I had a light dinner this evening. I had some unexpected free time, so I grabbed my tablet and went out to look for a spot to preach in downtown Chicago. Well I found a wonderful spot that was specially made, acoustically, for sound projection. There were very few people on the street as I took up my position, but I prayed and then I thought to myself I don't need a crowd as motivation to speak, I just want to lift my voice to The Lord.
I began reading out loud from the book of Hebrews, where it describes Jesus as "the Author of our salvation to them that obey". And I described what it means to obey the Gospel. I read tons of scriptures verses and gave the sense of each verse after I read it.
I ended up drawing a bit of a crowd, which I am not really used to. I spent a some time trying to reason with Reese the atheist, but he turned out to be unreasonable, so I went back to preaching. Anyways, there were several other interactions with people, so it was very encouraging.
I met up with Brother Ronnie today and the Gospel was proclaimed loudly. Also were the two older women and one young lady holding the yellow and black banners. Ronnie let me preach with his bullhorn, that thing is loud!
Here's the message I preached today.
You were created in God's image. You are not the product of evolution. You are fearfully and wonderfully made, the Bible says. And you were built to live. I know that may sound obvious, even silly, but you were designed for life. And your body has built-in self-repairing, self-healing mechanisms. If I get a broken arm, it can mend. If I get a cut, it can heal. If I get a virus, my immune system will attack and rid my body of that virus and my liver and kidneys remove toxins from my blood. Under current conditions and circumstances though, those self-healing, self-repairing facilities are limited; they only go so far. But think of this, what if (and I know this is a big if), but what if those self-healing, self-repairing capabilities always just worked. Think about it, what if, hypothetically, our body was able to continually heal and repair itself and heal itself over and over again, and your immune system always just worked and worked perfectly,. Oh, you might get sick but you’d get well, you might get injured, but it would be repaired. If you extrapolate that thought out to its logical conclusion, you could, theoretically at least, live forever. But, that’s not the way things are... And I'm not implying that it will ever be that way; not in these bodies at least. There is nothing we can do to stop the aging process. We all have an expiration date. But I tell you, you were not created for death; you were created for life, your very body itself shows that you were designed for life. Death is not your friend and it was never your intended destiny. "The grave is not the goal and the funeral is not the finish line." Death will come for each of us someday, and I know some people live like there is no tomorrow, but for all of us, someday there will be no tomorrow. We will all die. Ten out of ten people die, but death is not a natural process! Death is a supernatural process.
