I invite you to check out some Articles/tracts such as “Game 7 Sudden Death Overtime” and “Yes Virginia there’s been a Savior born” or blog post that deal with the “Jesus is Not a Flu Shot”.
I tend to be very passionate, but if you ever wonder where I am coming from, leave a reply and your email address and I will pray for an answer that is from the Bible and not my opinion.
I am an intense writer at times and like Peter, I often cut someone’s ear off too quick so at times I know I am misunderstood. Bottom line, I want to see the Lost, Saved. And those that are Saved, used of God and equipped with the right cure. Today’s evangelism is often motivating people with the horrors of cancer, telling them how everyone in the world is dying of cancer, and then handing them a bunch of syringes filled with either poison arsenic or a placebo Kool Aid. If you convince of the disease but have no clue how to give the cure, it doesn’t help a lost and dying world either.
I was praying about what to write, and this response initially was written because someone thought they were trying to save me from a cult because I don’t think like them. I am coming across as a bible believer, so you don’t have to worry about saving me from a CULT. However, I am trying to save you, from yourself.
Seriously, give this a thought.
If I leave you with anything it would be this. Honestly, think and meditate about this one. If what most say today is correct, if Jesus preached just a message of love thy neighbor and preached a message of simply love, WHY WAS HE CRUCIFIED?
How could that simple message stirred the religious Jews so strongly that they had to kill him? Acts 7 and 8 should have the story of the stoning of Stephen in any “version”. What would have made the Jews rise up to stone him?
If I could summarize Jesus’ message in one sentence, it would be, Jesus said, “They that be whole need not a physician but they that are sick.. I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” (Matthew 9:12-13)
What offended the Jews is what is likely what is offending “you”. It is what offended Cain. It is what offends human nature. The idea that our best works, our goodness is NOT ACCEPTED BY GOD. I said before something I heard, that GOOD and EVIL are on the same tree in the garden and GOOD works are meaningless to God. It is only what is by FAITH and what is God doing it through us that counts.
For example, to use a sports analogy, the Bills running back McCoy was on the Eagles last year. If he played the Bills last year, 200 yards rushing would not help the Bills. Only until he got traded can his “works” help the team.
We are born on the devil’s team. We need to get traded to God’s team. Ye must be born again. That is the message. That is why Jesus died. If you could earn it, if you could impress God by good works, his death was not needed. If you think you can earn it and you think God is impressed by good works you are highly offending the God of heaven and he has every right to cast you into hell.
It is like if you were dying and had a $10,000 drug bill and I went and paid it, and you said “that is too expensive, here is $5 to help you” I would be offended. God is offended by your small acts of charity.
Think of it like this. If I watched Hitler help old ladies cross the street, I would not be impressed. Hitler is “wicked” compared to me. Yet, we are just as wicked, and far worse, compared to God. His very nature will consume sin where ever it is found.
If one of our children was raped and murdered, and the body was found burned beyond recognition, and the man got away with it, we would be outraged. We demand justice. it wouldn’t matter about his church attendance or good works, or anything. a good judge would punish sin wherever it was found or he is CORRUPT. Our country originally was a Republic set by the Constitution which was in strict observation to the Word of God. there was a fear of God and a respect for laws and in general, there was a purer, cleaner way of life back then. God is going to punish sin from the rapists to the liars. God won’t stop until he gets to our sins. That is because God is a RIGHTEOUS Judge.
When you can understand how HOLY and JUST GOD is, you can see you have a need for salvation. Good works won’t cut it on the day of Judgment. Every thought, word, deed, you ever did will be brought to light. Hatred is murder. Lust is adultery. Self-righteousnessness is a rejection of what Jesus did on the Cross.
Friend, that is why they killed Jesus. And you know what, our sins killed Jesus too. Your sin killed Jesus. That is how much God hates Sin. But that is how much God loves as well.
And that is why that is your only hope. Don’t be deceived. you can appease your conscience by thinking I am in a brain washed cult, but that won’t hold any water on judgment day.
Religion makes God angry because it convinces people that there are nicer ways to heaven. they are lies, counterfeits.
God is not the father of all, in the way the religions believe. The bible says in John 1:!2, For as many as received him, to them gave he power to BECOME SONS OF GOD, even to them that believe on his name.
Jesus said to the religious, ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.
Jesus also said He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God.
People will question about the children in Africa who never heard about Jesus, where does he end up?
Babies and young children end up in heaven, I believe. Regardless of life’s circumstances when he grows up, if he is lost he goes to hell. If saved, goes to heaven. That is why Jesus commands us to go preach the gospel to every creature and why God wants us to send missionaries.
However, God also says the heavens declare the glory of God. Creation demands a creator and the creation will often reach someone’s heart, who then prays to meet that Creator. If someone is honestly searching and wants the truth, God will find a way.
The problem is not the African who never heard. The problem is with the rest of the world that won’t listen.