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Exact/Narrow Minded
I heard a guest speaker at our church say it like this, “so often we Christians are called narrow minded, so narrow minded that a gnat could land on the bridge of our nose and peck both of our eyes without moving.” He went on to talk about how all truth is narrow. Look at it like this: 2+2=4. Four is the only answer to this equation. If a first grader put the number five down as his answer, what would happen? Now, five is really close to four and he almost got it right, but what grade does the first grader receive? Now think about this, what happens if that was the only question on the test? As sad and as unfair as it may seem, the young boy would fail. How many of us know good people, kind people, and even loving, caring people? People that feed the hungry with their riches, people that donate their time and money to orphans around the world, but these people are not Christians. Just like that innocent good hearted first grader, that great person that seems to give and do so much, will end up failing and miss the most important question. Is Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior? He is the exact truth to the ultimate question.
Mathew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. 22 On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.
23 But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’
Please don’t take this the wrong way but, more often than not, there are many of us Christians that could take a lesson or page out of a non-Christians’ life and ask ourselves, why don’t we as Christians act more like that. But remember this; all the great and gracious acts in the world won’t get you the correct answer to the most important question in humanity. Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and acknowledged that He is the only way to Heaven? Exact and Narrow.
There are many different ways to get the answer of (4); 6-2=4, 3+1=4, but all the different equations are narrow with truth. They all have an exact truth. Don’t think I’m saying that there are different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to enter the gates of Heaven: Accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. So, there are many different ways to serve the coffee and different ways to worship the Lord, but the truth to both is, it’s all just coffee and for us Christians, the truth and the only answer is Jesus Christ, He is the only answer and the only way to Heaven! Exact and narrow truth.
What I love is that He made it so easy and so exact that all can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So often, we as Christians make it difficult or confusing with our religious and denominational beliefs. The different denominations are for our human benefit on how we enjoy our worship and teachings, but so often it causes division. I can say this with great confidence, when our Lord, Jesus Christ comes for us, denominational lines will fall and we will all worship and serve Him the EXACT same way. However, it is important to find a church home, but it’s more important to read the inspired Word of God, “The Bible” and pray daily and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. We all need a church home for support, worship, service and teachings, but I will say this, God’s church is our neighbor next door, our co-workers, our communities, the orphans, the widows, the hungry, the homeless and the poor. Jesus did not have a traditional church as we have today. His church was the people in need, the towns He traveled and the disciples He taught!
I believe our greatest calling outside our personal salvation is to serve others in need and truly love one another through Christ. James 2:14-16 “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well feed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
to be continued.....
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