A Call To Action – "Get Up! Pick Up Your Bed And Walk”

(1) Some parts of the scriptures are difficult for a new convert to understand, so I recommend they start off their Christian life reading the gospels that a child can understand.

(2) Also, I recommend to new converts to read the gospels because it has many things to teach old converts and new converts, but especially to new converts about the Christian life.

I like the book of Luke because it has so many stories of the Life of Christ that is thrilling to read that we can relate too.

Such as, in Luke 5 the Lord is confronted with a paralyze man and he healed him.

Once the Lord healed him, he told him in Luke 5:23 “…Rise up and walk!”

Some Christians after the Lord has done a miraculous thing in their life they just SIT IN A PEW AND DO NOTHING!

• The lost world is going to hell in groves, and they spend no time praying for lost members of their family and friends.

• The lost world is going to hell in groves, and they never talk to them about salvation.

After we are saved the Lord is calling us to a life of action and saying, GET UP, LIFT YOURSELF UP FROM THAT PEW AND DO SOMETHING FOR THE LORD!

Basically, what we see in this God is saying, I’ve done something IN YOUR LIFE NOW YOU DO SOMETHING FOR ME!!!

Illus: My wife has on her telephone THINGS that are important to her. She has an alarm that goes off during the day to get her attention about these important things.

• Sometime the alarm goes off and it reminds her it is time to take time to get a glass of water to drink during the day.

• Sometime the alarm goes off and it reminds her it is time to take her pills during the day.

• Sometime the alarm goes off and it reminds her it is time to feed the cat.

We all need an alarm in our life each day to remind us that THE LORD SAVED US AND IT IS TIME TO GET UP AND DO SOMETHIG FOR HIM!

Illus: I personally do not have an alarm to remind me to do such things as my wife.

But I use to make it a habit when I am driving if I came to a bump in the road, I would whisper a prayer for family, friends, and church members. But in South Carolina we have so many bumps in our roads I could not whisper a prayer before I had to start another prayer.

So, I change things that every time I see a stop sign it reminds me to whisper a prayer for family, friends and church members.

We need an alarm to go off throughout the day reminding us to GET UP, AND LIFT OURSELVES OUT OF THESE PEWS AND REACH OUT TO OUR LOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBER BEFORE THEY DIE AND GO TO A DEVIL’S HELL.

Illus: We don’t need to be like the rich man in hell who waited too late to be concern about his five lost brethren. Pray for them and witness to them NOW!!!

Once God did a miraculous healing in the life of this paralyze man’s life the Lord told him basically, GET UP AND DO SOMETHING!!!

GOD MIRACULOUSLY HEALED HIM!!!

Someone might be saying, Preacher, do you believe in divine healing.

Of course I do:

• If I did not, I would not waste my time going to the hospitals and nursing home praying for people.

• If we did not as a church, we would not have a prayer list that we take time to pray for the sick each week.

You cannot be a Bible-believer and not believe in divine healing.

• David said in Psalm 103: 3 that the Lord “forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases”. Notice, David mentions not only sins and healing.

• James 5:15 promised in the case of sick people “The prayer of faith will heal the sick”

The objection today to divine healing by some is that some do not want to dis-associate themselves from this teaching because these tv. preachers have hijacked divine healing to make millions of dollars for themselves that they do not want to be associated with the teaching of divine healing.

• Listen, I am not going to stop eating because some people abuse food by gouging themselves with food. I CERTAINLY do not want to be associated with people like that who abuse food, but I am still going eat!!!

• I am not going to stop driving a car because ungodly people have done some horrible things in them, I AM GOING TO CONTINUE DRIVING!!!

• AND I AM NOT GOING TO QUIT BELIEVING AND PREACHING ON DIVINE HEALING BECAUSE SOME HAVE ABUSED IT TO MAKE MILLIONS FOR THEMSELVES.