The Terms Of Peace

Church, do you understand why we must be so serious about sharing the Gospel with the lost? Why I’m always urging you to do that? Why we are always looking for those opportunities to be intentional about sharing the Good News? Do you understand why it’s important that we examine our hearts and see whether or not our faith is genuine?

I can’t help but wonder how long we have here in the U.S? Where people name the Name of Christ, yet live like the world? Where the blood of 60 million + aborted babies cry out to the Lord daily? Where immorality and perversion grows more and more accepted every day? Corruption, lawlessness, wickedness. Harming children. It's disgusting! We’re probably worse than Jerusalem was… we may be worse than Nineveh was! We may be worse than Sodom was!

When you see the immorality, and perversion, and filth that you see in our world today, you have to understand that we are already under judgment. Our nation has already been turned over. I hope you understand that God judges individuals, He judges cities, He judges regions, and He judges nations.

And the more access to the knowledge of the truth, the more sever the judgment.

Make sure you get that. It’s like I said earlier – these people were ignorant. But they were ignorant because they refused to learn and study. They hated truth, and loved darkness, and so they would not come to the light. They are not innocently ignorant – they were willfully ignorant!

I’m going to say something, and I hope it doesn’t upset anyone… but it’s true… and it’s like a friend of mine used to say, “If the truth makes you uncomfortable, don’t blame the truth, blame the lie that made you comfortable.”

So here’s the truth – It’s 232 days until the election… and your political candidate, and my political candidate, even if they get elected – they CANNOT save this nation. At best we get a sort of reprieve… but the only Savior is Jesus Christ!

Now some of you might be sitting here this morning, or watching online, and you’re saying, “Oh my goodness – this is depressing.”

BUT THERE’S SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT I DON’T WANT YOU TO MISS.

The terms of peace that God offers to sinful, rebellious man, are still being extended to this very day.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is always eager, and willing to make peace – Remember, that’s why He came – to make peace between God and man, to take our sin upon Himself as He hung on that cross and pay for them in full. To redeem us back to God.

You see; Jesus didn’t just pay for our sin – He paid for you! You are bought with a price; you are not your own. Our new life is found in Him, and we are the purchase of God!

He longs to make peace - - - but it has to be on His terms.

Turn from your sins and turn to Jesus Christ in faith.

He is our only hope.

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