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| Love the Lord your God with all your heart |
1 Corinthians 16:22 -
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
The modern teaching is that there are a million roads to Heaven, and
that somehow Christ can be looked over and sort of disregarded as long as a
person has a good heart. Many preachers, Christians even (or so they claim to
be), teach this nonsense. This teaching comes straight from Satan and it is very
deceiving because it sounds nice and accepting of all religions and beliefs. The
truth is, any man who doesn't love Jesus has no business spending eternity with
Him.
A homeless man is walking down the street and a car is about to hit him head on,
but another man jumps and pushes him out of the way, thereby taking the blow
from the car in the mans place. He's now in the hospital overcoming wounds that
almost killed him. Lets suppose that the homeless man does not go to see him in
the hospital and never once says thanks. He simply forgets about it and goes on
with his business. What would you think of this man? Now imagine you met this
man and he seemed to be the most kind-hearted soul you've ever met. Should that
change your thinking?
It doesnt matter how nice that homeless man is; he acted so carelessly toward
the poor injured man who almost lost his life for this homeless fellow you'd know that the homeless man
has a heart of frozen stone. The same is true with a person who knows and
believes the gospel, but does not love Jesus. Any man who would be careless with
our Lord Jesus is even worse than that homeless man. It doesnt matter how good
of a person you, or anybody thinks he is. It would take a devil not to love our
Lord Jesus after what He's done for us. It takes a fool to be careless about Him. Out of the
multitude of people I've met, very few really have a problem with Christ. Theyre
simply too careless to seek Him out. What a sad story for them.
Never take the Lord for granted love Him with all of your heart, all of your
mind, all of your soul. |
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