Ruth 4:13-17 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he
went in to her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. Then
the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left
you this day without a kinsman redeemer; and may his name be famous in Israel! And
may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your
daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne
him.” Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her bosom, and became a
nurse to him. Also the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “There is a
son born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He is the father
of Jesse, the father of David.
Continuing Pastor
Herk’s Message: Truth
(3) We must know our identity in Christ. Those who, by faith, accept the free
gift of salvation offered by the grace of God in the atoning and redemptive
sacrificial death of His Son Jesus Christ
(our kinsman redeemer) are destined
for “good godly works” here now and Heaven to come. Once saved, forgive
yourself of your past sins because God has already done it. Do not allow
yourself to be known as a utter failure. The children of God do not wear that
name tag because it is a false identity that takes away our potential to serve our
just and holy loving Lord God.
Ephesians
2:8-10 “For by grace you
have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.”
(4)
It’s all about Jesus. We cannot be dragged down by negativity. If God is for
us, who can be against us in this negative sin-sick world. The best is yet to come! Even though the
God-rejecting world system is growing more negative, we are saved and being
heaven-bound is our eternal perspective. It’s easier to endure difficult times
in this “fallen” world, if we identify ourselves as a child of God and the
citizen of heaven with a eternally glorious future.
1 Corinthians 2:9 That is what the
Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no
mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
Nothing
can separate us from the love of God. Christians that look back negatively on
their past and punishingly rerun old wrongs forgiven that are now long gone, cannot
serve and minister today effectively. Spiritual revival asks; “How do we reach unsaved
people with the gospel?” Answer: With a message of God’s grace that forgives
the past and says: “The best is yet to come!” Philippians 3:13-14 tells us, “Brethren, I do not count myself
to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press
toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” A
person who rides looking backwards knows where they have been, but does not
know where they are going. So forget the bad things behind us and look
forward to what’s coming, whether in view or over the next rise; its victory. Know that the
best is yet to come and, in the end, we live happily ever after with the Lord
in Heaven. Now, that’s a happy ending!
Philippians
2:12-13 “Therefore, my
beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for
it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good
pleasure.
In
Christ, Brian
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