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The Eternalness of God

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From Once Upon a Time" to Kingdom Come   If I was to say to you that “ God is Eternal ” the first thing that would come to your mind is a God that had no end.  However, that would only reach one end of an infinite spectrum of the existence of God.  Because we as human being only perceive time as going in one direction (forward). Yet to understand God’s eternalness we would have to at least try to conceive a period before time insisted. According to current cosmological theories, the universe, had a point when it wasn’t; and then BANG!! it was.  What that means is there was a finite point when time, space and matter came into existence. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose who developed the space-time theorem of general relativity , and all respectable scientist today agree that there was a time when the universe did not exist. The Big Bang theory, science agrees almost universally is that period when the universe came into existence. The Bi...

Humbling Yourself in Fear Before the Almighty God

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Sackcloth and Ashes What is this Sackcloth and Ashes what does it mean to us those that pray and fast with the hope of seeing a move of God in our lives? What can we learn from what the Bible has to say about these Sackcloth and Ashes? We have all heard the expression the clothes make a man. In ancient times and even today the clothes that a man wears says a lot  about him. In ancient times if a man wore purple or blue, scarlet or crimson, he was thought to be a man of high degree, royal or a governor or ruler of some type If he wore silk or any other fine material he was assumed to be even the  greater. The Humble Self However, when a man wore sackcloth, which was the lowest quality of clothes there was, he was saying to the world “ I humble myself before the Almighty G od” Being publicly naked was the most humiliating state a man could achieve and wearing sackcloth was the next level up from there. This is why the accusers of Jesus Christ took his cloth...