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Verse of the day

"Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus."
John‬ ‭1‬:‭35‬-‭37‬ ‭KJV

Thought:
Only Jesus!

This to me is an amazing passage in the context of what we see today. Today it’s so difficult for leaders and pastors to let people move on. We are so focused in building our own little castles that even when Jesus passes through we hold people back from following Him. Yes we are called to make disciples but disciples of Jesus and not of church members. The Apostle Paul in rebuking the Corinthian church reminds them that no man died for them but Jesus. It is not the commission of Jesus to the church leaders to build churches but to make disciples. Now disciples follow Jesus and not pastors. If what you can invest in someone’s life as they follow Christ has been exhausted you must be willing and encouraging to them to go where God can still pour into them and grow their walk with Christ.

Today we call people all sorts of names because they leave our churches as if we died for them, only Jesus died for them! Only Jesus can lead them! Only Jesus! Only Jesus!

Today's Sermon

Made through Him

In your evangelism, in your reaching out to the lost do not forget the compassion with which Jesus treated those that didn’t believe. It is sometimes very sad to see Christians (children of God) lack the compassion that their father shows throughout the scriptures. We are quick to look down at those that have not yet accepted the grace and mercy we have been given. In fact we have gone as far as labelling some of them condemned or damned but to this I am reminded of the following story:

“And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.”
‭‭John‬ ‭8‬:‭3‬-‭11‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Sometimes we look at this passage and pass judgement on the scribes and Pharisees but when you look at our reaction today, we do exactly the same. We pass judgement, justifiably so, but judgement nonetheless without first checking ourselves. Jesus in His response to those that wanted to stone the woman is a reminded of His compassion for us all “let him who is without sin throw the first stone”. It is not only this but also a reminder of our own shortcomings and the grace that has been given us to live. Sometimes when we have conquered in a particular part of our life we can, if we are not careful to remember compassion, look down on others because they still struggle with what we have already conquered. What we tend to forget is that Jesus, and not just us by our own strength, is the one who conquered for us hence we are called more than conquerors.

Compassion, although not spoken about a lot, is a powerful tool in reaching out to the lost. This is not to mean that we need to compromise our values and say yes to sin, no not at all. What it is is just a reminder that Jesus loved us, whilst we were yet in our sin. We did not get ourselves out of the path the eternal damnation, Jesus’s compassion and the compassion of this that shared the word with us in love lead us to the place of grace and salvation. All those that we are reaching out to are made in His image. The book of John reminds us:

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬ ‭KJV‬‬

All things were made through Him. Even the people we are meant to reach out to were made through Him. When we take this perspective and adopt this approach we view a lost world with the same compassion that He does. Then we can say as the Apostle Paul, “to live is Christ and to die is gain.” When we view His creation with the same compassion He does we are encouraged to act as He did, to resemble Him remembering that we were all made through Him!

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