The Landslide In Naga
September 21, 2018 was a fateful day for the residents in Naga. Early morning, sometime after daybreak, the mountain of earth collapsed on a number of houses below, burying people alive, turning the residential area into a mass graveyard in a matter of minutes. It was a heartrending tragedy.
Reader, the tragedy could be repeated in your very own life. This time, on a grand scale. Realize that we all live on the edge of judgment. Without notice, it could collapse on us any moment.
I urge you to flee from the wrathslide to come. Come, hide yourself secure in the Savior of sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn to Him and trust Him and what He did on the cross for your salvation.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET # 555
Testimonies That Never Close With Christ
Mt 27:2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!"
5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
I am alarmed of testimonies that have a semblance of repentance to it and yet never close with Christ. Yes, like Judas here, they showed remorse over their sin. Yes, like Judas here, they "threw down the pieces of silver" and yet they never close with Christ.
Yes, true repentance can have displays of remorse. Yes, it throws down the pieces of silver. But it always ends with Christ and His work on the cross. Sadly, many testimonies fall short of it. Every genuine pilgrim comes to Calvary Hill. Every genuinely repentant sinner always comes to Christ and what He did on the cross for the removal of his or her burden.
My friend, are you remorseful because of your sin? Have you slammed sin in your life? Are you trusting in Christ and what He did on the cross for your salvation?
Mt 27:2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!"
5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
I am alarmed of testimonies that have a semblance of repentance to it and yet never close with Christ. Yes, like Judas here, they showed remorse over their sin. Yes, like Judas here, they "threw down the pieces of silver" and yet they never close with Christ.
Yes, true repentance can have displays of remorse. Yes, it throws down the pieces of silver. But it always ends with Christ and His work on the cross. Sadly, many testimonies fall short of it. Every genuine pilgrim comes to Calvary Hill. Every genuinely repentant sinner always comes to Christ and what He did on the cross for the removal of his or her burden.
My friend, are you remorseful because of your sin? Have you slammed sin in your life? Are you trusting in Christ and what He did on the cross for your salvation?
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #554
PR 24:14 Know that wisdom is thus for your soul; If you find it, then there will be a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
This verse can very well be applied to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus is wisdom Himself personified.
1Co 1:24 ... Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
And if you find Him, if you are in Him, united to Him through the bonds of living faith, He becomes for us wisdom from God. And you will have a future and a hope that will not be cut off. For in Him are righteousness, sanctification and redemption, yea salvation.
1Co 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption--
This verse can very well be applied to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus is wisdom Himself personified.
1Co 1:24 ... Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
And if you find Him, if you are in Him, united to Him through the bonds of living faith, He becomes for us wisdom from God. And you will have a future and a hope that will not be cut off. For in Him are righteousness, sanctification and redemption, yea salvation.
1Co 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption--
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #553
Mt 8:8 "... only speak a word, and my servant will be healed."
Faith takes God at His word. But it could also be said that faith takes God at His work. A man who has saving faith can very well say, taking it from this verse: "Only do the work and my servant will be saved."
Two thousand years ago, the Lord Jesus Christ did the work. He finished it. He died for all our sins and rose again from the dead. There's the work all done for you. And now He is proclaiming it through His messengers. He has done the work. He has been saying the word through the Gospel message: "Christ died for the sins of sinners and rose again from the dead."
Will you trust in His work and His word?
Faith takes God at His word. But it could also be said that faith takes God at His work. A man who has saving faith can very well say, taking it from this verse: "Only do the work and my servant will be saved."
Two thousand years ago, the Lord Jesus Christ did the work. He finished it. He died for all our sins and rose again from the dead. There's the work all done for you. And now He is proclaiming it through His messengers. He has done the work. He has been saying the word through the Gospel message: "Christ died for the sins of sinners and rose again from the dead."
Will you trust in His work and His word?
Sunday, September 2, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #552
2Sa 14:14 "... He (God) devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him."
We find in this text a principle applicable to the salvation of a sinner. A gospel principle is stated here. Man fell into sin, as a result, he was banished or separated from God. But God, in love, devised a means so that they will not be expelled from Him forever and ever. He contrived for them a way back to Him without sidestepping the demands of His justice.
His means? The Lord Jesus Christ
Ro 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God THROUGH the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, THROUGH whom we have now received the reconciliation. He appointed the Lord Jesus Christ as the representative and substitute of man. As such, the death that He died was truly for them, satisfying God's justice. Come to God's only means of being reconciled to Him. Make use of Him. Come to the Lord Jesus trusting in Him and what He did on the cross for you.
We find in this text a principle applicable to the salvation of a sinner. A gospel principle is stated here. Man fell into sin, as a result, he was banished or separated from God. But God, in love, devised a means so that they will not be expelled from Him forever and ever. He contrived for them a way back to Him without sidestepping the demands of His justice.
His means? The Lord Jesus Christ
Ro 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God THROUGH the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, THROUGH whom we have now received the reconciliation. He appointed the Lord Jesus Christ as the representative and substitute of man. As such, the death that He died was truly for them, satisfying God's justice. Come to God's only means of being reconciled to Him. Make use of Him. Come to the Lord Jesus trusting in Him and what He did on the cross for you.
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