Wednesday 4/1/15 The Empty Church (3)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. Thanks for watching over us, and thank You for the group Volunteers of America and all they are doing for veterans. Thank You for setting it up that we can work with them. You are wonderful, dear Lord, just wonderful. Thanks for dying for us, thanks for going to the cross for us so that we would  have a path to get into Heaven. Please help me with the messages, and please  help me get my message ready for Friday. Help me then dispatch the messages as needed. Lord, also  help us as we reach out to the lost on this our Salvation Wednesday. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, what great news I bring forth this evening, this on a Salvation Wednesday. Today at noon I opened the dedication service of the very first home rebuilt by the Volunteers of America and to be turned over to a homeless veteran with a family. We also delivered the first of the food going to one of these homes. Today, after many prayers, Dolores and I made a promise before God that Carry The Light Ministries, Inc., and our supporters will be standing with Volunteers of America for all 100 of their homes being rebuilt in Pennsylvania. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE SAY PRAISE THE LORD! Please pray with us for this is a new mission. Being a Christian is all about faith and love and we just refuse to retire from working for God. So your support will be needed and is appreciated. Thanks to those of you who have already told me you would be willing to help with delivery of food. Are we so blessed? YES, WE ARE SO BLESSED!!!

Now let me get to the message, The Empty Church.

Salvation Wednesday: April 1, 2015: The Empty Church (Day Three)

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)

John 19:16 - Finally Pilate handed Him over to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17 Carrying His own cross, He went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, I want to take a look at the cross today, and as we can see in the scriptures above, Jesus is our only way to Heaven, and when He went to the cross for us, He even carried His own cross. Along with His cross He was carrying something else, and the weight of this other thing He was carrying was much heavier than that "Old Rugged Cross." What could be heavier than that old cross? Our sins, brothers and sisters. Now how much does our sins really weight? You tell me. I am sure that in your lifetime you have done things wrong and some of those things weighed very heavy on you. Am I correct? Surely it is not just me that things weighed heavy on me, until I turned them over to Jesus. Jesus carried His own cross, the wooden one, plus the "sins of the world" on His back. Let me write the cross out a tad different today.

C: The C in Cross stands for "Christ," that would be our Lord Jesus Christ who died on the Cross for us.
R: The R in cRoss stands for "Risen," and we know and it is recorded in our Bible and in history that Christ Jesus did die on the cross and He indeed was "risen."
O: The O in crOss stands for "our" for indeed it is Our Lord Jesus who died on the cross for us.
S: The first S in the croSs stands for Savior, for our Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross and is our Savior for doing this for us.
S: The second S in crosS stands for Salvation, for it is through Our Lord Jesus Christ our Savior who gives us this free gift of Salvation.

The Cross is where we must go to get rid of our sins. Will you go to the CROSS with me right now? Can we meet there now? Please!!!

Dear Father, I come to the foot of the cross right now asking to be forgiven of my sins. I give thanks to You, Father, for sending Jesus, Your One and Only Son, to die on the Cross for me, and I also give thanks for You sending the Holy Ghost upon us. In Jesus' Name, I ask to be saved. And according to the scriptures in Romans 10:9/10, I confess my love for you with my mouth and believe it in my heart. Save me, Lord. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth CLEAN and try, please, not to get messed up again, meaning, repent. Share your blessings, please. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Pastor Dan