The Lord has blessed our church with several ministries in which we are able to share the Gospel regularly.  The Gospel of Jesus Christ, is the Good News of God’s willingness to reconcile (buy back) to Himself, mankind, whose fellowship was lost when sin entered the world.  Several responses to the gospel message are typical:  “I’m all set.”  “Maybe later.”  “I’ll think about it.”   But these are not responses at all; they are put-offs, and only veil the true thoughts and intentions of the persons who voice them.

  Occasionally someone will say, “I think that is a personal matter.”  Not to be pushy or rude, but I usually counter, “It is indeed personal, but God has ordained that it not be private.”  He has commissioned His people to lovingly spread the Gospel, which is the only means by which anyone will ever be reconciled to God.  “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:19-20)“

  If you have not yet become a part of the eternal family of God, consider this:  “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:6-7)”  “(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured  [helped] thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2Corinthians 6:2)”

  Perhaps most Christians are uneasy when it comes to delivering God’s message to others, but we must remember, if we don’t tell them, perhaps they will never hear.  “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:14)” If you are a Christian, God wants you to live your faith before others and without being pushy or obnoxious, share the gospel with those who are willing to hear it.

In my earliest remembrances the godless were engaged in a sexual revolution. The hippies and the potheads, and anyone they were able to seduce, were engaged in “free sex.” Like the animals, they saw every member of the opposite sex as a potential sexual partner, and made it a point to have as many partners as possible.
As time passed, there was a gradual broadening of their debauched morality. First, it was only behind closed doors, but gradually they came “out of the closet”—people who would engage in unnatural sexual acts with members of their same sex. Society was shocked, but gradually politicians and perverts showcased their putrid amorality to appeal to the unwary who were abandoning God and common sense for the pleasures of “sin for a season.”
Today, the flood gates are opened. Much of humanity embraces moral anarchy, believing that they are their own gods, possess their own truth and write their own moral laws. There is even the mistaken notion that one can, by imagining it so, change his or her sex or gender.
What does God have to say about all of this? “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (1Corinthians 7:2)” “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)” “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)” “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. (Deuteronomy 22:5)
The first chapter of Romans describes the path of this invasive cancer of sin, and its consequences. “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (Romans 1:24)”
But there is a cure for our personal and societal ills: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)”…the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1John 1:6)”

  Do you remember when there was no mention of abortion in the news?  There was a day when the vast majority of people in our country, people who were principled and God fearing, would agree that abortion is the taking of innocent life, and an abomination before God.  Today, the statistics have flipped and most people seem to talk, not about whether abortion is wrong, but about at what point in the gestation period it becomes wrong to kill the baby.  Politicians view the issue as politically explosive and carefully choose the position that they believe will appease the majority in their supposed voter block.

  Perhaps it would be advisable for all who believe that there is a God and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6), to consider what the Almighty has to say about the matter:

  “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. (Psalms 127:3-5).”

  “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. (Psalms 139:14-15).”

  “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5).”

  You might also wish to read: Exodus 20:13; 21:22-25; Psalm 22:10; 106:38-39; Isaiah 49:1.

  If we would seek God’s blessing upon our nation, we had better return to the moral guidance of His Word.  Let’s demand that our political leaders, and spiritual leaders, return to the “old paths.”  You have a voice; you have a Vote!

  Ten – Nine – Eight – Seven – Six – Five…  We have all heard it before—the countdown.  It could have been at a rocket launch, a New Year’s Eve party or the last seconds before any number of other major, memorable events.

  Sometime, perhaps in the near future, there will be an inaudible countdown to the end of this age, when God will once again supernaturally intervene in the affairs of mankind.  According to the Bible, this abrupt change marking a new era will come upon the earth unexpectedly, like “a thief in the night.”  There will be seven years of catastrophic events that unfold on earth precisely as described in Revelation 4-16.  In spite of the misguided hopes of humanists, these events will be the outpourings of divine wrath and judgment, more intense than any since Noah’s flood (~2348 BC).  The Bible calls it the Tribulation Period—the beginning of The Day Of The Lord.

  Just before the Tribulation, God promises to take those who have embraced His Son, into His presence.  Jesus, the Son of God, came and died to pay the penalty for the sins of the world.  He rose from the dead and ascended back to Heaven from whence He came.  His sacrifice was to make a way for you and me to be reconciled to God by faith, and enter into that eternal relationship that was intended for us before the foundation of the world.

  Perhaps you have listened to the lies of Satan that are propagated by men and women who have denied the existence of God and put themselves in His place to determine for themselves, and for you, what is right and wrong, and what the future holds.  …but they are mere men; they know nothing of the future, and have no authority to pronounce a thing right or wrong.  Right and wrong was determined by God, the Sovereign Ruler of the universe, before the world began.  He is the Creator and Sustainer of all that is.

  “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all…” (1Chronicles 29:11-12)”