What will you do?

There will be a day sometime soon when the church will leave in the twinkle of an eye. That is faster than a blink. You may be talking with someone and in between words and the blink of your eyes…they’re gone and all that is left is their clothes and their watch or phone. Will you know what happened? Will you wonder about it or have you heard this story before? There will be many millions of people missing and there will be many car wrecks and planes crashing on that day. The news will be so busy reporting all of these disappearances that they may not realize that some of their crew is missing.

What will that day look like around the world? It will likely be chaotic with many people missing and so many wondering why wasn’t I among the number that was taken? Others will be asking why were they taken in the first place? There will also be many mothers who will lose their young children and babies right in the delivery room because they are still innocent in the eyes of God.

There will be many people in the world who will be asking many questions and some who do have the answers but the time to make the decision about your eternity is not after the Rapture has happened but before…like today! Have you put it off because you enjoy living without “rules” to ruin your nightlife? Have you just decided that being a Christian is too much to ask right now? The day of salvation is today, not tomorrow. No one is guaranteed to live a certain number of years, so even tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Make sure of your eternal home today because on that day when all of the world is wondering what happened you want to be included in the group that was taken. What comes next for the rest of the world will be like hell on Earth for seven years.

Who is Jesus?

This is the question that many people have asked for centuries. Is He the Messiah, the Son of God, or is He just a great teacher?

The evidence points to Him being exactly Who He claimed to be! He was and is the Son of God and everyone will see Him coming in the clouds one day. All of the people since the first century who have died because of their belief in Him wouldn’t have held on to their belief to the death if He wasn’t.

Jesus Christ is the One that we have all been waiting for. To say or believe something else is foolish. Make sure of your faith in Him before it is too late.

Where do I start?

When I became a Christian, a follower still learning about God and very new to the faith which had drawn me to Him, I didn’t know where to begin. I prayed and I fasted and one day I heard His voice telling me, “Why not start at the beginning?”. So every year since then I have studied the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and then sometimes I will take a small break. But when I am not studying His Word I feel like someone who has no food or water, so I begin again at the book of Genesis. I have been doing this for over a decade and truthfully the only books that I still have trouble with are Numbers and Leviticus. They are very repetitive and boring because they are more instructional than historical. These books are the instructions for the priests for performing their duties.

Why am I writing this today? Because every Christian needs to know where to begin their walk with God. The New Testament is a good place to start but Jesus referenced the Old Testament because that was the only Scriptures that were available to those that He called to be His followers at the time. So, we need to read it as well because it was important to Him and because the Old and the New Testaments compliment each other. The prophecies that Jesus fulfilled were from the Old Testament and pointed to His coming. The Word of God is the pure Water that we should cleanse our minds and our souls with to become more like Jesus.

When you are convicted of your own sinful nature, that is when you realize that you need to give your heart to Jesus and follow Him. Reading God’s Word is the best way to cleanse your soul of the grime and dirt that has built up over the years before you came to know Jesus because it is the Living Water. All of His Words can teach us something about ourselves and about how we can take His message to those around us. If we don’t learn from His Word how to speak and what we should speak then what we say will be from our own ideas and thoughts. The only words that carry His message and His power are those that come from the Bible, even if we paraphrase them a little bit as long as we don’t change it so that it means something different.

Even though there are many people seeking something that will give them peace in this life, many of them are not willing to follow Jesus so they can have that peace. They feel that they would have to give up too much of the life that they enjoy. It seems funny that they are dissatisfied with their life yet they don’t want to give it up or change their lifestyle to follow Jesus. Most people that I’ve spoken to about Him and what He has done for me say that there are too many rules to follow. I don’t follow rules, I follow Jesus Christ because He loved me and died for my sins long before I was born into the world. He deemed me worthy to offer the gift of salvation through my belief in Him without any help that I might bring because my efforts would avail me nothing. He already did what was needed for me to be saved…all that I brought to Him was myself when I realized that I could not do this without Him. I can follow the rules but only because I have the Holy Spirit living inside me to guide me, without Him, I wouldn’t be a Christian at all.

Please, if you are seeking Him, don’t wait too long. The church age is coming to a close when that will happen, I have no clue but I feel it won’t be very long. Your life and mine are never guaranteed and you can see on the news where many people die each day. If you feel the Holy Spirit drawing you closer to Him, please don’t wait or put it off until next week because we don’t know if we will be here next week.

Giving your tithes

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: Matthew 6:3 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/mat.6.3/60145

Our Savior is alive!

Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2:14 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/luk.2.14/44265

God knew you before you were born…

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; And in thy book all my members were written, Which in continuance were fashioned, When as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! Psalm 139:14‭-‬17 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.139.14-17.KJV

God picked your parents and the place where you would be born and the place where you would live. Why would He do that? Because He knew that you would have an impact on those who live near you. Because you would be His one day and your witness would be needed in the area where you live. Why does God do this? Because He is in control and He determines the fate of mankind for His purposes and His glory. He raised up the Pharaoh that Moses would ask to let Israel go, He raised up Nebuchadnezzar to punish Israel because of their disobedience.

Since God uses the rulers and Presidents of the world to perform His will around the world, He can determine your path and your work in this world for Him. God can use you to perform His will when you don’t accept Jesus as your Savior. All of life and everything in creation is ordained by God to work the way He has determined for it to do…including everything that we do. The time of the church and the Gentiles is coming to an end soon, make sure that your belief is anchored in Jesus Christ, the Savior.

Our Savior, Jesus Christ

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21 KJV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/mat.1.21/398

Rejoice!

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4 NIV https://bible.com/verse-of-the-day/php.4.4/19122

Be joyful, not because it’s Christmas but because Jesus Christ died for you. He made it possible for you and me to live in eternity with Him. We can’t get to heaven without knowing Jesus as our Savior. I pray that all who read this will seek Jesus for salvation because the time is growing short.

People must know!

This post is about only one piece of news: Jesus is the Messiah and the Savior of the whole world!

He came as a baby and was born in a stable with only a feeding trough for a bed, wrapped in swaddling cloths. God came to us in human form as Jesus the Christ. Born of the virgin Mary, betrothed to Joseph. He came to live as one of us, tempted as we are and feeling all of the pain and the problems that we have but He did it without sin. Something that we can’t do on our own.

Jesus came not to rule or to reign as a conqueror but as the Savior of mankind! In the few years of His ministry, Jesus healed many of their afflictions and raised some from being dead. He saved us from being dead toward God because of our sins and He gave us the ability to come before God with our prayers and our problems. We need to take this information out to the world around us and let everyone see that Jesus is the only way to be saved from our sins and from hell itself.

So, why did God send His Son to be the Messiah, the Savior of the whole world? Because He loves all of you so deeply He didn’t want any of you to be separated from Him. But, there are always going to be some people who don’t want to live as a Christian believer in Jesus and His sacrifice. Why? Because they want to help God save them by doing some things their way and not God’s way. Sounds a little crazy doesn’t it? I mean, why would God need our help to save us from an eternity in hell? The answer is…He doesn’t! All that we need to do is believe that He loves us enough that He made it possible for us to have salvation through His Son, Jesus, just by believing in Him and the work that only He could accomplish. That’s how the thief was saved. All that he could do was ask Jesus to remember him when He came into His Kingdom and Jesus told him that “today you will be with Me in Paradise”.

It only takes belief in Jesus’ atonement for you and a determination to follow Him for the remaining time that you have on Earth.

Forgiven and sanctified

Jesus the Christ has done this for His followers because we are forgiven and sanctified in Him and in Him alone. We are forgiven of our sins by His blood and His sacrifice and there is no other that can save us from our sins. So why are there so many who refuse to hear this message? Why do most of the world refuse to follow Him and become His disciples? They follow their own ways and their “gods” even when they know that there is only One God.

In the time of Isaiah, many of the prophecies about Jesus were given to him. Hundreds of years before Jesus was born yet Jesus fulfilled every one of them. Our Lord is yet alive and at the right hand of God the Father, waiting for the command to bring His Bride home. Oh, what a day that will be! The entire world will know and realize that the Bible and its prophecies are true and they will tremble because of it.

I pray that all who read this will seek Jesus as your Savior while you have the time to do so. This life is the only time that we have to make that decision. There is no second chance for your salvation.