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Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen   
Søndag, 11. oktober 2009 07:43


“They were only shadows of the real thing – of Christ Himself.”  (Col. 2:17)


”Why are we here?”  I put that simple question to a loyal churchgoer Thursday night. ”To celebrate Easter”, was her reply.  You see, in Denmark the Easter holidays begin on Thursday – ”Maundy Thursday” – already. – “But are we in the Bible exhorted to celebrate Easter or other festivals?” was my next question.


Now, I´m not picking at festivals as such, but I do believe that they may leave the heart untouched.  To say it very bluntly:  A saving experience with our Lord Jesus Christ may never have taken place and so a lot of churchgoers are being lulled to a dangerous spiritual sleep just to wake up too late in the eternity -  lost!


But believers do believe in celebration, i.e. celebrating Jesus Christ.   “Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.  Let us therefore celebrate the feast….with… sincerity  and truth” (1 Cor.5:7-8).  In other words,  that kind of  celebration takes place continuously and not on special  festival days, Col. 2:16, and is for born again disciples only, committed to God´s holy will.  Hell is full of festival celebrating souls who never got personally acquainted with our Lord Jesus Christ.


What about you?  You may be a most respectable church member without being a true member of the body of Christ and without having become partaker of His divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).  Oh, go as a lost sinner to the Lord Jesus and tell Him the truth about you.  For He is a true Savior from sin as well as from false and deceptive religion.


See to it that you get the real thing!


-jn-

11.4.09

 
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