Monday, May 19, 2008

I am studying this week Romans 1 Chapter in preparation a new sermon
We are in an age when people are scoffing at sound doctrine and people are searching for a religion that is suiting them. As I watched a video on Islam and how to witness to them, I was taken aback to the testimony of one muslim woman. She was grinning from ear to ear as she told how she, a lutheran and her husband, a southern baptist had come to accept Allah as god and Mohamed as his prophet. I also listened to a homosexual as he talked about how he had to find a church that accepted him for who he was instead of what he was/ After hearing and seeing this I began to think about what the scripture says...

NASB - Romans 1st Chapter:
* 18.For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

* 19.because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.

* 20.For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

* 21.For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

* 22.Professing to be wise, they became fools,

* 23.and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

* 24.therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

* 25.For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

* 26.For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions ; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural ,

* 27.and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

* 28.And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

* 29.being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil ; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice ; they are gossips,

* 30.slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

* 31.without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful ;

* 32.and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

The study and the preaching of the word of God is needed now more than ever. Now is the time for True Bible Believing Christians to take a stand for what the word of God say's.

As you read through these scriptures, what do you find God saying?

It's time we as Christians get back to the Bible. Get back to being the Church started in Acts. Get back to the Basics.

It's something to not only think on it's something to act on.

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