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haha just laugh don t think d so what i m feeling today could be a test or a temptation or the start of something new yack if it s a test i want to pass if it s a temptation i want to flee if it s just feelings of infatuation from watching high school musical somebody please give me a horror movie the reason for my considerations only god can truly know i m sharing this so that the people who love me can pray for me or save me there s one thing i know for certain that this love cannot happen now only god and time will tell if this feeling is really the beginning of a whole story made in heaven for now i love you god and i will obey i will not allow myself to get in your way like in a triangle i m still looking up to you while i pray for the other side whoever she may be until the perfect time comes you re still more than enough for me and to you i sing this song again o god search my heart i want this burning desire surrendered to your perfect will all of you is more than enough for all of me for every thirst and every need you satisfy me with your love and all i have in you is more than enough i m lovesick for you my savior posted by ed navarro at 2 45 am no comments thursday april 8 2010 i heart beach i heart beach i love the beach i love it for the following simple reasons i love the smell of fresh wind and salted sea i love to spend hours looking at different kinds of fish i love to go skin diving and pretend like i m a fish i love the starfish for some reason i love watching the sun rise and set i love lying down on the sand at night and count shooting stars while listening to worship songs i love its beauty and simplicity i love the cool breeze it gives at night and the tanning heat it gives during the day i love sand over my feet i love to hear the waves break the shore while my eyes are close at night i love a vestal beach i find serenity and peace in it i can relax i enjoy it s the one place i m willing to spend all the days of my fleeting life in i acknowledge that it s one of god s beautiful creations its beauty nothing can compare its architecture is like no other i m astounded by it i get excited when i know i m getting near it and i always end up never wanting to leave god i want me to be your beach posted by ed navarro at 11 15 pm no comments wednesday december 31 2008 christians in danger of god this sermon is from a co worker by this i don t mean from the same church rather as part of a nameless and faceless cause to uplift the true meaning of being a christian in the lord back in silliman university in dumaguete city i pray that as you read this you would hold yourself accountable you can disagree if you like if you believe in god may this sermon cause you to question the status of your spirituality and seek the truth with sincerity also sharing the original link to micah s blog http micahdagaerag multiply com journal item 14 christians_in_danger_of_god christians in danger of god matthew 7 13 27 it is a great privilege to be here before all of you this morning i am deeply humbled and honored for this sacred opportunity to preach the word of god to this church but this morning i m going to share with you a warning from scripture now let me say this before i begin there are issues lying deep under our church s spirituality that must be addressed and brought to the light there is so much at stake this morning that many of you don t understand so let me tell you where i m coming from as i preach to you i will preach as a dying man to a dying people i will preach as though i will never preach again i will tell you things that have been misunderstood i will tell you things that have caused so much anger against me i will tell you things that have been denied and i will tell you things that you say i don t have a right to tell you about you see preaching is a very dangerous thing it s dangerous for me because scripture says that false teachers will undergo a much greater condemnation and so if what i m teaching you is not true i am in a great deal of trouble and have every right to do this with fear and trembling but if what i tell you is true then you re the one with cause for fear and trembling because if i interpret this scripture correctly it will be as though god was truly speaking through a man and your problem will not be with me it will be with god and his word now it may be true that you can accuse me of arrogance or that you will not like my delivery i have many times been arrogant and i have many times delivered god s word in a wrong way but don t use that as an excuse for you the question is what i am saying is it true and if you don t like what i am saying is it because i am offending god s thoughts or your personal thoughts because if i do this right my friends i will not be preaching my own thoughts but god s so that if you find yourself offended by my preaching i will be the least of your problems because it will show that you are in rebellion to god s word and are answerable not to me but to him but there are some of you who will listen to this and you will say amen and think yeah these people need this kind of bashing from the pulpit i advise you to be careful about your heart my friend though you may have certain grievances against this church you have to realize that all of us bear a measure of blame and guilt for the current spiritual condition of our church and it is not good at all so if you have attained to some spiritual maturity what do you have that you didn t receive from god and if you have received it why do you boast that s what the apostle paul advises us post intro this past year god has carried me through the hardest struggles i have ever had to go through in my heart and in my mind and now i realize that all of them have been in preparation for the great burden that he has given me to preach today which is this in the philippines the great majority of the so called christian population is in danger of god many if not all of us who are members of a church believe ourselves to be in a right relationship with god and we actually believe we will go to heaven with the lord when we die but herein lies the burden and the heaviness of what i am about to preach the alarming reality that we need to face as christians is that when we study the scriptures it will show that there is an overwhelmingly great number of us whom the lord will say to in the day of judgment i never knew you depart from me you workers of lawlessness do you see what jesus is saying we owe it to ourselves to check whether or not we are part of those the lord will dismiss on the last day our eternal security depends on this now at this point some of you will think what right does this guy have to question salvation and bring doubt into the faith of his church mates you shouldn t judge anyone s salvation it s between them and the lord my friend i would like to submit to you that the bible actually demands this very act of checking personal salvation in 2 corinthians 13 5 the apostle paul commands the church in corinth saying examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith test yourselves or do you not realize this about yourselves that jesus christ is in you unless indeed you fail to meet the test why does paul write this because of jesus warning in matthew 7 verses 13 14 let s start in verses 13 and 14 jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction and those who enter by it are many for the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life and those who find it are few first observation jesus says that for each and every person alive in the world today that person can walk in only one of two gates one narrow and one wide he says that the majority of people go through the wide gate and it has an easy way or path if you take a good look around you this means that most people in this church most people in your office most people in your school are all on the wide gate leading to destruction probably including yourself it would seem that our general direction in life is through that wide gate every single person is born by default heading into that wide gate of destruction now you need to understand and see that the wide gate is what is easy the wide gate is what is natural the wide gate is what is worldly popular the wide gate doesn t want you to suffer if in your suffering you end up drawing closer to god the wide gate wants to give you your best life now if that s what it takes to get your mind off of god and on your material success and prosperity the wide gate is what is theologically liberal meaning it accepts that you can believe in any god or gods but as long you are sincere and religious enough you can still make it to heaven i just recently discovered that oprah herself believes in a unified idea of religion the belief that jesus is just a way but not the way and that christ didn t come to bring salvation but a higher state of christ consciousness which is based more on indian mysticism than the bible and millions of people subscribe to her brand of religion all over the world which doesn t believe that jesus is god and that salvation in the next life is possible only in him the wide gate doesn t want to offend anyone but seeks to equate all religions as the same and it means denying christ as he claimed to be it is often politically correct the wide gate dismisses true spirituality as burdensome and unnecessary it doesn t like the idea of being serious enough in our spiritual life because it thinks it s too corny the wide gate can also be false religiosity trying to earn points for heaven and hypocritical and dishonest ways of being a christian and because it is wide and many enter through it it is seductive the wide gate doesn t want you to leave it it knows that it leads into destruction and it wants to trap and ensnare and devour as many souls as it can if anyone tries to leave the wide gate that wide gate will try to ensnare him back it will fight to keep you and it uses many ways of deception just to keep you in what is popular keep you in what is easy and you don t have to worry about how god thinks about your life and the true status of your eternal destiny but jesus says it is a gate and it is a way that leads to destruction people who live lives like these are going to hell whether they believe it or not and this is not my word this is jesus we would do well to believe jesus because he alone is called faithful and true in revelation he is the perfect witness of the father and if he says so then it is so what keeps true preachers on their knees in prayer is the fact that in a hundred years the great majority of the people in their church will most probably end up in hell unless he challenges them to make their calling and election sure as the apostle peter warned us now about the narrow way jesus says we ought to enter by the narrow gate now by experience we know that a narrow gate is harder to spot than a wide gate a wide gate can just sit idly at the side and still be noticed by anyone passing by but a narrow gate necessitates a search a careful search anyone who is not looking for the narrow gate will never find it nor even see it so the question is when was the last time you seriously earnestly sought christ because if you have no memory of ever wanting to seek christ to believe in him you have never strived to get out of the wide gate looking for the narrow one and therefore still are on the wide gate and are in danger of hell if there is no desire within you to seek and thirst after god my friend you better start mourning over yourself and seek god s mercy that he give it to you let me ask you another question we are all here as church members and we identify ourselves as christian in almost everywhere we go birth certificates application letters résumés clubs and so on you confess christ most likely because you were born into a christian background and born into a church background and you confess christ as of now the question is if you had been born a muslim or a hindu or a buddhist would you have made any effort at all to see and check for yourself whether the god you believe in is the real true living god so that you will end up where you are right now a christian and if you are here as a christian and yet have made no real and serious inquiry as to whether or not the god you believe in is the one true god you are in danger of being in the wide gate yourself are you seeking him before coming here to church were you seeking him yesterday were you seeking him the day before that were you seeking him today did you already have it set that you will be seeking after him tomorrow do you know that you are going to be seeking him seek him find the narrow gate for the narrow gate is christ himself in john 10 7 9 it says jesus again said to them truly truly i say to you i am the door of the sheep all who came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not listen to them i am the door if anyone enters by me he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture when we truly seek to know and obey and live for christ by faith in him and repentance of our sins we escape the wide gate and enter through the narrow gate which is christ and few jesus said will find it few will want to seek him in truth few will want to truly obey him only a few will leave the wide gate of destruction to seek after the narrow one and few will be saved and jesus doesn t just say that the gate is narrow he also says that the way is hard acts 14 22 says through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of god let me ask you something do you have difficulties and hardships as a direct result of your faith in christ do people ridicule and mock you behind your back because you are someone who sincerely wants to obey the lord and live your life for him have people slandered and maligned you because you couldn t compromise the truth have you ever been made fun of or lost opportunities or wealth or respect because you wanted to be a faithful witness to god or do people speak ill of you rather because you actually blatantly sin and do wrong suffering and hardship are validations of a legitimate and true relationship with god through christ obedience to god will always be hard because we live in a world that hates the god we want to obey just look at all those tv programs those popular music bands liberal teachers in your schools that make a mockery out of god jesus said if the world persecuted and killed him how much more will the world hate and persecute us who are his servants so that if you are not suffering or persecuted in some way by the world something is wrong and you need to check whether you are still a true believer or already a compromising one if there is nothing wrong with your life because of your faith something is wrong with your faith hebrews 12 3 8 says consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself so th...
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