Romans 10...How Beautiful it is!

So tonight at our small group I led the discussion around this powerful chapter in the book of Romans.

Paul doesn't pull any punches here when he is dealing with Israel and their lack of taking the gospel for truth. Paul points out that much like what Moses and the Prophet Isaiah said that Israel would be jealous because a nation that did not seek God found him, yet God had always had his outstretched arms ready to welcome the Israelites in but they refused and denied Jesus as one of their own.

Time and time again even in our own lives we have denied knowing him, we have turned to our own righteousness to fulfill our eternal destiny, yet God has told us before that this simply cannot be the way. Imperfect beings could not possible live up to a perfect law. How " that Jesus came to be the perfect sacrifice for that perfect law, fulfill and making atonement for the law in full!

But there is an even greater part of this chapter 10 which gets me excited. In verse 15 Paul writes these words of encouragement

"...How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things!"

-Romans 10:15 KJV-

It is truly a beautiful think to see people sharing the gospel of peace contained in the pages of scripture. How precious it is that we were chosen to be the vessels to deliver this message to the world. I mean who else could do it but Jesus' servant and followers. The word will not just get up and walk around to people proclaiming itself, you and I have to take it as part of our command from Christ.

Do that today, tell someone of the love, hope and salvation of Jesus Christ!

Seek the lost, its our job

Hey Everyone,

So I was thinking about our Lord today and how precious a gift it was that he gave us his written word.

Then I thought that he also gave us something maybe sometimes we forget about. What is it?

He gave us the lost, that's right the lost. We are told to be salt and light, and the lost need to hear the message.

God is not going to intervene physically anymore with a new message or gospel until the last day of this age and at that time all will be finished. But the key is that he already gave us everything including his Son as a sacrifice for our sins and our salvation and his written word. That is all we need, but it doesn't just get up and walk out into the world to share itself, it needs a ride.

Guess what, we are the vehicle that God chose to take the message of the Gospel to the world. So today when you're standing in line at the grocery store, or at the gas station or wherever you are today, reach out and share the gospel with someone. Sure they might walk away and you might not get a response, then again you might get a response but it could be really negative, but hey at least you would be doing your job to reach the lost for the Lord.

Then we would be in the Lord's will for sure and doing as he commanded, what a blessing it is to have eyes to see and ears to hear!

"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

-Mark 16:15 KJV-

Ye are my Friends...

Hey Good Morning All,

So just briefly today I wanted to write to you concerning the promise made from the Lord Jesus Christ to his disciples, the ones who would follow him. In John 15 Christ is telling his disciples that they are no longer his servants because servants do not know what their masters do, because Christ has revealed his work to them making them friends.

He says that the greatest thing a friend can do for one another is lay down his life for him. That is exactly what Jesus did for us all. That is the Great News 4 Everyone I want to put across to you all.

Of course there is one more thing, in this chapter Christ talks about giving us whatever we ask. So many people assume this means things for our benefits, our pleasures, and that this is open to anyone who prays in the Lord's name. I have to say that this assumption is false. It is not open to anyone, not for our benefit or our pleasures. So you are now probably asking, "Okay so what is it about?"

This set of verses is for those who would be called friends of Christ. Who are the friends of Christ?? It can be you and I if we do something first, accept the Lord as Savior of our lives and as in verse 14: "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you"

You are a friend to Christ if you do what he commands, and that is to love one another, and take the word unto all the world and all creatures as in Mark 16:30.

Then our prayers will be answered but another clue into how they will be answered and which ones will be is that we pray not for selfish desires but pray for the things that Christ wanted us to do. Then if he sees fit that you should need a new car, or clothes, or a bigger house, anything you might be praying for to make your life better he will give it only if it fits his purpose which might mean a minivan and not that BMW to drive the youth group around in. Remember the words written in James 4:3: "You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your own pleasures."

Friends don't be caught asking inappropriately but ask as a friend of Christ so that you may do the things he commands us, then our joy in this world would be complete. Remember we have the Holy Spirit available to us daily to help in the areas in which we struggle, he will help us to speak the truth in love to the lost sheep. Lets go out and rescue the lost and bring them into the glory of a relationship with the Father!

-Peace in Christ-

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett-"One Heartbeat Away"

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So two of Hollywood's most famous stars have both passed in the last two days. People are in shock and the families of the two are both very sadden. I want to offer my condolences to both families first and foremost.

I am left with one question here thinking about "Thriller" and "Charlie's Angel" passing, "where are they both now?"

Sadly I don't know, and maybe that is the same answer you have today. If you died today would this be your families response? If it would be then something needs to be done about it.

2,000 years ago God came in the form of Man to offer us a way to salvation, it is really simple. Accept him as Lord in your life, turn from sin (repent) and follow and obey his commands. We can all do this, we were all meant to be in relationship with our Heavenly Father and He has provided that way through Christ.

What is truly at risk here if we don't choose or don't care to choose Christ as our Lord?

Sadly the risk is a fatal one, not to your flesh because what is truly scary about something that happens to 100% of all flesh (well except Enoch and Elijah but those are for later discussions), but for your soul. Christ warned us not to fear the one who can destroy just your flesh but the one who can destroy both body and soul in judgement.

"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

-Matthew 10:28 KJV-

God sits poised on his throne to judge the peoples of this earth according to what they have done. Everyone will be judged on the same standard, no bending of the rules, no exceptions. If God did this he wouldn't truly be a just and fair God, so everyone gets the same treatment. If left to find our own salvation and rely on our good deeds or our being not as bad as someone else then quite frankly we all would be due the punishment coming to us which would be the destruction of our soul as well as our flesh.

The law is perfect and as far as I can tell no one is perfect, so how can you overcome the perfect law of the Almighty?? Simple, accept the perfect one and his perfect sacrifice to be the covering of you faults and transgressions against the Almighty. Then unlike to question about Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Fawcett, you can know where you will end up. Many will say Lord, Lord we cast out demons, we healed in your name, and Jesus will say to them get out of here I never knew you, go into eternal damnation.

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

-Matthew 7:21-23 KJV-

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God Bless Friends!! Don't let another heartbeat go by without accepting Jesus as you Lord!!

Don't Let the Gospel Go Unheard

Hey all,

So I wanted to offer this encouragement to all who carry the Gospel to the lost. 

Sometimes when we witness to others it might seem like they are not listening, maybe they are passive, maybe they simply just walk away from you. Don't let your hearts be troubled, you have done what you were commanded to do, that is spread the word, if our command was to make sure the words stick then we would have failed but in the command to take the gospel into the whole world we have achieved this every time we talk about Jesus to someone and every time we left behind a tract somewhere. 

Don't stop giving of your time to the important cause of spreading the word, it might not seem like it but you are making a difference and someday when we meet the Lord and see all the souls that are experiencing the same the joy we are then we will see the ones who came to the Lord by a word we said, or a tract we left or a smile we gave. Then our joy will be even greater to see the work of the Lord complete!

-Peace in Christ-