The Free Gift of Eternal Life

MCF Life Church - Christmas Message 2018

Jesus invites anyone and everyone to come and receive the gift of eternal life that He is offering, and the forgiveness of sins that He purchased for each one of us through His shed blood on the cross

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Every year brings with it new challenges, some good, some not so good and for MCF Life Church 2018 has been no exception. We started the year having begun our new ‘Shekinah’ meeting in conjunction with fellow believers in Coleshill, held at Coleshill Town Hall, which is for Christians of any denomination who wish to experience God in the freedom of the Holy Spirit. Shekinah means ‘God’s dwelling’ which is something we aim to achieve at each meeting, to let God dwell with us and see where it takes us. We’re still learning.

I am the Pastor of MCF Life Church and in the summer my wife and I met with about 15,000 other Christians in the 02 Arena, London at the Hillsong UK Conference and we were mightily blessed.  We brought back a Word which we believed God was challenging us with, that within the next five years we were to plant another church and that MCF Life Church would not look the same as it does now.

Another first for MCF Life Church in 2018 was to support a member of the fellowship on the mission field. The Bass player of the worship team, Jo O’Neill, went over to India for three months with her friend on a missionary trip to work with disadvantaged children in an orphanage, which I think initially was a bit of a shock to her system as the living conditions weren’t quite what she was used to. Never-the-less she tells us that it was an amazing experience. During her trip Jo she sent back many photos of the people and work they were involved with over there, which you can view on our MCF Church Website by clicking on (this link).

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On September 29th in Coventry’s old Cathedral and later in the day in Meriden Park people from all over our nation and beyond came together in response to a Word God had given to Peter Hill, an Englishman living in Canada to ‘Call the Nation to Prayer’, which he knew was referring to the UK. He and another man from Chelmsford, David Gilby got together having met at a prayer meeting in Birmingham and heard from the Lord that they should call the nation to prayer in the Centre of England to pray for the nation. They gathered a team of people around them and spent several months planning and bringing the event together, believing that this would be the start of the fulfilment of the prophesy given particularly by Smith Wigglesworth in 1947; ‘when those of ‘the Word and those of ‘the Spirit’ would come together there will be the biggest move of the Holy Spirit the nations, and indeed, the world have ever seen. It will mark the beginning of a revival that will eclipse anything that has been witnessed within these shores…’. These were amazing meetings and the presence of the Holy Spirit was felt at both gatherings. There is now great anticipation as people take back to their part of the nation what God has imparted. ‘Call the Nation to Prayer’ is what was spoken by the prophet Joel and referred to in Acts 2:17-21 ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved’.

In the latter part of the year MCF Life Church had to ‘step up’ as a Fellowship and run the church without me as Pastor and my wife Lyn. Lyn had to have a major operation which took us both out of the picture for several weeks, but God is good and the whole fellowship pulled together and kept going, for which the we were sincerely grateful. We were always confident this would happen as Jesus is in the centre of it all and is ultimately the Senior Pastor.

God is so amazing and to serve Him is the most incredible privilege anyone could ever possibly experience. I for one know that full well. But it’s not just for the privileged few, it’s for anyone who wishes to have it. Jesus invites anyone and everyone to come and receive the gift of eternal life that He is offering, and the forgiveness of sins that He purchased for each one of us through His shed blood on the cross. The bible tells us in John 3:16 ’For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life’. Notice the scripture says ‘Whoever’ which includes YOU. We are in the last of the last days according to God’s Word, so time is running out. None of us know when our last day is, so today is the day to ask God for His forgiveness. If you want to know more or have someone help you make that decision, then find a church where the gospel is preached and go along and ask someone to help you. Start the New Year as a New Creation with a new freedom and a new life; 2 Corinthians 5:15-20 ‘And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has gone, the new has come!  All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:  that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: be reconciled to God’.

May God bless you and be with you this Christmas and New Year, from all at MCF Life Church.

Author: Pastor Kevin Hunt

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