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:: To witness God's Glory

If we focus on Christianity as a life of love, the Bible shows us that love is hollow if we are willing to do nice things for people but not tell them about how to escape hell and gain everlasting joy with God, or if we focus on Christianity as obedience to the commands of God, the Bible shows us quickly that God commanded us to make disciples and to rescue the perishing, or if we focus on Christianity as a life of joy and fulfillment, the Bible makes clear that it is more blessed to give than to receive and that those we lead to Christ will be our joy and hope and crown of exultation.

 

Or if we focus on Christianity as the way of filling the earth with the glory of God, the Bible shows us quickly that God is glorified when we bear much fruit and that unbelief is the root of all that dishonors God, or if we focus on Christianity as a force for social change and justice, the Bible shows us that apart from saving grace the human heart and human society will sink deeper into sin and immorality and decay.

 

Or if we think of Christianity as a demonstration of kingdom power, the Bible shows us that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation and that the great demonstration of kingdom power is when Satan's grip on unbelievers is broken through the power of the Holy Spirit in saving faith.

 

In other words no matter what we focus on as the meaning and purpose of Christianity, evangelism inevitably rises to the surface with urgency, God has shown us more and more that there is no authentic Christianity that doesn't have a sense of urgency about evangelism, and people will not be a faithful, obedient church unless there is a longing and an effort among us to tell unbelieving people around us about God and sin and Christ and faith, in the hope that the Holy Spirit will use our words to bring people to faith in Jesus and to everlasting salvation and joy.

 

The front panel is intended to establish very honestly a common ground that exists, we believe, between us Christians and every person we will ever meet, we and they want to be happy, they may be seeking it in the fast lane while we seek it in the narrow way, but I don't think there is any serious doubt that everyone wants to be happy or use whatever word you like: joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, pleasure, even those who seem bent on ruining their lives are trying to minimize pain in the things they do, we do have a common ground with everyone we meet.

 

To witness

 

If you know God and believe God and understand that he is God, it is because he chose you to know and chose you to believe and chose you to understand that he is God, in other words, God chose us to know, God chose us to believe, God chose us to understand that he is God.

 

God lights his fire to make us shine, he means to turn our wonder into witness, 'You are my witnesses,' says the Lord, 'and my servant whom I have chosen.'" chosen not only to know; chosen not only to believe; chosen not only to grasp the glory that God is God; but chosen as servant-witnesses: "You are my witnesses and my servant whom I have chosen." God ignites our wonder to make us a witness.

 

The content of our witness is God, God lights the fire of wonder so that we witness to God's sheer existence, we witness to God's sovereignty "We witness to the truth that God alone is God," We witness to the truth that God is, "We witness to the truth that God has spoken", "We witness to the truth that this great incomparable God saves.

 

God created us for his glory is that it can make sense to people that discovering why they exist is a good means of finding fulfillment and happiness, if people believe there is a Creator God (or will grant it for the sake of argument), they will perhaps see that we're on a dead end street if our purposes in life are different than the purposes of the one who made us and rules the world, everyone can see that when you know what something is for you get more out of it, so it is with life, if we know what we were made for, there is far greater hope of getting all out of life possible, those are the reasons for beginning with Truth: GOD CREATED US FOR HIS GLORY; in other sentence deep and lasting joy comes from being what we were created to be and we were created to be mirrors of God's glory to fill the earth with the light of his beauty by reflecting it to others.

 

God created you and he did so with a high and noble purpose in mind that your unique personality, and even your might reflect some feature of God's glory that no other person can, you are like a crystal, shaped like no other crystal and the reason you exist is to walk in the light of God's glory in such a way that its rays and colors will reflect off of you and cause others to admire God. God's purpose to be glorified and your longing to be satisfied succeed together, trusting God for everything brings him honor and brings you happiness, it is a glorious gospel of a glorious God, put your whole trust in him! for his glory and for your joy and let that joy begin to spill over and enlarge itself in bringing others to the light.

 

Turn to me and be saved all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other, by myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return; to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear.  

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On October, 24, 2007 9:38 PM , Rebellious Arab Girl
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