The Cross a Symbol of Satans Defeat

The Cross and it events thought two thousand years old, is still one of the most stunning features of our time. The son of God put to death on a cross!!! like a common criminal. To even think about it in abstract terms exhumes thoughts and questions of the extent of man's depravity, illustrating unequivocally how far we have fallen.

Not even our rituals can justify such duplicity, such treachery. The word reminds us that He bore our sins in anguish with the excruciating reality that His offenders shared no remorse. The pangs of the deceit was motivated by their refusal to part with what they believe was their right. How dare this Jesus to defy or denounce that right.

The entire ordeal ended in triumph far more than one could ever imagine. Not only was His accusers defeated but that which motivated them in the first place. God's will must be fulfilled and mere human could not prevent or hinder His ultimate objective, the rescue of His creation.

Is there a God? "Here is the Proof

The proof of God’s Omnipresence and the sevenfold destiny of man Recreated in Revelation

Ephesus
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
In the Garden

Smyrna
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Kicked out of the garden

Pergamos
Rev 2:17 (b) to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
The Wilderness Kindness


Thyatira
Rev 2:26 he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Man demands and is granted a desire to rule.


Sardis
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
A New Covenant


Philadelphia
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
From mortality to Immortality


Laodiceans
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Heaven our Home

A Southern Baptist Icon, My Spiritual Father Otis Brady

One of My greatest joy in life was to meet one of the greatest men I had ever known. In many ways despite the color of his skin. I could have easily called him my father, not just because he was a father but he behaved liked my Father.

Some of the thing that has allowed me to say that was because we spoke candidly without being afraid of what the other might have thought about one another. That is a rear community in the world that we live in. many people don't share trust and confidence like I shared with my brother, my mentor, my spiritual father and my friend the man Otis W Brady.

Even though this spiritual giant is dead and gone, pleasant and cheerful memories of him still lingers on. Many of the charismatics he exude earn him many accolades. He was just one of a kind. Don't get me wrong, the man was not perfect, he had his moments but one could never charge him for the few moments of (fooi) compared to the many moments of amens and praised the Lord he so often billowed out towards me or those other brother and sisters he was father to as well. I had never before met someone so deeply appreciative of others.

In him I often sensed a deep and contrite spirit of his love for his God. A practical man Hewn from the rock of deep conviction in God and His people.

This poor man cried! he use to say to us from Psalm. 34 and the Lord heard him and saved him from all his troubles. Those words came from the bible but when he said them, It was like he made them his very own, inferring the very urgent presence of the God he served and so loved.

If one could write a book of the life of Otis W Brady, we would quickly come to realized he lived out the true meaning of being born again, filled with the Holy Spirit and moved by compassion for the lost.

The saddest moment in my life was not when he died for that was inevitable but when he left our shores to return home. I would never had thought that some one could have influenced, challenged and encourage my life like he did but I supposed that was just the kind of man Reverend Otis W Brady was May his soul rest in peace

Truthfully, a part of him lives on in me and i see it coming out ever so often. His desire to unite and bring people together to talk and interact, to dream and visualized the future but most of all to be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of Lord.

This is my tribute to a truly Godly man.

Rev. Ashley A Rocke