Come Awake

Our God is not dead, He's alive! Christ is raised from the dead.

If your conscience is bothering you, think about the message of Jesus Christ. He freely gives you His love and forgiveness today if you accept it.

If you don't think this is true, please find out for yourself. No religion or good deeds can earn your way to heaven. The bible says that God sees our good deeds as filthy as a menstrual cloth or dog vomit. Harsh words, but God is not impressed if we take any credit for our redemption. No matter how good we think we are, we cannot work our way to heaven.

If God is a just and good judge, then He will judge every one of us accordingly to His will. He is perfect and good. No one is good and no one is perfect except Him. And since we are not perfect, we fall short of God's will. We all deserve hell. It doesn't matter what you feel about this situation, it's the truth. Some of us reject the Gospel because we don't want to believe that someone is watching over us, and we want to live our lives according to our own lifestyle. Just because we choose to live another lifestyle, it doesn't mean the law doesn't exist. God will judge every one of us by His law. Everyone has broken the law. Just examine yourself with the Ten Commandments.

God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the word is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. Romans 2:11-16

Have you every stolen anything, irrelevant of its value?

Have you ever hated someone? Jesus said if you even hate someone, like call someone a bad name, you committing murder in your heart.

Have you ever looked at a person with sexual intent? Jesus said if you look at a woman with lust you have committed adultery with her already in your heart.

Have you ever told a lie?

Have you ever desired something because you were unhappy with what God has provided for you? Been jealous(envious) of what someone has instead of what God has provided for you?

Have you put God first in your life? Loved Him more than anything or anyone?

These are only six of the Commandments. If you just break one of these laws you’re guilty. It doesn’t matter how many times; you’ve still broken the law. Every one of us is guilty and therefore should not even be worth being in His presence. God is holy and perfect. Just being in His presence would burn us up. But since He is all loving and merciful He has provided us a way to be with Him.

Some may ask why would I want to be with someone who condemns people to a fiery pit of darkness to be tortured forever? Since God is all loving, He cannot and will not have any evil in His presence. Love hates evil. A loving and just judge would not allow evil-doers to go unpunished. There must be a hell; a place for punishment. And God takes no pleasure in the death of the one who dies. Ezekiel 18:32

God gives us His grace every day with the air we breathe and the life He has given us. We could even wonder why would He give us a chance to live when there is so much evil in the world? Why does he put us through this?

Everywhere we find human beings acting against the moral precepts and standards of the New Testament. No matter how low the level of morality is in a given society, people break it. It’s not that we are sinners because we sin, but rather, we sin because we are sinners; that is, since the fall of man, we have inherited a corrupted condition of sinfulness. We now have a sin nature. However, the Fall altered the image of God, in the narrower sense, that we were created to reflect.

Man is the creator of sin since the beginning. Adam, the first man, disobeyed God and therefore corrupted what was first that good and innocent nature. We have a disposition toward wickedness, so that we all do, in fact, commit sins because it is our nature to commit sins. All have sinned according to God's law and the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23

We cherish so much about the little things in life like the food we eat or the music we listen to. Then how much more important is your very soul?

You owe it to your loved ones and yourself to think about this. This is eternity I'm talking about, your very existence, your soul. God has poured out His mercy and demonstrated His love by taking upon the wrath of His judgement upon Himself when we crucified His Son Jesus Christ on the cross in Jerusalem and rose up to life three days later to prove that He was the Christ, God in the flesh.

Just like a father is jealous for His children's love toward him, God demonstrated His love for us even though we have been disobedient children. The bible says before we believe in Christ we are like children of wrath. But because God is so gracious and wants us to be with Him He gave Himself as a sacrifice and humbled Himself by coming down to the earth as a human being, living with the most lowly and despised among us. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

This is the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Once you forsake your sins, confess your sins to Him by your mouth, and put your trust and hope in Christ, God adopts you into His family. The bible says because you believe this message He sees you perfect in His eyes. And because you believe in this message you not only love the LORD but you turn from your sins because you hate them, and you turn in a new direction towards a holy life. Not in perfection, but in a new direction because of what He did for you. Just like Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he will raise you from the death made by your sins.

Please examine yourself according to His law and not of your own or anyone else’s point-of-view. The bible says the path to heaven is narrow and the gates of hell are wide. That is because so many people will reject this message. We are naturally at war with God, living the way we want and closing our minds and blocking our consciences from making the decision to believe.

Some people think that they've gone too far and God will never forgive them. Don't believe that! God will forgive you not matter what you have been or what you've done. He offers eternal forgiveness through Jesus Christ. He will forget your past and future sins. Your page will be wiped clean in His books once you have received Jesus as your Saviour.

If your conscience starts to bother you please read your bible, or if you don’t have one, get one and read one of the gospels in the New Testament; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Please consider this message today. I’m earnest about this. Your soul is hanging on the edge of eternity and you don’t know if tomorrow comes. Your decision today will make all the difference in eternity. Redemption and forgiveness come in Jesus Christ today.

And now why do you wait? Confess your sins, rise and be baptized to wash away your sins, calling on His name. Acts 22:16

If you want to know more about Jesus please talk to me.