October 4th, 2021
Monday, October 4, 2021
God Wants To Transform You
Pastor Amie Donovan
Peter replied, "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." Acts 2:38
The apostle Paul penned in a famous letter to Rome, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." (Romans 7:15). Paul understood something foundational. We all have a heart condition.
This is not only true for the early church; it is true for us today! The church has never lacked those with half-hearted obedience to God.
Here's the truth. Half-hearted obedience is full disobedience to Yahweh. Paul revealed the solution to the church's heart condition.
Repentance.
Repentance means to turn away from something. To go another direction. Choices in your life are not an indicator of who you are; rather, they reveal where you are. God alone determines our "Who." The good thing about our choices being about 'where we are rather than 'who we are is that we can repent and change course!
Do you feel trapped in your sin?
Our hope is found in Jesus. When Jesus took on the cross and conquered the grave, he promised one was coming who would change everything for the church! Holy Spirit is the gift, and He dwells within the hearts of all believers and makes them new! Holy Spirit removes our heart of stone that kept us enslaved to our bad choices and replaces it with a heart that desires holiness and Christ-like living! He gives us a heart of repentance.
The only way to get past the things we don't want to do, and step into those we know are righteous is to be transformed. As Peter said, "Repent and be baptized! Every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins!
Praise the Lord for making a way where there was no way!
God Wants To Transform You
Pastor Amie Donovan
Peter replied, "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." Acts 2:38
The apostle Paul penned in a famous letter to Rome, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." (Romans 7:15). Paul understood something foundational. We all have a heart condition.
This is not only true for the early church; it is true for us today! The church has never lacked those with half-hearted obedience to God.
Here's the truth. Half-hearted obedience is full disobedience to Yahweh. Paul revealed the solution to the church's heart condition.
Repentance.
Repentance means to turn away from something. To go another direction. Choices in your life are not an indicator of who you are; rather, they reveal where you are. God alone determines our "Who." The good thing about our choices being about 'where we are rather than 'who we are is that we can repent and change course!
Do you feel trapped in your sin?
Our hope is found in Jesus. When Jesus took on the cross and conquered the grave, he promised one was coming who would change everything for the church! Holy Spirit is the gift, and He dwells within the hearts of all believers and makes them new! Holy Spirit removes our heart of stone that kept us enslaved to our bad choices and replaces it with a heart that desires holiness and Christ-like living! He gives us a heart of repentance.
The only way to get past the things we don't want to do, and step into those we know are righteous is to be transformed. As Peter said, "Repent and be baptized! Every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins!
Praise the Lord for making a way where there was no way!
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If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
-Jesus of Nazareth
There are two big problems with this (alleged) statement by Jesus of Nazareth. First, most modern Bible scholars do not believe that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Clever Christian apologists try to resolve this problem by saying that just because Moses did not write the Pentateuch does not mean he couldn't have written another statement or letter about Jesus. Problem solved! Wrong. The second problem is that most modern archaeologists believe that the stories of Moses and the Exodus are pure fiction. Moses did not exist! There is zero archaeological evidence for the Exodus Story. Clever Christian apologists attempt to resolve this problem by saying "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Yet when Mormons use this exact excuse for the lack of evidence for their prophet's claims, Christians scoff and hand wave away their claims.
Admit it, Christians. You believe this tall tale not because of good evidence but simply because you so desperately want to! Jesus was a fraud.