The Good News!

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I thank God on this Wednesday for the opportunity to share with you the Good News. If you turn on CNN or any other news station this morning, I can guarantee you that you will be bombarded with bad news. When you read the newspaper it's bad news and when you turn on the radio it's bad news. But my friends, I'm here today to tell you that there is light at the end of the tunnel! That light is the Good News, and that Good News is that Jesus left His Holy habitation and came into this mean and cruel world and died so that you and I could live and have the opportunity to spend eternity with Him! In eternity, there won't be any lying, no murders, and no thieves. Everyone in eternity will have found their place on God Tepereith will, where there is no jealousy and no envy. There we will all be one with the Lord - transparent and crystal clear on the inside. Now that's the Good News, but that's not the end of the story...

Until we get back to that place (eternity), we must keep in mind the Good News that God has given to us while we're here on this earth. He said I'm your provider, so whatever you have need of, God's got it! If you need a healing, He's the greatest physician that has ever lived. If you need a lawyer, He's the only one I know that has never lost a case! As David said in Psalms 46:1, He is "...a very present help in trouble" and He is more than enough. If you need a financial blessing, He said everything in Heaven and everything in earth is mine, and the bible tells us that He is able to supply all of our needs according to His riches and glory. Deuteronomy 8:18 tells us, "...for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth." If your children look like they are going totally astray, just keep praying and believing, because He said that He would save your whole household (Acts 16:31). If you need a roof over your head, He said that He would give you houses you didn't have to build, and vineyards you didn't have to plant!

The Good News doesn't stop there! If we need protection, He said in Isaiah 43:2-7, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee" (That's what He did for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.) The Good News continues, "Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the East and gather thee from the West; I will say to the North, Give up and to the South, keep not back: bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him."

I don't know about you, my friends, but that's what I call Good News! Especially considering that He loves us not because of, but in spite of. He also said that He would never leave us nor forsake us. Let me leave you with one more thing - the word declares, "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall he not do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19). Now, if that's not Good News - I don't know what is!

With all that said, let the Church say Amen… and AMEN!