Why We Worship

By Joe Govea

April 10, 2015

I was asked, “Lent is over-- He is risen-- What Now”

First of all let’s see what brings us to His need to die then rise again.

It all goes back to Adam the first human the father of mankind and the first model that God put a spirit into. You see spirits love to be in human bodies. They can do physical things in them that can be enjoyed.  Like playing golf and hitting a real long drive down the middle of the fairway.  Oh what a feeling!  Well the devil hated the idea the spirits could be living in human bodies and have a God King who would also live in a human body.  So he set out to prove human beings were bad and would make the sprit weak by taking control due to temptation. 

Adam, human model number one, soon failed the test, everybody knows that story.  Well that sin made us humans unworthy of God’s kingdom. But God loves us and he had to find a way we could become worthy to be with him.  For hundreds of years he kept trying to get man to do what was right but them guys, Solomon, David and a few others started out good  then that doggone temptation got them all in trouble again and again.

Well like I have always heard, “What great leader would ask his follower to do something he would not do” Yes, God had to come down and do it himself.

Jesus, who was God in the flesh, had to prove that a human could withstand whatever the devil threw at him. Jesus declared that he would be the sacrifice so that sins could be forgiven.  Oh man what a sacrifice.  If you haven’t heard that story, please seek immediate help at the nearest church.  Jesus suffered, died and was buried. Then rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.  He proved that he was the Messiah our Lord and Savior.  He said we to can rise again when we die and then have eternal life forever.

So what now, well we get to work to gain that eternal life.  Jesus has left instructions on how to do it.  Get busy make yourself a work of art which you will present to Jesus come judgement day.  Thus Jesus became the new Adam and our new Father.  Because he did what the first Adam could not do.  He also gave us a way to gain eternal life so that we may be with him in heaven, forever and in a new body!  Go to confession; be sorry for your sins and work to become a better person by praying.  Go to church give the Holy Spirit a chance to help you.  If you do, God’s grace will be like a veil of protection over you and you will feel so good because God is with you.