Feb 26, 2017

MY FRIENDS, MANY ARE ASKING WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED, HOW DO WE RESPOND?

“When there is no special effort made to resist [Satan’s] power, when indifference prevails in the church and the world, Satan is not concerned; for he is in no danger of losing those whom he is leading captive at his will. But when the attention is called to eternal things, and souls are inquiring, “What must I do to be saved?” he is on the ground, seeking to match his power against the power of Christ and to counteract the influence of the Holy Spirit.” (E.G. Whit, The Great Controversy)

My friends, today it’s personal, John 9:4-5 (AMP) tells us that “we must work the works of Him, Jesus Christ who [has commissioned His children to go into all the world and present the good news of the gospel so all who have lost hope but are still asking “what must I do to be saved.” WHILE IT IS DAY; [because as we look at prophecy and our world today, there should be no doubt that] night is coming [soon] when no one can work.

[But, as long as God has given us the ability to work, we must become Christ Light to the world [which gives guidance through His word along with the power of God’s Holy Spirit]” Our narrative begins when Christ and His disciples passed by and saw a man blind from his birth.

His disciples asked, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? And like Christ disciples we must look at our communities and world as someone who has been blind since birth, six-thousand years ago when Satan said to Eve, “you will not die……..

For God knows that when you eat from it, [referring to the tree of knowledge of good and evil] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” And at that point when Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s warning and ate from that tree, and sin entered this world.

And now this same Satan, the evil one “who said in his heart; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.” “has been on the ground, seeking to match his power against the power of Christ and to counteract the influence of the Holy Spirit” In each of our lives.

And like the man who was given his sight back by Christ. The light that shines from God’s Spirit must shine through us into the world and once all who seek and understand the love, grace and mercy of the one who gave it all for their salvation at Calvary they will be able to say also like the blind man “one thing [we] know, that, once [we were] blind, but [now we] see.”

My friends, we must understand, “Christ came into this world so that the blind may see his grace through you and I and through the light from through us to them may have life and have it more abundantly in this world and one day soon that place Eye hath not seen.

Nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.  So let’s all fall on our knees daily and cry out to the Lord until we know we have forsaken all others Because before us is “life or death, blessings or curses. Now choose life, so that [all who seek God’s presence along with our children and friends and family may live