Date: Sunday, January 8, 2006
Message: Mercy and Grace
“Thus says the Lord, though souls may wander in confusion, I will send them spiritual leaders. Guides who are like monks who can light candles in a downpour. They will pray sending peace in the storm.
“Thus says the Lord, my mercy is with you. But you have a choice to make, stand firm with the adulterer and drug user or stand on sand with those that gossip and condemn them.
“Remember, after taking a great fall, the sinner belongs to me. ‘Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more’.
“Thus says the Lord, stand separate. Do not judge. Do not join the accusers. That is the job of Satan. Like whitewashed tombs, they are beautiful on the outside but filled with rotting flesh and dead bones on the inside!”
Brother Joseph +
Jesus spoke and said unto them, “Woe to you . . . You are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity.” Matthew 23:27