Yes it here again, I will be re-posting this message till we all get it!!!! So this message is not your feel good message but a call to action for each of my pew setting brothers and sisters in Christ.The hour is at hand, Christ is coming back so its time you stop playing around and take a stand for Christ. Attending a Church does not save you, acknowledge Christ and lord and savior of your life and that you and I need his forgiveness and his grace and mercy each and everyday of our lives. Well at least I know that I do for I'm faltered from birth. There is nothing good in me except for Christ, without him I can do nothing through him I'm able to do all things.
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 5:1-2)
The call to imitate Christ is a call to separate ourselves from the world though we may be in but not of it (Ephesians 4:17-19) and how we have been made new (Ephesians 4:20-24) and then gave us specific ways to do that (Ephesians4:25-32).
Our call is to live with the same love that Christ has demonstrated. Jesus laying down his life for us, was first of all an expression of his love for his Father. Jesus did it, not only because of his love for us, but because first of all he loved the Father and this was the Father’s will. This ‘life of love’ is not to be something we do to make ourselves feel good or appear good, it is to come out of and be an expression of our love for God Himself. When John says, “We love because he first loved us,” (1 John 4:19). The first thing we need to do in the Christian life is become utterly convinced of God’s love.
On Sunday they raise their hands to heaven and declare that it is Jesus that they serve.
Then why do we look so much like the world?
Did you know that the wheat and the tare, the world can't tell which is which and quite frankly neither can I. So I pose the question again, which Jesus do you serve?
My Savior bleed and suffered and died and rose again for a sinner like me. My Savior, was a friend to friendless, He remembers the forgotten ones among us, Which Jesus do you follow?
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Is it this picture of the American dream that you chase after? Is the prince of this world who you serve or did you miss that part when you decided you want fortune and fame?
If Jesus was here would you walk right by him or cross over to the other side of the street?
Would you even recognize him or have time to speak to him?
Pretty blue eyes and curly brown hair and a white complexion Michael Angelo version of Jesus ,is that the Jesus you serve? My Savior was battered and bruised for my sins, did you miss that part? Sometimes I ponder do we really understand what the price he paid for us?
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they understand and they know My Savior. So which Jesus do we serve. is it the one whom we pray to bless us with great wealth? Or the Jesus who said
blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness?
So who do you serve? The one whose promises are like shifting sand?
Marine says it God , then country and the marine Corp, what comes first for you?
My Jesus would he be accepted in our churches today? All bloody and bruised with no shoes on his feet, would we want him sitting next to us? He was not rich he didn't have a pillow to lay his head upon. Today my Jesus would look like a homeless man or perhaps we would see him as mentally insane.
He spent His time with criminals and those that are considered the least among us. Did you know he had a heart for the poor, so which place would He come to eat Sabbath meal at your house or among those that were forgotten by society?
Its time we decide which Jesus do we serve ? I'm not sure we understand what that means to be like Christ,
Jesus said to live like HIM, love like HIM but then does that mean we must be willing to die for HIM?
Can we all be imitators of Christ? Can we all live like our Savior? I turned on the TV set today and heard a man preaching Jesus wants to make you rich and that he never intended for us to be poor. Is that the Jesus your seeking??? Heard a pastor say that his Jesus says that we should never be sad. Yet my Jesus wept when heard his good friend was dead. So which Jesus do you serve? I know that I want to be more like my Savior and less like me. I want to be an imitator of my Savior what about you????
2 comments:
Thank you Dr.Henry, you are correct I do not want to hear those words, but they are what I needed. My church has been asking for assistance with Sunday Daycare and I love kids but just felt,that someone else should do this instead of me. I realize that it is I that must step up to the call. Please don't stop sending out messages like this. They may not always sound or feel good but it is what the body of Christ needs.
Thank you so much
Pam Watkins
Amen brother, Ive been following your devotionals for a week and I can say this for certain. We need more Pastors like you speaking the truth and also willing to teach us and provide us with information that must of us never looked into on our own. Since I started reading your devotionals I read my bible each night and started researching everything you say to see the truth in it. Sadly I've been a 12 1/2 year christian sitting on the bench at church, maybe if my pastor spoke like you I would be more eager to get up and do something for the Lord. Also not sure what the Lord would have me do. Please pray that God will tell me what he would have me do.
Ty
Todd
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