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That’s all repent means, the changing of one’s own mind for the good.

Because of the evil acts of people upon the face of the earth. Before the flood crime must have been severely bad amongst mankind and yet Jesus said that the evil of mankind before He returned would be like the days of Noah and that means really bad.

There are many people who would dare to say that God is the author of all evil in the world, that’s almost like stating that Jesus did his miracles by the power or in dwelling of Satan which we know from scripture is to blaspheme or to speak against the Holy Spirit which Jesus warned is never to be forgiven in this life or the one to arrive. Sure God directs good to come from directing evil in a different direction sometimes but if anything God is the destroyer of evil as we know happened when Christ died and rose again at Calvary “All Power in heaven and earth is even Now in the hands of the Lord”. “For we know that Christ came into the world to destroy the works of the devil” this He has done a long time ago although we don’t see it completed in the earth completely yet but we will see it when Christ returns and fully rules and reigns for a 1000 years on this earth. And afterwards the final judgment and then the creation of the new heavens and earth because this present earth will be burned up with fire. Then we will see paradise restored forever with sin gone forever. Today you will be with me in paradise- the thief on the cross was one of the first people allowed to enter in with Jesus into paradise that very day, a kind of first fruits of the cross.

Thank God that was not the end of the young man and his quest for eternal life because Jesus said that with God all things are possible as with man , well pretty much lots of things are impossible.

It’s sad that the people of Jesus day refused to believe Jesus and yet he gave them a plan B and that was that they should believe from the very evidence of his miracles that were happening all around them. And if they failed to do even that then what else could the Lord have done.

Denominations ? or rather to redeem people out of all the nations upon the earth. In heaven there is only one body of believers from before Calvary to the day of Christs return. Some say that the denomination’s were of God but I rather think that they were created from people who quarrelled over the bible and caused divisions amongst themselves leading to splits and factions like we have seen for hundreds of years now. But still despite this being the case God continues to save people everywhere. James asked, from where do wars come from? And the simple answer is that they are created from themselves out of their own evil passions. So I guess if we each practiced what Jesus did with washing the disciples feet we would learn at least what real humility actually felt like.

In proper context Jesus was telling the disciples that they were His friends and that He was going to the cross to lay down His life for them But in doing so He was referring to all afterwards who would believe on Him for their own individual Salvation that they too would become His friends.

There is a old hymn that says “What a friend we have in Jesus….”