If I had one sermon to preach, it would be on the love of God. There isn't a conflict in the world today that couldn't be resolved by love. This word could free us from war, racism, and poverty. Injustice, ignorance, prejudice, tyranny, oppression, exploitation: all these things- love. The Bible says God is love.
And if you don’t remember a thing that I say today, remember this, “God loves you.” God loves you the way a parent loves a child. He wants to have a relationship with you.
Let me ask you a question: What do you believe? What controls you? Today, we live in a world of scores of religions and worldviews, where persuasion has become a force in the hands of leaders, celebrities, and politicians. Where does one turn?
I came to a point in my early life where I had to make a choice to follow God because the ideas that were circulating and the people I looked up to seemed to have all the answers, but were they asking the right questions? Was the Bible Truth? Was it going to fail me? Was it going to change me? And as I read this Book, I accepted it to be the very blood and body of Christ.
At Christmas, so many problems distract us from the reason of the season: disease, family concerns, boredom, feeling rejected, moral issues... We ask, “Why does God allow pain? If God loved us, why doesn’t He come and end it all?”
The Bible teaches that we have a mind and a body, but they contain a disease- sin, and by our sinful nature, we have all fallen short of a holy God.
The Bible says, "The wages of sin is death." Woody Allen commented, “I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” But in the life of everyone who lives, there will come a time when life will cease to exist. Everyone who has turned with the pages of history has become history.
We have no eternal hope, but in Christ, we have hope. Jesus came and took the punishment for our sin, the sins of the whole world. Christ shed his blood to pay the price for your salvation.
What must we do? Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved." Recieve Jesus today as your Lord and Savior.
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