“Well, He Did it!”


We live in a world of compromise.  Is that how God’s people should live?

Go ask Ananias and Sapphira.  If you don’t know who these two are, go look it up.

Go ask Achan son of Karmi.
Go ask Cain.
Go ask the Apostle Peter, as he separated himself from the Gentiles.
Go ask Demas.
Ask Jim Bakker.
Ask Jimmy Swaggart.

Billions of people live the life of compromise, and they pay an enormous price.  Billions more have led an equally compromised life, but they were never caught; they lived just inside the rules of social legitimacy.  But even while they have lived, their reward waits for them.

I can force no one to live a pure life in Christ.  But I can certainly warn about the cost of compromise.

Waddledoo


Waddledoo, Waddledoo,
With that ragged old conscience of his?

Waddledoo, Waddledoo,
When the choices to make are all his.

Wadidedoo, Wadidedoo?
Was the epitaph written in stone.

Wadedondid, Wadedondid,
Was to leave the good choices alone.

No “Second” Chance


2,365,200,000
That’s so many seconds you can live if you live to be 75 years old.

Refusing eternal life from Jesus makes everyone of them worthless.

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From the beginning man has said to God, “Stay out of our affairs!”

From the beginning God has said to man: I will come and gather what is rightfully Mine.  I am Life.  Your entirety belongs to me.  You will certainly appear before me to give account for every word and deed you have done.

You will have your way for now.  Go head.  Do whatever pleases you.  Support this or that.  Respect or disrespect the Living God.  Your god is money.  You won’t be able to buy your way out of this one.

The Sending


Take your eyes off the things that are broken.  For to ponder these things is sadness without repair. 

Let your ears forget the noise of the crash.  Let your eyes cease to remember the shattered pieces on the floor.

The Fullness of Life stands at the door.  Turn to see how He watches you. 

Send your ears away that they may listen to His words.  Forgive them their duty as your servants.  Let them go and learn, so that when they return they will give you knowledge.

Send your eyes away.  Let them go and see the things the Living God has in His hand.  When they return to you they will not squint at the brilliance of light.  The shadows will no longer be an attraction.

Do not shrink back but become!


If the things of Christianity and the nature of sin as exposed in the gospel does not stab you to the heart, that ought to stab you to the heart!