How come no one has ever told us this!
We've been waiting a long time for this gospel!
These are just some of the comments made when we open up to people and share the gospel. I hope this shakes your soul like it does mine! God is calling to His people all over this planet and it is up to me and you to take the gospel to the world. This is no joke, eternity is real, judgement is real and death is forever! We are alive in Christ for this purpose! We are sent out and set apart for His purpose!
A dear friend in Christ and I were speaking to a lady who we knew from our jobs at a university. She was telling us of how she had lost her nursing license due to a drug problem. It all started when her husband had died and she had gotten a back injury. She was in a terrible state of anxiety over his death, then pain from an injury, added to the fact that she was lost. Just what Satan stands around waiting for! She said she knew she needed to turn to the Lord but she didn't think she was worthy of forgiveness, she needed to get her life in order before she asked for forgiveness. We began to tell her of the joy and peace found in Christ no matter what sinful state you are in. She began to tell us her dad was a preacher who preached fire and brimstone. He had a unkind spirit and was so mean and sexually abusive to her. Her mother ignored it all leaving her all alone in torment! This woman beaten down in spirit and totally trying to destroy herself to get rid of the mental and physical pain she was oh so used too. I began to tell her that Christ has a spirit of love and forgiveness to all who will bow before His throne of grace, regardless of your baggage. He only wants you to turn from sin and follow Him. And if you are willing, He will forever change you! You will be a new creation in Christ. Her words still cut me to the bone, "why has no one told me this before"? I pray for her often, that she did find Christ, that she did not push Him away and that I will see her in heaven.
It is one person, one at a time, touched by the words of truth that God has put in the Bible. These words hold the way to everlasting life through Christ. There is no other way than Christ crucified!
Romans 10:15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
2Cor.5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
John 3:3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
1Cor.1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God
Hebrews 12:2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Lord, let Your word touch hearts. Amen
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