5 Birthmarks of the Christian: How to be Certain of Your Salvation

David Jeremiah – 27 July 2015

While the entire Bible stresses certainty and assurance, there’s one section of Scripture that stakes out this theme as its central focus—the letter of 1 John.

As we carefully read through 1 John, we notice a five-fold argument for the assurance of salvation—five of the birthmarks of the Christian.

The Birthmark of Confession

The first is the birthmark of confession, described in 1 John 5:1: “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” Before you can have assurance of salvation, you have to believe and be saved. You have to confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Some people assume they are saved because they grew up in a Christian culture, or they have gone to church all their lives, or they have been baptized, or they have tried to live a good life. Yet they’ve never distinctly and personally confessed Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.

The Bible teaches that we are sinners, separated from God by a sinful nature. We can never earn, buy, or climb our way into heaven. By our own efforts or goodness, we can never be saved. That’s why God became a man who lived a wholly righteous life, died on the cross, shed His blood for us, and rose from the dead. He paid our penalty, took our judgment upon Himself, and He offers us the opportunity to be born again.

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Leaflet for National Australia Day United Prayer & Holy Spirit Revival Meetings in January 2016 in Melbourne with Pastor Petrus Agung from Indonesia (20,000+ member church)

Dear family & friends in Christ across this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit,

Click the photo above to see the leaflet with details of the next National Australia Day United Prayer Gathering in Melbourne from 10am – 1pm on Tuesday 26th January 2016.

This national prayer gathering which brings together hundreds of prayer warriors from many churches, denominations and ethnicities across Australia, will be held at the CTFM at 30 Star Crescent in Hallam.

This interdenominational Christian prayer gathering, with special guest speaker Pastor Petrus Agung from Indonesia, will be preceded by a series of Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings where he will also be ministering on Friday 22nd at 6:30pm, Saturday 23rd at 6:30pm & Sunday 24th January at 10am & 6:30pm.

Please forward this email to your friends, throughout your church, ministry, movement, and wider spheres of influence for the advancement of the Kingdom of God.

Pr Daniel stated, “I am so happy that Ps Petrus is coming to Australia again as it will be refreshing to hear the true Word of God preached with Power & Authority. I pray that many will come from all across Australia to receive the prophetic Word of the Lord and Holy Spirit anointing from a great man of God who I see as an end time voice for the Kingdom of God and the nations before the 2nd coming of Jesus.”

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BREAKING: You Won’t Believe Who Owned the Crane That Collapsed in Mecca on 9/11 Anniversary

By Gina Cassini of Top Right News on September 12, 2015

Earlier today we reported on the stunning crane collapse on the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killing 107 Muslims and injuring hundreds, on the anniversary of 9/11.

The catastrophe was caught on video. The crane was hit by lightning…

The stunning and disastrous lightning strike right on that spot led many on Twitter to compare it to another heavenly light — yesterday’s spectacular rainbow from the site of the World Trade Center in NYC:

Well the “karma” angle just got even crazier, according to the DailyMail:

The crane was owned by the Bin Laden family.

The crane belongs to a crane company operated by the Bin Laden family’s consortium, who are heading the expansion of the Holy Mosque.

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RUAP National President speaks about Reclaim Australia Rallies across the country this Sunday 22nd November 2015

Dear friends & family in Christ, Please watch and share this brief video of RUAP's Daniel Nalliah speaking about the upcoming Reclaim Australia Rallies across the country on Sunday 22nd…

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Healing presence of God turns tears of sadness into JOY / Healing, Salvation and Deliverance at CTFM in Melbourne

Dear family & friends in Christ,

What a wonderful weekend we had at CTFM in Melbourne last Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

We give all glory to God as His awesome presence turned tears of sadness into joy, as people had a good drink from the well of living waters which brought emotional, spiritual & physical healing to many.

At every service people spent much time worshipping the Lord, as in His presence is fullness of joy.

On Friday night the Holy Spirit ministered to married couples, with many receiving tremendous emotional healing in their marriages and families.

As the Lord prompted, Ps Daniel re-dedicated all marriages to Jesus and everyone at the altar renewed their marriage vows. Some were in tears as they did so.

Emotional healing is key to receive your physical healing. Several people were healed from various sicknesses and one young lady received deliverance from demonic spirits.

All services were very powerful, as the four young speakers all from CTFM, Tendai, Jason, Mariana & Peter, preached the anointed word of God, with many mightily touched by God.

God willing, we hope to have these meeting for 3 days every month, so we all can have a good drink from the river of life, which flows from His throne room.

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RUAP Media Release- Is the Australian Media Racist?

FOR URGENT RELEASE – MONDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2015 “Is the Australian Media Racist? This is a question we all need to ask,” says Daniel Nalliah, RUAP National President. Today from…

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Nothing has changed in 25 years to ease my concerns about Islam

Sunday 13 September 2015 – By Charles Moore

Viktor Orbán is the prime minister of Hungary. It is through his country that very large numbers of migrants from the Middle East and the Balkans now pass. At the beginning of this month, Mr Orbán said: “I think we have a right to decide that we don’t want to have a large number of Muslim people in our country.”

Mr Orbán was fiercely attacked for the motives behind his remark. I do not know enough about Hungarian politics to say whether such attacks are justified. But, regardless of the precise facts about Mr Orbán, I would guess most people in western – let alone eastern – Europe would quietly agree with his general proposition. One of the biggest anxieties about the current immigration is its high Muslim element. Is it wrong to have such an anxiety, let alone to express it publicly, let alone to want to have a system of immigration based on it?

I don’t find these easy questions to answer. Nearly 25 years ago, I wrote an article for which many people, including some I respected, criticised me. In it, I argued that difference of religion often made immigration more difficult, and that this was particularly so in the case of Islam. The piece was written not long after the first Gulf war. I mentioned our Muslim next-door neighbours (we then lived in London). I wrote that they seemed nice people, but that when, during the war, I could hear them praying through the wall, I felt uneasy.

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Former Archbishop of Canterbury warns against ‘Muslim mass immigration to Europe’

September 8, 2015 – by Ralph Sidway

“The frustration for those of us who have been calling for compassion for Syrian victims for many months is that the Christian community is yet again left at the bottom of the heap… Britain should make Syrian Christians a priority…”

One of the rare voices of sanity in Europe’s Migrant Crisis, Lord Carey tempers compassion with a “clear-headed” appraisal of the risks of Muslim mass immigration, calls for “renewed military and diplomatic efforts to crush the twin menaces of Islamic State and al-Qaeda once and for all.”

“Britain Has a Duty to Rescue Syria’s Christians,” by George Carey, the Telegraph via AINA, September 6, 2015.

Lord Carey: ‘compassion must be realistic and clear-headed.’

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Is Europe Losing Control Over Its Destiny?

by Soeren Kern – September 13, 2015

The move by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels to force European countries to throw open their borders — and to require them to provide migrants with free clothing, food, housing and healthcare for an indefinite period of time — not only represents an audacious usurpation of national sovereignty, it is also certain to encourage millions of additional migrants from the Muslim world to begin making their way to Europe.

“We are not facing a refugee crisis, we are facing a migration crisis… Let us not forget that those arriving have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture. Most of them are not Christians, but Muslims. This is an important question, because Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity. Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.” — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary.

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HEALING WELLS TO REOPEN / 3 Days of Mighty Healing & Deliverance Meetings at CTFM in Melbourne on FRI 13th, SAT 14th & SUN 15th Nov

Dear family and friends in Christ,

It is with great excitement and joy that Catch the Fire Ministries in Melbourne will be hosting 3 days of mighty healing and deliverance meetings this Friday the 13th of November at 7pm, Saturday 14th of November 7pm and Sunday 15th of November at 10am & 6:30pm.

Please note that the Friday evening service will be live webcast beginning between 7-7:30pm(AEDT) and the Sunday morning service beginning between 10-10:30am at www.reformationharvestfire.com

Pastor Daniel for quite some time now has been having a strong impression in his heart that the month of November will be a month of breakthrough and victory for the body of Christ in Australia.

He stated, “This morning the 11th of November 2015 I woke up at 3:10am with great excitement and joy in my heart, as in a vision I saw Jesus drawing water from a deep well, the first bucket which came out had the words EMOTIONAL HEALING, the second bucket had the words SPIRITUAL HEALING and the third bucket had the words PHYSICAL HEALING. I literally jumped off the bed knowing that the wells of healing are reopening.

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Awesome presence of God in Adelaide / Prophetic word of Holy Spirit revival and warning for Australia regarding the next 5 years

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Pizza delivery boy from UK becomes Islamic State jihad murderer

September 7, 2015 by Robert Spencer

After studying in a Qur’an camp. One might almost get the idea that the Qur’an played a role in such transformations, were it not for our leaders and the entire Western intelligentsia constantly insisting that it isn’t so.

One wonders nevertheless how Ruhul Amin could read the Qur’an and miss the peaceful teachings in it that are so patently obvious to John Kerry and Joe Biden and David Cameron and Boris Johnson.

“Sorry, no pepperoni…”

“Ruhul Amin: The pizza delivery boy turned Isil killer,” by Steven Swinford, Telegraph, September 7, 2015:

When Ruhul Amin, 26, came to public attention in an Isil propaganda video alongside Reyaad Khan in June 2014 entitled “There is No Life without Jihad”, his friends could hardly recognise him.

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Washing Egypt With the Word of God: “Incredible Things Are Happening” in the Country These Days

Nicole James : Aug 26, 2015 : Operation Mobilization

(Egypt)—Ali*, a local worker, has one goal for his life: to wash Egypt with the Word of God. Before 2017, he hopes to distribute two million Bibles to Egyptian Muslims. He hands out Bibles by the carton-full, according to team leader Jared*.

“Ali is not afraid, in any situation, to offer a Bible as a gift,” Jared said. Often, when one family member receives a Bible, other relatives come back to ask for their own copy.

A couple of times a year, Ali and Ibrahim*, another Operation Mobilization (OM) worker, partner with a local ministry. In a courtyard, event volunteers set up displays of used clothing to sell. When a local leaves the event, they receive a Bible.

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Global Anti-Semitism Now Has a Leader

10th Sept 2015 – Ben Cohen – Senior Editor at The Tower Magazine, New York-based writer on international affairs.

His name is Ali Khamenei, and he has a lot to say about Jews. With the return of Iran to the world scene, he will emerge as the symbol of hate like never before.

At the height of negotiations with the Iranian regime over its nuclear program, Western advocates of a deal found themselves rationalizing the Islamic Republic’s uncompromising belligerence towards Israel. They did so as part of their bid to persuade a skeptical public that the mullahs would honor their agreements. Thus was born the “domestic consumption” theory of Iran’s internal politics, advanced by, among others, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

In a conversation with The Atlantic, Kerry acknowledged Iran’s “fundamental ideological confrontation” with Israel, but wondered aloud whether the regime was materially committed to the goal of eliminating the Jewish state.

One month after the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made a similar observation on a visit to Tehran for the reopening of the British Embassy. “We’ve got to distinguish between revolutionary sloganizing and what Iran actually does in the conduct of its foreign policy,” Hammond told the BBC. “We’ve got to, as we do with quite a number of countries, distinguish the internal political consumption rhetoric from the reality of the way they conduct their foreign policy.”

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Baptist Evangelizer of Muslims in America Says Greatest Challenge Is Christians Are Afraid to Witness

By Michael Gryboski , Christian Post Reporter – July 17, 2015

Raouf Ghattas, pastor and founder of Arabic Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

A Baptist pastor in Tennessee whose young congregation is focused on evangelizing the state’s growing Islamic community has stated that the great obstacle to evangelizing Muslims is the American Church’s apathy on the matter.

Raouf Ghattas, founder and pastor of the Arabic Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, has sought to evangelize among the city’s growing Muslim population.

“Many are apathetic, afraid, or just not sure how to approach a Muslim in witness. We work to train churches and individuals in how to reach out to Muslims, but they still have to be the ones to be active,” said Ghattas to The Christian Post on Friday.

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