Wednesday: John 3: 16

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (KJV)

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and welcome to Salvation Wednesday, in the middle of Salvation week on Carry The Light Ministries prayer and message line. And yes, it is the day we pray for the unsaved and for God to use us to go to the fields of Harvest and work getting in the lost.

Warriors, I ask today you go into deep prayer with the Lord. It does not need to be a lot of words, just deep and meaningful as we ask God to use us. This week is very important for all of us. Let's start again by asking God to clean us.

Dear Father, each day we want to start clean, and it should not be just this week, but each day, all of our lives. And we need to repent, repent of our sins, and Your help is needed for us. Clean me, oh Lord. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

John 3: 16 A quick review of the week ... Monday: Who needs Salvation? Only those who want to go to Heaven. We get paid to sin. The wages of sin is death. Tuesday: Repent, we need to be cleaned of our sins by God and then we need to repent of them. So here we are on ...

Wednesday: Why in the world is God concerned about us? And why would He do what He did for us?

The first thing that God did for us was this: He made a world and everything in it and gave it all to us except for one little tree. So He really had a big investment in us right from the start, then He gave us free will. May I dare relate this to the stock market of today, or a bank. This happened to me back even before George W. Bush. I retired from work, I took my dollars from the retirement fund and put them in what was to be a secure 401 K at the bank. The bank invested it and walked away from it, we had a blip in the market and I lost most of the money. Gone, never to be seen again. Back in the 90's folks. (Yes we recovered because we love God.) Ok, what am I saying here? I, like many others, put my trust in people to do something, and the people we trusted failed, and we lost what we entrusted to them. Is that not what God did, He took all He made, all of it, and trusted it to Adam and Eve, and then of course us, after it all filters down. And we failed Him ...

God has been through it before, trusted man with what He made and then had to destroy it with a flood. But again after that He trusted man again, this time starting with Noah and of course once again I say it all filters down to us. Why folks, why in the world is God so concerned about us that He wants us to do it right? We are His children, He is our Father. Men, those of you who have children -- don't we all want to see our kids do it right, and it hurts so bad when we see them mess up.

First, it reflects on us, but that is not the bottom line if we really think about it. The bottom line is we just want to see our kids get it right and not get hurt. I have talked to several men on this line who will join me in saying just that. It hurts when one just walks away or even just messes up on something that will affect them for life. So God is concerned about us because He made us. Really, we should not try and make it difficult, He is concerned about us just because, well because we are His kids.

John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (KJV)

Do you remember how when our parents would punish us they would say it is going to hurt me more than you? And just why if it was going to hurt my pop, would he just not forget about me?

John 3: 17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (KJV)

So our parents were really trying to save us from future problems by teaching us right, even if it hurt them to punish us. So you ask me, did God hurt Himself when He punished His Son, or left Him be punished for us? Yes, God did just that. In plain words, God loves us, His earthly children, that He sent Jesus, His one and only begotten Son, so we might all live if we just believe. And brothers and sisters, as we will see later this week, Jesus really walked the hill for us.

Remember on Monday I said we get paid for our sins. Tomorrow we are going to find out who signed the check to pay our bail -- Who stood in for us to pay for our sins -- Who bailed us out.

Now go forth, knowing today from this lesson that God loves us (like we didn't already know). Walk with God today, walk to please Him, and tell others about Him ... and yes, if you wish you may print this message and share it with others ... or send them to our blogspot ... http://carrythelight4Jesus.blogspot.com/. Share those blessings, folks, and live for Jesus. love ya, dan.