GOSPEL LIGHT #657

The Tragic Case Of The God Ignorers

MT 24:38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 

MT 24:39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Many people in Noah's day were caught unaware when the Flood came. They were totally unprepared. Imagine their surprise. It was all because of their willful neglect of God's warning through Noah. They were a bunch of God ignorers. 

You look at their lives, on the whole, they seemed to have lived normal lives. Nothing dark about them is said. No out and out sin is mentioned. But what is glaring in their lives is the thing that is not mentioned at all, which is conspicuous by its absence --- God. The whole of their lives can be described as "eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage." That's all and nothing more. And we have many who are exactly like this in our time! 

Ps 50:22 “Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:

My friend, are you someone who has been ignoring God all this time? Repent. Take God seriously! Be warned; a sweeping judgment will come over this world. Come to Christ in faith, enter the ark, as it were, and find salvation. 

GOSPEL LIGHT #656

Open Notes Exam

Ps 118:14: "The LORD ... He has become my salvation."

According to the verse what or who has become his salvation? 

a) His good works 
b) His good character
c) His sacrifices 
d) His prayers
e) His confessions 
f) His church membership
g) The Lord

Correct Answer: Letter g, the Lord has become his salvation. What's the answer of your heart? To whom or to what are you trusting for your salvation? Are you trusting in the Savior who died for your sins at Calvary's cross?

GOSPEL LIGHT # 655

Some People's Hectic Schedule 

* 6 a.m. --- woke up after having a late business meeting which extended into the wee hours after midnight 
* 7 a.m. --- head to a business branch after shower, breakfast, and reading the newspapers
* 8 to 10 a.m. --- meeting with the office staff
* 10 to 12 a.m. --- drew up plans with corporate colleagues to expand the business 
* 12 to 1 p.m. --- made some follow-up calls after a quick lunch
* 1 to 3 p.m. --- head to the airport to meet a business partner 
* 3 to 5 p.m. --- proceed to another business enterprise to meet with another set of business partners
* 5 to 7 p.m. --- online meeting with international connections 
* 7 to 8 p.m. --- had a business dinner in a conference 
* 8 to 11 p.m. --- flight to Hongkong 
* 11 p.m. --- took a limousine ride toward a posh five-star hotel 
 
SUDDENLY... a collision...a shattered glass...an upturned car...lights out... darkness...an appointment with death... the other side. Too late realizations... eternally too late. You have been a great success in the things that will never really matter forever ....... and ever. You were too busy for your own good. You forgot that you have an eternal soul.   

You are not the star of this universe. You are just like everybody else; you could go anytime. Are you ready? Have you repented? Have you trusted in Christ and what He did on the cross for your salvation?  

 

GOSPEL LIGHT # 654

The Basis Of Having Peace With God 

We are naturally at enmity with God. Our greatest need, therefore, is to have peace with Him. It is not God's work in us (what's going on in our hearts and minds; its quality, state, and condition) that peace with God is settled and established. No, rather, the sinner's peace with God is based upon what God has done for us in Christ at Calvary. 

Not within but without, there, yonder at Calvary! Never confuse what's going on within us, in all its upward and downward movements, in all its unfinished work, to what He has done there for us at Calvary. Your peace with God could never be had by looking within. It can only be secured by His work for us at the cross. And He has already done it.


 

GOSPEL LIGHT #653

The G-O-S-P-E-L in John 3:16

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.

GOSPEL NUGGET #652

You may experience a moral conversion, going from being immoral to being a moral person, but, if you have not availed of the payment for your sins provided at the cross of Calvary, through faith in it, you are still a guilty soul.
The Bible says: " ... without shedding of blood is no remission of sins." Heb. 9:22 It's not our moral conversion that takes away our guilt. It's the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ

GOSPEL NUGGET #651

What's wrong with a salvation that's by faith in Christ plus doing good works? Eventually and ultimately, you will trust in the latter more than the former, making you, essentially, trust in your good works alone for salvation. Just as you can't serve two masters at the same time so you can't trust in two Saviors equally at the same time. The focus of one's trust in this scheme will gravitate toward the good works part. Since Christ's work and part are already done so the heart will now focus on doing the good works part which will have to be an endeavor that will go on for life. At the bottom of things, it all boils down to trusting in good works for salvation. It necessarily results in the denial of Christ alone as Savior.