God's Neighborhood

October 3, 2007

Eph 2:13 WNT
(13) But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been brought near through the death of Christ.


We in our lives have been far away from God. We were not even in the same country much less the same zip code. God could never allow us in the same area as He was because of our sin.

Ephesians tells us though that we can now be in the same neighborhood. Was it anything we did. No, we could never be good enough to do it. It was the death of Christ that did it for us. I could never do anything that would allow me to be in that area. Only Jesus could let me talk to God one on one.

We have a privilege that the world does not. Is this the message that we need to bring to the world, that they can know they can approach God without fear?

==Translation Information
NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN SPEECH by Richard F. Weymouth

The Goden Sceptre

September 22, 2007

Est 4:11 ASV
(11) All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.


What a perfect picture of how we are to approach God. Think about it.

The world thinks about God as the King. No one can approach Him unless he calls Him. If a person does it is to be absolute death.

We on the other hand, believers in God, know, that we can come to God at any time. He holds out the Golden Sceptre to us. That Golden Sceptre has a name of Jesus. Anytime we want to approach God, we know that we will see Jesus reaching out to us.

Go to God any time and talk to Him. He will listen to you.