Recently, I attended the wedding of a very dear loved one. The Pastor/Officiant mentioned God here and there during the ceremony and at the end prayed in the name of Jesus Christ! He asked for God to bless the marriage in the name of Jesus Christ. I was so filled with joy to hear that because I felt he had attempted to keep “Jesus” to a minimum.

After the ceremony, I approached the Pastor and thanked him for his service to this young couple and applauded his mentioning our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in his closing prayer. Somewhat startled , he responded, “Oh…. Yes”.

During dinner, I spoke with the father of the bride and mentioned to him that I liked the Pastor and that I had chatted with him briefly. He shared with me that when the couple initially spoke with the Pastor, he asked them if they wanted a little, a lot or none of God.

That thought stayed with me all night. I thought of the greatest gift of God to humanity in the person of Jesus Christ to reconcile man back to Himself. Did God give us a little, a lot, or none of Himself?

How would you answer this question? I think we all answer it differently based upon our circumstances. Ask a mother at St Jude hospital with a one year old suffering from cancer how much God she would like? Ask a father who’s daughter has been abducted and missing for 48 hours how much God he would like?
Ask the husband who’s wife has just been airlifted to a major trauma center suffering from a brain bleed how much God he would like?
The drunk or junkie that can’t seem to shake the addiction, a homosexual that feels alienated and alone, the single mom diagnosed with a terminal disease, the father on a flight to a foreign country to escort his hero son’s body back home how much of God they would like? Ask any human seconds from losing his or her life how much God they would like? A little, a lot, or none?

The question should be: how much of God do you need? How would you answer?

Friends, we humans are all in the same boat. We all need, all of God. God does not do a little, a lot or none. God is always the same. He is always there for us and He has given all of us His All. We must simply receive it. Simply.

Jesus Christ is the fullness of God. We get all of God when we accept His gift of salvation and eternal life (Colossians 2:8-9 KJV)
[8] Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. [9] For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.)

Do you see this? We have the FULLNESS of God in Christ Jesus.

When we accept the finished work of Christ which is Christ dying on our behalf for the sins of the world, finished at the cross, paid in full, raised from the dead so we can have His life, we have ALL of God’s blessing.

GOD WILL NOT DO ANYMORE FOR YOU THAN CHRIST!

Religion would have you believe that we must do something to earn it or maintain it. Not so, we have all of God in Christ. We have All of God all of the time by faith. We trust His faith, ours is weak. We are sanctified, justified and glorified because of what He has already done. It’s a gift. It is His grace not our work lest grace would cease to be grace. (Romans 11:6)
We become the righteousness of God.

For our sake He made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21).

If you are right with God, (righteousness) please tell me, what else do you need?

How do you add to fullness, completeness?

When Christ died on the cross, you by faith now have:
His life. He lives, you live.
His righteousness. You are right with God.
His Grace. Undeserved favor.
His Mercy. Free from what you deserve.
His Redemption. You are bought back.
You are justified, glorified, sealed by the
Holy Spirit.

YOU HAVE ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN CHRIST!!!!! ALL !!! ALL!!!! ALL means ALL!!!
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. (Ephesians 1:3)
Christ is all in all (Colossians 3:11)

That’s who you are in Christ. That is your new identity. You are a new creature in Christ.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)

God gives us all of Him. Never did he say a little, a lot or none.

You choose.

An elderly man using a walker approached my wife and I at breakfast in a diner and asked, “how old do you think I am?” Playfully, I responded “forty”. He laughed and boasted, ” I’m ninety seven “. I asked him if he knew Jesus. He immediately turned from me and said “ I don’t know about that” and shuffled away. Ninety seven years and he hasn’t accepted what he could get in a few seconds- heart breaking.

God has given all of Himself to this man, but he chose “none”
I was unable to share Christ with him; he clearly wasn’t interested. I pray that the mention of His name caused this elderly gentleman to think about it and find Christ before it’s too late.

How would your day/year/life change if you knew you had ALL of the God of the universe living in you? Not from anything you have done , but what He has already done. Good news!!!

Relationship not Religion

Call on Him today wherever you are or in whatever condition you are in and He promises to make His home with you. And…….He promises never to leave. Romans 10:13, Acts 2:21, Hebrews 13:6, Matthew 28, John 14:23.

SINNER’S PULPIt
Come in a sinner and leave a Saint.