Follower of Jesus Christ. Husband & Father of 3, one plays football the other in photography (creativity from her dad) and the other isn't walking yet..
@DudleyTownFC What news to have on #fathersday that your son @KaiserADK has signed for a place close to my heart. All the best for the season.
@DudleyTownFC the surname is 'Del Kiffin' 🤓 not 'Delkiffin'.
The Burial of Jesus🇻🇦
Most people rush past the burial of Jesus to get to the Resurrection, but if you slow down and sit in this moment, you will realize something powerful. The Son of God did not just die. He was carried, wrapped, and placed into a real tomb. Not a symbol. Not a metaphor. A cold, sealed place where dead bodies go. And that changes everything.
After Jesus breathed His last on the cross, a man named Joseph, of Arimathea stepped forward. He was a respected member of the council, someone who had been waiting for the kingdom of God. He went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. This alone is significant because aligning yourself with Jesus at that moment was risky. The crowds had turned. The leaders had condemned Him. Yet Joseph stepped in, took the body, wrapped it in clean linen, and laid Him in his own new tomb that had been cut out of rock. This is recorded in Matthew 27:59–60 and John 19:40–42.
Nicodemus, who once came to Jesus at night, now shows up in the open carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes. About seventy-five pounds worth. That is not a casual burial. That is the kind of preparation given to royalty. They wrapped Jesus according to Jewish burial customs. Every detail matters. The same body that had been beaten, pierced, and crucified was now carefully handled and laid to rest.
This moment confirmed something the world needed to know. Jesus truly died. There was no illusion. No survival. No near-death experience. His body was lifeless. The burial removes every argument that tries to say He only fainted or somehow escaped. The Gospel stands on the reality that He fully entered death.
But here is where it goes deeper than most people realize. The tomb was new. No one had ever been laid in it before. That means there was no confusion about whose body it was. No mixture of remains. No possibility of misidentification. Heaven was removing every shadow of doubt before the Resurrection ever happened.
Even more, the act of wrapping Him in linen speaks louder than we think. Earlier in His life, when Lazarus came out of the tomb, he came out still wrapped in grave clothes and needed others to remove them. But when Jesus would rise, the grave clothes would be left behind. This burial is setting up a contrast. What holds humanity in death cannot hold Him.
Through the finished work of Jesus, this burial was not just the end of His life. It was the burial of sin itself. Scripture says He bore our sins in His body. That means when His body was laid in that tomb, everything that separated humanity from God was being put away with Him. Not managed. Not covered temporarily. Put away.
For us today, this means your old life has already been buried with Christ. You are not trying to bury your past. You are not trying to clean yourself up enough for God to accept you. In Him, your old identity has already been carried to the tomb. This is why Romans 6:4 says we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised, we too might walk in newness of life.
Practically, this changes how you deal with guilt, shame, and past mistakes. When those thoughts come, you do not wrestle with them trying to fix yourself. You remind yourself that what you are being accused of has already been buried. It has already been placed in the tomb with Jesus. You are not that person anymore.
And this is where rest comes in. You do not have to strive to become new. You are living from what has already been finished. Just like His body was fully placed in that tomb, your old life was fully dealt with. Nothing was left undone. You can rest knowing that when the stone was rolled in front of that tomb, it was not just sealing His body inside. It was sealing your old life away for good.
Our Lord Jesus Christ has died, and is now buried.
But Sunday is coming🇻🇦
@JoelHalcomb@birdchadlouis - Galatians 1 v 6-7
Read that epistle again, because the first few passages gives you the blueprint. Who has bewitched you @JoelHalcomb , come back to the gospel of grace and not of works.
Love to chat more, may His word speak to you and grant you peace
@JoelHalcomb@birdchadlouis@JoelHalcomb I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel
which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
@JoelHalcomb@birdchadlouis What is the role of the Holy Spirit?
How were you saved? If you have a blog on that I'd be happy to read it.
Sounds like you're striving for something.. are you?
@JoelHalcomb@birdchadlouis Many e'gelicals insist that heavenly citizenship will be given based only upon “the imputed righteousness of Christ.”
John 19 v30, when JC said tetelestai.. it meant that it HAS been finished and remains (perfect tense). You and I do nada, it's called unmerited Grace.
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). That love did not begin when we believed. It did not arise because of anything God saw in us. It reaches back into eternity itself.
Before we had done any good or evil, before we had drawn a single breath, the love of God was already set upon His people. Scripture makes this clear. “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3). A love that is everlasting cannot be explained by human merit because it existed before we did.
Paul says this plainly when speaking of God’s purpose in election: “Though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls” (Romans 9:11).
This is why the believer’s salvation rests securely in God and not in man. Our love for Him is real, but it is never the cause of His love for us. “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
The love of God toward His people is therefore ancient, sovereign, and unearned. It did not begin in time, and it does not depend on human worth. It began in the eternal counsel of God and was revealed in time through Jesus Christ, “who saved us and called us with a holy calling… according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity” (2 Timothy 1:9).
@realrikkidoolan Sorry.. I struggle with a few things here; 1. The Bible is a Joyce Meyer study one. 2. His learning the messages from Joyce Meyer (prosperity gospel) 3. He doesn't once mention Christ..
I'd like to sit down with him and find out more.
@nemisis_arch@GVStudios_TV what we need to get away from is the whole perception of "it's what I do" .. there's many false converts out there who think they are true believers by people doing what this young lady has done.
Tell me, how do you know you're saved?
@nemisis_arch@GVStudios_TV No...she didn't.
What's the great commission?
And how has she fulfilled that command from what we've watched?
And then show me in the scriptures that what she did is biblical....
Alisson Becker came out in a recent interview saying he can’t wait to see his physical father in eternity (heaven). Which lead us to this question: How do you know if you’re going to heaven?
First of all what is heaven?
Prior to the game against Carterton Bewdley were presented with a plaque to commemorate their September "Team of the Month" award for the uhlsport Hellenic league division one. @HellenicLeague
@birdchadlouis My church have started to invite members of the congregation to read a whole chapter before the preaching of the word. Our ears should be primed with the fullness of God's word.