Mr 8:27 ... "Who do men say that I am?"
Although the question was asked two thousand years ago, the Lord is still asking that very same question today to everyone. It’s a
question for the ages. The prize for the right answer from the heart is eternal
life.
“Who is the Lord Jesus to you in your life?” Do you trust in Him as the Christ?
Do you rely on Him as the anointed priest and sacrifice for your sins for the
salvation of your soul?” If yes, then 1st John 5:1 assures us: “Whoever believes or trust that
Jesus is the Christ is born of God…”
If you are still unsaved, I urge you to trust in Him as the Christ. He is the
Christ who died for your sins and rose again from the dead.
Monday, December 11, 2017
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
GOSPEL NUGGET 530
Are You Blind?
Yes, are you blind? Are you blind to the fact that God is an absolutely holy God and that He demands perfect righteousness from you? Are you blind to the vileness of sin and its control over you? Are you blind to the grim reality that it takes only one sin on your part for you to be a sure candidate for the lake of fire? Are you blind to your spiritual condition that you are helpless and powerless to save yourself? Are you blind to your own utter weakness with regard to righteousness?
Are you blind to the all-sufficiency of Christ and His work on the cross for your salvation? Are you blind to the attractions of His work for you on the cross of Calvary?
If you say "yes" to all these questions then, my friend, let me warn you that your willful blindness will lead you to eternal darkness the very moment when it will be lights out for you here.
God grant you grace, will you open your eyes? God is an absolutely holy God. Perfect righteousness, no less, is His demand. Sin is your greatest problem. You really can't save yourself. Christ and His work on the cross is your only hope.
Yes, are you blind? Are you blind to the fact that God is an absolutely holy God and that He demands perfect righteousness from you? Are you blind to the vileness of sin and its control over you? Are you blind to the grim reality that it takes only one sin on your part for you to be a sure candidate for the lake of fire? Are you blind to your spiritual condition that you are helpless and powerless to save yourself? Are you blind to your own utter weakness with regard to righteousness?
Are you blind to the all-sufficiency of Christ and His work on the cross for your salvation? Are you blind to the attractions of His work for you on the cross of Calvary?
If you say "yes" to all these questions then, my friend, let me warn you that your willful blindness will lead you to eternal darkness the very moment when it will be lights out for you here.
God grant you grace, will you open your eyes? God is an absolutely holy God. Perfect righteousness, no less, is His demand. Sin is your greatest problem. You really can't save yourself. Christ and His work on the cross is your only hope.
Sunday, December 3, 2017
GOSPEL NUGGET #529
Big Yellow Taxi
In a hit song written by Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi," a line struck me which says: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till its gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
I thought of many people in the world about how they treat the Lord Jesus Christ. He is Paradise Himself and yet they reject Him for a whole parking lot of things. They don't know what they got in Him until He is gone forever by their rejection of Him.
1 Co 2:8 ... none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
There are many people right now in a place of torment who took for granted the Lord Jesus while they were living. Now that they are there they now realize His true value. They thought little of Him and what He did for them on the cross but they now realize too late that He is Paradise Himself. They "paved paradise and put up a parking lot" so to speak.
Will you be one of them? Will you pave paradise and put up a parking lot?
In a hit song written by Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi," a line struck me which says: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till its gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
I thought of many people in the world about how they treat the Lord Jesus Christ. He is Paradise Himself and yet they reject Him for a whole parking lot of things. They don't know what they got in Him until He is gone forever by their rejection of Him.
1 Co 2:8 ... none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
There are many people right now in a place of torment who took for granted the Lord Jesus while they were living. Now that they are there they now realize His true value. They thought little of Him and what He did for them on the cross but they now realize too late that He is Paradise Himself. They "paved paradise and put up a parking lot" so to speak.
Will you be one of them? Will you pave paradise and put up a parking lot?
Thursday, November 9, 2017
GOSPEL NUGGET #528
From Faith To Faith
Ro 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Ro 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
The gospel of Christ refers to the good news that He died for our sins and rose from the dead. It is the message a sinner must trust in order to be saved and imputed the righteousness of God.
A sinner only has to put his faith in it? Yes
No, amount of works whatsoever? Yes, it is from faith to faith or by faith from first to last. Not faith at the first stage and then works in the second stage. No, it's by faith alone all the way through.
Ro 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Ro 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
The gospel of Christ refers to the good news that He died for our sins and rose from the dead. It is the message a sinner must trust in order to be saved and imputed the righteousness of God.
A sinner only has to put his faith in it? Yes
No, amount of works whatsoever? Yes, it is from faith to faith or by faith from first to last. Not faith at the first stage and then works in the second stage. No, it's by faith alone all the way through.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
GOSPEL NUGGET #527
EX 30:34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.
EX 30:35 “With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
The perfume-incense here is a picture of Christ.
The incense was burned perpetually on the golden altar. Every single day, twice daily, the priest would burn the incense. The perfume incense here speaks of the Lord’s prayers and intercession for us.
HEB 7:25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
You see that? “He always lives to make intercession for them.” They are kept saved because of His perpetual intercession.
HEB 9:24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Now, the fragrance of the perfume incense represents the Lord Jesus’ perfections and merits that are very fragrant and acceptable to God. We stink and stench. We are totally repulsive to God. But we have Christ, our fragrance before God. Again, Ephesians 5:2 describes Christ and His work on the cross as a sweet-smelling aroma to God.
If you are unsaved, if you still stink and stench before God, I have good news for you. I have God’s holy perfume to offer to you. It’s free and you can put it on by faith in Christ and His work on the cross.
EX 30:35 “With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
The perfume-incense here is a picture of Christ.
The incense was burned perpetually on the golden altar. Every single day, twice daily, the priest would burn the incense. The perfume incense here speaks of the Lord’s prayers and intercession for us.
HEB 7:25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
You see that? “He always lives to make intercession for them.” They are kept saved because of His perpetual intercession.
HEB 9:24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Now, the fragrance of the perfume incense represents the Lord Jesus’ perfections and merits that are very fragrant and acceptable to God. We stink and stench. We are totally repulsive to God. But we have Christ, our fragrance before God. Again, Ephesians 5:2 describes Christ and His work on the cross as a sweet-smelling aroma to God.
If you are unsaved, if you still stink and stench before God, I have good news for you. I have God’s holy perfume to offer to you. It’s free and you can put it on by faith in Christ and His work on the cross.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
GOSPEL NUGGET #526
Php 3:4...If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so
Php 3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Unsaved man without the Spirit of God is nothing but flesh. "Flesh" refers to self in its fallen state. If ever there was a man who could be confident about himself with regard to being accepted by God, it would be Paul. Paul has a word to anyone who claims that he has climbed the heights of religious prestige and accomplishment, Paul says: "I more so!" Everyone is only second to Paul in this regard.
If a man could be accepted by God in terms of ancestry Paul had it. Orthodoxy? He got it. Accomplishment? With zeal his hands were full of it. Morality? He had a blameless corner on it. Paul was high up there way above the rest of us.
But he did an accounting of it all, he took up his spiritual ledger, he compared his gains and losses and said: "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ" (Php 3:7).
Ancestry, orthodoxy, accomplishments and morality relied upon for salvation could never save him. They are losses to the degree in which they drive him away from gaining salvation. All these things that he thought were advantages and gains for him as far as achieving salvation was concerned were nothing but a disadvantage, a "loss," compared to the salvation he can have in Christ by faith.
My friend, if the apostle Paul had to come down the heights of religious privileges and advantages in order to bow down in faith at the feet of Christ for salvation, then how much more us who are way below the ladder? We are nothing but flesh. We could not do anything to save ourselves. The best of men are only men at their best. And it's not enough. Come to Christ!!!
Php 3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Unsaved man without the Spirit of God is nothing but flesh. "Flesh" refers to self in its fallen state. If ever there was a man who could be confident about himself with regard to being accepted by God, it would be Paul. Paul has a word to anyone who claims that he has climbed the heights of religious prestige and accomplishment, Paul says: "I more so!" Everyone is only second to Paul in this regard.
If a man could be accepted by God in terms of ancestry Paul had it. Orthodoxy? He got it. Accomplishment? With zeal his hands were full of it. Morality? He had a blameless corner on it. Paul was high up there way above the rest of us.
But he did an accounting of it all, he took up his spiritual ledger, he compared his gains and losses and said: "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ" (Php 3:7).
Ancestry, orthodoxy, accomplishments and morality relied upon for salvation could never save him. They are losses to the degree in which they drive him away from gaining salvation. All these things that he thought were advantages and gains for him as far as achieving salvation was concerned were nothing but a disadvantage, a "loss," compared to the salvation he can have in Christ by faith.
My friend, if the apostle Paul had to come down the heights of religious privileges and advantages in order to bow down in faith at the feet of Christ for salvation, then how much more us who are way below the ladder? We are nothing but flesh. We could not do anything to save ourselves. The best of men are only men at their best. And it's not enough. Come to Christ!!!
Monday, October 2, 2017
GOSPEL NUGGET #525
Mr 7:21 "...out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 "thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23 "All these evil things come from within and defile a man."
“Out of the heart of men” comes all kinds of sin and evil. Man has a plague within. It's called the depravity of man. Not all may have committed the sins enumerated here but we all have the potential and capacity to do it.
My friend, if you are still unsaved, realize that you have a desperate heart problem. Religious therapy of praying, kneeling, going to church etcetera won’t do it. Regular exercise of good works won’t do it. It’s that desperate. My friend, you need a heart transplant. Go to Ezekiel 36:26 please:
“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
And you can only experience this heart transplant if you come to Christ in faith. Come to Him, trusting in Him and what He did on the cross for your salvation.
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