I have no respect for a gospel that says Christians are supposed to change the world so that the world endures prosperity ( as the world defines prosperity).  The gospel of Christ is first spirit.  If a man will repair his relationship to God all things fall in place.

Indeed let us do good for the sake of our fellow man that he should not suffer undue horror.  But his physical well-being is not our first priority.  We show him love and kindness and meet his needs that he may understand love.  All the while we say to him, “We love because He first loved us.”

There is a push to mimic the work of Christ by men without Christ.  I am forced to reject their premise:  Man first then God.  Christianity is a direct inverse.  God first then man.

I will receive flack for this.  This false gospel has been alive and propagated for hundreds of years.  It has become the standard of man’s righteousness.  But there is a distinct difference between Christianity and the righteousness of man.

Father in heaven I give you great glory for this understanding,  for this arrives in my heart by your hand it is not of my own understanding or interpretation.  Unless you touch a man these things are too high above us. 

By His Grace

I have written the following a few times before.  But it is certainly worth repeating.

Eternal life is given freely by the blood of our Lord Christ Jesus, to any who will believe his message and honor his name.  But it is good to remember that there are the greatest and the least in the kingdom of heaven.

God will perfectly distribute reward according to a man’s service in his name.  It is not wise to consider that all of the Lord’s rewards are equally distributed.  Eternal life is given freely by our faith in Christ.  The eternal position in his kingdom is dependent on our faithful service.

By His Grace

In all creation boundaries have been established.  The mountains are not allowed to infringe on the domain of the sky.  Even God s enemy is restrained in his murderous plunge to destruction.  And no man will approach the Lord in confidence without faith.

We are allowed to reason together.  But no man can save another.  It is impossible to force a man to have faith.  But it is fully within our reach to help a man refine his understanding.

By every possible godly means, let us urge and encourage one another.  Even while we clean our own house, let us loudly sing the beauty of God’s gospel so that passers by may hear the noise.  May our faith in Christ give birth to faith in others.

By His Grace

By His Grace

In our tiny mind we think that we will appear before God and show him all the treasures his love for us has brought.  “Look what you’re great grace has done my God these belong to you.”  Do we think he will be impressed?  He has lived in immeasurable splendor for eternity.  And when we kneel before him it will be among his great splendid things. 

For now we see as through a glass darkly.  But let us shake the thought that this is the way things are near the Lord.  The best of the righteous deeds of men are as filthy rags before the glory of God.

When men say,  “Prepare to meet thy maker” it is impossible for the speaker to conceive the fullness of those words.  Absolutely every knee will bow!

By His Grace