LOVE BRINGS JESUS, With COMFORT & With HOPE!

SF, Stagecoach, NV

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

LOVE BRINGS JESUS!

With COMFORT - Not Fear!

With HOPE - Not Desolation!

            The LOVE of God, paid dearly for your redemption and salvation.  It’s the blood of Jesus that cleanses you.  Then why as Christians, do we see only the sin in others?

            Seeing sin is easy for a Christian, but telling of the LOVE of God is hard why?  Mentally we’ve been trained (by religion) to come against sin, yet is that what Jesus?  NO!

            Jesus revealed the LOVE of God and healed the sick, diseased and possessed people on the earth.  Not once, did He say to them “they were condemned” - NO, He healed them and said, “sin no more”!

            In the Old Testament, they judged and destroyed the people because there was no grace, no forgiveness in man.  They entered heaven by their works only as shown in Deut 28:1-14 “...if you will diligently obey the Lord your God....”

            But we have Jesus!  A Jesus with compassion - A Jesus who came to earth to set us free!

     Luke 7:47  “For this reason I (Jesus) say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

     Hebrews 8:12  “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”  (also Isaiah 54:4, Jeremiah 31:34, and Hebrews 10:17)

             We need to do what Jesus did... Show the LOVE of the Father.  It does not matter to God if your sin was stealing a pencil, or stealing a million dollars.  You were forgiven by God.  Not only that, God promises not to remember your sin!  We Christians have been judging those who sin, and putting them into categories.  Yet, we seem to forget that we lived in the same house (sin) of those we are judging!

            People, who are sinning, already know they are wrong.  What they need to hear is what can help them out of hell and despair!

     Ezekiel 22:11  “And one has committed abomination (OT sin) with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law.  And another in you (man) has humbled his sister, his fathers’ daughter.  In you (man) they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors, for again by oppression, and you have forgotten Me, declares the Lord God.”

            Stop categorizing sin.  What many do not understand, is that an “abomination” to God in the Old Testament was any sin against God.  Abomination is only mentioned 3 times in the Gospels and one time in Revelation 21:27, for Israel.  All of them referring to desolation which is the separation of man from God.

             Stop treating; homosexuals, drunkards, witches, adulterers, etc as lepers.  These are not diseases, but the outcome of man’s separation from God.  Think about it, in Genesis there were no 10 commandments needed.  Not until Exodus, when the people lived 450 years with the Egyptians (ungodly) so God’s people needed to be taught what was acceptable and what was not to God! 

            It’s the same place you were at one time - in sin.  GOD LOVES THEM!  He just cannot accept their decision to follow the devil, or any idol, in the pursuit of their flesh. He must wait until they choose Him then ask.  You can be assured, those who have a intercessory family member praying for them – the Holy Spirit will be working on them.

     Jeremiah 6:10  “To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear?  Behold, their ears are closed, and they cannot listen.  Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.”

     Romans 10:17  “So faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.”

            Does Jeremiah sound like he’s talking to the unsaved?  Do you want to help them enter into the LOVE of the Father, so they can be in heaven with you?  Do you truly want them to be saved?  THEN tell them about the LOVE of CHRIST!  Tell them about Salvation.  Tell them of the deliverance in Jesus because He paid the price for ALL SIN.  Tell them of God’s desire for them to be restored into His Love, Joy and Peace.  They already know they’re hated!  Show them the LOVE!  Ask God for their deliverance.  Lead them toward the Love and let Jesus heal them spirit, soul and body.

     John 10:10  “The thief (devil) comes only to steal and kill, and destroy; I (Jesus) came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.”

      The devil’s been judged by God, and he tells all of his followers that God has forsaken them, so they’ll just PARTY for eternity – what a lie!  So they continue to follow the pleasures of the flesh because they’re doomed for eternity anyway.  Why not get what pleasure they can while on earth, because there is no hope in God for them.  Lies, lies and more lies.

     Isaiah 40:1, 4  “Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God.  SPEAK KINDLY to Jerusalem (God’s chosen and you); and call out to her (unsaved) that her warfare has ended.  That here iniquity has been removed, that she has received the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”  (4)“Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; and let the rough ground become a plain, and the rugged terrain a broad valley.”

            They need to hear about the LOVE of God. 

            They need to hear about the HOPE in Christ.

            They need to hear about the SALVATION available to each and everyone of us sinners.

     John 3:16  “For God so LOVED the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.  For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.”

      STOP preaching hell fire and brimstone to the unsaved and TELL them of the LOVE OF CHRIST!  They’d hear about His Love and they’d overcome the devil, as you did.   Then become part of the harvest!  TELL EVERYONE (Christian and non-christian) about the LOVE OF GOD – Stir Up their spirits we all need to be reminded what an awesome God we have.

     Matthew 11:28-30  “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.  For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.”

     TELL EVERYONE that JESUS wants to lighten their burden here on earth! He did this for me, He’ll do it for you!  Give an example when possible.

      Remember the old song “Bringing In The Sheaves”?  The only part I remember is:  "Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, we will come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."  A sheave is what you gather, collect, or bind together.  Also, a Sheave in Strong’s Concordance says, that it also refers to Israel when they returned from exile (and the unsaved are in exile).  So the song is really saying that they are bring in the bound (or exiled people) back to the Lord rejoicing.  We need to do the same IN LOVE.

Blessings & GRACE GRACE (Zech 4:7-9)

Sandy F