God loves you

God really does love everyone. He proved it by sending His only Son into the world to be sacrificed so that we can all be forgiven of our sins. It's hard to understand that someone can love others that much. Only God has the power over life and death. That's why He did what He did... He knew He could bring His Son back to life. A blood sacrifice was required to cover sin. Blood is life and sin is death. 

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God has a super huge plan. We all have to do our part as He assigns to us. 

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Hello, brothers and sisters in the Lord. This is Brother Rick. I hope you all are doing well and still looking up, waiting on the Lord, in a serious anticipation. I hope that there are people listening that don't know the Lord and maybe uh want to come to know him and maybe we could all find out something today together what the Lord is wanting and how we're supposed to look for him and treat others and uh treat him. My last podcast I was talking about the coming trouble and how it's gonna be a great, great, terrible trouble for all the world. Well, today I'd like to talk about the way out of this world that ends in victory. The only victory there is is through the blood of Jesus. He came and gave us the opportunity to be saved from the coming trouble and the coming judgment. God does not want to judge people, no matter what people a lot of people think that God's just us mean guys, say, oh, you've done this, you've done that. No, no, no. Well, we know we've done things. Yeah, he can see it too, and he wants to help us. That's why he sent Jesus, his only son. We've got to get it in our heads that this is the only way out of this world that doesn't lead to hell. There is going to be all kinds of trouble that occurs. All kinds. But we can avoid a lot of it by clinging to the Lord. Now we're going to have to go through some, and sometimes it's going to be extreme for some of us, but it's the best way. And it if we don't have the Lord, with if we're not with the Lord, we're really going to be in trouble. And God really does love everybody. Everybody. He didn't make creation to show his meanness or show his ugliness, which he has none of. He doesn't. He has purity. He has love. He is love. And that's what he wants to show and what he wants to share. And it's up to us to accept it. He's offered it to everyone. In the book of John, chapter 3, verse 16, one of the verses that most Christians learn first is that God loves everybody. The only way to say that the world could be saved was through his son. If that isn't love, I don't know what love is. Most people I know would cut somebody long, wide and deep over their kids, much less give them up as a sacrifice. But God was able to do this because he knew that he had the power to resurrect his son, even though we didn't understand it at the time. And some of us still don't understand it and still don't believe it. But Christ is the only one that has defeated death. And he holds the keys to death. And he unlocks the chains that death has on someone when they ask him. When we ask Christ for help with this, we ask forgiveness in the name, in his name. And we are forgiven. And we follow him. We take up our cross daily. That just means we follow him in what his in his teachings and how we conduct ourselves and how we treat God and how we treat others. And the one big job that Christ has given us all as Christians is to help others find him and find the way out of hell, to find the way away from hell, to get off of the highway that leads to hell that everyone is on that's ever been born. Unless they call on Jesus, they're going to drop into hell. Everyone. So we've got to set up the introduction. We can't save anyone, but we can show them how to be saved through Christ and only through him. As it says in John 14 and 6, it says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. That's the truth of it. We all have to go through Christ. There's no many roads lead to God as some celebrities claim, foolishly, they claim. And with the world spinning faster and faster in a perverted direction, and it's growing more and more. We need to cling to Christ all the more, folks. Please, brothers and sisters and those that don't know him, please. We've got to cling to Christ. He is the only salvation of all humanity, of all the universe. And as times do keep getting tougher, we encourage one another. We help each other because we are going to stumble and fall. Each and every one of us are. I do. Everybody does. That's called being human. And we we screw up all the time. I pfft, I'm Captain Screw U. But you know what? We have God Almighty that is waiting with open arms to accept us back, to help us get back up and pick up our cross and keep walking. It's up to each of us to keep walking and following Christ and helping others follow Christ. We help each other. Because this life is hard. It's hard with Christ. I can't understand how people can do it without Christ. Leaning on money and sex and drugs and whatever else there is, it's just a mess. And with all the false religions there are that try to lead you away from the way of Christ through Buddhism and Islam and whatever else there is. And there's some that come in partial Christianity, they say, Well, uh I've got the way, you know, but only through Christ and his way. There's no special deals. Like with Jim Jones, when he he got started in a good way, I do believe, but he let himself get uh uplifted and he didn't honor God, the true God. They were considering him as God, calling him dad. And salvation is through each individual going to Christ. We can't do it as a group. Your mom or your grandmother can't do it for you. And in Luke 13, 24, Jesus says, make every effort to enter in through the narrow door, which is Him. Because many will try but will not get in. Few make it, folks. Please, we should all try to help others be part of the few. I love America and I am very patriotic. And uh America's fallen. We've stumbled and fallen and just face first plant, and we've really made a mess of things. We've allowed it as Christians, even, by not standing up more. We've got to keep standing. Right now it's on a downhill slide, but we dig in our heels and we we don't let it go. We we fight against America falling tooth and nail. Try to help others come find Christ, not end up in hell. It is our job as Christians to help others come to know Christ. Come to be introduced to Christ. But Satan will fight against you as you do this. In 2 Thessalonians 3, 3, it says, God is faithful and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. That's what we've got to go on, because we're either going to run with the crowd right straight into hell, or we're gonna walk with God and walk with Christ and help others come to know him. It's one or the other. There's no in-between. Even if you don't make a choice, you are making a choice to slide with the crowd right into hell. So please, brothers and sisters, and we've got to help others come to know that Christ is the only way out of this world into good eternity. As it says in 1 Thessalonians 5 11 and Hebrews 10 and 24 and 25, we're all the more as things are getting worse and worse and more and more ungodly. As the love of Moses growing cold, uh we need to be encouraging, uplifting one another, and instructing people in the ways of the Lord, in the ways of Christ, and what he wants us to be doing. Let's don't be sorry that we didn't do more to try to help folks come to know him, because people that don't know Christ when they die, they're going to hell. It's that simple. It's one or the other. There's no in-between, there's no purgatory, there's no uh, I don't know, whatever else there is. Uh 72 versions, as some uh religions uh falsely believe. So many folks are going to be fooled. As it says in uh 2 Thessalonians, and in verse 2 it talks about that uh they're perishing, and they perish because they refuse to believe or love the truth, and the truth is what saves people, as it says. Then in verse 11, God says that he sends a powerful delusion just because they become so hard-hearted and hard-headed, and they believe the lie, and they're condemned because of it, and the delight and wickedness, like homosexuality. They they say gay. It isn't there's nothing happy about it. There's a lot of disease and trouble and anguish over that. Then it goes on to say in 2 Thessalonians 2 13, it talks about that we are loved by God. God, because God chose us, and we who believe and follow Christ were sanctified by the working of the Holy Spirit that it that lives in us. Sanctifying is just we're set apart and we're special to God. Let's help others become special to God. We're no better than anyone else, only that we are saved. That's all the better we are than anyone else. I guess the main thing I'm trying to say is that God loves us and He wants everybody to be saved, and everyone can be saved, no matter what has happened in your life, no matter what you've done, no matter what you've done, all you have to do is close your eyes and say, God, please help me, please forgive me of my sins. I've done so many terrible things. Please forgive me in the name of Jesus, and repent. That's when you're doing like that, you repent, you change your mind, you want to do better, and what it means by picking up your cross and following him means you daily you choose to follow Christ daily, and it is a day-to-day thing, situation, lifestyle. We do it sometimes moment to moment, depends on what's going on. Sometimes we get knocked down so hard it's hard to get up, and all we can do is call out to the Lord, and He will hear us, especially. Who here has children that if they fall and hurt yourself and they call to you, you hear them. Wouldn't you go running to help them? That's God. He is right there waiting to help. We have a merciful, loving, caring, forgiving, eternal God, eternal power is in his hands, and he chooses to love us. Can you believe that? That's pretty cotton picking awesome. Well, brothers and sisters, I'm gonna get off of here, but we've got to help all we can. Help the people find it that don't know the Lord find eternal life through Christ. Because time is short. It is very, very short, brothers and sisters. Well, I love you in the name of Jesus Christ, and I pray the good Lord's face shine down on you and save your souls.