GOSPEL NUGGET #607

Viruses, Pandemics, False And Genuine Repentance

False Repentance---It is when a pandemic takes place, and, for fear of divine judgment (That's all. Nothing more, nothing less and nothing else), you suddenly become religious and do things to appease God.

When the threat subsides, when the pandemic passes away, you then gradually revert back to what you were before...exactly like what you did when the earthquakes hit us years ago.

You are only fooling yourself, not God. God knew all along that yours was a false kind of repentance. The reason why you're not dead right now is that God gave you another chance to do it again, this time genuinely.

It is to be feared that many dying people who exhibit a semblance of repentance are like this. It felt real to them but not to God. They and their families thought that they will rest in peace.

Genuine Repentance---It is when a pandemic takes place, and, for fear of divine judgment, you flee from the wrath to come, you change your attitude toward God, you now take Him seriously, you now hate sin and revere God.

It further matures and develops to a point that even if the threat subsides, even when the pandemic passes away, even if there is no bliss of heaven or the threat of punishment in hell, you turn away from sin because sin is sin and God is God who hates sin.

And it culminates in you turning to Christ, trusting in Him alone and what He did on the cross for salvation.

GOSPEL NUGGET 606

The Gospel According To The Corona Virus

* First, Corona demonstrates to us that we live in a fallen world.

* Second, Corona draws us to the pervasiveness of sin. Just as the virus is pandemic so sin is pandemic. It's everywhere. It has affected us all.

* Third, Corona depicts to us our helplessness. Just as humanity right now is helpless against the virus so we are helpless and powerless to save ourselves from sin.

Just as Corona drove us to look for a cure so the fact that we are helpless and powerless against sin should make us look to the Cure that God has provided for us all --- the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

But first things first --- you will only look for a cure from Corona if you are, first of all, troubled and distressed by Corona.

In the same way, we can only genuinely look to the Savior if we are, first of all, bothered, upset, distressed and brought to despair to the reality of sin in our lives.

If such is your case, then come to the Savior my friend. He died for your sins and was raised from the dead. Come to Him and find salvation from the deadliest plague of all --- sin.

GOSPEL NUGGET #605

The pandemic of the Corona Virus and how the world responded to it is a clear demonstration as to how we ought to treat sin in our lives. Yes, even those sins that are microscopic and imperceptible to us. Repentance is seeing sin for the virus that it is, shunning it like the contagion and seeking deliverance from it.

Repentance is sin distancing and doing everything to avoid contamination. If we are alarmed with the Corona Virus we should all the more be alarmed at sin in our lives.

Have you repented of your sins? Have you come to the Savior for salvation from it?

GOSPEL NUGGET #604

Facts About Hamartia Virus * It's worse than the Corona Virus * It's pandemic. It has affected everyone. * The death rate is 100%. For every 1 person infected with it, that person will die. * The symptoms vary from person to person. How to know if you are infected with it? * Have you become dishonest in your life? * Was there a point when you became sinfully angry with anyone? * Have you disobeyed God ever? If you say "yes" to any of these questions then you are infected! Hamartia is the Greek word for Sin. Hamartia virus is the sin virus. If we are alarmed with the Corona virus we should all the more be alarmed at sin. The only cure for it is the Lord Jesus Christ. Come to Him. Be healed, be cleansed and be renewed!