Friday 3/27/15 Alive Again (4)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. Please forgive me of my sins and please accept my thanks for Your waking me this day and all You have done for me and for this day. Dear Father, I want to get right to the message, and I sure do need Your help to get it done. Then, Lord, please  help me to dispatch the message, neither of which I can get done without You and Your help. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, yesterday we had a beautiful one hour of spring here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. It was great, although Rudy had trouble getting his nose to work. Anyway, I want to get right to the message.

Friday: March 27, 2015: Alive Again (Day Four)

Acts 1:3 - After His suffering, He showed Himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs He was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. (NIV)

Of course we all know that we were born at least once, for we have a birth certificate to show that, but how do we know we have been "Born Again?" How do we know that we are indeed "Alive Again?" When we join a church we can get a certificate that we are a member of that said church, but what about when we become "Born Again?" Jesus is not going to mail us a certificate that tells us that on this date we were "Born Again." So how then do we know? How can we tell? Well, let me just take time to tell you how you will know if you are "Born Again." YOU WILL CHANGE, YOU WILL NOT BE THE SAME. You will come alive, as in alive in Jesus. You will indeed be "Alive Again." And you can also expect others to see this in you. I heard a little story just recently. I want to share it with you.

A young man, a very careful driver, was approaching a traffic signal as the light was just turning yellow. Carefully, he came to a stop instead of putting the gas pedal to the floor and jumping the red light. A lady behind him was very upset for she was going to run the light and had to come to a sliding stop. Her makeup and cell phone and lunch went to the floor. She was mad and showed her displeasure by holding her horn button in until she saw this safety driver looking and then she "popped  him the bird." You know, that middle finger thing. As she was screaming and yelling, this young police officer walked up to her car and said to her, "Young lady, please put your hands on the steering wheel," and as she did, he put the handcuffs on  her and placed her under arrest. She was placed into the back of his police car and transported to the police station for driving a stolen car. She was held in a cell until a policewoman came and searched her and talked to her. After awhile the young policeman came in and said to her he was sorry he placed her under arrest for driving a stolen car. He said, "I saw the Christian fish emblem on the back of the car, I read the bumper sticker that said, "This driver is 'Born Again," and another that said "This driver is Pro-life" and one other that said "Jesus Saves." The policeman went on to tell the lady that after witnessing how she was acting and seeing the bumper stickers he figured she had stolen the car.

Okay, with that story I want to state this to you. If you are doing all those things that lady was doing, chances are you are not truly "Born Again." While we Christians do get upset from time to time, one thing we must really try to do is live so that others can see Jesus in us. You see, after Jesus died on the cross and was risen from the dead, He spent forty days showing others He indeed was Alive Again. When we give up our old selves and become "Born Again" and we become "Alive Again" in Jesus, then we need to live to prove this to others. Hey folks, I am a brand new person, I am indeed "Alive Again" and I want to tell it to all of you and tell it to the world. I am alive, I am "Born Again," the old me is gone and the new me is here. I am indeed ALIVE AGAIN. Brothers and sisters, I get more excited each day about my love for Jesus, and the move I love Jesus, the move I love everybody else. It is like a package deal. I am telling you, when you come to Christ you will change, you really will. Let's pray.

Dear Father in Heaven, I want to get nearer and nearer to You and love You more and more each day. Help me walk this earth and each day so others may see my love for You and for others just in the way I live my life. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Next week, God willing, my messages will be following Jesus as He goes through those last days here before He died on the cross. Now go forth and share your blessings and your love for Jesus and for others. I love ya. Please pass on my love.

Pastor Dan