New Life Bible Baptist Church - Lapu-lapu City

26/03/2026

25/03/2026

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 12:12

Prayer :
Dear Heavenly Father,
I desire to become more like You.
Help me reflect Your character each day—to be joyful, patient, and faithful in the midst of daily struggles.
Teach me to live by the Spirit, that the fruit of the Spirit may grow in me and flow through my life.
Please renew my mind with the truth of Your Word.

In Jesus’ name.

25/03/2026

SUBMITTING TO CHRIST'S LORDSHIP

No one has any right to believe that he is indeed a Christian unless he is humbly seeking to obey the teachings of the One whom he calls Lord. Christ once asked a question (Luke 6:46) that can have no satisfying answer, Why do you call me, Lord? and do not do what I say?

Right here we do well to anticipate and reply to an objection that will likely arise in the minds of some readers It goes like this?
We are saved by accepting Christ, not by keeping His commandments. Christ kept the law for us, died for us and rose again for our justification, and so delivered us from all necessity to keep commandments Is it not possible, then, to become a Christian by simple faith altogether apart from obedience?

Many honest persons argue in this way, but their honesty cannot save their argument from being erroneous. Theirs is the teaching that has in the last fifty years emasculated the evangelical message and lowered the moral standards of the Church until they are almost indistinguishable from those of the world. It results from a misunderstanding of grace and a narrow and one-sided view of the gospel, and its power to mislead lies in the element of truth it contain. It is arrived at by laying correct premises and then drawing false conclusions from them.

25/03/2026

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for sending Your only begotten Son, Jesus, to be the bridge that brings me back to You.
I acknowledge my sin and come before You in repentance. I place my faith in Jesus to forgive my sins and to justify me by His Grace. I praise you for the riches of Your righteousness, freely given to all who believe in Your Son, Jesus
In Jesus' name

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25/03/2026

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CHOICE

Our Lord Jesus looked after the rich young ruler as he walked away, but He did not follow him or attempt to coerce him. The dignity of the young man’s humanity forbade that his choices should be made for him by another. To remain a man he must make his own moral choices; and Christ knew this and permitted him to go his own chosen way. If his human choice took him at last to hell, at least he went there a man; and it is better for the moral universe that he should do so than that he should be jockeyed to a heaven he did not choose, a soulless, will-less automaton. God will take nine steps toward us, but He will not take the tenth. He will incline us to repent, but He cannot do our repenting for us. It is the essence of repentance that it can only be done by the one who committed the act to be repented of. God can wait on the sinning man; He can withhold judgment; He can exercise long-suffering to the point where He appears “lax” in His judicial administration; but he cannot force a man to repent. To do this would be to violate the man’s freedom and void the gift God originally bestowed upon him. Where there is no freedom of choice there can be neither sin nor righteousness, because it is the nature of both that they be voluntary. However good an act may be, it is not good of it is imposed from without. The act of imposition destroys the moral content of the act and renders it null and void.