FRIDAY, February 13th, 2009

Hey Everyone! Great Job Yesterday! It was good to see a few new faces on yesterday that we havent seen on in a while! Alright! Are you guys ready for Valentines day? It is tomorrow!

I Peter 4:

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Those are some powerful verses at the end of this chapter! Think about that... is says: Judgement should start in the house of God... in other words... Judge yourself! Don't judge other people! Who are we to judge the lost?? We have no right!! We would be LOST if it were not for the grace of God!! Think about it!

Why is it that Christians have the label that they judge everyone! That is exactly what Christ says NOT TO DO!!!! Christ says, stop judging the little splinter in your own eye, while you have a tree trunk in your eye!!!

Christians are not to judge, we are to show the mercy and compassion that we have been shown. It helps nothing for us to judge, it only leads the lost to "their end"

This passage asks two or three times... what is the end of the unbeliever, we know that! The end of the unbeliever is Hell for eternity! We should not push them in that direction by being hypocritical and judgmental... Christ loved the sinner while he was here on earth, and so should we!