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Thursday, April 5, 2018

"I Will Not Apologize"

John 14:1-6 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

John 17:1-3 “Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

Romans 10:8-10 ”But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

The Christian Faith is defined and clearly explained in the Word of God, the Christian Bible. All religions have set belief based in their own religious writings and teachings. Each believes their beliefs are the only truth to live by, and the only path to their eternity. After death is experienced, all will know if their religious beliefs were true.

Reality, the Christian faith is the only one fought against by the rest. Remember, all religions state that if you do not follow their beliefs you have no ability to experience their form of paradise or eternal life. Why are they left alone and allowed to publically live and promote their belief and those of the Christian Faith are told to be silent, or even forced to change their beliefs which others deem offensive?

Truth, Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 1:6-12 “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

I will not change or apologize for living by, preaching, and teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ as written in God’s Word and revealed by the Holy Spirit of God. There is only one path to God and eternal life in the Christian Faith, by the forgiveness of sins, through personal belief and confession in Jesus Christ as the redeemer of man from sin, through His death and shed blood on the Cross of Calvary. Those who choose to receive this path of redemption have the promise of eternal life in heaven. Those who do not make that choice will not experience eternal life, but eternal death in hell. Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”
Pastor John

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