Viewing 1 - 9 out of 17 Blogs.

Page:  1 | 2 | Next >  Last >>

The Curse of Laodicea

 

Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

 

In the book of Revelation we have Jesus speaking to John the Apostle. His instruction to John in the first three chapters tells us that the sin of self-righteouness is destroying the Body of Christ and defaming itself before God. We the Church in America are so caught up in ourselves that we can't see how Satan is destroying what God has built.

 

Jesus told the Church of Laodicea that He would spew them out of His mouth. The church was so caught up in itself that they were blinded from the truth. They were caught up in building programs, youth programs, Sunday school meetings and all kinds of extra "church" activities that were not bad in themselves, but took their eyes off of God. The church at Laodicea, like the church in America today, was blinded to the very fact that instead of following God, they were following programs. There's more concern over programs and "stuff" than Jesus in the Body of Christ today. Don't believe me? Just go to a local bookstore and see just how many self-help and program-oriented books are on the shelves. There are more books on how we can bless ourselves than on how we can learn to live in complete obedience to God.

 

We have been instructed by Jesus to love the sinner but hate the sin. We the "church" in America are so pre-occupied with being the best or being right or being the one that condemned someone else that is caught in sin that we can't see that our righteouness is filthy rags. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to convict people of sin. Our job is to pray for the restoration of the sinner to God. We have not been called to condemn anyone. We have not been appointed to be the overseer of anyone else. Paul said to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. If we are doing that (working out our own) then how can we have any time to attack anyone else?

 

My righteouness is as bad (if not worse) than anyone else's. I am as guilty as you are, but I beg you to reach down deep into the recesses of your soul to return to your first love! Jesus Christ is coming for a spotless, wrinkle-free church, not a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Assemblies of God, Lutheran, Pentecostal, mainline or non-denominational church, or any other denominational church. He is coming for a bride, not a church that has played the harlot before God. Whenever we sacrifice our morals or beliefs we play the harlot before Him. When we look the other way or we judge someone else we are playing the harlot. The spirit of Jezebel is the driving force that Satan uses to entice you and me to play the harlot before God.

 

I hear a lot of people complaining about the music in today's church. It's too loud or too fast or it's not what my momma listened to in church. How can we be so narrow minded that we can only listen to certain music and be holy? Who do we think we are? How can we expect God to move if we constantly cram Him into a box and not allow Him to reach out to others? The music of the hymnal is wonderful music but it will not draw a teenager's heart to God. They won't listen to it. But if you change the approach or the method they will be attracted to God. Let's face it we are going to stand before God one day and have to tell Him that He can't change the method just because we don't like it. Get real that's a very wrong assumption were making, and very dangerous. I certainly don't want to hear God tell me that someone went to hell just because I didn't like the music.

 

A.W. Tozer said "The universal voice of God was by the ancient Hebrews often called wisdom, and was said to be everywhere sounding and searching throughout the earth, seeking some response from the sons of men." I often wonder where is the wisdom which we are using today. At one time Gods word was considered to be wisdom now it's whatever we think is good is what we call wisdom. Whatever we read in the local paper is far more important to us than what Gods word says. For us to use wisdom then we first need to have a personal relationship with the one who created wisdom. How can you or I say that we are true Disciples of Christ when we won't take the time to read and study His word? And how can we grow in His grace if we won't pray and seek His wisdom? Wisdom is searching for Him. It's our call and duty to seek after the Holy one, not try to be holier than thou.

 

We (the body of Christ) must be willing to "be all things to all men so that we may save a few." How can it be any simpler? How can it be any simpler than to be able to reach all men? And how do we do that? By humbling ourselves before man and God we can fulfill the great commission. Brothers and sisters I implore you take a look at your life. Are you humble? Are you sold out to Christ? Are you willing to allow God to change you that you might win another? We can in no way ever assume that God can be put in a box of any size or shape. We must (and this is horribly important) see that Christ is returning for a Church without spot or wrinkle, are you spotted? Are you wrinkled? Then now's the time to come to Jesus, now's the time to surrender who we are and begin to pick up our cross and carry it. Now's the time to begin to live what we are preaching, and allow the wisdom of God to direct our very lives.

 Pray about it

Pastor Phil

7:16 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

 

Ü     THE CROSS

 

Ü     Mat 27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

 

Another was compelled to carry His cross. Simon, a Cyreneian, from a city in N. Africa. The word Cyrene means “Wall” How amazing that a man from the “Wall” would be in Jerusalem carrying the cross of Jesus outside the wall! Simon was the father of Rufus and Alexander. The name Simon means “hearing” And Simon must have truly heard Jesus. It is believed that Alexander was the person used in Acts 19: 33, 34 at Ephesus to defend Paul. Rufus it is believed was the person that Paul mentions in Romans 16:13 to be saluted. Simon must have heard because he taught his sons the importance of the cross.

 

Ü     Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

 

Jesus said if you are not willing to carry your own cross your not worthy of following Him. That’s a powerful statement. Are we to carry our cross around with our sins exposed to all mankind? No. Are we to walk down the street dragging a huge cross to prove we are true followers of Christ? No. We are to realize that we are all sinners and that only by confessing that we sin, and that we are desperately in need of a savior. A savor that is willing to pay the price for our sins, once and for all. One that is willing to face the shame and embarrassment by hanging on a tree for you and me. That’s the kind of savor we need. In verse 37 He mentions that we will have to choose who we are to love, Jesus; or your family. It’s not a sin to love your family. But when our love for our family is greater than our love for Him, then we have chosen the wrong path. We are to love Him as He loves us. And He gave His life for you on the cross.

 

Ü     Co 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

 

 You can’t talk your way into heaven; words will never fulfill the sacrifice. Baptism was a very popular Church activity at Corinth. It was the in thing to do, it was very trendy. It was more of a status thing instead of a cleansing thing. Paul was sent to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. But the church at Corinth was interested in wisdom and wisdom only; they were a very tolerant church one that would tolerate sin because they would be able to say “just look at how tolerant we are”. They were interested more in wisdom than that of the Cross of Christ. They considered the wisdom of words more important to their life style than the actual working of the cross. They considered the teaching of the cross to be foolishness.

 

Ü     1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

 

 

The preaching of a man that would readily take your place on the cross is foolishness. Why would anyone want to die for me? Who am I that the God of the universe would willingly sacrifice His son for me? What on earth could be accomplished by saving me? It sounds foolish and to those who have no knowledge of Christ it is foolish. But to those who have willingly chosen to follow Him the Cross is our only salvation. People want to bring the Church into a kinder gentler more docile form of religion. They say don’t preach about the cross preacher it might offend someone or pastor we don’t want to hear about what He did back there on the cross, we want to know what He will do for us today, or how can He bless me today if He’s already gone? Certainly His cross is to no avail to me, not here, not now! I mean He’s been gone 2000 years, and He still wants me to carry my cross? Can’t I just hire someone else to do that? After all He has blessed me with money. Without the cross you would have never known Him, without the cross you would never be able to take part in the resurrection power that Christ offers to each of us. Without the blood the sacrifice would be of no effect to any of us. No healing, no living, no salvation, no life. Only death and the fires of Hell! Now preacher don’t be going there. We don’t want you to preach a sinners hell only heaven please. The truth is those who die outside the cross of Christ go to hell. A young lady asked me the other night why preachers lie. I asked what she was talking about and she said that not everyone that dies goes to heaven. I replied it’s better to say their in a better place or there body is no longer in pain instead of your loved one is burning in hell. Is it lying? Yes but maybe you can open an opportunity to witness to them about there own salvation instead of aliening them and the rest of the family. The cross is our only help an implement of destruction and death that brings glory to us. The cross has to be preached, it has to be lived, it has to be understood that the cross was a great embarrassment to a Jew. For a Jew to hang on a tree was the worst most embarrassing way for a Him to die.  But Christ; but Christ: went willingly to the cross, the tree to be hung until dead, so that by this He would reconcile us to God.

 

Ü     Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

 

That He would reconcile the body (His body) to God once and for all, that mankind would never have to suffer the pain of the law of sin and death. That He Jesus would defeat death and conquer Satan forever.

 

Ü     Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

 

That from that day we would no longer be slaves of sin but laborers of righteouness. We must be willing to walk in His calling instead of our flesh. We all know this. All Christians are supposed to know this. This is a new illustration drawn from the fact that by his crucifixion our corrupt nature has been crucified also, or put to death; and that thus we should be free from the servitude of sin. Only the cross, only the cross of Christ can reconcile His death with our flesh to a loving God.

 

 

 

The Cry of God

In reading the Psalms we see that David and the others writers were not only praising and worshiping God but they also are crying out to Him. We His people today; need to heed the words and the warnings that the Psalms are crying out to us.

 

I want to share with you, what I believe God is crying out to His body today through the Psalms. I will attempt to show you five verses from five Psalms that I believe that God is crying to us today. These five Psalms have a common thread that binds them to our heart. If we heed the Word and adjust our lives to His Word we will see how God can and will bless His people. Lets start with Psalm 96:13

 

Psa 96:13  Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

 

“Before the Lord” The meaning here is, that all these things have occasion to praise the Lord whenever he appears; to rejoice in the presence of Him who has made them what they are.

     “for He cometh” This simple means that He is coming and He is coming to judge the earth, and He will come to reign over all the earth, There is no reason to doubt that this psalm may be “designed” to describe the reign of the Messiah

“ For He cometh to judge the world” He is coming to judge, but unlike you and I He will judge with righteouness, not in our blind short sighted righteouness but in His. Wherever the gospel reigns in the hearts of people; it will be fully accomplished when the Lord Jesus shall come again and judge the world. His truth will stand forever no matter how we perceive the truth. Because He and only He will be able to judge in the truth of His word.

 

     Psa 97:12  Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

     “Rejoice in the Lord” We can  no longer rejoice in what we have in our bank accounts, or in our wallets, but we must (and this is horribly important) learn to rejoice in Him.

     “ye righteous” He calls us (you and me) righteous! Have you ever considered yourself to be righteous? You should, because He has called you so. He has deemed that you His follower is to be righteous, righteous in Him and not in worldly possessions.

       “Give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness” He has called you  to give thanks for the remembrances of what He has called you to do. I don’t give thanks for my job but instead I thank Him for the job He has given me to do. Wicked people do not rejoice that there is a God at all, and especially that God is a “holy God;” but it is one of the characteristics of true piety to rejoice in the thought that there is a God, and that he is perfectly holy, and hence, to feel conscious happiness whenever his name is mentioned, and whenever his attributes are referred to. The highest source of joy for man is that there is a God, and that God is exactly what he is, pure and holy. It would be a source of deepest sorrow if there were no God, or if God were in any respect, even the slightest, a different being from what he is.

 

Psa 98:9  Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

 

This sounds like a repeat of Psalm 96:13. But He says that He will judge the people with “Equity”. This simply means that He will judge us all equally. For God to judge us all equally means that He has offered the same salvation to all man equally. I am not nor can I be any more saved, righteous or holy than anyone else. Gods love is for all of us equally, not showing favoritism to any one. His love is broader and deeper than any we can ever experience (outside of Him) on earth. There are some that believe that “unless you are saved like they were or that they go to the “only” church is wrong and self centered thinking, and that kind of thinking removes Him from being first in our lives. You must understand that He loves you as much as He loved Paul or Peter, and that “it is NOT about you it’s all about Him, and His love for you.

 

Psa 99:9  Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

Psa 100:5  For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

 

These two Psalms represent the Holiness of our Lord and Savior. We are to exalt Him above all others, and worship at His feet, for He is Holy and our exaltation and our worship is to be pure and undefiled before Him. Remember you are worshiping Him not showing  others how pious and holy we are. “the Lord our God is Holy and in His Holiness is everlasting mercy. Because of His mercy we have not been consumed by His anger due to our selfishness. That Yahweh is a holy God is a reason for worshipping him. This is at all times the highest reason for adoration and praise. In the former verses, his claim to adoration is founded on the fact that he is the “Creator,” and has, as such, a right to our service; in this verse, the claim is asserted on account of his moral character:

(1) his benevolence;

(2) his mercy;

(3) his truth;

(a) the fact that he is a God of truth; and

(b) the fact that his truth endures, or that in all generations he shows himself to be faithful to his promises.

 

We could not love and honor a God who was not true to his promises, and who did not himself love the truth; we could not honor one who was changeable and flexible - who loved one thing in one generation and a different thing in the next; who in one age was the friend of truth, and in the next the patron of falsehood. It is the just foundation for praise to God - our God - that he is essentially and always - in all worlds, and in all the generations of people - toward all in the universe - a Being of unchangeable benevolence, mercy, and truth. Such a God is worthy to be had in universal reverence; such a God is worthy of universal praise.

 

I truly believe that God is crying out to all of us to heed His call and that we must come to Him believing He is God, the creator as well as the author of all our faith in Him. I took a few liberties in the above message from the Barnes Commentary of the whole Bible. Because I am convinced that many of you will read this but not open a bible or a commentary. We must heed Gods cry, now before it’s too late brush the dust off the Holy Book of God and earn of your fathers Holy love for you.

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

How would you react?

Psa 69:21  They put poison in my soup, Vinegar in my drink.

 

I used the Message translation for my scripture today because I believe that it translates what David is feeling better than the others. David was upset, he knew that someone had tried to kill him by poisoning his food. He also was speaking the coming words of Jesus on the cross. Lets look at how David reacts to the situation. As we read on in the Psalm we se that David is angry; read on.

Psa 69:22  Let their supper be bait in a trap that snaps shut; May their best friends be trappers who'll skin them alive.

Psa 69:23  Make them become blind as bats, Give them the shakes from morning to night.

Psa 69:24  Let them know what you think of them, Blast them with your red-hot anger.

Psa 69:25  Burn down their houses, Leave them desolate with nobody at home.

Psa 69:26  They gossiped about the one you disciplined, Made up stories about anyone wounded by God.

Psa 69:27  Pile on the guilt, Don't let them off the hook.

Psa 69:28  Strike their names from the list of the living; No rock-carved honor for them among the righteous.

 

Wow I think David is ready to repay someone for the evil that has been done to him. And this is a natural reaction to the troubles we have everyday. We too want to repay evil for evil, we want to make sure that all those that have harmed us get what they deserve and they get it quickly. We know better than God and we are going to settle the situation. Wait a minute did he say we know better than God? Yes I did, you must understand this very next point clearly! When we repay evil for evil then we are usurping Gods authority and we are taking His matters into our own hands.

 

Haven’t you been in the situation where someone had committed a horrible injustice to you and you want so bad to make things right that you couldn’t wait for Gods justice?  We all probably at one time or another have been in that very situation. We want revenge but vengeance belongs to God not you! If vengeance is yours then the whole world is in trouble but in His hands all things will work together in His timing. Jesus was given the same drink in Jn19:29 and His reaction “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”

 

 

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

Be of good courage!

 

Psa 31:9  Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

Psa 31:10  For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Psa 31:11  I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

Psa 31:12  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

.

David here is at one of his lowest points in life. To David everyone in the known world was against him, and there was no tomorrow. Have you been there? We all at one time or another have been in David’s predicament. We cry out to God because of our troubles and our grief. We seem to have no one to turn too and there is nothing left for us. Our whole world is turned upside down and no one loves us. We tend to wallow in our infirmities and would rather die than to go on.

 

But there is one who will always love us and care for us, our Father in Heaven. He is always there and will always be ready to come to our aid to help us. David was at the lowest point in his life what would he do? Would he continue to cry or be in such a slump that no one could stand to be around him? Maybe he would confound his woes with bitterness. Or maybe he would just continue to sulk in his worries.  Lets see what he did!

 

Psa 31:14  But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

 

He believed that God was his Father and Friend; that He was on the throne; that He could protect and defend him; and he left himself and his cause with Him. In such circumstances as these there is no other sure refuge but God; at such times the strength of faith is shown, and then is seen pre-eminently the power and value of religion. (Barnes commentary on the whole Bible) David knew that God would never fail him even though he had failed miserably. What a great testimony of Gods love for each of us. The God of all Heaven will actually be willingly to reach down to rescue us from our trials and tribulations if only we would cry out to Him

 

Have you cried out to Him lately? Or are you still wallowing in self pity and depriving yourself of Gods grace? We tend to believe that we can take care of ourselves and that we don’t need anyone to help us. That’s just the way we humans are. We would rather sulk than cry out. There is always one (God) who will not leave or forsake us; and the friendship and favor of that One is of more value to us than that of all other beings in the universe combined.

 

Be of good courage and cry out to Jesus!

 

 

     

 

 

 

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

 

http://a-closer-step.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/phildaddys

EMAIL ADDRESS: pastorphil1@earthlink.net

 

Conforming to Him

 

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 

As I think of Paul the apostle I can here him (in my mind) saying these very words to the Church of Jesus Christ today. To be conformed to this world simply means that we accept and or tolerate what the world says is ok. We (The body) can’t do that, we simply can’t afford to allow the world to dictate to us morality. There’s an old saying “you can’t legislate morality” if you don’t then you will only legislate immorality!

 

Paul has instructed the church to be transformed into the likeness of Christ not the world. If then we are to be in His likeness then should we become a tolerant body? This is a very touchy subject in the Church today, and it’s one that has spurned a lot of sermons and messages. To be tolerant means to be “Inclined to tolerate the beliefs, practices, or traits of others; forbearing.” Sounds like it means that we have accepted and changed our beliefs instead of changing the worlds.

 

To prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God, means that we need to drop the belief system of the world and change to His. His will is the only will we should have and we need to submit to His final authority. The word of God is very plain on the subject of sin, it’s against it. It doesn’t say to tolerate it, it says to abstain from it.

     

     

 

 

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

 

All things to all men!

1Co 9:19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.

1Co 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law;

1Co 9:21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.

1Co 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

1Co 9:23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

Corinth was the most important city in Greece during Paul’s day, it was a bustling hub of world wide commerce, degraded culture and idolatrous religion. There Paul planted a church. A church right in the mist of a pagan gentile city. How was Paul going to reach a people that had no church structure no set bylaws no constitution and no committees to tell them how a church should be run? Should he run the church as they do in Jerusalem? Maybe he would need to operate this new church on the traditions he had grown up with.

I’m pretty sure that Paul would have to change the method of what he knew of church, or to what would be attractive and appealing to the people of Corinth. His message would be that of Jesus Christ and Him Crucified, nothing more or less, but he knew that he would have to change his method for this church to grow. After all growth is what every church is looking for. If you don’t grow you die. And by showing the love of Christ he would be able to reach the city for Christ. What an awesome task! How to start a new work in a pagan environment. But without growth it would not succeed.

The same is true today, if the church doesn’t grow it dies, a long slow sometimes painful death. People are leaving the church today because of music, preaching or songs. The music has changed or they don’t like not singing the old hymns. (Let me say here that I love the old hymns as much as anyone. And I am so grateful to God that I was raised on the old hymns, and they have been taught to my children) Or they complain that the music is too loud or different from what they knew as kids in church many years ago. Do we not see that the church is an entity that is alive and needs a methods change to grow and live? I hear people say that they aren’t being fed by the preaching, wow are we listening to the message or has the hidden sins in our lives plugged our ears? The message of Jesus Christ and Him Crucified can never change, but we sometimes need to change our way of going to work for the sake of the cross of Christ.

Paul said that He was all things to all men so he might win a few. That doesn’t mean he was using the same method with everyone he witnessed too. 1Co 2:10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. God is revealing Himself to a new generation of believers today. And I truly believe that He is using every method (new and old) that He has. What God used to reveal Himself to you may be very different from what He used to reveal Himself to me. I once won a brother to God by telling him stories from the word of God. I didn’t quote the scripture word for word I spoke to him in East Tenn. hillbilly language. It would have never worked in today’s church but today my friend is my brother and he is on the highway to heaven along with his family. He couldn’t understand The King James translation but he sure understood that God was revealing Himself to him by those stories.

Our method has to change to keep up with those whom God is revealing Himself too and we must be willing to accept however God is going to do the work, even if the music has changed. Today’s youth is the new life line for the Church, their worship is pure and undefiled before the Lord and they have a genuine desire to worship. Maybe we the elders could learn from the generation that God has called to usher in His Kingdom.

Isa 40:30 Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,

Isa 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

Righteousness

Rom 4:1  What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

Rom 4:2  For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Rom 4:3  For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

 

Abraham believed God. He didn’t have a Church doctrine or a board of directors to tell him what to and how to believe, he believed God! Please don’t misunderstand I am not attacking any ones Church or belief. I am just stating that we must believe the Holy Word of God! I have talked with too many Christians who have told me that they believe in God but don’t necessarily believe all of what the Bible says. I believe the Word of God. I believe that where it says that Jesus walked on the water, that He did not have rocks hidden under the surface for Him to look good. He walked on the water!

 

The faith which Abraham exercised was, that his posterity should be like the stars of heaven in number. This promise was made to him when he had no child, and of course when he had no prospect of such a posterity. He believed God. And because of his belief it was counted unto him as righteousness, not “self righteousness” but pure righteousness, the kind that comes when all else is failing around you and yet there is a peace because of your belief in God. It was counted to him for righteousness because, that it was such a strong, direct, and unwavering act of confidence in the promise of God.

 

What is your confidence in?  Man? The Church? Your money? Your Pastor? Your family? Maybe a new program? All kinds of "Purpose Driven and Seeker Sensitive" programs are out there to take you away from the Word and lead you down the wrong path. If what you believe does not line up with the Word then get rid of that belief. Theres even a belief that Jesus was married to Mary M. This cant be true. Why? Because then it would show that Jesus (God in the flesh) loved her more than He loves you, and that can't be true. In the book of Romans 2:11 Paul states  "for there is no respect of persons with God" or He doesn't love me any more than He loves you.   His word will always stand!

 

 

 

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

 

http://www.myspace.com/phildaddys

http://www.jcspace.com/pastorphil

EMAIL ADDRESS: pastorphil1@earthlink.net

 

Repentance

Act 2:38  Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

This past week has been exciting for me, I have come to grips with some issues in my life and have allowed God to minister to me in such a way that it could only be from Him. I also got a very nasty virus on my computer. This virus takes control and will pop up all kinds of nasty filth on my screen, things I don’t or need to see. I searched the internet for a cure and found none. A lot of people told me about several ways to get rid of this virus but none of then worked. I even consulted with IT professionals who could not tell me how to rid my computer of the Zlob Trojan that was causing the problem. I finally went to the source of all my computer knowledge and found the program Ad Alert by Lavasoft and decided as a last ditch effort to try it. The program found the virus and destroyed it. I wonder sometimes why we always are ready to try new things before we go to the source? Why do we continue to look  for new and exciting ways to do things when the Word is tried and tested? As we go about our daily routine we need to keep in focus that God is with us and His word is always the way to our freedom. Repentance is the only cure for a sin sick heart! As we surrender in repentance we show God that we acknowledge He is in control and that we are not bigger than He is. We tend to look for cures in many different ways when the answer is right in front of us. The Bible tells us that “He sent His Word to heal us”. For me that’s all I need.

 

 

Pray about it

Pastor Phil

 

http://a-closer-step.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/phildaddys

http://www.jcspace.com/pastorphil

 pastorphil1@earthlink.net

 

Prayer list:

My brother Gary needs a job. My daughter is awful homesick, Angie Bundy

Our government and our service men and women!

The church in Cuba and Guatemala

Pray that America will look to Jesus

 The peace of Israel

 

If you know someone that would like to be sent this e-mail or if you would like to Opt out of the mailing just send an email to pastorphil1@earthlink.net

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

Page:  1 | 2 | Next >  Last >>