Wednesday: Has The Time Arrived? 3

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and WELCOME to Salvation Wednesday and the day we pray for the souls of the lost, and we pray that our Lord God will use us to help bring in the lost.

We are to help with the harvest. Remember that it is God's job and only His to save the lost soul, we can only work to get people to Him to be saved. You see, Jesus went to the cross for all of us, our job, get that GOOD NEWS out to the world.

Prayers also today for Tony Malone who has left for the Navy. Please pray for his family also for they are having trouble letting him go. Tony just came out of high school. While we are praying for those sailors, please pray for our grandkids Daniel and Brittany who left for the Navy two weeks ago. Prayers are also needed for Pastor Carol who is having lots of pain after hip surgery, she fears she might need to go back to the hospital. Also please keep praying for the Saylor family. Also pray for Pastor Charles Idler that he keeps growing stronger and stronger. Pastor had a stroke and is recovering at The Bridges. Pray that God will let him rise up and preach again.

Has The Time Arrived? 3. I am not a pastor that is looking through the Bible and trying to figure out when our Heavenly Father is going to send His Son, Jesus, back to get us believers. Frankly we just have too much work to do for Jesus then to be trying to figure out when He is returning. It should be good enough for us just knowing He is coming back and to be working to get the word out about salvation through Jesus as we are doing today. However with all of that said, when you look through the Bible things sure do seem to be lining up. How long will our Heavenly Father put up with what is going on down here on earth?

Romans 1: 18 - The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. (NIV)

Once in a while I will talk to people who think getting into heaven is a given, that all will make it and it is because we have an all-loving God who in the end will just throw the gates open and let all walk in. Not so fast folks, that is not the way it works, in the end all will be judged and only those who came to Jesus and worked for Jesus after coming to Him will be saved, and the rest are going to go to HELL. Can I say it any plainer than that? There are two locations where we can spend our eternal life! We can spend it in a city that is full of good things, a city where the streets will be paved with gold, and we can spend it in a city where we will be living in a mansion and we can spend it in a city where we can sit with Jesus. That city we call heaven and I pray that all of us will be able to call it home. Then there is the other choice, the place we call hell, and folks, there is no other place.

Some people do not believe in the wrath of God, but folks here it is in scripture..

Has The Time Arrived? So has the time arrived? Look around you and tell me what you see, do you see families going into church together to truly learn about our Lord Jesus and the truth about Him and salvation? Or are people going to church to be entertained? Think about it, those great big churches with all the spot lights and big, big sound systems, and folks there is nothing wrong with those big churches, but are people going to there to learn about Jesus or to be entertained? I hope it is to learn about Jesus. I know that all those things, the lights, the sound systems and even those smoke machines can be used to bring in people, but does the pastor really follow it up with salvation messages? I think a lot of them do, but again I ask, have our churches gone into the entertainment business? I can remember how I first felt when the church I was attending had in a group and you had to BUY A TICKET to get into the show. So what about that poor person who can't even afford to feed their families, do they not get to see this group who might just reach them for Jesus?

But it goes deeper than that. Our Bible is very clear about things that are wrong, yet some pastors at some churches say it is ok. Yesterday I used scriptures that talked about men going with men, and today if we take a look at -

Romans 1: 26 - Because of this God, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. (NIV)

Could the wrath of God in some of these cases be AIDS? Think about it folks, and there are churches that not only say this behavior is ok, but they are even pushing for the marriage between men and men and women and women, and in some states in this great Nation it is already legal. IS AMERICA GOING DOWN THE OLD DRAIN, so to speak? I just watched on the news today where a school principal and the athletic director/coach were ARRESTED for praying for a meal on school property. Yes, the ACLU was behind the arrest, and these men now face jail time for praying. Now listen to me on this, it was a meal for a group of people who had a fund raiser to build a field house for the school and the kids. This was not on school time nor were their any students at the dinner, it was a reward type dinner for those who funded the field house. The principal just asked his friend to pray over the meal and he did...

Has The Time Arrived? If you cannot see this old world changing, you do not have your eyes open, and folks, we who follow our Lord Jesus can expect, WE CAN EXPECT to see more arrests coming if we really speak out for Jesus. Let me ask you this... If today you were arrested for being a Christian, could they find enough evidence against you to make a conviction? Think about it folks, do you love Jesus enough to stand up for Him even if you were threatened with arrest? He gave His life for us, what are we giving back? More on this subject tomorrow... If it were not for God making a promise that He would not destroy this world again with water I might be suggesting that we start building a big boat. So I am suggesting the only thing that will save us in the end... I am suggesting that it is time to get on board with Jesus and stop playing religion. It is time to get serious about it, get Him locked into your heart, and repent of sins and get working for Him. The only way we are going to avoid the wrath of God is being locked tight with Him... AND SOMEONE SAID AMEN!

Dear Father in Heaven, forgive me of my sins today and take me in as one of Yours, help me to follow all of Your footsteps and all of Your commandments and Your laws for living and help me to work for You in all I do. Save me now, Jesus, so I am ready for Your return, and until then, put me in the fields of Harvest to be working to get in the Lost. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Please folks, if you did not pray that prayer in faith, if you just mouthed it out or read it, stop and go back and really pray it, or pray for salvation from your heart, for as it tells us in Romans, we must confess with our mouth and believe in our hearts that Jesus died for us and was risen from the dead. Believe it, folks, and let's look around us, all the shootings, all the murders, the drunk drivers, all the sex on TV and in the movies, all the cursing... Be ready, my brothers and sisters, be ready, for we know not when He will return, but we do know this -- HE IS RETURNING.
Now go forth sharing your blessings. Love ya, dan.

Today at 2.00 PM, Carry The Light will be singing at Perry Village in New Bloomfield Pa., and you are always welcome. Most of our concerts will now be mid week.