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Deutsche Posts
18.09.2009 - Kinder stellen die besten Fragen
19.08.2009 - Hausbesuch bei Zeugen 


English Posts
05.12.2009 - Definition of Freedom
21.11.2009 - Sermon on the normality of Christian suffering
09.11.2009 - You are as real as your quiet time
20.08.2009 - Book Recommendation: Octavius Winslow "Personal Declension"
17.08.2009 - Jehovah's Witnesses Meeting
16.07.2009 - Bible through in 90 days

Definition of Freedom

What is freedom?

Freedom is often seen as the free choice to do good or evil, to live God's way or break his will, to sin or be like Christ.But actually that can't be biblical freedom because in the New Creation we will all be free but there we won't be able to sin any more. There is no choice, not to love Jesus. There we will obey the will of God completely without any desire to do otherwise. So according to our common definition of freedom, we will have no freedom in Heaven at all. Unless this definition is of worldly origin and needs to be replaced.

Yes, in the New Creation we will be free because freedom is definite as being absolutely conformed to the image of Christ. Freedom is to act according to your nature. That means that God is free, to do according to his nature to be love. A non-Christian acts according to his nature - the sinful flesh. Yet he is not free but in slavery to sin. The Christian is enabled to freedom - he can act according to his new nature in Christ through the new birth but as long as he remains in the old, sinful body, he can slip into sin but will know that this sin is no freedom but something he hates doing. This new freedom becomes more and more evident, the more the will of God is revealed to him in Christ and he will see more clearly when and how he can be free, that is; like Christ. Hence it follows that Adam and Eve were almost free (sin not being in the world yet), but not completely since they still had a choice to transgress against the LORD's command and eat from the tree. If that choice had not existed, they would have had complete freedom.
In the New Creation he will finally be free and the sinful body will be replaced with the resurrection body. There he will be free, like Christ, free from making any decision to go against the will of God. That is true freedom.

(1Pe 2:16) Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
(2Pe 2:19)They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

On that day when freed from sinning

I shall see Thy lovely face.

Clothed then in the blood-washed linen

How I'll sing Thy sovereign grace.

Come my Lord, no longer tarry

Take my ransomed soul away;

Send Thine angels now to carry

Me to realms of brightest day.

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Neue Impressionen

Hier sind mal noch ein paar Bilder aus London.

 Oben die Gebetskapelle, in der ich alle drei Wochen predige. Die Anwesenden sind meistens Rentner, zur Hälfte Christen, manche denken, sie wären's und manche sind es nicht. Möge das Wort vorangehen und Sein Werk vollbringen.

Unten: Die Dächer von London gen Süden. Das Bild hab ich vom Spielplatz geschossen.  
Above is the prayer chapel in which I preached every third week. The people who are coming are usually elderly, half of the Christians, some think they are and others are clearly need. May the Word of the LORD go forth and accomplish for what he is sent.  Below you have the roofs of London. The picture is taken from the playground. 

  

 Oben: Fitzrovia Square - das ist gleich um die Ecke meiner Kirche und ja, sonst gibt es da weiter nichts zu sehen. Unten: Der Spielsplatz der All Souls Grundschule. Der ist auf dem Dach des 5-stöckigen Gebäudes, was besonders lustig wird, wenn man den Ball über den Zaun kickt. Dort bin ich jeden Freitag zwischen 12-13:30 und spiele mit den Kids. 
Above: Fitzrovia Square - that's just round the corner of my church but there is nothing else really. Below: The playground of the All Souls primary school. It's on top of the 5-store building which is particularly fun when you kick the ball over the fence. I'm there every Friday from 12-1:30pm and play with the kids.  

Sermon on the normality on Christian suffering

Here is the sermon from the 15.11.2009 about Mark 8:22-9:1 preached at All Souls. The main point of the sermon is that if you haven't died as a Christian, you aren't one.

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	Mark Prentice - He saw everything clearly
	Found at www.allsouls.org

You are as real as your quite time

This is such a good sermon on the importance of your daily time in prayer and Bible reading. Especially the second half of this sermon is awesome. 

 

Keith Daniel has also some amazing testimonies. From his dad, who walked with Jesus 9 years and read through the Bible 68 times in that time. Will MacFarlane, who read through the Bible 430 times and almost all the prayers that he prayed were answered immediately. His godly father-in-law and wife... So inspiring and I never knew how deep and wonderful the Christian life can be. 

My godly father

My godly father-in-law pt1

My godly father-in-law pt2

My godly father-in-law (Mt Vernon)

Testimony of Will MacFarlane

The Word of God 

Workplace testimony on youtube (continues in part 9) 

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