GOSPEL NUGGET #427

Exodus Chapter 1---The Enslavement Of The Israelites And Their Groaning 

It is often common with the dealings of God with men for God to cause men to become painfully aware of their bondage to enable them to see their need for redemption.

Pharaoh is a picture of Satan. Egypt is a picture of the world. Israel’s bondage in Egypt was a picture of the sinner’s bondage to sin in the world.

The problem with the sinner is that he does not see his deplorable condition. On the contrary, he enjoys the bondage of sin that is breaking him piece by piece, inch by inch.

Often, before God saves a sinner, He makes him painfully aware of his bondage to sin. He makes him aware that sin is a taskmaster and that his service is an affliction and grievous. That he is helpless and hopeless to free himself from this condition.

At this point, God is opening the sinner’s eyes, creating the need in his heart to be freed and redeemed from sin.

At this stage, the sinner is ready for “Moses.” Moses is just in the next chapters in his life, so to speak.

When a sinner becomes painfully aware that he is a sinner in bondage to sin, helpless and hopeless to save himself, the Savior is just around the corner. It is at this point that the sinner is ready for His salvation.

Have you seen yourself helpless and powerless to save yourself? As a result, are you seeking and longing for deliverance from sin?
 

GOSPEL NUGGET #426

Heb 10:19 ...having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

The temple and the tabernacle had an inner area where the dazzling presence and glory of God dwelt. It was called the Most Holy place or the Holiest place.

Only one person was allowed to enter that place once a year, and that with a sacrifice of blood.

It was a very dangerous place. For the holiness of God (God is a consuming fire) can break out on sinners if they come without a sacrifice or if their sacrifice was unacceptable.

No sinner can approach God and be with Him without an unacceptable sacrifice. Without it, we, as sinners, would all be consumed and damned by God's justice and holiness.

Not one among us, in ourselves, is good enough for God. However, I, as a sinner, can, boldly, with confidence, approach God by the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

My eternal acceptability before God depends not on me and what I did, but on the acceptability of my sacrifice. Knowing that God would never reject the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus did for me on the cross, I can come to Him boldly and with confidence through Jesus.

GOSPEL NUGGET #425

Isa 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.

A lot of people are troubled, distressed and worried sick about their condition before God. They don't have peace, they don't have quietness and they are uncertain.

Their consciences, like a sore tooth, nag them to no end on and on. They want peace, quietness and certainty, but they can only have it if they are right with God. They are wrong and so they must be right with God.

Peace, tranquility and certainty are the products and effects of having a right standing with God.

And they can only have this right standing with God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ro 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith (in the Savior), we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ