"The Kind Of Religion We Need".
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Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Personal Religion
Personal Religion
A. Many people in today’s world profess religion but have never experinced a spiritual and personal encounterwith Jesus Christ.
We must be born again through repentance and Faith. When God forgives our sins. He receives us into the family of God.
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
The goal of repentance is to reverse, avoid,limit, or cancel divine judgement and the consequences of sin.
Purifying Religion
Purifying Religion
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
A. Many Christians have never totally committed their lives to Jesus Christ. They falter because they persist in having their own way.
B. We must surrender our will unreservedly to God’s will. Doing so brings cleansing and the presence of The Holy Spirit.
Positive Religion
Positive Religion
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
A. There is a lack of sureness in today’s Religion. Many are vague and uncertain about their Spiritual state. with words such as I guess so I hope so.
B.We can be postive for we know in whom we have believed. No argument can shake the I know or I have response
which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
Powerful religion
Powerful religion
who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
A.Much modern religion makes no claims concerning its power to save, sanctify, and sustain.It is a powerless religion.
B. The need is for a religion with power- God’s power. He is able to forgive sins cleanse hearts, heal the sick and to keep that which we have committed unto Him.
which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
Productive Religion
Productive Religion
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
A. Many Christians fail to work diligently for God.Some are unconcerned, some are neglectful, some are Sppiritually lazy.
B. We must be about the master’s business. Jesus is coming soon. We should pray for the needs of others, assist the less fortunate, and share Christ with the unsaved.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”