CHRIST DEARLY BELOVED: TIME IS NO LONGER ON OUR SIDE AS THE DAY GOES BY. THEREFORE NO TIME TO WASTE ON OUR JOURNEY TO ETERNITY WITH CHRIST. WE ARE TO TAKE A SERIOUS LOOK AT OURSELVES AND THE WAY AND MANNER IN WHICH WE CONDUCT OURSELVES IN PUBLIC AS CHRIST FOLLOWERS. ARE WE DOING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED OF US BY GOD OUR FATHER, OR ARE WE TRYING TO PLEASE THOSE IN AUTHORITY THAT ARE NOT OF GOD? EXODUS, 23:-2 “THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL, NEITHER SHALT THOU SPEAK IN A CAUSE TO DECLINE AFTER MANY TO WREST JUDGEMENT.” ARE YOU WORSHIPING THE TRUE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB OR A DENOMINATION LOYALIST? DON’T BE DECEIVED, THERE IS NO DENOMINATION OF ANY KIND IN HEAVEN. IT ALL ENDS IN THE CEMETERY. IF YOUR LOYALTY IS FOR DENOMINATION AND NOT FOR JESUS CHRIST, YOU ARE DOOMED. YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED WHEN YOU ARE FACED WITH THE FACT THAT, ALL THAT YOU’VE BEEN HOLDING TIGHT UNTO ALL YOUR LIFE, IS A MERE DENOMINATIONAL SLOGANS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR SALVATION. WE ARE TO CHOOSE, AND CHOOSE RIGHT. WE ARE TO CHOOSE SALVATION AND NOT DENOMINATION. JEREMIAH, 6:-16 “THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS, “STAND AT THE CROSSROADS AND LOOK; ASK FOR THE ANCIENT PATHS, ASK WHERE THE GOOD WAY IS, AND WALK IN IT, AND YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.” IN CONCLUSION: OUR INDIVIDUAL DENOMINATION IS WHAT SATAN IS USING TO BLINDFOLD US THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO FOCUS ON CHRIST THE AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND HIS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD. (HEBREWS, 12:-2)