1st October Pastor’s Post
Do you feel that you have a relationship with Jesus Christ? What kind of a relationship is it? Is it one that you are willing to follow what Christ tells us to do or is it one that you make you on rules? It seems more and more that the relationship that people want with Jesus Christ is one where they make their own rules. We are told over and over in God’s word that if we want to be a child of God that we have to come out of this world. We have to be different.
(2 Cor 6:13 NIV) As a fair exchange–I speak as to my children–open wide your hearts also.
(2 Cor 6:14 NIV) Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
(2 Cor 6:15 NIV) What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
(2 Cor 6:16 NIV) What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
(2 Cor 6:17 NIV) “Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
(2 Cor 6:18 NIV) “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
(Rev 18:4 NIV) Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
(Rev 18:5 NIV) for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
There is coming a time of judgement and we are told that God hates sin. We are also told that today is a day that God offers you the opportunity to receive salvation. Is anything in this world more precious that the life of Jesus Christ? The decision you make will determine where you spend eternity.
(Mat 7:13 NRSV) “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.
(Mat 7:14 NRSV) For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
My hope and Christ’s hope is that you will chose life.
Pastor Jim Meade
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