Saturday 11/8/14 Salvation 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very much.  Please wash me clean of my sins and start me fresh.  Lord, thanks for opening another door for Carry The Light Ministries.  I am excited about this, dear Lord.  Please help us and  may we be of service to You on this mission.  Dear Lord, thanks for helping get the bugs out of the computers over the last two days.  Protect them from the devil's people who put them under attack.  Thanks, Lord, for watching over families and our flocks on this line and beyond.  Please bless Pastor Bob and also Miss Kim and others as we stand beside them in this new outreach of theirs for You.  Please, Lord, help me keep my mind on my writings as I write for You.  Lord, my Christian friend "Ean" needs Your healing hand.  Please help him.  Please, dear Lord, help us locate our son Matthew.  Now, Lord, please help me with a message and also help me to get it dispatched.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, I am sorry about the last two days.  Our computers got really out of line, really messed up.  I guess someone was trying to hack us, I don't know.  We have tech support from "Tech Advantage" who worked hours to get them right.  No email addresses got away from us.  Our computers just plain did not do what they are made to do.  We needed also to renew our agreement with Tech Advantage, which seems to always all at the wrong time.  Anyway, Praise God, all better now.

We are excited to tell you that we are going to help support an outreach of Young's United Methodist Church.  They have started a program to bring children from their elementary schools to spend some time talking about Jesus.  Yes, the children will be released from school, taken to the church for the program, and then brought back to the school.  Release time for God.  I will be giving all of you the details as I get more of them.  Right now on behalf of Carry The Light Ministries, we have pledged some dollars to help purchase fuel for the bus they will be using.  This is exciting, brothers and sisters.  Please pray for Pastor Bob and his flock at Young's Church and also please keep praying for the ministries of Carry The Light Ministries, Inc.  Let me get to the message, Salvation.

Saturday:  November 8, 2014:  Salvation (Day Two)

Brothers and sisters, on Wednesday, our Salvation Wednesday, I was talking to you about Salvation, and of course Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.  I was going to make it just a one-day message; however, that would have shortchanged the message, as I really needed to point out the scriptures where we find out about Salvation.  So let's take a look at the scriptures and talk about them as we go.

Who needs Salvation through Jesus?  As I told you in my words the other day, the only ones who need Salvation through Jesus are those wanting to go to Heaven.  No Jesus, No Heaven.  Know Jesus, Know Heaven.  All scriptures today will be from my New International Version of the Bible (NIV).  I use a study Bible.

Romans 3:10 - As it is written, "There is no one righteous, not even one."

That means no one, not Jews, nor Gentiles, it really means no one.  Here is more proof!

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Again the scriptures tell that ALL fall short, because we are all sinners, yes, even me and you.  And I even put me ahead of you on this one.  When did sin get started?

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 all sinned.

The very first man that God created sinned, and since then all men have sinned except one, and His name was/is Jesus.  Did you know you can get paid to sin?  Well, yes, a lot of people have jobs that they get paid for and are just a plain out-and-out sin.  Abortion doctors and nurses get paid, those running the gambling tables get paid, in some states prostitution is legal and the "ladies of the night" (I cleaned that up) get paid.  But let me talk about scripture.  All of us are sinners and sinners get paid.  Look here.

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

There was a saying years ago that all you ever needed to do in life was "pay taxes and die."  According to the Bible, we only need to pay taxes.  Yes, while we are to give to the government what is due them, we can escape death and have eternal life in Jesus.  PRAISE GOD FOR THAT, WOW, WHAT A BLESSING.

So how do we "sign on" for this free gift from God?

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 heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Romans 10:13 - For "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

What I have just set before you in scripture is sometimes called "Romans Road to Salvation."  I think it is "GOD'S ROAD TO SALVATION, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."

Is there any other way to get to heaven other than through Jesus Christ?  No!  Not according to the Bible, and the Bible is the Real Book of Truth.  Here is the scripture that tells us that.

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

Now why was all this done?  This was done because God loves us very much, even though we have sinned over and over again, God has loved us, and He loves those who really hate Him.  Here is proof.  Again I go back to the Bible.

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."

The scriptures that I have typed out for you are ones that should help you if you have questions about your salvation.  They should also help you as you try and lead others to the feet of Jesus to be saved.  Remember, we are workers for Christ Jesus, we are to harvest the fields for Him, but we cannot save the lost, only Jesus can do that, but we need to bring them in, them meaning the lost.  Let's face it, someone led us to Jesus, someone had to plant that seed of Salvation in Your heart.  Do you remember who?  When I tell you when I close as I do each day, and tell you to go and share your blessings, the very best blessing you can share is that message of Salvation.  It is indeed our best blessing ... Do you agree?

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please share my love to your friends.

Pastor Dan

Here is a riddle that I made up.
What can go up and down at the very same time it can go down and up?

A see-saw!  Think about that one.