Repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and you will be given the Holy Spirit of God, sealing you for eternity and redeeming you to relationship with Almighty God.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/jesus-christ-the-son-of-god-and-god-the-son-437710.html  This is one of those sermons all Christians should study.

So simple a thing so hard to accept.  They will accept that extra-terrestrials seeded Earth or somehow brought about the great flood and that vampires/werewolves freely walk among us, but they refuse outright the evidence of Sovereign God.  Is not God “extra” terrestrial, did He not reach His hand into humanity through fire, cloud, prophet, parted waters, brimstone and flood.  The difficulty is not in accepting something that is too difficult to understand but in making ourselves of secondary importance for worship.  I think therefore I am the center of the universe.  Pride is a powerful narcotic.

If I acknowledge God then I have to disobey God because I cannot possibly obey His commands which are entirely inconsistent with my self actualization.  Therefore I will do my best to deny His existence and persecute His people, thus nullify His authority and judgment.  This is standard practice in today’s society, commit sin then simply act like it didn’t occur repeating a practiced lie as frequently/loudly as you possibly can to countermand justice.  That certainly coincides with the definition of irrational thinking?

I cannot deny that my worldly Father exists to avoid the punishment he would most assuredly deliver for disobeying his house rules.  Nor can I simply forgive, explain away or dismiss the repercussion of nefarious or criminal action just because I do not wish to acknowledge the authority of the law to judge my actions.  This is man’s predicament with God.  To forgo His offer of salvation is guaranteed damnation, self prescribed separation from our Creator for eternity.  There is great danger in toying with the portents and purveyors of deception.  Pride is hypnotic.

Why are men going hungry, because me and friends refuse to care enough to go and share our food?  Why do children go orphaned when there are thousands of churches in each State, tasked by God to watch over them?  Well most certainly it is because we think ourselves above that command or perhaps we feel that God meant for someone else to do it when He was pointing directly at you and me.  Why do the lost go uneducated to things of God, having not known salvation because we are unwilling, too busy or frankly disinterested in sharing the Gospel message with which we have been entrusted?  What Ambassador would ever expect to keep his job having not even attempted to establish productive relations with the host country.  We are not citizens of the world, only ambassadors of God’s Kingdom sent to share invitation.  Do we understand the difference between a request and an order, or perhaps between a piece of wood upon the wall and the Sovereign King of the Universe?  Pride whispers, “he is not referring to me”.

I repent because I am bent, corrupted, poisoned and chained.  I run because I am in fear, of death being near, so I steer my wagon away from the chasm, in spasm I drive directly toward the abyss from which God has just relieved me.  Of what then is my courage made?  Will it simply fade when time for price and passion is paid?  Will my judgment be stayed, when my last breath is made and I haven’t done the work to make the grade?  Can I afford to look into the fiery eyes of the Lord knowing I kept my gifts stored for a season or reason that never came?  Is He then to blame for what I have ignored, forgotten or simply chosen to never do?  I cannot abide my denied pride for it opens me wide to all manner of hateful and disobedient sin.  Let’s be awake for majesty’s sake.  Jesus Christ my savior and my King.

http://www.insight.org/resources/devotionals/god-doesnt-have-to-explain.html  Chuck Swindoll on the sovereignty of God