...We are here to proclaim the Gospel -- that God offers the gift of eternal life freely to all who will repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. ...
Some some Pastors are so focused on "
Proclaiming The Gospel" they forget THEIR OWN FAMILY, and Scripture tells us they are WORSE THAN AN INFIDEL. So how about US? We're told to LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS AS OUR SELF, and so We
Must Love
Our Self as part of that equation.
Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes:
Ecclesiastes 8: 15 And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.
... because Solomon recognized that life is a MISERABLE place if we don't enjoy some part of it; and GOD gave us ONE DAY A WEEK to rest
so that we can enjoy the Blessings HE Bestows.
Consider where GOD intended for us to have LIFE, and LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY, but some long for DEATH. Some assert that when BRIGHT LIGHTS flash above our cities, they will "
walk toward the lights" rather than face the challenges of LIVING. But NOAH didn't long to drown, and we shouldn't long for radiation to kill us. -- We can't FORCE sinners to get saved, we can only reach out to them. So if they choose to accept the Mark of the Beast, then they will receive their "reward". BUT THE CHURCH WILL SURVIVE either through
Martyrdom or by
Endurance:
Rev. 20:4 ... Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev. 13:10 ... Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Rev. 14:12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
And there are Eeyors in life who like the attention of their self induced deprivations, -- but I ain't one of them.
Bobby Jo
