The BIGGEST Lie

The BIGGEST lie in this world today...

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"You are a good person."



Truth is...we're not.
Romans 3:9-10 "What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one." (HCSB)

The world is trying to sell you this lie that everyone can find peace through a "good" life, when reality is, they're dying in their sin.
Isaiah 64:6 says, "All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted (filthy) garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind." (HCSB)

When we attend a funeral for a person we know never accepted Christ...there is always one person that says, "well, sister Sue was such an amazing person. She was so kind and helped others. I just know she's in a better place."

^^I want to crawl out of my skin when I hear this^^

I'm sorry to tell you this...but sister Sue has been cast into the Lake of Fire to be tormented forever and ever because of her inability to see she was a sinner and her disobedience of accepting the sacrifice made for her.
"The Devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever...And anyone not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:10, 15 (HCSB)

Revelation 21:8 says "But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." (HCSB)

Even followers of Christ have committed these sins. Not one of us is capable of good or moral standings. Believers will be spared the second death of the lake of fire because of our belief in Christ and the repenting of our sin.

"Good people" commit sin, and if you haven't accepted the sacrifice made in your place for that sin then your future is a burning lake of torment.

This is a call to all Christians to do 2 things!
1. Have more of an urgency to seek the lost with the gospel. Our time is short and we're not doing enough to spread the truth to the masses.

2. Live in your own truth.
    -we continue to sin even after our day of salvation. This is a given. The devil is going to continue to tempt us, and we are going to fall. God doesn't expect us to be perfect, but He does require obedience.

We don't need one more scandal. We don't need one more person to be "found out".

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We need true honest confession of the heart. You're hurting yourself by staying in the midst of your sin. We need to have such a fear of God that we stand before others to reveal the truth about ourselves. All darkness will be shown light in one form or another. How freeing to confess rather than to be uncovered.

We need to be ashamed and uncomfortable in our sin. The Bible tells us "our righteousness is but filthy rags" which is why Christ came in the first place.
Confession of sin is the first step in finding freedom from the legacy of Adam we were born into.

Not ONE is good. Live in your own truth.

Love for Fellow Man

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The complete disregard for human life was astonishing and sickening.
Today we remember 11 million innocent people who lost their lives because of the evil that swept through Germany.

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 As followers of Christ we are commanded to love one another.
However, I feel we as Americans, have lost the compassion for our fellow brothers and sisters. Instead we protect the liars and fakes, we exalt the immoral and unrighteous and we encourage what continues to corrupt our families. We are giving into the same sins that ultimately lead to the happenings at Auschwitz.

You may think that our sins of immorality pale in comparison to what took place during the Holocaust.
Rev. Billy Graham stated,
"It is always difficult and dangerous to attempt to list sins according to their degree of seriousness. In one sense, all sins are equal in that they all separate us from God. The Bible’s statement, “For the wages of sin is death …” (Romans 6:23), applies to all sin, whether in thought, word, or deed.

At the same time, it seems obvious that some sins are worse than others in both motivation and effects, and should be judged accordingly. Stealing a loaf of bread is vastly different than exterminating a million people. Sins may also differ at their root." Quote Credit

So you may have not killed millions of people, but the root of your sin is still evil. In 1 John 3:15-16 it says, "Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers" (ESV)
Your thoughts and your intentions of hate are considered murder in the eyes of God.

I'm calling for this nation, our churches, our families to rethink morality vs. political correctness. Do we want to ride the fence and let evil continue to speak over our lives in order to preserve our comfort zones? Or are we made for something more?

Last time I checked, I was made to break boundaries, speak truth, ignite passion, inspire change and reinvent what it means to humbly serve a Risen Savior.

Colossians 3:12-15 says, "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful." (ESV)

Put on love. Exalt forgiveness and offer it freely. Encourage morality and whose who humbly follow and seek after God's Word.

We were made for more than what we're being.
Be more!