A Warning Cry! For Christians and especially for those who preach God's Word!
One of the foremost reasons why I
published my two books “Simple Faith” and “Authentic Faith” is that I wanted
them to become a warning cry for Christians and non-Christians alike. Not just
for ordinary men and women like you and me, but more so for those of us who
speak on behalf of God from the church pulpits. Too may time, if not
continually, I hear pastors, preachers and priests confusing the issue of what
the requirement of God’s Salvation is. I hear words like “repentance”, as a requirement, meaning willingness to turn from
sins before coming to Christ. Other times, you hear real good Biblical
messages; how we are to live in accordance to God’s Word. But then at the end
of the sermons you still wonder what the first requirement for this Christian
life is. Preachers will use words like “turn from your sins” and “change your
life-style” to become Christians. There is so much confusion.
First, repentance from sin is something
that follows trusting Jesus as Savior. Secondly, the word “repentance” has the the meaning of changing one’s mind. (Instead of believing that good works saves us, we change
our minds to believe that salvation is a completely free gift of God.) We never
turn from sin in order to become followers of Jesus. Rather, we can only turn
from our sin after we have trusted Jesus Christ as Savior! In order for any
changes to happen we have to start trusting Jesus as Savior and then we can
talk about life changes!
If you are a Pastor and read this,
please use my books to challenge you . And please, please however Biblical
minded you sermons are, be sure to end your service by making the Gospel clear
and give the listener a chance to come to Jesus, by trusting him. After that
message, Gods Holy Spirit will keep on challenging believers to change their
life-styles! Just like He did with you and me By the way, how many of us turned
from our sins when we came to Jesus? And how many did we have to turn from?
"For
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings
salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is
by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by
faith.”
Romans 1: 16, 17
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