Thoughts for another day
May 12, 2010
Today's verse: Mt. 4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
After a Praise and Worship meeting, I was chatting with a gentleman and we were speaking about various things about the Gospel. Just then I had a thought and asked him, what he knew to be the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He instantly answered, ‘Jesus came to save us and He died for us and He rose again. In this, the gates of heaven were opened to us.’ I then asked Him, is that all; to which he queried, is there anything more? Before you read ahead, if your answer were to concur with his, just reflect thinking, ‘is there anything more’.
If you’ve answered yes, you’re correct. The main content of Jesus’ Gospel spells the need to repent. Why repent? Because the kingdom of God is at hand. It came at hand because of Jesus’ coming down to earth; and unless you repent you can’t enter the kingdom. What the gentleman answered regarding the Gospel is God’s work for us. But if we want salvation unto eternal life, we need to accept. God has done everything for us; He has even given us of His kingdom on a platter, all we need to do is accept. Jesus said ‘only believe’, because Jesus knew if we didn’t believe, it’d mean we don’t accept what He did for us and thence would perish. So the Gospel is essentially a message on the need to accept and repent. Unless these two components are there in a person, the preaching is in vain.
We must trust that God’s work is for us, yes to each one personally. Jesus died and rose to guarantee the inheritance of eternal bliss to every human being on earth. As people who are preached the Gospel, we must take the initiative to heed it and change our lives in the belief that God Himself will redeem us on the day of Judgment, making true what we know ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’
May 12, 2010
Today's verse: Mt. 4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
After a Praise and Worship meeting, I was chatting with a gentleman and we were speaking about various things about the Gospel. Just then I had a thought and asked him, what he knew to be the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He instantly answered, ‘Jesus came to save us and He died for us and He rose again. In this, the gates of heaven were opened to us.’ I then asked Him, is that all; to which he queried, is there anything more? Before you read ahead, if your answer were to concur with his, just reflect thinking, ‘is there anything more’.
If you’ve answered yes, you’re correct. The main content of Jesus’ Gospel spells the need to repent. Why repent? Because the kingdom of God is at hand. It came at hand because of Jesus’ coming down to earth; and unless you repent you can’t enter the kingdom. What the gentleman answered regarding the Gospel is God’s work for us. But if we want salvation unto eternal life, we need to accept. God has done everything for us; He has even given us of His kingdom on a platter, all we need to do is accept. Jesus said ‘only believe’, because Jesus knew if we didn’t believe, it’d mean we don’t accept what He did for us and thence would perish. So the Gospel is essentially a message on the need to accept and repent. Unless these two components are there in a person, the preaching is in vain.
We must trust that God’s work is for us, yes to each one personally. Jesus died and rose to guarantee the inheritance of eternal bliss to every human being on earth. As people who are preached the Gospel, we must take the initiative to heed it and change our lives in the belief that God Himself will redeem us on the day of Judgment, making true what we know ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’
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