| Do You Want To Deny Him And Die Or Confess Him And Live? Do you want to deny me and die or confess me and live? This is what God is asking. In Matt. 10:32-33 Jesus Says this whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my father which is in heaven and then goes on to say but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven! you know after I read that I started thinking of how Jesus spoke in the scripture pick up your cross and follow me and I thought of just how many people actually picks up the cross daily to follow after Jesus. My conclusion not many! now your probably asking yourself how I get that conclusion well it�s simple Jesus said to come out from among the world and be ye a separated people, now one thing I want to tell you is that separated means this to set or keep apart; more less to be isolated from the world. Now one thing I believe God finds wrong with his church and his people is that too much of the church is in the world and too much of the world is in the church! And when you get too much of the world in the church then well that�s where the scripture that says God will not bless over sin comes into play. Cause God is going to have him a church BUT not just any ordinary church. You see he AINT going to have a church that says come, any old way will do, come as ya please and do as ya want it wont bother us and he AINT going to have a church that say 1-2-3 church mouse every time they come to church. NO God aint going to have a church like that but you see he�s going to have a church that is going to be a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people. He�s going to have a church that is NOT going to be of a proud look and a stiff neck, but he�s going to have a church that when he says run well there just going to be crazy enough to listen to him and run, when he says shout their going to shout, when he says speak their going to speak, when he says walk the pews their going to walk the pews! You see God�s going to get him a church that is going to be like Paul was, there gonna say in God I move and in God I have my being, God�s going to have a people that aint going to care what the world thinks about them. But he�s going to have a bunch of people who says Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world and as long as God before us who can be against us! He�s going to have a bunch of people who�s not going to be a shamed of the gospel nor be afraid to tell about it wherever they go. God is going to have a people that is going to do as Timothy said in 2nd Timothy 2:15 their going to study to show thyself approved unto God, for a workman needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. You see he�s going to get a people who�s going to say like Paul said in Philippians 3:13-14 where he said but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. God�s going to get a people that�s going to forget every little eisem and seism that they have let stand in their way for so long and every little thing they have let keep them from getting closer to God well their going to get out of their way, and their going to lay everything that so easily besets them off to the side and say that their going to go forward. That there tired of being where they�re at and they want to get to where God wants them to be! GOD'S GETTING HIM A CHURCH TOGETHER You listen at me God�s going to get him a people who�s going to have a positive attitude towards everything and say I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me and is going to say that no weapon formed against me shall prosper! God�s going to get a people that will do as Paul did their going to run the race and when they feel like that their tired or weak well then that�s when God�s going to come along and remind them of what he told Isaiah and that would be that those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint! God�s going to get a bunch of people that is going to be like the three little Hebrew boys was when the king told everybody to bow down and worship his golden image, and they did not Hey boys you listen at me now that message got back to the king that there was three little Hebrew boys that wouldn�t bow to his image, and I believe the bible says that the king got filled with anger and called for these three little Hebrew boys to be brought before him and they where brought before him and the king said unto them �Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? � and the bible goes on to say that the king would give them one more chance to bow and worship his images and his gods but the Hebrew boys didn�t bow nor worship and the Hebrew boys answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou has! man what courage these boys had they was willing to lay their life on the line for the Lord and what zeal they had for the Lord to not worship the kings gods and not to commit spiritual idolatry oh I believe God finds to many of his people committing spiritual idolatry and God aint pleased with these people for he said he once winked at ignorance but know commanded all men everywhere to repent. Oh but God is looking for a bunch a people who will be like the Hebrew boys and stand upon for what they believed in and have faith in him that will not be moved be solid as a rock, as a tree that's planted by the waters and say that I will not be moved. that�s the type of people God is looking for He aint looking for a bunch of whiney christians that always complains, but he�s looking for a people that will say although I�m sick and in bed I still got breath and as long as there is breath in this old body it�s gonna praise the Lord. God is looking for a people that will say father send me I�ll go, Lord I�m not afraid put me on the battle field. He�s looking for a people that will say I�m gonna left the blood stained banner of the Lord, oh he�s looking for some more John the Baptists� who will go forth preaching say repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. God is looking for a people that will just listen to his voice. If I can get one thing through to you this it is that the church needs to go back to where it once was, get back to it�s first love for it�s strayed away and needs to get back to where God wants them to be NOT where man wants them, BUT where God wants them for God is coming back after a people that has made themselves ready, a people that's said just as John did when he said i must decrease so he can increase, more less John was saying Less of Me and More of you God God's coming back after a people that's decided to Confess Him and Live I wanna leave you with this JESUS IS COMING SOON....ARE YOU READY??? I know one thing I don�t wanna miss it for the World. Thank you for your time and I just ask that you remember me and I�ll remember you in prayer. God Bless. Shawn |