Good Posture for Good Reception

Read Exodus 3:1-10

What do you do when your cellular phone is experiencing bad reception? Some move to another area, walk around in circles, and wave their phone side to side, and some try to even position themselves in a better area if they are in a building. Well, that is similar to our reception and communication with God. We must place ourselves in a spiritual posture that will allow us to have good reception, so that God can speak and we may hear Him. We have too many things in our lives that hinder our reception. Some of our friends, activities we participate in and certain lifestyles hinder our reception with God. We have to remove some of these obstacles and posture ourselves in prayer, reading God's word, fasting, scripture mediation, holiness and worship, so we might hear from God. God wants to speak to us. God wants to reveal who He is, His heart, His Will and His plan and purpose for us. Take time this week and strive to posture yourself to hear from God!

"Playing House: Why It Hurts So Bad"~ YDOC Tuesday Night Bible Study Highlight

OOOUUCCHHH!!! Tears falling down your face, it’s not physical; it’s an inner pain you feel inside. Torn, cut, broken, dismembered, sliced, severed, and tattered you sit and cry, cry, cry, cry… you see no blood but you’re experiencing internal bleeding. Lost, feeling like you are out of reach of healing… OOOOUUCCHH!!!! They said, “It’s over!” OOOUUCCHH!!! They said, “I never want to speak to you again!” OOOUUUCCHH!!! They said, “You’re not the one!” OOOUUCH!!! They said, “We’re done!” This is the break ups we experience, but it deeper than a break up. This is the feeling of relationships that have chosen to engage in premarital sex and now that relationship is over. “Why does it hurt so bad”? It’s not your normal experience of a break up because there are spiritual events that take place when you engage in premarital sex. 1 Cor. 6:15-16- Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.” The sexual experience is two becoming one flesh. A relationship lead by God, to transition to marriage to be kept by God, finds itself on the safe operating table of becoming one flesh. Our premarital sexual experience is not God lead thus we find ourselves in a painful bloody mess.
We are in a society that enjoys playing house. We have male and females engaging in sex, which is what married couples are supposed to engage and as a result, many people find themselves hurt. You may not be with a prostitute, but the principle is this, when you have sex, you become ONE with that person. Marriages that are God centered (theo-centeric) will be kept by God and the two that became ONE will remain ONE in God. God does not keep as one, relationships that engage in premarital sex. God keeps God centered marriages. It hurts when you break up with your boy friend or girl friend you had sex because it feels like flesh is tearing and being cut. You both became one and because your union was not based upon God’s principles you find yourself bleeding from torn flesh (spiritually speaking). Let’s stop playing house. I know you want to be loved, but love does not have to experience that type of damage. God took that experience by loving you to the cross, taking your nails, cross, thorn and spear, bleeding for you. God chose to bleed for you to keep you from bleeding. Become one with God by following His Word and resist sexual immorality because it will only hurt you in the end. “There is a way which seems right unto a man but in the end there of is the way of death” (Proverbs 16:25).

Highlight from this week's YDOC Bible Study "This is why I'm Hot"

This past Tuesday, we realized that we were on our way to hell singing, "This is why I'm hot, this is I'm hot!", but God in His demonstration of His OWN love towards us, sent His ONLY Son Jesus Christ to die FOR us! He saved us from His wrath!! If you are a believer, you have been saved and God has given you a new life and a new song, "Amazing Grace!!"

God demonstrated His OWN love towards us. He didn't need persuasion or assistance; He possessed His own natural love towards us to save us. In fact, it would take His own love to decide to take our place, "Christ died FOR US" (Substitutionary Death).

Since Jesus died for you, why don't you live for Him? Galatians 2:20- “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”

Live for Christ...

Rev. Max

Bible Study Feb. 23, 2010

Bible Study Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 at 7pm at First Baptist Church of Vienna! This is a must attend Bible Study! You will not think or be the same. We will look at clips and read the details of the punishment of Jesus Christ from trials to the crucifixion as we study the doctrine of Salvation (Soteriology). If you don'...t know how Jesus paid for your sins you will know by the time we are done and you will leave with a fresh understanding, conviction and love for the sacrifice of Jesus on your behalf. I am watching it and studying now and my eyes are flooding! Bring Bible, notebook, pen, tissue and a heart to learn. This is a Youth Bible Study BUT yo!!! All are welcome to this one!! Really! Come on out! Bring a friend so they can get saved and renewed too!

Isaiah 53:5 He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.

Watch clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1eMNAQ4D5E

Responding to Jay-Z: Kingdom State of Mind

When I heard Jay-Z line, “Jesus can’t save you life starts when the church ends”, I was shocked! I felt angry because I’m from New York, so of course I was a huge Jay supporter at one time then I was falling back from supporting Jay so much because I was falling more in love with Jesus but when I heard this I was like, “Yo Jay!! Son, you went too far now!” So my response to Jay-Z and for those who don’t know my Christ, here is my response:
JESUS CAN SAVE!!! John 3:16-17 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life (salvation). For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” Colossians 1:13-14 says, “For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Colossians 2:13-14, “When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive tighter with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.” Ephesians 5:2:4-10, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Romans 5:8-9 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.”
Jigga, I can go on and on but the greatest verse or biblical translation is a living translation which is my own life. I was in sin and God saved me through His Son Jesus who is the living Christ, Son of the living God, the true God! Everyday no matter what I face, Jesus walks with me, Jesus keeps me and after all I have gone through having been from the streets of Brooklyn NY, I conclude that I am here today, enjoying life because of Jesus Christ and I am glad though from the Empire State, Jesus saved me from the corrupt Empire State of Mind and filled me with a Kingdom State of Mind!! Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you!” My Jesus has saved, is saving and will continue to save!
1 John 5:5 "Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? " Don't be deceived, Jesus saves!! Get your mind right before you get left!
The Streets are talking, and the Church is too!!
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Responding to Jay-Z

We play songs and sing songs usings words, phrases and ideas not realizing what we are actually saying. How many of us know that in Jay-Z song The Empire State of Mind featuring Alisha Keys, Jay-z in his third verse made the following statement: "Jesus can't save you life starts when the church ends." If you were Alisha Keys what would you have said to Jay-Z concerning your Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ? Would you have finished the song with Jay? Would you have just ignored it and not say anything? Using scripture references and your own experience respond to Jay-z's comments in the song Empire State of Mind concerning Jesus? Go to Blog and make your comments tonight?

Holla Back!

Rev. Max

Online Bible Study Feb. 2, 2010 Summary of Sin

For the past month or so we have been discussing the doctrine of sin and we have been looking at how sin played out in King David's life particularly looking at the narrative of his dealings with Bathsheba and Uriah in 2 Samuel 11. Write a summary of what we have discussed concerning the doctrine of sin and what we learned from King David in 2 Samuel 11. Give some of your own insight and give your experience with resisting sin. Post your summary for comments. We will review all posts and comments on Feb. 9, 2010.