A.M. Samuel

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13/09/2018

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08/09/2018

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07/09/2018

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10/03/2018

Spiritual Growth By A.M Samuel purpose of life Life of Christ Chronology Bible Reading The Uniqueness of Bible (Hindi) God’s Word concerning what to eat or drink (Hindi) Ye Shall Know the tru…

23/01/2018

Many have this wrong notion that taking medicines is sin that is why many do not take medicines, even if they want to. Taking medicines is never a sin. The question is on whom you trust more. Is it…

07/07/2017

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Getting sidetracked into secondary pursuits is the bane of our lives. Joshua reminds us that we must each deliberately choose whom we will serve (Joshua 24:15). That’s why it’s crucial to identify, describe, and markdown your life’s goal. It becomes the measuring stick to determine whether attractio...

16/01/2017

Hindrances in inheriting

“Self” is one of main hindrances for inheriting the Kingdom of God. Jesus says, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23) “If any man come to me and hate not his father; and mother; and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:25)

A true disciple of Jesus Christ can only inherit the Kingdom of God. Therefore, Apostle Paul says, “But this I say, brethren, the time is short, it remained, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing if for the fashion of this world passed away.” (1 Cor. 7:29-31)

The saints of the first century were able to overcome their selfish desires. “The multitudes of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common.” (Acts 4:32) When the selfish desires are crucified the real joy of the Holy Spirit begins to rule the heart of a child of God. Then the fruit of the kingdom of God is revealed through the Holy Spirit in practical life. “But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law.” (Gal. 5:22, 23)

Although the child of God has not overcome all the works of the flesh in his life, the Lord is willing to grant him the privilege to inherit the Kingdom of God provided he dedicates himself without any condition for growing into the likeness of Christ. The Tabernacle in the midst of Israel is a type or shadow of the spiritual kingdom of God. In the Tabernacle is divided into three parts – The Most Holy Place, Holy Place, and the Court.

14/01/2017

Inheriting the Kingdom

After entering into the spiritual Kingdom of God, it is necessary for every child of God to inherit the Kingdom of God. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like,; the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” (Gal. 5:19-21)

Unless a person overcomes the works of the flesh, he cannot possess the spiritual kingdom. Some of the work of the flesh can easily be identified such as adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, murders, drunkenness, reveling etc.

But hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying and the like, cannot be identified easily. Often these things become close associates of the children of God. Hating a brother or sister who is not following our principles or who refuses to accept all what one says, is very common these days. Anger slowly takes the form of wrath and waits for an opportunity to take the revenge. Jealousy is very common among the saints. Strife and seditions have also become the family members of a child of God. Unless these things are completely identified and removed from one’s life, a child of God cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.

11/01/2017

Seeing the Kingdom of God

Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Accepting Jesus Christ as ones’ personal Savior gives a person the privilege to see the spiritual Kingdom of God. When a man who was groping in utter darkness, happened to see a light at a distant place he feels little comfort and happiness. Similarly when a person accepts Jesus Christ, he is comforted and he begins to rejoice because he now sees the light – the kingdom of God.


Entering the Kingdom

Furthermore Jesus says, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Here ‘water’ represents the Word of God and Water Baptism.

Through water baptism a person buries his citizenship with the kingdom of darkness (Satan) and becomes a citizen of the spiritual kingdom of God. Through the Spirit of God a person gets the strength to push away the cords of sin and enter into the spiritual kingdom of God. “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.” (Rom. 14:17) The Word of God clearly says, “The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink,” Many people try to establish the spiritual kingdom of God in the hearts of men by giving them material things – meat and drink, and thereby carnally minded people flock together in the churches. Gradually carnally minded people start controlling the movement of the Spirit of God in the Church. “For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” (1Cor. 4:20)

The Lord Jesus Christ commanded His disciples to receive the power from on high – power of Holy Spirit, and then preach the Gospel to establish the spiritual kingdom in the hearts of men. But carnally minded people depend on material things to establish spiritual kingdom. Money and material things are required for the ministry, but the ministry is not to be guided or controlled by these things. Holy Spirit is the controller of the ministry. Only through the power of the Holy Spirit, the strong hold of Satan can be pulled down. To enter the kingdom one has to believe on the Word of God, and close all his previous accounts with Satan, and through Water Baptism put on Christ, and be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

02/01/2017

The Great Miracle Worker

The great miracle worker, the false prophet, will soon take over the spiritual activities and perform miracles after miracles to divert the attention of the people He will bring down fire from the sky and will put life into the image of the beast and make it to speak (Rev. 13:11-18) “Three unclean spirits like frogs came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, working miracles to deceive the people.” (Rev. 16:13, 14) Already these wicked spirits are effectively working among the people of God who are not carefully watching themselves from worldliness and unholy lives. Therefore performing miracles is not a big thing for Satan.

In the pretext of helping the work of God many wicked people have entered into the field of evangelism. They provide all kinds of financial assistance for the ministry, but at the same time pollute the spiritual lives of the preachers, and pastors with compromising doctrines and luxurious living. Thousands of pastors flock around these apostles of dollars, for their financial benefits. The saints are forsaking the narrow and thorny path, the path of hardship, shame and reproach, and they are following the path of fame, influence, compromise, luxury, and unholy living.

Instead of depending on the power of Holy Spirit for evangelizing the world, they depend on psychological methods and human wisdom and money power. Thousands of people flock around such ministers to hear the worldly wisdom and promise of material prosperity. Though these people utter the name of Jesus they are not delivered from the power of darkness.

The unclean spirits like frogs is working in council meetings, Presbytery meetings and all sorts of decision making bodies. Wherever these spirits are not discerned by the anointed servants of God, these wicked spirits bring many ideas and compromising principles inside the church through the brains of leaders who have no time to sit in the presence of God to wait and to hear the voice of God and to get guidance from the Holy Spirit. Thus the body of Christ has become a powerless organization.

28/12/2016

The Guile of Satan

These days Satan has penetrated deeply into the ministry of the Church. Satan’s ‘ministers of righteousness’ are defiling the body of Christ – The Church of God, through worldliness, compromising doctrines and politics. Instead of depending on the power of resurrection, the ministers are using money and psychological gimmicks for evangelism. The powerful Gospel of Jesus Christ is diluted with prosperity gospel and luxurious life styles. The narrow path of thorn, of difficulties and shame has been converted into a path of fame, pleasure and prosperity. Even few chosen saints who march forward as pilgrims are also confused looking at the duplicate pattern of the ministry brought into the Gospel world by Satan and his ministers.

After the secret coming and the rapture of the church, Anti-Christ will appear as a man of peace. (Rev. 6:1, 2) He will succeed in bringing temporary peace and prosperity in this world during the first three and a half years period, of the Great Tribulation (Dan. 8:23-25).

At the end of the first phase of three and a half years. Satan, the old dragon will be cast down from heaven and he will enthrone himself in Anti Christ (Rev. 12:7-10) Satan and his Anti Christ and the false prophet will rule the world for a period of three and a half years. The false prophet will do many miracles to draw the attention of the people that they may worship the image installed in the temple of God in Jerusalem.

These days’ people are attracted by miracles. Many miracle workers break the barriers of scriptural sound doctrines and gather people in many thousands in the name of miracles for their financial gain and cheap popularity. Many full gospel ministers jump into the band wagon of miracle workers forgetting the precious doctrines and separation. Thereby the power of the Church is being robbed. Neither Jesus nor His apostles or the saints of the first century gave any importance to the miracles. They preached the Gospel, healed the sick raised the dead, and did miracles to prove to the world, that, what they preached was The Truth.

They preached and pulled down the strongholds of Satan. None of them were appreciated or respected by the people of that time. They were persecuted after performing the miracles, because their concern was not miracles or fame but to pull down the strongholds of Satan and to establish churches. In Lystra, Apostle Paul healed a lame man in the name of Jesus and on the same day, in the very same place, he was stoned and the people drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. (Acts 14:8-20)