Gospel Conference Part 1

I of course was listening to a podcast from cornerstone in Simi Valley, California. This was the kick off of their conference right before easter this year. This guy Jeff V something or other was speaking. Amazing. He was a guest from out of town and his passion was amazing. He was so awsesome that 10 minutes into it, someone so kindly brought him water so he wouldn't die from being so excited. I could blog just about his great speaking, but it goes much deeper than that.

Here are some of the things that stood out to me:

1. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
Yes, I know that is a verse and very well known at that, but last night it truly popped. He went on to talk about sin and how long we dwell on it. Maybe when we first start out it can be days at a time before we go to the cross. I know when i first became a Christian i struggle a lot with forgiving myself for what had happened in the past and especially how i misrepresented Christ by even saying i was a Christian. Basically, we need to know that because Jesus died for us, if we linger over our sin for a few days, we are worshiping ourselves. We expect ourselves to be able to fix it and we are upset with ourselves. We need to recognize what Jesus did for us and undertand that we can't wait a single moment in sin, We are forgiven! We just need to ask.

2. "We do what he has called us to do because of what He did. And it was good. And it was enough."

3. "How does this work, we see to have our hope on heaven. Then, we live in today and we experience difficulty and we find ourselves completely living in this difficulty, completely dependent on ourselves, but we have no problem trusting God for eternity after death. Why do we do that?"

This really hit me, because it's so true. Especially in my life lately. With school and lack of money and other issues, it seems so easy to get wrapped up in my life. But how on earth, if i cannot trust my God for 90 odd years of my life, how can i trust him with the rest of eternity? It makes no sense. I'm done not trusting.

4. "God saved you so that HE can have what HE wants."

Amen.