© 00-23 Colin Melbourne

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Christmas is usually celebrated by sharing gifts, but are you using all the Gifts that come with Salvation?

Healing

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

1 Pe. 2:24 and Mtt. 8:17 KJV

Physical healing can never be Scripturally removed from salvation. ‘Saved’ in the Bible always includes the blessing of physical health.

The concept that physical healing by God’s power is distinct from salvation is a human invention, unfounded in the Scriptures.

The idea that salvation and healing are separate is erroneous.

© 05-23 Colin Melbourne

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Holy Bible Is. 9:6 KJV

As it was in the beginning

Come, let’s remember your first Love.

How long you wandered in the desert of sin, lurching between the painful deceits of pleasure, like a drunken sailor cracking his head on lamp posts.

Squandering your life as you pleased, it fell short of your expectations, and left you bruised and rolling in the gutter.

What were you here for? Worldly success is a shallow cup of Wormwood; sweet to taste, but bitter in the belly. ‘There’s got to be more to life than this.’

© 07-23 Colin Melbourne

The 10 Commandments

Q: I would like to know am I governed by, or am I supposed to live by, the Ten Commandments? Gertrude

A: Wonderful question Gertrude. Many Christians claim to live by them, thus utterly deceiving themselves, they completely miss the point of God giving them to us.

The truth is that nobody has ever kept the Ten Commandments, except Christ.

He fulfilled the Law for you, and made a new, living way to approach God, that is far better than the Old Covenant. (Ac. 13:39, Ro. 6:14, Heb. 10:19-20.)

The purpose of the Law is beautifully summarised here by John Bradford.

Read it, and ask Jesus to help you understand.

Then praise God that He has instituted a New Covenant of Grace, through the Blood of the only Man to have kept the Law perfectly. Rejoice you Saints!

Born God’s child?

© 16-23 Colin Melbourne

Fear Not: Tell it Like it is

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

Mtt. 10:27-29 KJV

Almighty God came to us, in the Flesh of His Only Begotten Son

Ignore Him at your peril, mock Him, and you display gross ignorance.

His words are eternal, precious, and vital to your everlasting destiny.

© 06-23 Colin Melbourne

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Seven keys to a victorious walk in God’s Love.

Peace is your Love guide

How do you tell which course of action is the way of love?

This can be tricky, because situations are not always clear-cut.

The answer is Col. 3:15 KJV;

And let the peace of God rule in your heart…

Test your options against your spirit. One will give you divine peace. Deep down, you will know by the witness of God’s Spirit in your spirit.

© 06-23 Colin Melbourne

Seven practical keys to walking in Divine Love and victory

Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.

Eph. 5:2 Holy Bible, KJV

God is Love

The first thing you notice when you meet the Living Christ is His perfect overwhelming love for you. It is breathtaking. You are rendered speechless, pressed to the ground under the weight of His mercy, and can do no other than surrender your all to Him.

That’s the power of Love: Real Love.

We are commanded to walk our whole Christian lives on Earth in that divine Love.

How are you doing?

Like me, you’re falling short, but we’ve seen the Glory, and we know it is the most excellent way. It is our way of victory, and we must press in.

© 09-23 Colin Melbourne

Hate the sin or the sinner?

Q: What is the difference between hating the sin and hating the sinner? In Psalms 139:19-22 David is talking about hating those who hate God. Is this kind of righteous anger warranted in the world today? Steve

A: From your thoughtful phrasing I’m sure you already know the answer. You refer to this passage of Psalms 139:19-23 KJV;

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

© 19-23 Colin Melbourne

Q: How do we answer accusations that God is cruel for allowing infants to die of Leukaemia, or Central African children to be made blind by parasites in their water supply?

A: Christians encounter such opprobrium from adherents of the humanist and atheist religions; typically when they roll out of drinking holes, and find a Christian street-preaching.

Indignation rises in their darkened hearts, and they hurl vociferous abuse.

If coherent, the rationale is; that since Christians proclaim that God is omnipotent, and loving, He should not “allow such innocent” people to be afflicted by deadly disease.

Atheists foam and snarl whatever you reply, and in their ignorant idolatry, quickly become abusive.

© 11-23 Colin Melbourne

Seventh Day Observance?

Q: Do we need to obey the Fourth Commandment and rest on the seventh day like God did in Genesis? Genny

A: You refer to Genesis 2:1-3 KJV;

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

God’s Laws plus Rabbi’s Laws

© 09-23 Colin Melbourne

Q: Why was the Sabbath switched from Saturday to Sunday?

A: It wasn’t: Ever since God gave the Fourth Commandment to Moses, the Sabbath Day has always been the Jewish seventh day of the week, which is a Saturday.

Orthodox Jews still rest from their labour on a Saturday: The Sabbath Day.

Sunday is never called a Sabbath Day in the Bible.

It is referred to as the “first day of the week” (Mtt. 28:1, Mk. 16:2,9, Jn. 20:9) and the Lord’s Day (Rev. 1:10).

It is unbiblical to refer to Sunday as a Sabbath.