Are you HUNG UP?
Are you questioning which religion, church, doctrine…is true?
I have spent a lifetime searching for the TRUTH.
When I hung around the Baptists, I heard phrases like: Once saved, always saved; If one doesn’t act saved, then maybe they weren’t REALY saved...
When I hung around the
When I hung around the Catholics, I heard phrases like: Hail Mary Prayers; confession to the Priests; all we can do is HOPE we are saved…
Now don’t get HUNG UP with my descriptions, as I am finding, there are many variations of doctrines, churches, and religions. I am just trying to prove that one can get confused with what to believe and what not to believe.
Growing up Baptist, and telling others that I was Baptist, I would hear jokes about the Baptists thinking they would be the only group of people going to Heaven.
John the Baptist was Baptist, so let’s end the jokes.
Today, I worship at a ‘non-denomination’ church. We have a mixture of Christians. Our doctrine is similar to many out there: Saved by Grace through Faith, Saved by Jesus dying on the cross to pay for sins. Jesus rose again. Baptism, confession, redemption…are all part of salvation.
When given a tour of our new church, towards the end my wife Jessica, asked if the church believed in Once Saved Always Saved. The reply was that the church's doctine was that one could lose their salvation. Immediately, Jessica began to become HUNG UP.
The tour guide noted that this belief would probably not be preached from the pulpit. She noted that she herself is not the judge (God is), that we can’t go around questioning whether one is saved or not.
I too have found that salvation is personal, between you and God. Just like the relationship between me and God, it is personal.
If you've read my ‘God Inspired’ inspiration “If You Just Believe”, it is noted that I wish to believe Once Saved Always Saved, and that it 'boils' down to what you believe (Click HERE)
When we speak about God, we need to remember that His love for us is Perfect. Once we ask God to save us, I can’t see how God could ever let us go. There is enough Scripture to support God as a perfect and loving Father. Could you change your mind and not be your child's parent?
Other Scripture tells us that God will never leave us nor forsake us, and that we can have confidence in this.
Other Scripture tells us that God is MIGHTY to save, and that He saves us
I do know this for a fact: God judges the HEART.
We have enough doubts in today’s world to make us sick (click HERE). Satan is super great in getting us to believe His lies, and he wants us to DOUBT, DOUBT, DOUBT our salvation.
Only you know whether you've just said a few words to God, or if your HEART really seeks God and His love, salvation, forgiveness…
I was HUNG UP for many years until I HUNG AROUND GOD, and His HOLY WORD.
Today, if you are HUNG UP, I encourage you to take the time to read the Bible, or at least the link “God’s POWERFUL words”, located on the HOMEPAGE of this website.
Folks, I do KNOW this to be
If you are HUNG UP, then try this: Drop to your knees, speak to God from your Heart, Ask God to receive you as His child forever, Let God know that you appreciate His sacrifice of His Only Son Jesus dying on the cross, Let God know that you believe that He is POWERFUL enough to raise people from the dead – and that you believe with all your Heart that He did raise Jesus from the dead, Let God know how sorry you are for the bad things you do, then SCREAM HALLELUJAH, because God just saved you – YES YOU!!!
I John 1:9
Romans 10:9
"If you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him (Jesus) from the dead, you will be saved."
According to the Bible, there are 2 sins that God WILL NOT forgive. First, the sin of refusing God’s Free Gift of salvation through the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, and God The Father (click HERE). 2nd, mocking The Holy Spirit (click HERE).
Jesus HUNG around sinners, because they needed Him to save them.
Jesus HUNG around sinners, because they were thankful to be saved.
Jesus HUNG around sinners, because we are ALL sinners, Romans 3:23.
Jesus HUNG around sinners, because they admitted to Jesus they weren’t perfect.
Jesus HUNG on the cross to save you and me. ASK, RECEIVE, BELIEVE!!!
Jesus was HUNG UP for sinners, so we wouldn’t have to be HUNG UP.
Free, Free Indeed!
In His Hands,
Love, Glen
P.S. Luke 12:4-5 (Jesus said) "I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into Hell..."
P.S.S. When I hung around the Pentecostals, I believed that they believed in
POWERS, I believed they weren’t afraid to WORSHIP God like He wants us to (and like King David did), and I believed they didn’t forget the third part of God THE HOLY SPIRIT
(Mark 16:14-19). (click HERE)
P.S.S.S.
We are all an important part of God's team. The Baptists, Lutherans, Catholics, The Church of God, The Penticostles... if you preach Romans 3:20-24). I don't think God labels us by our denomination, He just calls us His children. We need each other, because we are the Body of Christ: The shoulders, elbows, knees, hands, feet...