GOSPEL LIGHT #691

Job 35:6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? 7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? 8 Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man.

A lot of people think that we scratch God's back if we do good and righteous things; that we are doing Him a favor. Now, He owes us and must repay us with salvation. 

Nope. God is not injured or lessened by man's sins. Nor does He profit or become greater by our righteousness. These only affect our fellowman. Salvation is not a divine payment issued to us for doing God a favor. Salvation is by grace (Eph 2:8, Romans 6:23). Grace means favor granted to those who deserve the opposite. 

In salvation, it is God who scratches our back even though we deserve to be pushed and kicked around with divine judgment. 

GOSPEL LIGHT #690

The Gospel According To My Electric Fan 

Standing a few feet from me is an electric fan. It's not only a device for creating currents of air, he's also a great preacher of the gospel. 

Every day He reminds me of the great spiritual facts that death means disconnection and that plugging into life is as essential as the provision of life.    

* Death means disconnection --- Just as the fan would eventually die out when unplugged from the power source so man will eventually physically die because he has spiritually plugged out from God through sin. 

* Plugging into life is as essential as the provision of life --- Just as an unplugged fan remains dead no matter how nigh it is to the power source so a sinner remains spiritually dead if he is not connected to the death of Christ through faith. After all, what's an available life source if you are not plugged to it? 

May I add? My fan looks sleek, shiny and all, but, to me, it's completely useless without the currents of life flowing through it. In the same way, we may look winsome and charming to people but if we don't have the currents of eternal life in us we are still dead as dead can be in the sight of God.

GOSPEL LIGHT #689

 Why Do Unbelievers Go To Hell?

Reply:

"Believing" as required in the Bible is not mere mental assent. To be precise, "believing" in the Bible means trusting, relying and leaning on what Christ did on the cross for our sins. It's the spiritual hand that makes use of the atonement that God provided on Calvary's cross.

The same way a critically ill and infirm man will not be healed if he doesn't avail of the only medicine that could cure him, so a sinner will not be saved if he doesn't appropriate by faith the only atonement for sin that the Savior provided on the cross. What's crucial and critical is the payment for sin and our connection to it. And believing or faith is that saving linkup.

GOSPEL LIGHT #688

The Loneliest Man Who Ever Lived On Earth 

Mr 15:34 "...Jesus cried out..'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?'"

The loneliest Man who ever lived on earth was a Man named Jesus Christ. When He needed help the most, there was no one. He was completely alone...forsaken, abandoned and alienated from God.

The only thing He had with Him was all the sins of the world laid on Him. No man who ever lived on earth was ever forsaken by God in the level and degree which God forsook the Lord Jesus Christ here. 

Why? God forsook Him so that you would not be forsaken. 

Make good use of what He did for you at the cross. Don't waste it. Trust in His death on the cross for your sins and enjoy eternal union with God.