The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

The Derby~

A few days ago the Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky, and what a race it was! Seemingly, from out of nowhere, an 80:1 long shot horse named Rich Stike worked his way from far behind in the pack to make a charge in the last furlong and win the Kentucky Derby going away. According to news reports this win was a "stunning upset", and no one on the live TV broadcast even mentioned Rich Strike in their lead up to the race. In hindsight they now speak of the this horses breeding, the stable ownership and the quality of the Jocky in glowing terms. But before the race no one paid any attention to Rich Strike, or any number of other horses that were expected by the experts to be the 'also rans'!

The 2022 Kentucky Derby truly lived up to the moniker "The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports"!

So what was the overarching factor that won this race? If you focus only on the horse then you ignore the fact that without that particular jocky Rich Strike might has lost the race. If you focus on the Jocky and his magnificent riding ability and ignore the horse, the Trainer, and the Stable management, then you still do not have a winner.

We can see this happening right now in the Christian world, when it comes to the 'race' of salvation. Most Christians focus one thing, and that is 'salvation by faith through grace, and believing that Jesus died for their personal sins. They  have been taught that they don't need to run the race to win. This is like being declared the winner without leaving the starting gate. They don't realize that without Jesus (the Jocky) bringning the Words (the Stable) that God (the Owner) gave Jesus to the earth, and God must have a Kingdom (the horse) with which to take those words to the world, the race will be lost. 

 So if you never actually compete in the race you can never win the prize of eternal life.