A New Creature. . . an Apostolic Pentecostal blog

I greatly desire to spend eternity with Jesus.  Above everything else I want to make my home with him.  At one point in the Bible the Lord said, " Well done, thou good and faithful servant "  Who is a good and faithful servant?  How can I know whether that phrase fits me?  Those words were said in a parable that Jesus was telling his disciples in Matthew Chapter 25. In Matthew 24 the disciples had asked Jesus about the end of the world:   Matthew 24:3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?    Jesus answered the first two questions: "When shall these things be" and "what shall be the sign of thy coming" in chapter 24.  He gives the signs of the end of the world, but then He then asks a question of his own, a more important question than the questions that his disciples asked Him: Matthew 24:45  Who then...

Numbers 31:21-23 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; (22) Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, (23) Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. Eleazar instructs the Hebrew men of war, on how to treat the spoils that they bring into the camp from the battle field. If it is able to withstand it, if the spoils are of a nature able to physically survive the fire, then they must pass through the fire to be purified and cleansed. Nevertheless after passing through the fire the spoils (and indeed all spoils) must be washed with the water of separation. This 'water of separation', its preparation, its recipe take care to notice, was given by God directly t...