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The Church, with almost one voice, was offended by the Olympics opening ceremony where organizers featured provocatively dressed homosexuals staging a parody of the Last Supper with Jesus Christ and His disciples.  The Epoch Times quoted the influential Catholic Bishop Robert Barron of the Winona-Rochester Diocese in Minnesota saying, “This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is—they are naming it—and we should believe them” (July 31-Aug 6, 2024 edition).  USA Today quoted the French [Catholic} Bishops’ Conference:  “The scene was a mockery and derision of Christianity.” (July 29, 2024)

On the X platform, Franklin Graham took a similar position, stating the following –

Why would the International Olympic Committee allow the opening ceremonies to feature men in drag parodying the Last Supper? @elonmusk, @SpeakerJohnson, and many others quickly pointed out how disrespectful this was to Christians everywhere. Even more than being disrespectful to Christians, I would be concerned about being disrespectful to God. His Word tells us, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked” (Galatians 6:7). Whether you’re Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, or Protestant, it is offensive. 9:36 PM · Jul 27, 2024 828.5KViews

Graham spoke of Elon Musk, and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson along with others who claimed that the parody was “disrespectful…to Christians everywhere.”  In addition, he chose to quote Galatians 6:7, which in context addresses the problem of Christians continuing to practice sin, deceiving themselves thinking that there won’t be any consequences for their actions.  The truth of the matter is that the Bible doesn’t provide the luxury for the Church to be offended by the world or the sin it proudly and defiantly displayed at the Paris Olympics.  The Church is called to preach the Gospel, which it did not do on this occasion.

I would submit that it was a gigantic misstep by leaders of the Church who essentially cried, “Foul!  I’m offended!  Christians everywhere are offended!”  Since when does the Bible teach Christians to be offended?  Roman soldiers scourged Jesus and mocked Him, placing a crown of thorns upon His head and placed a purple robe upon Him.  Then the Jews, along with the chief priests and the officers cried out to Pilate, “Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him” (Jn 19:15 NASB95)!  My question to all of Christendom:  When did Jesus say, “I am offended. You are not respecting Me.”

Jesus clearly taught that if we are to be offended, we are to be offended by our own sin.  In Luke 13, news is relayed to the Lord that Pilate mingled (or shed) the blood of Galileans with Roman sacrifices.  Certainly, if the Lord were to be offended, it would be because of this atrocious act of Roman barbarism.  On the contrary, Jesus does not register an offense, but uses the news to teach His those who were following Him –

Luke 13:2–5 (NASB95)

² And Jesus said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate? ³ “I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. ⁴ “Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? ⁵ “I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Only those that realize and confess the truth of their spiritual poverty can experience the kingdom of heaven (Mt 5:3).  Only those that understand their true, sinful condition before the Lord will be comforted (Mt 5:4).  Having been buried with Christ, our old man died to being offended, but it appears the Church has forgotten this truth.  How can a dead man be offended when he feels nothing?

When the Jews went as far as to say that Jesus had a demon, He responded with, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.  But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges” (Jn 8:49-50 NASB95).  The text suggests that one who is offended by the world, is really seeking glory from the world.  This was certainly true of the Pharisees, “who loved the approval (or glory) of men, rather than approval (or glory) of God” (Jn 12:43 NASB95).  Jesus relied on the vindication of His Father.

Jesus did not promise that we, his disciples, would receive glory from the world.  On the contrary –

Matthew 5:10–12 (NASB95)

¹⁰ “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. ¹² “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 6:22–23 (NASB95)

²² “Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man. ²³ “Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets.

Jesus made it clear that we would be persecuted, insulted, falsely accused, hated, ostracized and call us evil (or of the devil).  Did He say to be offended?!  No!  He said for us to rejoice for our reward is great in heaven.  This is exactly what the apostles did after they were jailed and flogged by order of the high priest and the Sadducees (Acts 5:17-18) who were jealous of them – “So, they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name” (Acts 5:41 NASB95; emphasis mine).  Rather than preaching that they were offended, they focused on teaching and preaching that Jesus is the Christ (Acts 5:42).  How far we have drifted from the standard of the apostles and the Bible.  We, the Church, whiffed the ball regarding the Paris Olympics, missing both the ball AND the tee.  It demonstrated that the Church wants the glory and the respect of the world rather than approval that comes from God alone!

The apostle Peter encourages all of us with, “If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you (I Pt 4:14).  The Bible is quite clear.  We are to rejoice over our being offended for the sake of the Gospel, rather than proclaim that we are offended.  Peter continues with, “not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing“ (I Pt 3:9 NASB95).

When we read the account of Jesus being before Pilate, the Jews hurling accusations against Him, He did not register an offense.  He said to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world.  If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm” (Jn 18:36 NASB95).  He went on to explain, “You say correctly that I am a king, for this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth.  Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice” (Jn 18:37 NASB95).  He came to bear witness to the truth, not to be offended.  And yet, the Church boldly proclaimed that she was offended by the opening ceremonies of a worldly event.  What a sad and regrettable state of affairs for the Church to portray to a lost and dying world.

The Apostle Peter sums up our quest for the truth on the matter, setting Jesus’ response as the standard –

1 Peter 2:23 (NASB95)

²³ and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;

The Church Completely Whiffed the Ball Sitting on the Tee

The response from the Church could have been equal to Peter’s sermon on the day a worldwide audience was gathered for the day of Pentecost.  There in the midst of nonbelievers gathered in Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit was poured out, giving them utterance “speaking of the mighty deeds of God” (Acts 2:11b NASB95) demonstrating His power by causing the disciples to speak in languages not their own, but from Heaven.  The disciples overwhelmed by the power with which the Spirit of Christ was touching them appeared as those who were drunk.  Some of the witnesses of this powerful event mocked the disciples saying, “They are full of sweet wine” (Acts 2:13b NASB95).  The Holy Spirit wisely and precisely chose the time and place to birth the Church.

When did the disciples stand up and say that they were offended at being mocked?  It never happened.  By the power of the Holy Spirit, the disciples were preaching in a tongue not their own the mighty deeds of the Lord.  Peter stood up and preached the Gospel, never once saying that he was offended.  No!  Peter used the platform that the Lord had given him, a platform that  purposely caused the disciples to be mocked, and preached the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, crying out, “Be saved from this perverse generation!” (Acts 2:40b NASB95)

Peter’s preaching for men to be saved, stands as the Biblical standard concerning what the Church is called to do and be when the world mocks the Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.  Jesus’ and His disciple’s reactions were a far cry from that of Christian leaders that became enraged by the mockery of what was presented at the Paris Olympics.  The drift of these Church leaders appears to have deeply compromised their faith to such a level that their only response to the world’s mockery was to say, “You should not mock Christ!”  Only a backslidden Church has nothing to say other than, “Don’t mock Christians!”

Albeit true, the central issue is that we are called to preach the Gospel by the means set forth by the Apostle Paul when he was evangelizing the Corinthians:

1 Corinthians 2:1–5 (NASB95; emphasis mine)

¹ And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. ³ I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, ⁴ and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

For Church leaders to cry, “Foul,” only demonstrates the backslidden and powerless state of the Church.  The response from the Church in regard to the sinful scene during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics was so far from Biblical, it is laughable.  Satan orchestrated the scene and took center stage for all the world to see.  He was taunting the Church like Goliath mocked David.  In both instances, the eyes of many were upon the center stage, where the Lord was waiting for one to step up, who knew his God.  At the stage in Paris, none was found.  David, however, said, “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God” (1 Sam 17:26b NASB95).  He was not offended for himself; he was saying that the Living God he knew was offended by the mockery of Goliath – a far cry from the “I am offended” nonsense.  He rushed toward Goliath, killing him on the battlefield with one stone from his sling, evidence of supernatural power at work.  We have the Rock, Christ Jesus, and we are called to preach the Gospel just as David “preached” the stone in his sling through the power of the Spirit.

The Church’s response, long on words and devoid of power, was by the standard of the Bible, a complete and utter failure.  The lost and dying world heard our anemic and faithless words, “We are offended!”  The enemy was allowed to take center stage, because the world always gives evil a platform from which to operate.  Why would Christians be shocked at what the world does?!  The world is filled with sinners!  We have the good news!  And yet, the only response the Church offered was the whiff of the powerless words of weakness and nonsense, knowing little if any of the power of the Holy Spirit, to say nothing of the truth of the Gospel.

I would submit that the Church worldwide is adrift, devoid of power, losing the war every day against spiritual darkness because it has deeply offended the Holy Spirit, refusing to allow Him to move in power in and through His people in His own house.  If you want to be offended, be offended by that…and repent!!  Be offended that your church’s leadership does not move in the power of the Holy Spirit, never demonstrating the gifts Paul outlines in I Cor 12.  Stop being complacent that you aren’t being taught to move in the power of the Holy Spirit, because your leaders cannot teach you.  You should be disturbed!  You should be incensed that you and those around you are satisfied with powerless Christianity, which is a far cry from what the Lord purchased through His sacrifice on the cross.  The Lord is offended by those who are lukewarm.  The Church proved itself to all the world that it does not believe what it reads in the Bible, one more time.

Christianity is not a political action committee.  It is the truth of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ that is to be preached coupled with His power demonstrated, the standard set forth by the Lord Himself.  Jesus commanded us in Mk 16:15-18 (NASB95) –

¹⁵ And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. ¹⁷ These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

In Matthew 10:7-8 (NASB95), Jesus also said these words as He commissioned His disciples –

⁷ “And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ ⁸“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

My question to the offended Church is when will you cease being offended and telling the world you are offended?  When will you preach the resurrected Christ that sent His Spirit that we might be clothed with power from on high (Lk 24:49, cf. Jn 16:5-15; Acts 2:33)?  Jesus said plainly, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father” (Jn 14:12 NASB95).  Does the Church display this truth?  Did we display this truth to the world after the opening ceremonies? No!  On the worldwide T-Ball platform provided to preach the gospel, the Church WHIFFED and said, “I am offended, and I have the right to be offended.  You must respect Christians.”  If that isn’t the response of a backslidden Church, I have no idea what is.

The Church in many ways has become the antithesis of Peter, who with John, were used in the healing of the lame beggar (Acts 3:1-10), where 5000 souls came to the Lord (Acts 4:4) because of the power of the Lord through Peter’s demonstration and message (Acts 3:12-26), as well as the convicting power of the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:7-15), a truth completely lost on pastors, other Church leaders and congregations today.  When Peter and John were arrested for their obedience to preaching and demonstrating the Gospel, Peter was used to preach to the religious leaders in Acts 4:19-22 (please notice there is no whiffing here, nor did he complain that they were offended for being arrested) –

¹⁹But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; ²⁰for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” ²¹When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened; ²²for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

This is the boldness that the Holy Spirit gives to the believer (cf. Acts 4:29-31).  Peter’s words, the same spoken by Jesus when He was preaching to Nicodemus, a Pharisee, point to our problem.  Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you we speak that which we know and bear witness of that which we have seen; but you do not receive our witness” (Jn 3:11 NASB95).  What miracles and demonstrations have we seen and heard in the Church?  So very, very few, yet so many Christians are so very, very satisfied by the nothing that they have, yet don’t seem to care that they have nothing.  We are members of the Church of Laodicea, guilty of being blind, naked, miserable, wretched and poor (Rev 3:17), yet we claim to be rich.  We dare not cast off the Holy Spirit’s spiritual diagnosis, but we must hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Rev 3:22), a command repeated to each of the seven churches in Asia Minor and completely relevant to every church on earth today until Christ returns.

Surely, judgment will come to us as the Spirit has spoken to me, “The Church has no idea what I am bringing against it.”  Another judgment will undoubtedly play out concerning what the Lord said to the Church at Sardis, “Remember therefore what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent.  If therefore you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you” (Rev 3:3 NASB95).  Rest assured and be certain, the Lord will not whiff the ball of judgment He will hit against the Church.  He has said, “None are as guilty as My Church.”  These are staggering words spoken by the Spirit to the Church, which has no ears to hear, nor eyes to see, yet is prepared to cry out, “I am offended!”

The Lord proved to us, in front of the entire world, that we the Church are guilty, even more than those who live in the sin displayed at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.  How utterly disgraceful it was for us to have committed such a sin before the Lord, falling so short of His goal for us, we whiffed, with the attitude that, “I guess we told them!”

I would submit that the Lord expected far more from the Church given the opportunity He allowed to be teed up.

The Gospel Message to the Organizers of the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics

Your creative director stated that, “…I wanted to send a message of love, a message of inclusion and not at all to divide.”  However, it stands as a hollow and evil substitute for the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the righteousness and holiness He calls the world to.  The Father sent Jesus:  “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16 NASB95).

You openly lifted up the sin of homosexuality together with the Greek god of fertility, which is no god at all, but is a myth.  The Lord has said through His Scriptures the following –

Isaiah 44:6–8 (NASB95)

⁶ Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me. ⁷ ‘Who is like Me?  Let him proclaim and declare it; Yes, let him recount it to Me in order, From the time that I established the ancient nation. And let them declare to them the things that are coming And the events that are going to take place. ⁸ ‘Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none.

This is the God, the Ancient of Days, King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God that I preach to you.  It is He who calls you to repent of your sin and surrender your life to Him.  The Bible teaches that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God – everyone needs the free gift of salvation offered by turning to Christ and repenting of sin.

The sin of homosexuality is an abomination that caused the Lord to move in great judgment against the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah raining brimstone (burning sulfur) and fire from the Lord out of heaven, causing two other cities to be destroyed as well (Gen 19:24, 25, 29) because of their wickedness.  The balls of sulfur that were quenched by the waters of the Dead Sea, now much receded from those days, can be found in abundance where these cities once stood.  If that wasn’t enough, the archeological evidence in the burn layers discovered in the ruins of these cities are undeniable.  The One who brought judgment to Sodom and Gomorrah and two other cities in the same valley, also sent His Son to die for your sins and rose on the third day.  I suspect that you do not want to be judged by the Lord of the Bible; you must repent of your sin, seek His forgiveness, surrender your life to Jesus and thereby receive His forgiveness of all your sins.  There is no other way.

The Apostle Paul wrote the following –

Romans 1:21–32 (NASB95; emphasis mine)

²¹ For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. ²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. ²⁵ For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. ²⁸ And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; ³² and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Paul continued with this, warning Christians about the following –

1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (NASB95; emphasis mine)

⁹ Or 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 effeminate, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Followed by –

1 Corinthians 6:18 (NASB95)

¹⁸ Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

If your wicked portrayal wasn’t enough, you allowed a child to be involved in your evil drama.  You must know what Jesus says about exposing children to wickedness in Luke 17:2 (NASB95) – “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.”  Your sins are great, but none are too great to be forgiven by the One who died on the cross for your sins, and the sins of the entire world, Jesus Christ.  Again, you must repent of your sins and surrender your life to Jesus.

You presented spiritual darkness to the world.  The world’s message is that we are not to judge, however, please understand that this is not the truth of what Jesus taught:

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.  He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  This is the judgment that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil.  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who practices the truth, comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God (Jn 3:17-21 NASB95; emphasis mine).

The life that you are living and the message that you presented, are wickedness and an offense to God.  I claim no offense nor do I demand your respect.  I do claim that you are living a lie, attempting to teach others a lie – again a great offense to the Living God, maker of Heaven and Earth.  However, it is because of the love of the Father that He has reached out to you through Jesus, His Son, to whom all judgment has been given.  Jesus is calling you out of the lies of the darkness that you live in and the bondage of homosexuality you practice, into true freedom to walk in His righteousness and holiness, made possible through His sacrifice and the Holy Spirit that He sent (Ro 8:12-17).

I preach a message of hope, freedom and victory over sin through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.  The Bible says the following:

Romans 8:12–13 (NASB95; emphasis mine)

¹² So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— ¹³ for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

It is through the Scriptures, together with the power of the Spirit of Christ, which gives us victory over a life of sin and bondage.  Through Christ, we die to sin, are buried with Him in baptism, and transformed into who He always destined for us to be.  The reality of surrendering our lives to Jesus results is this:

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB95; emphasis mine)

¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Jesus, by His Spirit, will make you a new creature – a new person!  You can come into fellowship with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit, passing from death into life, with no threat of the second judgment that results in being cast into Hell.  Hell is a real place, that Jesus spoke about –

Matthew 5:22 (NASB95)

²² “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

Jesus taught His disciples about Hell in the following verses that you would do well to read, for they are a matter of life and death to you and the others around you.

Matthew 13:37–43 (NASB95; emphasis mine)

³⁷ And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, ³⁸ and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; ³⁹ and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ “So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. ⁴¹ “The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, ⁴² and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ “Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

The choice you have is straight forward that you must hear and understand.  Will you be counted as a tare, that the Lord spoke of, which are those that will be gathered and burned with fire?  Will you continue to commit your lawless acts, condemning yourself to be thrown into the furnace of fire?  Or will you be made clean and washed through the shed blood of Christ, that will take away the stain of sin that covers you, made righteous through the righteousness of Christ?  He becomes our righteousness, because none of us are perfect.  The Bible says that all of us have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God (Rm 3:23).  All of us need a savior;  Christians are those who have realized that they are sinners in need of a Savior, and have surrendered their lives to Him, turning their back on their sin-filled life of darkness.

No matter how dark your sin may be, He will accept you and cleanse you, but you must surrender your life to Him.  He will help you walk on the road of righteousness that He has built for you.  Don’t think you have to do it on your own!  The Holy Spirit will empower you to live a new life!  The road forward will be supernatural!

You have been deceived into thinking that you could never be free from the lust of your heart and mind.  I say you can, but only through the shed blood of Jesus Christ our Lord who loves you so much, that He came to die, was resurrected on the third day, so that you might live.  Through His obedience to the Father’s will, He laid down His life that you might be set free from sin, bondage and spiritual emptiness that results in walking away from the Father.  This is the time for you to come home.  You dare not wait.  The Bible says that now is the day of salvation (2 Cor 6:2).  Come home to Jesus now, the Son of God, who laid His life down for you and loves you!

You do not have to struggle on your own.  Jesus is prepared to engage in the battle against the spiritual darkness that has you in chains.  He came to seek and save those who are lost (Lk 19:10).  It is time to surrender your life, for the true life Jesus died to give you.  He said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (Jn 14:6).

You may have questions about what I have written.  I invite you to contact me through our ministry website by following this link: https://www.joshuarevivalproject.org/donate-contact, or simply send me an email at info@joshuarevivalproject.org.  No money is required to receive spiritual help, so I encourage you to take the step today toward Jesus Christ.

Acts 4:12 (NASB95)

¹² “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

Not Mohammed, not Buddha, not Confucius, nor by any another other name can you be saved and set free from your sin.  Salvation is offered only through Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, who is alive forever more.  Choose life today!

Come to the One who truly knows you and loved you enough to suffer and die for you.  He is the true love you seek, for God is love (I Jn 4:7-9).  Lay your burden of sin down at the feet of Jesus:

Matthew 11:28–30 (NASB95)

²⁸ “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

You have nothing to lose, except your life of sin, darkness and bondage, with everything to gain!  I hope to hear from you today.

Mark C. Biteler