This Is Where Everything Changed

This Is Where Everything Changed

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Let Nothing Move You

1 Corinthians 15: 54-58 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Infomercial TV is a phenomena I just have not been able to get on board with. There is entertainment value watching someone sell a product that will revolutionize your life and give you more leisure time. It all seems to cost $19.95. Just what we need, more stuff to help us do something we already are doing. I will long remember the best spoof on these types of products in a Saturday Night Live Dan Akroyd skit for the Bassomatic 76. I still chuckle thinking about that one. 

In addition to slick salesman selling products to enhance our lives, our world will try to sell you a new and better life. This new and BIGGER LIFE STYLE the world offers will include setting aside the morals, principles, belief, and yes faith by which you live your life today. In the bargain you will eliminate the guilt over living for only yourself. You earned yours, why should you help those less fortunate? You can do whatever you want, and definitely do it in excess. Because that is just the cool thing to do. It’s all good! You will not have to worry about the principles of right or wrong, morality, or sexuality. Again, it’s all good! Best of all with the new lifestyle the world seeks you to follow, you will have Sundays all to yourself and no more pesky Wednesday evening Advent and Lent services. They will be a thing of the past. You are free! It’s all good. 

There is even a more subtle sales pitch you may encounter. It is the sales pitch that suggests your concept of grace is wrong. Surely God did not mean for you to be saved only by the sacrifice of Christ is the mantra of that group. All you really need to do, in that school of thought, is to complete a list of things and you will earn your way. Just a few simple things, and then a few more simple things, and so on.

Friends of the Risen Savior, we need to hold on firm to the words of 1 Corinthians 15 passage above. The slick sales pitches seek to lead you to ruin, nothing more. The Apostle Paul’s words to the church in Corinth hold true today, just as they did when he first sent that letter. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.


PRAYER: Lord keep us on track. Help us to shut out the sales pitches of this world. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit. This we ask in the name of the Son who loves all - Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

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