7/03/2010 03:00:00 AM
Jeffrey K Radt ("JRed")
Saw this from Ray Gano's ministry today...
He's exactly right. That's why I've often said that "getting saved" is not the finish line -- it's merely the starting gun.
In fact, this is an issue that the Holy Spirit has been bringing up over and over and over again in my life lately. When I'm not being convicted about something in my own life, then I'm being motivated to share the truth that might lead to conviction in someone else's life.
At the end of the day, here's a couple of verses that should convict all of us...
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"In today's world salvation is taught, but sanctification is not. Because of that, people stop at the cross and then use grace as a license to sin. What is forgotten is that it does not end with the cross, that is where everything begins. What we need to realize is that a very high price was paid so that we may be seen 'spotless' before our Father God. That sacrifice was Christ being scourged, mocked, tortured and then crucified."
He's exactly right. That's why I've often said that "getting saved" is not the finish line -- it's merely the starting gun.
In fact, this is an issue that the Holy Spirit has been bringing up over and over and over again in my life lately. When I'm not being convicted about something in my own life, then I'm being motivated to share the truth that might lead to conviction in someone else's life.
At the end of the day, here's a couple of verses that should convict all of us...
Romans 12:1-2 (KJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Here are others JRed, thinking along the same lines today after listening to a Hilton Sutton message
Colossians 2:9
9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
Colossians 2:15 (New International Version)
15And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Titus 2:11-14 (New International Version)
11For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. 12It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
He nailed this sinful body to the cross, so our present body is obsolete
and we are waiting for the new glorified body to take our born again spirit we recieved when we became saved,( an upgrade)
what a new perspective, WOW
(now I don't feel so bad that I had too many sunburns as a teenager)
and because we have this new spirit we can overcome the flesh because our spirit has been upgraded, even though its in an old outdated body
like putting a SIM card in a new IPhone-)
Deborah
Deborah, I love verse 11 and 12 which tell us that the grace of God teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions". It is all a work of God's grace. Thanks for posting this!
Ray Gano said: That sacrifice was Christ being scourged, mocked, tortured and then crucified.
I respectfully disagree with that statement.
The sacrifice was that Jesus became sin for us satisfying God's holy and just requirement. The Father turned His face from His sin-laden Son - that was the horror of what our Lord did not want to face when He asked for another way in the garden.
We can only be redeemed by believing and accepting that that was what satisfied the Father - certainly nothing man could ever accomplish or remotely comprehend.
The sacrifice was far more than the physical torment our Lord went through - though I certainly am not minimizing it.
Thank You Lord Jesus.
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