plantingtheseed.info IXOYE….. Jesus Christ, Son of God – Savior Welcome! To my Free Weekly Christian Newsletter – This newsletter has been going out, weekly now, for the past 8 years. My aim here is to reach as many as possible with the ‘Word of God’. To help, put that [word] into their hearts or minds in order for them to adjust their lives around God, become saved, and teach them a few things along the way. I also send this email to ‘shut-ins’ that may not have computers via snail mail, so if you know of anyone that could use the ‘Word of God’ to uplift their lives, either send this newsletter to them, or send me their address and I will. Again I ask for nothing for this…my payment is to bring as many people to God’s footstep as possible……..This newsletter will arrive in your inbox every Wed throughout the year – unless otherwise noted. Every first of the month, newsletter I attach something that may be of interest to you ‘religiously speaking’ of some Biblical history of such. There are links at the bottom of my email for your enjoyment, messages that will enrich you through many means. So let’s move on here and I hope you enjoy what I write. I may stay for weeks on one subject, or switch over from one week to the next on something else, yet I try to keep your attention and give you something to enrich your life with God, for God and especially for yourself as well. Thank you for signing up Stay Blessed in the eyes of the Lord Pastor Frederick Kohler Please send this email to anyone that would like to receive it or have them go to: plantingtheseed.info and email me from there. BOTH BOOKS CAN BE BOUGHT ON AMAZON: KINDLE FROM HERE ON IN: New!!! My books are also available in: UK, Germany, France, and Japan Click on the Books!!! Anyone wishing to have a loved one put on this newsletter prayer list please email me at: fkohler258@aol Death Record: My father - Frederick M Kohler has left us on March 11, 2011 and is now with our Lord and Savior. My mother – ‘Barbara Kohler’ left us on May 20, 2010 to be with our Lord and Savior. My Mother-in-law, ‘Martha Huber’ passed away on June 6, 2007. Helmut Leonhardt passed away on 11/7/2013 Corky Banks passed away on 4/30/2014 My Cousin: Rev. Naseeb Constantine Masood passed on 1/15/2015 age:75 born 1/14/40 PRAYER SECTION: Listed below are people that need your prayers. Some are listed in full, others – just their first name. The Lord knows who is who and what their needs are, that is all we need to know. He will take our prayers from here and do what He thinks is necessary. But, praying in groups is far more effective. So with that said, please include these people in your prayers, many have diseases beyond repair, many need a miracle – which only God can give. Others may only need a prayer for help with a certain condition or help in living from day to day…these are all special circumstances and please include them in your prayers daily- Nancy Miller, Andy, Butch Damico, Butch, Adam, Said Musa, Allen, Barb Dubinett, Lila Winder, Jean, Lisa Huber, Ron Huber, Sheri, Valerie Bennett, Don, Angel Querry, Jay, Tricia Black, Chuckie, Shirley Miller, Frederica, Bruce Rumbaugh, LaVern, The Adams Family, Bertie R. Birchfield Family, Janie Hann, the Prykop Family, Pastor Frederick Kohler, Regina Kohler, Ed Massood, Jon Masood, Diane Huber, Glenn Campbell, Eric Campbell, Glenn Campbell Sr., Ray Mckee, Ric Costner and immediate family, Lynn Kattke, Holly Fuller, Susan Amer, and her family (Nasser, Jamal and Rashad), Ron Crabb, Christina Flanagan, Meia, Jim Boor, Mike Miles his brother Brian Miles and mother Katie, Ann-Marie Hetrick, Mildred Hepner, Tina Chestney and family, James Kennedy, Michele Kattke, Alice Zimmerman, Rose and Bob Everhart, Kim Barmoy, Ron Balest, Roy Amrhein, and his wife Jennie, Nick Sangalli and family, Katlyn Crouse, Candice Bargo, Kirsten, Amanda, Jayden, Luvinia LaDuke, Gregory Pike, Michele Kattke, Jeninna, Michael Oneal, Lees husband AL, Michelle’s parents, Marlene Stone, Tom Latteri, (Beamer-puppy), Susan & Dawn Boucher, Bert Hobbs, Danny Derosher, Elyse Leighty, Jamie Baker, Destiny Mason, Marva Queen, Dave Schmelzlen, Liz Vargo, Brenda Harris, Camie, Nancy, Steve Harned, Cyd & Brenden Rust, Colleen Clarks family, Brett Cable, Sherri & Doug Madden, Greg Banks To thank a friend of mine that is an advent reader of this newsletter, he suggested that we not only pray for our loved ones above but, to pray for ‘everyone else in the world’ too. For everyone else is suffering from something also, which I couldn’t agree with him more…thanks Pete for your input and lets all get everyone cured or at least helped through our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen! Ø Are your saved yet? You cannot get into Heaven by being a good person or doing good things! Ø You must ask the Lord to come into your heart and become your loving Savior as you are humbled, repent your sins. Ø Then follow His Commandments and stay true to the ways of the Lord, do as the Lord would do or act as He would, is a common thought. Stay on track? If you fall off, brush yourself off and ask for forgiveness and continue, He will forgive you! He does not want you to go to Hell. Ø Warning! We are in the End of Days and it is imperative that you become saved! So do it now, don’t wait, you don’t get another or second chance once you are in front of your Creator on judgment day. You must believe in Jesus the Son of God and follow His Laws! But, do this from the heart (God’s place) don’t do it because you have to, do it because you need to and want an eternity in Heaven. Jan 3wk The Resurrection: God’s promise of Life after Death: Another resurrection follows: Indeed, as we can see, the same passage explains in a parenthetical note, “The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.” Clearly there is another resurrection 1,00 years after the first, and in this resurrection others will have the opportunity to receive salvation. They will be called to understand God’s truth and His plan during a period sometimes referred to as the “great white throne” judgment (verse 11). This time of judgment is further described in verse 12: “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.” Those resurrected in this group have never completely understood the truth of God. Consider that the majority of all people who have ever lived have never heard God’s truth. Rather than condemn such people to eternal suffering in a fiery hell, the God of the Bible is much more comforting and encouraging. He will extend the opportunity for eternal life to everyone—to relatively few in this age, but to billions of people in the coming second or general resurrection. Judgment is much more than a final decision to reward or condemn. Judgment is a process that takes place over time before a final decision is rendered. Those brought to a temporary, physical life again in this resurrection (see Ezekiel 37:1-14) will, for the first time, have their minds opened to the truth of God’s plan. They will have the opportunity to decide whether they will accept and follow God’s instruction or not. After coming to see the truth, they will be judged according to their response to their new understanding. Many will accept that truth, repent and receive God’s gift of eternal life—joining those made immortal in the first resurrection. Past generations will be resurrected together Jesus Himself spoke of this second resurrection period when He said that even the sinners of the long-destroyed city of Sodom would have the opportunity to repent in a future judgment. As He sent His disciples out on a mission to preach the gospel (Matthew 10:9-14), He told them that some they would encounter would reject their message. Of these Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that city” (verse 15). That there is room for tolerance in that day toward Sodom and Gomorrah shows they will have opportunity to repent and enter God’s Kingdom. This is because, when they formerly lived, they either never had opportunity to know God or His way or never fully understood what they heard. The time for their calling and judgment is yet future. This is not a second chance for salvation, as some might view it. Rather, this will be their first chance—their first opportunity to act on a clear understanding of God’s truth. In a similar example, Jesus said the long-dead people of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh and the biblical “queen of the South” from Solomon’s time ”will rise up in the judgment” alongside those from Christ’s generation (Matthew 12:41-42). The people from those generations had lived and died many centuries earlier, never having understood the true God or His plan to offer eternal life through His Son Jesus the Messiah. Having great mercy toward all people, God will offer salvation to all who lived and died in all ages without ever really knowing Him. The Bible tells us that God does not play favorites (Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11). He calls all at the time that is appropriate for them, and eventually all will be given the same wonderful opportunity to receive His gift of salvation. Evidence of a third resurrection Other scriptures indicate that a third group, the wicked that refuse to accept God and His way of life, will be resurrected just before final destruction in the lake of fire. Jesus explained that some would deliberately and knowingly despise God’s truth and spiritual understanding. These individuals, He said, will not be forgiven ”either in this age or in the age to come” (Matthew 12:31-32). Yet “All who are in the graves will hear [Christ’s] voice and come forth” (John 5:28-29). Even those who will not be forgiven are to be resurrected from the dead. This group will consist of those who have deliberately rejected God’s way of life even after they have been “once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit” (Hebrews 6:4-6). These few are people who were once forgiven and converted but later chose to reject the Holy Spirit and priceless knowledge God gave to them. Because they “trampled the Son of God under foot…treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and …insulted the Spirit of grace,” for them “no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of ragging fire that will consume the enemies of God” (Hebrews 10:26-29, NIV). As we saw earlier, God has revealed that the ultimate fate of the incorrigibly wicked is to be burned up; “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1). This will be the end for those few who stubbornly have or will have refused to repent of their own self-willed rebellion in spite of all the opportunities made available to them by God. They will be destroyed in the lake of fire, dying in “the second death,” from which there will be no resurrection (Revelation 20:13-14; 21:8). We are even told that death itself and hades (the grave) will be destroyed in this fire (Revelation 20:14). That is because the judgment of God will then be complete. Those who are saved will never again have to fear death. Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 15:26 will have then come to pass: “The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.” Until next week……..Read your Bible!
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