St. Patrick's Day Message
Colin Patrick Melbourne
© 04-08 Born-Again-Christian.Info
Saint Patrick's Day Message by Patrick's Brother in Christ
There is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men: the testimony given in its proper time. Holy Bible, 1 Tim. 2:5-6 NIV
Bothers in Arms: God's Arms
My Mother, who was briefly a Roman Catholic, named me at birth in honour of Patrick. But it was not until I was 34 that I came to know Christ, was born again, and began to share the same Father; the same Spirit, purpose, and message, as my dear Brother Patrick.
St. Patrick was not Irish, was never a Catholic, and preached against idolatry because he was a genuine Christian: Born of God's Spirit through heart faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. His message was salvation through Christ, not through religion.
In this article you will discover:
- The Gospel message Saint Patrick proclaimed
- What St. Patrick would say to Roman Catholics today
- God's opinion of the Catholic Mass
- The only way to please God
- How to get to Heaven
- The sole source of forgiveness of sins
- How to be Born Again and have the Peace of God
Saint Patrick's Message
What would St. Patrick say to the world on March 17th; the day he is commemorated? When he sees Satan marshalling religions under the demonic United Religions Initiative; setting the stage for the AntiChrist to be revealed, what would Saint Patrick declare?
It would be this:
God has come, He has come to His Creation, and He came in love and grace to redeem it from the corruption of sin.
He did not come in anger, He did not come to judge fallen man, nor did He bring religion.
He brought Life, Eternal Life, the Life you were created for: God's Life.
Almighty God visited Earth as a man, the Lord Jesus Christ. The eternal, spoken, Living Word of God became Flesh, and lived among us.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. Jn. 1: 1-4,14
Ever since Adam and Eve chose to doubt God's Word, disobey the LORD, and trust the Serpent (Satan), mankind has been separated from God. Instead of walking in the garden of His Presence, in loving rapport and harmony, they forfeited our inheritance through doubt, disobedience, and rebellion.
Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned... Ro. 5: 12
The first couple broke trust with our Creator, trusted the 'Father of Lies', the devil, which brought sin into their spirit. Each of their descendants inherited this sinful nature from them. God's Word tells us clearly that every person born on earth; is born in sin, a child of the devil, to live in sin, die in sin, and face God's Judgment for our sins.
Through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners... The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. Ro. 5: 19, 18a
A truly hopeless situation you'll agree.
And that is the end of the story for the majority of people who have ever lived. They did die hopeless; they did perish in their sins, and are condemned to Hell. You can be certain they deserve it too. God is holy, and righteous, He judges perfectly.
The soul who sins is the one who will die... The wages of sin is death. Ez. 18: 3b; Ro. 3:23a
God Promises The Solution
But God is more than holy, righteous, and the Judge; He is also Love, The Redeemer: The Saviour, Faithful and True.
Since The Fall, He spoke of His redemption, promising to come and make a way back for sinners. He revealed this to the Jews through the Law, various Jewish Feasts, and sacrifices, all the time pointing to Himself as the only Redeemer.
The Hebrews understood this, and waited for the Promised Redeemer, or in their tongue, 'Messiah', to come and provide atonement, healing, and deliverance from the bondage of sin and decay. The Prophet Daniel spoke of Him as the 'Anointed One' (Dan. 9). Isaiah spoke of Him as the Son (Is. 9) So the Jews were anticipating the coming Messiah, the Son of God, God in the Flesh. (The Greek word for Messiah is Christ, meaning the 'Anointed One' the promised Saviour-Healer-Redeemer.)
Satan Provides Religions
Meanwhile, mankind subsided deeper into sin. Envy, hatred, and lust replaced, joy, peace, and love. Their fallen sinful nature led them further away from God by inventing all kinds of religions, ceremonies, and rituals inspired by Satan. Instead of worshipping God their Creator, they worshipped idols, behind which are demon spirits masquerading as gods. That's where all religions come from, and each one is idolatrous, and detestable to God.
The Jews even managed to transform God's Message and Law into a religion: Judaism. Completely missing the point of The Old Covenant; thereby blinded to The Truth, even when He stood in the Flesh before Israel. The LORD Jesus Christ told the Jews straight, precisely who He is, I AM! (Jn. 8 and 10).
You understand what He's telling them don't you?
YHWH, (pronounced: Yay-Ho-Va, or in English, Jehova) is the Hebrew name for Almighty God, and it means, 'I AM', or 'I AM WHO I AM' (Ex. 3:14). Oh rejoice you Saints, and give Him glory for revealing Himself to us!
The Jews certainly got the point, threw a collective religious fit, and picked up stones to kill him, because they said,
... you, a mere man, claim to be God. Jn. 10:33b
You can see why God hates religion can't you?
They provoked me to anger by burning incense and by worshipping other gods that neither they nor your fathers ever knew. Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!' Jer. 44:3-4
I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. Am. 5:21
God Provides The Lamb
The LORD was silent for 400 years between the Old and the New Covenants. Four centuries of divine silence. Then He came. Almighty God in the Flesh. Born as prophesied by a miracle, of a virgin Jewish girl: fully human, and fully God. Born under God's Law; grew up under Law, and lived it perfectly: never sinning once. Trusting in God His Father, walking in loving rapport with Him, as we were intended to: Humble, meek, loving, and obedient.
The Lion of Judah becomes God's Lamb.
Tried and Tested
Christ was not a robot: all day long He faced the same temptations you face. He made choices moment by moment like you do. The record of His life on earth is an account of stunning miracles from His birth to His resurrection, and return to Heaven. But perhaps the greatest miracle; is how He lived for 33 years in this filthy, sin-sick, religious, God hating world, without ever yielding to sin for a moment, in thought or deed.
He overcame temptation, not through some supernatural shortcut, or special trick, but by simple faithful, loving obedience, just like you can today.
Christ is your Prototype: He pioneered the way back to your Creator. He made the way; He is the Way, the only Way. When His disciples asked Him how to get to Heaven:
Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.' Jn. 14:6
Not through religion, rites, sacraments, priests, Mary, good deeds, pennance, or gurus, but through The LORD Jesus Christ alone.
I testify to you, it is the perfect way, the only way into the very Presence of God. You will have Heaven on earth today if you will repent and believe in Christ.
Will you follow Him Beloved?
God's Lamb Sacrificed For You
Having defeated Satan by obeying God, His Father, Christ laid down His Perfect Life in your place. He paid what you owe, took the guilt you bear, and was punished for your sins. All of them. God in the Flesh thinks you're worth the price He paid.
The penalty of your sins was not 'written-off' like Third World debt. It was paid in full by Christ: He bore your sins, your diseases, your infirmities, your punishment. He went to Hell itself: to set you free from Satan's bondage of sin, sickness, and decay. He took it all in your stead.
To prove your debt is paid; to confirm Christ is God, He arose from the dead, and ascended to the throne of Heaven, having provided perfect redemption for mankind.
That's what God has done for you. How you respond to this Good News will determine where you spend eternity.
God has made a New Covenant sealed with the Blood of the LORD Jesus Christ; that whoever is willing to repent and believe in Him, will receive eternal life, total forgiveness, and complete redemption. They will be born again: translated out of the devil's family into God's by faith in what Christ has done.
Here's how Christ summarised the message of the New Covenant:
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. Jn. 3:14-18
Will you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved?
Will you repent from religion and sin and embrace the only salvation available to mankind?
Will you trust the Gospel fact that Christ's sacrifice was paid once and for all, and is enough to clear your debt to God?
This is Saint Patrick's message to the world.
Christ: Not Corrupt Catholicism
Roman Catholicism is not Christian: God has nothing to do with it. It's another religious satanic counterfeit designed to keep sinners from The Truth.
At its heart is the Catholic Mass: a hideous defamation, and heinous blasphemy against the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. God hates it, and so do all genuine Christians. Here's why in detail.
Just as Satan duped the Jews, who thought they were justified through offering animal sacrifices, so Catholics have been conned into building a vile idol out of the Lord's Supper.
The magnificent passage in Hebrews 10, concerning the Levitical sacrifices, is just as relevant to the blasphemous Catholic Mass: Listen to God.
First he said, 'Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them' (although the Law required them to be made)
Then He said, 'Here I am, I have come to do your will.' He set aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But after this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. Heb. 10:8-14
Oh the Glory of the New Covenant, what the Law could never do because of our sinful nature, Christ did once and for all.
Rejoice you Saints, and repent you Sinners!
Turn from useless rituals: embrace the Living God. Reject Satan's counterfeit-Christ, and the corrupt Mass, and trust in Christ's finished work at Calvary. Once and for all: He cried out, It is finished! and it surely is Beloved. May God help you to comprehend that now.
This is what Saint Patrick would say to the world today.
Truth: Not Traditional Treadmills
Religion is man's attempt to remove his sin and please God through his own works and inventions: But there's only one way to have your sin removed and please God.
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me. Jer. 6:20
Jesus said, The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent. Jn. 6:29
That's too easy for religious people, they love their rituals, ceremonies, pennances, and sacraments, but you see what Jesus meant don't you? You really do want to please God, don't you?
Then do what He says; Repent and Believe the Good News