We’re doing
fine up in the country. This past Sunday
we had a wonderful Lord’s Day with family, friends, and neighbors gathered
together for Bible study, worship, and fellowship. We are so very blessed by God with brotherly
love and a united Christian family. Many
churches have so many problems. I
remember those who have struggles in my daily prayers and hope, pray, and work
so that the unity and harmony we enjoy in the Enola Church of Christ will
continue now and until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This Sunday
(March 30th) will be the 5th Sunday in the month. In addition to Bible study at 10:00 and our
worship hour at 11:00, we will have lunch together in the annex building at
noon. After the potluck lunch we will
meet again in the main building for prayer, singing, and another lesson from
God’s word. To every member of the Enola
Church of Christ; please prepare plenty of food for your family and our
guests. Thank you for your
generosity. I love Sunday’s because
Sunday is the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day, a day to put the previous
week behind me, think about all the possibilities of the coming week, and then dedicate
both weeks to God. Some weeks are
tough. Some weeks are easier. God is with us in both the tough times and
the easy times. I’m glad.
We will begin
a new series of sermons this Sunday; a series entitled “Foundation Principles –
The Christian Graces.” In 2 Peter 1:5-10,
God gives us a list of foundation principles we must add to our faith in Jesus
Christ. We must add virtue, knowledge,
self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love to our
faith in God. I need to preach this series for my own evaluation
and growth. I hope you will be
challenged and encouraged by this series of sermons. This Sunday we’ll consider faith as the
substance of our hope and the evidence of what we cannot yet see. God has never asked us to accept Him blindly
without proper reasonable evidence. Think
about it. There are at least three types
of evidence we can consider when we think of God: Circumstantial Evidence, Revealed Evidence,
and Experiential Evidence. We’ll study
all three and make a decision about faith in God.
Last Sunday
night I preached a lesson to help us see the devil’s tricks more clearly. Please, please, please don’t be
deceived. Know Jesus. Know the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No Jesus.
No Way, no Truth, and no Life.
This is just the way it is.
Please don’t allow the world with its politically correct agenda to
negatively influence the facts of life and eternity in your commitment to be
steadfast immovable always abounding in the work of Christ. A friend of mine had a business partner who
did not believe that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God. This friend of a friend was still looking for
the Messiah to return to the world to establish an earthly kingdom. Sadly many people will not accept the spiritual
kingdom of Christ that He established before He ascended to the right hand of
the Father. This spiritual kingdom is
the church of Christ. Anyway, this
friend saw so many wonderful attributes in their business partner, love of
family, integrity, community involvement, generosity, positive work ethic…I
could go on and on writing about the business partner and friend of a friend’s
pattern of life without Jesus Christ.
Eventually, my friend began to view this friend and business partner as
a Christian, one saved and travelling to heaven. One day, after hearing a lesson similar to
the one I preached on Sunday evening at Enola, my friend was at first very upset
with the speaker and with God for His narrow and difficult way to salvation and
to heaven, the way we read about in the New Testament. Of course my friend, knew what the Bible says
in John 14:6 and in many other plain and simple Bible passages that teach us
that Jesus is the Christ and unless a person believes in Him, they will be
lost. She had become desensitized to the
truth by her partnership with one who did not hold to the truth. The devil is tricky in his desire to move
every Christian away from the light. May
God help me to walk in the Way, hold tightly to the Truth, and live the
Life. May God help you too.
May God help
us all to see Him more clearly and hold to Him tighter and keep on keeping on.
No comments:
Post a Comment