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Pastor Francis Anfuso concludes our Sermon on the Mount series, teaching on the importance of loving everyone as God loves.
Pastor Francis Anfuso concludes our Sermon on the Mount series, teaching on the importance of loving everyone as God loves.
Also we should not bear hate against another, that's one must do, free our hearts with anger, consuming hate as it also means that if we have it, it is the same as case of having murdered, making us murdering in par of our enemies. If we have enemies , we all should give it to the Lord, free our hearts and we can't do this our of our own boasted efforts. Only the strength of Christ we can overcome hate of another, as our fallen being can't do it all. It is , we should give it all up and everything to Jesus to be ale to love our enemies. Through the redemption and grace of Jesus Christ we can achieve deep peace in our hearts and minds and are set free.
The Lord also commanded us to judge righteously, meaning we should be rightfully discerning and being stupid without doing anything and let the enemies destroy us, we should be making war in the spirit . If anyone plans our destruction we should defend ourselves by the mighty spiritual sword of God by faith:
Isaiah 54:17 "No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me," declares the LORD."
Philippians 4:6 " Don't worry about anything but in everything through prayer and petition with thanksgiving , let your request be made know to God."
Isaiah 50:9
"It is the Sovereign LORD who helps me. Who will condemn me? They will all wear out like a garment; the moths will eat them up."
I have many life experiences that I have no doubt my God has judged people who do against His will.
I can share only two experiences . Although I wish to make videos of these many testimonies, so to encouraged everyone our God is not dead He is a living mighty God who delivers righteous justice.
Testimony A: Is it God's justice ?
Back in my Dad's place where i go on vacation, also as an inheritance, we had a found out a neighbor who was a Pastor , was building a huge seawall and his hired men gathered in secret rocks belonging to our shores and they it by dark. There are many witnesses that comes out they are doing this for a period of time. So my elderly dad confront the pastor and pleaded his men not to do it any more. But still it carries on. I prayed sincerely to the Lord who sees everything , the ins and out, it what we knew is all true. And if this is true, I asked the Lord for justice and the neighbors stealing of our rocks be stopped. We could sue him to human court justice but this takes money and time and there's no true justice. I only see the righteous justice is from my God and pleaded for Almighty God's justice. That was my deep prayers before I left my Dad's place on vacation. Such issue almost gone away from my head. Then I rung two weeks later to my sister who is leaving with my elderly Dad. What she said to me was very shocking. She said the Pastor neighbor ( not our pastor ) was dead. On the way to a wedding ceremony by which he meant to officiate, he had a heart attack along the way and no one spotted him until later in the day. My heart grieved when I knew it. Most of all I hope he has repented and now with the Lord. But his seawall project stopped and the men he hired who keeps gathering our rocks during night time are also gone.
Testimony B: God Takes my enemy out of the way !
I have a new line manager who to begin was nice but later in the months ahead was showing her colors. She was always biased against me, in fact giving me harder assignments than others, setting me goals harder to achieve . Her biased behavior against me was getting so bad that I am getting wary, in case she will come up of something and falsely accuse me of. One last day, it was deadline of submission of reports but that which I needed just few data inputs to complete them. Some of them aren't all in the database, some are yet to be sourced out form a log book. Yet she refused to help me to locate few specific log books , she's not even busy , just leaving me with a hard face, watching me agonizingly extending my time at work sorting things out , could be easier done quick has she directed me just in few words of where things were kept. My colleagues at work noticed this biased against me.
It made me wonder why she's so hard to me, it made me worried sometimes. Yet I trust God of everything and remembering God's promise of protection is all my strength . I just prayed to the Lord to protect my job and anyone who tries to destroy me, will not succeed. I forgive her in my heart. My heart is clear and take no hate or grudge against her. I knew the peace and assurance in my heart is only from the grace of God through Christ, not from my own strength alone.
Then I had a week's break from work . When I came back, a colleague informed me my line manager was suddenly dismissed. This line manager has smashed her car, at best she was not injured but it did massive damage to property, she run away from it or any responsibility of the damage and is caught up facing criminal charges.
I was relieved she was gone and out of her persecutions, but also I understood the trouble she faced . I prayed she will meet Jesus and be saved in her path of life and that God will help her find another job later on.
As an encouragement , God truly protects those who put their trust in Him, give all your cares to Jesus !!!!!