GOSPEL NUGGET #543

The Last Will And Testament Of The Lord Jesus Christ

For hundreds of years, after the death, resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus to heaven, people have been resting their hope upon a set of documents known today as the New Testament.

In law, the word "testament" refers to a document communicating the person's final wishes pertaining to the disposition and distribution of his properties after he dies.

When the Lord Jesus left this earth to return to His Father in heaven, He gave and handed down to mankind the possession of eternal life and salvation which a sinner could have, provided that he or she fulfills a certain condition.

John 20:31 says that "...these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name."

The testator (the Lord Jesus Christ) says that you can possess His salvation and eternal life if you put your trust in Him and what He did on the cross. There is so much more. God the Father has a lot in store for Him in the future and you can be His co-heir if you accept the condition that He has set in His last will and testament.

Have you read His last will and testament (the NT)? Have you fulfilled the condition? 

GOSPEL NUGGET #542

Mr 9:8 Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with themselves.

It says here that they “… saw no one…but (or except) Jesus only.”

Let’s apply this to salvation. You know, salvation is just like that. Salvation is seeing no one and nothing else except Jesus only. Sadly, when it comes to personal salvation, a lot of people see themselves in it too. They see their good works, their good character and their religious activities.

No. No. No. Just as they saw no one except Jesus only on the Mount of Transfiguration, so, in Mount Salvation, we should see no one and nothing else except Jesus only and what He did on the cross.

When Paul came to Corinth, he said that “I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2).”

You see, salvation is seeing Jesus only and what He did on the cross. It is trusting and relying on His person and work on the cross. My friend, if you want to be saved. Behold no one and nothing else. Behold Jesus only.

GOSPEL NUGGET #541

A magazine told a story about a young blind girl who was trapped in the fourth floor of an apartment building which caught fire. She was standing by the window with the billowing smoke engulfing her, with the intense heat surrounding her and the raging fire threatening her.

The firemen hurriedly came to the scene and prepared the safety net for her down below, while the fire chief emerged out of a vehicle and pleaded with her over an amplifier to jump: "We'll catch you! You just jump, we'll catch you!" But the girl could not bring herself to jump.

A very alert police officer came up with an idea. A short while later, a cruiser appeared with all the lights flashing and the sirens going. A man, the blind girl's father, jumped out of the backseat and run to the fire chief and grabbed the amplifier from his hand and directed it to her daughter up above and said: "Honey jump! I will catch you!"

She jumped. Time magazine said that she jumped from the fourth floor of the building into the net without breaking a single bone in her body, indicating that she was so relaxed in the fall, from the top of the building down into the net.

This is a picture of the call of salvation from God. We are on the verge of the fires of judgment. There is nothing we can do. But God has set up His safety net for us in the cross of Calvary, where the Savior died for all our sins.

And God no less, as it were, takes up His megaphone and pleads with us: "Sinner and yet loved, jump! Jump into the Savior and what He did on the cross, rely on what He did for your salvation. I will catch you through Him!"

Will you jump?