Pastor John,
Last night Jenny and I went to Cathy’s and watched the move “God’s Not Dead”. I left with the thought, what about repentance? What about being filled with the holy Ghost? In the movie, there is a professor who is teaching his students that God is dead, that He doesn’t exist. Throughout the whole movie, this is his stand. Then we find out he was mad at God because when he was a little boy, his mother died of cancer. He had begged God not to take her, but she died anyway. After his girlfriend left him and his student made his point that God is indeed alive, it looked liked he was having a change of heart when he was hit by a car. This preacher man ran over to him and asked him to accept Jesus so that he could die in peace, and the man said he did accept Jesus and he died.
It was terrible, this horrible lie that people are being fed. Christians are skipping the very thing that Jesus did die for – true repentance to receive the holy Ghost! They are skipping the peace, the joy and the comfort that Jesus suffered to give us. They are being satisfied with a momentary feeling of the Spirit without going on to the main course, the goodness, the meat of life!
It is heartbreaking! I was thinking about how sad all this made me feel, and then I thought how Jesus must feel.
We are so incredibly blessed! The food that you feed us, the wonderful lives that Jesus has given us! To be full, satisfied, content, happy, joyful and to know the comfort of life in Jesus, in the precious truth that He has allowed us to love!
Whew…… It just makes your heart feel like bursting!
Michelle H
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Yes, Michelle, it is heartbreaking to see Christians try to combat the spirits of this world with something else that is of this world. Nothing but the power of God will save anybody. Claiming to believe in Jesus won’t do it. Only Him claiming us, by baptizing us into His family, counts in heaven.
May God help them, and all of us who love Jesus, to humble ourselves completely at his feet, where true peace is.
Pastor John