Writing the message for Sunday morning.
Text: Romans 13:11-13
Sermon in a Sentence: iCare enough to wake up & live a pure life because time is short.
Confronted with the reality of at least 30 pastors currently involved in affairs.
Saddened. Broken. Humbled.
Awakened. Emboldened. Ready.
I am praying for a breakthrough in our church this Sunday.
I am asking the Lord to make his Bride ready for his glorious appearing.
Jesus is coming back.
Are you ready?
Do you CARE enough to WAKE UP?
Romans 13:11 And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
As one man put it. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
To encounter the Lord is never by accident but to seek with your whole heart, mind, body and soul.
To Him who seeks… shall find… and yet your world as you know it will forever change.
To encounter the Lord (I am not talking of salvation) results in:
1) humbleness before a Mighty God of Glory and Power.
2) In His presence and Glory, no man stands.
3) The fear of the Lord is found. Not fear due to sin but in his awesome Greatness.
4) Such fear is the beginning of wisdom to see things anew, with unveiled eyes.
5) That encounter is not things of mysticism and contemplative prayer but an encounter with God himself. That encounter is not for the feelings of a Damascus road experience but for four things only.
to break the bonds that bind…
to set the captives free…
to prepare the way of the Lord..
and all this for His Glory!
“Oh God, please do not return yet, there are so many who need to fall before you, the King of Glory.”
of the man who cried “woe is me”…
it was ALL about… SEND ME.
Considering that it went to over 7000 in a few days after pentecost and is now around 1 Billion I don’t think he did so bad. People had to learn that what they thought his Church should be was not what it needed to be.