Another Musick-al note: # 39
My recent ‘notes’ have been on the greatness of God ending with the greatness of His love toward mankind and His hatred of the sin that separates us from Him. God loved us to the extent of giving His Son, Jesus to die on the cross to pay the penalty of all sin (Ezekiel 18:4, Romans 6:23). What should our response be? It should cause us to love Him because His gift of grace accomplished what no person can do for himself. All have sinned (Romans 3:23) with the awful penalty of death (Ezekiel 18:4) but God accepted Jesus’ death in lieu of every person’s death (Hebrews 2:9). Do you love Him? Yes! Then listen to Him and follow Him (John 14:15, 21-24). We should live a more holy life and strive to present ourselves as followers of this God of love (Hebrews 5:9, 1 John 3:1-3, 4:13-21, Titus 2:11-14). Declaring our faith before men (Matthew 10:32), we will repent (turn from) of our sins, bury that old life of sin in baptism (Romans 63-4, Acts 22:16) to become a child of God (Galatians 3:26-27) and live as Children of God in the new life in Christ (Romans 6:1-11). Our worship should be an expression of great joy and happiness with more awe and respect for Him. We should want to know more about Him, so we study the Bible for His directives in life and pay attention to all that He and his apostles have said to increase our faith (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:3, Romans 10:17). We should have a great zeal for doing His work to spread the Good News, the Gospel of Christ. Because of His love, He saved us. Our sins separated us from God (Isaiah 59:1-2) but Jesus death made it possible to be near. He died for all men, was raised to sit at God’s right hand, offering salvation to all who obey Him (Hebrews 5:9). Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:7 that we have this treasure (the Gospel) and through it God is reconciling the world to Himself through Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14-21). Followers of Christ want all their family, friends, acquaintances and everyone else to give heed to such a loving God and obey His will to be saved for an eternity with God. Gordon Musick
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