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Monday, October 06, 2003
God's Grace Eternal
For those of us that have stumbled in our walk with Christ, like me, Christ reassures us that our salvation is secure in Christ. I have been experiencing a spiritual drought until my best man challenged me to be committed to a quiet time of reading and prayer. I was lead to John chapters 5 and 6. Wow, what a powerful summary of the Gospel. In John 6:37-40 Jesus declares that:
"ALL that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will NEVER drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose NONE of ALL that he has given me but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that EVERYONE who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I WILL raise him up at the last day."
These are great words to encourage those with doubts and worry in the status of their own standing with Christ. The amazing thing about John 5 and 6 is that almost every element of our faith is testified. From all three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to the fulfillment of the old testament. John 5:45-47
"... Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
This is the tip of the ice berg of the radical things that Jesus said in these chapters. He has the audacity to say that God was his father, making himself equal to God (John 5:18) and talk about eating his flesh and blood (John 6:53). This was too much and many that professed to follow him but did not believe left, but for his chosen twelve Simon Peter answers (John 6:68-69):
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God"
Read Jesus's own words in the Gospel of John. He is calling each and every one of us to the Bread of Life.
For those of us that have stumbled in our walk with Christ, like me, Christ reassures us that our salvation is secure in Christ. I have been experiencing a spiritual drought until my best man challenged me to be committed to a quiet time of reading and prayer. I was lead to John chapters 5 and 6. Wow, what a powerful summary of the Gospel. In John 6:37-40 Jesus declares that:
"ALL that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will NEVER drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose NONE of ALL that he has given me but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that EVERYONE who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I WILL raise him up at the last day."
These are great words to encourage those with doubts and worry in the status of their own standing with Christ. The amazing thing about John 5 and 6 is that almost every element of our faith is testified. From all three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to the fulfillment of the old testament. John 5:45-47
"... Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
This is the tip of the ice berg of the radical things that Jesus said in these chapters. He has the audacity to say that God was his father, making himself equal to God (John 5:18) and talk about eating his flesh and blood (John 6:53). This was too much and many that professed to follow him but did not believe left, but for his chosen twelve Simon Peter answers (John 6:68-69):
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God"
Read Jesus's own words in the Gospel of John. He is calling each and every one of us to the Bread of Life.
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