The Prophetic Warnings Part Two

By Bill Goetz CRF Team

SECOND: BELIEVE

Then, believe that God does not want you to perish eternally in the torment of hell because of your sin. Believe that God loves you so much that He provided a way whereby He cold still be a just, holy and righteous God and yet pardon you – a sinner.

Believe that God did not just overlook sin, but that He sent His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to provide salvation by personally paying the penalty for sin.

Believe that Jesus Christ, whose life, death, burial and resurrection is the best-attested fact of antiquity, did come to earth to live, die, rise again and ascend to heaven in order to provide justification and salvation for all who trust Him.

Believe that He, and He alone, can save you because He has fully satisfied the just demands of God. Believe that you can’t become righteous in God’s sight by your own effort.

Believe that He wants to save you and that He will save you.

The Bible provides a solid basis for such belief:
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise … He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

For God so love the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

But God presented him (Jesus Christ) as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies the man who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:25, 26

I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you … that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures

The Prophetic Warnings

A B C Part

By Bill Goetz CRF Team

What should you do to avoid making the eternally fatal mistake of failing to heed the prophetic warnings God has given? Ho w do you ensure your eternal salvation? What action should you take? The answers to those questions, which are the most important anyone could possibly face in a lifetime, can be summarized from the Bible in ABC fashion.

In order to accept the offer of God’s grace and His salvation you must take the steps of:

1. Agreeing

2. Believing

3. Calling

FIRST: AGREE

First, agree with God in all that He says in His Word, the Bible, about the fact that you are separated from God by your sin. Admit that you are a sinner who has broken God’s righteous laws.

Agree with God that sin deserves His punishment, because He is a just, holy, righteous God. Admit that you are properly under that sentence and that you fully deserve it in all its awesomeness.

The Bible makes these facts very clear:

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Habakkuk 1:13a

Nothing impure will ever enter it (heaven) nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful. Revelation 21:27a

All wrongdoing is sin. I John 5:17a

For the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23a

The Bible describes three kinds of death; physical death (the state experienced when life leaves our bodies); spiritual death (spiritual separation from a holy God caused by our sin. A person can be alive physically but dead spiritually Ephesians 2:1; and eternal death (the fixed state entered into by the individual who dies physically while he is dead spiritually).

It is eternal death, in particular, which is the horrible result of receiving the wages of sin. The Lord Jesus Christ frequently described such a death as being eternal (without end) in a destiny which He called hell. He described hell as a literal place of judgment Matthew 13:42; a place of everlasting fire Matthew 18:8; a place of torment Luke 16:24, 28; a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth Matthew 13:50; a place of remorse Mark (;44-48; of bitter memory Luke 16:25,and a place originally prepared for the Devil and his angels Matthew 25:41. In fact, Jesus more often warned about hell than He spoke about heaven. It is not God’s will to desire that any person should be consigned to perish in hell 2 Peter 3:9, but rather that all should come to repentance.

But God’s justice requires that “the soul who sins is the one who will die Ezekiel 18:4.

So, agree with God, admitting that you are a sinner under God’s just condemnation for that sin and that you are in need of His salvation.

Bill Goetz CRF Team fro his book APOCALYPSE NEXT p 371-72

God Is Moving

By John McGregor
Executive Director
Canadian Revival Fellowship

As I travel across Canada and through the United States people always ask what do you see of revival today. It is important to remember that because we are not seeing great movement in North America that God is still moving in many instances around the world.

When the people of God realize that nothing can be done in human strength they begin to seek the Lord. CRF teams who are ministering internationally comment on the hunger for God in various places, in South America, in Asia and eastern Europe the presence of God is touching lives in a deep way. In Africa it is humbling to work along side pastors and leaders who have nothing of our materialistic world but they are mightily used by God through the Gospel.

So let me encourage you today as you read this devotional. God is working in revival even today as His Word is declared, consider what the Word of God says in Colossians chapter 1 and verses 5 and 6:

5. Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of the truth, the gospel. 6. which has come to you just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth.

Notice in verse 6 how it says that the Word of truth is constantly bearing fruit and increasing. God has not changed, His Word is still the issue and when His Word is proclaimed in the power of His Spirit lives change to His Glory.

There are times when the people of God content themselves with empty cisterns which hold no water. Human philosophy and human ingenuity are a poor substitute for the genuine working of the Holy Spirit. Yes, God is working today and we need to come to the place where only His Word and His Spirit and directing our lives, then we too will be seeking His Glory and not our own.

God bless you as you seek Him.