Standing Out

The generation is pretty much an atheist generation as a whole, because it doesn’t seem like anybody cares about the wrath of God. Nobody seems to care, about what happens after they die, nobody seems to care about Heaven, or Hell.

I don’t know about you but I couldn’t sleep at night if I thought for a second I was going to Hell. It truly breaks my heart, because so many don’t understand the necessity of being born again.

If you look at the story of the Lazarus in the bible, he would stay outside of the gates of the rich man’s house and lay there, just hoping for a bite of the rich man’s food. However, it never happened, and Lazarus died. Lazarus was a believer, so when he died he went to Heaven, and then the rich man died, and awakened in Hell. He begged! Ohh have mercy on me, have Lazarus give me just a drop of water off his finger! But then The rich man prayed and said, please go testify to my five brothers so they don’t have to enter this place of torment!

This is probably the cry of many who are in Hell today. If only people understand the need for salvation.

But there is hope! And that hope is us!

The body of Christ, We are the light of the World, we are the City on the Hill, and we have to let our light shine!

And this can be done by setting ourselves apart from the world! Not in a – Im better than you, arrogant way, but in a loving way, the way Christ would be different from the world.

Let’s look back at 1st Timothy 4:12

“Don’t let anyone look down on your because you are young; but be an example of the believers, in word, in speech , in love , in faith, in purity. “

So right there, we have things we need, to set ourselves apart. I really like the first part of that verse: “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young”

Adults and older people have created this idea that teenagers are lazy, and irresponsible. They think teenagers just don’t care about anything important and listen to rap music, and they ultimately see teens as just plain disrespectful.

Now while I see why adults have conjured up this perception of teenagers, I also see a great need for someone to prove them wrong! There has got to be a point in your walk with God, where you say enough is enough! I’m not playing games anymore, I’m not going to conform to the ways of the lost, I’m not going to conform to the patterns of this world, but I’m going to transformed by the renewing of my mind, to the ways of Jesus Christ!

You see lots of stories in the bible where God uses young people. You can take the story of Joshua in the Old Testament. Joshua was one Moses’ top dogs from a young age.

Now you might say, I’m no Joshua, now you might not be, but God wants to use you if you just let him. I gave that same message at the bible study the other day. 1st Corinthian 12 give a great lesson, in that the body of Christ is made up of several different parts, but yet one body.