FOR ONCE IT CAN BE ALL ABOUT ME!!!

April 19, 2014

FOR ONCE IT CAN BE ALL ABOUT ME!!

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. Heb. 12:2-3 (NKJV)

Today our Savior rested, and tomorrow He rose. Yesterday He was “despised and rejected of men;…..and we esteemed him not…..He bore our griefs, and carried our sorrows:…..He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Is.53:3-7 (KJV)

THE PASSION OF CHRIST what does that mean for mankind. But today I want you to focus on what it all means for the Salvation of a child of God, as we make it personal. Let’s wrap our thoughts around the fact that if it was only you and I that was lost?

Nothing would have changed, He would have still left His pure and holy kingdom just for you and I. The beatings, the scourging, the humiliation, the same rabble would have spit in the face, and slapped, and beat and dragged, and tortured, He who was without sin.

The same spear, crown of thorns, and the nailing of his outstretched feet and hands on that cruel cross would have done the exact same damage for just you and I, as it did for all. “if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” Matt. 18:12 (KJV)

Now that we have made it personal, and this is the one time you can allow self to take control as you realize it was done all for just you my friends. John says it best in John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” So the plan of Salvation did not have a starting or a cut off point for souls. The plan say’s whoever believes?

And Matt. 24:13 also tells us “he who endures to the end shall be saved. So that lets me know even though it is a free gift. Faith and endurance are also a key to us obtaining life eternal. There is also a lot of work to be done now that we have made it personnel.

For you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Acts 1:8 (NKJV) that verse did not say the church will receive, or a group will receive, or a little child, it said you and I my friends.

And through Christ, we whose heart is fixed to serve God will always find the opportunity to be a witness for Him, because the more we can focus on the character and love of Christ the more we come to realize what was done for each of us. And so we must follow Him all the way to Calvary by being A humble servant to others.

And one day soon a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, (will stand) before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; alltogether on one accord, in adoration, throughout the heavenly courts, we will all give God the praise, glory and honor, for we will forever recognize, without Satan telling us otherwise, the Love grace and mercy employed in the salvation of mankind on this earth that were ready to parish, until God sent His only Begotten Son, to die for us.

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