LIFE TRUMPETER'S HOME

Thank you Lord for all you are to, and all you've done for me. I will ever be grateful to you for your great love that sent your only Son to this world of sin to save a wretched sinner like me. His death has certainly brought light and life to a hitherto hopeless and hapless world, which has been a pawn in Satan's chessboard. Any one who seizes the privilege the gospel presents will forever be grateful in heaven. On the contrary whoever will spawn the opportunity will suffer eternal regrets in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.

Friend why not take this time to think of what tomorrow will be. Probably it will never meet you here on this side of eternity. Where else can it meet you. Well, either of those two places you've always heard about; hell or heaven. Both are real and you will certainly be in either, depending on what you do with the son of God -- Jesus Christ -- and your life today.

Sin is the great dividing factor which determines who goes to hell and who enters heaven. But be sure, no sinner will ever make it to heaven; no, not even the most moral of them. The truth is that, God is angry with the sinner every day: as such it will practically be impossible for God to allow them into his abode. There are a number of reasons for this mortal hatred God has for sin. But the most obvious of this include:

Sin came as the first great separator, introduced by Satan, which drove a wedge between man and his Creator; consequently, anybody who continues in sin after the death of the Saviour is regarded as a deliberate rebel against God and an avowed servant of Satan;
Since Jesus Christ has been sent to the world as the greatest demonstration of God's love to His creation, to continue in sin is a deliberate spawn of God's love:
The privilege provided by the widespread preaching of the gospel all over the world has presented all and sundry the opportunity to choose between God and Satan, between good and evil and between love and hate. Continuing in sin, therefore, is a way of trying the patience of God and thereby daring the Creator's wrath.

You can imaging how it feels when you give instruction to your ward with the best of affection you can possibly give, to the point of hurting yourself in the process; but, all-the-same, the ward, on whom you are about killing yourself just spawn your efforts and began to mock you. You would not be happy at him, would you? Certainly not. God has given you the best he could afford -- His only Son (Romans 5:6-8; John 3:16) He hurt Him and Himself by allowing him to carry your punishment -- die in your place (because justice demands that you must die for the sin, evil and wickedness that you've been involved in) so that you can escape the heavy punishment in hell. Yes, he did that so that you can come back to Him and be His again.

Friend you can't continue the way you are going, you cannot go on in sin because the consequence will be too terrible for you. No you will not dare stand before the just God whose love you've continuously spawned. No! You dare not hope for it, do not even allow the thought ever cross your mind.

What is sin? You may be asking. In the simplest sense sin can be said to be anything you do that hurts the feeling of others, be it man or God. You remember the golden rule? "Do to others as you'll have them do to you". But taking further, sin includes all you do to hurt yourself. Why? Because, when you hurt yourself you are actually hurting God; you know He created you in His own image and after His likeness. When you do anything to hurt yourself, therefore, you are in essence disfiguring the image and the likeness of God. The same thing happens each time you do something to hurt fellow man; you hurt God. Remember, however, that God is angry with the sinner every day. It does not really matter what the religious belief of the sinner is; Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, etc. Neither does his position in society or place of worship of any importance. A sinner is a sinner. Before God we are all equal. You may be a fornicator, an adulterer, a thief, a murderer, a backbiter, you practice witchcraft or sorcery, or you are a liar or are worshipping other gods -- money, beauty, men, women, talents, etc. God is daily angry with you.

Yet, He would not want you to forever be hated by Him. He wants a reconciliation, a peaceful resolution with you in which a loving relationship can grow between you. This is why he sought for a neutral mediator to stand between the sinner and Himself. No one could be so qualified except one who knows what it takes to be God and how it feels to be a man. This was why it was needful that Jesus Christ who have been with God from the beginning to come and put on the form of a man in order to taste the pain and the weakness as well as the frailty and the emotion of man . He was also to show by example how man should live in order to please his Maker. He came to do this without sinning . It was by this that He qualified as the mediator between a sinful man and His creator.

Not only this, his vicarious death on the cross paid the ransom that was necessary to redeem man from the slave-room of Satan and free him from the terrible consequences of sin. By now you should have begin to understand why you should have no mercy should you scorn the love and grace of God.

More than this, God has been patient with you till now so that you can have the opportunity to repent and turn to Him.

The question is how do you turn to God? First, all you need is faith in God. Accept the fact that God loves you, although He would have been just to condemn you, but that His love has compelled Him to plan for your redemption. Second, you must accept the fact that you are a sinner, not just by the life you've been living till now, but also by the fact of your nature and that you deserve nothing but condemnation. You should have a genuine desire to turn from your present lifestyle; that if you continue in your present ways you will end up facing the just anger of God which will mean an everlasting punishment in hell. Third, you should also accept the fact that you are helpless against sin and Satan if left to yourself because you are a servant to him -- you need a saviour, a deliverer. Again you must accept that God sent Jesus Chist to this world both as a propritiation for your sins and your deliverer from slave-hold of sin and Satan. Finally, you must pray for the forgiveness of your sins and ask Jesus to come and be your Saviour and Lord so that your life can have a redirection by him, believing that it will be as you asked.

If you do this sincerely, you will see definite changes in your life.

 

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