Wednesday, October 31, 2012
IglesiaNICristo
To our Beloved Executive Minister Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo of Iglesia Ni Cristo, Church of Christ "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" God be with you and to your Family always.#INCLife
Sunday, October 28, 2012
What is Baptism. (My Baptism, Revised)
Baptism is a Christian rite of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition
Baptism means, immersion, a total submerging of the body in the water.
In my own views and experience, Baptism is to clean us from sin we have done and to have a new life, the old has gone, the sin left under the water and the new cleaned body comes out,(Spiritually cleaned Body) Its done by a authorize minister of the Church.
Spiritually, it is not the water that will clean us from sin but the Holy Spirit of God after we confessed our sin to God, He will forgive our Sin. Confession, Immersion and Forgiveness. When our Minister announced that we are scheduled for Baptism, we are so happy after bible study at last we're going to be baptize. We buy things that we are going to use in baptism like white t-shirt, white short and white slipper, even though our money is limited we prioritized those things. Our baptism is about 9 o‘clock in the morning, a worship start at 7 o‘clock so we have to go there at early as the morning, it about 14klm away from our home and we have to catch up our service going there at the central temple of Iglesia ni Cristo.
A night before baptism we're so excited we can't sleep nor eat, we just slept for 2 hours, at 3 o‘clock in the morning we prepared our-self for baptism, really excited. When We‘re in the Central Temple of Iglesia ni Cristo, I can‘t explained my feeling, I cried, I said this is it father, I‘m almost there going to my new life, my body was trembling, feeling like a cold water flowing on my whole body. After Baptism, I feel fresh, I feel I have a new life,
A new life in True God and True Church in Iglesia ni Cristo, (Church of Christ).
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Baptism means, immersion, a total submerging of the body in the water.
In my own views and experience, Baptism is to clean us from sin we have done and to have a new life, the old has gone, the sin left under the water and the new cleaned body comes out,(Spiritually cleaned Body) Its done by a authorize minister of the Church.
Spiritually, it is not the water that will clean us from sin but the Holy Spirit of God after we confessed our sin to God, He will forgive our Sin. Confession, Immersion and Forgiveness. When our Minister announced that we are scheduled for Baptism, we are so happy after bible study at last we're going to be baptize. We buy things that we are going to use in baptism like white t-shirt, white short and white slipper, even though our money is limited we prioritized those things. Our baptism is about 9 o‘clock in the morning, a worship start at 7 o‘clock so we have to go there at early as the morning, it about 14klm away from our home and we have to catch up our service going there at the central temple of Iglesia ni Cristo.
A night before baptism we're so excited we can't sleep nor eat, we just slept for 2 hours, at 3 o‘clock in the morning we prepared our-self for baptism, really excited. When We‘re in the Central Temple of Iglesia ni Cristo, I can‘t explained my feeling, I cried, I said this is it father, I‘m almost there going to my new life, my body was trembling, feeling like a cold water flowing on my whole body. After Baptism, I feel fresh, I feel I have a new life,
A new life in True God and True Church in Iglesia ni Cristo, (Church of Christ).
Saturday, October 27, 2012
We're Truly Bless and Called (My story)
Its a Blessing to be called in the Iglesia ni Cristo, (Church of Christ).
I was born in Bicol Region a place of Beautiful Mayon Volcano but I raised in Bulacan Province since I was 5 years old.
I‘m in the Catholic family who are believed in the teaching of Catholicism, we are a Faithful Catholic Believer. I‘d always wearing a necklace with a pendant cross to show that I'm faithful in Catholic. we have 3 idols at home, one is seating in the throne, one is standing and one on the cross they are all same person called as Jesus.
In the church the Priest taught that Lord Jesus is God and I grew up believing on this teaching. but that belief was changed, not my belief that Christ is God but in the Idol.
When I become a Born Again Christian, I have read in the bible that Idol is prohibited by God. In born again christian they did not believe in Idol but also believe that Jesus is God. One day my friend, now my wife, invite me in Iglesia ni Cristo Church. first we have an argument but later on she convinced me.
As we go on Bible study and examination I‘v realized that this church is different, the doctrine was clear purely from the bible and did not believed in Idol, most important teaching is, the true state of being of our Lord Jesus Christ.
After bible study/doctrine, I convinced that this is the True Church who believed in One God and In Jesus as Lord and only mediator to God and Man. We baptized at Central Temple of Iglesia ni Cristo Central. I‘m so happy and bless with the other member of the church, they treated each other as a brother and sister, you will feel the connection of each of one like a true brethren.
We're truly bless, I pray that the Almighty father will continue to give me strength until the day that the Lord Jesus Christ come. I pray also that my family and friends may also be call in the Church of Christ so we together will serve our Almighty God and to our Lord Jesus Christ.
I‘m in the Catholic family who are believed in the teaching of Catholicism, we are a Faithful Catholic Believer. I‘d always wearing a necklace with a pendant cross to show that I'm faithful in Catholic. we have 3 idols at home, one is seating in the throne, one is standing and one on the cross they are all same person called as Jesus.
In the church the Priest taught that Lord Jesus is God and I grew up believing on this teaching. but that belief was changed, not my belief that Christ is God but in the Idol.
When I become a Born Again Christian, I have read in the bible that Idol is prohibited by God. In born again christian they did not believe in Idol but also believe that Jesus is God. One day my friend, now my wife, invite me in Iglesia ni Cristo Church. first we have an argument but later on she convinced me.
As we go on Bible study and examination I‘v realized that this church is different, the doctrine was clear purely from the bible and did not believed in Idol, most important teaching is, the true state of being of our Lord Jesus Christ.
After bible study/doctrine, I convinced that this is the True Church who believed in One God and In Jesus as Lord and only mediator to God and Man. We baptized at Central Temple of Iglesia ni Cristo Central. I‘m so happy and bless with the other member of the church, they treated each other as a brother and sister, you will feel the connection of each of one like a true brethren.
We're truly bless, I pray that the Almighty father will continue to give me strength until the day that the Lord Jesus Christ come. I pray also that my family and friends may also be call in the Church of Christ so we together will serve our Almighty God and to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
MY Dream.
When I was a young boy in a Rice Field area of Bigaa Bulacan, about year 1977, me and my friend are playing in the Rice Field , we lied down a dried rice straws and talk about what we want to be someday.
My Dream is to become a soldier someday to help my country, I want to get those who do wrong against my country, but later after my High School I changed my mind, instead, I want to become a Policeman someday, it come to my mind the time I apply to become a soldier, the Officer-in-Charge of the Army did not accept my application, he told me to pursue my study instead of going to combat.
I entered in a Police School but my dream did not come true, after trying everything to become a Policeman. I stopped dreaming of it, maybe I'm not destined to become a Policeman. God open my mind in His Words and I realized that I'm not really meant to be in a Police Force, I know my self why, but God knows most, He has a plan for me, as the Bible says that "even before you born, GOD already set His plan for you" we plan to become victorious but God the one who fulfill it.
I become more aware of God touch, I'm not in the Man's service but in God service, I feel he has really a plan for me, I feel it but I can't explained, only the God the Father who knows. Sometime, we are diligent to do something, we are almost at our task but all of the sudden it fail, we forgot that there is God who hold everything, including our plan were the last approval was from Him.
Even I did not got my dream, I'm happy with my Job right now, also in the line of helping others and the for Security of my Country although it limited but its okay. For now my Dreams is to draw more deeper in my Faith in God, don't know how but God the Father Almighty will lead me.
My Dream is to become a soldier someday to help my country, I want to get those who do wrong against my country, but later after my High School I changed my mind, instead, I want to become a Policeman someday, it come to my mind the time I apply to become a soldier, the Officer-in-Charge of the Army did not accept my application, he told me to pursue my study instead of going to combat.
I entered in a Police School but my dream did not come true, after trying everything to become a Policeman. I stopped dreaming of it, maybe I'm not destined to become a Policeman. God open my mind in His Words and I realized that I'm not really meant to be in a Police Force, I know my self why, but God knows most, He has a plan for me, as the Bible says that "even before you born, GOD already set His plan for you" we plan to become victorious but God the one who fulfill it.
I become more aware of God touch, I'm not in the Man's service but in God service, I feel he has really a plan for me, I feel it but I can't explained, only the God the Father who knows. Sometime, we are diligent to do something, we are almost at our task but all of the sudden it fail, we forgot that there is God who hold everything, including our plan were the last approval was from Him.
Even I did not got my dream, I'm happy with my Job right now, also in the line of helping others and the for Security of my Country although it limited but its okay. For now my Dreams is to draw more deeper in my Faith in God, don't know how but God the Father Almighty will lead me.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
LOVE OF GOD
God is Good for his so love the World He sent His Son to save us from punishment from God for our sin, he made Jesus Christ to be a mediator between God and Man, because of our sin we can't come to God on our owned.
so Jesus come for us, He made us cleaned in God because of His blood that shed when He died in the cross for us.
God's love is Great, He is merciful and kind.
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