Praise God on this beautiful morning. I know some of you might be thinking that it’s cloudy with a chance of storms but in my life the Son always shines. We continue our long weekend of celebrating but do you understand what Memorial Day is all about. Take some time today and get fully educated and not just going about blindly celebrating.

Today’s Prayer

Father, often some of us are too hard on ourselves and others, setting impossible standards and agonizing over past hurts, or over our own past sins of omission and commission. Remind us that a butterfly would remain earthbound and useless if it tried to hold on to its cocoon. Teach us not to spoil the opportunities of the day by refusing to surrender the past to You. Help us to know that Your love forgives, surrounds and challenges us each day. Set us free, that all our actions and words may more truly glorify You! In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Let’s eat.

Gods Judgment of Sin

Romans 2:1-16

 

1 You may be saying, “What terrible people you have been talking about!” But you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you do these very same things. 2 And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does such things. 3 Do you think that God will judge and condemn others for doing them and not judge you when you do them, too? 4 Don’t you realize how kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Or don’t you care? Can’t you see how kind he has been in giving you time to turn from your sin?

5 But no, you won’t listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world, 6 will judge all people according to what they have done. 7 He will give eternal life to those who persist in doing what is good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers. 8 But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth and practice evil deeds. 9 There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on sinning–for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. 10 But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good–for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism. 12 God will punish the Gentiles when they sin, even though they never had God’s written law. And he will punish the Jews when they sin, for they do have the law. 13 For it is not merely knowing the law that brings God’s approval. Those who obey the law will be declared right in God’s sight. 14 Even when Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, instinctively follow what the law says, they show that in their hearts they know right from wrong. 15 They demonstrate that God’s law is written within them, for their own consciences either accuse them or tell them they are doing what is right. 16 The day will surely come when God, by Jesus Christ, will judge everyone’s secret life. This is my message.

Quote of the Day

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this… because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life. ~John Owen~

WITH HOPE AND FAITH

REV. ELDER G E STERRETT

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