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| Archive sermon from a meeting at jaycee park Lies that keep people from Christ. |
| Delivered by Pastor Chuck Marshall |
| And when the weather was nice, Father and children would romp together on the back lawn while Mother looked on with happy smiles. Then one day a village gossip started a story, saying that he was being unfaithful to his wife, a story entirely without foundation. But it eventually came to the ears of the young wife,and it was more than she could bear. Reason left her, and that night when her husband came home, there was no one to meet him at the gate, no laughter in the house, no fragrant aroma coming from the kitchen- only a cold feeling that chilled his heart with fear. Down in the basement he found the threeof them. Sick and in despair, the young mother had first taken the lives of her two children and then her own. In the days that followed, the truth of what happened came out - a gossip's tongue,a fabricated tale, a terrible tragedy. This isn't just the story of the damage done by an untamed tongue.It's the story of a woman who believed a lie, a lie that didn't fit with what she knew about her husband, a lie she didn't have to believe. What a tragedy, but no greater a tragedy than when someone believes a lie that keeps them from coming to Christ page 3 |
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| And keeps them from bringing other to Christ. 6. Coming to Christ will take all the fun out of life. Coming to Christ means you are submitting to one who is the rigthful ruler of your life.Does that mean there will be boundaries for you.Of course it does. We tell our children "No" and expect them to live in a disciplined manner because we want themto be productive, worthwhile, and liked.So what's the problem? What's good enough for our children isn't good enough for us? Because a parent wants his child to amount to something, does that make him kill-joy? Or does it maen he's working for his child's long term joy? Autually the Lord is the author of joy and pleasure. "In his presence there is fullness of joy, at his right hand there are pleasuees for evermore." But he wants to give pleasure without guilt,joy without need of judgment. To say that being a Chistian takes all the fun out of life is like spreading a rumor just before christmas that the toymaker hates for children to have fun. the toymaker invents ways for them to have fun. Yes, pleasure without refernce to standards has to go. But low living, boundryless pleasure is hollow, ruins lives,and gets people hurt. Is that really fun? 7.Christians are no better than anyone else. It certainly is not true that just because a person is a chirstian,he will always do better than someone else just because that person isn't a christian. Christians time and again prove themselves to be capale sinners. Sin just looks so much worse on a christian. It's such a contrast with what you have |