It’s been said that sometimes one can find a lot of Truth in humor....I am about to share a little something that I have heard all of my life and I bet that you have too.....Here’s how this thing usually plays out...it happened to me today.....
A friend of mine and myself were playing a friendly round of golf today....we both stink ....we both know it.....we don’t care.....I get a bigger thrill out of razzing my buddy than I do making a hole-in- one ! Well, almost......we hassle each other by stealing each others golf balls or by “ coughing” in the middle of the other guy’s backswing or by “magically” finding a ball in the middle of the fairway that one would have sworn was hit far into the woods.....
Anyway, today, we were both on the putting green and when my buddy turned his back for a second, I kicked my golf ball about five feet closer to the hole......he caught what I had done and said to me jokingly , “ Sam, you’re gonna go to Hell if you don’t change your ways!”
That got me thinking how many times I had heard that phrase uttered in my lifetime ....it is something usually said in jest, but in reality, isn’t that the way that the “ World” views Salvation? The World thinks that we all have to eventually repent before we die ,and that is true, but when they use the word “ repentance” they are thinking this: “Yep, to go to Heaven , you eventually have to settle down, get serious ,abandon anything that is ‘ fun’ and above everything else, make sure that you “ Change Your Ways” and “ Make Yourself WORTHY” of Salvation....
There was a time that I believed that Hog- Wash and I know that many,many of my old friends STILL believe that.....it’s Satan’s BIG LIE and the World has swallowed it hook, line and sinker.....”Turning over a new leaf” and going from an “ immoral” person to a “ moral” person are both very good things—-Unfortunately, they are not things that will get one Saved.....Only by putting one’s total faith in the Shed Blood Of Jesus and His Finished Work Of The Cross to obtain the forgiveness of sin will one find any Salvation.....
A person that “ jokes” about “ You're gonna go to Hell if you don’t change your ways” probably really believes that! I know that I did........Perhaps had I ever heard the True Gospel Of The Grace Of God in my youth , I would have seen through this foolishness a lot sooner.....Lost people are just thoroughly convinced that they have to “DO” something or other to get Saved—- mainly what they believe is “ I got to clean up my act” .....
Sadly, they are hearing about religion that indeed says “DO”......What they are NOT hearing is the True Christianity that says, “ DONE”.......The difference is Heaven or Hell.....People need to hear the Gospel Of 1Cor15:1-4 and realize that the true Gospel is NOT what man does for God ( changing his ways) —— it is what God has done for Man....one must never forget——- it us a Gift—- “Given to those that don’t work for it”
A friend of mine and myself were playing a friendly round of golf today....we both stink ....we both know it.....we don’t care.....I get a bigger thrill out of razzing my buddy than I do making a hole-in- one ! Well, almost......we hassle each other by stealing each others golf balls or by “ coughing” in the middle of the other guy’s backswing or by “magically” finding a ball in the middle of the fairway that one would have sworn was hit far into the woods.....
Anyway, today, we were both on the putting green and when my buddy turned his back for a second, I kicked my golf ball about five feet closer to the hole......he caught what I had done and said to me jokingly , “ Sam, you’re gonna go to Hell if you don’t change your ways!”
That got me thinking how many times I had heard that phrase uttered in my lifetime ....it is something usually said in jest, but in reality, isn’t that the way that the “ World” views Salvation? The World thinks that we all have to eventually repent before we die ,and that is true, but when they use the word “ repentance” they are thinking this: “Yep, to go to Heaven , you eventually have to settle down, get serious ,abandon anything that is ‘ fun’ and above everything else, make sure that you “ Change Your Ways” and “ Make Yourself WORTHY” of Salvation....
There was a time that I believed that Hog- Wash and I know that many,many of my old friends STILL believe that.....it’s Satan’s BIG LIE and the World has swallowed it hook, line and sinker.....”Turning over a new leaf” and going from an “ immoral” person to a “ moral” person are both very good things—-Unfortunately, they are not things that will get one Saved.....Only by putting one’s total faith in the Shed Blood Of Jesus and His Finished Work Of The Cross to obtain the forgiveness of sin will one find any Salvation.....
A person that “ jokes” about “ You're gonna go to Hell if you don’t change your ways” probably really believes that! I know that I did........Perhaps had I ever heard the True Gospel Of The Grace Of God in my youth , I would have seen through this foolishness a lot sooner.....Lost people are just thoroughly convinced that they have to “DO” something or other to get Saved—- mainly what they believe is “ I got to clean up my act” .....
Sadly, they are hearing about religion that indeed says “DO”......What they are NOT hearing is the True Christianity that says, “ DONE”.......The difference is Heaven or Hell.....People need to hear the Gospel Of 1Cor15:1-4 and realize that the true Gospel is NOT what man does for God ( changing his ways) —— it is what God has done for Man....one must never forget——- it us a Gift—- “Given to those that don’t work for it”
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