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What Is the Way to Heaven?

Text:

James 4:8 (HCSB)

8  Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!

Observation:

Are you a believer in Jesus? Have you received Him into your life? Notice what the Bible says.

John 1:12-13 (HCSB)

12  But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name,

13  who were born, not of blood, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3 (HCSB)

3  Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

This is the Gospel of Christ in a nutshell.

John 3:16-18 (HCSB)

16  “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

17  For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

18  Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

I appreciate straightforward talk. What has Jesus said about how to have eternal life? How can you live forever in the presence of God? How do you get from this world to heaven?

John 14:6 (HCSB)

6  Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 5:24 (HCSB)

24  “I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

These are the lyrics of a song expressing a loving invitation from the heart of Jesus to your heart; the title “Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling”.

“Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,

Calling for you and for me;

See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching,

Watching for you and for me.

? Refrain:

? Come home, come home,

? You who are weary, come home;

? Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,

? Calling, O sinner, come home!”

Prayer:

Father, I give You the highest praise that my heart can render. Father, Your love is so unconditional, Your grace so amazing, Your forgiveness so far reaching, and Your mercies so tender.

Father, I thank You that the power of the Holy Spirit of God draws people to Jesus, and I pray that He would draw any that have not received Jesus into their life  to Jesus before it is to late. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

—

Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) 
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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How Do You Handle the Gifts from God?

 

Text:

1 Corinthians 4:6-8New Living Translation (NLT)

6 Dear brothers and sisters,[a] I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I’ve been saying. If you pay attention to what I have quoted from the Scriptures,[b] you won’t be proud of one of your leaders at the expense of another. 7 For what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?

8 You think you already have everything you need. You think you are already rich. You have begun to reign in God’s kingdom without us! I wish you really were reigning already, for then we would be reigning with you.

Observation:

Life is a gift so we have no reason to be prideful and puffed up.

The one word for today is humility. Use the gifts God has given you to serve and bless others.

1 Peter 4:10 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

10 Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God.

Luke 6:38New Living Translation (NLT)

38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.[a]”

Prayer:

Father God, I pray that each us would be mindful of the source of what we have, and that we would be humble; serving others in the name of the one who gives us everything. In His name, Jesus, we pray, Amen.