The Word in 120 by Jerome Stewart, Kingdom Citizenship
JUNE 1, 2.025
by Jerome Stewart
When it comes to the business of saving souls, the number one priority is Evangelism, or else God would have never sent Jesus into the world. And yes, Discipleship is necessary while lives continue to be transformed. It is a work in progress with no let-up. In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Galatia, strong words were used to deal with the challenges relative to the behavior of mankind. In Galatians chapter 5 verses. 19 through 21 Paul says, “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: *adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Numbers 23 vs. 19 says, “God is not a man that He should lie, Nor a son of man, That he should repent. Has he said and will He not do? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good?” 1 Corinthians chapter 1 vs. 18 says, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” This country has turned away from following God’s word.
Thank God for His mercy and grace, but we also must be mindful of what His word says about the wrath of God. 2nd Peter 2 vss. 4 through 10 says, “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who would afterward live ungodly, and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for the righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.”
