Necessity Of Jesus Christ

                                                 The Necessity Of Jesus Christ

                                           For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven

                                      against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,

                                who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, (Romans 1:18)

     The recent ruling on gay marriage and the decision of the supreme court to allow it in all 50 states has grieved my soul to its very core. The gay community celebrates over their victory, laughing , playing, dancing, (I couldn't help but picture Israel in the desert who got impatient in the wilderness while Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving God's law) even holding up signs that declare faith and hope. But where is their faith ? What do they put their hope in? In truth this is an enslaving tactic used for thousands of years by the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience.

                                         
                                        Professing to be wise, they became fools

     The evil one likes to counterfeit the attributes of the creator. Whether it's the unholy trinity the devil, the beast, and the false prophet, of the book of Revelation. Or the rainbow flag ( And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth) Or telling you exactly what your itching ears desire. As when Eve in Genesis 3 heard the serpent say, “You surely will not die!  For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God. Knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.

      Nothing has changed. Looks good....is pleasant to the senses...becomes what we desire. There's nothing new under the sun. The mantra of the 60's. Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. Words that cajoled a psychedelic romp through strawberry fields with lucy in the sky with diamonds.

      The promise that sank deeply into our ears and wrapped itself firmly around our hearts to believe anything goes, we are accountable to none except ourselves. No restraints. If it feels good do it. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. And the world satisfies with slogans to attract ….“Have it your way. You desire a break today. I did it my way.”

      Yet God tells us we shall be held accountable for our actions. Nothing is hidden from God's sight. The eyes of the LORD are in every place keeping watch over the evil and the good. And the Lord proclaims that every single human being can tell just from the things of creation that there is a God. All of creation reveals that. But there is a problem. Jesus Himself said people love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. \

      Evil seems like such an archaic word. Relegated to the dust bin of antiquity. Yet our world still recognizes certain acts as evil when they are spattered on TV, smartphones, tablets and computer monitors.

     The atrocities of ISIS, the beheadings graphically revealed, the mass executions in pits dug by its victims, and crucifixions of little children, slashed through. Deep, gaping wounds tearing through their flesh, revealing the torture of their terror.

      Paul wrote, “some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,  speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,” Our nations leaders, it's lawmakers, it's people without God have embraced a theology of feelings. What do you feel in your heart. What this nations people have forgotten is that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Their conscience seared through with the nonsense of political correctness.

      Unlike that exalted queen of talk that says all are God's children, that simply is not the case.

“ you were dead in trespasses and sins,  in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,  among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and WERE BY NATURE CHILDREN OF GOD'S WRATH...”

                                                         
                                                               You Were Dead.

     A rather blunt assessment of the human condition. Without Jesus Christ you are spiritually dead. You can not please God in anything you do. No good you do is seen by God as good. For as the Lord Jesus Christ said, “without me, you can do nothing.” For all our righteous acts are as filthy rags.

     It is only by the grace of God through faith and not of yourselves. It's a gift of God. It's by confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, that you are brought from the present darkness of this evil age and brought into the light of the gospel of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

      It's beating on your chest and crying out to God, “Lord have mercy on me, A sinner.” It's agreeing with God's estimation of your fallen and rebellious condition and crying out to Him for deliverance. .

This is absolutely essential to where you will spend eternity. Heaven or Hell. No second chance after you close your eyes in death.

                    
                         For it is appointed for people to die once, and then the judgement.

  
     And less you like so many Christians believe, that judgement is something that is Old Testament only. Believing God was meaner then. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus.....”the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,  that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.” (John 5:22-23)

                                          
                                    “There is no other way.” (John 14:6;Acts 4:12)

    
 People don't like to hear that. It's so unfair. Really? Truth is God doesn't owe anyone anything. All of us deserve hell, because we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But in love God sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

      It was absolutely necessary that the savior be God's one and only Son. Who is the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person. (Heb. 1) That He would be in very nature, or essense God.( For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead {Diety}bodily; Col 2:9) The Word who was in the beginning with God and was God. The One through whom all things were made. 

                                                Those who trust in their wealth
                                        And boast in the multitude of their riches,
                               None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
                                           Nor give to God a ransom for him—
                             For the redemption of their souls is costly, (Ps. 49:8-9)

      Sin taints all of us from the moment we're born. It's not what one feels in their heart. It's what God says in his Word. That is His standard. His law must be obeyed, perfectly.

Yet no one is perfect. No human being can or is able to obey His law. That is why He sent Jesus into the world. Not to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Saved from the result of mankinds disobedience to the Messiah's perfect obedience. (I have not come to destroy the law and the prophets but to fulfill Matt 5:17)

                                
                                     John Newton, who penned Amazing Grace 

                               , when he had lost his memory in his old age said,    

             “two things I know. I am a great sinner and Jesus Christ is a great savior.”

     The god of this age, who prowls around like a roaring lion, who has blinded the minds of the unbelievers knows his time is short. His goal is to lure the human race through the lust of the eyes, the cravings of sinful man, and the boasting of what we have and do. His goal? To keep as many as he can from the saving knowledge of Jesus  Christ.

      The kingdoms of this world are his for a season. Given to him by God himself because mankind would rather believe a lie “has God said” and “you shall be like God” rather than truth. And if God judged His people Israel, do you think a wicked and rebellious nation as ours has become, will escape His wrath? There comes a time when God finally gives a people (a nation) over to their own evil lusts and desires. To do those things that are not fitting.....(Rom. 1:18-32)

      Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, (effeminate by perversion) nor homosexuals,  nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
                                          But such were some of you.(1 Cor 6:9-11)
                                       That is the only hope that comes through  faith.

                         We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you

                                    not to receive the grace of God in vain.

                             For He says:“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
                                 And in the day of salvation I have helped you.

                   Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.