TUESDAY
JANUARY 14
“There is one…mediator between
God and men…Jesus.” 1Ti 2:5
JESUS, YOUR MEDIATOR
Michael
Spencer writes: “The truth that Jesus is the one mediator between God and human
beings knocked me to the floor and suspended me over the truth that God had
done all things necessary for my salvation. He had paid the debt and become the
necessary sacrifice. He had loved me to the uttermost. He had given all this to
me as a gift. I had nothing to do but
simply stop ignoring His gift and receive it. I was a drowning man whose rescue
depended on stopping all efforts to swim and trusting someone who was not going
to make me a better swimmer, but who would drown in my place. This experience…demolished
the idea that I could be anything other than what I was: a broken, sinful, wounded,
failing, hurting human being…To try to make myself presentable or acceptable
made me less capable of receiving the simple gift of Jesus’ mediation on my
behalf. Jesus was not clearing the read so that I could ride victoriously
through life. He was becoming the road that would carry me through all the
garbage, falls, failures and disasters that were the inevitable results of my
existence. In trying to make myself lovable, I had been distancing myself from
true love. IN pretending to be a leading candidate for the religious life, I
was abandoning the life of grace. In seeking to be a good Christian, I was
deserting the truth that there is no gospel for ‘good’ Christians, because the
Lamb of God was nailed to an altar for those who are not good, and who are no
good at pretending to be good.”
Taken from The Word for You Today
Devotional
WHAT I DON'T BELIEVE BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteI believe every word of the Bible. I believe every verse of Scripture. I believe everything God says in His book.
WHAT I DON'T BELIEVE IS WHAT THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY.
I believed Jesus when He said, in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
WHAT I DON'T BELIEVE, IS WHAT JESUS DID NOT SAY IN John 3:16.
1. Jesus did not say, sprinkling water on infants, is Christian baptism.
2. Jesus did not say water baptism precedes believing in Him.
3. Jesus did not say, to baptize unbelieving babies or unbelieving adults and then teach them to have faith at a later date. ( If you can baptized non-believing babies, then why not baptize non-believing adults?)
4. Jesus did not say, infants who have been sprinkled are part of His body.
5. Jesus did not say, men are saved by "faith only."
6. Jesus did not say, men are saved by "grace alone."
7. Jesus did not say, men are saved before they are baptized in water.
8. Jesus did not say, water baptism is just a testimony of the believers faith and has nothing to do with the forgiveness of sins.
9. Jesus did not say, God has selected a few men to be saved and has appointed all others to burn in hell.
10. Jesus did not say, men did not have to repent to have their sins forgiven.(Repentance means to make the commitment to turn from sin and turn toward God)
11. Jesus did not say, men do not have to confess Him, as the Son of God, in order to have their sins forgiven.
12. Jesus did not say that men do not have to confess Him as Lord and Savior in order to enter the kingdom of God.
13. Jesus did not say men do not have to believe in His death, His burial, and His resurrection from the grave in order to be saved.
14. Jesus did not say men will will be saved as long as they are sincere in what they believe.
15. Jesus did not say, I am just one of many ways to the Father.
16. Jesus did not say, there is not a literal hell where the lost will spend eternity.
17. Jesus did not say, you do not have to be born of water and Spirit in order to enter the kingdom of God.
18. Jesus did not say, God will give, those He selects for salvation, the faith to believe, so they can be saved.
19. Jesus did not say, speaking in tongues is evidence that men have been saved.
20. Jesus did not say, if you were on on your death bed and wanted to believe, but died before you believed that He would saved you anyway.
21. Jesus did not say, if you believed, but died before you had time to be baptized in water, that you would sill be saved.
22. Jesus did not say, water baptism is not essential to have your sins forgiven.
23. Jesus did not say, you can be saved without faith.
24. Jesus did not say, you can be saved without confessing Him.
25. Jesus did not say, you can have your sins forgiven without repentance.
26 Jesus did not say, water baptism is just an act of obedience.
27. Jesus did not say, all men are guilty of Adam's sin.
28. Jesus did not say, everyone is guilty of original sin in the mothers womb.
29. Jesus did not say, infants are sinners.
30. Jesus did not say, we should pray to the Virgin Mary.
31. Jesus did not say, Peter was the first Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
32. Jesus did not say, when I return all the Jews and Gentiles who have rejected Me will get a second chance for salvation.
WHAT I DON'T BELIEVE IS WHAT JESUS DID NOT SAY.
WHAT I DON'T BELIEVE IS DOCTRINE NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE.
WHAT I DON'T BELIEVE IS MAN-MADE DOCTRINE.
(Scripture quote from : NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
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