What is the Gospel?

What is the Gospel? There are many responses you will get if you randomly ask this question. The popular Christian definition of the gospel is the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Then, there is the gospel of the kingdom which John the Baptist and Christ himself preached. Also the book of Revelation refers to the end-time preaching of the eternal gospel. What are these gospels, and what are the similarities and differences between them? And Paul speaks of the mystery of the gospel...which the majority today still do not understand...These and other questions will be answered in this study.

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Jesus Christ Daily

Rashida Singh

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2 Timothy 1:7

New King James Version (NKJV)

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

However, God has given me a sound mind, with some common sense! And Common sense tells me this is not for ME! LOL

Have a bless day in Christ, love Sis Rashida:)

CHRIST PLEADING FOR ADMISSION

CHRIST PLEADING FOR ADMISSION
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me."-- Revelation_3:20.

DO NOT forget the majesty and glory of Him who asks for admission!
In the following verse, He declares that He is able to give the right of sitting with Himself on His Throne. He stands, that some day we may sit! O child of two worlds, shut your ear to the chatterings and noise of this passing age, and listen to Him who stands at the door of your life and knocks!

Of course, we know that the Saviour never withdraws Himself from hearts that are really His own. He abides in them, as they abide in Him. But with us there may be ebbs as well as flows. The current may drop from feet to inches. The light may linger in the sky, while clouds obscure the face of the sun. The heat of the body may remain, but the extremities may become chilled. It is under these circumstances that the Lord of all worlds comes to the door of our poor tenement, and stands, and knocks, and asks for admission!

We may expect His knock when our love is cooling. Once our hearts beat quickly when we heard His approaching step; now, when He is at hand, we keep Him waiting on the doorstep till His head is filled with dew, and His locks with the drops of night. Do we not all know what it is to be "neither hot nor cold"? Somehow our heart has gone dead! It is then that we may expect to hear the knock of Christ. He only asks us to admit Him and He will restore the soul to love, and love to the soul.

We may expect His knock when we must go forth from this world. The moment comes when the post will present us with a letter like that received by Christiana: "The Master expecteth thee to stand in His Presence, in clothes of immortality, within ten days." The same summons will come to Mr. Honest and Mr. Ready-to-halt; to Mr. Despondency and to Miss Much-afraid; to Mr. Stand-fast and Mr. Valiant-for-truth. But in each case there will be the accompanying knock of Jesus, saying: "Fear not, I will be with you. I have called you by your name, you are Mine." (Isa_43:1).

PRAYER
We thank Thee, O God, that Thy love has come to us in a human Form, that it shines from the Face of the Man Christ Jesus, and speaks to us in gentle tones we can understand. We thank Thee that He stands at the low doorway of our hearts, and knocks, and waits to come in and dwell with us for ever. We humbly ask that the Holy Spirit may open our eyes more fully to behold Him, and our hearts more ardently to love and welcome Him. AMEN.

BECOME A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST

HOW TO ACCEPT CHRIST IN YOUR LIFE?

Do you know for certain that you have eternal life and that you will go to heaven when you die?
God wants you to be sure.   The bible says,"I write these things to you who believe in the name
of the Son of Almighty God so that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 John 5:13).

Suppose you were standing before God right now and He asked you, "Why should I let you into
heaven?"   What do you think you would say?  You may not know what to reply.  "For God so
loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
God's Purpose Is That You Have Eternal Life:

     You can receive eternal life as a free gift.   "The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord" (Romans 6:23b).
     You can live a full and meaningful life right now.   Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (John 10:10b).

     You can spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven, for He promised, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am"(Jn14:3).

We need God's life in us now to live purposefully lives.  You see our sinful nature keeps us from fulfilling God's purpose for our lives.  Gods purpose is that we have meaning in life as we direct our lives and hearts towards Him. But unfortunately most people seldom find true meaning in life?

     We are all sinners by nature and by choice.   "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"  [Romans3:23]

     We cannot save ourselves.   "Not by works, so no one can boast" [Eph 2:9]

     We deserve death and hell.  "For the wages of sin is death" [Rom 6:23a].

     We can receive what we do not deserve.   God is holy and just and must punish sin, wet He loves us (whom He has created)      

ACCEPT HIM AS SAVIOUR AND LORD

For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world;  but that the world through Him might be saved from the coming wrath against all who do not accept the offer of the crucified Son of God.

[John 3 v 16 & 17].

"He that hears My Word, and believes on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;  but is passed from final death unto life." [John 5:24]

"I declare unto you the gospel...that Christ died for our sins,,,and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day.  [1 Corinthians 15:1,3,4.].

Do you know where you are going?  All who want to go to heaven ( rather than hell and eternal damnation),

"Must be Born Again."   

Jesus talked about heaven, and He said, 

"In my Father's House are many mansions."  Also He said "Iam the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but by me."  (John ch. 14v2,6)

"For by grace are ye saved through faith;  and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God." (Ephesians ch 2v8).

 The Lord Jesus Christ is the only Saviour there is.  If Jesus is right (and He most certainly is), then all other ways are wrong!   Religions are a waste of time;  they cannot save you, only Jesus can, God did not create the religions of the world;  man did to satisfy his conscience!   Man is "forever changing and learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." [2 Timothy ch3v7).   This is not Religion, it is Life!

I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more . . . For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.  (Jer_31:34 and Eph_2:8-9)

Do you know the one who died on the cross for you?

When Jesus came He told us something that no religion has ever thought of, and which contradicts the basic

principle of all religions.  He said, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God."  (John 3:3).   Jesus said that He is the only way to heaven.   What did He mean?   He meant a spiritual birth whereby a person is able to confess his sin to Jesus Christ, accept Him as Saviour, and receive a new life.

This is the Gospel.   Look and Live.   Out of Religion, and into Christ!   May we offer this prayer as your

first step?
Cry out to the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy and ask Him to save you.   

TO BECOME A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN:

"Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you died for me.   

I acknowledge that I am a sinner.   

Please come into my life and forgive my sins.   

And save me.   AMEN."

THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST

Part of a Series on Christianity

The Person of Christ:

The Bible says that Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man in one person and will be so forever.
He was and is 100% God and at the same time 100% human.  That is;  He held a full set of divine
qualities in the same Person in such a way that they did not interfere with each other.

The Humanity of Christ:
 Jesus had a human birth. (Virgin Birth).  Virgin birth of Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_birth_of_JesusThe virgin birth of Jesus is the belief that Jesus was conceived in the womb of his mother Mary by the Holy Spirit and born while Mary was yet a virgin. The New ...

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• The Qur'an

Jesus was conceived in the womb of His mother Mary by a miraculous work of the Holy Spirit and without a human father (Matthew 1:18-25;  Luke 1:25;  3:23). The doctrinal importance of the virgin birth is seen in at least three areas;   It shows salvation must come from the Lord and never through human effort.(Gal 4:4-5).
It made possible the uniting of deity and full humanity in one person.
It made possible Christ's true humanity without inherited sin.(Luke 1:35).

Jesus had a human body:  Jesus had a human body just like ours in every respect before his resurrection, and after resurrection it was still a human body with "flesh and bones"
but made perfect, the kind of body that we will have when Christ returns and we are raised from the dead as well. Jesus continues to exist in that human body in heaven, as the ascension is designed to teach. (Luke 2:7;  Luke 2:40;  2:52;  John 4:6;  John 19:28;  Matt 4:2;  Luke 24:39;  Luke 24:42;  John 20:17).  Providing we have accepted Him in our heart and life, as our Lord and Saviour and have repented of our wrongful sinning lives because of Adam & Eve's fallen state of sin that we inherited and there needs to be a repentance and a turning away from sin [and be baptised in water which symbolises leaving the old self life behind in the water and rising to a new life in God through the Saviour and the Holy Spirit in due course] and wrongful living that is an affront to Almighty God and only through Jesus Christ His One and only Son we can finally be at one with Almighty God.

Jesus had a Human Mind: to be continued.

The Promise of a New Covenant

God Changes Hearts!

The Promise of a New Covenant:

"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel . . . I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people . . . they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," says the LORD. "For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."  (Jer_31:31, Jer_31:33-34)
Long ago God promised a new covenant of grace for His people Israel. "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel." Some day the Israelites will turn to Messiah as a group and enter into this promised covenant of grace. "And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins" (Rom_11:26-27). This will take place when the Lord Jesus returns to this earth. "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they have pierced; they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn" (Zec_12:10). 
Meanwhile, the church of the Lord Jesus, comprised of all Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ, already has the new covenant instituted for her. "This cup is the new covenant in My blood" (Luk_22:20). 
Note the astounding three-fold provisions this new covenant offers by faith to all believers today. First, there is the forgiveness of sins. "For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Second, there is the opportunity to have an intimate relationship with God. "They all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them." Third, there is the internal working of the Lord God Almighty enabling and changing people's lives from the inner core of their being. "I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts."

Almighty God, the provisions of Your new covenant of grace are staggering in their richness! Forgiveness of sins by You, intimacy with You, and inner transformation from You - - all of this is mine through faith in Your Son, my Savior. O Lord, what bountiful grace You make available to us in Christ! I fully and desperately need all three of these wondrous workings that You alone can provide. I praise You for the gift of forgiveness of sins. I seek You for increased intimacy with You. I look to You to be shaping my life according to Your will, from the inside out, all through the grace of my Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST

THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, He which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty."-- Rev_1:8 (R.V.).

IT IS hardly needful to explain that these are the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet. They represent all the intervening letters which they enclose as in a golden clasp. This majestic announcement refers to the Eternal God. His Nature underlies the whole created Universe, all races of being, the entire work of redemption, the destiny of His children, and the ultimate victory of righteousness and peace. "Of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things, to Whom be glory for ever and ever." Let us, for a moment, join with the ceaseless chant of Heaven, saying: "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which is and which was and which is to come." We must never rush into His presence without due preparation and reverence of heart.
Jesus Christ is the Complement of our Need. From the alphabet of His Being we may obtain all the letters and words which will make good our own deficiencies. It is a question whether some of us would ever have learnt the fullness of Jesus, if we had not been brought face to face with the infinite needs of our own nature and condition. You may engage your guide in an Alpine village, but you only realise all the qualities that lie hidden within him when you have crossed the glaciers, bridged the yawning chasms, and escaped the descending avalanche through his knowledge and care. So as we walk with Jesus we find in Him the complement of our need.
Loneliness is an opportunity for Jesus to make Himself known as the Living One (Rev_1:17). When, like the beloved Apostle on the Lord's Day in his lonely isle, you seem to hear songs and prayers on which you can only join in spirit, turn to the Lord Himself, and reckon on Him to bear you company. That loneliness constitutes a claim on Him! Call upon His Name out of the lowest dungeon. He will not hide His ear at thy breathing or thy cry. He will draw near in the day when you called upon Him, and will say, Fear not! He will plead the causes of thy soul; He will redeem thy life. The site of Polycarp's death is still visible above the Smyrna coast-line and harbour; but Jesus stood there with him, enabling him to be faithful unto death, and encircling his brow with the Crown of Life. Be thou faithful unto death; the First and the Last is with thee! "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me!"

PRAYER
Be Thou, O Lord, the Alpha and the Omega of every year, month, day, hour, and act of my life. Let all things be begun, continued and ended in Thee. AMEN.

Believing!

Can we profess to believe in the Word of God and not do the Word of God? What does believing look like? What does the Bible say? How does Biblically defining terms affect the meaning we extract in our study? This study examines those questions and uses the Bible to reveal the answers.  John 3: 21-24

REPENT AND LIVE!

In Ezekiel18, our Creator does not provide the answer on how He is able to forgive our sin should we repent, despite Israel questioning Yah on this matter. He simply commands Israel to focus on repenting first. He did not say that it was not a good question. It is actually a very good question. They simply asked the question at the wrong time. Now it is time to find out how He forgives us of sin, when we repent and live.

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What Is The Gospel?

Have you really heard the WHOLE gospel? What is the Gospel? There are many responses you will get if you randomly ask this question. The popular Christian definition of the gospel is the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Then, there is the gospel of the kingdom which John the Baptist and Christ himself preached. Also the book of Revelation refers to the end-time preaching of the eternal gospel. What are these gospels, and what are the similarities and differences between them? And Paul speaks of the mystery of the gospel...which the majority today still do not understand...These and other questions will be answered in this study.

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WILL YOU EVER KNOW HOW MUCH IT COST TO SEE YOUR SIN HUNG ON THAT CROSS

Tim 4:18 All those who seek first the Kingdom of God in their lives can dare to have a similar confidence. Of His Son, God says; "Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the sceptre of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy."Heb 1:8-9 May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.Psalm 141:2


Psalms 34:1-10

The title of this psalm tells us both who penned it and upon what occasion it was penned. David, being forced to flee from his country, which was made too hot for him by the rage of King Saul, sought shelter as near it as he could, in the land of the Philistines. There it was soon discovered who he was, and he was brought before the king, who, in the narrative, is called Achish (his proper name), here Abimelech (his title); and lest he should be treated as a spy, or one that came thither upon design, he feigned himself to be a madman (such there have been in every age, that even by idiots men might be taught to give God thanks for the use of their reason), that Achish might dismiss him as a contemptible man, rather than take cognizance of him as a dangerous man. And it had the effect he desired; by this stratagem he escaped the hand that otherwise would have handled him roughly. 
Now, 
1. We cannot justify David in this dissimulation. It ill became an honest man to feign himself to be what he was not, and a man of honor to feign himself to be a fool and a mad-man. If, in sport, we mimic those who have not so good an understanding as we think we have, we forget that God might have made their case ours. 
2. Yet we cannot but wonder at the composure of his spirit, and how far he was from any change of that, when he changed his behavior. Even when he was in that fright, or rather in that danger only, his heart was so fixed, trusting in God, that even then he penned this excellent psalm, which has as much in it of the marks of a calm sedate spirit as any psalm in all the book; and there is something curious too in the composition, for it is what is called an alphabetical psalm, that is, a psalm in which every verse begins with each letter in its order as it stands in the Hebrew alphabet. Happy are those who can thus keep their temper, and keep their graces in exercise, even when they are tempted to change their behavior. In this former part of the psalm,
I. David engages and excites himself to praise God. Though it was his fault that he changed his behavior, yet it was God's mercy that he escaped, and the mercy was so much the greater in that God did not deal with him according to the desert of his dissimulation, and we must in every thing give thanks. He resolves, 
1. That he will praise God constantly: I will bless the Lord at all times, upon all occasions. He resolves to keep up stated times for this duty, to lay hold of all opportunities for it, and to renew his praises upon every fresh occurrence that furnished him with matter. If we hope to spend our eternity in praising God, it is fit that we should spend as much as may be of our time in this work. 
2. That he will praise him openly: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Thus he would show how forward he was to own his obligations to the mercy of God and how desirous to make others also sensible of theirs. 
3. That he will praise him heartily: “My soul shall make her boast in the Lord, in my relation to him, my interest in him, and expectations from him.” It is not vainglory to glory in the Lord.
II. He calls upon others to join with him herein. He expects they will (Psa_34:2): “The humble shall hear thereof, both of my deliverance and of my thankfulness, and be glad that a good man has so much favor shown him and a good God so much honor done him.” Those have most comfort in God's mercies, both to others and to themselves, that are humble, and have the least confidence in their own merit and sufficiency. It pleased David to think that God's favors to him would rejoice the heart of every Israelite. Three things he would have us all to concur with him in: - 
1. In great and high thoughts of God, which we should express in magnifying him and exalting his name, Psa_34:3. We cannot make God greater or higher than he is; but if we adore him as infinitely great, and higher than the highest, he is pleased to reckon this magnifying and exalting him. This we must do together. God's praises sound best in concert, for so we praise him as the angels do in heaven. Those that share in God's favor, as all the saints do, should concur in his praises; and we should be as desirous of the assistance of our friends in returning thanks for mercies as in praying for them. We have reason to join in thanksgiving to God,
(1.) For his readiness to hear prayer, which all the saints have had the comfort of; for he never said to any of them, Seek you me in vain. [1.] David, for his part, will give it under his hand that he has found him a prayer-hearing God (Psa_34:4): “I sought the Lord, in my distress, entreated his favor, begged his help, and he heard me, answered my request immediately, and delivered me from all my fears, both from the death I feared and from the disquietude and disturbance produced by fear of it.” The former he does by his providence working for us, the latter by his grace working in us, to silence our fears and still the tumult of the spirits; this latter is the greater mercy of the two, because the thing we fear is our trouble only, but our unbelieving distrustful fear of it is our sin; nay, it is often more our torment too than the thing itself would be, which perhaps would only touch the bone and the flesh, while the fear would prey upon the spirits and put us out of the possession of our own soul. David's prayers helped to silence his fears; having sought the Lord, and left his case with him, he could wait the event with great composure. “But David was a great and eminent man, we may not expect to be favored as he was; have any others ever experienced the like benefit by prayer?” Yes, [2.] Many besides him have looked unto God by faith and prayer, and have been lightened by it, Psa_34:5. It has wonderfully revived and comforted them; witness Hannah, who, when she had prayed, went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. When we look to the world we are darkened, we are perplexed, and at a loss; but, when we look to God, from him we have the light both of direction and joy, and our way is made both plain and pleasant. These here spoken of, that looked unto God, had their expectations raised, and the event did not frustrate them: Their faces were not ashamed of their confidence. “But perhaps these also were persons of great eminence, like David himself, and upon that account were highly favored, or their numbers made them considerable;” nay, [3.] This poor man cried, a single person, mean and inconsiderable, whom no man looked upon with any respect or looked after with any concern; yet he was as welcome to the throne of grace as David or any of his worthies: The Lord heard him, took cognizance of his case and of his prayers, and saved him out of all his troubles, Psa_34:6. God will regard the prayer of the destitute, Psa_102:17. See Isa_57:15.
(2.) For the ministration of the good angels about us (Psa_34:7): The angel of the Lord, a guard of angels (so some), but as unanimous in their service as if they were but one, or a guardian angel, encamps round about those that fear God, as the life-guard about the prince, and delivers them. God makes use of the attendance of the good spirits for the protection of his people from the malice and power of evil spirits; and the holy angels do us more good offices every day than we are aware of. Though in dignity and in capacity of nature they are very much superior to us, - though they retain their primitive rectitude, which we have lost; - though they have constant employment in the upper world, the employment of praising God, and are entitled to a constant rest and bliss there, - yet in obedience to their Maker, and in love to those that bear his image, they condescend to minister to the saints, and stand up for them against the powers of darkness; they not only visit them, but encamp round about them, acting for their good as really, though not as sensibly, as for Jacob's (Gen_32:1), and Elisha's, 2Ki_6:17. All the glory be to the God of the angels.
2. He would have us to join with him in kind and good thoughts of God (Psa_34:8): O taste and see that the Lord is good! The goodness of God includes both the beauty and amiableness of his being and the bounty and beneficence of his providence and grace; and accordingly, 
(1.) We must taste that he is a bountiful benefactor, relish the goodness of God in all his gifts to us, and reckon that the savor and sweetness of them. Let God's goodness be rolled under the tongue as a sweet morsel. 
(2.) We must see that he is a beautiful being, and delight in the contemplation of his infinite perfections. By taste and sight we both make discoveries and take complacency. Taste and see God's goodness, that is, take notice of it and take the comfort of it, 1Pe_2:3. he is good, for he makes all those that trust in him truly blessed; let us therefore be so convinced of his goodness as thereby to be encouraged in the worst of times to trust in him.
3. He would have us join with him in a resolution to seek God and serve him, and continue in his fear (Psa_34:9): O fear the Lord! you his saints. When we taste and see that he is good we must not forget that he is great and greatly to be feared; nay, even his goodness is the proper object of a filial reverence and awe. They shall fear the Lord and his goodness, Hos_3:5. Fear the Lord; that is, worship him, and make conscience of your duty to him in every thing, not fear him and shun him, but fear him and seek him (v. 10) as a people seek unto their God; address yourselves to him and portion yourselves in him. To encourage us to fear God and seek him, it is here promised that those that do so, even in this wanting world, shall want no good thing (Heb. They shall not want all good things); they shall so have all good things that they shall have no reason to complain of the want of any. As to the things of the other world, they shall have grace sufficient for the support of the spiritual life (2Co_12:9; Psa_84:11); and, as to this life, they shall have what is necessary to the support of it from the hand of God: as a Father, he will feed them with food convenient. What further comforts they desire they shall have, as far as Infinite Wisdom sees good, and what they want in one thing shall be made up in another. What God denies them he will give them grace to be content without and then they do not want it, Deu_3:26. Paul had all and abounded, because he was content, Phi_4:11, Phi_4:18. Those that live by faith in God's all-sufficiency want nothing; for in him they have enough. The young lions. often lack and suffer hunger - those that live upon common providence, as the lions do, shall want that satisfaction which those have that live by faith in the promise; those that trust to themselves, and think their own hands sufficient for them, shall want (for bread is not always to the wise) - but verily those shall be fed that trust in God and desire to be at his finding. Those that are ravenous, and prey upon all about them, shall want; but the meek shall inherit the earth. Those shall not want who with quietness work and mind their own business; plain-hearted Jacob has pottage enough, when Esau, the cunning hunter, is ready to perish for hunger.

IT WAS THE LANGUAGE OF A SAVIOR

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There was never a day like it in all the history of the world!  Complete darkness covered the land at noon, and continued for three hours!  It was not an eclipse, nor was the darkness the result of heavy cloud formations.  The darkness was accompanied by the movements of Romans soldiers, the jeering of Israel's leaders, the groaning of two crucified malefactors, and the suffering of a unique Man nailed to a tree.  The location was Jerusalem;  the event was the crucifixion of an innocent Man - Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

Thirty-three years prior to this event, He had left Heaven and entered into this world by way of a virgin named Mary.  The Holy Scriptures speaks of it as a mystery;  "Great is the mystery of godliness:


God was manifest in the flesh" (1 Timothy 3:16). Thus the prophecy of Isaiah, written 740 years before, came to pass.  "Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given"  (Isaiah 9:6).

After living in obscurity for thirty years in Nazareth, He began His unique ministry before God and man.


The Spirit of the Lord came upon Him, anointing Him to preach the gospel to the poor, too heal the broken-


hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, to recover sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that were bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18,19).  His gracious ministry brought comfort, cleansing and joy to many. In spite of it all, He was despised and rejected of men (Isaiah 53:3).  Finally, He was given an unjust trial, flogged, spit upon, buffeted, reproached, crowned with thorns and led outside Jerusalem's walls.  Between 9am and noon, He was nailed upon the cross of wood at the place called Calvary.  Scripture says, "There they crucified Him" (Luke 23:33).

IT WAS THE CRY OF A SUFFERER

When one thinks of Calvary, what tongue or pen can fully describe the sufferings of Christ?  His anguish-


physical, mental and spiritual - was indescribable! as the "Man of Sorrows" (Isaiah 53:3),  He was designated for infinite suffering.  Prophecy reveals the thoughts of His heart in (Psalm 88:15),


"I am afflicted and ready to die from My youth up."  On the cross, His sufferings were expiatory and vicarious.  He became the sinner's Substitute and suffered for the sinner's sins.


The Bible says; "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities." "Who His own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree." "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just (One)


for (us) the unjust (ones), that He might bring us to God"  (Isiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18).


Then came the cry, "It is finished"!  His sufferings were now over forever!

 IT WAS THE LANGUAGE OF A SAVIOR

Our Lord's ministry to the world was simply to save.  "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1Timothy 1:15) and "to give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).  Man was born a sinner; his sins were taking him to hell, but "Christ died for our sins" (1 Corinthians 15:3).  The sinner, by trusting only in the sacrifice and death of Christ for his sins, might go free.  When the tremendous debt of sin was paid in full, the Savior cried out, "It is finished!"  Do you really believe it? or are you vainly trying to add something of your own to His Finished Work to merit favor with God?  If God is completely satisfied with the work and payment of Christ, why aren't you?  No amount of doing can cancel your debt of sin.





"Jesus paid it all,


All to Him I owe,


Sin had left a crimson stain,


He washed it white as snow."





IT WAS THE CRY OF A CONQUEROR

Christ came to battle with Satan, sin and hell.  It was a terrible conflict, but He met His foes and confronted all His enemies.  On the cross, He divested death of its sting and triumphed over Satan, the grave and hell.  The proof of His victory lies in the fact that God raised Him from the dead (Acts 13:30) and exalted Him to His Own right hand, proclaiming to His Son, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever" (Hebrews 1:3,8).


What comfort that Christ conquered as He expired could exclaim, "It is finished,"  "Accomplished,"  "Performed"!   Isn't such a Person worthy of your trust?

I hope so!

The Lord Jesus Christ

"He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself


....This Man, after He offered one sacrifice for sins forever,


sat down on the right hand of God The Father...  There


remains no more sacrifice for sins."  (Hebrews 9:26; 10:12,26)


"Whosoever confesses (TO GOD) and forsakes his sins shall


have mercy."  (Proverbs 28:13)  "The blood of Jesus Christ His


Son cleanseth us from all sin,"  (1 John 1:7).





ITS TIME THAT YOU GAVE YOUR HEART TO THE SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST


BY ASKING FIRST TO FORGIVE YOUR OFFENCES OF SIN AGAINST A HOLY CREATOR


THIS IS CALLED REPENTANCE WHICH IS REQUIRED FOR FORGIVENESS OF SIN.

Robert E Surgenor

With the heart believe in Christ for salvation

Romans 3:22 (watch this new music video here about the Lord.)
Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ,.... A further account is given of this righteousness: why it is called "the righteousness of God", and in what sense revealed and manifested; see Gill on Rom_1:17; 

Here it is said to be "by faith of Jesus Christ"; not by that faith which Christ himself had as man, but by that faith, of which He the author and object: the Alexandrian copy reads, "by faith in Jesus Christ"; and not by that as the cause of justification; for faith is neither the efficient, nor the moving, nor meritorious cause of it; no, nor the instrumental cause of it on the part of God or Christ: nor is faith the matter of a justifying righteousness; for faith is a part of sanctification, is itself imperfect, is a man's own, as it is implanted in him, and exercised by him; is here and elsewhere distinguished from righteousness; something else, and not that, as the obedience and blood of Christ, are said to be what men are made righteous and justified by: but faith is a means of apprehending and receiving righteousness; it views the excellency of Christ's righteousness; it owns the sufficiency of it; the soul by it renounces its own righteousness, submits to Christ's, rejoices in it, and gives him the glory of it: now this is by, or through faith, 

unto all, and upon all: not all men, for all have not faith, nor are all justified and saved: but 

all that believe; which must be understood, not of believing any thing, nor of any sort of believing; but of such, who truly and with the heart believe in Christ for salvation; and who are here opposed to the wise philosophers among the Gentiles, had to all self-righteous persons among the Jews. Though this character does not design any cause or condition of justification, but is only descriptive of the persons, who are declaratively interested in a justifying righteousness, which is said to be "unto", and "upon them"; that is, it is appointed, provided, and wrought out for them, and directed and applied unto them, and put upon them as a garment, and that upon all of them: 

for there is no difference; of nation, age, or sex, or of state and condition; no respect is had to persons or works; nor is there any difference with respect to weak or strong believers; the righteousness is equally applied to one as to another, and one is as much justified by it in the sight of God as another.

Believing and Hearing the Law:

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“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ...”
2 Corinthians 2:14

In the day of trouble, know that God is with you and for you. He’s not the one who is against you. Keep your eyes on Him. Trust that He has a plan. Trust that He will make your crooked places straight and your rough places smooth. He has a plan to lift you up out of despair and set you in a place of stability. 

He has a plan to restore, renew and revive your soul. No matter where you are in life, no matter what’s happening around you. Don’t settle for where you are. Believe that God is good, and He wants to do more in and through you...He’ll fight your battles - always remember that with God on your side, nothing can hold you back! He will lead you into the life of blessing.

Hearing the Law:

Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?  (Gal_4:21)

When people do not really hear what the law of God is saying, they may still desire to be under the law. Those who are lost and dying in the world often underestimate the message of the law. They may imagine that it is only calling them to attend religious services or to join a religious organization. Thus, in missing the message of the law, they choose to remain under it, trusting in their own best behavior to somehow enable them to pass any final judgment concerning heaven or hell. This is a matter of "not hearing the law."

Many who are redeemed, having found new life through faith in Christ, also want to remain under the law concerning spiritual growth and service. This is another case of "not hearing the law." Any believer who expects to make progress in a life pleasing to the Lord on the basis of one's own best efforts does not really hear what the law reveals as God's will for lives. 

 The law of God is not suggesting that we "be better;" it is demanding that we "be holy," as holy as God.  The law is not implying that we "be nicer;" it is requiring that we "be loving," as loving as Christ. The law is not proposing that we "try harder;" it is insisting that we "be perfect," as perfect as our Father in heaven. 

The law of God is not asking us to improve ourselves or to be better than the next person. Many times this inaccurate statement is heard: "Just do the best that you can; what more could God require?" Well, God is demanding far beyond our human best. His law is demanding that lives "be holy," "be loving," and "be perfect." Moreover, He Himself is the standard of this holiness, love, and perfection.

Dear Lord God, You are holy and loving and perfect. In and of myself, I am none of these. I stand before You without any human assets that could measure up to these heavenly realities that You alone possess. I thank You for Your mercy. I praise You for Your grace. I humbly bow beforeYou, asking that You work more and more of Your holiness in and through my life.With no other hope than You, I ask that more and more of Your love might fill my life. Admitting my complete inadequacy, I look to You to be transforming me more and more into Your perfect image, through Christ I pray, Amen.

I WILL FOLLOW I WILL TRUST IN HIM - HOW ABOUT YOU?

LEAVE THE PAST IN 2013, SUCCESS IS IN YOUR FUTURE!
"Remember not the former things, neither consider the old things of old" (ISAIAH 43:18)
Create in me a clean heart, O God;  and renew a right spirit within me!(Psalm 51:10)
'He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him'(John1:10)  Jesus said to Martha,"I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.  Do you believe this?" (John 11:25)
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father in Heaven except through me only.(John 14:6)
'The next day John(the baptist) saw Jesus coming towards him and said out loud, "look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word today and believes in his heart in HIM who has sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life". (John 5:24)
"I am the gate;  whoever enters the Kingdom of God's family through me will be saved.  He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief (the devil) comes only to steal and kill and destroy;  I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full. "I am the good shepherd.  The good shepherd lays down His life, for the sheep. (John 10:9,10,11.)
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here.  I have not come on my own, but He sent me.  Why is my language not clear to you?  Because you are unable to hear what I say.  You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire.  He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.  When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!  Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?  If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?  He who belongs to God hears what God says.  The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
(John ) Jesus declared, I tell you the truth, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is "born again".further explained that no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, You must be born again.(John chapter 3)

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world
but to save the world through Him.  Whoever believes in Him is not condemned but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
 2Co 5:21  For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God and stand condemned.(Romans 3:23)
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For the wages of sin is death,.... By sin, is meant every sin, original sin, actual sin, every kind of sin, lesser and greater: the "death" which sin deserves, is a corporeal death; which is not owing to the original nature and constitution of men; nor merely to the divine appointment; but to sin, and the decree of God, on account of it; which is inflicted on Christ-less sinners, as a punishment for sin, though not on believers as such, because Christ has took away the sting and curse of it: a death of diseases and afflictions also follows upon sin, as its proper demerit; which are properly punishments to wicked men, and are occasioned by sin in believers: there is a death of the soul, which comes by sin, which lies in an alienation from God, in a loss of the image of God, and in a servitude to sin; and there is an eternal death, the just wages of sin, which lies in a separation of soul and body from God, and in a sense of divine wrath to all eternity; and which is here meant, as is clear from its antithesis, "eternal life", in the next clause. Now this is "the wages" of sin; sin does in its own nature produce it, and excludes from life; it is the natural issue of it; sin is committed against an infinite God, and righteously deserves such a death; it is its just wages by law. Romans 6:23
 If we believe in Jesus the Son Of God and accept what He has done, the Bible (God's Word) promises that we will have a personal relationship with God and live with Him forever.  The cross of Jesus Christ works as a bridge of Love between God and us.If we REPENT of our sin and ask God's forgiveness and accept Jesus Christ as our SAVIOR who will take away the sins of
 all if we ask him in repentance of our hearts today!
PRAY: I CONFESS TO GOD THAT I AM A SINNER. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR MY SINS ON THE CROSS> I BELIEVE THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD>  I NOW REPENT OF MY SINS FROM MY HEART. I RECEIVE HIM NOW AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR. IN JESUS NAME AMEN!  http://whowasthemanjesus.blogspot.co.uk/
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JEHOVAH IS SALVATION

(IESOUS) JESUS 
Is a transliteration of the Hebrew "Joshua" meaning,.....
 'Jehovah is Salvation' e.g., "is the Savior".
A common name among the Jews.,    e.g, (Ex 17:9) (Luke 3:29) (Col 4:11)
The Name was given to the Son of God in *Incarnation* (Begotten of God the Holy Spirit and Mary a chosen virgin) as His personal name, in obedience to the command of an angel to Joseph, the husband of His mother, Mary, shortly before He was born, (Matt 1:21).
By it He is spoken of throughout the gospel narratives generally,
but not without exception, as in (Mark 16:19,20) (Luke 7:13),
and a dozen other places in that Gospel, and a few in John.
The Gospel According to Matthew, The book of the ancestry (genealogy) of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed, the Son (descendant) of Abraham. (Psalm. 132:11) (Isa 11:1)

"'Jesus Christ' occurs only in (Matt 1:1,18,16:21 marg)(Mark 1:1)
(John 1:17; 17:3).  In Acts the name 'Jesus' is found frequently.
'Lord Jesus' is the normal usage, as in (Acts 8:16; 19:5,17 ); see also the reports of the word of (Stephen, 7:59) of  (Ananias, 9:17), and of (Paul, 16:31) though both (Peter, 10:36), and (Paul,16:18), also
used "Jesus Christ."
"In Paul's letters the order is always in harmony with the context.  
Thus 'Christ Jesus' describes the Exalted One who emptied Himself,
despised and rejected One Who was afterwards Glorified, 
(Phil 2:11) and testifies to His resurrection.
'Jesus Christ' suggests His grace, 'Jesus Christ' suggests His Glory."



*Incarnation* is from the Latin meaning "becoming flesh", that is,"becoming human." The eternal Son of God (see trinity) became human, and He did so without in any manner or degree diminishing His divine nature.(Phil.2:5-11) Christ Jesus, remaining in the "form" of God, e,g,.with all the essential attributes of God, took the "form"
of a servant and died on the Cross.
The virgin birth is necessary  for our understanding of the incarnation.  In the process of ordinary birth, a new personality begins.  Jesus Christ did not begin to be when He was born. He is the eternal Son.  The virgin birth was a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit, whereby the eternal Son of God "became flesh,"e,g,took to himself a genuine human nature in addition to His eternal divine nature.  It was a virgin birth, a miracle.  The Holy Spirit has never been thought of as the father of Jesus.  Jesus was not half man and half God like the Greek mythological heroes. He was fully God, the Second Person of the Trinity. "In Christ 'ALL' the fullness of the
Deity lives in bodily form" (Col 2:9).  At the same time He became
genuinely a man.  To deny His genuine humanity is "the spirit of the antichrist" (1 John 4:2-3).

HAPPY NEW YEAR IN JESUS

Good Will Jesus

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HOW TO GRASP GOD'S WORD
To effectively grasp a book, you
need to actively engage the Five Fingers. In the same way, to grasp God's Word,
the five fingers of your right hand would be required. Hence the fingers stand for: hearing, reading, studying, memorising and meditating on God...watch video link here! 

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. "
1 John 1:8-9    http://whowasthemanjesus.blogspot.co.uk/