Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and I really appreciate what You do for me each day. Thanks for watching over me another day. Thanks for watching over family and friends and also our flock at The Bridges and our online flock. Please, Lord, watch over Danelle as she readies for surgery next week. Lord, please be with the Emigs, Saylors, Stoners, and all those who are working the fields of Harvest for You this weekend. Please be with our Matthew. Be with President Obama as he makes decisions concerning this country. I also pray that he is saved and that he would bring our country's affairs before you, before he takes them to others. Be with our military and protect them, and Lord, protect our Jewish brothers and sisters in our homeland of Israel. Please also be with all the Christians that are fleeing Iraq right now. Please also, Lord, help me with the message of today and then help me dispatch it. In the Name of Jesus, I give praise and pray. Amen.
Today as I promised, I want to get the old road map out and walk through the scriptures where it talks about how to get to heaven. Please add our daughter Danelle to your prayer list. She is scheduled for "female surgery" next week. Please keep praying for our President and military folks, and please keep praying for our homeland. You might notice that whenever I ask for prayers for our President I send him a copy. I really pray today that he would take time to read this message. Let me get right to it. Please also keep praying for our "lost son" Matthew.
Friday: August 8, 2014, The Old Road Map (Day Ten)
Brothers and sisters, today's message will be written differently. Let me start with the basics. All scriptures used will be New International Version (NIV) unless I mark them differently.
John 3:16 - "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."
Brothers and sisters, here is the start of the road map today. This scripture shows us just how much God our Father in Heaven loves us. For He sent His one and only Son to die on the cross for all of us, for all who will accept Him as their savior. Verse 17 tells us Jesus was not sent to condemn the world or speak against it but to change the way people live and to save them from themselves, from their sins. Jesus carried the sins of the world on His back to the cross. Amen!!
John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life, NO ONE comes to the Father except through me."
I want to bring out this scripture for it tells us there is no other way to get to Heaven, except through Jesus. I made it stand out some, the Bible tells us NO ONE, that means just what it says, meaning there is no other way to get to Heaven, to be with the Father. One way, with Jesus. Amen.
1 John 5:13 - I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
This letter from John was written to "believers," those who follow Jesus, who really want to walk in His path. Now we are going to talk about what is known as "Romans Road." Once again the writer is the Apostle John. Okay, get those Bibles out and mark the Bible so you know where to find them.
Romans 3:10 - As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one."
This is telling us that not one of us is righteous enough to get to Heaven on our own. This next scripture tells us just why.
Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 5:12 - Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men because of sin"
If I would ask all of you today what might be the most contagious disease today, what might you tell me? Flu? Common cold? AIDS? Or some addiction, like drugs or booze? The answer is found above, one man brought sin into the world, his name was Adam, and it has been passed down from one generation to the next to the next, to the next, and so on. So I ask this question, which I just answered, is any one of you without sin? Of course the answer is no. Now I do want to point out that you can get PAID TO BE A SINNER. What am I talking about, you ask? The old pastor has gone nuts now! Paid to be a sinner? Well, if you are like me and you believe the true and complete Bible, here is your answer. Yes, you get paid to sin!!
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So there you have it, paid to sin, so do you want that "pay day?" But hang in there, the verse also mentions this "Gift of God." So before I tell you that the gift is free, and it is to us, this gift of Life cost Jesus His life.
So how do you get this "free gift," this free gift of eternal life?
Romans 10:9 - 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 heat that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
I want you to know and understand that you just need to confess to God, and you do not need to tell everyone of your past, and once you confess your love for Jesus and your sins have been forgiven, please do not let anyone ever, and I mean ever, bring them up again. They are gone, period. As shown above, every one of us is a sinner, it means we ALL HAVE SINNED, and we all have something in that old closet that we do not want out. So we gave it to Christ and it is GONE. Understand please that if you broke the law, you still need to pay that debt to man. I think you all know what I mean. So hang in with me, almost done.
Romans 10:13 - For, everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, will be saved.
You see, everyone will be saved, and there you have it. But I want to add this. With the fighting that is going on in Israel, and I am calling it our homeland, and the reason of course is Jesus was/is/and always will be Jewish. So look at this scripture, please.
Romans 10:12 - For there is NO DIFFERENCE between JEW and GENTILE.
So again I will end as I did yesterday, with a prayer of confession. Again, I cannot pray this one for you. If you are already saved, just pray along and get a "fresh bath" in the blood of Jesus. Ready?
Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of my many sins. I do believe in Jesus as my savior, and today I invite Him into my heart. I believe He was born of a virgin, walked this earth, died on the cross, was raised from the dead, walked the earth some more, was taken up into Heaven where He sits at the right hand of God our Father. Wash me white today, Lord, and place my name in the "Lamb's Book of Life." In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now go forth and share the love of God and your other blessings. You may print this and use it if you wish. You may pass it on to others. You have the ammo now, go forth and use it to lead people to Jesus. Remember, you cannot save them, only get them to Jesus. Amen.
Love ya, and yes, you may also pass on my love to others.
Pastor Dan
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