I wonder how many
of you has been alive long enough to realize, or maybe you haven’t been around
a solid church environment, long enough to know. I need to just go ahead right
now, and post this first verse, because I am on a roll today!! Malachi
3:6 For I am the
LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Yeah, I need to settle this issue right here, and right now. Our
creator, Father God does not change!!
I started talking
about the differences, in church services today. If you were in attendance in
the sixties, through the early nineties you have to notice the difference. I
know there is some Bible preaching churches, in today’s society. However they
are really being thinned out. I know, because I am still in search, of a new
church to call home. I have only found one church, that I really think that
might be the one, but my boss hasn’t gave me the finally ok yet.
Now, any person
that Father has called to preach the gospel, have several things in common. The
first thing, which I want to say, is that they will be very passionate, about
the things of God. When talking about Jesus, they will have, one of two things
going on. They will either have a smile so large that they can hardly speak; of
they will have both eyes full of tears. If you truly know, and have a
relationship with Jesus, it gives a person a total different outlook.
They will not be
ashamed to cry out in love, for those in the sound of his voice. He realizes
those listening to him, are God’s creation. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. This verse is more than just a bunch of words connected
together. This verse is the heart of Father!! It is His declaration, of His love, for
His creation!!
I have recently
come to understand Fathers relationship, with those that He calls into His
service. Father shares His heart of love, until we adopt Fathers heart, as our
own!! We start to see in the way, that Jesus see’s things. We start to hate sin
more, and more, and at the same time show compassion, and love to the
sinner. Do you know why that
is? The mercy that we have been shown
to us, by Jesus shed blood, on the cross, are slowing seeping into reality, in
our lives!!
Luke 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is
given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of
him they will ask the more.
If you are sitting,
under the teaching, of a person that doesn’t tell you, about your sin. If this
person doesn’t, tell you that you are going to spend eternity in Hell. If they
don’t teach you, that Holy Spirit will come upon you, and convict you of sin.
Once Holy Spirit has shown you your sin, the next thing that He will do is,
point you to the only solution that you have. Jesus Christ is the only. Let me make that perfectly clear.
Jesus Christ is the only hope that you
can ever have, of a life of peace, on this earth. With Jesus also comes a
promise, of an eternal life in Heaven.
If you are sitting
under the teaching of anybody, that ever says that there are more than one, or
many ways to get into Heaven. They are lying!!
Get up immediately, and head out the door!! Slow down long enough to shake the dust off
of your shoes, and don’t look back!! Jesus said this Himself; John
14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.
This is the truth,
and if anybody is offended by what I am going to say next, you need to take it
up with Jesus. If you are sitting under the teaching, of a person, that doesn’t
tell you these things, that Jesus taught. Do you know why that they don’t? This is really a simple, true
statement. They don’t have any real
love inside of them. They don’t even
love you enough to tell you the truth, and that is probably because they don’t
even know themselves. Most likely that only thing that they love about you is
the money, which you give every week!!
John probably had
the most intimate relationship with Jesus, of all those written about in the
Bible. Do you realize, that all that in the Bible, that was touched by Jesus
was different, in their actions. Whether they wrote books of the Bible, or not,
each one of us have been affected, in different ways. That is why all the authors
of the Bible write differently about Jesus.
Staying with my
theme for today, John wrote mostly about the love of Jesus. 1John
4:15-16 Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love
that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him. There is another
verse that John wrote, which might be the proof required, to measure the one
that is preaching to you. 1John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world.
If John said that
the spirit of the antichrist was already in the world back then. Wouldn’t it
stand to reason, that it is even more
abundant in these last days? We all
need to open our eyes to see, and open our ears to hear. We need to pray the
Holy Spirit would open our understanding, and sharpen our tools of discernment.
These are the perilous times that Paul wrote about in his second letter to
Timothy. 2Timothy 3:1 This
know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come This entire chapter is worthy of being read, for those that desire
to learn, and please Jesus. Verse sixteen is the way that we should
measure!! Ain’t God good?
…..Much Love
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