Oh, that people would hear and receive the truth!
I recently was witnessing to a loved one. I am not at liberty to discuss the events. But this loved one wanted to see God as a means to an end: follow God and get a car, a home, a job, etc. I told my loved one, that yes, those things may be by products to following God, BUT if it were true in all cases, then it would be true for thousands of believers who right now are suffering for the truth faith. Many are in prison, persecuted, going hungry. I went on to tell her, we follow God for one reason. It is because He is worthy. What if you don’t get that job? Or that fancy house? Are you going to turn your back on Him? God is not a genie in the sky to give us a bunch of goodies. I went on to tell her that we are to count the cost, to pick up our Cross and die.
I went on to tell my loved one if I lived a million years and did everything perfect from here on out, it still would not be good enough. There is only One who walked this earth who was and is good enough, holy, perfect in all His ways, unspotted from the things of the world. That is Jesus Christ. Not only that, but He rose from the dead!
I hope my loved one was able to get the point. I pray many will get the point.
tbrsintl:
May 24, 2013 @ 15:13:19
That was a perfect way of witnessing Christ. The pastors of today use the Word of God to lure the people. They don’t understand what these Scriptures ‘ask and it shall be given unto you’ or the word Jehovahjireh mean. I was stunned to read stickers on cars ‘This car is protected by the blood of Jesus’. Is it not sheer mockery of the blood of Jesus. I know they are sincere but they are sincerely wrong. Abraham said ‘the Lord is my provider’ but he was not talking of God providing him more cattle or more silver and gold but he was talking God providing Him a lamb for the sacrifice and the promise was about Jesus as the sacrificial Lamb. Oh how the sheep of God have been misled.
May 24, 2013 @ 16:49:27
His sheep will hear His voice and they follow Him. They will not recognize any other voice for they belong to Him.
May 25, 2013 @ 12:29:49
i’ve hear of so many men who claim to be Jesus (and i’ve sent them angry letter rebuking them) and that they are Jesus who came on earth for the second time,but i never hear anyone ever saying he is Buddha who came on earth again,he is Muhammed,Krishna,etc. NO ONE claims to be them! Because there was a REAL Budhha,or Krishna,there was no REAL salvation through them! You cannot have have pseudo-god if you don’t have a TRUE GOD FIRST! That tells me JESUS IS THE KING OF KINGS AND SON OF GOD!!!