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~Daily Inspirational ~ "THE NEW NATURE IN THE BELIEVER" FEBRUARY 3, 2005


THE NEW NATURE IN THE BELIEVER

It has been well said that if there is anything good in any man it is because it was put there by God. And something good -- a new, sinless nature -- has been imparted by God to every believer.

While there is still within us "that which is begotten of the flesh," there is also "that which is begotten of the Spirit," and just as the one is totally depraved and "cannot please God," so the other is absolutely perfect and always pleases Him.

Adam was originally created in the image and likeness of God, but he fell into sin and later "begat a son IN HIS OWN LIKENESS, AFTER HIS IMAGE" (Gen. 5:3). It could not be otherwise. Fallen Adam could generate and beget only fallen, sinful offspring, whom even the Law could not change. But "what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, and for sin," accomplished, "that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom. 8:3,4).

As Adam was made in the likeness of God, but fell, so Christ was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, to redeem us from the fall, that by grace, through the operation of the Spirit, a new creation might be brought into being, a "new man... renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him" (Col. 3:10) a "new man, which, after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. 4:24).

Referring to this "new man," John says:

"Whosoever is born [begotten] of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him: and HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN [BEGOTTEN] OF GOD" (I John 3:9).

"WE KNOW THAT WHOSOEVER IS BORN [BEGOTTEN] OF GOD SINNETH NOT..." (I John 5:18).
By C. R. Stam

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Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH" FEBRUARY 4, 2005


"THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH"

Two Thousand Years ago a certain Man, innocent of all wrongdoing, was taken into custody by the authorities, given a trial in which He was charged of crimes He had not committed, and even when "no fault" could be found in Him, He was condemned to the cruelest death that man could invent.

Now it should not be supposed that simply because these Two Thousand Years have passed that this terrible miscarriage of justice will not be avenged in the Highest Court! Nor should it be supposed that everyone who has had a part in this travesty will escape the judgment of this Court!

You may think you know nothing, at all,about this event. But you are still guilty of His blood, and it behooves you, now, to cry unto Him, "the Judge of all the earth", for mercy and grace, in, what cannot be otherwise, your impending and eternal doom!

His name is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, who, in the greatest of love and grace, paid our debt of sin, Himself, on the Cross of Calvary.

Though He was crucified at the hands of wicked men, Jews and Gentiles are guilty of His death. But more, it was your sins, your lifestyle, that nailed Him to the Cross, so you are not innocent in this matter, but guilty as charged. Yet because He not only was innocent of all wrongdoing, but righteous in all that He did, the grave could not hold Him. Death had no claim upon Him. Consequently, by His own Almighty power He arose from the dead; and alive forever more, He is seeking for all those who had a part in His crucifixion.

Now it seems to me that the wisest thing that any man could do under such circumstances is to plead for mercy from this Court of Justice. Because this Man, whom you have crucified (your sins also nailed Him to the cross), is alive, and He is coming again to take vengeance upon all mankind.

Jesus Christ is The Judge of All the Earth!
BY RUSSELL S. MILLER

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE BELIEVER" FEBRUARY 5, 2005


"THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE BELIEVER TODAY"

Grace and faith are the characteristic features of the present dispensation. Not only is salvation now declared to be by grace, through faith, but the Spirit also operates in the believer by grace, through faith. He does not take possession of us and cause us to do what is right, but dwells within each believer (I Cor. 6:19) to provide needed guidance and the strength to withstand temptation, and we may avail ourselves of this provision by faith.

The Spirit, Who first imparted life to us will also impart strength to withstand temptation and overcome sin. In our inability to even pray as we ought, "the Spirit... helpeth our infirmities" and "maketh intercession for us" (Rom. 8:26). In our weakness we are " strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man" (Eph. 3:16) and God even stoops to "quicken [our] mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in us" (Rom. 8:11).

"THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE ARE DEBTORS, NOT TO THE FLESH, TO LIVE AFTER THE FLESH" (Ver. 12).

The implication from the above passage is that though sorely tempted we are debtors to the Spirit who dwells within and provides overcoming power.

The question, in times of temptation, is generally whether we truly desire to overcome, for we may overcome in any given case by grace, through faith. In the present dispensation it is not true that it is not possible for the believer to sin, but it is blessedly true that in any situation it is possible for him not to sin, for the Spirit is always there to help.

By C.R. Stam

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "DOES MISERY LOVE COMPANY?" FEBRUARY 6, 2005


"DOES MISERY LOVE COMPANY?"

We have all heard the statement: "Misery loves company."  It is true that when one is sick or in trouble he does not feel quite so sorry for himself when he realizes that others are as unfortunate, and perhaps more so, than he.

However, some have used this phrase:  "Misery loves company," in speaking lightly of hell.  Perhaps you have heard someone say:  "Well, if I go to hell, at least I’ll have lots of company."  This is true, but the company the lost will have when cast out of God’s presence will hardly afford them comfort.

The Bible story of the rich man and Lazarus brings this fact out with great force.  The rich man, you will remember, "fared sumptuously every day," while Lazarus "was laid at his gate, full of sores, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table."

In the process of time both died, and the rich man, having felt no need of salvation, suddenly was made to experience God’s wrath upon sin, for the sacred record says: "In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments" (Luke 16:23).  From his place of torment the rich man saw Lazarus with Abraham "afar off," but this surely afforded little comfort, while we do read that "Lazarus was comforted."  The rich man, then, still with haughty superiority, asked Abraham to send Lazarus back to earth to warn his five brothers, "lest they come into this place of torment."  He did not wish his brothers to join him in hell.  "Misery" among those cast out of God’s presence, then, does not "love company."

The story is brought to a close as Abraham refuses the rich man’s request, explaining that   if his brothers would not hear the Word of God "neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead" (Luke 16:31).

The way to avoid the lot of the rich man, then, is to believe the Word of God, particularly that part of the Word which tells how Christ died for our sins that we might be justified by grace through faith.  Don’t be deceived by the old adage: "Misery loves company."  Receive Christ as your Savior today.  "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31).

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "NOT PRUNING, BUT DEATH" FEBRUARY 7, 2005


NOT PRUNING, BUT DEATH

"For the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God" (Rom. 6:10, Wey.).

When we speak to suppress self in one area, it will express itself in another.  If we attempt to prune the branches of the old life, we find that its root has thereby been strengthened.  The one answer to this enemy, both God's and ours, is a daily crucifixion of the Cross.

"Romans Six is one of the most blessed portions of the New Testament, teaching us that 'our old man,' our old nature that is in us, was actually crucified with Him, so that now we need no longer be in bondage to sin.  But remember it is only as the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death a reality within us, that we shall know, not by force of argument or conviction, but in the reality of the power of an endless life, that we are in very deed dead to sin." -- A.M.

"Not by a stringent 'cutting off' of the exterior things, nor by seeking a mental apprehension of 'death with Christ' in the conscious life, but by a simple reckoning upon His death as yours -- shall you experience in the inner depths  of your life, servant of God, the divine spiritual reality that 'Christ in you' is in truth your very life of nature and continually 'making to die' its inclinations and habits."

"In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 6:11, Wey.).
By M. Stanford

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "NOT INFLUENCE, BUT LIFE" FEBRUARY 8, 2005



"NOT INFLUENCE, BUT LIFE"

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free" (Romans 8:22).

The more fully the Lord Jesus controls within, the less we will be influenced by externals.  The more we are affected by externals, the less freedom He will have within.

"The Lord Jesus' miracles did not have a character-changing effect upon the people who saw them or participated in them.  They were but for a testimony to who He was.  With all His miracles, in the end the principle of unbelief has not been rooted out of a single individual!  Though they saw all that He did, the deep-rooted unbelief was untouched.  The amazing thing -- even with the disciples themselves -- was that they were still capable of deep-seated unbelief.  'O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe...'  'He upbraided them with their unbelief...'  With all they saw, it did not touch character, it did not touch their nature."-- T.A-S.

"As in the apostolic days so now the desire exists for the manifestations of the Spirit in marvelous ways; But a life sober, righteous, holy, lived in the hope of the glory to come, is the more excellent way of the Spirit's manifestation and undeniable proof of His indwelling.  The prayer should not be so much for this or that gift, or this or that results, as for Christ Himself to be made manifest to us and through us. The Apostle who was most filled with the Spirit sums all up in that one great word, "For me to live is Christ,"-- W.F.E.

"It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth  in me" (Gal. 2:20)
By M.Stanford

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "Christ Is All" FEBRUARY 9, 2005


"Christ Is All"

Christ is the key to the puzzle of this world. May God give us to be anything or nothing, so that the Lord Jesus may be everything.The magnet always turns towards the pole; the needle always trembles a little when the storm and tempest roar, but its direction changes not; the needle of the Christian heart always points toward Christ.  The only thing which can be truly blessing to our brethren, so precious because they belong to Him, is that which we reproduce of Him. . . .  If He is the life, all which that life does has Him for its end and object..

Everything relates to Him: we do not eat without Him (how can we when He is our very life?), we do not drink without Him; what we say, what we do, is said and done in the name of the Lord Jesus.

The most eminent Christian is one of whom no one has ever heard speak, some poor labourer or servant, whose all is Christ, and who does all for HIS eye, and His alone. Jesus is the fountain of all blessedness, sent to poor, weak, wretched sinners, that they may have abundance of comfort, of peace and of enjoyment.

No trial can touch a person who has Christ for his all. He may have lost this or lost that; but if he has Christ he has that which he cannot lose.  It is not the quantity we do that makes spirituality, but the measure of presenting Christ: that is the value of our service, in a world where there is nothing of God.

It is not always in the correction of the failures which come before us that sources of unhappiness are heaped; they disappear when souls are nourished upon the riches which are in Christ. We must think of this; we must, while ourselves feeding upon Christ , and He gives us to feed on Him without stint , cause other to breathe a new atmosphere, where Christ is.  He has purchased a “peculiar people, zealous of good work.” He has brought you to Himself, to have your whole heart wrapped up in His interests, your thoughts, your actions, everything for Him. . . Are we living enough out of the world (not merely out of its pleasures but its cares) and enough with Christ for Him to have a large place in the daily thoughts of our hearts? . . ., Have we the consciousness from the time we get up in the morning till we go to bed at night, that our hearts are with Christ, . . .  a consciousness that He is in us, and we identified with Him?

John Nelson Darby
(1800-1888)

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "LIGHT AND SHADOW" FEBRUARY 10, 2005



"LIGHT AND SHADOW"

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now I have kept Thy  Word" (Ps. 119:67)

The head -- knowledge of Spirit -- taught study becomes the heart -- knowledge of Spirit -- led life, via Rom. 8:28 and 29.  How good it is to have a sovereign Father controlling all.

You'll find that no one learns truth easily.  He who built on the rock was not secure merely because he built on the rock; but he also digged deep.  What springs up quickly has no root.  The more you understand the nature and scope of the Word, the more will you see the demand it makes on you and how unreserved must be your subjection to it; while as you are subject to it; while as you are subject to it, you learn the blessedness and virtues of it.

The true value of anything is known only when it is wanted.  For this reason bright days must be succeeded by dark ones.  In the dreary and desolate hour to nature, we begin to know the value of the truth communicated to us in the bright day.  The learning is at one time, and the proving at another.  In fact, we ought to be prepared for the dark hour;  so that, though  it be dark, there is something so blessed, so suited, pouring its comfort and  sustenance  on our souls, that, after all, the dark and dreary hour becomes a more really festive time to the heart, because of the virtues of the truth  now made known, than the time of its reception, which was so happy and exhilarating."  -- -- J. B.S.

"That the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while...  stablish, strength, settle you" (1 Peter 5:10).

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "YOU DO NEED HIM" FEBRUARY 12, 2005


"YOU DO NEED HIM"

I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me" (John 14:6).

These are the words of the Lord Jesus. In writing about them years ago, the late Pastor J. C. O’Hair said:

"A Person is our Savior and our salvation. A Person is our Life-giver and our life. A Person is our Redeemer and redemption. A Person is our righteousness and holiness. A Person is our peace and our hope. That Person is the Lord Jesus Christ, ’the Man Christ Jesus,’ the ’one Mediator between God and men.’ By His blood we have been brought nigh to God.

"We need nothing more than Christ; nothing less will suffice or avail. To add any religion whatsoever to Christ Himself is to displease God. In Christ dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. God was in  Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. The believer is in Christ. The believer is accepted in Christ; complete in Christ; without condemnation in Christ; the righteousness of God in Christ. The believer is blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. Christ is the superlative need of the world. He is all that you need, but you do need Him. You must have Him, or be lost forever."

How wonderful to know that He offers Himself and all the merits of His redemptive work to sinners everywhere, no matter what their past. "The law entered that the offence might abound," says St. Paul, "but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound... that grace might reign" (Rom. 5:20,21). Paul himself was a living example of this truth, for he was the chief of sinners, saved by grace through faith in Christ.
By C. R. Stam

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Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "THE UNCERTAINTIES OF LIFE" FEBRUARY 13, 2005


"THE UNCERTAINTIES OF LIFE"

Are you prepared to meet the Lord? Have you trusted Christ as your Saviour? Or will you meet Him as your Judge?

September 11, 2001: The news reports that terrorists had attacked the World Trade Center, and demolished it, in New York City, and attacks on other government buildings in Washington, and elsewhere, shocked the nation and the world.

Such unbelievably horrifying news should certainly awaken America! It is our prayer that the entire world will be awakened spiritually to real faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (This could have happened to your city, your place of business, and your office!) Have you been troubled by the uncertainties of life? Death comes to all, whether in the city or quaint little towns. Death is but a breath away, a heartbeat, and we have all broken God’s Laws, ignored His righteous standards, and have gone our own way. In short, as we read in Paul’s letter to the Romans:

"FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD" (Rom.3:23). And..., "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD" (Rom.6:23).

In the midst of all of life’s uncertainties there is one constant, The Love of God. "BUT GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US, IN THAT, WHILE WE WERE YET
SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US" (Rom.5:8).

God’s great love continues to delay His judgment upon the wickedness of man’s sin (Acts 17:31). And for now, He extends, "Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom.1:2).

Individually, by faith in Christ, "WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE" (Eph.1:7). If you will simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, God will save you, and then, when this life ends, you will be forever in Heaven with the Christ of glory.

God has made the plan of salvation very simple. When the jailor at Philippi asked Paul and Silas, "What must I do to be saved?" (Acts  16:30), the Apostle Paul replied:

"BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED..." (Acts16:31).

By Russell S. Miller

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "FIVE WAYS YOU HAVE PROBLEMS?" FEBRUARY 15, 2005



"FIVE WAYS YOU HAVE PROBLEMS?"

I found this to be true to life and many situations that may be occurring now in each of your lives.  I found it helpful and I hope you, too will enjoy.

For those of you who wonder why you have problems and you say, "Why me"...There Are 5 Ways God Uses Problems.

1. God uses problems to DIRECT you. Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your attention?

2. God uses problems to INSPECT you. People are like tea bags...if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot water! Has God tested your faith with a problem? What do your problems reveal about you?

3. God uses problems to CORRECT you. Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove.  But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something...health, money, a relationship... by losing it.

4. God uses problems to PROTECT you. A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Last year a friend was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when management's actions were eventually discovered.

5.  God uses problems to PERFECT you. Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity. God uses problems to direct, inspect, correct, protect and perfect us.  No matter what you're going through, Count It All JOY, for Our God is truly an Awesome God.
Be Blessed and continue to be a Blessing!

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "THE NOBLE BEREANS" FEBRUARY 16, 2005



"THE NOBLE BEREANS"

Many Christian groups and organizations call themselves Bereans, but it is surprising how few people know what a true Berean is.

The 17th chapter of Acts relates how Paul called upon his kinsmen at Thessalonica and for three sabbath days "reasoned with them out of the Scriptures," trying to show them that Jesus was the Christ.

Steeped in their own religion, however, the majority were unwilling even to consider the truths Paul proclaimed. Indeed, they resented the fact that some did believe and, in their bigotry, "set all the city on an uproar." Finally Paul’s life was in such peril that the Christians there sent him away by night to Berea, a town about forty miles away.

At Berea Paul again sought out his "kinsmen according to the flesh" -- and what a different reception! Here is what the record says:

"THESE WERE MORE NOBLE THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA, IN THAT THEY RECEIVED THE WORD WITH ALL READINESS OF MIND, AND SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY, WHETHER THOSE THINGS WERE SO" (Acts 17:11).

These people did not immediately close their eyes to further light. On the contrary, they gave Paul an interested hearing, listening with open minds to what he had to say. But they were not gullible either for, having listened to Paul, they subjected his word to God’s Word, searching the Scriptures daily to see whether those things were so. For this God called them "noble." They were the true spiritual aristocracy of their day.

We should all be Bereans, spiritually big enough to listen with open minds to the teachings of men, and then big enough too to subject their teachings to the Word of God, the Bible, to see for ourselves whether these things are so. Our Lord said: "Search the Scriptures... for... they... testify of Me" (John 5:39). As we do this we will find eternal life -- and more -- in Christ.

By C. R. Stam

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Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "ENEMIES OF GOD AND WORSHIPERS OF SATAN" FEB. 17 2005



"ENEMIES OF GOD AND WORSHIPERS OF OF SATAN"

"...we were enemies..." (Rom. 5:10).

"...the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not..." (II Cor. 4:4).  Many religious but unsaved people will not accept the fact that they are enemies of God, and fail to understand why the Bible should insist that they are. The trouble is that, not knowing God, they have conjured up in their minds a "god" of their own, a "god" who says: "Be good and do good, and I will accept you." This "god," of course, they revere and may even worship. Certainly they are not at enmity against him.

But the God who says that they are sinners, worthy of everlasting judgment; that their only hope of salvation lies in the One who poured out His life’s blood to pay the penalty for their sins -- this God, the God of the Bible, they cannot abide. Let one of His servants tell them what He says about them and they are insulted. When this God, the true God, refuses to accept their "good" works or their "righteous" conduct they react like Cain, of whom we read: "And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell" (Gen. 4:5). They simply will not bow to this God, and their attitude betrays their enmity against Him.

But why will they not turn away from their self-righteousness and trust in Christ, who died for their sins? Simply because they worship Satan, "the god of this age," who "hath blinded the minds of those who believe not." Worship Satan? This too is hard for the unregenerate man to believe about himself. As he has his own conception of God, he also has his own conception of Satan -- a wrong one.

Unbelievers do not know that the real Satan, the Satan of the Bible, has a vast wardrobe and, in this dispensation of grace, doubtless appears most often as "an angel of light" with "ministers of righteousness" (II Cor. 11:14,15). This Satan they do indeed worship. They adore him, and try to live by his precepts, convinced that the way to salvation is to do and be good.

By C.R. Stam

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "PARDON vs. JUSTIFICATION" FEB. 18, 2005



"PARDON vs. JUSTIFICATION"

Did you read, a few years ago , about the man, named Zimmerman, who spent nearly twenty-five years in prison for a murder which, it is now clear, he never committed! The mistake was discovered two years ago, and he was released, of course, but only after spending almost a quarter of a century in prison for a crime he did not commit!

This was a grim mistake, but even at that, it must be wonderful in such a case, to be free -- and to have people actually sympathize with you! Yet, after two years of liberty, Zimmerman says he still feels a bit numb. Waking up mornings he still imagines he hears the harsh sound of the prison bell, and looking about he still thinks he sees bars on the windows.

Things could be worse, though: Suppose he were guilty of the crime, merely pardoned and released. Then everyone would be saying: "There goes that murderer. They pardoned him. Don’t get too friendly with him." The stigma would always remain - as long as he lived.

Let us thank God that believers in Christ are not merely pardoned.  Rom. 3:24 declares that we are "justified freely by [God’s] grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."

Christ died for our sins and satisfied the just claims of the Law, and more: through the Holy Spirit He revolutionizes our lives and makes new creations out of us, for "If any man be in Christ," says II Cor. 5:17, "he is a new creation." "For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph. 2:8-10).

By C. R. Stam

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~Daily Inspirational ~ "THE LAW AND THE WRATH OF GOD" FEB. 19, 2005


THE LAW AND THE WRATH OF GOD

Romans 4:15 clearly states that "the law worketh wrath," but so many people, it seems, do not wish to see this. Even some clergymen tell us that God gave the Law to help us to be good, when God Himself says the very opposite; that it was given to show us that we are bad and need a Savior. "The law worketh wrath." Every criminal knows this and every sinner should know it, for the Bible has much to say on the subject. Rom. 3:19,20 declares that the Law was given "that every mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be brought in guilty before God," and this passage goes on to say: "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

II Cor. 3:7,9 calls the Law "the ministration of condemnation" and "the ministration of death." Gal. 3:10 says that those who are "of the works of the law," i.e., who seek to make themselves acceptable to God by keeping the Law, "are under a curse," because the Law can only condemn them.

Those who approach God, expecting eternal life in return for "good works" are offering Him their terms -- which He will never accept. God will not sell justification to those already under condemnation for sin. But He does offer sinners complete justification by grace because: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written; cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Gal. 3:13).

Thank God, those who trust in Christ,"having redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7), "being justified, freely by His [God’s] grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24).

By C. R. Stam

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