LARRY NORMAN - FAITH AND LOVE
Saturday, September 20, 2014
LARRY NORMAN - FAITH AND LOVE
I don’t know whose here tonight. Ah, we put on the poster, ‘Drug Free Concert’ not thinking that you all take drugs and not even worrying about it if you did. Some people have a problem with drugs in their life. Some people have a problem with alcohol. Some people have a problem with T.V. Some people have a problem with food. We each have some problem that we have been unable to, to solve. Maybe it’s fear, maybe its anger, insecurity, jealously. God knows what we’re like and He loves us just the same. But the way the church has established its message. Many of us think to be a Christian we must be good. We must always be very good. So many people say, “I cannot be a Christian because I cannot be this good. I cannot be as good as the church wants me to be, so I must give up trying because I will never be the right kind of person. I will never become the perfect Christian. And yet they believe in God. They believe in Jesus, that He is God’s Son. They believe that He died on the cross for our sins and that He rose from the dead so that we can also rise from the dead. They believe everything. They are a Christian but they are afraid to try. We must not be afraid of God. Maybe we must consider the communication problems with one another, between us and perhaps the church. And they will say, Larry’s hair is long or he’s drinking water out a bottle like it was some alcohol. Maybe the church, and I, I shouldn't say church because we are the church. It’s not the buildings. It’s not the Priests; it’s us and the Priest, if he’s a Christian. It’s every, it’s everyone that believes in God that’s the church. We are the Saints. We don’t need to pray to any Saint Peter. We are the Saints. And Saint Peter, he’s asleep waiting for the resurrection. When I die I shall sleep and wait for Christ to come back and resurrect me. I know He can resurrect me because he resurrected Himself. This is our hope in God. That God loves us. That Jesus is coming again and that God will look at us with love and mercy and not with a list of all of our failures. So please don’t be afraid of God. Open up your heart to God. You’ll never be a perfect Christian. Even the Priests can never be perfect.
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