What Are YOU going to do about It? About half way through the chapter, Paul is giving a word of encouragement to the people on the Sabbath day and this is what really caught my attention. In verses 27-29 It talks about how the people of Jerusalem did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah and condemned him to death. They were unaware that they were fulfilling the prophecies even though most had heard these prophecies read aloud on the Sabbath. Right now in 2011, the world is witnessing a phenomenon that is definitely being written about as we speak for future history books. The Middle East is in complete and utter chaos. Jordan’s government has been completely dissolved. Egypt and many other countries are filled with rioters. People are losing their lives everyday in this chaos. Our government is trying to step in and give advice to help this work out as peacefully as it can. However, there has been talk of possibly a WW3 in our near future. Could this be the start of the end times? Are our leaders and the citizens and governments of these countries fulfilling the prophecies laid out in Revelations? I always believed that it would be a slow progression into the end times. However, this seemed to happen almost overnight. In verses 40-41 it says “Don’t take this lightly. You don’t want the prophet’s sermon to describe you: Watch out, cynics; Look hard – watch your world fall to pieces. I’m doing something right before your eyes that you won’t believe, though it’s staring you in the face.”
With all that is going on in the world today, this needs to be a wake up call for us. It’s not a slow progression. The time is here. It is now. People are dying daily. The world, our world, our campus, is living in sin and time is short. Oh if we could only grasp the essence of time. Just like the fall of these Middle Eastern countries seemed to happen overnight, the second coming of our Lord and Savior is closer and closer with each passing hour. We do not have time to care about fitting in, we do not have time to worry about what is politically correct, and we certainly do not have time to wonder which person we should tell. Tell everyone! We need to start caring about the condition of the souls we encounter on a daily basis for time is short.
The world is in destruction right now and time is running out. However, we have something that the world does not. We have a message of hope and peace and love that is everlasting and NEVER failing. We have the message, not of death, despair, and destruction, but of a LIVING Savior. In verse 34 it says “When he raised him from the dead, he did it for good – no going back to that rot and decay.” In 37 it says “But the One God raised up- no dust and ashes for him! I want you to know my very dear friends, that it is on account of this resurrected Jesus that the forgiveness of our sins can be promised.” That is the message we need to take to our world. In verse 47 Paul is saying he is obeying what God said to do when He said “I’ve set you up as a light to all nations.” Dennis talked last Tuesday night about not withholding the message of salvation from any but instead telling it to all. It is time for us to start living like the apostles and get out there and spread the Word of God. Start adding to the kingdom daily. Time is short and as Matthew 28:19 says “Therefore, GO!”
With His love,
Bri
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