Greetings,
Fellow followers of the faith, I was witnessing to a lost person today and the Lord gave me a strong and extremely simple truth that I felt that I should share with the rest of you. I am often reminded when watching preachers on TV or people searching for a higher degree of worshipping God, the verse that says "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
As I was witnessing to this lost person, who was very fearful of death, God revealed to me something I had never known before. As I was talking to this person, and trying to point their fear toward Christ, I asked myself, "Why are people so afraid of death?" and God answered it for me. He told me, "The reason you are afraid of death, is because you were never meant to die"
As I look at that simple explanation I am reminded of things, that regrettably, I had forgotten. You see, I had been so busy looking deeper into scripture and trying to find some new revelation, that I had lost sight of the foundation that all other truth is built upon. That God loves us, always and forever.
"You were never meant to die" -- If we look in Genesis, we had life going pretty good for us. We were going to live forever in the presence of our Creator, but we sinned. The Bible says, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" God loved us so much, and so desired a relationship with us that when He created us, He never wanted us to die. Now, since the "wages of sin is death" then naturally we die, losing all hope of eternal fellowship with God. Since He wanted us to have fellowship with Him and live forever, He loved us so much that He found out a way to fix everything we messed up and give us eternal life again. He sacrificed His one and only Son.
My whole point of this thread is this -- I think we have gotten away from this concept, by getting lost in the finer aspects of God, and trying to discover new ways to get people to respond to the Gospel -- that we have forgotten the true power of how simple the Gospel is. And though it's a verse that's greatly overused and unappreciated because of it's popularity, is John 3:16. This is the verse that practically sums up all human history and future. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Let us return to the simplicity that is in Christ. Because there is nothing on this earth more powerful, than love.
God Bless,
Matt
Fellow followers of the faith, I was witnessing to a lost person today and the Lord gave me a strong and extremely simple truth that I felt that I should share with the rest of you. I am often reminded when watching preachers on TV or people searching for a higher degree of worshipping God, the verse that says "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
As I was witnessing to this lost person, who was very fearful of death, God revealed to me something I had never known before. As I was talking to this person, and trying to point their fear toward Christ, I asked myself, "Why are people so afraid of death?" and God answered it for me. He told me, "The reason you are afraid of death, is because you were never meant to die"
As I look at that simple explanation I am reminded of things, that regrettably, I had forgotten. You see, I had been so busy looking deeper into scripture and trying to find some new revelation, that I had lost sight of the foundation that all other truth is built upon. That God loves us, always and forever.
"You were never meant to die" -- If we look in Genesis, we had life going pretty good for us. We were going to live forever in the presence of our Creator, but we sinned. The Bible says, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" God loved us so much, and so desired a relationship with us that when He created us, He never wanted us to die. Now, since the "wages of sin is death" then naturally we die, losing all hope of eternal fellowship with God. Since He wanted us to have fellowship with Him and live forever, He loved us so much that He found out a way to fix everything we messed up and give us eternal life again. He sacrificed His one and only Son.
My whole point of this thread is this -- I think we have gotten away from this concept, by getting lost in the finer aspects of God, and trying to discover new ways to get people to respond to the Gospel -- that we have forgotten the true power of how simple the Gospel is. And though it's a verse that's greatly overused and unappreciated because of it's popularity, is John 3:16. This is the verse that practically sums up all human history and future. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Let us return to the simplicity that is in Christ. Because there is nothing on this earth more powerful, than love.
God Bless,
Matt
