WHAT’S HINDERING YOU

Baptism is an outward display of your inward profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

Acts 8:37, “… If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

Some you probably received an unscriptural baptism at birth. Maybe, you got baptized thinking that was the means by which grace was bestowed upon you. Maybe you thought baptism was how a person gets to Heaven. I am here to tell you, on the authority of God’s Word, if you have not been born again, that water that you were sprinkled with, that ran over your forehead as a baby, or maybe someone wiped it across your brow in the shape of a cross, only got you wet!

If you have never trusted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you’re still on your way to hell. But the good news is you don’t have to! You can trust Jesus right now and go to Heaven! You can get into a local, New Testament church being discipled in the doctrines of Jesus Christ, following Jesus, and obeying His commands to be baptized! The Eunuch asks Phillip in Acts 8, “See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?” Phillip’s answer was Scriptural and as simple as ”… If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.”

Are you saved and on your way to Heaven? If not, what’s hindering you?

A FEW ANSWERS FOR PROFESSING CHRISTIANS SUPPORTING THE PRO-CHOICE MOVEMENT

            The Bible has the answers.

Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:3

            Many professing Christians think abortion is okay. Their reasoning is based in the fallacy that it’s the woman’s body and she should be able to do with it what she wants. But what they don’t understand is our bodies are not ours. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 clears it up, What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

             They also don’t understand that the “unwanted” pregnancy could have been prevented if they would have followed God’s Word in the first place—abstain from sexual sin. Abstaining from all sexual sin, including premarital sex is God’s way of preventing “unwanted” babies. (By the way, there has never been a baby conceived in the womb that God didn’t want to be born.)

            Lastly, the question arises, “What do we do with all of the children in the world that’s already here?” Maybe, follow scripture on that one too? James 1:27 says, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” The Christian way to support children is to give them a hand up, not a hand out. It is not to give them a fish so they can eat for a day but it is to teach them to fish so they can eat for a lifetime!

            One last thought; Why not find answers in God’s Word? For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: Proverbs 6:23 Unless, that’s the real issue of the problem; you don’t want to follow what His Word says to start off with?