Friday, July 15, 2016

REFLECTION OF ANOTHER TIME

40 yrs. ago this week I went to France. Spent time in Nice. A very wonderful city to visit. Beautiful beaches, friendly people.
To have a terrible deed done during their Independence Day celebration is just criminal. Terrorist don't care who you are, what you do, or weather you worship any god. The world is so accessible that travel should be open to anywhere anyone would want to visit, just to view the grandeur, the wonders, food, people. Yet, we live in a fallen world where the powerful control, belittle and kill people for no more reason than that they can.
The Holy Bible holds the TRUTH, God's HOLY WORD that should we choose to follow The Gospels of Jesus Christ would bring down the DEMONIC spirits that have plagued the world since Adam.
I fear that Christians are not preaching the gospel to the world or even among themselves. When a prosperity pastor says that you may not get in to heaven if you don't tithe, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing. Nothing will change until the gospel is preached and we move out of the safe places we call church. Until we take the path that is narrow, the gospel will never flourish beyond ourselves.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Mark 16:15-16 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. (16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.