Spring Outreach Meeting Report, Wednesday, Apr 25, 2007

Tonight was the first night of our outreach effort.  We had two visitors. Though the weather was dreary outside, we gathered inside to join in songs of worship, special singing, and a lesson by Bro Joe Coons concerning salvation. 

Reading from Matthew 1:21, Bro Joe taught how sin brought enmity, or a separation between God and man, and how Jesus came to save us from that sin.  He came to take away the sin from our life and thereby the enmity or separation between us and God.

He continued by explaining what sin is.  Isaiah 53:6 says “all we like sheep have gone astray and turned to our own way.”  Sin is just turning to our way instead of God’s – rebelling against a known commandment of God.   He then gave his personal testimony of how God changed his life or “saved him from his sins”.  To save means to deliver or take out of harm’s way.  Christ certainly came to deliver us from sin and to take us away from the harm sin does to our body, spirit, and character.  Thank God there is hope through deliverance.  Not just forgiveness, but deliverance from sin.  It can be removed far from us so we aren’t “harmed” by it anymore.  God is a gentleman though and won’t rescue you without your permission.  He is waiting for you to call for deliverance.  Have you been taken out of harm’s way?  Would you like to be?