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STORY: Island of Lost Sailors

Every time a bad storm went by, sailors would be found washed up on the beach of this island sometimes dead, sometimes still alive.

The local islanders decided to build a rescue station on the beach and when there were storms at sea, they would each take turns manning the station. The governor heard of this endeavor of the islanders. He saw this as a good thing for his hope to get re-elected, so he contributed to the building funds and also donated a small generator to help power the place.

With the government’s help it was not long before there was a full size, fully equipped rescue station operating on this island.

The people enjoyed coming to the rescue station. They couldn’t wait for a storm, just so they could go out and look for sailors who got caught in the storms.

Soon someone voted to make meeting at the rescue station a weekly event. What better choice as it had everything, running water, electric Power, etc.

Before long, the people found themselves meeting two, and sometime 3 times a week at the station.

Now and then, a storm would blow in, and a lonely sailor would wash-up on the beach and find his way to the station, only to find the local island people busy. By some chance of luck, he may get someone’s attention.

Daily the island people met at the station, it was where you could hear the latest news and get latest reports on what was going on through the islands.

Before long, someone wondered, why hadn’t they built the meeting hall in the middle of town instead of so close to the beach?

It is so very easy to loose site of why we are here today….

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Do you remember Peter Marshall, the famous Scottish preacher and chaplain?
As a boy he worked one summer in an English village of Bamburgh, 16 miles from the border of Scotland.
One very dark night he had to walk home and decided to take a shortcut. He knew there was a deep, deserted limestone quarry in the area, but he thought he could avoid the danger.
The night was dark, there were no stars. It was black as the inside of an ink bottle.
He had walked slowly for some time when he suddenly heard someone call: “Peter” in an urgent tone.
He stopped and all he could hear was the wind. He called out, “Who is there?” There was no answer.
He thought he was mistaken and walked on a few steps and then he heard that voice again, even more urgently: “PETER!” This time he stopped dead still and tried to peer into the impenetrable darkness.
He stepped forward and fell over something and reached out to catch himself but there was nothing there! He groped around to the left and to the right. Then he realized that he was right on the edge of the quarry, one more step and he would have fallen to his death! There was nothing there.
He was right on the edge of death. He was saved, but just barely in the nick of time.
Peter never forgot that voice his whole life. He always listened to that voice through the rest of his life. God had warned him and he shuttered that he almost did not listen.
Has something like that ever happened to you? Has God ever said to you, “there is a time when you need to wake up.
Has some sign happened to you that you didn’t listen to?
How many times will God warn us?
How many times will we not listen?
God is capable of saving us to the uttermost if we will just respond to Him. Don’t put off responding to God, to listening to God.
It is dangerous to put off responding to the leading of God. The road to spiritual loss is usually greased with the slime of indifference and neglect.

Sometimes I feel that we walk in darkness in our Christian experience. We all like to feel that we are safe because of what we believe, but how do you know it is the truth?

After all, everyone today believes that only their Church is the true Church and that they are living and teaching the truth.

What makes a church a church? What makes your church different from any other?

If someone asks you: Are you saved? What would you tell them?
What if they ask you: Are you a Christian? What would you say?

You can be 99% saved and 1% lost and guess what, you are still LOST…

Church is a body of believers, no one part is better then the others, and that is what makes Christianity different from all other religions.

It is the belief in the power of one Man’s life that will transform others. Lifting them up and giving them the power to go and tell others about God.
We call this word “Gospel.”

But what is it about “this Gospel” that makes it so much different from the many other world religions?

Do you know what the Gospel of Jesus is?
Do you know what truth is?
Can you tell a fake from the real thing?

In the world we live in; there are two Gospels and only two.
No matter what religion or faith you keep, you are either one or the other.

1. The Gospel of Truth.
2. The other is the gospel of lies!

The Gospel of truth is that which God himself has given unto mankind.
The gospel of lies is also God’s Word, but turned around by Satan’s lies.

Look at Genesis 3:1″Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Very true what the serpent said is it not; God did say that our first parent could eat of every tree of the Garden.

2: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Notice how the serpent applied his tactfulness. He is not denying the fact he is clearly stating something that was already known. He has the woman off guard now, being that he is quoting the same thing that God had told them.

3: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Now, the woman goes on to repeat the rest of what God had told them. That in the day they eat or even touch this fruit, they would die.

Now notice, there was nothing in the fruit that would cause death. This tree was like all other trees God had made, the only different was God said not to eat the fruit off the one tree.

4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Here is the first and biggest lie ever told in our world by Lucifer!

5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Satan again, puts doubt into the mind as to what God’s true propose is! He has taken the truth that God has given, but turned it into just the opposite.

And it is no different in our world today, the same lies told 6,000 years ago are still at the corner stone of the very popular religions in our world today.

97% of all world religions today teach that when you die you don’t really die. They teach that you get transferred to some other place or transformed into something else.

It is only true Christians who study the word of God that have a clear understanding of what God said. That when you die you do just that, you die!

Genesis: 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

So what is death?

Death is the opposite of life.

Before you were born, did you know anything? NO

Why

Because you were dead, you did not exist, you were not born yet.

You are a living soul because of two things.
1. You have the dust of the ground
2. You have been giving the breath of the living God, and so you became a living Sole.
1+1 always equals = 2

Remove one; and what do you have “you have, death”, because God said in Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:17 . . . for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Come, let’s turn to the book of Galatians and see what problems Paul was having in his days.

How old was the Church then, not quite 50 years.

Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Paul left to go on a mission trip, no sooner is he gone, then other men came in preaching something a little different. Just like in the Garden of Eden, not much different, just enough.

What does Paul tell them? I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Paul goes on to say, not that it is another gospel, but the words are distorted. Meaning something different from what God told Paul and the other disciples to preach.

8: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Paul knows that Satan will stop at nothing to pervert the Word of God, so he makes it very clean that even if an angel comes and starts to preach something different, don’t believe it.

We as Christians, have only one way of knowing Truth, and that is by knowing God’s Word!

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Read it! Live it! Believe it!

We know that in the last days Satan will try an impersonate Jesus Christ and deceive the whole world. Why? Because of people who will not study to find the truth, they went with only what they heard from preachers!

Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

There is only one Gospel my friend, and that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, anything else that deviates from that, even one millionth of inch, is not the Truth.

10: For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11: But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

12: For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I have always said this one thing, don’t believe a word I say, study for yourself, search the scriptures, for only in them will you find the truth.

Understand what Jesus is telling you. You might say, “how I can do this; I can’t understand what the Bible is saying.”

Understanding will come through prayer and giving God your time.

Ephesians 6:10 Paul said, Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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Truth has never been popular

But truth has always been the truth.

When you are surrounded by the enemy, don’t fear, Jesus is right there with you…

Sometimes, we in Church forget the reason we are here. It is not about pot luck or fellowship, it is about how to bring the message of Jesus to a fallen world; How to bring those who have been washed-up on the shore of sin into Gods heavenly kingdom.

Just like the story of the island people, before long no one remembers why the building was even built on the beach.

The same thing was happening to the Church in Thessalonians.

2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2: That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5: Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6: And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7: For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8: And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10: And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

Why are there so many different religions in our world today?

One of the main reasons is because of Burger King. That’s right, everyone wanted to have it their way!

We are a society of having everything fast.

Fast life, fast food, fast cars, fast family, and fast religion.

I am amazed by some of what we here in the U.S.A. call, ‘Church.’

It has very little to do with worshiping God, it is more to do with pleasing oneself.

I looked on the internet the other night and this one Church was advertizing itself.

Showing pictures of the Church basketball court, weightlifting room, swimming pools.

We have a lot to offer, the ad said, and yes, we even take our tithes and offerings by e-mail.

Well that’s great, but what about going to Church to find Jesus, have they gotten so big, the main reason they go to Church is no longer necessary?

What does Jesus say is going to happen?

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Remember The ten virgins?
Five went into the wedding and 5 were left out.

Why was this? Why was only half of them ready when the Lord came?

What does a ‘woman’ represent in bible prophecy? “A Church.”

So this is not the world we are talking about here, this is God’s people, the Church.

Half of them will be ready and the other half will not.

So what is the difference? The difference will be in what they teach at the end time. We live in a time of grace because the Gospel has not been given to all the world yet.

But the time is coming when the Spirit of God will convict all, rich and poor, small or great..

Everyone will have the same opportunity to know and believe, or to reject the truth!

Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7: Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Praise God and our Lord Jesus for rescuing all who have washed up on the beaches of this world of sin, by just putting their faith in Him.

God Bless and be with you all.