MY FRIENDS, GOD HAS A PLAN TO SAVE US, DO WE HAVE A PLAN TO BE SAVED?

July 14, 2015

MY FRIENDS, GOD HAS A PLAN TO SAVE US, DO WE HAVE A PLAN TO BE SAVED?

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. Gen. 22:8 (KJV) The ram offered in Isaac’s place represented Christ, who was to be sacrificed in our stead.

When man was doomed to death because of his transgressions of God’s law, the heavenly Father, looking upon His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, said to the sinner, “Live! I have found a ransom” (H.M.S. Richards, Walking through the Bible”)

Webster defines ransom as, “the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, for a price.” My friends the plan of redemption that was established for our salvation from the foundation of the world is so amazing.

In addition, God’s plan is the reason why planning is so crucial in our life. God didn’t create Lucifer as a bad seed with the intent that one day he would say in his heart “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God;….

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” Is. 14:13-15 (NKJV) But when man was created a plan had been established, if for some reason, God’s law of love was not adequate enough to make man happy.

But God’s plan was established so that we would see that His law is all we need to be truly happy in spite of what Satan tells us. And there would be only one name by which we must go through to make that happen.

“Live! My friends, for “Our Father which art in heaven” “found a ransom” and it was “His only Begotten Son”  “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 (NKJV)

So today, let’s ask ourselves the question, what is our plan? Have we looked at our lives and decided how our plan relates in any way to God’s plan to save us? My friends the ransom has been paid, “God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.” 2 Cor. 5:21 (KJV)

So as I see it and hope you see the same thing and that is, if we have faith and endure, we will only have to make sure our plan coincides with God’s plan. And the only way that can happen, is to allow self to die daily as we allow God’s Spirit to transform our lives into the Character of Christ.

And I can’t say this enough, there must be a passion within us to make that happen, as we say daily, Lord, “not my will but thou will be done” My friends, nothing on this earth is savable except what God created in His own image, we are what Christ died for.

God did not sacrifice His only Son for our, cars, houses, jobs, education, TV programs, the internet, food and the list goes on and on of things that has us bound to the point where the things of this world has become more important than our Salvation and telling others of a “risen Savior” that saves.

But my friends, it is all dung. “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,” Phil 3:8 (KJV)

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY