GOSPEL NUGGET # 433

How Faith In The Savior Is The Opposite Of Pride 

Faith means reliance. It is to depend on the Savior for salvation. To put our reliance and dependence on the Savior and what He did on the cross for salvation is to admit that we are helpless and powerless in ourselves to save ourselves.

Faith in the Savior, therefore, is the response of a humbled sinner, who has seen his own inability to save himself.

A proud person, on the other hand, would rely and depend on himself, his character and his own works and efforts for the salvation of his soul.

He thinks and believes that he can do it. He does not see himself as helpless and powerless to save himself with only one hope of salvation, namely, the Savior and His work on the cross.

When the Bible says: "Believe (rely and depend) on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved," it says that because we could not rely and depend on ourselves for salvation. We need the Savior, who alone can save us.

GOSPEL NUGGET #432

My sister told me about a friend's cousin who died of tuberculosis. I said: "Died of tuberculosis? Why, there is free medication for it at the health center?" It's a sad, sad story when someone dies when they don't have to.

I know someone who have had at least two bouts with TB, and yet, by God's grace, he came out of it still alive and kicking, and most of all, healthy.

He is as poor as a rat. He had no job and no money to pay his way to health. And yet, because the medication was given free, he was brought back to health.

Sadly, spiritually speaking, what I just told you is the painful reality with millions of people today. Millions of people are dying and going to a place of torment when salvation and eternal life are offered free by God.

Ro 6:23 ...the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Why go to hell when you can be saved freely? Take the free gift of eternal life and salvation today by putting your trust in the Savior and what He did on the cross.

GOSPEL NUGGET #431

Salvation by faith alone is not at all impossible to believe. We have been doing it for years now.

Consider, for example, taking in medication to heal our diseases. There are diseases in which we can't do anything on our own to make it go away.

So we go to the doctor get a prescription from him and religiously take it for ourselves. We don't do anything to help the medication. We don't add anything to it. We just simply allow it to take its course and heal us.

After some time, we ourselves experience its benefits and come out of the experience healed. We experience salvation from the disease just by relying alone on the medication.

As a result of it, we experienced a changed life---we can function well and do things that we normally do.

It is exactly the same with salvation. We are powerless to save ourselves. We have a spiritual disease and there is nothing we can do. But praise God He sent us the medicine in the person of the Savior.

All one has to do is to rely on Him and what He did on the cross to be saved. As a result, a saved sinner experiences a changed life. He can now function well for God, glorifying Him.

Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes/trusts in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Ac 16:30 And he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

31 So they said, "Believe/trust on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved...

GOSPEL NUGGET #430

EX 6:6 “Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘ I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

EX 6:7 ‘Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

EX 6:8 ‘I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.’ ”

Notice the 7 "I Wills" of God here. Israel was powerless and helpless to free himself from the clutches of Pharaoh. It will take God to deliver them. Their salvation was all the work of God. Repeated seven times for emphasis.

Applying this to spiritual salvation, realize that salvation is of the Lord…all of it. Salvation is not the work of man but the work of God.

Just as Israel cannot deliver himself from the bondage in Egypt, so no sinner can deliver himself from the penalty, power and presence of sin. It takes the Savior to be saved.

Are you relying and trusting on the work of the Savior on the cross for your salvation?

GOSPEL NUGGET #429

EX 5:3 “Then they said, “ The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

You see, to avert the judgment of God, a blood sacrifice is a must.


Our good works can’t do it. Our religious activities won’t prevent it. Our good character is to no avail. God requires a sacrifice for His judgment to be averted.

And the one sacrifice that will appease the wrath of God against us sinners is nothing less than the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

Are you trusting in it for your salvation?

GOSPEL NUGGET #428

"Don't Sit On The Air - Sit On The Chair"

Salvation by self-effort can be likened to a man sitting on the air. Ultimately, he can't do it. His strength will fail and he will sag down by and by as time ticks by the second. Eventually, he will hit the ground.

Salvation by relying upon and trusting in the Savior and what He did on the cross is like sitting restfully on a steady and stable chair.

He knows that self-effort just can't do it. He needs something or someone to rely on. And so, instead of sitting on the air, he sits on the chair.

My friend, the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross is just like that steady and stable chair. You can rely on Him and His work completely for your salvation.

Don't sit on the air. Sit on the chair!

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?