Hi, This is St. Peter's Place, may I help you?
Yes, I am in a big hurry, I have some place to go. I will take an instant healing, and 3 blessings please. The next customer comes through, saying: I need for my marriage to be healed, I don't have time to work on it, or pray, so could you just give me the marriage blessing, and fix it please? The next customer is equally unaware when saying: I need the blessing my neighbor has, could you help me win the lottery? I am going on vacation next week and could use the extra money. People lining up with the greatest intentions, the least faith, and almost no relationship with God, yet expecting instant gratification when they pray. Suddenly God is the "fix it" man. We do not have to do anything on our part, it is all His job. While I was watching a famous newscaster tonight, He was talking about his concept of God. A God who would forgive everyone, because He was merciful. A God who never got angry, who never judged, but only loved people. A God who never did a trial after we die, but fulfills nebulous needs while we are alive. A God we don't need to have a dedicated or holy, righteous relationship with. A God of convenience. A God of people's own making to suit whatever lifestyle they choose to live. This is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This is what the world is saying nowadays. Oh I will take the God that never judges, so I can sleep with everyone in town, or smoke and drink or do drugs, but God will still love me. I will never have to confess or change, because God is merciful. A drive through God. Where do people come up with this stuff? My friends, this is why we have a Bible. 1. It tells us who God is. 2. It tells us what He expects from us. 3. It tells what happens to those who disobey. 4. It tells how to find salvation through Jesus Christ. The Bible says Jesus is the truth, the life, and the way, there is no other way to God, except through redemption in Jesus Christ. This means we have to be proactive. We have to: 1. Recognize we are a sinner in need of salvation. 2. Recognize Jesus died for those sins, and to receive His salvation we must take certain steps. 3. Confess our sins to God, every one we can remember, then we make a public confession of that faith. 4. When we repent of our sins, it means we leave them behind, we walk away from them, we get into the word, and live as Jesus taught. We make a conscious effort to change, and ask God to help us change the things we cannot, so we can be right before Him. Forgiven, renewed by the blood of the Lamb of God. There is no other way! We cannot pick and choose the parts of the Bible we like or don't like or agree with or don't agree with. We cannot tell God who to be, or what His laws and concepts should be. It is like this. We must accept Him for who He is, we must live righteously before Him, by accepting His son, and repenting of our sins, and then walking right by reading His word, praying and living a holy life. Anything else, is straying from the truth. You can make up all the thoughts about God you want, the newscaster can justify his lifestyle by being in denial about God, the person who has strong addictions will deny God to justify his sin. The person steeped in sexual sin or perversion will try to justify a kind, all loving God, to leave out any part of the scripture that might convict them of sins. Sin is a reality. God is not only a merciful God, but a God of judgment. The drive through thing won't work. If you want a relationship with God, there is one way. The right way, through Jesus Christ. Any other way leads to eternal death. Now that you have been told, there is no excuse. Pass this to others, so they may know that there is no excuse that will stand before God's all knowing judgment and wisdom. He sees all, knows all, knows every where you have been, every thought you have had, every deed you have done. Everything that is done in darkness will be bought into light. Where you will stand in that light? There is only one way. You either choose life or death by your decisions. Comments are closed.
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