Who is Jesus to you?
September 4th, 2006
Are you secure in your knowledge of the afterlife? Are you content and worry-free about what may or may not become? I’m afraid too-many “christians” will shocked to find what their “religion” did for them when they face God and have to answer to His query “what did you Do with My Son?”. It’s not about earning our ticket, we can’t pay for our way into heaven with any contribution be it monetary, being “good”, or simply sweating it by our “works”.
His Grace towards us is the only way, and go figure it’s FREE, and while we’re at it it’s about a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus, not any “man’s” religion.
Paul in his letter to the church in Rome put it this way:
23 For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. 25 For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when he did not punish those who sinned in former times. 26 And he is entirely fair and just in this present time when he declares sinners to be right in his sight because they believe in Jesus.
27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith. 28 So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
(Romans 3:23-28 NLT)
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1. stagewest | September 6th, 2006 at 6:50 am
Hey Ethan,
Things are shaping up rather nicely on Nemafe.com!!
Keep up the good posts.
Chris
2. Brian | September 7th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Man , you read these these same words of life from the scripture over and over and each time they tell you something new.
Ro 3:25b We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us
What a promise! What hope! If this is really true, what do we have to worry about, what relationship do we have that can’t be made right, what sin can’t we be forgiven for? God, how great thou art.
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