The Two Kingdoms and Which Kingdom You Belonged

Originally written by Pastor Alberto Rendon

Yesterday  and today I have been very busy doing things in my Computer shop with two CPUs to be fixed plus I have many things to do online for a project.

Sometimes I have no time to recheck  my post with online grammar and spelling checker to correct the wrong spellings and grammar. I admit, that I am not expert in English, that is why I am thankful for the online checker and please take patience of my mistakes or clerical errors.

Again, we have been invited for dinner this afternoon in the birthday celebration of our neighbor who turned 61 years old today.  Thanks for the invitation Nang Betty for the birthday of Nong Muroy.

My message for today that God has impressed in my heart is about the Two Spiritual Kingdoms.

1 Peter 2:9  "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" KJV

Apostle Peter wrote a letter addressed to the people of God in his time, to let them know their spiritual position while living here on earth.  We see here the spiritual position of the people of God that they are no longer in the kingdom of darkness, they have been called out of it and they have been transferred into the Kingdom of Light.




Two Spiritual kingdoms

This verse reveals two spiritual kingdoms and positions of people living in our world. Apostle Peter called it darkness and light. These two things symbolized the two kingdoms which Apostle Paul declared.

Colossians 1:13 "For he has rescued us out of the darkness and gloom of Satan's kingdom and brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son,.." TLB

Both Apostle Paul and Peter agreed together, of course - they were inspired by the Holy Spirit,  that there are two spiritual kingdoms existing on this planet earth that both are populated by human kind.

There are two spiritual kingdoms that has its king. The one is of Satan who is the king in the kingdom, called kingdom of darkness. And, the other one is called the kingdom of light which Apostle Paul said, the Kingdom of his dear son, of course the son of God no other than our Lord and King  Jesus Christ.

The Apostles said that,  there are people who are called out of darkness and have been brought into the Kingdom of light.  That simply means that, those who have been brought into the Kingdom of light are no longer under the control and power of Satan, in the kingdom of darkness.   Instead, they are now under the control and power of God.

The work of the devil is to destroy lives of the people through the deceiving tactics and strategies -since the beginning of men. Those people who are under controlled by Satan's power naturally obey him. Anything that people do that will destroy the lives of the other people are the signs that they are under the power and control of their king Satan.

In the other hand, in the kingdom of light which Jesus Christ is the King is the opposite of what the devil is doing. That is why Jesus said in John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." KJV

The People in the Kingdom of Light

To whom did the Apostles address when he wrote that they have been called out of darkness and have been transferred, rescued or brought into the kingdom of Light? Biblically, the believers of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The Christians - believers of Christ after they have heard the gospel - in the time of Apostle Paul at Colossi that he wrote the book of Colossians.  And Apostle Peter wrote his books in the Bible addressed to the believers of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem.

The same gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, they have been preaching and teaching of what we have now.  And therefore, in today's time all those who have heard and believed the same gospel are also brought into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. That's how powerful the gospel is, it can transfer, rescued or saved and or delivered people from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light.

Apostle Paul declared that the gospel is the power of God for salvation.

"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." Romans 1:16  NIV

That's the reason why the devil will try his best to blind people spiritually, so they will not believe the gospel, because once a person is enlightened by the power of the gospel, Satan would have lost a worker that he is going gradually to destroy even the worker's household. If possible, Satan will persecute, put into prisons or kill all the preachers of the gospel.  And he is doing that up to now since the time of the early Christians.




The people who wanted to destroy the Kingdom of Light

According to Christian history, which is Biblically based that the Apostles of Jesus Christ were put in prisons and have been killed by the religious people in their time. It has been believed that Apostle Peter was nailed reversed on the cross. Apostle Paul was beheaded in Rome. Whose law and role they have obeyed that they have done all of this that the preachers of the good news (gospel) have been sentenced to death?  It was the law of religion. People who are in religion have done this Satan's mission to kill and destroy.

People who are under the control of their spiritual king - the devil - simply fulfill his mission.   If you know the Christian history, you will find out that even the so-called - church - headed by a known leader, many have been killed, put in prisons and have destroyed families because of their law.  Is the law they have made inspired by God or the devil? But the law of God through our Lord Jesus Christ is LOVE.  Jesus said love your enemy.

"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic." Luke 6:27-29 NIV

Actually, the devil cannot and will not be able to destroy the Kingdom of Light. He may be able to destroy and kill some believers of the gospel, but it's only the physical not the spiritual.  Physical death is nothing to be afraid by the people in the Kingdom of Light. Apostle Paul said.

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21

Remember, I am talking here about spiritual kingdoms. Although these kingdoms are both spiritual in its nature, but its mission is manifested in the physical world.  The most important is not the physical, but the spiritual and if ever the devil could destroy the physical,  he cannot destroy the spiritual or the Kingdom of light.




The Kingdom of Light cannot be destroyed

In the other hand, the devil cannot really destroy the missions of the Kingdom of light. May the devil be able to kill physically some of the believers, but the King in the Kingdom of Light has preserved more people, instead that his Kingdom is destroyed it is the devil's kingdom that has been destroyed.

In the time of Paul and Silas, they made the world (system of the kingdom of darkness) upside down.

Acts 17:6  "...Paul and Silas have turned the rest of the world upside down, and now they are here disturbing our city,..." TLB

History upon history of the Christendom proves that the Kingdom of light cannot be prevailed by the kingdom of darkness. It is ever existing in more power than before.  Pastors and Christian workers/missionaries are growing fast than ever before that penetrate to all corners of the globe.   Yah..... Jesus said, even the gates of hell cannot prevail his church (kingdom).  (Matthew 16:18).

In this website which, I am doing my best to post the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, is one way that the Kingdom of Light will penetrate to all the world. Those who are blessed by the message, they are going to share with their social networks. Hallelujah!

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How To Be An Expert Living a Godly Life

Originally written by Pastor Alberto Rendon

Today is Sunday,  we thank God for each day especially Sunday which all the believers of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ would gather together in one place for fellowship, praise and worship and learning to the preaching of the precious Word of God.

After our Sunday worship we went to one of our brethren who dedicated their Isuzu Forward Truck with thanksgiving celebration, we have our lunch fellowship with some of the members who were with us. And in the afternoon, our neighbors who are our church sympathizers have brought their new motorcycle for a blessing and dedication, and again we were invited for dinner.  

How To Be An Expert  Living a Godly Life

We have a very wonderful message in our Sunday Service taken from the word of God in the book of Joshua which I titled the message "Be an expert  to live a godly life." This is what God wants us to live, expert in godliness.  There are those who are expert in doing something in life.

Joshua 1:8 "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." KJV

In our text, God wants that his people will become prosperous and to have good success. But there is the condition. And the condition is we must follow his ways or "... all that is written therein:.." - in the book of the law. God's ways are found in His word the Bible or the book of the law.

God's ways will lead us to have good success and prosperous life.  

A doctor who is an expert would have many patients, of course he could have earn a lot of money. An engineer who is an expert would have many opportunities of constructions and eventually will make a lot of money.   To become expert would have a lot of practice or doing his job. An expert, has never become expert doing nothing.

This principle will apply to what God has designed for his people.

The same way, that when we live according to what God has instructed us in His word day by day we will become expert. There and then, the promise of blessings will be fulfilled.   Becoming and expert is worth rewarding. There is no regret when we will follow God's leading in our lives because he will reward us with his blessings.

Following God will make you Godly

Godly life means, following God's ways. This is called godly living or godly life. When we follow God day after day we are becoming experts to live godly.




And do you know what Apostle Paul said? He said in 1 Timothy 4:8 "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." KJV

Living godly is compared to bodily exercise that has a physical benefit in the sense that you can benefit in doing so, but bodily exercise is less than compared to godly life, because godly living brings much benefits unto all things.

To have a physical benefit from bodily exercise it should be a continues daily habit.  You cannot have a physical benefit from a one time exercise in one month or a year. It is the same way with godly living, we need to have a daily habit pertaining to what God has told us to do.

In our text in Joshua it says day and night we are to meditate the word of God. This is one of the exercises that we must have to do. As well as praying or talking with God as we are commanded in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 "pray continually;... " NIV

When we read and  meditate the word of God, it is His way of talking to us and when we pray, we are talking with him. God wants us to do these two-way of communication. Because this cannot be separated in a relationship between two that love each other.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth

There are many more things that God is saying about godly living. One is our mouth, the way we speak or talk, the way we sing and the way how we response to what we heard. Our mouth is compared as a match that can fire up even the biggest forest in the world.

Our mouth which our tongues reside is the most dangerous part in our body if we are not careful how to use it. There comes the blessings and cursing. As James said,  "Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be." James 3:10 KJV

We must use our mouth in a godly way, in singing we need to sing the songs of praises to God with thanksgiving.  Many people do not know how to sing spiritual songs but they are good in singing with worldly songs. To live godly is not that way. We are commanded in the Bible many times to sing songs of praises unto God




Before when I was not a believer of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, I didn't sing songs of praises to God. I never knew one song for God. Simply it is because I was not living a godly life. I did many things that contradict to godly living the whole of my life. Why? Because generally, I have no word of God in my heart, I didn't read the word of God simply because I didn't have it in my hands.

It was in 1984 that I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ through the gospel presented to me, that I have accepted and believed. There and then, I have a new relationship that I have never had before, and then that's the time that I knew how to pray or talk to God and sing new songs.

One of my cousins who was a believer of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,  gave me a bible the word of God, that I have read and learned many things about God and of what he said.

How wonderful such a time like that, that one person came to know the Lord Jesus Christ and has started to live a godly life. I never have regretted that I become such a new person that lives a godly living. I was and am blessed with good success and prosperous life. glory to God in the highest.

Yah! That's me, you too can live godly life if you do what God has instructed us to do in a daily basis like bodily exercises.

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Believers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Originally written by Pastor Alberto Rendon

Our stomachs are very full tonight from two birthday celebrations today. At least we have not spent any money for our lunch and dinner today.  We have saved our budget for two meals... thank you Lord for the invitations.

We ate our dinner and after that we have our Bible Study and I have been teaching to the audience a topic IN CHRIST  taken in the book of 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" NIV

This was our  fourth Bible study in this family. I was teaching in the series about "Believers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." I have emphasized that to be in Christ you must be a believer of the Gospel of him.  As a believer, the Bible says you are already in Jesus Christ.




The Importance of The Gospel

The Gospel is very important in order for any one to be in Christ. The Bible says, as Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:16 "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." NIV.

This speaks about the believers of the Gospel and the believers received salvation after they have believed the gospel, and therefore, Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit said, the gospel is the power of God for salvation.

Here we understand that no one becomes a believer of God and of Christ without the gospel, so it is really the power of God to saved people. What Jesus Christ has done on the cross of Calvary to redeemed people from sin is nothing and is useless if it is not being heard or known to the people.

The power of the cross and the blood of Christ become powerless in the life of a person if he has not believe the gospel, and how can he believes the gospel if no one is teaching or  preaching unto him? That's why Jesus Christ urges his followers to go and preach the gospel (Mark 16:15-16).

You need to hear the preaching or presentation of the gospel and believe before you receive salvation.

The preaching of the gospel must be understood and there must be a clear presentation of it before someone will accept and not to doubt, but believe and lastly receive salvation. That's why the devil called the god of this world is doing all he can to blind the understanding of the people, that they may not be enlightened by the gospel.

2 Corinthians 4:4 "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." KJV

Those who have heard the gospel and believe not, they are the victims of the work of the devil.  The god of this world doesn't want you to believe the gospel lest you will receive salvation. He doesn't want that anyone to be saved. But the almighty God who is full of mercy and grace with his agape love doesn't want that anyone will perish.

But God uses his servants to present/preach the gospel and as preachers we should use God's anointing and wisdom to let the people hear and believe the gospel. And this is my ministry, my work to preach and teach the gospel. And now by means of the internet I am posting the gospel of Christ here as well as I am doing it personally. We have conducting crusades in the past in different places and planning to continue this task. And  most contents in this website are my presentation of Christ's gospel.




You are not for Christ but you are already in Christ

I emphasized in our Bible study tonight that every believer is not for Christ, but he is already in Christ. The Bible says so.

There are group of people who used this term, that they are for Christ;  like for example youth for Christ and couple for Christ. I do not know how they would explain that. For me, it's wrong and why? It is because of the words FOR and IN!  That means, using the word FOR, you are not IN yet but still going to get IN.

I believe that those who are not yet believers of the gospel, they are for Christ, but those who heard the gospel, having the clear understanding of it, never doubting about it, but believing, the Bible says they are already IN Christ.

Being In Christ means, you are in His Lordship and Kingship

Because of the inherited sin, before we become believers of the gospel, our life is under the lordship of the kingdom of darkness. That's why God the father sent his begotten son Jesus Christ to redeem us from that kingdom.

Colossians 1:13 "For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,.." NIV

That verse in the Bible says that he (God)  has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought (redeemed) us into the kingdom of the Son (Jesus Christ) he loves. Before you become enlightened and believe the gospel, you are in the dominion of darkness, but now you are no longer belonged to that kingdom of darkness,  because you are now already INTO another kingdom, the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

If you are enlightened by the gospel, you are already in Christ, not anymore going to be in Christ, you are already in His kingdom. You are now under His Lordship and Kingship. You are no longer seeking the kingdom of God, because you already have found it and you are already in his kingdom.

Enlightened by the gospel 

Enlightened by the gospel means, you understand that you are a sinner, and you have got a greater problem in you life,  and the problem is you cannot save your own from being a sinner and from the penalty of it. And now you know that there is the only one solution of your problem and that solution is the savior who has done all to pay the penalty of your sin and that savior is Jesus Christ.  So you must believe in Him and of what he has done for you. If you believe in Him, you are now  a believer of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I Hope so.

Conclusion:

You will never be in Christ, without believing the gospel of him and you will never become a believer of him if no one told you about him - ultimately, there is no gospel to tell if God has not loved you so much.  God loves you so much that no one can compare.  You are always in God's mind. He is committed to love you forever and even you have committed mistakes to him still he loves you much. That's the gospel.  So you must be thankful for that. More blessings be multiplied to you in Jesus name. Amen!

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Our Ministry Updates Please Read

Tonight we have just arrived home from Bible service in the family whose love one has departed and be buried tomorrow.  The other week we have 4 successive nights Bible service in the two families who also have love ones to be with the Lord.

In the past 3 weeks, there were 4 families that we have to support morally, spiritually and prayerfully because each of these families has lost a loved one and they are close to us.

I have been very busy for my project of making kindle books to sell in Amazon. I have already one that is already published in the site and is ready for sale. In the next following days or weeks I am going to publish more.

This project is to support the work of the ministry which, it has been already a long time enough we have been praying for financial support. I am doing any decent business online for this purpose. I have two blogs and some other online businesses.  Just new babe online and hopefully this could help.

Rediscovering The Best Way To Make Money Online: Make Money By Blogging Lifestyle

 This Philippines Christian Journal blog was supposedly in the paid host domain that I registered for one year, but due to some reasons I transferred it here in blogger.com. Blogger dot come is free and is hosted by google the number one search engine globally by far who owns youtube and many others and it has many online opportunities.

If you are not a member of google I encourage you to sign up for membership using the gmail.com account and you could have many opportunities here like google + and what I like the most is a hard drive online that you can store files from you computer works backups. Almost every thing online speaking of opportunities is here in your google account. To sign up for your account is totally free. 

My http://alrenpages.com  blog is a registered domain that I registered on April this year 2014, which the full function was on the last days of June.  I try my best to always update and post more articles in both of my blogs.  The PCJ was just newly transferred here that is only almost two weeks on this write up.

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