Author: Faith

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This sermon is a great sermon by Jonathan Schaeffer at Grace Missionary Alliance on When Jesus Is Coming Back. It really goes through a number of relevant passages to tell us when Jesus is truly coming back!

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“Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins, ³ surely I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.”- 1 Kings 16:2-3

Even though God had been so good to Baasha, he kept sinning, and sinning grievously. He allowed greed and evil to take over his heart. He decided that he did not need to listen to God. Big, big mistake! For Baasha was punished and suffered the consequences of his choice.

Can we think of another country led by someone like Baasha? A country that God has greatly Blessed? Another country that has grievously sinned and has no intention of stopping? No intention of repenting?

Will the same thing happen to that country?

We need to Repent and pray for Mercy!

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“For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.?” – Isaiah 60:12

Does America, as a nation, serve God?

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While praying the Rosary, I saw soldiers climbing the stairs in Israel.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord. ² Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the Lord” – Jeremiah 23:1-2

Whether they be Priests or Pastors, it matters not. This Bible verse is true for all of us!

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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.” – Matthew 23:23

First of all, we all sin. No matter how hard we try, the only one that every lived a sin free life is Jesus :). Fortunately for us, He is here to forgive us 🙂 But the truth is, we do not want to sin. And when we do, we need to seek forgiveness through Jesus.

There are all kinds of sins. Catholics divide them into venial and mortal. Other Christian churches divide them into serious-and not. I like to think of sins as an onion. The top layer that we peel off reminds me of the big, glaring, impossible to miss sins. Sins like adultery or stealing…The next layers inside remind me of the sins that I need to grow in my faith to see, sins like being unkind or critical, taking the larger piece of cake, telling a “white” lie like when I tell someone I can’t meet them because I am busy, the times I took the TV remote control for myself!

And then there is the very inside layer. Growing closer to God allows me to see this layer more clearly. Some think of these as the little sins, but I think of them as big. The first two are the sins of “commission”, but the last is a sin of “omission”. It’s the times I could have stopped and helped a homeless person, but didn’t. The times I could have taken a few moments to encourage someone, but was too busy. The times I could have held someone up, but told myself I was too tired. The times I could have spent listening to someone on the phone, because they just needed someone to listen, but didn’t, the times I could have forgiven someone, but held onto a grudge…There are so many of these types of sins in our lives, sins where we were less then loving.

We ask God to have Mercy on us; we need to have Mercy on others.

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