Please don’t judge my words about Christ to mean that I think I’m better than you.  Please don’t make the mistake of looking at “me, the man”.  If I am all you see you will miss the message.  I testify like that so that we will all live forever.  I write like crazy so that all might gain eternal life.  I’m simply trying, with all my might, to share hope.

If I were already dead and could write to all men, you might be more inclined to believe I truly care.  But that will not happen.  Today is the day of salvation, it is said.  And we are forced to testify while we are still in this body.  But PLEASE don’t judge the words by the man you know.

For the sake of love, mothers serve willingly, with joy.  Dads will risk their lives.  Children will do what they’re told.  Friends will stick by you regardless the outcome.  Strangers will give all they have.  A man will learn to obey the holy commands of God.  Take away love and all these suffer loss.

People often believe that they will be accepted by God by obeying His commands.  But they put the cart before the horse.  We first believe in the forgiveness of Christ.  They we allow that belief to grow.  Soon we see love toward God appear, rooted and healthy.  Then one day, we look around us and see that obedience has been growing.  The order will always be: belief, love, then obedience.  Effortlessly, we become because He is complete.

Do you believe that Jesus is willing to forgive your sins?  That is all He asks of us.  It is our guilt that will keep us from Him forever. 

“What does it matter?”  Some would ask.  “You just spout a steady stream of religion.  We’re tired of hearing your ‘holier than thou’  crap.  Shut up already!”

My friend, it will matter when you leave here.  It matters even now.  Because what we believe causes us to live and speak every moment of our lives.  If a man truly believes his sins are forgiven, you will see a transformation take place.  You will hear that testimony escape his lips (If even only now and then).  You will witness vulgarity and violence of every sort dissipate.   And a thankful loving heart appears where once was only judgement and selfishness.

You ask, “Has he gone to heaven?”  I ask, in return, did he believe his sins are wiped out?  You hear it from my lips that God is willing to forgive.  And where that belief is stired up, a thankful and cleaner life appears. 

Do not make us guess.  Every man’s turn comes.  Most will hate you if you dare to believe open heartedly.  But you will witness the transformation within.  Risk it all.  Believe. 

By His Grace

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