If you knew someone who was diagnosed with cancer and
chose not to do anything about it because everything else
was normal had decided not to get treatment, what would
you do? If they argued that they were fine otherwise and just
didn’t see the need to get help, how would you feel? Would
you try and talk to them and make them see the
seriousness of this? Would you ask if they realized they
would eventually die without treatment?
The answer to this is yes of course. We would not sit back
and watch someone we loved kill themselves needlessly.
We would take a stand. Perhaps they weren’t aware of the
facts. It’s funny how we can let our loved ones die of a
different disease…sin. This disease may not affect us
physically but it does kill nonetheless.
If someone said they didn’t need to be saved to go to
heaven because they were a good person, would you just
let it go at that? If you do, their blood will be on your hands
one day. It’s our job as Christians to make others aware of
this deadly mistake. Don’t let someone be ignorant to the
fact that their “good deeds” just won’t cut it with God. They
are deceiving themselves if they actually believe that.
Also, if you know someone who just doesn’t see
themselves as a sinner is only fooling themselves. It’s fact
that we all are sinners, some more than others, but sinners
nonetheless. God doesn’t weigh them out on the scales. To
Him, sin is sin. We have all lied, we have all taken
something that didn’t belong to us at one time or another.
We have all been jealous, we have all been an idolater by
serving something other than God. Many times it is us! How
many of us have commited sin by not keeping the Sabbath
holy? If anyone says they are perfect, they are lying. There
was only one perfect man who ever walked among us and
He was the Son of God. If we claim to be perfect, we are a
liar. If we have ever spoken unkindly and hurt someone we
are murders in God’s eyes. It’s a different kind of death, it’s
spiritual but a murder all the same. Now, can you say you
are not a sinner?
Again, I’ve heard some people say that they aren’t ready to
be saved as if they are in charge of that too. Frankly, that is
not up to us, it’s up to God. Why do we feel so important to
take these matters into our own hands? But the first step to
being chosen by God is to admit that we are a sinner. We
need to see ourselves as diseased and ask for a cure from
God. This is the first step. God then gives us His cure of
GRACE. He knows that faith without works and works
without faith can not work by themselves. Faith and works
must operate together. If you know a “good deed” doer who
isn’t saved, don’t let another day go by without telling them
that their “good works” will NOT get them into heaven. Help
them realize they are STILL a sinner and need a cure.
Paul the apostle recognized the seriousness of his disease
after he met Jesus face to face on the road to Damascus. It
was here that he realized he needed a Savior and asked
Christ what it was He desired of him. This is where we
need to begin our faith walk too. We need to recognize that
we need to do something for Christ because after all, he
died for us. After this meeting Paul was blind, literally but
once he got his sight back, it was his goal to save as many
souls as he could. Christ doesn’t want us to remain blind
either. When we meet Him, we get our sight back too. How
well are you seeing things today?
In his letter to the Romans, Paul spared no feelings
because he knew that wouldn’t convict anyone. He wrote
with a passion for their souls by saying this;
“As it is written, none is righteous, just and truthful and
upright and conscientious, no, not one.” Rom. 3:10
He understood their mistakes when he continued in the
18th verse by saying this;
“No one understands (no one intelligently discerns or
comprehends); no one seeks out God. All have turned
aside; together they have gone wrong and have become
unprofitable and worthless; no one does right, not even
one!” Rom. 3:18
Read on in his letter to see just how much people sinned in
the sight of the Lord. We are still the same kind of people
today. Our society is so tolerable now of what people do that
we are killing them with kindness! We can’t afford to be that
kind much longer. It’s time to correct the deception and stop
the deadly disease of sin. Paul writes in Rom. 3:23 that we
are ALL sinners, we ALL fall short of the honor and glory that
only God can give. He gives it to us today in the same
fashion as he did thousands of years ago. God never
changes His game plan, He’s the same today, yesterday
and forever more. I know because it’s in His Word. We are
the ones who change with the wind. We run after our self
gratifications in the world.
He also told the Romans that the only ones deserving of
God’s grace were the ones who confessed their sins and
believed in Christ Jesus through their faith.
“But now the righteousness of God has been revealed
independently and altogether apart from the Law, although
actually it is attested by the Law and the Prophets. Namely,
the righteousness of God which comes by BELIEVING with
personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ for all
who BELIEVE. For there is no distinction. All are justified
and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and
gratuitously by His grace as a mercy seat for propitiation by
His blood through FAITH. This was to show God’s
righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had
passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.”
God’s grace is imparted through our faith. We must first
believe in order to channel this faith in order to receive God’s
free grace. Simply said, “you must believe in order to
receive.” Christ serves as a conduit in our prayer life. If we
don’t have Him as our connection, how can we ever hope
that God will hear us? It’s like not paying your phone bill and
expecting to be able to call out. It won’t happen. Make sure
you have paid your prayer bill today.
God will give His grace to everyone who believes. God
doesn’t reserve this gift just for those He feels deserves it.
No, on the contrary, no matter how bad or trivial your sins
are, EVERYONE is available to receive God’s grace and
mercy for salvation… if only they admit their sins and believe
that Christ died to save them.
His grace is attained through justification. Rom. 3:24 says
that justification is to be made upright and in right standing
with God. Many people say it means, “just as if” they had
never sinned. All sins once they are confessed are forgiven
and forgotten. But there is one thing we must never forget,
we have all sinned but God considers them forgotten. We
have to forget the sins too, but not the fact that we once did
them.
God’s grace is given freely. He doesn’t reserve this gift for
just certain people. Again, it’s freely given to ANYONE who
confesses their sins and believes in Christ, no matter what
they did. Paul says in Rom. 3:24 that it’s freely received. We
may have a hard time believing that because we were
taught that nothing is free. We have been taught that we
must work to gain anything. But, not so with God. We can’t
mistake His free gift for our acts of “good works”. We simply
can’t buy our way into heaven with works or deeds, no
matter how wonderful they are.
God’s grace is required through redemption. Again Paul
says in Rom. 3:23 that only through REDEMPTION of Christ
can a person receive God’s grace and mercy. Jesus bought
us back from the devil who had us in slavery. Have you been
freed yet?
God’s grace is acquired through propitiation. When God
sees the blood He said He would pass over you. Unless
you’re covered in the blood of Christ, God will see that your
end is death just as He did with all the first born male
babies in Egypt. Get covered today!
So, by ourselves we are useless in our own salvation. Don’t
ever hold back in thinking that God can’t save you because
of the things you have done. Don’t ever under estimate His
power because He can save the worst sinner, He can
certainly save you too.
If you are still unclaimed in the blood of Christ and want
to be born again, you must:
1. Admit that you are a sinner
2. Confess it with your mouth
3. Believe that Christ died and was raised from the dead to
give you salvation. He bought back your sins. This is the
only price that God would accept.
Once you have done these things, you will hear God gently
knock at your door and then you can answer it in order to
receive His free gift of grace. All you have to do then is reach
out and take it.
This gift will increase in strength and power through reading
His Word, learning it, meditating on it day and night and then
applying it to your everyday life. By doing this you will develop
a personal relationship with God and your prayers will not
only be heard, but answered right on time.
Don’t let another precious day go by without addressing the
cure for your disease. Don’t become another statistic in the
wages of sin which is death.
God is always on time, no matter how long it takes.
Vivian Gordon is led by the Holy Spirit to reach out and
give the Christian and non Christian alike something to
think about in their own lives. These articles are meant
to edify the reader and bring them deeper. They are
based on spirituality, inspiration, and today’s morals
and how we need to get back to basics.
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