2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 33 trips to carry that many people.

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Evangelical?

WHAT IS AN EVANGELICAL?

It appeared to be a genuine question, so I sought to give an honest answer.

“An evangelical is one who holds to and emphasizes the Good news revealed in the Bible of Jesus’ work to rescue lost sinners and restore them to a right relationship with the living God.” Because this is the essence of Christianity, and the only way to escape the downward drag of sin.

 I further explained that: “everyone is a lost sinner and all therefore ought to tremble at the thought of being judged by One who isn’t, One who sees and records everything anyone ever does, doesn’t do and says! One who has declared that just ‘one’ sin is ‘one’ too many, as it means that the sinner is guilty in His sight, and therefore unfit for a relationship with the holy and perfect One.

I then had the privilege of speaking of  “Jesus’ incredible work to deliver the guilty from judgment, make them acceptable to God and establish a new life, which begins now and continues without end.”

 AN EVANGELICAL has good news for sinners, explaining to them that: “they are called to ‘repent’ and ‘believe’ that Jesus Christ conquered sin and death in His death and resurrection. That He is a substitute, bearing  guilt and giving His righteousness, thereby creating a whole new person who enjoys the honour of knowing God now and looking forward to enjoying Him forever.”

 Clearly he had much to contribute to the conversation, and freely interrupted me, but no one seemed to have explained these things to him! Like so many today, he’d grown up and been educated in an atmosphere of space men and evolution, choosing rather to embrace their world view of futility, of living for the present, because when you are dead you are dead!

JESUS CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD AND WAS SEEN BY OVER 500 WITNESSES!  Death is not the end of life, just the beginning of forever.

EVANGELICALS are committed to informing mankind of God’s way of Salvation! Giving hope by dispelling darkness and ignorance.

Mark 16:15–16 (NKJV)

He [Jesus] said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 

Romans 1:16 (NKJV)

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:18 (NKJV)

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

A Table Loaded With FREE Gospel Literature

 For God so loved the world, not just a few,
The wise and great, the noble and the true,
Or those of favored class or rank or hue.
God loved the world. Do you? Source Unknown

AS WINTER APPROACHES, THE STREET OUTREACH MUST BE PUT ON HOLD, BUT THE ‘GOSPEL’ IS THE SAME IN EVERY SEASON.

It has been a privilege to speak with so many, including those who disagree.

We are praying that even now God might open your heart and mind to understand and embrace Jesus Christ as Saviour.

Please feel free to make contact, we’d love to carry on our conversations with you.

Market Place

Moors Explorer

Locomotive, turning around, will you?

War Weekend, Pickering October 11

Railway at War, Oct 2011

No he wasn't getting 'nicked'!

 Over 10,000 people swamped Pickering on this glorious, sunny October Saturday.

These Pictures were taken at 10 o’clock in the morning:

Birdgate

Smiddyhill

Hungate / Ropery Traffic Lights

This is the Ropery and Market Place at around 11:30:

The Ropery and Park Street

Market Place from the Ropery.

People, People, People, all day to spend strolling around admiring the culture and machinery of War.

Parade

Parade 1

Parade 2

A privilege afforded to so few by the sacrifice of so many, over 40,000,000 shed their blood to establish peace and ensure freedom.

Tragically, while ‘the Second World War’ ended, people still fight and war seems to be ever present.

Man has always struggled to find peace in the world around him, when the problem is actually on the inside.

Mark 7:21–23

“From within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”

 It Was Our Privilege to be out among the crowds telling  of God’s provision to bring peace on the inside, through the ‘blood’ of His Son.

The Greatest Battle In History took Place on the Hill called Calvary. Here sin’s grip on people was finally broken for believers. Through faith in Jesus Christ they find peace with God, their neighbours and themselves.

Peace In Our Time.

Lot’s of people stopped to speak and take away literature, the news that real peace is available was gladly received.

2 Corinthians 5:19 

God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Colossians 1:20

and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

 Romans 5:1 

 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ

Philippians 4:7 

the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

“We have not only peace towards the outer world, but peace within. After all, happiness and peace lie more within the man than in anything about him. Heaven lies more in the heart than in golden streets, and hell’s flame consists rather in man’s tortured conscience than in the Tophet fire which the breath of God has kindled. So the peace which Jesus gives is within us; “the good man is satisfied from himself.” C H Spurgeon 1343.148

The deepest want of man is not a desire for happiness, but a craving for peace; not a wish for the gratification of every desire, but a craving for the repose of acquiescence in the will of God: and it is this which Christianity promises. Christianity does not promise happiness, but it does promise peace.

Raining Again.

All Covered Up.

Nothing to do but hand out some leaflets.

For the first time someone crumpled one up and put it in the bin!

Surprised? No! Disappointed? Yes!!

Most folks take them and at least seem to wait until they get home before they decide what to do with them.

Jesus wept for people like that:

 Luke 13:34 (NKJV)

 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

 Like The Prodigal Son of old, they’d rather have a good time now than live in God’s World and Presence.

The encouraging thing is that the Prodigal came to his senses –  and returned to enjoy God’s Love and Favour.

 Luke 15:17–19 (NKJV)

 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!  I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

I hope you know the conclusion of the story, and that you will be encouraged to turn back to God!

Take note thought of that little word ‘sin’ – it’s really gone out of fashion.

Man calls sin an accident; God calls it an abomination. Man calls sin a blunder; God calls it blindness. Man calls sin a chance; God call it a choice. Man calls sin a defect; God calls it a disease. Man calls sin an error; God calls it enmity. Man calls sin fascination; God calls it fatality. Man calls sin infirmity; God calls it fatality. Man calls sin infirmity; God calls it iniquity. Man calls sin luxury; God calls it lawlessness. Man calls sin a trifle; God calls it tragedy. Man calls sin a mistake; God calls it madness. Man calls sin a weakness; God calls it willfulness. There is only one remedy for sin—the precious blood of Christ, which was shed for the remission of sins on Calvary’s Cross.—Author Unknown

Fashion aside, it’s the reason people treat the gospel with contempt and through away any reminders.

Unbelief is the most destructive sin known to man, but it can all change, and does in those who have the change of mind that works repentance and takes you back to confess your folly to our God and Father.

Jesus used only 504 words to tell the Parable of the Prodigal Son, judged by some to be the greatest story ever written. James Hastings

 There is hope today, even for the young lady who threw the leaflet away, if she will but ‘come to her senses’, repent and return home.

 Mark 1:15 (NKJV) [The words of Jesus' first recorded sermon]

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

 Jesus Christ, lived and died that Prodigals might be welcomed home.

The Gospel is for all who've come to their senses.

Don't huff and puff, turn back to God today.

 

 

Capital ‘C’ or small ‘c’?

She’d Stood at a Distance

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Studying the Banner

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around the Table.

Table Banner

“Have you got the answers?”

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I asked as she drew near

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and was about to pass by.

“No”,  she chirped, “I suppose I’m a Christian with a small “c”!

 ”So you think there are two kinds of Christian“, “Yes” was her prompt reply!

The conversation developed to the point where she informed me that she regularly attends one of the local churches, but that she wasn’t one of those ‘born again’, capital ‘C’ christians.

She liked to hear about Jesus, but knew not that transformation wrought  by the Spirit of God whereby He removes the shutters and floods the inner man with the light of the world.

BUT , there is only one kind of ‘Christian’, the biblical kind, those who have experienced the life transforming power of the Word of God applied by the Spirit of God :  

2 Corinthians 4:6 (NKJV)

For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:22–23 (NKJV)

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,  having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

The words ‘Born Again‘ may have been robbed of  meaning by over zealous enthusiasts, but when used in context, they describe that wondrous work of God in which He acts on a sinner to give them life, life which expresses itself in a heart cry to God for salvation and reaches out in repentance and faith toward Jesus Christ for salvation.

James 1:18 (NKJV)

Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

1 John 5:1 (NKJV) Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,  

Everyone Needs to be ‘Born Again‘, Jesus says it’s a ‘must’ and so essential to ‘seeing’ or ‘entering’ the ‘Kingdom of God’ . [John  chapter 3 and verses 3 and 5]

2 Corinthians 5:17  (NKJV)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 

A strange phrase that has crept into our vocabulary in recent years is “born again Christian.” The phrase is redundant. It is like saying “dog dog.” The phrase suggests there is more than one kind of Christian. There is not! If you are born again, you are a Christian. If you are a Christian in the scriptural sense, you have been born again!

Nothing less than this revolutionary transformation provides the answer to the questions on the banner!

7822 Locomotive

Bikes and Bikers

63395 Locomotive

PICKERING ANTHOLOGY

The Moors Explorer - Locomotive 825

THOUGH IT WAS A VERY QUIET DAY IN TOWN

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AT LEAST 4 PEOPLE WANTED TO TALK 

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ABOUT IT! 

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THE MOORS EXPLORER – NO!!! 

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THE GOSPEL – YES!!!!

Good News for You.

The Locomotives come and go but God’s Word is fixed and secure.

1 Peter 1:24,25 (NKJV)

“All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
But the word of the Lord endures forever.”

Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

Though Pickering was quiet:

Bridge Street Junction

Park Street Junction

Market Place

A Number of People Stopped to Talk.

The first man has spoken with me each week for the last couple of months, we’ve considered God’s Kindness at length, unfortunately he’s not yet able to comprehend the incredible nature of God’s free gift of salvation and wants to recommend himself as one who is kind and therefore  to be commended by the Lord on Judgment Day.

No one sees them-self as God does until the Lord of Grace and Mercy opens their blind eyes – Do you see yourself as He does? This is one part of what He has to say about people:

Romans 3:10–12 (NKJV)

As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”

 Titus 3:4–6 (NKJV)

But when the kindness and the love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

A lady spent a few minutes collecting leaflets and booklets from the table, her daughter taught religious studies and would find the literature useful. Was she a Christian, sadly no, just another Roman Catholic ensnared in the dogma of centuries of error. The antichrist had taught her that Jesus died for her past sins, but now it is up to her to work to be good and pay them for forgiveness when she stumbled.

Romans 6:23 (NKJV)

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 2:5 (NKJV)

For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

The third person had been a professional singer, he was able to speak of the well known performers of yesteryear with familiarity, having performed in public with them.

He enquired of my text for Sunday Morning, to which I quickly replied:

John 10:9 (NKJV)

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

He repeated it aloud in my hearing and suggested he might just come and hear it preached – but never did!

Jesus’ words to the religious leaders of His day seem appropriate here:

John 5:39–40 (NKJV)

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

 Dear Reader, Consider Your Standing Before God, Repent of your Unbelief and Flee to Jesus Christ, He is the Door and Your Only Access into the Presence of God.

A party of friends wanted to enter a quaint old parish church. Going to the sexton to ask for the key, they received it with the promise that he would join them at the earliest opportunity. When he met them he found them still standing before the door, endeavouring to open it with the ponderous key. Taking the key out of their hands he said, “Excuse me; I should have told you that the door was open.” Then he lifted the latch, and the crowd entered the sanctuary without further bother. One who tries to open an unlocked door with a key will have to stay outside. It is that way with an ordinary door. It is also that way with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the door! He is the door to the kingdom of heaven. He is the only door! And this door is open. We need only to step inside through faith in him; and all else will follow: holiness, service, happiness. 

Praise God that He has not withdrawn His offer of forgiveness for sin! This good news, however, is for sinners only. Many people, though, don’t see themselves as sinners in need of salvation. They make excuses like these:
• My good deeds outweigh my bad.
• I’m not as bad as some people.
• Usually I’m a good person.
Their shortcomings, they feel, don’t jeopardize their standing before Almighty God.
Imagine a citizen being brought to trial for several charges of shoplifting. It would be useless for that person to appeal to the judge by saying: “Don’t forget, my good deeds outweigh my bad.” “I’m not as bad as many others.” “Most of the time I’m a law-abiding citizen.” The offender must be judged according to the offense, not according to previous good deeds. If justice is to be done, someone must pay, and that someone should be the offender—unless another is allowed to bear the penalty instead. That’s exactly what Christ in love did for sinners, which we all are, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).
Our Daily Bread, December 8

STOLEN WATER IS SWEET

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
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Such are the words of  ’Folly’ as she calls from the seat  by her door, to all who pass by.

Tragically millions believe her and indulge themselves in deadly rebellion, vainly imagining that all is well so long as no harm is done.

HYPNOTIZED  OR ENCHANTED BY HER SPELL, A DARK DELUSION POSSESSES THIS PRESENT GENERATION.

Those Alarmists Who Say Otherwise Are A Best Nuisances, At Worst An Embarrassment.

Warnings of the danger are ignored, it’s bearers reviled.

Goodnews for an uninterested audience.

Pre-occupied With Pleasure and Enjoyment, Life Is Stolen From Them Forever.

A Picture in the Making

Proverbs 9:18 (NKJV)

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 7:26–27 (NKJV)

For she has cast down many wounded, and all who were slain by her were strong men. Her house is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.

WISDOM CALLS UPON THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE TO CHOOSE LIFE, TODAY!

Proverbs 9:6 (NKJV)

Forsake foolishness and live, and go in the way of understanding.

John 14:6 (NKJV)

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

RAINING!

Raining!

Stopped Raining! Still Wet.

Question: What normally follows two days of rain?

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Answer: Monday.

People Moan and Grown about it, but we can’t live without water!

Water is absolutely essential to every form of life. Every living cell of both plants and animals depends on water.
We have about five litres of blood in the blood vessels of our body. Water makes up about three litres of the blood fluid.
Of every ten pounds of our weight, about seven pounds are water.
Without water to drink, we would die in a short time.

Although the Bible is not a science book, the descriptions referring to scientific processes are accurate.

Take, for example, the hydrological cycle. Rain or snow falls to the ground and runs off into streams, which run into rivers, which run into the sea. Water evaporates from the surface of the ocean and returns to the clouds, where it becomes rain and snow and falls to the ground again. The hydrological cycle is a discovery of modern times, but the Bible speaks of it in Isaiah 55:10

Isaiah 55:10 (NKJV)

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.

Job 36:26–28 (NKJV)

“Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; nor can the number of His years be discovered. For He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist, which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man.

The recurring cycle of rains and crops is abundant proof that God, who has created all things, upholds what he has made.

Acts 14:15–17 (NKJV)

“you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

ALL CREATION CALLS US TO WORSHIP AND SURRENDER TO HIS CARE

 We love sunshine

Balmy weather and magnificent locomotive 80072

Enjoying the street cafe in the sunshine.

 Together with the rain, they make life possible.

They are God’s Gracious Gifts:

Matthew 5:45 (NKJV)

for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Gifts, which like the gift of His Son, reveal to us our need to repent and believe the Gospel.

Don’t give in to complaining about the rain, remember it’s function, be thankful, recognize God’s goodness and live!

Acts 17:30–31 (NKJV)

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

THE GOOD NEWS

 

 

 

 

HAPPY DAY?

HAPPY DAY? Depends on What’s Happening!

The Happy Couple.

Beginning A New Life Together.

Its Enough To Turn Your Head.

BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES LATER!

 HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON WHAT’S HAPPENING.

The Same Day Can Be Full Of Delight for Some and a Disaster for Others.

God’s Word Describes The Last Day Like This:

Revelation 20:12 (NKJV)

And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

Revelation 20:15 (NKJV)

And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:27 (NKJV)

But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

 FOR SOME A DISASTER, FOR OTHERS A DELIGHT!

Too many have embraced the lie of religion that their works will be enough to give access into the land without tears.

There is but one way in, through Him who describes himself as the door:

John 10:9 (NKJV)

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

The ‘Lamb’s book of Life, belongs to Him, and records the names of those for whom He died.

Those included are revealed in their complete surrender to Jesus Christ, which means confessing you are caught out and condemned by the law, and that you are relying on Christ’s good work, not your own works.

John 1:29b (NKJV)

 “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!“

THE GOOD NEWS IS FREELY AVAILABLE HERE:

Free And Comprehensive Good News

It’s Time You Faced The Awesome Truth:

Matthew 19:24 (NKJV)

And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 18:3 (NKJV)

Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Those who have their names in the Lamb’s book of life, and who alone will enjoy the future happiness reserved for them, have abandoned the notion that you can write yourself in His book by their own efforts, and humbly come as a child to receive eternal life as a free gift from Jesus Christ.

John 5:24 (NKJV)

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

You’ve probably heard the  story of the man whose name was printed in the obituary column of a daily paper by mistake. Greatly disturbed, he went to the newspaper office and exclaimed, “This is terrible! Your error will cause me no end of embarrassment and may even mean a loss of business. How could you do such a thing?” The editor expressed regrets, but the man remained angry and unreasonable. Finally the editor said in disgust, “Cheer up, I’ll put your name in the birth column tomorrow and give you a fresh start!”
Are you registered in Adam’s obituary column, or is your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life? There are only two books, and you are in one or the other!

Neither Coach,

Nor Motor Vehicles,

Nor Trains. 80072

PICKERING, MARKET PLACE, 13th August 2011.

WERE YOU IN TOWN TODAY?

Here are some pictures around town, can you see anyone you know?

Twelve Thirty Two.

Twelve Forty Nine

Thirteen Twenty

The place remains the same, only the people change.

Here’s where I stand and take these pictures:

ULTIMATE QUESTIONS NEED SATISFACTORY ANSWERS

A Number of People Stopped To Talk, One Lady Even Before The Table Was Setup!

A Methodist Lay Preacher, A Christian Family From Leeds, A Little Old Lady who was frightened off by the mention of being ‘born again’.

Then finally a man who wanted to be friendly with everyone. So concerned that he should not be coerced to conform to anyone’s criteria, he’d invented a whole new set of boxes to tick!

HE RAISES THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER EVERYONE CAN BE RIGHT AT THE SAME TIME.

Can you be BOTH black and white at one and the same time, I fear not, you are simple left as a shade of gray.

Jesus clearly says, there is only one way to God, you must come through Him:

John 14:6 (NKJV)

 “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

That’s What Peter Understood Him To Have Said: 

Acts 4:12 (NKJV)

 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

My friend agreed, as of course you might expect!

Then proceeded to explain that he believed each person would be judged by the light he had received.

This is often thought to be the meaning of:

Romans 2:11–16 (NKJV)

There is no partiality with God. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Tragically it describes the fate of ‘sinners’, whether they’ve had the privilege of the revelation of God’s Law or simply the Light of God’s Creation.

Either way they are lost and without hope, it may sound generous to talk about being ‘judged by the light you have’, but in fact its the terrible truth that:

Romans 3:10–12 (NKJV)

 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.”

Romans 3:19–20 (NKJV)

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Those who’ve never heard of the Living God, The God of the Bible, fair no better, the light of creation defines them as sinners too:

Romans 1:20–25 (NKJV)

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 3:23 (NKJV)

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!

IT’S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT WE ARE HONEST WITH PEOPLE.

Jesus Christ came to save sinners, and all who recognize their name, and only they, will find themselves ‘safe’ in the salvation provided in and by Jesus Christ.

John 3:16 (NKJV)

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

NO FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST – THEN YOU HAVE NO HOPE!

TRUSTING ON, BELIEVING IN JESUS CHRIST, YOU HAVE PEACE WITH GOD.

PEACE LIKE A RIVER TRANSCENDS THE BELIEVING SOUL.