Monday, 14 October 2013

Have you met the doctor Week 41, 2013

Hello. It is a sad thing to know ill health has brought you into this institution. You have left off other matters of real importance to be attended to. No one is created to enjoy ill health and we thank God for trained staff capable of helping sick people get better. It is indeed a wise decision you took to come seeking for help. Jesus says "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick” Lk 5:31(ESV).  Be assured sound health is God’s express wish for you. Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul 3Jn 1:2(ESV).May your experience in this facility result in wellness and wholeness, in Jesus’ name Amen!
But there is a matter before us which is more important than disease, and whose consequence if ignored more severe than the worst sickness: it is the matter of eternal salvation. I beg you therefore to listen to God closely and keep on reading this pamphlet. How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true Heb 2:3(GNB). You and I were born with a humanly incurable affliction called sin; can you honestly claim never at any time to have done or thought up what is evil? The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually Gen 6:5(ESV)  the result of which is everlasting punishment away from God’s presence. But this everlasting punishment is precisely what God does not want for you.
Meet Jesus the Great Physician. "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance.” Lk 5:31-32(ESV).  Just as there are trained workers to help sick ones get better, Jesus is the perfect saviour from sin and its consequence - how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb 9:14(ESV).You may wait in line to see this team but Jesus is right here with you waiting in line for your attention and consent. People pay to get a place and medication for treatment, Jesus Himself fully paid for our sins and offers salvation free. Have you met Him?
I am sure you are aware simply sitting in this place and talking with support staff (though it is good) will not cure anyone; the healing protocol must be entered into. Similarly sitting in church or fellowship and hearing about Jesus’ free salvation is but a step to the real cure: "Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest. Place my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls Mat 11:28, 29(ISV) says Jesus. You must come to Him, you must meet Him.
How do you come to him? Very simple: In heartfelt sincere prayer because you believe His message turn your life over to Him; make Him the master of your life. Do this having decided to have nothing more to do with sin. Depend on no one else, nothing else to make God free you from sin and accept you other than His shed blood. It is guaranteed to set you free with a guarantee infinitely stronger than the best health care provider. Jesus says All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life…”Jn 6:37-40(ESV) .

 You have come here away from other important things seeking help for physical ill health, oh that in this moment you also call on Jesus the Great Physician to grant you His eternal salvation freely.

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