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What is the Gospel?

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The Gospel means Good News.  And that’s good. But whoever got good news without it being better than the bad news?   A guy tries to sell a painting he’s made on consignment.   The owner of the shop where the painting was displayed calls up and says, “Hey, I got good news for ya”.   Now, we can be sure he’s not gonna tell the painter that everyone thinks the painting sucks.  After all, it wouldn’t be good news at all.  No, he’s likely got some really good news about the painting.   Maybe the shop burned down and insurance is gonna cover the guy’s painting.  That would be good news for the painter.  But that isn’t what the owner of the shop said.  He said, “Hey, I got good news for ya”.  This is better news than: “Hey, your painting sucks and it’s takin up space. Come get it”.

Millions of people, strike that, Billions of people think of the Gospel as a religious theme; just another set of dos and don’ts.  But how is that different from what we already hate?  The good news of the Gospel is above anyother good news we can ever get.  I’m not gonna try to lay out all the details of the Gospel in this post.  Instead, I’m gonna leave a tiny note of what it is so the reader doesn’t have to spend 10 hours trying to eat what can be too much for a sitting at any table.

Look in yourself.  See all the guilt you carry for things you’ve done wrong?  That guilt is proof that you’re a law breaker.  One who honors the law is not prone to feel guilty for something he didn’t do.  That guilt will not leave you when you die.  It will remain in you when you stand before the God of Perfect Holiness and give testimony regarding yourself.  Now, how bout that!  What a wonderful pleasure it will be to stand before the very source of perfect law and tell Him why you refused to obey Him.  Not likely.  It doesn’t take a great imagination to realize that you’re in BIG trouble.  Because your soul, that is your very essence, is not mortal.  It will not die . . . .  ever.  And the guilt you now feel will remain part of you for this same forever.  (I know I’m making light of this subject with the language I’m using.  It’s on purpose.)  In short, if you remain apart from the Lord Jesus, You’re Toast!!!!!!!!

You have, at your disposal today, a way out of this encounter.  The purpose of life is not to gain all kinds of stuffs or to become important, or to invent some obscure religion.  The purpose of life is to weed out those who hate God and those who love Him.  He is telling you, right now, that Jesus is available to forgive your sins and cause you to experience a clean heart toward God.  Through this clean heart you can begin to seek what God demands of all men.  With the guilt you presently carry, you got no choice.  You can’t come to God without that guilt removed. 

Now don’t be foolish.  Don’t think that heaven is a place where some POOFFY magic happens and you become a righteous person.  He’s openning the door to that for you NOW.  Take it or leave it, it means very little to me.  My task was to leave you this message and hope you wise up and grab His offer.

By His Grace.

Pet the Lion and You Will Be Saved.

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Pondering the Glory of Jesus’ birth I am put to a task.  I have seen a baby and there are very few living on this world who have not.  We all know of animals and the places where they live.  We know about Dads and Moms.  We know about breathing as Jesus breathed as a baby.  But there is something about this baby that defies understanding.

If I point to a sock and say this is a sock, and I ask someone to consider something that is like it, that person might say “A bag is like it.”  If I point to a tire and say, “This is a tire.  What is like it?”, someone might say, “A doughnut is like it.”  And so it would go with everything in this world.  But let me point to Jesus and say, “This is Jesus.  What is like Him?”  What will we compare Him to? 

He made the universe with His hands.  Hebrews tells us that “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”  And we have no understanding or likeness with which we can compare this statement.  We live in a world already created and we have no reference to “speaking into existence”.   To what will anyone compare the creator coming into His creation to live among those who do not know Him?  The birth of Jesus is an intense mystery to man.  And it must be taken by faith.

Faith is designed by God to test the hearts of man.  It is by faith we believe and are saved.  Yet it’s not just believing that will cause our hearts to rejoice.  Lets put a lion and a kitty side by side.  The lion is the more awesome animal.  We would be naturally drawn to his magnificent form.  Now tell someone that embracing the lion is the way to be saved.  They might nod with wide eyes at what you’ve said.  They might even believe what you’ve said.  But few would venture forth to embrace that awesome creature.  They would much rather pet the kitty.  God says, “Come to Me.  For only by entering before My Majesty can you find safety”.  The lion has spoken and few enter His Holy Fire to find safety.  Most run to the things of this world and embrace darkness and death rather than risk all for Him.

God has spoken and now you’ve read it.  These words are life in that they point to He who can save.  He is the true life.  He is a Holy Fire which will consume His enemies.  Only those who venture to believe in action will find peace on The Great and Terrible Day of The Lord.

By His Grace.

What if?

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The majority of man is living under the umbrella of the ways of this world.  There are a few who live by the rule of God.  And these few speak of things from a radically different perspective.  The majority rail against the words and ways of the few.  But let’s ask an important question:

What if these few are right?

By His Grace.

If. But Alas.

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If all the words I ever posted in this blog were like: “Jesus loves you”, “Heaven is a wonderful place”, “Aren’t roses pretty”, People are beautiful loving souls”, The earth is alive and you’re treating her badly”, “Cowboys used guns”, “sin is just a matter of opinion”, Everything will go on like this forever”, and the like, lots of people would read my blog.

But I don’t post rediculous words or half truths.  And the traffic and comments on this blog testify to a singular truth: 

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

 But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

(John 3:16-21)

By His Grace.

On Seeking God.

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I have heard some say they searched for God and found nothing.  I have heard people say they have found God, yet I see no evidence in the way they live their lives.  I have heard people say there is no need to search for God; it is His task to seek us.  In short, we have all heard many versions of this statement.  The following is an observation regarding seeking God.

He says “You will seek me and find me when you seek for me with all your heart.  And I will be found by you”.  The promise is true.  I can testify to that.  So why don’t more people find what they’re looking for?  They seek Him with wrong motives.  He will not honor pride.  So the one who looks for Him as though He was an anomaly won’t find Him.  That one is looking for God as if God were the created one.  That person is still holding himself up as God and taunting God by forgetting who made who.

Some say they have found God, yet there is no apparent difference in the life they live.  These people lie by their actions.  It is possible they can identify what God is.  But that’s as far as they intend to go.  God is not mocked.  A man reaps what he sows.  He who sows to the sinful nature, will reap that crop.  He who sows from the Spirit of God will reap his reward according to God’s will.

He who thinks it is the Creator’s task to find and secure lost souls is missing a great mark.  God knows where you are.  He knows who you are.  He knows what you’ve done.  He knows your attitude.   And He makes the demand that you seek Him.

By His Grace.

Note to the World.

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I have watched what you say regarding Jesus.  And I see you make mistakes that any good school boy of ages past would not have made.  You run Him down and call Him any name you chose.  These things can and will be forgiven if you repent of your sins and seek His face. 

But one mistake I see repeated is blatant and shameful even in the things of this world.  You call to His account any wrong you find which bears His name.  For instance, if we see someone who uses “Christian” as a personal identity doing something non-christian, you automatically determine that Jesus has done it.  You neither know Him, nor know His ways.  Your judgment is flawed because you define your judgment on the basis of your narrow and sinful views.

If a family has a “bad” child we do not run the whole family into the ground.  We identify the “bad” one and consider his ways as separate from the family.  And we certainly don’t blame a good father for the failings of his criminal son.  Each man will pay the penalty for his own sins.  Yet you apply every wrong done by anyone calling themselves christian to the Lord Jesus.  Your judgment is flawed because you do not know the Lord.

By His Grace.