GOSPEL LIGHT #687

Mr. Reliable Is Really Able 

Ro 10:11 ... "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."

A lot of people have been put to shame because the ones that they were pinning their hopes on failed them. Yep...bigtime! Here they were boasting, glorifying, and oozing with confidence about a certain person or company, and yet, in the end, the person or the company failed to deliver; they got into a huge letdown. Imagine the disappointment, the discomfiture, and the shame they must have felt. 

That's something that will never ever happen if you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and His death on the cross for your salvation. The Deliverer will never fail to deliver. The Savior will never fail to save. The Redeemer will never fail to redeem. 

Others will fail you. You will fail you. But He will never fail you. You have placed your trust and confidence in the One who is Mr. Realibility Himself. Mr. Reliable is Really Able. Go! Venture out to Him! Boldly trust in Him and His death on the cross for your salvation! 


  

GOSPEL LIGHT #686

 Is Christ Precious To You?

1Pe 2:7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious...

You can be moral, religious, and maybe someone who has mouthed the sinner's prayer, and yet if the Lord Jesus Christ and His death on the cross are not precious to you, you are still not a Christian.

Your morality may be tinged with Christian morals or your religiosity may be colored with Christian tenets but if that's all there is to it, you are still not the real McCoy.

A genuine Christian is someone who finds Christ and His work on the cross of great value and worth; the same way a drowning man finds a lifebuoy that he is clinging to for dear life valuable and essential --- not out of dry formality, to conform to people's expectations and conventions, but out of sheer necessity. Christ. Precious? As in honest-to-goodness precious? What say you?

GOSPEL LIGHT #685

Have A Break --- Relax and Rest On Christ 

At least 150 verses in the Bible teach that salvation is through faith alone in Christ. Faith not works. 

When it comes to salvation God wants you to relax. Yes, relax in God's grace. Rest in the finished work of Christ on the cross. You've been working really hard for salvation? You are so tired already and heavily laden? Have a break. Chill. Relax. Unwind and take a good rest in Christ's finished work. Shhh! Hush! Consider what He did and take it easy. Rest easy on it. Enjoy!

GOSPEL LIGHT #684

An Outline Of Salvation From The Shadows The fact that God in the Old Testament required only a sacrifice for sins tells a whole lot about the way of salvation. For the Old Testament rituals were representations of the real; mere shadows of the substance.

But, from the shadows, you can make out the outline --- salvation is based on a sacrifice nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else. God did require good works and good character in the Old Testament but in no way did they figure and play a role when it comes to dealing with sins. Only the sacrifice counts. Only the sacrifice matters. Only the sacrifice was considered. Only a sacrifice was required.

Being shadows and representations, their only weight and value lie in the fact that they point to the ultimate sacrifice --- the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.