GOING FOR BROKE

GOING FOR BROKE
Somewhere in my past I heard this term and I believe it was where a gambler placed all he had on the table for a single bet. He knew if he won he would win big but if he lost he wouldn’t have a single thing left. To be honest with you, I hate gambling for it’s destroyed many lives and will continue as long as folks do it. Today we have lotto’s and casino gambling most everywhere and those foolish enough to participate always lose.

This brings me to a “bet” that you can’t lose but you must go for broke to win. In the scriptures Jesus told a parable where a man discovered a treasure in the ground and he went and sold all he had to purchase the field. In another a man discovered a pearl of great price and sold all he had to buy it. It’s a picture of giving up our lives for His. Salvation isn’t what most think. It isn’t a “get out of hell card”. It’s so much more; Salvation is the gift of God of forgiveness of our sins and a brand new life in the family of God.

John 1:12 says it well. “To as many as those who receive Him, to them gave He the power to become the children of God even to those who believe in His Name.” God isn’t having anyone into His family that doesn’t repent. The Lord’s first public word after the temptations of the devil and the beginning of His ministry was REPENT. Most folks don’t like the word for it has been besmirched by cartoonist and loud mouths. They like to make fun of the theme of repentance for they’re ignorant and perhaps in the devil’s employment. You do know there are people who work for the devil don’t you? Many are in Congress and state Legislatures. They have traded their souls for power and are using it to enslave the innocents.

Most can talk a good game but when their backs are against the wall they will not repent but attack. Jesus said Satan was an attacker. He called him “a liar, thief, murderer and accuser of the brothers.” He tries to win folks like he did Jesus by promising them the world. Those who are ignorant of the teachings in the Bible often fall for it. You and I know folks who live near us who have fallen for the lie. Think for a moment, what on earth is equal to living in eternity with God in Heaven? We will have brand new supernatural bodies that look like these but that are absolutely perfect and never age. I was allowed to see my dad and my Aunt Vera Walter in their resurrected bodies in two different dreams, no one was more beautiful or perfect. What we read in the scriptures is absolutely true.

The question I must ask, do you believe the Bible is the Word of God? There can only be a yes or no answer. If it’s yes, are you reading and following the teachings of Jesus? Can you give a testimony of when you began and how it came about? Aren’t we born to our moms in a single day? It may have taken a few days for the main event to arrive but there was a specific time when we first breathed air. It’s called our birthday.

We are also brought into our New Birth in the same way. God may have worked on us for a long time, probably a lot longer than the nine months our moms carried us. Then, on a specific day we emerged from being sinners to being a son or daughter of God. Repentance brought us to the place where the Holy Spirit could be inhaled by faith and we received His eternal life.

Some folks think that they became a Christian over a long time but it isn’t true. I can tell you exactly when I received Jesus. I felt shame leave my back like a heavy weight. When my pastor had me invite Jesus to come inside me I experienced the best “feeling” in my life. I was free for the very first time. Satan had no more power over me, the opposite was now true. God had now given me power over him in Jesus Name.

Thirty nine years later [as of May 23rd] I live in Christ’s victory. He won the war with Satan for men’s souls. When His Blood poured from His wounds God was satisfied and would forgive and claim any one who would “go for broke”. I can assure you of one thing. You can’t have part of Jesus. Either you have Him all or you have nothing [religion]. Today you can make a choice or you can put it off and perhaps not receive another. What will you do? Will you continue to seek after the world and it’s valuables or will you give yourself lock, stock and barrel to Jesus. It’s all or nothing. Please accept His offer. You aren’t too bad. Satan is telling you that you are, but remember he’s a liar. Jesus loves you. Will you love Him back?

In His Service,

Capt. Ben Marler


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