10/09/2024
I do not share this out of panic, but rather firm conviction that now, perhaps more than ever in the history of mankind, is the time to turn to Jesus Christ for salvation. The signs are all around us. If, through all that is going on, your need to be right with the Creator has been on your mind, be assured that it is not on your own that you have come to that conclusion. The Holy Spirit of God is calling you out, and the choice is yours to respond. You cannot call on a Holy God and plead for forgiveness and continue to live in a life of sin.
The Apostle Paul was approached by a jailer who wanted to take his own life after the prison doors that he was guarding flew open and the chains on the prisoners feet were loosened. Out of fear and trembling, he asked Paul "what must I do to be saved?" This came after he and the prisoners heard Paul and Silas praising the Lord. Paul responded by saying, ' Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved - you and your household."
There is only one way back to the Father and that is through His beloved Son Jesus Christ. That is not just the opinion of this preacher, but it is the very word, the very breath of God, that teaches us this. John 14:6 says, " I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
I often wonder, if Jesus is of no significance, if all that we read of him is just a myth, a big lie, then why do people make such a big deal out of those who choose to pray to him? His name is not allowed to be spoken in so many places. Those who call on him are labeled religious fanatics. His name has been removed from our schools, and other public places. Why? It is because there is power in his name. "Therefore God exalted him (Jesus) to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:9-11.
No one is forced to believe this. It is a choice, a free will choice, to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. If there is no heaven or hell, if God did not send Jesus to the earth to die for the sins of the world and offer salvation to those would believe, and if it is not true that the only way back to the Father is through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then those who don't believe have nothing to lose. However, if it is true that there is a heaven and a hell, and if God did send Jesus to die for the sins of mankind, and if where we spend eternity depends on whether we believe this by faith or not, then those who do not believe stand to lose everything.
"Choose this day who you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15.