Jesus Christ Saves

Hebrew3:11, During a Sunday morning service in St. Joseph, Missouri, a few years back, I asked the congregation how many of them really want to please God more than anything else. Every hand went up. Then I asked them, “How many of you think God is really pleased with you?” Out of at least 400 people, one 11-year-old boy and one 10-year-old girl raised their hands. That was all. Very few believers actually believe that they are pleasing to God. Most feel some degree of forgiveness and maybe acceptance, but to think that the Lord is actually pleased with us is another matter. A person can choose to love you because of his or her own goodness, but to be pleased with you, they actually have to like your performance. Right? With God, no one could ever be pleasing to Him based on performance. His standard is perfection, and no goodness on our part can ever compensate for our sins. We may please man with our actions, but “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:

How to become holy and pure in the eyes of God I believe we have all seen pictures of starving children from some poverty-stricken areas of the world. It’s sad that people are starving when there is plenty of food in the world to feed them. But I wonder, if God could take a snapshot of your spiritual condition, would you look like those children--spiritually starved for the food for your soul that is in His Word? If so, it is especially sad, because in our church we all own Bibles. Usually what is lacking with a person who is spiritually malnourished is the motivation to feed himself or else some basic principles on how to do it. I hope to motivate you to feed yourself from God’s Word and give a few basic principles to get you going. A man needs to have principles firmly established in Jesus Christ our lord and saviour. As it is written in Jeremiah 6:16 the lord’s ways are the old ways. Going back to the old ways doesn't mean giving up electricity, homes and cars. It mea

Faith the Antidote of Fear Mark 4:40 Influences that shape our lives are like icebergs 10% visible, 90% invisible Faith is believing that what you cannot see will come to pass. On the other hand fear is also believing that what you cannot see will come to pass. The only difference is Faith attracts the positive whilst fear attracts the negative. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, Nameless unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses Need efforts to convert retreat into advance. – Martin Luther A. THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF TWO KINDS OF FEAR 1. There is a fear that is commanded a. This kind of fear involves respect, honor, reverence, and a sense of awe. b. Thus, we are to fear God. 1) Matthew 10:28 2)  Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 3) A man who fears God has nothing else to fear c. This kind of fear leads to: 1) Holiness …  2 Corinthians 7:1 2) Working out our own salvation …  Philippians 2:12 3) Evangelism …  2 Corinthians 5:11 2. However There is a