5 Life Lessons that I Learnt from "Dracula Untold" (Spoilers Alert!)1) Never seek a solution from the darkness. If you listen to a fallen one, you will fall too. The ancient vampire tempted Vlad to drink his blood out of selfishness - to trick Vlad into taking his curse so that he could be free from his cave prison. Vlad paid a costly price for seeking power using the unholy shortcut. 2) Kingdoms rise and fall, come and pass. No human can rule forever. Despite the Turkish empire being so strong and numerous, the Sultan was still a mere mortal. Mortals die, kingdoms end, and a new age begins. No human can claim an eternal rule on this earth. 3) To ensure the success of an empire, its leader must make wise decisions for the greater good of his people, not based on his/her selfish reasons. Mirena coaxed Vlad into making the curse permanent on himself just to save their son, resulting in their entire kingdom becoming destroyed, turned into vampires, cursed and corrupted. Their selfish acts of withholding their son from the Turkish Sultan led to the utter destruction of their kingdom. 4) A curse that brings some benefits will always rob you of something more valuable from you. It is never worth the trade. Although Vlad gained control of the creatures of the night, enhanced speed, strength, senses and many cool abilities, he ultimately lost his humanity. As a vampire, he is unable to be in the sunlight, he is harmed by silver, and has an insatiable thirst for human blood, endangering all the people he loves. A curse will never lead to happiness, even if in the short-term it seems to resolve a problem. 5) Great leaders are not necessarily developed with age and experience. We must learn to have child-likeness and purity in our intentions. Ingeras's bravery was commendable when he willingly offered himself to be taken by the Turks. His selfless actions show that in some aspects, he makes a better leader than his parents. A tender age does not equate to inferiority or inadequacy. I hope you enjoyed reading my post on 5 Life Lessons that I Learnt from "Dracula Untold"! "LIKE" and "SHARE" this post with your friends - i'd be so happy and grateful for that! Stay tuned for more updates such as this... Follow me on Instagram @miltongoh and connect with me on FaceBook by clicking here. You can also watch my videos on YouTube here. Remember to subscribe! Thanks for reading! :) Many Blessings, Milton Goh
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28 September 2014 - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon Notes - The Law Demands, Grace Supplies!God still heals today. The cross is God's instrument of redemption for mankind. When you boast in your works, God will always give you The Law, and there will always be one thing you lack. The Law was designed to reveal your inadequacy. The goodness of God leads people to repentance. Contrast of the rich young ruler in Luke 18 and Zacchaeus in Luke 19 - The Law cannot lead man to repentance, only grace does. Romans 6:14 - We reign over sin through grace, and not by keeping The Law. "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." (Romans 6:14 NKJV) 1 Corinthians 15:56 - The Law is the strength of sin. Those who preach grace preach freedom from the strength of sin. "The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law." (I Corinthians 15:56 NKJV) Poverty is evil. Money is not the root of all evil - the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Romans 7:1-13 - Many think that God gave The Law for man to keep. God gave The Law at Mount Sinai, but before that, the Israelites were under grace from Egypt to Sinai. We are cut off from sin when we are in Christ. "Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful." (Romans 7:1-13 NKJV) A Salvation Prayer to Receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of Your Life!If you have decided to receive Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of your life, speak the following prayer out and believe in your heart, and it will definitely work for you. You may or may not feel any observable change immediately after praying this, but you will be saved! Congratulations on making the best decision of your life! "Father in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I confess that I am a sinner, and I repent of my sins and the life that I have lived. I receive your complete forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in the Scriptures that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved. I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my life. I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your Grace which has saved me from my sins. Therefore Lord Jesus, transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life. Amen."  You prayed the salvation prayer! Dear beloved Brother or Sister in Christ, welcome home! God has given you eternal life and salvation that lasts forever, and nothing can ever change that. Go live a life for His glory, find a local church to grow in, and keep on growing in your knowledge of His love for you... Do any of the suggested articles below interest you?
Would you like to help to keep this blog alive and get exclusive rewards (including ALL my sermon notes in a downloadable e-Book format)? Visit my Patreon page for more details now! Be blessed and walk in divine favor, Milton Goh ---------------------------------------------- Follow me on Instagram @miltongohblog Connect with me on FaceBook here. Watch my videos on YouTube here. Many blessings and thanks to Terence Koh and Shanice Ng for supporting this blog as our Superabundant Grace tier patrons! 21 September 2014 - We Are In God's Third Day - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesThe Church was a mystery that God hid and now it is revealed. There will be two 'Comings' of Jesus Christ - First, the Rapture, where all believers will be transformed and caught up to meet Jesus in the air. Then the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will take place 7 years later after the Great Tribulation and Jesus's feet will touch the Mount of Olives and the mountain will split in two. Jesus will slay the Antichrist with the breath of His mouth. As believers, we are not awaiting death, but are awaiting the coming of The Lord to enrapture us to be with Him forever. Many people feel heavily invested in the things of this world and don't look forward to the Rapture, but those who love The Lord and what He does for them will fondly look forward to His coming. All believers will stand before the "Bema Seat" of Christ to give an account of their lives and to receive their appropriate rewards from God. The unbelievers will go through the Great White Throne Judgement and they will be lost forever and have their wrongdoings stacked up against them. A true believer will never be lost! We as believers are like the 300 men of Gideon who scoop the water to drink it but are looking around and aware of their surroundings. The world does not control them. 2 Peter 3:3-9 - God already anticipated the words that scoffers will use today because they don't see any signs of Jesus's coming. But God is delaying Jesus's coming because He is not willing for anyone to perish. This shows His heart of love towards us. "knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."" (II Peter 3:3-9 NKJV) There is a hell and it was designed for the devil and his angels, not for man. However when man first sinned, we were destined for hell, but through Jesus's sacrifice at the cross, all believers have complete forgiveness and received His righteousness. If you honor Christ's sacrifice, come boldly to the throne of grace to receive what you need. We have access to God because of that sacrifice. Jesus preached more on hell (the place of eternal torment where there is both darkness and fire) than any other preacher. It is because He loves us so much that He wants to save us from that terrible fate. 5 Life Lessons and Moral Value that I Learnt from "The Maze Runner" (Spoilers Ahead!) - The Maze Runner Series
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