Friday 12/6/13 Salvation 5

Dear Father, thank You for cleansing us of our sins.  Lord, I love You.  Please, Father, watch over our Nation, as Lord, I am reminded that we are on the eve of Pearl Harbor Day.  Lord, please help us to get the word out to the lost for if an event happened again like it did in 1941 and then again on 9/11/2001, so many more souls would be lost.  Help us to get to work for You in all we do.  Please be with those on our list for healing. Now, Lord, please help me with a message and then dispatch it for me.  In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters:  Tomorrow is December 7, and it is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day.  Put yourself in the shoes of those at Pearl Harbor that day and think about not just the lives that were lost but think also about the souls that might have been lost.  While we are not to judge on Salvation, think about it, folks, think about it.  What if this Sunday China or Iran wee to send a bomb our way?  How many lives would be lost, and how many of their souls would be lost?  How many people just in each of our neighbors are not "BORN AGAIN?"  Brothers and sisters, we have a job to do, and we need to be doing it daily.  If you can breathe, if you can eat, then you need to be saved and if you are saved, then you need to be going out to spread the Good News.  Start in your neighborhood and work out from there.  So who needs saved, and are we sure we are going about it in the right way?  First, the only ones that need saved are those who want to go to Heaven after you check out of this earthly thing we are passing by.  If you would sooner go to Hell, then you surely do not need to be saved.  As for me and my house, we want to go to be with Jesus.  So now about going about it in the right way.  Let's go to the Bible and check out a few scriptures.

John 3:16/17 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.  (NIV)

John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  (NIV)

So that part was easy, I mean, knowing who can save us, and it is Jesus and only Jesus.  But it was not that easy for Jesus, for He died for us.  However, I want you to know that Jesus set so many examples for us on how we should live and we also need to be working for Him after we are "Born Again."  You see, we cannot work our way into heaven, but faith without works is dead.  Our working for Jesus is how we prove our faith.  Brothers and sisters, it is fun working for the Lord.  Tomorrow for example, Saturday, we have a lot of people coming to work here at the food pantry on our "Picking and Packing Day."  We will indeed have a good time in the name of the Lord.

One of the main jobs that has been given to us is to get the Word out to the unsaved, to all the corners of the earth.  So we must tell that good news to everyone.  The good, good news.  So how do we get saved?  Well, in short, we ask Jesus to come into our hearts.  Here it is from the book of Romans.

Romans 10:9/10 - That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.  (NIV)

Once one is saved, once somebody comes to the Lord, what is the very first thing they should do?  REPENT!!  We need to REPENT!!  Now I want to take you to the book of Mark and show you what we need to do next, and this same scripture will show us that.  It is also the scripture where we came up with the name CARRY THE LIGHT.

Mark 16:15 - He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation."  (NIV)

Now since Jesus is the light of the world, we need to Carry The Light into the world.  Brothers and sisters, in all we do, in all we do in life, the most important job we should be doing is working for Jesus and getting out the good news.  And we should be doing ti for Love, Love of Jesus and love of your unsaved brothers and sisters.  Today I would like you to center your prayers on our President and his family and all of our leaders in Washington, DC.  I want you to pray and pray for their Salvation and for them to come to Jesus.  What we need in this nation, in the United States of America, is a really big COME TO JESUS PARTY IN OUR NATION'S CAPITOL ... Someone say AMEN.

I will send this to our President and tell him we are praying for him.

Dear Father in Heaven, please watch over President Obama and please, Lord, humble him so he comes to You to be saved.  Please watch over him and his beautiful family as they travel and keep them safe.  I pray he brings all things to You before he takes them to the people.  In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Hope to see some of you on Saturday.  I made some really good veggie soup.  I ate some of it already and I did not even get sick.  Love ya.  Please pass that love on.

Pastor Dan