Claiming or Proclaiming
By GARY TOOLE
According to statistics they say that over 70 percent of folks say that they are saved and yet only about 15 percent attend church and out of that 15 percent most are church-goers. There is a vast difference between a churchgoer and a real genuine bloodbought, soldout, hookedon Jesus tooth and toenail and blood, guts and all as my daddy used to say.

Just to look good in the community or to get someone off their back so many just walk down and shake the preacher's hand and say, "I do," and don't. There is no true repentant heart. Then back to the same old same old.

One fellow was just rejoicing one day about a man he proclaimed had come to God. He said, "Yeah boys, he's got it now!" Yet the man still runs a store selling beer and owns a whiskey store and he is still selling whiskey.

One man rebuked me and said, "Oh, Toole, there ain't nothing right about it because it almost destroyed my life." The word lets you know plainly that if you are not a doer of the word then you ain't got it.

Claiming and proclaiming are two different balls of wax. You can proclaim to be a Christian, but when you claim it is when you have got it and there ain't no in-betweens. As grandma used to say, "Either you is or either you ain't." So, is you or is you not? (For all you grammar genuises, I'm just doing it that way.)

So many are like the 10 that Jesus healed and only one showed up and Jesus asked, "Where are the other nine?" The same place they are now: out somewhere fishing, playing golf, rolling dice, chasing rabbits, and drinking whiskey.

Are you just proclaiming it or are you really claiming it in the name of Jesus who redeemed you and saved your soul from hell? If you've really got it, then you are gonna know it and you are gonna show it! Can you say amen?

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