The Lord has laid you on my heart. I believe as followers of Christ we have to take a good hard look at how we move throughout the day, weeks and months of our lives. I ask you a question that I ask myself - Am I speaking, teaching and preaching the only message God has told me to speak? The message is the Gospel. Not a watered down Gospel about how Christianity and Christ will make your life better, but the true Gospel of how you have to give up everything to follow Him. The real true Gospel will be rejected or accepted, but no one should be left in a idle position.
These are the truths I see in Scripture:
God is holy, man is totally depraved and therefore cannot within his own power become right with God by his own means. Because God is perfect, He demands perfection to come into His presence, and this creates a serious problem for man. If man so much as even violates one part of God's law, he is guilty of breaking it all and therefore rendered not perfect. Violation of God's law results in death in hell for an eternity, because the law being broken is that of a Eternal God. We should NEVER sway from this truth, because we will have to give an account of speaking the whole council of God to God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a Living God. But God being rich in mercy towards sinners sent His Son to die for them. Christ Jesus came, lived a sinless life, died a criminal's death on tree He did not deserve to hang on, and was raised by the power of the only true God, the God of Israel three days later. He is alive today and King over all things and commands ALL people everywhere to REPENT, turning from their sins and placing their faith in Him, making Him Lord over their lives. Man must be born again (spiritually from above) to see the Kingdom of God. Life, peace and freedom only truly exist in Christ.
You are already doing a lot for the Kingdom and for that I know God is pleased, but there is more that needs to be done. We must be very careful that we do not lose sight of the central truths of Scripture as noted above. It is not about having a great life now, but about meeting God in righteousness, which can only be found in Christ Jesus. As I can see that God has His hand on your life right now, and can feel the Holy Spirit will use you in greater and greater things in the future, please join with me to begin praying for strength, pray for God to raise up labors, pray that God would give us a desire to go deeper with Him, and for His name to be glorified around the world.
These are the truths I see in Scripture:
God is holy, man is totally depraved and therefore cannot within his own power become right with God by his own means. Because God is perfect, He demands perfection to come into His presence, and this creates a serious problem for man. If man so much as even violates one part of God's law, he is guilty of breaking it all and therefore rendered not perfect. Violation of God's law results in death in hell for an eternity, because the law being broken is that of a Eternal God. We should NEVER sway from this truth, because we will have to give an account of speaking the whole council of God to God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a Living God. But God being rich in mercy towards sinners sent His Son to die for them. Christ Jesus came, lived a sinless life, died a criminal's death on tree He did not deserve to hang on, and was raised by the power of the only true God, the God of Israel three days later. He is alive today and King over all things and commands ALL people everywhere to REPENT, turning from their sins and placing their faith in Him, making Him Lord over their lives. Man must be born again (spiritually from above) to see the Kingdom of God. Life, peace and freedom only truly exist in Christ.
You are already doing a lot for the Kingdom and for that I know God is pleased, but there is more that needs to be done. We must be very careful that we do not lose sight of the central truths of Scripture as noted above. It is not about having a great life now, but about meeting God in righteousness, which can only be found in Christ Jesus. As I can see that God has His hand on your life right now, and can feel the Holy Spirit will use you in greater and greater things in the future, please join with me to begin praying for strength, pray for God to raise up labors, pray that God would give us a desire to go deeper with Him, and for His name to be glorified around the world.
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It's easy to forget the MOST important thing when we get caught up in our day-to-day lives. What a great word!
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