GOSPEL NUGGET #415

Lu 7:7 ...say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Lu 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel."

The centurion in this story is a great man of faith. His dear servant was dying and he was helpless to do something about it. But he knew the Lord Jesus Christ and all he needed from Him is His word about the situation.

To him, all the Lord had to do was utter the words and his faith will latch on it (Faith is taking God at His Word). He knew that the Lord's Word is the surest thing in the universe. Behind the Word of God is the God of the Word who is all-powerful and one who cannot lie. When He utters something, you can be sure that it is as good as done. You just wait and see.

The result? His servant was healed.

In the same way, we are all spiritually sick and ready to perish forever. But God has a word for us: "Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead."

If we just take Him at His word, trust in this good news of a message, we will enter into the good of this message and salvation will be effected in our lives.

GOSPEL NUGGET #414

A man may go to hell

with his religion
with his good works
with his morality
with his zeal
with his sincerity
with his church membership
with his prayers
with his sacrifices
with his ten thousand other things
but he can never go to hell with Christ
Christ is the sinner's only escape from hell and only deliverance from condemnation.

GOSPEL NUGGET #413

Ge 22:14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided."

The expression "The Lord Will Provide" in this verse specifically refers to the blessed and comforting fact that God Himself will provide a sacrifice and atonement for the sins of sinners.

Moving up a verse before this, we read: "Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son."

The ram that the Lord provided as an offering was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."

Many people attempt to provide from their own resource to atone for their sins. They do religious works, charitable endeavors and philanthropic activities to somehow atone for their sins. They are ignorant of the fact that none of their own provisions can deal with the sin issue in their lives.

They ought to know what God has provided for the salvation of their souls in Mount Calvary. There the Lord Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead.

It is not what we provide and give to God that saves us. No, rather, it is God's provision in the cross of Calvary, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that saves a sinner.

Have you accepted by faith the Savior that God has provided for sinners like you and me?