Eternal Life!

For Friday, August 2, 2024:

2 Peter 2:12 NLT: “False teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They scoff at things they do not understand, and like animals, they will be destroyed.”

False teachers speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption. They will receive the wages of unrighteousness. Let me explain:

Whereas God is spirit from the heavenly kingdom, false teachers are only of this world. Souls belonging to God’s kingdom are eternal, but those carousing through this world (sinning) will die when the Lord brings us the New Heaven and the New Earth!

Judgment Day is something to be feared if you’re not on the “Jesus team!” God has no time for sin. I don’t think it’s impatience on God’s part, so much as the fact that there’s only one possible outcome, so we might as well git ‘er done!

Remember that those who have placed their faith, hope and trust in Jesus have “Assurance of Salvation,” a promise of life-after-this-life in the presence of the Father. So lock in your relationship with the risen Jesus. Follow him and you too will rise!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus In the City Fellowship

God's Point-of-View

For Wednesday, June 15, 2022:

Mark 8:31 TLB: “Jesus he began to tell the disciples about the terrible things he would suffer, and that he would be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the other Jewish leaders—and be killed, and that he would rise again three days afterwards.”

This seemed like bad news back then, and at first glance it seems like bad news nowadays. Jesus, their miracle worker and spiritual leader, would be persecuted and eventually killed, and he would be OK with that! He said he would rise three days later, but no one had ever seen anything like that before.

This was too much for Peter. “You shouldn’t say things like that,” he told Jesus, who replied, “Satan, get behind me! You are looking at this only from a human point of view and not from God’s.” And that’s the key. Peter was concerned with protecting Jesus, but God was concerned rescuing all of mankind from our sin-problem.

Remember, God’s desire is that none would perish, and that’s Good News!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406