THE REWARD OF BEING FAITHFUL TO CHRIST

PREACHER: DR. VLADIMIR ANTWI-DANSO                                      

THEME:”THE REWARD OF BEING FAITHFUL TO CHRIST”                

Defining “Who is my neighbour” today becomes a problem. In our first reading, Moses tells us a lot about what we should do to inherit the presence of God. David also when he was about die admonished his son Solomon, heir to the throne to walk in the path of God faithfully. He succeeded in completing the temple and the palace because he initially followed the commands of God. Later he took a lot of pagan wives who turned his heart away from the Lord. After his death the kingdom broke into two. Jeroboam took over part of the kingdom and Israel was taken into captive.

The bible tells us what we should do in order to live a faithful life. In Deuteronomy when the Israelites came to Eastern side of Jordan and Moses was about to die he then gave them the law and promised the blessings of God if they lived faithfully by the law. We need to know our history, where we are coming from, where we are going as a Church. It is easy because someone died on the cross to save us.

When the Teacher of the Law came to Christ and asked him “what he must do to inherit eternal life, (Lk 10: 25) Jesus referred him to what the scriptures say (v.27), which he quoted. Jesus then used the parable of the Good Samaritan to demonstrate our attitude towards people who are not of the same ethnic group or social standing with us.  Knowing what the scriptures say, is key to our walking faithfully with the Lord.  As we are inundated with preachings on healing, prosperity, deliverance by various “men of God” in the media, we must consider what the Bible says because it is the believer’s Constitution.    The salvation of  God is not in the aggregation of riches, but it leads us into His peace.

Walking in the light of the law gives us the favour of the Lord. We have to walk in the path of righteousness.