"JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME!"

 Hebrews 13:8-10              (ESV)
"8 "JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME" yesterday and today and forever.
9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat."



Have you ever witnessed someone acting totally out of character, doing things that don't quite line up with who they really are?  Better still, have YOU ever experienced yourself having an apparent change in personality traits so dramatic that you think there may be something wrong with you?  When JESUS comes into a life and changes that life they have a NEW character, a new basis for living their life.

But changing for the sake of change will not bring about lasting, meaningful results.  While it is true that times are constantly changing, and maybe even progressing, "JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME" for eternity.  When a person surrenders to JESUS they are not just getting a get-out-of-jail free card.  But that is the way a lot of people live their lives.  Even "teachers" of (what are supposed to be) biblical principles get caught up in the frenzy of "this world" and give advice that isn't scriptural.  If there's no scripture to confirm, or base a teaching from, you might need to make sure it is from GOD?

The intelligence of man is an amazing phenomenon.  Less than 100 years ago automobiles were a rarity!  Today it seems like every family in the United States has multiple vehicles.  Medicine, growing of crops, manufacturing of clothing, indoor utilities, and we can't leave out TECHNOLOGY, are things we take for granted as nothing seems out of the realm of possibility for mankind.

But we have allowed our so-called intelligence to so cloud our minds and thinking that we fail to proclaim that there is a GOD who is in control and HE has a Plan that WILL come to fruition.  JESUS said that just like it was in the days of Noah when people were eating, drinking, and being given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and judgement of the sins of man was sealed, will the coming of he SON of MAN be!  The fear, the dread, the impending doom had to be intense, yet Noah had told them for many years that Judgement Day was coming..........and now it was too late!!!

The fact that "JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME" yesterday, today, and forever informs us that no matter our intelligence, our progress, our TECHNOLOGY, our sin WILL BE JUDGED!  Exodus 34:7 says GOD "will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."  GOD IS HOLY and you should not be deceived that HE will not judge our sin!  Unless we can claim GRACE through "JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME", we will experience judgement!