GOSPEL LIGHT #737

Mankind's Mic Drop Moment  

How can you tell if you're not taking the 10 Commandments seriously? Have you ever encountered someone who feels completely secure because they claim to follow the Ten Commandments?

Listen, if by your quote unquote obedience to the 10 commandments makes you contented with your spiritual condition, if it makes you feel that you can make the grade, if it makes you satisfied with who and what you are then that's the sure and certain indicator that you are not taking it seriously. 

If you try to obey the 10 commandments perfectly from the inside out, down to your innermost being, your thoughts, your heart attitudes, your desires, you will end up being humbled and alarmed about your condition. 

The Bible says in Romans 3:19: "Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God."

The law or the 10 commandments taken seriously shuts our mouths up, it's a boast buster, it drops the mic. It sends us falling hard and crashing into the Savior's arms as sinners, trusting what He did on the cross for us.
My friend, are you taking the 10 commandments seriously? Has your mic dropped? Is your mic muted?
The true measure of taking the commandments seriously is not contentment in self-righteousness but a humble recognition of our need for grace

GOSPEL LIGHT #736

The Valor and Bravery Of The Lord Jesus Christ 

Lu 9:51 "...when the time had come...He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem..."

There was a determined and resolved look on the face of the Lord Jesus Christ as He went to Jerusalem. Dangers, suffering, mockery, and death awaited Him there, yet He was determined to obey the Father's will and pay the price for sinners' salvation. Courage really means the determination and boldness to do God's will. What does this determination and resolve of His tell us? Among other things, it tells us that God has determined and resolved that only through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ can a sinner be saved. That is God's determined resolve. No sinner can be saved through any other means. If God is very, very, very firm on this, then you should put your trust only in what the Lord Jesus Christ did for your salvation."

GOSPEL LIGHT #734

 MK 16:20 And they went out and preached everywhere

I want you to see here that there is no salvation in any other. The fact that they preached the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ everywhere means that there is no other way to be saved.

There is no salvation in no one else; for there is no other name everywhere on earth that has been preached among men by which we must be saved.

 If good works can save then there would have been no need to preach the gospel everywhere. Men can do good works where they are and they will be saved.

There are also people who say that church membership saves. But if that is true then people would have to go somewhere where there is a church in order to be saved. The fact that they preach the gospel everywhere means that they can be saved wherever they maybe if they trust in the gospel.
 
And you can be saved where you are right now through the preached gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ died for your sins and was raised again from the dead. Trust in Him now.

GOSPEL LIGHT #733

The Holiness, The Love, And The Wisdom of God In Salvation 

* The holiness of God demanded: "The sinner must be punished!"
* The love of God cried: "I desire the sinner's salvation!"
* The wisdom of God came up with a plan: "I will go down and become a Man and die as a substitute for the sins of sinners. I will fulfill the desire of divine love and satisfy the insistence of divine justice."

My friend, any other method of salvation, like salvation by good works, will violate or bypass, one way or the other, who God is. The only way that God could approve of is the one that gives full satisfaction to His holiness. Salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross is the only way to go. 

GOSPEL LIGHT #732

For Many Days...Without A Sacrifice 

"For the sons of Israel will remain for many days... (among other things cited here in this verse) without sacrifice..." Hosea 3:4 

This was fulfilled when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. The temple was the only designated place wherein sacrifices for sin were made. General Titus in 70 AD came and did the most horrific thing in the eyes of the Jews --- he destroyed the temple.

Since that time, for almost 2000 years now, the nation Israel has been without sacrifice. And yet, throughout these generations, ringing in their ears, is the message that Jesus died for their sins. A Jew has some serious thinking to do. Either God has left them without any solution to sin for almost 2000 years now or they do have a solution for sin; that that Man Jesus Christ was indeed the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world --- the ultimate fulfillment of the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament.

It's the same with us today. We need daily sacrifices for sin because we sin everyday. Good works can't save us. And yet, there's this message that says "Christ died for our sins."

Where else can we go? What other options do we have? Are we willing to live out our lives that can be described as "for many days without a sacrifice?" A man who has never trusted the Lord Jesus' death on the cross be described as someone as "for many days...without a sacrifice."

My friend, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ is our only option. He's our only hope.

GOSPEL LIGHT #731

Can Good Works Pay For The Penalty Of Our Sins? No, because sin, every single sin, is a heinous spiritual crime against God. It's not a minor offense that can be settled by doing "community service" so to speak. A man who deserves the death penalty and yet is made to pay up his crime by picking trash, working at charitable institutions, and participating in community projects has not adequately fulfilled the demands of justice. Sin is no light matter. Death is its penalty. And so, the Lord Jesus Christ came to die for our sins. His death was a must. And it's only through His death on the cross that the demands of justice can truly be satisfied. Avail of it, by trusting in it.

GOSPEL LIGHT #730

1Co 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Take note of the spiritual condition of those who are not saved here - they are tagged as "perishING." Sadly, many of them are blind and ignorant about their condition. Nothing bad has happened to them so far; everything is perfectly alright, so they think. 

A made-up story is told about a man who jumped off a building. The spectators down below were terrified but the man was perfectly calm. As he passed by a window, he looked at a man in his room and said: "Everything's perfectly alright so far."

That's the condition of many today. They know that they have fallen into sin; they know that they are sinners. They walk around this world and nothing bad has happened to them so far. Everything seems to be okay.

Until they reach the "last level" so to speak where it's going to be a lot of hurt and pain. 

My friend, if you are still unsaved this is exactly your spiritual condition - you are perishing. You need some good old saving! Trust in the Savior and what He did on the cross and be saved.