SO MY PCA, BAPTIST, AND ANGLICAN FRIENDS, HOW WAS THE SUNDAY SERMON??

So how was the Sunday sermon? Was there any call for repentance from your pulpit? Was repentance even mentioned? Did the message of the man of the cloth convict you, or was it just another “feel good” message? What about “hell” was the word even uttered?
Let’s do some catch up!
Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone else in the bible! In fact he spoke more about hell than everybody in the bible combined. And he defined it as conscious, eternal punishment. Our Lord Jesus believed in eternal hell. He continually spoke about hell and He warned sinners to escape hell, to avoid hell, to avoid this horrible reality.
Yes! Jesus was a hell fire preacher. When we talk about salvation we have to use that word! The word has to be used because we are talking about rescue. Salvation is a word that means deliverance or rescue, and the question is…. saved from what?
The contemporary kind of corrupted Christianity offers many psychological and material substitutes for hell. They would say:
Jesus wants to save you from financial loss, or
He wants to save you from purposelessness, or
He wants to save you from anxiety, or
He wants to save you from poverty, or
He wants to save you from failure. Or
He wants to save you from sickness, or
He wants to save yo from disappointment.
NO! NO! NO! He desires to save you from hell! From fiery hell, the lake of fire that is eternal. The message of Scripture is that salvation is a rescue, from a real place called Hell!
So then, how are you born again, saved and how do you escape hell and enter heaven.
Believe!! Believe what?
*Believe that you’re a sinner, believe you’re in a desperate situation, you’re desperately alienated from God and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
*Believe that you have no hope of reconciliation and you will in this life live godlessly and in the next life you will suffer eternal torment.
*Believe that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
* Believe that God sent His Son into the world in the form of a man to die as your substitute.
* Believe that Jesus took your place and that He took the full fury of the wrath of God upon Himself and He is waiting to pardon you.
*Believe that the affirmation that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead. And when God raised Him from the dead He was saying, “I am satisfied.”
That’s what you believe. That’s the gospel.
That’s Christianity. 2 Cor 5:21 “For he (GOD) hath made him (JESUS) to be sin for (US) who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
The BENEFACTOR – is GOD – it’s all His plan, it comes out of His love.
The SUBSTITUTE – is JESUS CHRIST, who took your place, the perfect God/Man. He knew no sin, but was declared sinful with your sin.
The BENEFICIARIES – all of us for whom Christ died, those who will believe.
AND THE BENEFIT – you receive the righteousness of God credited to you as if you were equal to Jesus Christ in holiness. You are DECLARED holy, and some day you when you receive a glorified body, will be made holy.
My prayer is that if you are merely playing church, you will stop, and believe, repent, and put your faith in Jesus Christ in full obedience!