No diving! No Swimming! No U-Turns! No Talking! No Cell Phones! No Running! No Speeding! It seems like everywhere we go there are signs that says NO, NO, NO! We call these Warning Signs and these Warning Signs are placed in strategic places to keep us from having fun! These are rules that are meant to be broken, right?

I know a man who ignored the No Diving Sign and jumped in head first. He is now in a wheelchair and he’ll be there for the rest of his life. I’ve heard of people who’ve ignored the No Swimming Sign and now they are long gone or missing a limb because some gator tried to eat them.

Warning signs are placed everywhere, including the Bible, not to restrict us, or to keep us from having fun. They are put there for our benefit! God says, “Do not lie, Do not Steal, Do Not Skip Church, Do Not Covet, and the list goes on and on!”

When we ignore mans warning signs and God’s warning signs we commit sin, and there’s always consequences for our sins! The problem is this, when we ignore warning signs, it gets us into trouble and it has an effect on those around us, especially our families.

People might think they are getting away with lying, stealing, cheating, or speeding, but remember this, God keeps the books and there will be a payday, someday!

Believe it or not I played 10 years of football and I enjoyed every minute of it with the exception of three a days! I practiced hard and I played hard, I was always on the move.

I had a deep desire to please the coaches, especially W.D. Strickland. A player always knew when Coach Strickland was pleased with their performance on the field by what he said and did. He’d slap you on the helmet or rump as you walked by and say, “Good Job!” I always wanted to get that slap and hear those words of encouragement!

Now, we as believers are in a different game, called the game of life! We’re not dealing with touchdowns or dropped passes, we’re dealing with souls that need to be saved. When I stand before the Lord in glory I want to hear Him say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant!”

2 Timothy 4:7-8 says, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

Do you know someone that’s hard to love? Shoot, I have, and I’ll have to admit, I’m hard to love most of the time. Sometimes I throw a fit like a kid in a candy store wanting their favorite sucker! There are times when all I think about is me, me, me and what I want, want, want!

I will have to admit, this doesn’t happen very often but when it does, it’s Katy Bar The Door!  The person I’m describing doesn’t sound like our Lord at all. The Lord never acted that way. He always loved others more than Himself and had a deep concern for their welfare!

Some folk are downright unlovable but we are to show our love to them by giving them the gospel.  We are to present to them the gift of life just like God presented it to us!

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life!”

I just got back last night from Wakita, Oklahoma. I’ve been in revival there at First Baptist Church. The church is small, and the town is small, but the hearts of the people are as big as the great outdoors.

In this little town of 400 our great God showed up and did some exciting things. There were 34 decisions made for our Lord with 11 of those being professions of faith.

The pastor there is Bob Smith and he’s  a hard working man. Every afternoon he was in the homes of those who had prayed to receive Christ, talking to them about the importance of baptism. He already has 6 of those people lined up to follow our Lord in believers baptism in two weeks.

He told the church that this was the greatest revival he’d seen in 42 plus years of being in the ministry.

God is the one who saves and changes the hearts and lives of the people. God allows me to go fishing while He does all the cleaning. I’m been blessed.

I thank all of you for  your prayers. Please remember, your prayers pave the way of an old sinner like me to spread the gospel. Your part is just as important, if not more so than  mine! Be blessed!

What does it mean to be saved? Do you need to be a member of a certain church or denomination? Do you need to be sprinkled or baptized?

I do believe in the importance of being a church member and being baptized, but I don’t believe either one of these saves a person and gets them into heaven.

Faith in Jesus is what gets a person into heaven. That has been God’s plan from the beginning. 1 John 5:1a says, “Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God…”

This is the method, this is how one is born again. The Bible makes it very clear, a person becomes a child of God when they place their faith in Jesus! This method works, it ain’t broke, and we shouldn’t try to fix it!FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailShare

As I travel across this country I see billboard after billboard. Each has it’s own message and that message is to reach the public!

Your life and my life is a billboard. Every single day someone is watching you. What do they see? I hope people see the love of Jesus in me and I hope they see His love in you!

Christian love is not sloppy and sentimental; it is not sexual; it is not social. It is not something that you get at the church dinner on the grounds.

Our love is revealed when we take Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world. That is the way we demonstrate our love for others!

I John 4:14 says, “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world! This is the gospel message which needs to be presented on the Christians billboard of life! The Question Is, “Do Others See Jesus In You?”

My mother in law, who is a very fine woman has a tumor and it’s cancerous. She’s been taking radiation treatments which has caused her hair to fall out, but the tumor has been shrunk! Following her treatments the doctor will be cutting the tumor out unless God takes care of it beforehand!

She welcomes this surgery, because she knows that if the tumor stays in her body it may kill her. Sin, in the life of a Christian is just as deadly! Sin is like a cancer, and can spread throughout our heart, soul, and mind!  

Unforgiveness, Kills! Hatred, Kills! Bitterness, Kills! Envy, Kills! Coveting, Kills! Jealousy, Kills! Offending Someone, Kills! And the list goes on and on! The Great Physician wants to perform surgery on you today. He wants to cut that tumor called sin, out of your life, but it’s your choice, you’ve got to give Him the OK!

No one in their right mind would keep a doctor from cutting a cancerous tumor out of their bodies, but we, yes we will not allow God to do the same for us!

I John 1:9 is one of my favorite verses found in scripture. It says, “If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness!”

The key word in that verse is “If!” If we confess it! If we trust Him to do it! If, If, If! When you decide to allow God to cut the sin out of your life, He’ll do it! There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it!FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailShare

Throughout my life I’ve done my share of complaining about this or that. Usually the things I complained about didn’t mount to a hill of beans.

As Christians we shouldn’t be walking around sounding like a bunch of old nags and looking like we’ve eaten a whole jar of soured pickles!

Praise is where it’s at for the believer. If we’re walking with the Lord we can praise Him in the good times and bad times alike. Whatever situation you are in, praise Him for He is God and He is good!

Hebrews 13:15 says, “By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit or our lips giving thanks to His name!”

The Christian Life In A Nutshell is found in I John 3:23. It says, “And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment!”

In simple terms John says, “Don’t say you believe in Him and then not love one another!” How can we praise the Lord with one breath and then we say we dislike so-and-so in another!

John’s not talking about a love that you just talk about! God’s love should not only be on our lips and in our language, it should be in our life. God’s love is demonstrated to others by us through our actions! This kind of love is what’s needed in our day!FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailShare

There are sins in our lives that are easily covered up, and these sins will most definitely hurt the cause of Christ today more than anything else.  These sins are everywhere! We take them with us to work, to school, to breakfast, lunch and dinner. They cling to us like a tic on a dog or mud on a pig!

The two sins I’m talking about are envy and jealousy. How many preachers are jealous of another preacher? How many soloist are envious of another soloists? A great deal of gossip goes on in the church and out of church because of these two sins that are so easy to cover up!

Envy and jealousy have been around since the beginning. That’s why Cain killed his brother Abel! I John 3:12 says, ” Not of Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers were righteous!