Why Christianity?
Why Christianity? Why not other religions? Why not Islam, Confucianism, Shintoism, Existentialism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism and other religions of the world?
Friends, before you listen to the full message, I'd first like to declare to you that there is nothing in the world that could fill that emptiness in your heart except the Lord Jesus Christ. And that there is no other world religion on this earth that shares the great truth of forgiveness, that we can be right with God. That the Righteous God of heaven, who created the heavens and the earth, unknowable and unsearchable came in the person of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ so that we can know who He is, so that we can relate with Him and Him with us and enable us to live a victorious life through His Spirit.
I tell you that it does not matter what religion you are, for a truth, the believers were called Christians at first only by those outside the church- and they were called this whenever they gathered and communed with one another as they shared the Lord Jesus Christ and remembered Him and His coming. They never called themselves Christians at first but rather called themselves "believers or brethren", they believed in God and His Christ.
God is Righteous, God is Holy. And the simple truth is that we are not, we have all sinned; at one point in our lives, we had either lied, cheated, maybe stolen, coveted or have done something wrong, we have all sinned. That is what separates us from God, sin separates us from God; it is not your religion, it is not your race, it is not the color of your skin or your intellectual capacity, what separates us from God is our sin. And it's only Jesus Christ who lived a blameless and sinless life, only Jesus bore upon Himself our sins and curse, was shamed, and died on the cross so that we may become right with God. Every act of pardon that's ever been done to them that believe was written in His own blood. No one else paid that price, no one else bore our sin, no other religion on this whole earth carries the same message.
May you be blessed with the full message.
By David Pawson.
God bless you and keep you,
Kevin
