I just finished watching the movie "Fireproof" with my family and I gotta say that Sherwood Baptist did a fantastic job at creating another great Christian Film. Beside the music I absolutely loved the video. OKAY, before I go any further in writing I'll just so NO I'm not having marriage problems, duh, obviously I'm not even married. I hope that wasn't a revelation for anyone. But, anywho. The whole truth of understanding what true love is so important. When you understand what Jesus Christ did for you when you were an enemy against him is so amazing. Jesus loved us before we ever even thought about loving Him back.
The Love of Christ is just so amazing. When you even begin to grasp the truth of God's love toward you, it is not possible to even begin to hate someone. The Bible from the beginning to the end shows Christ's love toward us... Some people base their unbelief on why would a loving God create hell. The real thing to focus on is why did a loving God die. Hell was created for the devil and his angels, however our rebellion against God causes us to be punished to hell unless we repent. Hell is a warning, not the focus. See that Christ loved you inspite of your sin and things will change. I Know =)
(ok, and side note here, please don't think that I have the lessons I post here on my blog down pat,,, haha ya.. that would be awesome if I did... but my goal is to keep changing so hopefully I will get some of these lessons better implemented by the end of my life :) Just wanted to tag that on so you don't think I am problemless, haha, far from that my friend, far from... God is still very busy working on me
Thanks for reading Everyone!
BenH
P.S. I SOOOOO want to create a motion film after watching the video....AHHH I would love to do that so much! =)
Romans chapter fourteen has more truth than I can ever preach. I am overwhelmed by the lessons which go throughout here. So many messages can be preached from this passage, but I think we will not understand it to it's fullness till we all stand before God. There is so much I would love to share, but I don't think my fingers would permit me to write so much and I think you wouldn't read it all. One truth that just really hit home to me is Romans 14:7, it says, "For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself." After looking at the context and diagramming this, the reality of that fact that God owns me struck my mind. We don't have a right to live for ourself. Those who have trusted in Christ have been saved from penalty of their own sin. Which is me! I have been bought back from the doom of sins penalty and have been set aside for Jesus Christ. After all Christ has done for me how could I ever live for myself? How could I ever live for the flesh. I pray that I may always catch myself from living for myself in the flesh and turn away.
In the context here it is also talking about not judging those that are weak in the faith because they are also children of God and God will cause them to stand. None our debating will do a thing for them. We must live our life for Christ as he persuades us through the scriptures and those that are weak if they be children of God will begin to stand strong through the Holy Spirit working within them. God says in His word here, don't spend your time doubting them, judging them. Every person will stand before him to give account of their life. It is not our position to judge another, or dull our standards to make them feel "welcome". Absolutely not..... LIVE FOR CHRIST for if you have trusted Christ as your Saviour, then you are no longer in the chains of sin, you are no longer chained to just doing whatever the flesh wants to do. You are FREE you are free to live for Christ. You are the LORD's.
The excitement to me is so great in my heart right now. I am however nervous about what the Lord says in those verses, because we will give an account of our life. Though God says we aren't to be judging each other, there is a judgment that will come and is inescapable. We will be judged by our works. Thankfully I am Christ's and will not be sent to Hell because he has already forgiven me. I will be responsible if my lifestyle has caused any to stumble. I want to be far more careful of this. I want to watch out for the critical spirit which sometimes clouds my mind. I want to be careful that I am living my life so that others will want to live for God to their fullest. May I never cause anyone to ever stumble.
I am the Lord's... May I live completely for Him
BenH
Recently I've been working on my website www.BenH-Productions.com . I encountered a problem with a free video hosting company and frankly they didn't want my videos on their website since it was promoting my services. It was kind of a bummer because I really liked their flash player. However, I understand their policy now after they explained it to me and removed all my videos immediately. :) So I found that since most of my videos are under 10 minutes they can be put on YouTube Since I was already doing a bit of work to fix the video section. I decided to redesign the whole website. Kind of like a house cleaning project, but more like a website cleaning project. The other site really didn't say much about me, it only showed what I did. So I decided, why not tell more about myself so they know who they are hiring. Most importantly it gives me the opportunity to share what the Lord has done in my life. I think it is just about done. You'll notice that I also included my blog in the website also. :) All my posts will be shared on the site through the RSS feed which I think is pretty cool :) The website for my business www.benh-productions.com
Have a Great Day!
BenH
Okay, you are right. Yes, it is another post that does involve some political jargon. Unless you've been under a rock in the bottom of the sea you probably have heard of Obama's idea for wealth redistribution. The plans he has made for those that are rich to unwillingly give their money to the poor and the poor to then get the money to spend and soon everybody has no incentive to work and everybody will all work together as middle class or something. Well, ya I guess that Bens idea of how it works, but what I want to share with you today is God's redistribution plan. This thought popped out to me as I was reading my Bible this morning. In Matthew chapter twenty five verse twenty eight and twenty nine it says, "Take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given , and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath."
Now this story is an example of how the Lord will rewarded those that did something with what He taught. They saw their position as stewards. They saw what the Lord had given them to be stewards of and they proceeded with the task. Well, at least two of them did. The third guy thought that since he only had one talent he didn't have to do anything with it. That was a foolish man. In the end he lost the single talent he had and was punished because of his lack of work. God redistributed this guys single talent to the guy with ten talents because he was diligent with what he received. Whether you have two talents or two hundred. Don't think about the amount you have, just simply get busy with what you have. You don't want God to have to distribute your talents when you stand before him one day.
Put each talent to good use!
BenH =)
Well Hello my bloggy friends, I am terribly sorry for the extended period of silence on my blog. I fear that it has turned into a boring blog instead of a blessing blog. I am right now in Carlisle, PA. You may be wondering, "Why in the world is he there?" And that my friend is the reason I write. I am currently in this place because I am meeting with a group of other preacher guys in training as well as a couple other Pastors and us younger guys are learning the art of preaching preparation. Us guys also have the very exciting opportunity to preach. I actually was able to preach tonight, so thankfully I do not have that message on my mind right now. I was quite busy this morning preparing it along with the last couple days of thinking and studying for it.
I learned so so much from this passage. I didn't notice this before, but there is a great theme through Matthew 12:1-15:7 and it opened my eyes on the importance of how a church ought to be in unity together with the mind of Christ pressing forward to complete the Will of God. The chapter before and after really shed some great "contextual" light on that passage as well. It is really cool how the Bible just fits together like one really cool Jigsaw puzzle.
Right now I am in the "Sleep Inn". John Jr. and I are sharing a very spacious room. The reason it is so spacious it is a handicapped room so everything is larger. Thankfully I got to share the room with John so we could have the handicapped room or otherwise I would have had a much smaller place :) hehe
So I was sitting here in the room thinking about what I should do and I was like. "I'm a Genius". I will write on my blog since I haven't done it in approximately forever. If I sound like I'm nuts, the reason is because I am. Haha. Well, I think it is a combination of it being very cold outside and we had icecream. (Don't ask me what I was thinking). Now I'm in the room with John and well that should explain the nuttiness.
Probably after this blog John Jr. will begin being a faithful subscriber so he knows the rumors which I start about him. Oh, and by the way, him being handicapped isn't a rumor. lol
Sorry folks. I know this blog has been a little out of my character, but having so many serious blog posts recently I really needed to lighten some things up.
Have a Fabulous, Fantastic, Awesome, Spectacular, Outstanding, Wonderful Day!
BenH =)
It has been so long since I've posted on here. Recently it has been some busy times and I honestly wanted to post, but time and such didn't allow me to =( . But, I'm back now and I had an interesting thought which I wanted to share.
Do ya'll listen to Rush Limbaugh, well I occasionally listen to him on the radio and normally I find him fairly interesting but I get a little lost however as he runs around different political matters which I hadn't heard about and basically don't make much sense to me. However, as you know he really isn't for Obama for many different reasons. As you listen to Obama's speeches you got to admit that the guy sounds really convincing like he is definitely planning on a good change and one of the guys on the radio started feeling that way after he had voted for McCain and such, but he started loosing his reasons why.
I thought Rush did a excellent job at explaining the major difference between what he promotes and what Obama promotes. Obama is getting people excited about change which the people do not have to do anything to achieve it. He is pointing people to the government, blaming the previous government for the problems and saying his new crew is going to fix everything. Rush said every four years people in drug infested areas, people in the slums and people who don't want change cast their vote thinking that government will do something for them so they don't need to change a thing. Every four years they are disappointed. Change will not come about through the government, but through everyone initiating a change in their own life. Rush says his goal is to inspire people to action, to realize the government isn't going to revolutionize their life, they need to get moving. I think that is so true. If the government gives you another $600 this year if you meet their qualifications. What is that going to do for you? Maybe this new government will start taking away money from those who worked hard for their money and give it to people who aren't trying to work. How will that ever help those people. Unless they choose to make a change with that cash they will stay in the same position they are now. Unmotivated expand their horizons because the government will take care of their needs.
He said it a lot better on the radio :) I hope you got the idea anyway though.
Support the new president, but remember not to rely on government change to make your life better. It is your choice, and remember ya'll that the best change is to allow the Lord to show you the change and then go for it.
Have a Good Day Everyone!!!
BenH
Thank you to my Anonymous blog reader who reminded me I haven't written in a very long time. :) As I was reading in the first chapter of Matthew for my devotions a word jumped out to me and I thought I would share my thoughts with you all.
In Matthew 1 it is talking about Mary was espoused to Joseph and then the Holy Ghost caused her to conceive and informed her that she was carrying the Savior of the World. Well, as you all know that didn't really settle well with Joseph and he starting to make preparations to break off their engagement. However something happened at that time, and that is the action word "thought" in verse twenty. Joseph thought. As started to put two and two together we read in the Bible that he changed his mind and took Mary to be his wife. The key thing in his life before even the angel spoke to him was that he thought.
I think the challenge to us is do we think about what other tell us that God says. Nowadays we can look at the Bible and make sure that what others are saying is true. However I think the easiest decision that a lot of us make is to rely on our own understanding, or own perception of what we thinking God would or wouldn't do and we make our decision on that, no thought. It is easy to just make a decision on what are normal thoughts are, but it takes some work to see if what we are hearing is what God is teaching and then the hardest part, to admit we were wrong and change. Ouch! Ya, changing to something that you were against is not easy, it takes some humility which I don't think many of us humans have :) .
What type of things was Joseph thinking about? I obviously don't know, but I wonder if some of the Old Testament passages of scripture that prophesied the Lord's coming as a baby crossed his mind. Well, though I don't know what the thoughts were that were running through Josephs mind, I do know that in order for us to come to a right decision we need to think... and just as a reminder... the Word of God (the Bible) will give you the answers you need to make your decision. God does not speak through Angels anymore because he has given us the completed scripture which contains everything we need to know about life and godliness.
In conclusion, Start Thinking :)
BenH
Well, It is now officially the year 2009! Thank you to all of you who prayed for me while I was preparing this message for church. I really appreciate that. As I said I would try to do in my other blog post, I was able to get the video. on the internet :)
Here it Tis, Have a Great New Year!
BenH