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It is Enough - 2014-09-06 16:17

You think:
..It is enough to pay your bills on time.
..It is enough to abstain from drunkenness.
..It is enough to abstain from lewd behavior in public.
..It is enough to give to charity as often as you can.
..It is enough to know what the Bible has to say.
..It is enough to raise your children in the same behaviors as these.
..These things, being enough, you pursue what pleasure you desire.
.. It is enough to apply what laws of God provide you the prosperity of your perception.
.. It is enough to come alongside a select few and teach them the things you know.

My friend, if these things describe your life, you have a religion that has no power.  While all these things are perfectly sufficient in the world of men, they are but as filthy rags before the righteousness of the Holy Most High God in Christ Jesus.

What I have described are what men refer to as "good behaviours".  But they do not begin to touch the things of a man born of God.

Every one of those things relies on "self" to accomplish.  Let the slightest complication come upon you, and there is no strength for defense.  If this is so in the things of the world, how much more so on the Great Day of Judgement?

The power of prayer, to such people, is left as if an emergency switch.  "If I run into trouble I will pray to God.  Perhaps he will help me in my day of distress."  My friend, your day of distress is upon you even now, and you do not perceive it.  It has been well said, "Life is not a dress rehearsal".

If those things are the way you run your life, how are you any different then the Israelites who fell dead in the desert?  What hope do you have that is more than theirs?

It is written, "They will have a form of religion, but deny the power of it".  For, those who fell in the desert did not combine their belief with a holy faith.  They willingly desired the good things of men, while they willingly ignored the good and Holy things of God

Test yourself to see if this is true of you.  How often do you pray?  Do you crave the Living Word of the Bible?  Do you yearn for the sermon you missed, because you were too busy to attend?  Does your soul have confidence that your words are heard by the Most High God when you pray?  Are you absolutely sure, that when you die, you will be with Jesus the Christ forever?

May the living God, in Christ Jesus, open your eyes to understand what I have written.





Four Useful Sayings - 2014-09-07 00:02

"When you are done doing what you do, you will have done your best.  If you could have done, better you would have done it."

"Think eternity."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

"If you are not with God now, you will not be with God then."







Faithful unto Death - 2014-09-07 20:37

Side by side, supporting his fallen comrade.  How many years have they withstood winters, who can tell?

In the noise and confusion of man, does anyone notice?  Enoch, the 7th from Adam, would have noticed.

23. "Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24.



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