The struggles of a christian

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Sinner's prayer?

What is the sinners prayer?

Most versions of the prayer focus on four key spiritual steps:

Admit: Recognizing you are a sinner and fall short.
Believe: Trusting that Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead.
Confess: Declaring that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
Surrender: Inviting Him into your heart and committing to follow Him.

Admit Believe Confess Surrender.

Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Yes that is Scriptural.

Confess with thy mouth. Also Scriptural.

Admitting you are a sinner and unable to save yourself from the impending wrath of God. Scriptural.

Surrender. Here is a problem for many, probably most.

Surrender your life to Christ, He makes your Will, your Schedule, your plans and your Goals. Your overriding desire is to spread His name, Live for Him openly. All you do is in relation to His Kingdom.

There is a problem there for most. Surrender is hard.

Yet the biggest part I have an issue with is the ask Jesus into your heart thing. Too simple, too vague, too over and done with.

We surrender our lives to Him, as we confess He is God and His authority and Word is absolute.

We believe He is the only way that we can get out of the debt we owe due to our sin. What debt? The sin of disobedience, the sin of rebellion and rebelling against a good perfect pure Just God.

For that sin there is death and that death is the second death which is being away from God sent from His presence into outer darkness, where there is gnashing of teeth, flames, and the worm dieth not.

How then do we escape this “death” this casting out? We accept the free gift of God, Jesus died on the cross, for our sins, that we might not have to die.

I say might not have to - for if you believe on the name of Christ, If you call on Him, confess He is Lord, Savior, Master and surrender your life then you accept His gift to you and will not need to pay the ultimate price that He has already paid for you.

We no longer teach this, we teach the easy part but not the surrender part. Christ wants to be Lord and Savior. Not just a part time safety net.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

He told me all that ever I did.

Joh 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

Joh 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

She and her town identify this trait as one that the Messiah would have that He would tell them all things.

She believed in Him. Her own testimony and words prove she thought Jesus was the Messiah and she told the whole town.

Joh 4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
Joh 4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
Joh 4:41 And many more believed because of his own word;

Her words to the town folk were the very words they needed to hear to know that the Messiah had come.
Such a simple thing to overlook but a very powerful one when you consider Jesus portrayed Himself as she was told the Messiah would. She was ready to hear and see Him, Her faith was placed in the coming Messiah and how strong that faith must have been for He did come just as she was told, in the same manner and at a time when she needed Him most.

Perhaps a lesson is in there for us?

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

What is a Christian

Google AI says:

“A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ, believing him to be the Son of God, the Savior who died and resurrected to offer forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Founded in the 1st century AD based on Jesus's life and teachings, it is now the world’s largest religion, with major branches including Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern”

When I typed in “Christian” this is what I got from google AI. A follower of Jesus Christ.

Believing Him to be the Son of God. The Savior who died and resurrected.

This is from Google AI a liberal forum.

Jesus died, was buried, and rose again to offer forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

So right away what hits you?

Those that deny the existence of a literal Christ, Jesus, can not be called Christian.

Those deny the death burial resurrection can not be called Christians.

Those who say there is no sin can not be called Christians.

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Watered Down Christianity

Watered Down Christians

I saw a quote the other day. It said “ lukewarm Christianity is so widely practiced that Biblical Christianity seems radical”.

And that is absolutely true.

For Jesus said take up your cross.

Not the bass boat. Not the mountain cabin. Not the resort, but your cross.

We have taken Christianity and made ourselves feel special for we are the chosen ones. Yet in and of ourselves is nothing special, our specialness comes from Him.

You have done none of it yourself.

He came to this earth, lived and died for your sins was buried and rose again the third day. He gave you the Word. He gave you the Bible. He called you to Him. He revealed Himself to you! You didn’t go searching for Him until He revealed Himself to you.

We have so many ‘ex’ Christians, ‘ex’ pastors and ‘ex’ teachers because they never met Him, they met some form of religionist.

Today’s Christian is more and more alike to the religious elite in Jesus day.

They felt they were special for they were sons of Abraham; they were the Tribes of the ones God Himself chose for His people.

Yet they forgot that very God. They served themselves and their “vision” “version” of Him.

Do you know why they never recognized Christ? Because they would never come to this earth and live in poverty, they would never have done what He did for it had no benefit for them. They were only interested in what they got out of life, religion. Leadership and authority.

Christ cared about the things of God and that alone, man can not understand that for man looks to man’s interests and can not fathom that God does not share our interests or our ambitions. He is God, it is all already His.

Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Mat 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

At what point can that be taken as enrich yourselves, your best life is the goal?

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Death comes for all

Death Comes to All

Ecc 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Ecc 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Ecc 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Just as life comes to all, so to does death. There is coming a day when you or I will be forgotten.

What will they remember of us? will they remember us?

Solomon, says rain falls on the just and the unjust. Death comes to all. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.

That last one is the one you need to study and know.

Death on this earth comes for us all, are you ready for the life that comes after?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is knowledge. Do you know the Lord? The God that died for you? Death comes for all, are you prepared for yours?

Friday, January 16, 2026

The Wrath of God

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THE WRATH OF GOD

I was thinking the other day and I considered these things.

Adam to Abraham was a lawless time, no Law no age of Grace and few sought the God who created them. How do we know few? Because the Lord destroyed the earth for it’s evilness and only Noah and his family was found faithful and worthy.

Moses to Malachi. The Age of the Law, God gave man the parameters that must be met for man to get to where God is and to be Holy as He is Holy. Man never saw it as the measuring tool that it was given for, no they used it as a tool to beat their fellow man into subservience. A tool to proclaim their own righteousness.

Jesus. Brings in the age of Grace allows man to reach the Father due to the Sacrifice of the Son.

The age of Grace where God paid for the sin of man once and for all, God gave man a way to escape the wrath of ….God.

Something man could never do. Man in and of Himself can not escape the wrath of God and that is what this whole thing is about.

So many times we make it so much more and so much less than that.

You must call on the name of the Lord to be saved, from the wrath of God.

If you are not saved, if you do not call on His name then you must face the wrath of God. That is the second death. Departing from Him and being allowed to go where He is not – which is death darkness and Hell.

Man rejected God. God died for man that man might be restored to fellowship with Him.

Now you have a choice, accept the payment of Christ, surrender your life to Him or face the wrath that has been stayed for you to make that choice.