Verse of Hope

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Too Righteous?

The chief priests and levites embraced the commandments and upheld the law of them. These scholars knew what the prophets had told about the Messiah and wrote about the coming Messiah. They should have been the ones that were reverencing Jesus, but they didn't. Instead of edifying Jesus Christ and acknowledging him as the Son of Gan, they encouraged and inspired the crowd to have Jesus crucified. They were among the  people telling Jesus to save himself and prove he was the Son of God.
 This is shared in Matthew 27:41-43
The leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders also mocked Jesus.  “He saved others,” they scoffed, “but he can’t save himself! So he is the King of Israel, is he? Let him come down from the cross right now, and we will believe in him!  He trusted God, so let God rescue him now if he wants him! For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

This group was too self righteous, too holy, too educated, and proper to agree with the Word of God.

What about you? are you too educated or holy to follow Jesus Christ? Are you too self righteous that only what you believe matters? The living Word tells us that there will be a day we are separated from the Lord. It tells us this in 2 Thessalonians 1: 7-10
And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power. 10 When he comes on that day, he will receive glory from his holy people—praise from all who believe. And this includes you, for you believed what we told you about him.

It is your choice, but I want you in heaven with me and with others you know who believe in Jesus Christ. I pray you will let the wall down and accept the Good News.
He came down from heaven, first as a baby born of a virgin, grew to be a man telling the world of God's plan for his death on the cross for your sins, he rose again on the third day and descended into heaven. No one can come to the Father accept through the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Call on His name today, won't you.  Tell him you're sorry for your wrong choices and ask him to come into your life and reign forever more.  Let the healing begin here and now.
You don't have to carry your burdens anymore. Nothing you have done, he doesn't already know about.
He loves you inspite of yourself.

So do I.

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