A One Sided Media Panic?

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Child trafficking and abduction are terrible things. I get the feeling though that sometimes the media latches onto things in such a superficial manner. Take the example of “Maria“, a light skinned girl thought to be illegally resident in a darker skinned Roma community. There was another case in Ireland where in fact the dark skinned parents of a light skinned girl were wrongly suspected of abducting the girl. Amnesty Internation see the later case in particular as being part of an attitude of racism toward the Roma community.

I also have an issue with this kind of panic, what becomes of dark skinned children who are in families where their parents/guardians and/or siblings are lighter in colour? Are the media worried about those children?

What about children in abducted and forced into families where it isn’t possible to visually tell they aren’t really a part of that family? What does bbc news have to say about this? Why is the story of Maria a special case?

characteristics of uk all governments

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Two things you can always trust the government to do:

1: Undervalue the things which could earn the taxpayer money, things like The Royal Mail (Royal Mail Shares Undervalued)
2: Add huge amounts of tax to essential utilities, and manage to deflect the high cost of those utilities onto the companies that provide them (Energy Bill Breakdown)

So the governemnt loses us money and drives up the price of things we really need. I’m expecting to see a crew of politicians stealing food from my fridge next…

Bus Rage?

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My car broke down on me just over a couple of weeks ago, it turned out to be a somewhat difficult day because even though I had driven into London for an appointment and got there with no problems, on the way home my car’s engine just decided to start stuttering and cutting out.

Anyway, For about a week a tried cycling into work, which is fine while the weather is cold but dry and great for fitness, but once it starts raining it is horrible!  Who wants to turn up to work wet, soggy and cold.  So after wimping out of cycling, I decided to take the bus to and from work.

My journey to work takes 20-45 minutes by car, normally around 30 minutes but in bad traffic a lot longer.  By cycle, I can make it to work in 30 minutes regardless of traffic, but by bus the journey including the walk to and from the bus stop takes just over an hour.

I’m from Ipswich, and I think there is some kind of unwritten rule among Ipswich folk, that once someone has rung the bell the bus will stop and there is no need to ring it again.  If that person or another person rings the bell again before the bus stops, old folk and parents with children especially turn around and glance fertively, with that quizzical “is something wrong? what’s going on?” look.  Younger people tend to sneer and look as if to say “what’s your problem, are you deaf?”.  Offenders often stare in embarrasment at the floor until the bus diver opens the door to freedom and they can make a quick get away…

But in London, strangely, it’s a quite different situation.  On average I would say the bell is rung at least 3 times before each stop, and sometimes rung even while the bus is actually stationary at a bus stop.  I wonder how bus drivers cope with this constant bell ringing?  I would really p*** me off, and actually does while I am on the bus for only 45-50 minutes – how can they put up with it for a day, and then day after day.  But for me the real question is, why are people on the 118 bus to Morden/Brixton so stupid that they need to ring the bell so much even when the bus is at a stop?  Is there a name for a fear of missing your stop/destination?  I feel like that polite voice that announces which stop you are nearing should be plugged into some kind of ring tolerance circuit set to 3 rings max to trigger “Thankyou, we are aware you want the bus to stop”.  On the fourth ring “The bus driver is aware that you wish to get off the bus”…  But then I get the impresson people would still keep ringing.

Treyvon Martin – The Zimmerman Verdict

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My site was off-line when this story broke, and I have only just been able to comment.  I just think it is just totally crazy, if I have the facts of this case right, how Zimmerman can carry a gun, suspect a hooded teenager Treyvon to be up to no good, and that Zimmerman contacts the police because of this – and the police advise him not to get out of his car, but he does so anyway and goes after Treyvon and then shoots Treyvon only later to plead self-defence (because apparently Treyvon attacked him).

 

Zimmerman wasn’t a trained officer, how could he have anything other than suspicions of what Trayvon was up to, he had no legal right or power to determine what Treyvon was doing.  If you put yourself in Treyvon’s place, how would you react to a person potentially approaching you with a gun?  Could you run, or would you be shot?  Would you stand up and fight?  Would you cry for help?

 

Zimmerman basically disobeyed the direct order of a police officer, and decided not to stay in his car but took “the law” into his own hands, and decided to be judge, jury and executioner driven by his own flawed view of the situation.  If Zimmerman had stayed in his car, would his life have still been “endangered” if ever it truly was?  I would answer “no” to that, and if Zimmerman had stayed in his car, even if his beliefs about the situation were proved to be true, the worst that could have happened was that someone’s house might have been broken into, but as he had already called the police to inform them of what he believed to be going on, who is to say that the Police wouldn’t have got to the scene in time to apprehend the supposed suspect?

 

I think it is sickening that this verdict came to pass, and I am truly dismayed by it.  ZImmerman should be behind bars for Manslaughter at the very least, if not Murder, and yet again in the USA, we see black people stereotyped, marginalised and devalued.  Is it really the case that the expectations that white American people have for black Americans are so low that, you can have a black American unlawfully killed and it doesn’t seem to matter to the judicial system because of its inherent white bias which blinds it to the fact that all people, regardless of colour deserved to be treated with equal human rights?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23390975

Britishness, is the colour of your skin important?

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I was surprised to see an article on the BBC News website recently titled “Why have the white British left London?“. I thought that being British was more essentially about things like values, commitment to society, paying taxes, abiding by laws etc.  So why when we live in a multicultural society, do some people feel it necessary to write about this subject in this way?

If the article is really about the aspirations of British people realising their dream of moving out of the capital city to other parts of the country and even abroad, why does it focus solely on white people moving out on London, and not those British people of any colour or race who have worked hard to do the same?

What Christmas Means To Me?

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What Christmas means to me? Well, I don’t celebrate it anymore and although I appreciate part of the sentiment of Christmas, I believe it represents a distortion of the truth and promotes materialism, often at the expense of more noble things like truth, fairness and love.

Christmas itself, as we are told by the Church, is about the birth of the baby Jesus. On the level of truth, Jesus was never called Jesus! Jesus is a Greek name and the child was born to Jewish parents in Bethlehem in Israel, and by birth was named Yahshua!

The word Christ from which the word Christmas is formed was never a word linked to the person many people know as Jesus.  Again, Christ is a Greek word which denotes a pagan priest, and the roots of the true religion expressed in the (Christian) bible are totally opposed to paganism.  The word used in a biblical context is Messiah, not Christ.

The words Christ and Jesus are Greek “transliterations” of Jewish words, and many bibles even footnote the words “Yahshua” and “Messiah” when the words “Jesus” and “Christ” appear in the main body of text.

So, we have what is perhaps misnamed festival which is the focal point of the Christian calendar, and not only that, but “Jesus” wasn’t even born on December 25th or anywhere around that time!  We can tell this is the case by examining the scriptures relating to Yahshua’s birth (which would suggest some time between July and September). So why does the Church hang on to these “distortions”, when many people who have studied the bible, including the majority of those who hold office in the Church are aware of these inaccuracies?  Why not call Christmas something else, and if necessary celebrate the birth of Yahshua at the right time of year?  That’s something I’ll leave you to think about…

Having said all that, Christmas is a time when you get to spend time with people you care about (if you are lucky), and that is something good.  So I hope that for anyone reading this, that the Christmas season brings you joy, togetherness and makes you realise what is really important and special in your life.  Only, let those things we realise are important and special not be possessions but people, and let your joy and appreciation of them last more than for just a season.

My thoughts on the whole issue with Nick Griffin, the BNP and it’s wider significance

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The political landscape has deliberately been undermined by successive governments who abuse their power and allow the public to be treated with contempt, abusing our rights, and allowing the rich to get richer while we effectively pay for it.

We have a “democracy” but the things the government does, like going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, bailing out banks, and indeed for some of the most important decisions the government takes, we actually have no direct influence over whatsoever. We have a choice about who gets to make the decisions “on our behalf”, but we don’t have a choice about what decision is made. Even when the decisions are unpopular with the public, nothing is done about it, that then becomes the fault of the political establishment for being arrogant and out of touch, and our fault for accepting injustice without enough opposition.

If the BNP feels that the voices of the “indigenous white people” are being ignored, that isn’t racism, its simply blinkered self interest, maybe something we are all guilty of, but politicians are particularly so. We are ALL being ignored by the political establishment, the problem is that our democratic system is systematically and consistently failing US the people who make it work, depend on it and pay for it.

Parties like the BNP can only exist when the democratic system is failing to the point where objectivity, reason and trust have been severely undermined. The anger felt by the public is fed upon by the likes of Griffin who are only really adding wind to confusion and providing a knee-jerk reaction that a significant number of people can identify with.

It cannot be possible that the educated men and women who govern our society can have lost reason to the extent whereby, for example, some MP’s who cheated the expenses system have to pay back a few thousand pounds whereas others who cheated the system to a far greater extent (e.g. by avoiding Capital Gains Tax) are not punished. Isn’t the moral being taught there, that the more you abuse the system, the more likely you are to escape punishment? Look at the bankers too, that’s another fine example. A working class man can be sent to prison for fraud, but politicians especially and bankers seem to be above the law.

It is not correct that the media should portray Gordon Brown was the greatest Chancellor ever when he sold of the countries gold reserves for virtually nothing and totally decimated the pension system. So why do the media do this?

How can Griffin say that London has been “ethnically cleansed”? What kind of understanding or appreciation of history does a statement like that show? Weren’t people killed because of their ethnicity in places like Bosnia and Darfur? Who has died in London mostly because of their ethnicity, white people or minorities? The only reason people like Griffin can get away with statements like that which show a contempt for human life, is because we have already listened to the judgements of people like Tony Blair who are prepared to lie and distort the truth for political ends, even if that means people will lose their lives.

Politicians have to realise that although you can win a particular argument by distorting the truth, there are many more valuable things are lost, such as integrity, the value of honesty and objectivity.

It should be clear that if the only way some people in this country feel that they can adequately express their political views is through someone like Griffin, then there has to be something wrong with the political system itself. We are semi-enfranchised, we have a vote but what is its true significance? Do we have direct influence about the issues that really matter? We think democracy is working for us, but it seems clear that the view of the majority of the people in this country is often suppressed, and because the mainstream parties are not listening or offering anything intellectually viable, people are following unreasoned instincts and drifting to people like Griffin and the BNP.

The media gets hysterical about racism, but the problem is much deeper than the reactionary and inflammatory statements that people like Griffin have as their stock in trade and the media latches onto for it’s sound-bites. “Racism” is deeply entrenched in society in ideological constructs and economic structures, these are much more difficult to perceive, and the media rarely gives enough time to examine the concepts behind why racism exists, so in reality the problems that underpin the very reasons why racism can exist have never truly been tackled. Today’s politically correct establishment are only creating a greater problem for future generations.

In all this confusion and heated debate, what should arguably be the real focus of our anger escapes examination and punishment – i.e. the political system and the political establishment as a whole. We are being deliberately manipulated! We are entering an era of “barbarian politics”, devoid of intellectual integrity, justice and objectivity.

IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH

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IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH

YAHSHUA (Jesus) SAID:

“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

(Based on John 8:31 & 32)

I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

(John 17:14 – 17)

INTRODUCTION

This tract was born out of a need to establish a sincere view of God’s word, based solely on the bible. I found that I had to do this as I became confused when I became a believer because of changed attitudes from friends and other people [1] ; and also because I heard preachers preach a type of truth that did not agree with the word of God as I understood it [2]. I changed my day of rest and worship from Sunday to Saturday (the seventh day of the week*), and began to study the law of God in order to follow a form of obedience and teaching that holds more truth. I then realised that some members of my family were against this, and at the time of writing this tract we live in a mode of disagreement [3] concerning many aspects of God’s word. Again at the time of writing, I still have not found the church I am looking for, not even perfectly in my heart – though I strive through Yahshua Messiah to realise it. This tract details some of the inner conflicts I have, and also examines some difficult issues within “Christianity”. I have done this because; firstly, I felt that I needed to sort out these conflicts and issues for myself; and secondly, because I also believe that these conflicts and issues need to be looked at by believers as a whole.

THE SABBATH ON A SATURDAY?

For God said; “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” [4]  Therefore I keep the Sabbath on Saturday as God has instructed, that I may enter the Lord’s rest, and remember that God created the earth by his power, despite what the evolutionists and other peddlers of error may say [5]. Consider, why is this commandment part of the 10 commandments with others like, “You shall not murder”, and “You shall not steal”? If we are prepared to keep the other 9 commandments, why not this one, especially as Gentiles were able to keep the Sabbath under the Old Covenant as Isaiah 56 demonstrates? In addition, Acts chapters 16-18 show that both Jews and Gentiles met together on a Sabbath to hear the Word of God. So as that was the case then, why should it be any different now?

MORE THAN THE SABBATH

The Old Testament prophet Isaiah wrote; “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.” [6]  It is not just the Sabbath that is important but all the law, the prophets, *AND* the testimony of Yahshua. In Revelation we read; “Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring–those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Yahshua”. “This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Yahshua.” [7]

THE TRADITIONS OF MEN, OR THE COMMANDS OF GOD?

Yahshua rebuked the Pharisees and teachers of the law saying; “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ” `These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’ You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! [8] There are many rules and traditions that are man made, for example, ‘the Lords day is Sunday’ as a day of rest and worship. This is a command that never came from the mouth of God (consider also Christmas, Easter and Christening). Indeed, there are many ‘Lords’ but there is only one God, and we need to be aware of Satan’s subtlety, for people who distort this and other elements of the law are doing Satan‘s work [9]. If we worship God and we love Messiah Yahshua, does it not make sense for us to follow his words? How can we accept the teachings of men as having more authority than the teachings that came directly from God whom we worship?

AN ANCHOR IN THE TRUTH

Yahshua said: – “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” [10]  Yahshua also said; “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash. [11]

AN ANALOGY ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS

“A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honour due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD Almighty (i.e. God). “It is you, O priests, who show contempt for my name.” [12]  If you read the Gospel, you will notice “our High Priest” and the Son of God, Yahshua, always did his father’s will. Yahshua tells us that those who do his fathers will are his ‘family’ [13]. God is our Father, for he created us all and we have a duty to obey him because he knows what is best for us, and we may run into difficulties if we do not [14]. Yahshua said, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” [15] In context with this analogy, this means that if we judge for ourselves what truth is instead of humbly accepting the will of God our Father, as revealed to us in his word. Then, we are judging God’s ability to supply us with the truth. However, the bible tells us that God is ‘the God of truth’   [16], and these two principles cannot be held in anything but an ambivalent and unstable mind [17]. Consider therefore, that we may expect the same measure of obedience and cordiality from our families, friends, and from society in general [18], as we express toward God and his word. Still yet, God may choose to show us kindness and mercy through the means of his grace.

REFORM OR OBEY?

How then, with our God being ‘the God of truth’ can his church be ‘reformed‘. Was the God who created the heavens and earth in all their beauty [19] ungenerous in his provision of the law to govern our relationships between one another and himself, and his creation? Did God act with restraint by using the prophets to reinforce his messages, and did he hold back when he sent his Son Yahshua to die for us? Of course not! What more could God have done [20]? Isn’t it our hearts that have to be ‘reformed’ as Yahshua and his apostles proclaimed to us? Yahshua said, “I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.” [21] The truth is, we should not obey the doctrines of any man or woman to any lesser or greater extent than they agree with the teaching and example of Yahshua; not the Pope, Luther, Calvin, Whitfield, or even the apostle Paul – for “No servant is greater than his master” [22].

The history of the nation of Israel as recorded in the bible serves as an example for the church [23]. In times of trouble or otherwise, men such as Nehemiah, Ezra; and the Kings; Joash, Josiah, and Jehoshaphat emerged as leaders that promoted *obedience* rather than *change* [24]. Instead of creating divisions within the church by seeking to implement and defend new ideals, or neglecting parts of God’s word because of contemporary practice, they turned the peoples minds to God and the law [25]. This is amplified in the missions of John the Baptist [26] and Yahshua.

WARNINGS CONCERNING GRACE

I can add little more to what has already written, I hope the reader will find it plain to understand. The biblical definition of sin is this, “Whoever commits a sin, also breaks the law, for sin is the breaking (transgression) of the law.” [27] “Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, he does not belong to Messiah. But if Messiah is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Yahshua from the dead is living in you, he who raised Messiah from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” [28] Again Paul writes; “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Messiah even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved.” [29]

Again Paul writes “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” [30] “If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” [31] “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” [32]

Does the fact that we live under grace give us the justification for ignoring the law, or even asserting that we should not obey it? I think not, biblical teaching does not teach that we should break the law. Paul writes “Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.” [33] Grace is not only an atonement and covering for our sins, but a preventative against sin. This is clearly what the passage in Romans 8 is saying, as I quoted earlier (see footnote 28). The power of Messiah, and our union with Him in the body of Messiah gives us power to overcome sin and death, this is the law of sin and death Paul is referring to – because sin leads to death as surely as sunset is in due course followed by darkness. How does sin and death relate to someone who is born of Messiah? For Paul writes ”If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin– because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Messiah was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Messiah Yahshua.” [34]

CONCLUSION:

“Love for God is to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Yahshua is the Son of God.” [35] Yahshua’s task on earth was completed to perfection, by his teaching and in the example of his lifestyle, he left us lacking nothing to fit us for our lives on earth, and in heaven. We need only feed on the bread of life that he has freely given us, and accept that his truth is the whole truth, and the only truth.

FOOTNOTES:

1 See 1 Peter 4:12-19.

2 See Isaiah 59:12-15.

* See ‘Sabbath’, Brewers Concise Phrase & Fable pg 898. Properly the seventh day of the week, enjoined on the ancient Hebrews by the fourth commandment as a day of rest and worship. The Christian ‘Sunday’, “the Lord’s day”, the first day of the week, is often inaccurately referred to as “the Sabbath”. Check your own dictionary definitions of the words ‘Saturday’ & ‘Sunday’. Note Ephesians 5:6&7.

3 See 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, & Philippians 2:1&2. How can there be true unity when we follow different teachings?

4 Exodus 20:8-11. Note Hebrews 4:1-11, Matthew 12:1-14, & Isaiah 66:22&23 – is not the Sabbath an eternal observance?

5 See 2 Peter 3:1-13, & 2 Timothy 3:5.

6 Isaiah 8:20. (prophecies about Messiah, Isaiah 9:1-7, & 53:1-12).

7 Revelation 12:17, & 14:12 respectively. Note John 3:1-21.

8 Mark 7:6-9, note Deuteronomy 4:2, Matthew 7:21, & John 6:32.

9 See Ephesians 5:6&7, Proverbs 27:6, 2 Peter 3:14-16, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11, Daniel 11:32, 36&37, Revelation 17:12-14, Mark 8:34-38, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 28:4, Proverbs 28:9, Matthew 19:17, Isaiah 29:13-16, & Proverbs 11:5.

10 Matthew 5:17-20. Note Mark 12:28-34, Isaiah 66:2-4 & 1:10-31.

11 Matthew 7:24-27.

12 Based on Malachi 1:6, also see Hebrews chapters 8 – 10.

13 See Mark 3:31-35, & John 14:28-30, also see Hebrews 2:5-18.

14 See Exodus 20:12, Romans 10:1-4, & Proverbs 28:14.

15 Matthew 7:1&2.

16 See Psalm 31:5, Psalm 19:7-11.

17 See 2 Peter 2:1 – 3:18, note 2:12 & 3:16.

18 See Proverbs 19:23, & Psalm 62:5-8.

19 See Psalm 19:1-6, & Romans 1:18-20.

20 See Isaiah chapter 5, note verse 4, note Matthew 21:33-44.

21 John 5:43, also see 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.

22 John 15:20, & note Matthew 10:24&25.

23 See 1 Corinthians 10:1-13.

24 See Psalm 119:1-8, note v. 4; also see 2 John 1:1-13, note v. 9.

25 See Isaiah 3:12 & James 1:22-25; also see Jude 1:19.

26 See Malachi 4:6 & Matthew 11:13&14; also John 17:20-26.

27 Based on 1 John 3:4, also see James 2:10&11.

28 Romans 8:5-11.

29 Ephesians 2:1-5. Also see Romans 3:21-24.

30 Romans 6:1&2. Also see Psalm 19:12&13.

31 Hebrews 10:26-31, also see the book of Jude, & Proverbs 26:11.

32 Hebrews 4:13.

33 Romans 3:31.

35 Romans 6:5-11.