Spiritual Bankruptcy Can Result in Moral and Ethical and Financial and Economic Bankruptcy!
What was true when Jesus died on the Cross is true of men and women generally.
If people reject Jesus Christ and His light they will end up in mental and moral and spiritual darkness.
That is just a fact we have to accept.
Is this not one of the reasons as to why we are such a mess just now, morally and ethically, and particularly in the areas of business and banking and finance and economic.
Spiritual bankruptcy can result in moral and ethical and financial and economic bankruptcy! And, of course, it is true eternally.
In hell it is pitch dark, and we can read of that in Jude verse 13 and II Peter Chapter 2, and in Matthew Chapters 8 and 22.
How terrible to be in outer darkness perpetually and eternally, especially when a person has had the opportunity to receive the light of Jesus and the mercy and love of Jesus, and to have rejected the lot.
When the light is shining, seize it.
When the light of God is shining upon you, live in it.
Bathe in it at every opportunity, and the darkness will never envelope you.
Why do people reject? Why do they shut their eyes and close their ears? Why will they not respond? Why do they not believe? This is why.
It is the darkness! Jesus Christ is the way and the truth and the life? If you know of any other way to Almighty God, do let me know.
Jesus Christ makes it so very clear and he is specific too.
What comments do I hear from people? There are plenty of other ways! Jesus Christ is the truth? How do you know? What proof have you? Jesus Christ gives you life? That is what you say! I will live life to the full my way! That can be highly dangerous.
It is Jesus Christ who came to give us life to the full.
Isaiah gave us the answers to many of these questions some 700 years before they arose.
God has blinded the people's eyes and closed their minds.
God said to Isaiah, "The more you preach the less they will believe".
Now, that was in a certain situation in Isaiah's days, and Jeremiah experienced it too as did many of the other prophets - and Jesus also experienced a similar reaction.
This is a true but sad lesson which God teaches us, and it is particularly sad for pastors and teachers of His Holy Word.
In certain situations, the more truth you give certain people, the more their minds will close.
Every message you hear is either making you receive more and more of God's holy truth, and creating a hunger and thirst for more, or it makes you harder, or softer and more open, or harder and harder.
The interesting thing is no one remains neutral.
This is a spiritual law in God's creation.
Sandy Shaw
If people reject Jesus Christ and His light they will end up in mental and moral and spiritual darkness.
That is just a fact we have to accept.
Is this not one of the reasons as to why we are such a mess just now, morally and ethically, and particularly in the areas of business and banking and finance and economic.
Spiritual bankruptcy can result in moral and ethical and financial and economic bankruptcy! And, of course, it is true eternally.
In hell it is pitch dark, and we can read of that in Jude verse 13 and II Peter Chapter 2, and in Matthew Chapters 8 and 22.
How terrible to be in outer darkness perpetually and eternally, especially when a person has had the opportunity to receive the light of Jesus and the mercy and love of Jesus, and to have rejected the lot.
When the light is shining, seize it.
When the light of God is shining upon you, live in it.
Bathe in it at every opportunity, and the darkness will never envelope you.
Why do people reject? Why do they shut their eyes and close their ears? Why will they not respond? Why do they not believe? This is why.
It is the darkness! Jesus Christ is the way and the truth and the life? If you know of any other way to Almighty God, do let me know.
Jesus Christ makes it so very clear and he is specific too.
What comments do I hear from people? There are plenty of other ways! Jesus Christ is the truth? How do you know? What proof have you? Jesus Christ gives you life? That is what you say! I will live life to the full my way! That can be highly dangerous.
It is Jesus Christ who came to give us life to the full.
Isaiah gave us the answers to many of these questions some 700 years before they arose.
God has blinded the people's eyes and closed their minds.
God said to Isaiah, "The more you preach the less they will believe".
Now, that was in a certain situation in Isaiah's days, and Jeremiah experienced it too as did many of the other prophets - and Jesus also experienced a similar reaction.
This is a true but sad lesson which God teaches us, and it is particularly sad for pastors and teachers of His Holy Word.
In certain situations, the more truth you give certain people, the more their minds will close.
Every message you hear is either making you receive more and more of God's holy truth, and creating a hunger and thirst for more, or it makes you harder, or softer and more open, or harder and harder.
The interesting thing is no one remains neutral.
This is a spiritual law in God's creation.
Sandy Shaw
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