Wednesday 9/17/14 Salvation

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very, very much.  Please, dear Father, forgive me of my sins and help me to repent.  Please, Lord, be with families, and Lord, please watch over our flock at The Bridges and our flock on this line.  Lord, please watch over the Saylor family, the Emig family, the Crockett family, the Lehman family, and all other families that use this line.  Lord, please help us on this day we call Salvation Wednesday to seek out the lost and try our very best to get them to Your feet to be saved.  Lord, please help me with the message today and help me then to get it dispatched.  In the Name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, what a beautiful Salvation Wednesday here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  This being Salvation Wednesday I talked to our Good Lord seeking to talk to you folks about salvation, and of course the only way we have salvation is salvation through Jesus Christ.  Please keep praying daily for our country and that our great country would return to God.  It seems every day you hear about someone giving in to someone to remove Jesus.  Just this past week after Robert Griffin III was hurt in the football game, he showed up on the sidelines wearing a t-shirt that had KnoW Jesus KnoW peace on it.  He was told to remove it or cover it because it was not made by Nike so RG3 turned the shirt inside out to avoid a fine.  I would pray that if it was me, I would have stood firm and paid the fine.  Come on, RG3, God lent you the talent, remember He can take it back.  Quoting Rush Limbaugh, "Talent on loan from GOD."  So let us get to the message, "Salvation."

Salvation Wednesday:  September 17, 2014:  Salvation

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled.  You believe in God; believe also in me.  2 My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?  3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.  4 You know the way to the place where I am going."

Jesus the Way to the Father

John 14:5 - Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"  6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  (NIV)

To show you that Salvation today is the same as when Jesus was comforting His disciples, I want to write out for you one of my favorite scriptures.

Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever."  (NIV)

Now picture yourself, as I am also going to picture myself, sitting at the feet of Jesus as He comforts us and tells us the way to get to Heaven.  We have an advantage over His disciples of those days as we have seen how Jesus went on ahead of us after giving His life for us on the cross and then being risen from the dead.  It now becomes our job first of all to be sure, to be really sure that we are saved, and I mean saved as in being filled with the Holy Ghost and bubbling all over because of your excitement in going out working for Christ.  We need to BE ON FIRE FOR JESUS when we walk into the fields of Harvest for our Lord Jesus.  We need to be excited about it, and most of all we of course must believe in what is in the Bible, we should not e questioning things.  We need to shout it out, we need to wear Jesus on our sleeves, we need to be confident in our love for Him and of course His love for us.  If you have on that t-shirt that talks about Jesus, let it talk, do not turn it inside out.  Let people see that you walk in step with Jesus, that you live for Jesus, that you want to work for Jesus every day, not just an hour on Sunday.  Witnessing for Jesus is a daily thing, 24 hours per day.  At any given time someone might walk up to you and want to know about Jesus.  Be ready to stand up for Jesus.  I have heard people who claim to be Christians who say they do not want to discuss religion or politics.  Knowing Jesus and loving Jesus is not a religion.  When we get to heaven we will find that there will be people there who worshiped with the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons.  You remember the song, and we sang it a lot.  It is not what is over the door of the church you attend that gets you into heaven, it is what is in your very own heart.  When you stand at the gate, are you going to say, excuse me a minute, I need to turn my shirt right side out?

With the changes we have been making with Carry The Light Ministries, I have prayed over and over again we are doing the right thing.  God keeps me on track and keeps telling me just keep living for Him and other doors will be opened.  Are you ready to stand and fight for Jesus?  I can remember how I had to fight with PennDot because I had crosses painted on our cars and they did not want to issue the license plates for the cars.  By the way, we won that one for the Lord!  Stand up for Jesus is not just a song, stand up for Jesus is what we need to do.  Leaning on Jesus is not just a song, we need to learn to lean on Jesus.  I love to tell the story is not just a song, we need to really love to tell the story and we need to tell it over and over again.  In The Garden is not jut a song, Jesus went to The Garden and prayed.  We need to do the same thing.  The Old Rugged Cross is not just a song, it really  happened, Jesus died on the Cross for you and for me.  We need to sing those songs and then tell people why we stand and sing those songs.

Brothers and sisters, we need to talk, walk, eat, live, sleep, and share our love and life with Jesus and tell others how we feel.  Again I tell you first you need to be sure of your own salvation through Jesus.  If you still think going to a certain church or working for that church is going to get you into heaven, think again!  Get on your knees and invite Jesus into your heart, really invite Him in and live for Him.  It is exciting and I am here to tell you, once you do that, you will never ever be the same.  After you have the Holy Ghost in you, then go out and share that love and the Love of Jesus with the world.  Start with your family and then in your own neighborhood.  Carry Jesus with you when you go to the beauty shop, the barber shop, the food store, carry Jesus wherever you go and show others how much you love Him.  Do not turn your shirt inside out, for I am here to tell you if you turn your shirt inside out, then you will also turn your heart inside out.  Amen.

Now go forth and share the love of Jesus which is your best blessing and then share the other blessings that come along when you love Jesus.  Love ya.  Please pass on my love to others.

Pastor Dan