‘Holding fast the faithful word...’
(Titus 1:9)

‘Holding forth the word of life...’
(Philippians 2:16)

Jim Henry

& Brenda

Open-Air opportunities in Andover, Bath, Dorchester, Sailsbury, Weymouth and Yeovil

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REPENTANCE OR REPERCUSSIONS

As we encounter the mantra of ‘the religious opiate’ peddled by those who follow the god of this age, we need to tell people the truth that God is Holy and therefore He is not pleased with us. We need to explain that hell is a sober reality not a big joke. The liberal church of today, along with others, has blinded the eyes of men so they do not see the danger.

Jan and Sarah in Bournemouth were 2 young women who called out as they passed me, ‘What does this text mean’? The verse she was referring to on the board was John 3:16. Jan questioned me as to why the God of the Bible is the only way. As I shared with her they both said they were spiritual people and then Sarah said, ‘You could be from the devil trying to trick us’. Jan and Sarah told me they were due to go to a spiritualist church that night to contact departed relatives. I told them that God in His Word has much to say on this subject and they read with me the passages in Leviticus and Isaiah. I then told them of the slave girl in the book of Acts and how the she was freed from the control of demonic power. Sarah asked did I have information on the ‘Illuminati’. As it happened I had been studying it, so this allowed me to point out its origins. I told her that Satan was behind all false ways and then tried to warn of the danger they faced if they did not seek God’s forgiveness. They looked at me earnestly and said, ‘We are not going tonight to the spiritualist meeting! Instead we’re going to read the literature you’ve given us.’

In Yeovil a mother and 20-year old daughter passed by, looking at my ‘Heaven or Hell’ outline which was on the board. The mother told me she was sad about her past life and now sought to put things right because she was now a spiritual person. I asked her where God fitted into all of this. Tragically, she told me she wanted nothing to do with God. I asked what she thought about Jesus. ‘He was just a man’ she replied. I explained that He was very much more than just a man. I explained that we needed Jesus as our Saviour and that all of us are either on the road to hell, or through repentance and faith in Him, on our way to heaven. Athough the mother did not respond to any of this, the daughter then joined in the conversation saying that she thought highly of the life of Jesus. She then asked, ‘Give me what you think will be good for me. She accepted a John’s gospel.

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