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Goolum - "My Precious"
Contributed by Gary Regazzoli on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: What is it in our lives that we could term "my precious" that we are desperately hanging onto while we know it is slowly killing us
• He is the only one who can save them
• And the plot of the story revolves around this little hobbit as he willingly trudges towards an uncertain fate at Mount Doom
• Mankind today also has a hero. His name is Jesus Christ
• Jesus is the Son of God and came on a mission to this world to save you and me from certain death
• He like Froddo, willingly trudged towards a cross on which He was to die so that you and I wouldn’t have to
• This is what the Bible says about what Jesus did for us
• Rom 3:24 Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. 25 For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us.
• Not only did Jesus pay the death penalty for us, He also says He will give us the help we need to overpower whatever it is in our lives that is slowly killing us
• In a way, its like having Gandalf fighting our battles for us, but Jesus is much more powerful than Gandalf
• So God can take someone who is just as poor miserable and pathetic as Goolum and turn him into a son of God
But we have to do something
• The way to be set free from whatever it is that is slowly killing us is to “believe” in Jesus Christ
• ….We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us.
• You have to acknowledge Him as the one who can save you
• If we ask Him to, He will come into our lives and start the healing process
• You can do that any time and if you would like to talk some more about doing that, come and talk to me later
