2 MINUTE WARNING

You are unable to do it on your own.

Why would I say that?

The answer is simple:  Because you are UNABLE to do it on your own.

You are a sitting duck for hell, born into death, and with no hope in front of you.

The reality is simple.  You are born BROKEN.

In the book of Romans, the man who spent his entire life getting “right” with God found that he was NOT RIGHT.  In fact, in trying to get right with God, he had become God’s enemy.  Paul later wrote:

Romans 3  ¹⁰ As it is written:

   “There is no one righteous, not even one;

Romans 3  ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

But, in the spirit of the impossible, you are given an OFFER.  And that offer is given in patience.  It is given in free will and choice.  You DON’T HAVE to accept it.

To me, this offer is unfathomable.  The King of the world WAITS outside of your door for YOU to invite Him to come in.  Imagine the most powerful man on earth WAITING for you.  Imagine the President positioning himself in a place where he could be available to you 24-7 but refusing to impose upon you.

Our God refuses to mess with our freedom to live.

Revelation 3  ²⁰ Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

What you do with that offer is totally and completely UP TO YOU.  You can reject it.  You can think about it.  You accept it—either now, or tomorrow, or whenever you want to.  But the offer is for you to accept.  It is a gift that only you can receive.  It is individual–for you and you alone.

If you choose to RECEIVE this offer, your eternity changes.  You become a new being.

John 1  ¹² Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God– 

Psalm 139  ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

John 3  ⁵ Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. ⁶Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. ⁷You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’

If you choose to receive His offer, you are given a NEW LIFE.  And that life won’t be perfect.  But He asks for all of you.  ALL OF YOU.

Hebrews 10  ¹⁴ because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

This BORN acronym is not perfect.  And it isn’t perfect because you are not perfect.  You will mess it up, and misrepresent Him, and make Him look bad.  I am not sure why He chose you, because there is a great chance that you will tarnish His image and all that He has done.

But He chooses anyway?

What do you choose?

I encourage you to be BORN again.

BROKEN

OFFER

RECEIVE

NEW LIFE

Say the prayer with me:

“Jesus, I am broken.  And I am broken in a way that I can not be fixed.

But I invite You.  I need You.  I am unable to do it without You.

Come and know me.  Search my heart.  Wash a new life over me and change my heart.  Begin to change even my hopes and my dreams.  Put hope on me.  Give me purpose and a reason to live.

Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you—MAKE ME ONE of Your hired hands!

I receive You and all the good that is in you.

I leave my life of sin and will purpose to worship YOU, and YOU ALONE.

Give me a NEW LIFE, a NEW HEART, a NEW OUTLOOK, and a NEW FOCUS.  Put to death my olf self, and all the stuff that hung on to that.  And give me a new life.  Birth me into a new kingdom, into YOUR KINGDOM.  That I might worship You in Spirit and in Truth.

Amen.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J