MY FRIENDS, ARE THE WAGES OF SIN ALL WE SHOULD BE SAVED FROM?

April 7, 2016

MY FRIENDS, ARE THE WAGES OF SIN ALL WE SHOULD BE SAVED FROM?

There is a reason for each season of our life and sometimes at night during our season we may “cry, more then we pray,” but our God is still in control so thank God for where we are on this Journey He has placed us on and the direction He is leading His children as He calls His faithful to the point of unrestricted dependence on Him, which means anything else is detrimental to our salvation.

My friends, we must not forget it was Christ who came into this world to save us from the penalty of Sin. So now we must ask ourselves, are we willing to let Christ save us not only from sin, but also from self? Remember, “the wages of sin is death” Rom. 6:23 (KJV) but what about the wages of “self-will, self-pleasing and self-determination” to live our life on our own terms, or which “seemeth right” to us and not to God.

In addition, our life must be all about God’s will for us, and not our will for God. Martyr John Huss: “When he had been fastened to the stake, and all was ready for the fire to be lighted, the martyr was once more exhorted to save himself by renouncing his errors. “What errors,” said Huss, “shall I renounce?

I know myself guilty of none. I call God to witness that all that I have written and preached has been with the view of rescuing souls from sin and perdition; and, therefore, most joyfully will I confirm with my blood that truth which I have written and preached. ” When the flames kindled about him, he began to sing, “Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me,” and so he continued till his voice was silenced forever. (E.G. White, The Great Controversy)

Self was already dead in John Huss, so it was impossible to kill a dead man a second time.  Christ tells us not to “fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” Matt. 10:28 (NKJV) Paul also tells us, “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on in-corruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”1 Cor. 15:51-53 (NKJV)

My friends, it has now becomes personal as we look from within at what we think our personal relationship with Christ will be like before He comes, because at Christ appearing we go from corruptible to incorruption and from mortal to immortality which tells us everything will change but our Character because at His appearing we would have already been “crucified with Christ: [and it is no longer self who lives]..but Christ living in [you and I]: and the life which [we once] lived in the flesh [we now] live by faith in the Son of God, who loved [each of us], and gave himself for [our salvation].” Gal 2:20 (KJV paraphrased)

So as Children of God and heirs to His kingdom and joint heirs with His Son, we can say with no reservation if we have faith and endure, as “children of God; it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” 1 John 3:2 (NKJV) and each day my friends, we must cry out, Holy Spirit please transform my character to be “like Him”

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.