Abide and Obey

I am begging for this generation to step up and get serious about radically dying to yourself, this world, and all its offerings for you, and pursue Christ! Jesus says if you are My disciples you will abide in My Word (John 8) and if you are My disciples you will obey Me (John 3). We are living in a Church age where people don’t abide in the word of God and they aren’t obedient to it, because they don’t know what it says, other than what the preacher says on Sunday mornings. And then Jesus says you will bear fruit, how many Christians in our culture bear no fruit that gives evidence or credibility to their faith? A dying world out there; they don’t want that, there’s no hope in that! They don’t see anything different in us, why would they want what we’ve got? There’s 2.5 billion people on planet earth right now, dying without the Gospel, at a rate of 1 every 1.8 seconds; and not only are we not taking the Gospel to them, but when we get there we don’t have anything to present because it hasn’t changed our lives, it hasn’t wrecked the way we live. We need to be ruined for Christ; we need to be wrecked by the Gospel; it’s not marginal, it’s not passive, it’s not mediocre, it is an absolutely consuming thing to fall in love with Jesus and to submit our life to Him.

[a wise man, disciple, teacher, and son of God said this, and he couldn't be more true.]