..Jesus Crucified.. anything else is a LIE!!!!!

what a morning... what a blessing... so thankful to God for putting me where He has...
great, amazing sermon by Pastor Jeff filling in for the vacationing Pastor Paul...

heartfelt and real, direct, preaching of the TRUTH...

2 Corinthians 11: 2 - 4

I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.  But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.  For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.....

I love Paul, he was a humble man, not afraid to speak the truth.. telling the believers in Corinth that if someone was telling them that anything added to Jesus... anything, was necessary in addition to Jesus.. is a false Gospel..  and we are being deceived.. it could be remnants of beliefs we had before we encountered, that we won't let go, or any other rule that has to be obeyed, that is not straight from the Word...
 "Christ Crucified"   and only that, is where our hope is found..

it leads us astray by taking off our eyes of the only One that counts... Jesus, who by His death achieved our salvation... as He goes about the process of sanctifying us, he refines us, it is He who decides how much... when the time comes He will bring us safely to His Heavenly Kingdom.. were we will spend eternity in close fellowship with Him...

to Him it is we have to look, on the Truth of the Bible we have to stand, out of that will flow a desire to  consistently seek Him in His Word, to pray, to be obedient and to serve, then we will be sure without a shadow of a doubt that we are indeed His and that our eternity in Heaven has been secured...

Read this in the Christian Post today:
The newly elected pope addressed the media for the first time on Saturday, reminding Catholics that Jesus, not the pope, is at the center of the Church, which he said should be "poor, and for the poor."

how wonderful.... God is  at work, there is no doubt about that..
spending time with my mother, who, as a new believer, is in awe about how God has been orchestrating it all, all along, I am so blessed.. she sees it now, and my prayer is that it will give her confidence in Him.. that even in the hardest time of her life she can rely on Him........

just love Him.. for who He is......