Daily Bread - Nov 25 2006
John 3:18 - "Whoever believes in Him is not condemned but whoever does not believe has already been condemned for refusing to believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
The Lord Jesus made freedom from condemnation and sin very easy; all one has to do is to believe in the Only Begotten Son, and they will be rescued from the imprisonment of spiritual death. The message of salvation that is contained within the title "Only Begotten Son" includes accepting that Jesus is God, that he became a human being to come and take upon himself the sins of the world, and that there is no other means of salvation but by Him.
We cannot trust in ourselves, our own good works or any other religious belief and Jesus too. The mixture will not do because it undermines the fact that unless man is born again and made a new creature he is unacceptable to God. All other religious activities are vain, including the Law because it cannot change the heart of man. There is only one possible way to be born of the Spirit and that is through the death of Jesus on the cross. For it was at the cross that Jesus broke the power of sin and Satan that took control of man when Adam sinned. When we believe on the Only Begotten Son we are taking notice that God has sent a personal invitation to us to come and join Him.
We are accepting the fact that God loves each of us personally (1 John 4:16). However, if we take a permanent position of refusing Jesus Christ as our savior then the result is eternal death. It is not that God chose death for us for He has chosen life for all mankind. In the very beginning it was man who walked away from God and became a prisoner to sin and death. God who is not willing that anyone perish has come to every person individually and given them the opportunity to accept what Adam refused (2 Peter 3:9; John 3:16). The choice is ours, God has opened the door of escape for us but if we refuse then there is nothing left but an eternal condemnation that God pronounced on sin from the very beginning.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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