Southwest First Assembly of God Church

Good morning. I’m baaaack.

Amos 2.4-5 “This is what the Lord says: ‘For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed, I will send fire upon Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem”

Thought of the day: Amos taught that blessings or judgment from God are relative to how we respect God’s laws. As I see it, the American culture is heading down a path that leads to God’s judgment. To illustrate, let me refer you to the 10 commandments recorded in Exodus 20. Tell me honestly, how many of them do you see being consistently honored in our culture? You don’t have to openly oppose God’s laws in order to reject them. You only need to ignore them.

Deuteronomy 6.3 teaches that God blesses the people who obey his words. Do you want to know how to change the culture of an entire community? It changes one person at a time. It changes when people like you and me take God’s laws seriously. Read them. Study them. Internalize them. Practice them. Our culture depends on it. As a matter of fact, your soul depends on it.

Good morning,

Mark 15.16-20 Then the Roman soldiers took him into the barracks of the palace, called out the entire palace guard, dressed him in a purple robe, and made a crown of long sharp thorns and put it on his head. Then they saluted, yelling, ‘Yea! King of the Jews!’ And they beat him… and spit on him… and went to their knees to ‘worship’ him. When they finally tired of their sport, they took off the purple robe and put his own cloths on him again and led him away to be crucified.

Matthew 27.35-39 After the crucifixion, the soldiers threw dice to divide up his clothes among themselves. Then they sat around and watched him as he hung there. And they put a sign above his head, ‘this is Jesus, the King of the Jews.’ Two robbers were also crucified there that morning, one on either side of him. And the people passing by hurled abuse, shaking their heads at him.

John 19.30 Jesus said, ‘It is finished,’ and bowed his head and dismissed his spirit.

Luke 23.47 “When the captain of the Roman military unit handling the executions saw what had happened, he was stricken with awe before God and said, ‘Surely this man was innocent.’

(All scriptures are from the Living Bible)

Thought of the day: It has been said that the value of something is determined by the price someone is willing to pay for it. I thought it would be appropriate on this Good Friday to remind you just how valuable you are in the eyes of God. “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).