Sunday, April 8, 2012

Jesus Rose

If Jesus rose, that changes everything. And He did rise. What does that mean for you? Death is fast approaching in spite of all your mischief and mirth. You can sit around wasting your time, or you can make this life count. Just a little smoke rising, a fluttering of a bird's wing, a few revolutions around the sun...and that's it. Your life is gone. Before you know it, Eternity will welcome you...what you believe about Jesus is the difference between all the suffering this world has to offer magnified forever, or the greatest bliss this world has never known. If Jesus rose, that changes everything. And He did rise... what does that mean for you? 
You may be a friend, a family member, an old co-worker... I don't know, but it doesn't really matter if you say you believe in Jesus... The demons believe in Jesus and they too will perish in Hell. Is He your Lord, do you love Him? Do you obey Him? Do you yearn for Him? Do you love others...even the ones who hate you? Are you living for yourself...or are you submitted to the Lord Jesus Christ? I don't care if you "know" God...do you obey Him? Jesus Christ died on a cross 2000 years ago for a group of people. Sometimes they're referred to as the Bride, sometimes the Church. Are you apart of His church? Are you apart of the Bride of Christ. Did He die for you? If He did, He has shown you the greatest love any husband could ever show his bride. Are you living in His love? Are you loving Him back...or are you a harlot? Come onnn... enough with that "God has done so much for me" stuff. Jesus came to save the Lost, Jesus came to give rest to the weary, Jesus came to forgive sinners. Are you a sinner in need of forgiveness? Are you tired of living your weary sin-soaked life? Jesus came to set the captives free. Jesus said "I am the Way the Truth and the Life, no one can come to the Father except through Me." Jesus said "I am the bread of Life." Indeed man can't live on bread alone. Are you eating Him? Are you forgiven by Him? Where is the evidence of your forgiveness? Do you hate your sin... By golly, do you hate your sin? If you don't have a new relationship with sin... then I presume... you do not know Jesus, and you do not know God.