Harry Durgin Facebook
Recently I heard a Christian music group telling the audience that God loved them. The crowd cheered.
Their message was misleading and potentially deadly.
God does love that group of people listening to the music, but His love isn’t what was implied.
He loves the world so much He sends rain on the just and unjust (common grace), He warns us of the consequences of our sin (eternal death), He sent Jesus Christ to die for us, and He saves us IF we repent and believe in Christ.
The people in that crowd who have not repented and believed in Christ are God’s enemies. Do they know that?
If they die in their sins (that is, without having received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior), God condemns them and sends them to hell. God is their enemy.
That is truly bad news!
We wouldn’t need the good news of the gospel without the reality of bad news.
I am concerned that we tend to give only the good news without telling people about the bad news and why they need good news.
Each of us has only this life time to reconcile with God through Jesus Christ.
It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment. (Hebrews 9:27)
Let’s determine to help people understand they need a Savior (the bad news) and joyfully and lovingly tell them the good news. And pray for their salvation.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
