WHAT YOU HAVE IS WHAT YOU CAN GIVE, AND WHAT YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU CAN TEACH OTHERS.
CHRIST ROYAL AMBASSADORS:
A SOLID FOUNDATION OF A GOOD FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN STARTS WITH GOOD PARENTING.
PARENTS WHO ARE CONVERSANT WITH THE HOLY SCRIPTURE WILL BE DEEPLY ROOTED IN CHRIST.
WHAT YOU HAVE IS WHAT YOU CAN GIVE, AND WHAT YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU CAN TEACH OTHERS.
PROVERBS 22: 6 “TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO, [IN THE WAY OF THE LORD] AND WHEN HE IS OLD HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.”
A CHILD THAT IS WELL TRAINED IN THE WAY OF THE LORD WILL GROW UP TO BE GOD FEARING AND A GOOD PARENT.
IN TODAYS CHRISTIANITY THE FEAR OF GOD HAS BEEN THROWN OUT OF THE WINDOW AND THE WILL OF THE FLESH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO PREVAIL.
THIS IS DISHEARTENING. [LUKE, 18: 8]
AS WE’VE CELEBRATED THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF CHRIST INTO JERUSALEM, HAS CHRIST BEEN ALLOWED INTO OUR OWN HEART?” [REVELATIONS, 3: 20]
WE MAY BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, BUT DO WE BELIEVE THAT HE DIED FOR US AS AN INDIVIDUAL?
IF PERHAPS YOU BELIEVE JESUS DIED FOR YOU ON THE CROSS, ARE YOU TRUSTING IN THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS?
IF NOT, YOU ARE STILL IN THE BONDAGE OF SATAN, AND YOUR MERE BELIEF THAT HE DIED FOR YOU ON THE CROSS WILL NOT EARN YOU THE GRACE OF ETERNAL SALVATION.
YOU SHOULD COMPARE YOURSELF TO BE AS ONE OF THE FIVE FOOLISH VIRGINS.
BY NEXT SUNDAY WE’LL BE CELEBRATING HIS RESURRECTION AND THE CHURCH WILL BE FILLED UP WITH CEREMONIAL WORSHIPPERS WHO ONLY WORSHIP GOD ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
IN CONCLUSION: IF YOU ARE NOT TRUSTING IN THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS AND YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WASHED IN THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE LAMB OF GOD, THEN HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION MEAN NOTHING TO YOUR SALVATION? BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT BE RAPTURED.
[JOHN 8, 23-28]