I received a letter from Jerome in an African country who wrote via Global Media Outreach. He said his wife is Muslim. He married her because she was a virgin. Now that they’re married she refuses to become a Christian. His question: “Should I dump her?”
I responded: “I’m sorry you married for the wrong reason. The first consideration in seeking a wife should be a woman who shares your faith in Christ. Now that you are already married, you are to love and honor her as your wife. You are not to ‘dump her.’”
A few weeks later he wrote again and apologized for misleading me. He said he called her his wife because he didn’t know the English word for “girlfriend.” Meanwhile, after living with her for a while and learning she wasn’t open to converting, he “dumped her.”
Now he writes, “The Old Testament tells us to worship God on Saturday. I’ve been told the Antichrist is coming and will force all people to worship on Sunday instead of Saturday. I believe this is sin. I will refuse to disobey God and worship on Sunday, even if I am tortured to death. Please advise.”
“Jerome, You are fearful of sinning against God by worshiping on Sunday. Yet you were not fearful of sinning against God when you lived with a Muslim woman outside marriage and later ‘dumped her.’ I don’t understand your kind of faith.
“You need to carefully study God’s Word and ask yourself if you are truly born again. Once you choose to surrender your life to Jesus Christ, that’s when you also make the decision to repent (turn away from your sinful ways). God’s Holy Spirit will give you the desire and the power to do so.
“I want you to read Revelation 21:8 and think about it. Nothing is said there about the day of the week we are to worship. Sexual immorality is serious sin before God. Yet you had no qualms about serious sin. Please go to https://www.godlife.com/en/new-believers-guide and learn what it truly means to be a Christian.”
- But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
- GOD IS READY – Robin Poem by Elizabeth Cheney, circa 1931; music by Kathleen
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I wonder if he has no New Testament as he talks about worship on Sat.? He can see by reading the book of Acts and the letters of Paul that the body of Christ gathered and worshiped God daily in prayer, teaching, and breaking of bread.