Jesus answered "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."John 14v6.
Jesus the Head Cornerstone (The external Angle) Ps.118v22 and Acts 4v11.
There is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved. Acts 4v12
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.
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.
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)
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.
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). Virginbirthof Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_birth_of_JesusThe virginbirthof 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 ...
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.
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.
