Shine in the Dark

Shine in the Dark

Friday, July 8, 2011

Be honest: “Not in the name of Jesus”

The gospel has been transforming lives for over two thousand years. Lost sinners have been sought out by believers, received the Gospel of Jesus Christ, repented and gave their life to Christ and have become a new creation by the power of the Holy Spirit. What is the Gospel? In order to appreciate the good news I think we should start with the bad news. The first man “Adam” disobeyed God and caused sin to enter into creation. The wages of sin is death. Everyone will face judgment. “Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire (Rev 20:15).”  This is God’s Judgment eternal suffering. Now you might be thinking God is so cruel. Why would God send people to hell? Most people are “good” right? First “’No one is good—except God alone…’” (Luke 18:19). Second God is NOT cruel. God is Holy and sin needed to be atoned for.

Here is the good news. God atoned for your sin. Yes, Jesus left the splendor of heaven and came to earth (his creation) in the form of a servant; He was born of a virgin, He lived the perfect sinless life we could not live, He was rejected by man, He suffered until death on a Roman cross, He was buried, and three days later He rose again from the dead. While on the cross He received the full measure of God’s wrath against the sin of man. By His resurrection He defeated death and sin forever. Jesus (HE) did it all for you!
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. John 3:16-21

You have read the Good news and the Bad news. Why did I name this blog “Be Honest: Not in the Name of Jesus?” Jesus called us to REPENT! We are to become a new creature in Christ Jesus.  There is an evil that has come into the body of Christ and has declared open war on the Word of God. It used political correctness to assault God’s own Word.  The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has become the fourth Protestant denomination in the U.S. to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy along with The United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Episcopal Church. Not only are they allowing gay ordination but in states that allow homosexual civil unions these churches can perform same sex marriages. What does the word of God have to say about this? First God’s plan for marriage is one man and one woman, “24 that is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Gen 2:24) Understand God wrote this to future generations and not Adam and Eve. Adam had no mother to leave. God made this statement as an example to their descendants.  Second God calls us to him as we are. Jesus beckons us while we are still in our sin but you cannot mistake he calls us to repentance. We are to put off our old selves and put on his righteousness. We are to turn away from our sins. The Gospel is supposed to transform our lives but, when the lives of men try and transform the Gospel I have to declare “Satan you are a liar and the father of lies”. Please my brothers and sisters Repent cleave to the word of God. Turn to Jesus. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2) Please realize when the still small voice in your head does NOT conform to the written Word of God it is NOT the Holy Spirit it is Satan.
People have told me that all sin is wrong and no sin is worse or better than any other. I agree with this statement but sin cannot be allowed to change the church.

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