Salvation Wednesday 4/6/16 The Thief

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for helping us yesterday and we would appreciate help in all we do today. I want to walk each step of life with You, Lord. Please, Lord, give us all wisdom as we plan for a new president. Lord, lay upon our hearts which person will most likely work with You. Open to us which one has the most values of loving You. Help us to have a new president who puts value on life, life of the unborn child, life of the baby whose home is in the womb of a woman. Lord God, I pray for the message today and that you would open my mind to write it the way You want it done and then to open computers to dispatch the message and for it also to be received and then open minds and hearts of the readers. Thanks, Lord, all  honor and glory to You for the message as I give thanks and pray in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

Hello, brothers and sisters. Today it feels more like North Pole Alaska here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. I have made God a promise that if He gets me through the cold I will not complain about the heat. Today I want to talk to you about just how fast in life things can change. So let me get to the message of today.

Salvation Wednesday: April 6, 2016: The Thief

1 Thessalonians 5:1/2 Now brothers; about times and dates we do not need to write for you 2 for you know very well that the day of The Lord will come like a thief in the night. (NIV)

Recently there have been some very heavy storms with high winds. I do not know which state this happened in, but please picture this. You are driving your big SUV and it is a big one called BMW. You are driving along in this storm talking to the one with you when a tree falls and comes right across the roof above the driver's and front passenger seat and kills you and your passenger. That tree came like a "Thief in the Night." In today's obituaries a 27-year old man "passed away suddenly in the early morning of April 3rd after a traffic accident." A few years back a lady was sitting in her car in traffic and traffic was stopped under a bridge. BANG, a beam of the bridge fell onto her car and she died instantly.

Brothers and sisters, I don't know if they went to heaven or to hell, for I did not know their hearts or if they were "Born Again" and I also am not the judge, Jesus is! However, with examples like this, we all know we need to be ready. Our Lord Jesus, when He returns, is coming back like a thief in the night. You are NOT going to get this warning, "ready or not, here I come." No, we had that warning when we played "hide and go seek" when we were kids. We have had many warnings already, if you go to church, you should have heard these warnings from your pastor. One of two things might have happened if you did not hear it in church. Either you were sleeping or your preacher isn't preaching it.  I did hear once about the ambulance crew who responded to a man who had passed out in church. They carried out five men before they got the one who had passed out. (The others were sleeping.) Recently in Lancaster, PA, a thief had been entering homes during the night while people were asleep and snatching up money, credit cards, drugs, and even a television set.

Well, Jesus is the one coming "LIKE a thief in the night" and I asked you do you want to go with Jesus on that first call? The Bible tells us it will be lightning fast, and the graves will open and the dead in Christ will rise first along with the seas also giving up those who were dead in Christ. Then the living will be called!! Not all will go, only those who are saved!!! Are you saved? Are you sure? Have you invited Jesus into your heart and life? Welcomed Him through the power of the Holy Ghost?

Please, today, please take time to read John 3:16, Matthew 9:13, Romans 5:8, and then Romans 10:9/10 and then pray to the Father through His Son Jesus to be saved. You can do this. If you are struggling with it, call me. Use my cell phone, 991 0754, and I will do my best to guide you to Jesus.

Now go forth loving Jesus and sharing His Word with others. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD (Frances Townsend & Alfred B. Smith)

For God so loved the world He gave His only Son
To die on Calvary's tree, from sin to set me free.
Someday He's coming back; what glory that will be!
Wonderful His love to me!

For God so loved the world He gave His only Son
To die on Calvary's tree, from sin to set me free.
Someday He's coming back; what glory that will be!
Wonderful His love to me!

(repeat as often as you want)