This video captures everything that made me realize that the "Christian life" I had led previously was a lie. This realization through Matthew 7 was the true beginning of my walk with Christ. I sadly realized that just because I prayed a prayer in middle school, it did not mean that I was saved from punishment for my wickedness. The verses in Matthew 7 that state "Many will say to me on that day and say "Lord, Lord" did we not do x, y, and z in your name" and then Jesus will say plainly to them "Away from me. I never knew you" (Matthew 7:22-23). Those verses gave me one of the biggest shockers of my life! I had somehow deluded myself into believing that I could be like the world and be with Christ too. Yet the truth is that one cannot serve two masters. You either hate one or serve the other (Matthew 6:24). So when the revelation hit that I was on the wide path to destruction, I repented before God to pursue the Narrow Gate - to pursue Him and His righteous. Seek first His Kingdom and his righteousness and all will be added unto you! (Matthew 6:33). Amen.
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I highly recommend this sermon! It truly hits the nail on the head of the issue of indifference & the lukewarm attitude within the American Church today and how risky it is.
The Focus in Scripture: Matthew 19:16-26, Luke 19:1-10, Revelation 3:14-22 Additional Supporting Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 8:19-22, Matthew 16:24-28, Matthew 25:31-46 Dearest Dave, I went to church today & my pastor's words rang clear & true to what I've been trying to say. After hearing his message, I feel more encouraged to speak to you truthfully.
The Holy Spirit is really convicting me to say this to you. I think that after this message, I've said enough. I will say no more & I will just listen to how you respond to my statements. This will be my last appeal because in scripture, it says not to argue too much and I would like to obey that. I do not agree that salvation consists of willful sin. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that salvation frees you to sin as you please or that Christ died to let you sin without fear of Judgement. It says quite the opposite. Beware of false teachers who preach this sort of Gospel! (2 Peter 2:1-22) So please consider this, if not anything else I've said. Christ bought us with his blood, yes? Before he came into our lives, we were sinners, we were wolves with no righteousness in our hearts whatsoever (Romans 8:7-8, Romans 3:10-18). All you have to do is look at the world around us to truly appreciate my statement. America has left God behind & I think as scripture says, He has left Americans to fulfill their evil lusts. Romans 1:24 For this reason God allowed their lusts to control them. Romans 1:26 For this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Romans 1:28 And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. **Take for example, the Catholic priests who one after another have molested young boys. It's despicable, and it’s really sad. But I believe that that this is a judgment from God. In the past, God protected priests from their wicked hearts, as he protects us, and he kept them from sinning so gravely, however, today, God has let them go to fill their shameful lusts. **One Old Testament example is Exodus 9:12 of how God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Do you remember that story? God hardened his heart so that He would receive glory. He does everything for his Glory of course. Romans 9:9-16 He did that so that the Egyptians would know that the God of Israel is not a god to be messed with. He meant business, so he hardened Pharaoh's heart so that Moses would go to him day after day and plagues would hit Egypt day after day. So we know that God can to this and has done this before. Luke 14:25-33 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. Topics of the sermon include:
*Hypocrisy & carnal Christianity, *Wolves in sheep's clothing, false prophets, *The narrow gate into Heaven & judgement day *How do you know you are saved? *Repentance Scripture from the Sermon is Matthew 7:13-27 ”Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning. He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service….only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him. He asked people for change to buy food….NO ONE in the church gave him change. He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit n the back. He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him. As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such. When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation……..” Main Points of the Sermon
Repentance is turning to God with a complete change in the way a person thinks and acts. It isn’t just asking for forgiveness and then doing the same thing again. Matthew 3:2, Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:5 , All these verses call for repentance for “the kingdom of Heaven is near” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. You must repent to have a chance at heaven. Have you really repented? Are you living the life Christ called us to live... |
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