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A Better Way Of New?
Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Apr 6, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: God wants you to step in to the new that he has for you, but before you can step in to the new, you must and you have to be willing to let go of the old. Are you willing??
1 John 4:7-8 NKJ
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:4-6 MSG
4-6 My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.
There are a lot of deceived individuals in the world. Looking for Love and acceptance
everywhere and anywhere they think they can find it.
Instead of finding the true love their looking for, what they find is only something that disguises itself as a version of the real thing.
What they really are finding is, a planned diversion to mimic the Love and acceptance they really need, by none other than the master of all lies...the devil himself!
Look at all the unrest in the world, look at all the protest. Let me tell you, Hell is on the march, the devil is mad at the good that is trying to raise itself up. The battle for the soul of society is real, we are witnessing an epic battle against the principalities of darkness.
1 John 4:1-3 NKJ
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that[a] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
You kidding yourself and living in a bubble, if you think the devil doesn't have and has always had, his choice henchman in place just waiting for Jesus long awaited triumphant return for His bride!
This is not something that is new, this false hope of doom and gloom has been fiercely spread since the accusers fall from heaven.
The only thing new is still Gods endless mercies, that get up everyday looking to share His forgiveness and Love with the world! Day after day, offering a way of escape to whosoever, is willing to believe and accept a better way!
Jeremiah 29:11 NASB
11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord
The problem is that, to many are unaware or unwilling to listen too, or embrace Gods plans in their lives! And so the never ending circle of hopelessness and despair the devil offers, has them to continue to lap the same piece of familiar real estate over and over.
Illus. David Yarbrough
We often fail to consider the gradual, cumulative effect of sin in our lives. In Saint Louis in 1984, an unemployed cleaning woman noticed a few bees buzzing around the attic of her home. Since there were only a few, she made no effort to deal with them. Over the summer the bees continued to fly in and out the attic vent while the woman remained unconcerned, unaware of the growing city of bees. The whole attic became a hive, and the ceiling of the second- floor bedroom finally caved in under the weight of hundreds of pounds of honey and thousands of angry bees. While the woman escaped serious injury, she was unable to repair the damage of her accumulated neglect.
The accuser will lure and entice his prey down the road of sin, and his pursuit will be relentless....but I'm here to tell you "there's a better way!"
John 10:10 NKJ
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
There is a better way...and His Name Is JESUS!
Jesus is the answer for the world today, above him there is no other…
