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Saturday June 05, 2004 04:48:46 PM -0400
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GOD’S PRESERVATION FOR HIS PEOPLE: SHOWN HERE A PARALLEL OF DANIEL IN THE LION’S DEN. Again we see Daniel’s friends SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO IN THE BURNING FURNACE- GOD’S PROTECTION FOR HIS PEOPLE IS SEEN HERE AND WILL AGAIN BE DURING THOSE TIMES – A REMNANT WILL BE PRESERVED. AGAIN A PARALLEL NEBUCHADNEZZAR RAISING THE GOLDEN IDOL AND REQUIRING THE PEOPLE TO BOW DOWN TO IT, THIS PARALLELS THE ANTICHRIST WHO WILL REQUIRE ALL TO BOW TO THE IMAGE WHICH HE WILL SET UP IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM DURING THE 7 YEAR PERIOD OF THE TRIBULATION. SIMILARITY WITH THE FIERY TRIBULATION PERIOD, BUT GOD WILL PRESERVE A REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE ARE REALLY LIVING IN THE TIME THE BIBLE CALL THE END OF THE AGES, THE TIME SHORTLY BEFORE THE MESSIAH RETURNS TO EARTH? IS IT LIKELY THAT YOU ARE READY TO MEET HIM, OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU ARE NOT READY TO MEET HIM. IF NOT, PLEASE , IT’S SO SIMPLE, YOU MUST FIRST RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOUR OWN, IT EITHER BELONGS TO THE LORD OR IT BELONGS TO THE ADVERSARY THE DEVIL, BUT IT BELONGS TO SOMEONE. YOUR ALLEGIANCE IS TO SOMEONE, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE THAT OR NOT. SO NOW THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT FACT, LETS MOVE FORWARD, YOU MUST THEN REALIZE THAT YOU ARE UNFIT TO MEET GOD BECAUSE HE SAID IN HIS WORD NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THOUGH HIS SON. HIS SON IS SINLESS, HE DIED SO THAT WE MIGHT NOT HAVE TO DIE AN ETERNAL DEATH, HE DIED IN OUR PLACE. THE BIBLE SAYS ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF GOD’S GLORY. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE YOU HAVE EVER SINNED IN YOUR LIFE, THEN I GUESS YOU DON’T NEED GOD, BUT IF HE SAID ALL HAVE SINNED, AND IF HE IS GOD HE CANNOT LIE. 1ST JOHN 1 verse 8, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” Throwing something in the air and not believing it will fall to the ground won’t make any difference. It doesn’t matter that you don’t believe it will fall, GRAVITY EXISTS whether you believe it or not! NOW RECOGNIZING THAT YOU ARE A SINNER IN GOD’S EYES, YOU NEED A SAVIOR, THIS SAVIOR IS JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S ONLY SON. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD SO LOVED YOU THAT HE SENT HIS ONLY SON (JESUS) TO DIE FOR YOU ( to take your place) AND IF YOU BELIEVE IN HIM, YOU WOULD NEVER PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. 1st Peter 2 verse 24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness”. MEANING THAT JESUS DIED FOR YOUR SINS, INSTEAD OF YOU DYING FOR YOUR OWN SINS ( which is what you really deserve Romans 6 verse 23 “ For the wages of sin is death”) INSTEAD OF DYING ONE DAY IN YOUR SINS, AND BEING SEPARATED FROM GOD FOREVER JESUS TOOK YOUR PLACE AND DIED FOR YOU SO THAT YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE TO BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. ALL YOU NOW NEED TO DO IS TO TELL GOD YOU ARE SORRY FOR YOUR SINS , ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOU, ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR, AND ASK HIM TO COME INTO YOUR HEART AND HAVE HIS SPIRIT LIVE WITHIN YOU. AS YOU TURN FROM YOUR SIN, JESUS SPIRIT WITHIN EMPOWERS YOU TO LIVE A LIFE THAT IS PLEASING TO GOD. Please understand IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO THIS BY YOURSELF SIN IS SIN, WHETHER IT’S (a big sin like) MURDER, OR WHETHER IT IS (little sin like LYING, OR ENVY. SIN IS SIN IN GOD’S EYES. GOD CANNOT FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU WITHOUT THE ACCEPTANCE OF HIS SON, whose blood washes away your sins, or whose blood covers your sins. IT IS NOT BY DOING GOOD WORKS ( Ephesians 2 verse 8 –9 “ For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourself, it is a gift from God, not by works so that no one can boast.”) THAT WE BECOME ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, IT IS ONLY BY ACCEPTING HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST WHO BECAME A LIVING SACRIFICE FOR US. Acts 4 verse 12: Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” HE IS THE ONE, AND ONLY, WAY TO SALVATION. Joshua 12 verse 15 “ BUT IF SERVING THE LORD SEEMS UNDESIRABLE TO YOU CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE”
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