Jesus took upon Himself our sins and bore them to the Cross (1 Peter 2:24). But there is no need for them, or you, to suffer the eternal penalty for sin – separation from God. This man and woman may have to pay a temporal price for the sins they have committed. The fact is that we are all sinners, but Jesus bore the punishment for our crimes, so our job is to love each other as Christ loved us. Too many people feel unworthy to come to church, and it’s all because they feel like they will be judged, like everyone else is “better” than them. This might be a good time to point out that wounded people need to be loved. As I prayed with the woman whose husband was hauled away, I reminded her that the road ahead would be very hard, but that God loves her, and her husband. Many times God’s judgment is what it takes to open the eyes of the sinner. Even though this poor couple realized that they needed God in their lives, judgment caught up with them.Īll is not lost, however. There is more to the above story, most of which is sad, but I told it in order to help make a point. He and his wife had been in trouble many times, but they had visited Sunday morning and felt that it was time for a change. Why did all this happen? Evidently, the man was wanted for a parole violation, and they followed him to church. She never knew her husband was taken away! “Why wouldn’t I be?”Ĭome to find out, a lady across the street from our church wrote on Facebook that bounty hunters had shot at a man, chased him, and arrested him in our church parking lot – while church was going on! No one inside the church knew a thing! But what is even more amazing is that the man had come to visit our church, and his wife was in the sanctuary. I got a phone call from a concerned church member: “Pastor, are you all right? You OK?” “Well…yeah…I guess,” was my reply. (The following happened in 2013) Just after 9 p.m. The only problem is that no one would believe it.
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But what happened last night while I was preaching was anything but fake.īefore I get into the details of this post, it has been pointed out by more than one person that our family needs to star in its own reality TV show. Reality television is usually anything but true reality, however. Have you ever watched reality television? “Reality shows,” as they are called, are television programs that seek to entertain the viewer with the craziness of other peoples’ lives. Proverbs 19:29 “Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.”