SAINT PATRICK’S Day

As many of you are aware I am 100 percent Irish and was born in Belfast just two streets from the home of C. S. Lewis.

On this St. Patrick’s Day, 2018 the most loving thing I can ever do is echo the words of our beloved patron Saint, St. Patrick, and remind my Irish friends, that if you are not a believer in, and follower of the Lord Jesus, that you are a lost sinner on the road to hell.

Here is a transcript of my annual St. Patrick’s day message, as I call my fellow Irishmen & Irish women, to exercise repentant faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I do realize that this gospel message may be offensive to some of you as I have already been informed and even rebuked by the merely religious folk. I realize some of you never hear the word “HELL” from the pulpit.

But it is a bible word, and as St Patrick says, some of you may be headed for damnation!

Should that be the case perhaps you too need to believe and exercise repentant faith, confess Jesus as Lord, (KURIOS,) and accept your new status as his slave, his (doulos!)

So, what am I supposed to believe to become a Christian! BELIEVE WHAT?

*Believe, Admit, and Agree you are a sinner.

*Believe, Admit, and agree you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.

*Believe, Admit and Agree that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.

*Believe, Admit and Agree that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.

*Believe, Admit and Agree that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.

*Believe, Admit, and Agree 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.”

*Believe, Admit and Agree, that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”

That’s what you BELIEVE! That’s the gospel. And when you believe that by faith, and REPENT, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross.

In 2 Corinthians 5:21 we read

“GOD made JESUS who did not know sin to be sin for US, so that WE might become the righteousness of GOD in Him. “

In Acts 2:37-38, after hearing the gospel the people became aware of their guilt as sinners and said, “What shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In Luke 18:14, the repentant sinner said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.”

So, if you cry out to God in faith trusting, God will hear you and your life will be transformed in a moment. If your faith is weak ask Him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.

Dr. Brian Henry

Just an old sinner saved, rescued delivered and transformed by God’s amazing grace alone, not by works; by faith alone, not by rituals; in Christ alone, not in Mary!