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

GOSPEL NUGGET #424

The Necessity Of A Sacrifice

Our acceptability before God does not depend on who we are and what we do. Rather, our salvation and acceptability before God depends entirely on the acceptability of our sacrifice.

It's all about the atonement, the atonement, the atonement. It's all about the sacrifice, the sacrifice, the sacrifice. We either make it or break it at this one great crucial issue. This is the pivotal point---the deciding factor.

God demands a sinless sacrifice. The problem is we can't provide one. But God, in His great love, sent the Lord Jesus Christ to be the sacrifice for our sins.

And the only sacrifice for sinners that God can accept is the sacrifice that He Himself provided.

Now, there you have it. Here you are a sinner before a holy God. In yourself, you will be doomed forever. But there's the great sacrifice that God Himself provided for you.

What are you going to do with it? It's your only chance. It's your only hope of being actually accepted by God. Will you stand behind it, rely on it entirely, for your actual acceptance with God?

Will you trust in Jesus and what He did on the cross for your salvation?

GOSPEL NUGGET #423

Great Men Reduced To Nothing When They Saw God's Holiness

Job was probably the best man in his day in terms of morality. And yet, when he saw God's majesty and holiness he saw himself vile:

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.
Job 40:4 "Behold, I am vile; What shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.

The prophet Isaiah, again, we can say, was probably one of the best men in Israel, if not the best man in his time. But when he saw God's holiness, he saw how unclean he was:

Isa 6:3 And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!"
Isa 6:5 So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."

The apostle Peter considered by many as the first pope saw his sinfulness when face to face with the holiness of the Lord Jesus:

Lu 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!"

If Job, Isaiah and Peter saw and realized that in spite of their seemingly impressive moral record before man, were not good enough for God, how much less are we who are down there in the ladder of morality.

The man who is most white on the face of planet earth would appear as dirty white when face to face with God's holiness. We are like bright candles at night that appear as nothing when exposed under the full blazing sunlight of a noonday sun.

None of us measures up to His holiness and standard. We are all found wanting. If ever God should accept us, it is only through the sinless sacrifice and offering of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

It is only through Him and what He did on the cross that sinners can be accepted by God.

GOSPEL NUGGET #422

Why Do People Reject Jesus?

You don't feel the absolute necessity to go to a doctor if you think you are perfectly fine. The doctor's clinic would be the most boring place in the world to you.

However, once you are made to realize that there is something in your body that requires immediate medical attention, and that your condition is fatal, I tell you, Dr. so and so would be most precious and valuable to you.

You will never forget his name. You will keep coming back to him for as long as your condition requires. You know that your life depends upon his skill.

Many people reject Jesus and find Him of no value at all in their lives because they are blind to their need of Him. They don't realize and see that their condition absolutely cries out for Him for their well-being.

But once they are made to realize that they are sinners in the sight of God, spiritual criminals, who are helpless and powerless to save themselves and that any moment they die they could go into an eternity of doom, I tell you, Jesus and what He did on the cross would be most precious to them. They know that their eternal destiny hangs upon Him.

Have you seen your utterly helpless and powerless condition to save yourself? Has the Holy Spirit made you see your actual condition as God sees you?

And, as a result, have you found Christ Jesus and what He did on the cross for you valuable? Have you seen the fact that He is your only hope of salvation, and that being so, you put your entire trust in Him for salvation?

GOSPEL NUGGET #421

GE 48:14 But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

(Read the rest from verses 17 to 20 in your own Bible)


In Genesis 48:14-20, Jacob intentionally places his right hand on Ephraim, the younger son, instead of Manasseh, signifying that Ephraim will receive the greater blessing, thus reversing traditional expectations.

The blessing of the right hand was considered a greater blessing. Since Manasseh was the eldest son, Joseph thought that he should receive the greater blessing. But Jacob intentionally crossed his hands and placed his right hand on Ephraim and gave him the greater blessing.

Spiritually, it is the same with salvation. Just as Jacob crossed his hands to set aside the first birth in preference for the second birth, so the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ set aside the first birth in favor of the second birth.

The Bible teaches that If you want to enter into the blessings of salvation, you must be born again. As they say: "If you are only born once, you will go to hell. But if you are born twice, you will be saved and be with God forever."

Our natural birth caused us to be in Adam. The new birth causes us to be in Christ. And it is Christ who is appointed by God to be the heir of all things. Be in Christ by being born again. Be born again by putting your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for your salvation.

GOSPEL NUGGET #420

The Holiness of God, The Sinfulness of Man and The Need For A Sacrifice

God’s holiness is not only like a wall around Him that repulses sin and sets Him apart from it, His holiness is also like a fire and a lion that burns and goes against sin.

No sinner can survive in the direct presence of a holy God---His holiness will break out against him. God's holiness is a big problem for sinful humanity. His holiness makes Him unapproachable to sinful man.

God, in His holiness, demands that He must be approached through a sacrifice. And not just any other sacrifice but a sinless sacrifice.

Some people ask: "Why is it that God does not come out in the open in His fully glory for all the world to see?" That would be catastrophe for sinful humanity. We will all die. No sinner can be in the direct presence of a holy God and see Him in His full glory and survive.

He did come 2000 years ago. He clothed and covered Himself with humanity so that sinners can make direct contact with Him and not die.

And then, He went to the cross, offered Himself as a sinless sacrifice, He satisfied the demands of God's justice, holiness and wrath, and now sinful man can now approach God through Him (Jesus Christ).

It is only through the Lord Jesus and what He did on the cross that God can be approached and for sinners to be with Him forever and ever.

Have you trusted Him and what He did on the cross for you?