KenH
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The prevailing religious thought in our day is that Christ accomplished nothing more by his death, but an avenue of opportunity to be saved, if only the sinner, by faith, would respond to the "wooing" of the Holy Spirit.
The problem with this thinking is that sinners are dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1, Colossians 2:13) and there is none righteous and none that seek after God (Romans 3:10-12). A dead man cannot respond to anything and a spiritually dead man certainly cannot respond to anything spiritual.
Week after week the call thunders from millions of pulpits across this nation to surrender your life to God and "make" Jesus your Lord. How can a dead man who the Bible declares, is not seeking after God, do this? Lazarus is a perfect picture of the sinners state. He was four days dead and his sister said " he stinketh" ( John 11:39). The dry bones of Ezekiel 37 show the condition of man in his best state before his God.
If God does not call dead sinners to life, they will simply never live. To say that God did his part, Jesus did his part and now you must do your part, is a complete and utter denial of everything scripture declares. Christ actually and absolutely saves His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). If Christ died for everyone who ever lived, then when this christ is put in the balance, he is by all measures an utter and dismal failure.
Christ represented a people at the cross. He was their Substitute, taking their just penalty for sin. He was and is the totality of their Righteousness, having fulfilled every jot and tittle of God's law in His obedience unto death. He ever lives as their Surety and as such, will not fail to present them holy, unspotted and perfect before His throne clothed in his righteousness alone (2 Corinthians 5:21). He actually accomplished salvation on their behalf that meets every requirement of God's strict law and justice, so that God views them as eternally perfect and holy, since they are viewed IN CHRIST. This is great, good news! This is the heart of the Gospel.
It is not good news to accept an offer and from that point forward, hope you are doing enough to please your God.
Ask your pastor what Christ actually accomplished on the cross. If he doesn't tell you that He fully and completely saved his people from their sins, charging the very Righteousness of Christ to their account, so that God, Himself cannot find a flaw in them, run, don't walk away from that place and don't look back.
Christ fully accomplished the salvation of his elect and the Gospel, as it declares this blessed truth, is good news indeed!
This is all my hope and peace
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
This is all my righteousness
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
- by Kenny Dyess(a good friend of mine) via his Facebook page
The prevailing religious thought in our day is that Christ accomplished nothing more by his death, but an avenue of opportunity to be saved, if only the sinner, by faith, would respond to the "wooing" of the Holy Spirit.
The problem with this thinking is that sinners are dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1, Colossians 2:13) and there is none righteous and none that seek after God (Romans 3:10-12). A dead man cannot respond to anything and a spiritually dead man certainly cannot respond to anything spiritual.
Week after week the call thunders from millions of pulpits across this nation to surrender your life to God and "make" Jesus your Lord. How can a dead man who the Bible declares, is not seeking after God, do this? Lazarus is a perfect picture of the sinners state. He was four days dead and his sister said " he stinketh" ( John 11:39). The dry bones of Ezekiel 37 show the condition of man in his best state before his God.
If God does not call dead sinners to life, they will simply never live. To say that God did his part, Jesus did his part and now you must do your part, is a complete and utter denial of everything scripture declares. Christ actually and absolutely saves His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). If Christ died for everyone who ever lived, then when this christ is put in the balance, he is by all measures an utter and dismal failure.
Christ represented a people at the cross. He was their Substitute, taking their just penalty for sin. He was and is the totality of their Righteousness, having fulfilled every jot and tittle of God's law in His obedience unto death. He ever lives as their Surety and as such, will not fail to present them holy, unspotted and perfect before His throne clothed in his righteousness alone (2 Corinthians 5:21). He actually accomplished salvation on their behalf that meets every requirement of God's strict law and justice, so that God views them as eternally perfect and holy, since they are viewed IN CHRIST. This is great, good news! This is the heart of the Gospel.
It is not good news to accept an offer and from that point forward, hope you are doing enough to please your God.
Ask your pastor what Christ actually accomplished on the cross. If he doesn't tell you that He fully and completely saved his people from their sins, charging the very Righteousness of Christ to their account, so that God, Himself cannot find a flaw in them, run, don't walk away from that place and don't look back.
Christ fully accomplished the salvation of his elect and the Gospel, as it declares this blessed truth, is good news indeed!
This is all my hope and peace
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
This is all my righteousness
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
- by Kenny Dyess(a good friend of mine) via his Facebook page
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