reconciled through him and for him,
everything in heaven and everything on earth,
when he made peace
by his death on the cross. - Colossians 1:15-20 -

Work for your salvation 'in fear and trembling'. It is God for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you. Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood, and you will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life. - Philippians 2:12-16 -

If anyone is ignorance and skeptical of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, it is mainly because today, peoples had turned the church into a free enterprise or has become a business operation. Try to access the Internet and by no surprise, anyone, who claimed he and she read and knows the Bible well and have faith, he or she can be ordained as pastors by another pastor, and will help linking them to some churches and simultaneously help them to start or establish a new church. Our faith, hope and love of our Lord Jesus Christ should be in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church that established by Him (the Lord Jesus Christ), not by any person or anyone or because of any person influences and feeling good.

Many try to imply that it was Peter's faith on which Jesus established the Church. But closer examination of the words of Jesus reveal that the selection and appointment was of divine nature. Christians, clinging to the notion that the Church was build on the faith of Peter. Sorry and sad to said, their thinking and understanding is entirely and completely on their own merit, without God's grace.

 - Matthew 16:15-19 - 'But you,' Jesus said 'who do you say I am?' Then Simon Peter spoke up, 'You are the Christ,' he said 'the Son of the living God.' Jesus replied, Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you; You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven. - Matthew 16:15-19 -

"This is what you are to teach them to believe and persuade them to do. Anyone teaches anything different, and does not keep to the sound teaching which is that of our Lord Jesus Christ, the doctrine which is in accordance with true religion, is simply ignorant and must be full of self-conceit - with a craze for questioning everything and arguing about words. All that can come of this is jealousy, contention, abuse and wicked mistrust of one another, and unending disputes by people who are neither rational nor informed and imagine that religion is a way of making a profit.

Religion, of course, does bring large profits, but only to those who are content with what they have. We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it; but as long as we have food and clothing, let us be content with that. People who long to be rich are a prey to temptation; they get trapped into all sorts of foolish and dangerous ambitions which eventually plunge them into ruin and destruction. The love of money is the root of all evils and there are some who, pursuing it, have wandered away from the faith, and so given their souls any number of fatal wounds.

But, as people dedicated to God, you must avoid all that. You must aim to be saintly and religious, filled with faith and love, patient and gentle. Fight the good fight of the faith and win for yourself the eternal life to which you were called when you made your profession and spoke up for the truth in front of many witnesses." - 1 Timothy 6:3-12 -

Apostle/Saint Paul does more than denounce half true and false teaching. The best medicine is a firm grip on who Jesus Christ is and what He did for our salvation. In Christ Jesus are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and "in Him all fullness" dwells. In fact, "The Lord Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God." He has stripped every power opposed to Him, wiped out every accusation against us, and actually reconciled all things to Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is not only head of the Universal Church, but He stands all time and above every power, and at the end of all history. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of all creation.

Saving faith is also a personal commitment of one's life to following Christ in obedience to His commands. "But if anyone of you should suffer for being Christian, then he is not to be ashamed of it; he should thank God that he has been called one." - 1 Peter 4:16 - Faith is like that: if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead. 

This is the way to talk to people of that kind; You say you have faith and I have good deeds; I will prove to you that I have faith by showing you my good deeds - now you prove to me that you have faith without any good deeds to show. You believe in the one God - that is credible enough but the demons have the same belief and they tremble with fear. Do realise, you senseless man that faith without good deeds is useless. You surely know that Abraham our father was justified by his deed because he offered his son Isaac on the altar? There you see it: faith and deeds were working together; his faith became perfect by what he did. This is what scripture really means when it says; Abraham put his faith in God and this was counted as making him justified and that is why he was called 'the friend of God'. - James 2:17-23 -

To deepen the spiritual lives and while guarding against half true and false teaching and false prophets, test them, to see if they come from God. By emphasizing the divine nature of Jesus the false teachers and fake prophets appeared to be Christians and non-Christians; but they showed their true colours by denying that God became a true human in Jesus.(fully human and fully Divine.) Anyone who claimed to have the Spirit of God, they were actually false teachers and fake prophets.

It is not every spirit, my dear people that you can trust;
test them, to see if they come from God;
there are many false prophets, now, in the world.
You can tell the spirits that come from God by this;
every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in the flesh
is from God;
but any spirit which will not say this of Jesus
is not from God,
but is the spirit of Antichrist,
whose coming you were warned about.
Well, now he is here, in the world.

Children,
you have already overcome these false prophets,
because you are from God and you have in you
one who is greater than anyone in this world;
as for them, they are of the world,
and so they speak the language of the world
and the world listens to them.
But we are children of God,
and those who know God listen to us;
those who are not of God refuse to listen to us.
This is how we can tell
the spirit of truth from the spirit of falsehood. - 1 John 4:1-6 -

What the Spirit brings is very different: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control. There can be no law against things like that, of course. You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires. Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit. We must stop being conceited, provocative and envious.  - Galatians 5:22-26 -

True Christian love is not something merely to talk about but to do. Active love gives us confidence before God. A person must examine various spiritual manifestation to determine if they are of God; only those who confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh are of God. In His love God sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for sin. As a consequence we are to love one another.

The presence of Antichrists, who deny that Jesus is the Christ, is a sign of the end times. But true believers rest secure in the anointing of the Holy Spirit which they have from Christ. When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, His children will be like Him. Whoever abides in the Lord Jesus Christ does not continue to sin habitually or constantly. Amen!

These words seem simple on the surface. But in the hands of one who had pondered the mystery and meaning of Jesus' existence in human form, they yield many deep truths. "Through your faith, God's power will guard you until the salvation which has been prepared is revealed at the end of time. This is a cause of great joy for you, even though you may for a short time have to bear being plagued by all sorts of trials; so that, when Jesus Christ is revealed, your faith will have been tested and proved like gold - only it is more precious than gold, which is corruptible even though it bears testing by fire - and then you will have praise and glory and honour. You did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him, you are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described, because you believe; and you are sure of the end to which your faith looks forward, that is, the salvation of your souls." - 1 Peter 1:5-9 -

If you can have some share in the sufferings of Christ, be glad, because you will enjoy a much greater gladness when his glory is revealed. - 1 Peter 4:14 -

It is only on account of this that I am experiencing fresh hardships here now; but I have not lost confidence because I know who it is that I have put my trust in and I have no doubt at all that he is able to take care of all that I have entrusted to him until that Day. - 2 Timothy 1:12 -

No one can hurt you if you are determined to do only what is right; if you do have to suffer for being good, you will count it a blessing. There is no need to be afraid or to worry about them. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong. - 1 Peter 3:13-14, 3:17 -

We can boast about God's glory. But that is not all we boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. - Romans 5:2-5 -

I think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation still retains the hope of being freed, like us, from its slavery to decadence, to enjoy the same freedom and glory as the children of God. - Romans 8:18-21 -

But to tell the truth, even if I distressed you by my letter, I do not regret it. I did regret before, and I see that letter did distress you, at least for a time; but I am happy now - not because I made you suffer, but because your suffering led to your repentance. Yours has been a kind of suffering that God approves, and so you have come to no kind of harm from us. To suffer in God's way means changing for the better and leaves no regrets, but to suffer as the world knows suffering brings death. - 2 Corinthians 8-10 -

None of you should ever deserve to suffer for being a murderer, a thief, a criminal or an informer; but if anyone of you should suffer for being a Christian, then he or she is not to be ashamed of it; he or she should thank God that he or she has been called one. - 1 Peter 4:16 -

I thank my God whenever I think of you; and every time I pray for all of you, I pray with joy, remembering how you have helped to spread the Good News from the day you first heard it right up to the present. - Philippians 1:3-5 -

The Lord Jesus Christ continued to be the source of life. The New Testament expanded on the Old Testament idea of life. The word life began to refer to more than physical existence. It took on a strong spiritual meaning, often referring to the spiritual life that results from man's relationship with God. Eternal life means more than eternal existence. And it is refers to eternal fellowship with God.

Anyone who believe in the Son has eternal life,
but anyone who refuses to believe in the Son will never see life:
the anger of God stays on him. - John 3:36 -

Do not work for food that cannot last,
but work for food that endures to eternal life,
the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you,
for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal. - John 6:27 -

Eternal life is the highest quality of life. According to the Apostle/Saint Augustine of Hippo and Apostle/Saint Paul, it is freedom from sin, holiness and a positive relationship with God. This is in contrast to spiritual death, which results from a life of sin. In St. Augustine's classical expression: "These two cities were made by two loves: the earthly city by the love of self unto the contempt of God, and the heavenly city by the love of God unto the contempt of self." (Book 14, c. 28) The earthly city glories in its own power, the heavenly in the power of God. The Book of Life is a heavenly book in which the names of "all those whom God loves" are written. The concept of God's having a "BOOK OF LIFE" was probably first enunciated by Moses, who prayed that God would blot him out of God's book rather than dooming his fellow Israelites.

When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since that sort of behaviour ends in death. Now, however, you have been set free from sin, you have been made slaves of God, and you get a reward leading to your sanctification and ending in eternal life. For the wage paid by sin is death; the present given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 6:20-23 -

In the New Testament, in which the Greek word for 'soul' is translated as 'life.' Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light. - Matthew 11:28-30 -

Anyone who loves his/her life loses it; 

anyone who hates his/her life in this world

will keep it for eternal life.

If a man/woman serves me, he/she must follow me,

wherever I am, my servant will be there too.

If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him/her. - John 12:25-26; Matthew 16:24-28; Luke 9:23-26 -

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Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!

Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -

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