Many of us first knew Paul Washer through this 4 1/2 min. video:
Someone sent me another message which I have not watched before (Thanks Gabi). It is one of the best message/sermons out there. Please find a quiet hour, away from the bustle and listen to this message. No matter what our age is, we need to hear this message on a recurring basis. With the New Year coming we tend to focus and reflect on our life while at the same time, anticipating new beginnings. May God give us a hunger for his word and a thirst for fellowship with Him in the coming year- 2011.
In this video from a Paul Washer Youth Conference in 2002, among some important topics preached on, Paul Washer also addresses the most important question - How do you know you are saved?
Here is the link to the video of the Background of Paul Washer’s ‘Shocking Video’.
Matthew 7:13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Luke 13:24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
S-a discutat mult pe bloguri despre colaborarea crestinilor cu regimul comunist din Romania, dar prea putin despre persecutia adusa crestinilor in timpul regimului comunist. Richard Wurmbrand a fost unul dintre credinciosii care a suferit inchisoare si tortura pentru credinta lui timp de 14 ani, dar care nicidecum nu a cedat si a ramas neclintit in credinta lui in Dumnezeu.
El a fost eliberat din inchisoare in anul 1964 si in 1966 a sosit in Statele Unite. In anul 1967 a infiintat organizatia Voice of the Martyrs, o misiune dedicata asistentei Bisericii Persecutate de pretutindeni. Misiunea este bazata pe versetul urmator:
Evrei 13:3
Aduceţi-vă aminte de cei ce sînt în lanţuri, ca şi cum a-ţi fi şi voi legaţi cu ei; de cei chinuiţi, ca unii cari şi voi sînteţi în trup.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Pe linga filmul (desen animat) despre Viata lui Richard Wurmbrand, s-a facut un film documentar de catre Christian History Institute impreuna cu International Films si Voice of the Martyrs. In filmul documentar primim mai multe detalii despre viata lui Richard Wurmbrand, din partea dinsului, a sotiei sale Sabina si a fiului sau Mihai.
Motto-ul vietii mele: “Nici o cutezanta sa nu vi se para de necucerit, dar catre nici o cutezanta sa nu va indreptati nepregatiti”.
Asa mi-am inceput viata materiala si spirituala aici in aceasta lume. Traind in occident de peste 40 de ani am acumulat o serie de experiente personale, traite ca Pastor Penticostal in comunitatea din marea metropola Chicago.
M-am nascut intr-o casa de crestini Penticostali din comuna Curtici. La virsta de 10 ani, in toamna anului 1944 in casa matusii mele, impreuna cu o verisoara am experimentat pentru prima data lucrarea Duhului Sfint, la o seara de staruinta in rugaciune. Seara aceia a fost plina de bucurii…
Anii au trecut, ca tinar am inceput sa fiu interesat de filozofie si fiind crestin si de teologie. Aveam deja formata o biblioteca personala. Citisem in intregime toata biblioteca fratelui Pastor Baptist Grecu Traian (120 de volume) si mi-am format oarecum imaginea crestinismului. Am inceput sa studiez pe Pascal (Scrieri Alese), John Locke (Eseu Asupra Intelectului Omenesc, 2 volume), Seneca (Scrisori catre Luciliu) si alte scrieri materialiste. Dar credinta in Dumnezeu care a fost sadita in inima mea a ramas tare si lucra neincetat; era vie. Tinar fiind aveam o pasiune: radio amator (ham radio). Si m-am pregatit prin examene ca sa pot sa-mi construiesc o statie de emisie-transmisie ca sa comunic cu alti radio amatori. Fiind intrebat daca sint crestin mi s-a spus ca va trebui sa renunt sub declaratie caci ma leapad de acest crez, credinta mea si numai atunci voi fi acceptat. Desigur am refuzat sa renunt la credinta in Dumnezeu, fapt pentru care am fost oprit de la examen.
In timpul acesta m-am casatorit si in anul 1961 impreuna cu sotia si cu socrul meu am pornit din Seleus spre Agrisul Mare sa vizitam o prietena de-a sotiei. Ne-am oprit pentru rugaciune in satul Chier la sora Iuli, o vaduva, o femeie dedicata lucrarii lui Dumnezeu si foarte credincioasa. Nu stiam ca aici prin aceasta sora Dumnezeu imi va vorbi si ma va chema in lucrarea de slujire, de pastoratie. In timpul rugaciunii Dumnezeu imi vorbeste mie personal prin sora Iuli, caci ma cheama in lucrare intr-un loc departe de aici si caci timpul este departe, in viitor. Eu insa sa astept implinirea proorociei si Dumnezeu va pregati si ma va calauzi acolo la timpul implinirii. Mi s-a mai spus,”Acum tu sa nu te duci in Biserica si sa spui: Domnul mi-a vorbit ca o sa ma faca un lider. Tu sa astepti si toate vor veni pentru tine din partea Domnului.”
Iata cum a inceput pregatirea plecarii mele din Romania. In anul 1967 lucram ca instalator sanitar pe Aeroportul din Arad. Intr-o noapte, tot personalul de pe aeroport am fost opriti ca sa ajutam transferul pasagerilor a patru avioane de turisti. Erau turisti Europeni si Canadieni. Dupa ce s-a terminat transferul s-a constatat ca valiza unui Canadian lipsea. S-a pornit la cautarea ei, iar eu am fost pus sa o caut intr-un avion Lufthansa care era gata de plecare spre Frankfurt. Din greseala am fost inchis in cala de bagaje unde cautam valiza pe care insa nu am gasit-o. Disperat, aflind ca sint inchis in cala de bagaje, am inceput sa bat cu picioarele ca sa fiu scos de acolo caci motoarele deja functionau, fiind gata de plecare. Mecanicul auzind bataile a venit si a descuiat usa. Am inceput sa ma cert cu mecanicul intrebindu-l de ce a inchis usa peste mine si nu a respectat regula ca acela ce iasa ultimul din cala de bagaje sa inchida usa. Mecanicul a spus: “Dar au mai ramas 5 minute pina la decolare si nu credeam ca cineva ar mai fi acolo.” Ofiterul de graniceri asistind la discutia dintre mine si mecanic s-a indreptat spre mine si mi-a spus: “Tovarase Galis, sinteti cu adevarat un Roman care va iubiti patria. (Spunea aceasta fiindca in mintea lui se gindea ca eu as fi putut sa ramin ascuns si sa plec in afara tarii dar eu nu aveam de gind sa fac lucrul acesta pentru ca eu nu puteam sa-mi las familia cu copii, singuri).
In anul 1971, cind am cerut Viza pentru Yugoslavia am primit-o imediat, datorita acestei declaratii din dosarul meu, fara sa stiu cum toate le-a pregatit Dumnezeu. Gindul meu de a pleca din tara a venit in iarna anului 1970. Cind m-am sfatuit cu sotia, ea s-a impotrivit caci nu putea sa isi lase mama batrina, singura in Romania care era si bolnava si ne-am decis sa asteptam. Cu doua luni mai tirziu mama ei si soacra mea a avut un ‘stroke’ si a plecat la Domnul. Atunci sotia mi-a spus, “Acum nu te mai opresc, sint de acord cu tine sa pleci”.
In luna Martie, 1971 am cerut ‘Viza de zece zile’ pentru Yugoslavia. Dupa doua luni mi s-a acordat. In ziua cind am primit pasaportul, mi-am luat ramas bun de la familie si am plecat la Timisoara si de acolo la Beograd.
Ravi Zacharias on the historicity of the Bible and its prophetic accuracy; he gives as example the Book of Daniel prophecy concerning Alexander the Great. Daniel 8:1-27 and 11:3-4.
Ravi Zacharias at University of Illinois. (transcribed from video-7 minutes)
Student- Hi Ravi, how you doing?
Ravi- Hey good to see you.
Student: I just wanted to ask you, could you explain in a matter more pragmatic than we’re used to why a person should believe in the word of God as the Bible and why they should basically believe every word it says as opposed to any other ‘holy book’ and why they should give their entire life to Christ.
Ravi- I mean, I know it’s a really rough question, but that’s like saying – define God and give three examples.
Student- Isn’t that just the Trinity?
Ravi- Yeah, well it’s a legitimate question, I’m sorry for responding humorously there, of course it takes a whole lot of time. In my book ‘Can man live without God?’ which was a series of lectures delivered at Harvard, the second part of it, deals with that very thing, so let me start off the best as I can.
First, I believe that truth as a category does exist. Number two it is possible in a majority of claims of philosophical and historical statements to verify the truthfulness of those affirmations. Third, I believe there are existential realities from which I cannot run, which drive me to find the answers to the existential struggles that I live with, not just the philosophical ones.
The philosophical ones are real and I have to deal with them, but so are the existential ones and by the way-existentialism came as a response to the unpaid bills of philosophy. Philosophy has become so cerebral that the passions have been ignored and the existentialism came into being and sort of tossed out the rationalistic way of interpreting things and went purely with the gut level feeling, a la Sartre, and Camus and so on.But I think what we are trying to do is we are trying to find the bridge between the head and the heart. There are numerous ways of doing this and the way you start off with by saying,”You take the Bible as the question. Then, why the Bible and why not any other system of thought?
You start off with the Scriptures and ask your self the question. Here, there are 66 books by nearly 40 different authors, over 1500 years. There are books on history, there are books on philosophical thinking, there are books on theological thinking and systematic thinking. Now, if the Bible made several assertions, one after another that you found out to be false, either historically or philosophically or in the existential realm, you go further and further and if you see that kind of systemic contradiction and failure, then you have reason to believe that I do not really believe this document. It is not in keeping with the way I am seeing history and reality. But when you look at the Scriptures, and by the way, the Bible is a very distinctive piece of literature to any other religion’s piece of scripture. Any Muslim will tell you that his book, the Koran, is word for word perfect. It is a perfect revelation of Allah in the eye of the Muslim They will affirm that again and again. That’s why no translation of the Koran will ever do justice in their estimation of the Koran, it is the perfect expression of Allah himself as dictated to Muhammad, who recited it. Now the Bible as we know it, does not affirm that ‘verbal perfection’. I actually have a great deal of difficulty with verbal perfection. Are we really saying that no one word would have been better than another word in this volume of material? But when you take the Scriptures disclosed over centuries and over 1500 years, 40 different writers, 66 books- and you see the prophetic scheme all the way to the person of Christ.
Let me give you an example of this: The book of Daniel is written in the late 500’s before Christ, and yet when you study the Book of Daniel, you begin to see the specifics of a fantastic prophecy. He talks about a massive empire that will come into being and how that empire will be divided into 4, and that empire will be led by a strident, strong he-goat from the West who’ll be marching several nations under foot, but shall be suddenly cut off and his empire will be divided into 4. Those 4 then emerge into 2, and those 2 blend into 1. When you take the Book of Daniel, written late 500’s BC and put it ‘pro forma’ unto Alexander the Great’ in the 300’s BC, you see the stridency of Alexander.
Suddenly cut off in his 20’s, 4 kingdoms emerge, given to his 4 generals. Those 4 (Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor, and Macedon) come into the 2 two empires and that emerged them into the Roman empire. Centuries before- to be so specific in prophecy. You go to the prophecy of Zechariah , who describes the crucifixion of Christ, ”They shall look upon Him whom they have pierced and weep as a mother weeps for her only sons. You go to the prophecy of Isaiah and see how the Christ is going to suffer. Immediately you see the supernatural.
So, when you take the miraculous element, you take the historical element; you look into the Scriptures and you see there is an authenticity and it all points to one perfect person, the person of Christ.
Bruce Metzger who is a scholar from Princeton, made the comment…he said, “After you take the 20,000 lines of the New Testament, it is safe for any scholar to say there’s at least a 99.6% accuracy. No ancient document, NONE! Has the kind of document support that the Bible has, over 5,000 documents. Even Time magazine in ’88, Richard Ostling made the comment: “One thing we cannot deny the Christians is the documentation that is available throughout the centuries, nothing in literature matches it. Not Homer, not the Gallic Wars of Caesar or whatever.
So when you got this kind of documentation, this kind of accuracy; that kind of person in Jesus Christ, I think you got pretty compelling evidence to see why it is that we need to take Christ very seriously.
Narration for video below byRavi Zacharias, visiting scholar at Cambridge University,and frequent speaker to University students at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford.
His ministry’s vision is fourfold: Evangelism, Apologetics, Spiritual Disciplines, and Training that comes alongside the Church or concerned Christians worldwide so that the mandate of I Peter 3:15 might be fulfilled—to set apart Christ in our hearts as Lord and always be prepared to give a reason for the hope that is within us, with gentleness and respect, all for the glory of God.
NARRATION (from video) PART 1- The problem in Universities
What has happened to truth in our day? Where did we lose out, where did we go wrong? What has become the malady that best describes why we are on the wrong track? This arena of lies and falsehood where we are risking the whole next generation with a false sense of entitlement.
Skepticism is the hallmark of University education today. You can go to campus after campus and they deny even the very possibility of ‘knowing’. Fascinating, isn’t it? You come out of the University education at the end of it basically saying, “You cannot believe anything! You cannot know anything!
Intent is prior to content. Question is: Does this generation really want the truth? Revelation displaced by reason. Truth subverted by agnosticism. Rationalism fails, existentialism fails and lastly the propositionalism (is) replaced by the visual.
This is possibly the darkest reality of our time. So the young scholar sitting before the professional lectern is absolutely convinced that truth is nearly relative and what has happened is that he (the young scholar) has lost sight of the fact of what Jesus said about the eye. He said, “Let your eye be single, the eye is the lamp of the body”. William Blake put it in these words, “This life’s dim windows of the soul distorts the heavens from pole to pole and goads you to believe a lie, when you see ‘with’ and not ‘through’ the eye”.
We are meant to see through the eye with the conscience, we are told to see ‘with the eye’ devoid of a conscience. And in reality, nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing so monotonous and boring as evil, but in our imagination it’s the other way around; ‘fictional evil’ is very intriguing, attractive and full of charm. The poles have been reversed, good has become boring, evil has become intriguing.
Author of Video shows Names of Persons and Locations mentioned in Bible verses, and pictures of artifacts from archaeological digs which centuries later proved the existence of aforementioned.
In The Necessity of Prayer,(click for free PDF book format)E. M. Bounds quotes this advice, giving credit only to “an eminent old divine”:
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Would you be freed from the bondage to corruption? Would you grow in grace in general and grow in grace in particular? If you would, your way is plain.
Ask of God more faith. Beg of him morning, and noon and night, while you walk by the way, while you sit in the house, when you lie down and when you rise up; beg of him simply to impress divine things more deeply on your heart, to give you more and more of the substance of things hoped for and of the evidence of things not seen.
O predica in limba Engleza despre Persecutia si Trezirea Spirituala din Romania. Printre alte subiecte, Iosif Ton discuta problemele prezentarii Evangheliei din Statele Unite si mesajul care a fost dat Romanilor pe vremea persecutiilor comuniste. Discuta si subiecte ca de exemplu, ‘sclavul lui Isus Hristos’ (slave of Jesus Christ), ‘devotare’ (‘commitment -pentru care fratele Ton ne afirma ca nu are o traducere buna in limba Romana) si diferenta intre ‘valori’ (values) si ‘principii’ (principles)
Trace Jesus Passion Week Google Maps Isus- Saptamina Patimilor cu harta Google
Filmul Isus (vizionati in limba Romana / choose any language to watch the ‘Jesus’ film)
RICHARD WURMBRAND – English/Romanian
Global Persecution Watch
Christian movies & Beautiful nature shots – Filme crestine si Filmari din natura pe Youtube Channel
PREDICI – Florin Ianovici
PREDICI – Vladimir Pustan
PREDICI – Nelu Brie
Cristian Barbosu Arad – PREDICI
Biserica Gloria Arad Bujac Transmisie Live
Pagina – Predici
Faceti click pe poza pt. site – Administrat In Romania
PREDICI de la A 44-a Conventie USA/CANADA la Seattle, Washington 2012
Predici de la Congresul Bisericilor Baptiste USA si Canada 2012 Cleveland Ohio
Biserica Baptista Speranta Oradea
Vasile Oprea Interviu, Cintari – Nou: Serviciul de Florii 2012
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Jesus said, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” Matthew 16:26. Isus a zis: “Si ce ar folosi unui om sa cistige toata lumea daca si-ar pierde sufletul?”
University,and frequent speaker to University students at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford.
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