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God’s Salvation         “The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt.   I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.     So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.   And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.   So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt’” (Exodus 3:7-10).     In many instances when we feel overwhelmed by suffering, we may wonder why God does not seem to be helping us, leading to a sense of abandonment.   However, Exodus 3:7, 9 in the Bible declare that our God is indeed certainly aware of our sufferi...

“Who are you, Lord?”       [Acts 9: 1 -9]       Are we truly changing?   The life of a Christian is one of transformation.   Faith is a willingness to change.   The church is a community of people who have not only experienced change, but also seek it (Internet).   However, there are times when we long for change, yet become disappointed and discouraged when we see our own habits persist.   Regarding this spiritual condition, author Robert Boyd Munger, in his book "A Pauper of a Prince?," says, ‘Many Christians today are despairing due to weakness, failure, and feebleness, unable to break free from the swamp of incompetence and helplessness.   Therefore, the author's desire is to give this amazing gift of a transformed life to us all.   The author's words, 'The amazing gift of a transformed life is more than forgiveness for the past or a promise for the future.'   This gift pertains to our current lives...

  Day 13: Luke 23, Romans 6:23       He ought not to live any longer       The Apostle Paul was an upright and blameless man.  However, he was marked as a man who out not to live any longer by all the Jewish crowds.  Governor Festus could not find any punishable offense in him, but the Jewish people branded him as someone not to be spared, treating him as if he were a condemned criminal.  When we look at him, we think of Jesus.  When accused, Pilate, even though he found no crime worthy of death in Jesus, allowed the Jewish crowd to crucify Him on the cross (Lk. 23).  How unjust a death was this?  Why did Jesus have to be put to death on the accursed tree of the cross?  The reason is to grant eternal life to you and me (Rom. 6:23).  Do you not desire to receive this gift of eternal life?  To receive it, you must believe in Jesus.  May God grant you the faith that leads to salvation. ...

  Day 12: Acts 27:20-25       When there is no hope of salvation     In Acts 27:20, we see people who had lost all hope of salvation.  Paul, bound in chains due to his appeal to Caesar, was sailing towards Italy, Rome, when the ship encountered a great storm and was in imminent danger of shipwreck.  Among the 276 people on board, all but Paul had given up hope of salvation and were resigned to facing death.  While the rest of the group awaited death without hope, Paul, among them, was filled not only with hope of salvation but also with the assurance of it.  He believed that God would save not only his own life but also the lives of all those on board.  His confidence was based on God's word (Acts 27:23-24).  Paul was certain that he would not die before God fulfilled His purpose.  He trusted that, in accordance with the faithful promise of God, he would stand before Caesar.  It was upon this faith th...

Let us not be ashamed  of the gospel.   [Romans 1:15-17]     What are you earnestly praying to God for as you write a letter of your heart to God?   My earnest prayer topic is to be used by God.   In particular, I have been praying that the Lord would use me as His tool like five loaves and two fish according to the words of John 6:1-15 when He called me during the college retreat in May 1987.   As I kept praying, ‘Lord, may You accomplish Your work of five loaves and two fishes through me,’ I became convinced that the work of five loaves and two fishes could be accomplished even through my life or my death.   So, I am not discouraged.   But I am praying, expecting, and waiting today as well.   With a heart longing to be used by the Lord in this way, I am praying more specifically to God: ‘Lord, please use me as a burning evangelist and comforter of your love.’   The reason I pray like this is because I want a heart that can...

Three Important Assurances Good morning!   May God receive glory from us this Lord’s Day and May God bless you all and your families!   Few weeks ago, during Monday afternoon zoom prayer meeting, I asked a sister in Christ 'What is your most need?'   and she said "Assurance."   So I shared 3 assurances based on Romans chapter 8: (1) Assurance of Love [(Rom.8:38-39) "For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor heights, nor depth, nor any other created things, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord"], (2) Assurance of Salvation [(Rom.8:24) "For in hope we have been saved, ..."], (3) Assurance of Victory [(Rom.8:37) "But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us"].   May God give these 3 assurances to you all! God bless!

Having assurance that God is for us (Romans 8:31), having assurance of God's salvation (vv.29-30) and assurance of God's victory (v. 37), and assurance of God's love in Christ Jesus (vv. 38-39), we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us (v. 37).

https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/sin-and-salvation   "Sin and Salvation" “Why do we need to talk about sin? We ought to just talk about the love of God.” This comment was not made by a dedicated liberal. Rather, it was made by a woman who is a member of an evangelical church and has enrolled her children in a Reformed Christian School. She does not seem to have grasped much of the character of Calvinism. Regrettably this comment is not just a strange aberration. In a recently published book, sociologist Alan Wolfe argues that this attitude is wide-spread throughout American religious groups and denominations, including evangelicals. In  The Transformation of American Religion  Wolfe states, “Talk of hell, damnation and even sin has been replaced by a nonjudgmental language of understanding and empathy.” Most American churches and synagogues today are characterized by attitudes and practices which are “joyful, emotional, personal and empathetic on the one hand, impa...

“If God is for us” (11)       [Romans 8:35-39]     Look at Romans 8:38-39: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  The Apostle Paul used the conjunction “For” (γὰρ) at the beginning of verse 38, which is a conjunction connecting the words in verses 38-39 with the words in verse 37, “But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.”  In other words, the Apostle Paul said to the Roman church saints, “I am convinced” (v. 38), because “in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us” (v. 37).  More specifically, even if we face tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword-like danger of death (v. 35), in all these things we overwhelmi...