Don't look back

Let's keep following Christ brothers and sisters. Don't be like Lot's wife and want the old sinful ways. We've stepped into a new life with Jesus. 

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Hello brothers and sisters in the Lord and folks that don't know the Lord yet. I hope you decide to follow him because it is the best way to go and the only way to make it out of this world without ending up in hell. I'm sorry to say it like that, but that's the truth of it. I'm sorry I have to say it like that. This world carries nothing good but greed, uh hatefulness, uh terrible lusts and desires that lead you to doom, eternal doom. Let's all look to the one that can deliver us from all this trouble is Jesus Christ, and he is the only one, not Allah, or whatever they call him, and Buddha and all these other fellows. Only Christ. Only Christ. Jesus Christ, the true Messiah, the only one that defeated death. Everybody else's bones is still there in their own crypt, in their own coffin. By repenting and following God, we can defeat death. We have defeated death through Christ, each one of us has. And it's represented in the baptism that we take, the actual water baptism. And an old example of repentance or the lack thereof was in Genesis chapter 19, verse 26. When Lot was fleeing, Sodom and Gomorrah, as it was being destroyed, and his wife stopped and she looked back. She turned to a pillar of salt, she was destroyed. We've got to do very similar is don't look back on our old ways. Leave them in the grave. If we're with Christ, we've left them in the grave, and we sometimes they keep trying to pull us back into the grave, and we don't let it because there is just death tied up with sin. This one beautiful song I love talks, it's called I think Burn the Ships, and it's a great song. Very uplifting for Christians. It talks about don't look back. You burn the ships, you cut the ties, you cut the ties, cut the wicked ties. We tell people that there's a better way, and other people we were uh around and involved with, we tell them that there's a better way, the best way to live and to get out of this world through Christ is the only way to get out in a good positive direction because everybody everything else leads to hell. It really does. And everyone born is on the highway to hell, they really are, and we have to help them to cut the ties to this world because it leads everybody and it tries to shame people that don't follow their ways. Say, oh, you're you're an idiot, you're an idiot, you're doing it wrong. No, very few find the path. So many people are so worried about building their 401k and piling up money, and even the ones that call themselves Christians, they're not because their treasure is here. It's not in heaven. They need to make sure of their own salvation. In Matthew chapter 6, verse 11. The Lord is uh teaching the people how to pray, and he tells them, he said, give us today our daily bread, our daily bread. Doesn't mean our piled up money, he we're to depend on God. If we had a big pile of money, why do you think rich people don't make it into heaven? Because they depend on their money. Please, brothers and sisters, we have to depend on the Lord, not on money. People teach children to pile up money, get the 401ks. Okay, well, you make sure that you're listening to the Lord and following the Lord, not money, not the desire for money, not the greed for more and more and more. I would much rather a thousand times be poor and on my way to heaven than rich and on my way to hell. In Matthew 19, 23 and 26, and Mark chapter 10, 23, 27, they they talk about Christ talks about it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We really have to be careful of money because it will pull us down. It will pull us to the eternal grave, which is hell, which is eternal death. Please, brothers and sisters, we have to be be wary of money and the desire for it. A friend of mine left the ministry because his wife was mad because he wasn't making a whole barrel of money. He followed his wife rather than following what the Lord was wanting him to do, and now his health has failed tremendously. It's a good thing Lot didn't follow his wife, or he would have been another salt statue right beside her. Every morning when we wake up, we have to commit to burn the ships, to cut the ties. We have to commit that because it is the world is always pulling at us to come back. It's fun. Oh, come on back. This life is but a moment. Ask old people. I'm one of those now. It goes by so fast, and you end up holding a b uh uh bag full of nothing when you could be holding an arm full of eternity with Christ. We have to keep shoving the old man back into the grave. We are a new man, a new woman in Christ. In Luke chapter 9, verse 23, when quite Christ talks about, we've got to discipline ourselves. We must deny ourselves. We take up our cross daily and follow him. That's something that we do. He gives us the power to do this. So many people say that you just speak a few words and you're good to go. No, no, no. We repent. That just means we change our mind about things, about how we've been living. We don't want to live that way. Sometimes we slip and fall, but we don't continue in that. We get back up and we follow Christ. We stumble and fall, we pick up our cross and start following Christ again. Helping others find Christ. That's the Christian's main objective, the main reason in life. It's not to have a family, it's not to please your earthly father, it's to please your heavenly father. We're to help others find Christ. That is what's good for eternity. Like Charlie Kirk said, let's fill heaven up. Let's make it full, let's make it crowded. This little bit of time we're given and we look at others and we say, oh, but look at how they're living, look at how they're living, how good they've got it. Do they truly know the Lord? If somebody's got it real good and things are going so smooth for them, there's a good chance they do not know the Lord because Satan comes after those that follow God. He puts all kinds of stumbling blocks and trouble in their ways. In John chapter 15, verse 20, Christ says, If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. They're going to. These are part of the sufferings that we we take on as Christians. Because we're in a fallen world and Satan is powerful here. He's not all powerful, but he's very powerful. And he doesn't want people to know about God, know about Christ. That Christ has defeated death, defeated it, stomped it into, stomped a mud hole in it, as I've heard some older folks say. He snatched the keys from death and hell, and he's got eternal life, and all you have to do is ask him and follow him. You got it. But to do this, we daily keep looking forward. Don't look back. We take up our cross and follow him. We cut the ties that pull us backwards. We have to cut them. I've had to cut loose from friends that still drink and stuff and want me to come with them, and I can't. I can't do it. I gave it up. And I follow Christ now. I try to talk to them, but they say, Well, we go to church. Going to church is not going to save you. A church building is not going to save you. There's nothing in a church building unless Christ are Christ-filled believers. The Holy Spirit in these people, in Christians, is what makes a place holy. Not going to church. You could go to church 24 hours a day and not know the Lord. We are the church. The people are the church. Time is so short, brothers and sisters. I hate that it's so short, but America is falling more and more and more and more into a hole, a pit of perversion, and we won't be able to pull out of it. No country ever has. Once they've started on the downfall, it grabs a hold and starts pulling everybody with it. Now, the only ones that won't fall are the Christians, and we're going to be persecuted because of it. And we have to take a stand. We've got to stand against the perversion in our country and in our world, in this world that we're in. I say our world. It's not my world. I'm just a traveler here. And anybody that knows Christ is just a visitor. We're here for a temporary stay. And let's get on out of here. When we follow the Lord and we help others find Him, that's what our main goal is. The Great Commission that Christ gave us. Matthew chapter 28 verses 19 and into 20. He it's the Great Commission. That's when we we are to go out and tell people. We've got to help people, we've got to have mercy on them. And we introduce them to Christ. We can't save anybody. We couldn't save ourselves, or else Christ wouldn't have had to come into the world. But we introduce people to Christ that He is the only way out of this life to God the Father. It is not through Islam, it is not through Buddhism, anything else besides following Christ is a bad path. It leads to hell. Christ is the only one with the empty tomb. He has he showed himself as proof for 40 days after he raised, and he showed himself to hundreds of people. Those are the witnesses, and they wrote books about it, even besides the Bible. I guess what I'm trying to say, brothers and sisters, is let's let's keep going. Let's keep going forward, marching for the Lord. We tell others about him and what he's done for us. And we don't look back. Do not look back, do not follow the world to hell, because that's exactly what the world wants. Satan wants. He tries to lay shame on Christians, saying, You're you're shameful telling people that they're sinful, that they're going to hell because of the way they live. Well, I would rather a few get angry at me and some come to the know the Lord than everybody just drop off into the pit of hell without me saying something. I wish everybody could come to know the Lord. We'd have such a peaceful world, but it's not going to happen until Christ comes in the millennium, in his second coming. He's going to be coming with a rod of iron. He's going to rule over the people that haven't died and don't know him. They will come to know him and know that he is Lord, Lord of all. So let's not look back, brothers and sisters. Let's keep encouraging one another. And I'm going to get off of here for now. I've got wound up and I pray the good Lord bless you and keep you and his face shine upon you, and he saves your souls. Truly save your souls. And you follow him. I'm doing my best to follow him just each day. Just give it to him. Give everything to him. So I love you in the name of Jesus Christ.