Tuesday, September 2, 2014

What Is New Life All About


Originally Written by Pastor Alberto Rendon

"Go, stand in the temple courts," he said, "and tell the people the full message of this new life." Acts 5:20

The Bible says there is a New Life. There is a new life and we must tell the people the full message of it.  What is this New Life? Who has this New Life? Who gave this New Life? How to have this New Life?

These are the questions that we must find the answers. Ignorance to the answers of these questions would make you wonder the real meaning of life.

Life is full of meaning. It is a wonderful thing we have; unless you understood the meaning of life you will not enjoy the reality of life. Your life would be useless and full of sorrow and loneliness.





Life should have a full of joy and peace. Unless you have the New Life you will not experience the true joy and peace of God.

What is New Life?

Some believe it is a new religion. Some believe it is a life being changed from bad habits. Some believe that it is a life saved from the danger and others believe that it is a life that has been fulfilled the New Year’s resolution.

This New Life is so very important to God. This is the life that God desires that all people should have. This life is so very precious that it is the death of the most important person that paid it.

What this New Life Is All About?

None of the above beliefs got the answer. You may have a nice religion but cannot have this New Life. You may have changed your bad habits and you still do not have this New Life. You maybe saved from death, sickness and accident but you do not have this New Life. And you may have fulfilled the New Year’s resolution in a long period of time and still you do not have the New Life.

New Life is called in the Bible “Eternal Life.”

John 3:16 “…that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Who should to believe? Those already have the life/old life; a man of sin. A man has this old life the human life.

In order for a man who already has the old life to have the Eternal life he must believe on Him (Jesus Christ). 

In other words, if a man who already believed on the only begotten Son of God has already received eternal life. 1 John 5:12-13 supported it.




If a man already has received the eternal life, it means he has another life that is eternal and to him it is a new life. That is what New Life is. Eternal Life.

New Life is called in the Bible “Spiritual Life.”

John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”

The old life is born of the flesh, which is the human life the old life. But that is born of the spirit is “Spirit” the bible says.  It is clear that the life that is born in the flesh is flesh which means the old life we had. But that is born in the spirit is spirit which it means Spiritual life and that is the New Life.

Notice; both life, the old and the new has its beginning and the beginning is being born. The Bible says that which is BORN of the flesh is flesh and that which is BORN of the Spirit is spirit. The old life is being born in the flesh and the same way the Spiritual Life/New Life is being born in the Spirit, in other words born again.

Many people believe that this New Life is received after the death of the old life, which means a life in heaven. That is why many people pray for the dead that says “Lord give Him (the dead) eternal life.”

What the Bible says about who has this New Life?

In 1 John 5:12-13 it says.  “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

According to what is written in the Bible, “…He that has the son has Life.” What is this life? Simple; it is not the human life the old life but it is the New Life. It is because many people who do not have the son but still they have the life the old life. So the life here indicates the New Life that is given to those who had the Son.

In verse 13, it says, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life





Who already had eternal life? Those who believe on the name of the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ. Are they still alive? Of course. To whom it is written? To the dead or to the people who are still alive?  If we say to the dead it makes no sense. 

Who gave this New Life?

1 John 5:11 “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”

It is God who gave the New Life through our Lord Jesus Christ.

In verse 13, it says, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life

Those who believe on Jesus Christ.




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Monday, September 1, 2014

We Have The Power Against The Devil And His Evil Spirits

Originally Written by: Pastor Alberto Rendon

James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." 

This is one of my favorite verses about our authority. Here we understand that our submission to God is our great opportunity to receive the power or authority.   Also we can see here how powerful we are that even the devil is afraid of us.

The devil here is Satan, he is the leader of all evil spirits. His work in the life of the people is to destroy with many kinds of tactics and strategies. He is also called a deceiver, this is one of his tactics to destroy human kinds.




People who do not know their authority against the devil are usually deceived. If the people knew their authority and use it against the devil, they will never be deceived.

We Cannot See Satan And His Evil Spirits

The devil is a spirit. Physically we cannot see spirits. However, we can see the manifestations of their works. It doesn't merely needs a discerning spirit to see the works of the devil. Every evil thing is of the devil, every evil plan and reaction done by men is under the influence of the devil.

We are living on this earth where we are surrounded by the presence of evil. The believers of God are vulnerable to the wiles of the devil.  So, we are commanded to resist the devil and he will flee from us.

How To Resist The Devil

We are not commanded to get away from the devil, but to resist him and he will be the one to get away from us. The Bible says so. Usually the devil is the one that comes to us first, it is not us that come to him in the first place. 

The devil will come to our mind injecting negative and bad thoughts. The reasons people doing bad habits because they are influenced by the devil. They are deceived.   For those who believe the authority God has given to them, they can easily detect the negative and bad thoughts and automatically they can resist the devil.

1. We can resist the devil and his evil forces by using the words of command.

Every one who has the authority uses the words of command. It is only seldom to give an authority to a mute person.  Commanding someone to do a task is usually by the words of command. I thinks it's only seldom to command using the action signs.  Using words is more likely in details and understandable.

Although the devil is a spirit, he can hear our words. It is the same with God who is also a spirit when we pray or talk to Him, he can hear our words.  We do not beg or pray to the devil to get away from us but to command him with the authority the we have and he will obey us.

The devil tries to use his authority to command us to do his task and many have obeyed him, the reason there are many evils in this world done by men because of their obedience to the devil. For them that have the knowledge of good and evil based on the word of God, they can easily refuse the commands of the devil and instead they are the one to command the devil get to away from them.





2. We can resist the devil and his evil forces by using the word of God.

We can counter act using the word of God when bad and negative thoughts come into our mind. This is what Jesus did in his temptation in the desert. He always counter the devil with the word of God (Matthew 4:1-10).

It is not only enough that the devil has departed from us and leaving his ways for us to do and we did them actually. We need also to resist his ways, his tactics and his strategies. The devil can command someone to do his job and then left him alone, assuring that someone is doing his work.

We sin when we obey the commands and the temptations of the devil. But we can resist those tactics by a counter act using the word of God - a counter act to the devil's words.

That is why it is very important to have the word of God hidden in hearts. David said,  Psalms 119:11  "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you." 

The word of God is of great help for us not to commit sin against God. It has a power to set us free even when we have attempted or already cornered by the devil. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32).

3. We can resist the devil and his evil forces by believing the word of God firmly.

The cause of the fall of man was disobedience to the word of God. But before the disobedience took place there was a doubt injected in the mind of Eve in the garden of Eden. Doubting the word of God will bring disobedience.

One of the tactics of the devil is to counter act the word of God in our hearts with deception.

"And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:2-4.

It is very clear that God said to  Adam and Eve not to eat nor touch the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, because when they would eat they will die.

The counter act of the devil using the serpent, "ye shall not surely die... but instead ye shall be as gods,..."

Eve believed the deception of the serpent rather than what God said as the truth.  The truth is true it shall not lie. The devil is a liar and because of that those who are deceived suffered the consequences.

We must believe and stand firm on the Word of God.  If we are determined to believe what God is saying, we can resist the deception of the evil one and we can enjoy the benefits of the word of God.




Conclusion:  

Don't think that the devil has power over us, believe that we have the authority over him and his evil spirits in the name of Jesus Christ.  We are not to submit to the devil, only to God the Almighty we are to submit. By the authority God has given us the devil is the one to submit to us. And if we will resist him and his works he can do nothing against us.

That is why Paul boldly says, we are more than conquerors, Romans 8:37 "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.:


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Friday, August 29, 2014

A Place Which Dwelleth Righteousness

Written and Posted by Pastor Alberto Rendon

2 Peter 3:13  "But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness." NIV

The Bible says, there is a new Heaven and a New Earth, and this place is called the home of righteousness.  WOW...! How wonderful this place.  I want this place. This is our home place, the Bible says that we are only strangers here on earth, strangers stay only temporarily in one place, time comes that we will go home to our real home place.

How Can We Describe This Place?

1. The home of righteousness is a place of perfect peace.

Everyone wants a peaceful place. We do not want to live in a place where there is always trouble in the surroundings.

When I was a child, I always heard that Mindanao Philippines is always in war.  I live in Visayas in 1970's where I have my two cousins who were solders assigned in Mindanao, and they said they were in a war.




In those years, we heard through radio that Vietnam was in war. I thank God I was not born before the world war 2.

We may think that our place that we live is peaceful, no war no physical trouble, it's a place where there is peace because there are many police men and guards all around. There is no even thief nor dangerous men.

But the truth actually, in the mind of the people especially those who do not trust in God, still they felt troubles in their mind. Some troubles are caused by the routine of life, misunderstanding between two or more in relationships.

Stress, anxiety over fatigue, headaches and heartaches are still operating in each individuals. So therefore... no peace at all.

We cannot find perfect peace here on this old heaven and earth. The perfect peace is in the new heaven and the new earth, the promise of God for those who longs to live on it.

2. The home of righteousness is a place of perfect safety.

We want a safe place, where we can walk in the middle of the night, we do not have fear of danger.

Can we find a place which is safe and sound that you can sleep very well in the night when you are tired from your work?

Maybe we can find a place which every body thinks that this place is a safe place for us. But how sure we are? To tell the truth, no place here on earth which is safe at all.

Yah! Maybe it's a safe place for a moment, but no one can predict what will happen in the future.

Don't you know that, even we are having a high technologies today still they are limited. The time is changing, climate is changing. Many may think that we are developing and progressing because of the high technologies.

Maybe there are things that are developing and progressing into the good and into the best, but in the other side, our earth and the universe is getting older that any time there will be trouble in the solar system that no person can stop.

Earthquakes, hurricanes  and tornadoes cannot be stopped by our technologies.

Crushes on highways and airways still happening every moment throughout the earth.  There is no safe place....!

Sickness is also getting high grade,  while the technologies in making any good medicines are computerized and it is well developed, but don't you wonder that the more people are getting sick.

Maybe someone could boast of his good health, but actually he does not know that cancer could take advantage later on, that he even cannot refuse it to come any time.  There is no safe place here on earth...!

We cannot hide from any danger while here on earth. The only place where there is a perfect safety is in the new heaven and the new earth. That's my place....!

3. The home of righteousness is a place of perfect righteousness.

Many religious people I heard say that if you live righteously, absolutely you are going to heaven when you die.

These people believe that because you are good and religious surely and absolutely you are bound for heaven. I do not believe to that, it is a lie, absolutely a lie.

You will not go to heaven, because you are good and you always do good. Heaven cannot be bought by your good works. How much is the worth of your good works, how many millions of dollars is the price of your good works?




Can it be enough to pay to enter heaven? Is the new heaven  and earth for rent of for sale? No!

The reason why Apostle Paul said, you are not saved by your good works, because if it so, you will boast (Ephesians 2:8-9). My own term, but it is the point.

If you count your good works as your own righteousness and because of that you are going to heaven, I tell you,! You are wrong and you will never enter heaven.

Because you trust on your own good works to save you. You replaced Jesus Christ  as the only savior by your good works or your own righteousness.

Your righteousness as the result of your good works is nothing in the sight of God. It is counted by God as filthy rags.
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." Isaiah 64:6
That is why, Apostle Paul said in his writing in Philippians 3:9,  "And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"

The Apostle here is talking about the two kinds of righteousness.  The righteousness of man produced by observing the law or doing good works, and the righteousness of God which is in Christ receive by faith.

Except that your own righteousness be replaced by the righteousness of God in you, not by doing the good works of the law,  but by faith of Christ, you are not righteous in the sight of God.

You can receive the righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ in the time that you believe in him.
"Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:..." Romans 3:22.
When you have that righteousness of God in you, in the sight of God you are righteous. Every good work you do for God has now become acceptable in His sight because He sees you as already clean, not like filthy rags anymore. 

That's why the new heaven and the new earth is a place of righteousness because those who will go there are already righteous because God's righteousness is in them.

The Place of righteousness is intended only for the righteous. 



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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Agape Love Is The Secret To True Happiness

Originally written by Pastor Alberto Rendon

Everyone longs happiness in life. To be happy is a behavior of feeling well.

More likely many people think that feeling well is based on two major situations in life, good health and abundant wealth.

But average people are not happy because they have no good health even if they have all the wealth.  And some other people are not happy because they have no abundant wealth even if they have all the good health.

This shows that true happiness is not based on wealth and health.



Oh! Maybe someone would argue, I must have the two - good health and abundant wealth to be happy.

Yes it is true that there are some who have good health and abundant wealth, but still they have the feeling of being not satisfied. No contentment, they still have the feeling of lack.  Eventually, no true happiness.

These two things that most people are achieving in the whole of their lives missed the most important thing in life, which is the love of God that brings true happiness.

The Love of God, which is agape that if without it in our life we missed the true happiness. I have learned the five kinds of love that bring two kinds of happiness - true happiness and temporary happiness.

I am talking here about the secret to true happiness which everyone will ever need in searching the real meaning of life.

Before revealing the secret. Allow me first to introduce the five kinds of love that bring happiness to all that pursued them.

1. Storge Love - Storge  love is an affectionate love, the type of love that every member in the family expresses to one another.

2. Eros Love - Eros is the love between opposite sex - husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.

3. Phileo Love - A relational love towards individuals. It sometimes refers in the church as brotherly love.

4. Kosmos Love - A love of the things in the world, which the Bible says, do not love the things in the world that includes the love of money, which is the root of all evil.



All this kinds of love is conditional that if its condition is not met it cannot express or demonstrate happiness, but when it is met happiness is produced, but just temporary happiness because it only depends on its condition.

 Most people, happiness is based on satisfaction on either of the four kinds of love, with this motivation  will absolutely lead to failure because, actually no one is being satisfied in life with worldly things.

The Secret To True Happiness is the AGAPE Love

Agape love must be on top of the four kinds of love, we see that there are five kinds of love.

Agape love is the Love of God for us and in response we love God which also considers agape love. It is a relational love between God and His Children.

This kind of love is unconditional. It expresses without condition, this is what God has in sending His Son  as Romans 5:8;

    But God demonstrates His own love (agape) toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Now let me show you what is true happiness that I meant? 

Agape Love Is The Secret To True Happiness.


True happiness is what termed in the Bible as JOY.

This is one of the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22.

And in Romans 5:5   "... the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."

If the Holy Spirit is in us, he brings joy (true happiness)  and it is only received  by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ Has Come To Give Us Abundant Life

Unsatisfaction, sorrow, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, stress and depression are the results of the works of the devil.

These are the opposite of Happiness.



The Bible says Jesus Christ has come to give us abundant life (John 10:10), to set the captives free (Luke 4:18,  to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

The true happiness is the result of Agape love which brought to us by the Holy Spirit as having the faith in Jesus Christ. Ultimately, Jesus is the answer to all the problems of men.

Believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will give  you the  Holy Spirit, to reside in your life that brings true happiness (joy),  even when you are in the midst of trouble.

True happiness doesn't depend on circumstances, but it depends on how you allow the fruit of the spirit to
express itself in the two real situations - Health and Wealth. 

So Agape Love Is The Secret To True Happiness.



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Saturday, July 12, 2014

I dedicated a child on June 2014


Today June 17, 2014 was scheduled to dedicate a child of one of our couple members. On this occasion it was a great privileged to share the word of God especially there are those Nenangs and Nenongs, visitors, friends and relatives attended to witness the dedication. I shared the word of God taken from the book of

Mark in chapter 10:13-16.13 And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15“Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” 16 And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.


From this portion of the scriptures I shared about the “Importance of Child Dedication.” It is indeed very important so that we can present the child to the Lord for His blessings to impart on the child.

I emphasized about how God could bless us or our children. In Jesus time as we have read the scriptures, that He released His blessing to the children but, He did not release his blessings until the children have come near to him so that He could touch and lay his hands on them.

In this part of the Bible, we understand that the Lord Jesus Christ will only bless those who come to Him and his blessing is always ready to impart but with a condition that somebody should come to him first. As we see here, we could say that blessed are those who come to Jesus, because He will not only accept them but He will release a blessing to them.

There was no regret of the parents that brought their children to Jesus Christ, they were not disappointed. They have seen how Jesus loved little Children. And if Jesus who is full of love released his blessings unconditionally to those who come to Him therefore, I am blessed indeed. That is why I have no regret that I have come to Jesus Christ.

Lay Hands On Them

I am a believer of the belief that there is power in laying hands. We see here that the Lord Jesus Christ is a believer of laying hands. He Laid His hands on all the Children.

Laying of hands has been practiced since long years ago before our Lord Jesus Christ was born. It is a way how they would release blessings. Laying of hands is a contact point between the one who will release the blessings and the one to be blessed.


I believe in the power of laying of hands with a proclamation of blessings. There are plenty of verses in the Bible to support laying of hands to impart what is desired for. In fact the Lord Jesus Christ last commands includes laying of hands.

Every time I dedicate a child I laid my hand proclaiming blessings for the child.


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