REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND TURN TO GOD

God's message to the world: Repent of your sins and turn to God!

God has a message for this world and he wants this message proclaimed.  It is the message that was preached by the great prophets of the Old Testament.  It is the message that was preached by Jesus Christ when he was here on this earth.  And it is the message that Jesus instructed his followers to preach to the entire world.  That message is:  REPENT OF YOUR SINS, TURN AWAY FROM THEM, AND TURN TO GOD!  Forsake the way of Darkness and Sin and turn to the way of Light, Life and Truth as found in Jesus Christ.  If you do this there is forgiveness for you.  If you do not the consequences are very dire. 

Turn to God.  Commit your heart and life to him.  Renounce the Way of the World.  Become a believer in Jesus Christ and a follower of His way.  Become a Christian.  Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live.  And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die." (John 11:25-26) and "I am the way, the truth and the life.  No man comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6).  Jesus died for our sins.  By his atonement we can have life if we serve him.

Christianity is about a personal relationship with God: a relationship characterized by a love of God and the following of His way, not from fear, but from love.  It is about an allegiance to God, a commitment of heart and life to him.  It is about living by God's principles and rules.  It is about following in God's way.  And what is God's way?  The Way of God is the way taught to us by Jesus Christ.  It is the Way of Jesus.  God's way is the way of honesty, integrity, goodness, virtue, moral purity. We live in a world that is deeply depraved,very immoral, terribly wicked.  God's way is a way that is diametrically opposite to the ways, outlooks and values of this world. God is a biased being. He is not tolerant of sin. He has a very strong bias against sin. He has created a hell as punishment for the sinner. The Bible clearly states that fornicators, adulterers and homosexuals will go to hell. God's way is a morally straight, virtuous, clean life. If moralstraightness, chastity and cleanness are puritanical, then the Bible is a very puritanical book. Someone may ask, "What is sin?" The answer to that question is, "Sin is what God says is sin." He is our maker.  He tells us how he expects us to behave. If we defy him and live however we please, it is at our own peril.We have been dully warned. He has repeatedly given mankind warning of the consequences of sin. It is eternal hell.  There will be a day of judgment when all will be judged. No one will be exempt. John the Baptist preached a fire and brimstone message of repentance. Jesus preached the same message. We live in a world that very badly needs to listen to that message. We live in an age of great Christian apostasy. It is everywhere.  True Christianity is very hard to find.  Most Christianity is nominal Christianity.People go through motions. They think they are Christians because they attend a certain church.  They trust what the preacher is telling them. The true message of the Bible is rarely heard today.It is just not socially acceptable.  It is not politically correct.Hence it has been altered, twisted, distorted, diluted, sugar-coated,or replaced with a completely false message just to make it attractive and popular with the masses. One finds the truth by serious reading of the Bible. That is the only way.  You cannot trust man.

Most people have no convictions. On religious matters, they don't know what to think. They are easily misled.  And they are too lazy to think or act.  So they go with the flow, follow the crowd.  They think they can't go wrong by following the crowd.  They feel, "The majority can't be wrong."  Well, that is a terrible mistake.  That is the road to hell.  The crowd is almost always wrong.  

   
   Ezek 18:21-23   But if the wicked will turn from all his sins 
   that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that 
   which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not 
   die. {22} All his transgressions that he hath committed, they 
   shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he 
   hath done he shall live. {23} Have I any pleasure at all that 
   the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he 
   should return from his ways, and live? 

   1 Cor 6:9-10   Do you not know that the unrighteous will not 
   inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither 
   fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, 
   nor sodomites, {10} nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, 
   nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 

   Gal 6:7-8   Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever 
   a man soweth, that shall he also reap. {8} For he that soweth 
   to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that 
   soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

   Gal 5:19-21   Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which 
   are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 
   {20} Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, 
   strife, seditions, heresies, {21} Envyings, murders, 
   drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of the which I tell you 
   before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which 
   do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

   Eph 5:3-12   But fornication, and all uncleanness, or 
   covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh 
   saints; {4} Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor 
   jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 
   {5} For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, 
   nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in 
   the kingdom of Christ and of God. {6} Let no man deceive you 
   with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath 
   of God upon the children of disobedience. {7} Be not ye 
   therefore partakers with them. {8} For ye were sometimes 
   darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of 
   light: {9} (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and 
   righteousness and truth;) {10} Proving what is acceptable unto 
   the Lord. {11} And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works 
   of darkness, but rather reprove them. {12} For it is a shame 
   even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 

   Prov 24:12   If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not 
   he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth 
   thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every 
   man according to his works? 

   Mat 16:27   For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his 
   Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man 
   according to his works.

   Heb 9:27  It is appointed unto man once to die .. and after that 
   the judgment. 

   Gen 6:5-6   And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in 
   the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his 
   heart was only evil continually. {6} And it repented the LORD 
   that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his 
   heart.

   Jer 17:9-10   The heart is deceitful above all things, and 
   desperately wicked: who can know it? {10} I the LORD search 
   the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according 
   to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 

   Ezek 18:4   The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 

   Jer 17:7-8   Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and 
   whose hope is in him. {8} For he shall be as a tree planted 
   by the waters, that spreadeth out her roots by the river. 
   She does not fear when heat cometh; but her leaf shall be 
   green; and is not anxious in the year of drought, neither 
   shall cease from yielding fruit. 

   Mat 6:19-21   Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, 
   where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break 
   through and steal: {20} But lay up for yourselves treasures in 
   heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where 
   thieves do not break through nor steal: {21} For where your 
   treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

   Mat 6:33   But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his 
   righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.