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Tag: Message

  • Verse to DATE the Word on October 15 (10/15) is Romans 10:15

    “And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How
    beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
    Who bring glad tidings of good things!” – Romans 10:15
    The Beautiful Message and the Messenger

    In Romans 10:15 we have a commentary on the MESSAGE and the MESSENGER in which both are greatly complimented.   The MESSAGE is so beautiful for it is the gospel of PEACE. The MESSENGER has beautiful feet as they preach or PROCLAIM this beautiful message of GLAD TIDINGS of GOOD THINGS.  

    The MESSAGE of the MESSENGER is far more important than the messenger.  This message the messenger brings changes EVERYTHING for a person as it changes the STATUS of a person with God in which the person who was at war with God now has PEACE with God.  As sinners, we are against God and are enemies of God.  But through believing the gospel, we are saved and now have PEACE WITH GOD.  What a huge change!!  No wonder it is called GLAD TIDINGS of GOOD THINGS.  

    I suspect some of you are reading that phrase and you are wondering where you have heard this before.  You might recall that it is part of the Christmas story. Remember Luke 2:10, “Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.”  What was the good tidings of great joy to all people?  Luke 2:11 gives the answer. “For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”  

    What a MESSAGE we have received. Having received it we have the responsibility to be MESSENGERS to the world.  We get to let all the people of the world know they can have peace with God! We get to let them know they can be reconciled to God.  No wonder one might say the messenger has “beautiful feet!”   Now the idea is not literal that a preacher – a messenger – has attractive feet, but rather that the reference to feet is that the FEET brought the messenger with the MESSAGE!  We who proclaim the gospel to the lost world are viewed as having beautiful feet because we bring the most beautiful message any human could ever hear!

    Are people around you seeing you as someone with “beautiful feet” because you are bringing to them the most beautiful message that they can have PEACE WITH GOD? Are you a faithful messenger with the MESSAGE?   You are after all SENT!

    Verse to DATE the Word on October 15 (10/15) is Romans 10:15.  It says, “And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

    Let it be said of you that you have beautiful feet because you were faithful in proclaiming the beautiful message of the gospel!

    Continue Strong for the Lord bringing the gospel to the world!  
    And remember to DATE the WORD!

  • Verse to DATE the Word on August 14 (8/14) is Esther 8:14

    “The couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the 
    king’s command. And the decree was issued in Shushan the citadel.” – Esther 8:14
    BEING URGENT WITH an URGENT MESSAGE

    The Book of Esther tells of how an evil plot was designed by a man named Haman to annihilate the Jews.  Esther, who has become queen earlier in the book, will reveal the plot to the king and then plead for a revoking of the evil plan.  Because the law had been signed and sealed by the King it could not be revoked but the JEWS could protect themselves if a new decree was issued.  In Esther 8:8-10 a new decree is written that will allow the Jews to defend themselves against any and all who would do them harm.  This new decree now must go to all 127 provinces, from India to Ethiopia.  It is a decree that demands urgency for it could mean death for many Jews if they don’t get the message!

    Our verse to DATE tells of how the couriers immediately take the message to those provinces with this description that they rode on royal horses for they were swift horses (v. 10), and they hastened or raced as fast as they could, being pressed on by the king’s command.”  They understood the urgency of the message and the moment!  They were URGENT with the URGENT message.

    You and I are Ambassadors for Christ (2 Cor. 5:20) and have the eternal life saving message for the world called the gospel.  Do you understand the urgency of the message that we are to be sharing with the lost world?  Like the couriers, we are to be racing as fast as we can to get this message to the world.  Are we doing so as quickly as we can?  Are we using the very best of methods to get the gospel to the world on behalf of the King of Kings?  Do we feel compelled to carry out the great commission given by Jesus to be as quick, as urgent as possible to share the gospel?

    In pressing the point that we are to be urgent in getting the life, yes, eternal life message to the lost I had a friend share about a time they were in New York City many years ago and they saw chiseled on the side of a building “NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT STAYS THESE COURIERS FROM THE SWIFT COMPLETION OF THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS.”  He tells of learning that this was the motto of the United States Postal Service.  He then shared this challenging thought: “What a magnificent thing if that could be said about God’s people delivering the message of the gospel personally!” 

    Our verse to DATE the Word on August 14 (8/14) is Esther 8:14. It says “The couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Shushan the citadel.”

    An URGENT MESSAGE must be delivered with ALL URGENCY.   Let us be found being URGENT with the URGENT message of the gospel! It could mean heaven or hell for someone! 

    Continue Strong,
    And Remember to DATE the Word