Subject: No last names of people - why not? |
Bible Note: LVK, You ask was there any suggestions in dealing with this? Yes, there is! Listen to them!!! They are in your face as you say because they love you! Interesting how you view them isn't it? You view them as a problem and they view you as someone that does not have what they have and they want to share it with you. Why? Because they have been touched by God! They know intimately the peace and joy they have in their relationship with their Creator! They want you to have this also!!! You said “I'm not a born again Christian”. I understand the difficulty for you then with those in your face as you put it. This is a good thing actually! It's because your not at peace with where you are now (i.e. spiritually dead in your trespasses and sin). Your tormented and every born again believer knows that because they too were there at one time. Romans 3:23 says we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. In Romans 6:23 we see the wages of sin is death. And we also see that the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. NOTE THAT IT IS FREE! And this free gift IS eternal life IN Christ Jesus our Lord! Romans 5:8 teaches us that God proved His love for us because Christ died for us while we were sinners. He did something for you that you never could nor ever will be able to do for yourself. It had to be done because of what you did, not what he did. You sinned! Yet you are His creation and He loves you. So He took your place and paid your debt that you might be saved! And now He waits for you to acknowledge that and turn from you sin and come to Him. Remember, He offers it freely to you! Romans 10:9-11 (NASB) 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED." Steve |