Post by Eli Brayley on Apr 20, 2009 14:35:53 GMT -7
"'But may I lay hold on Christ,' asks someone, 'and trust Him thus?' You had better ask me whether you may refuse to do so, and I will answer you in His own words, 'He that believes not shall be damned.' Now, if Christ pronounces condemnation upon the man who believes not, it is clear that you may believe in Him!"
~ Charles Spurgeon
God's religion never leads us to trust in ourselves, but to trust in Jesus Christ. I know many who find it hard to believe that simple, child like faith in Jesus is enough to make them clean and right with God. Man's religion has done so much evil in training people to think that they, by their own hard work and religious service, may attempt to earn God's favor, erase their own sins, and find peace with the Judge of the Universe. Every false religion is based on this erroneous thinking. Thank God for the Bible! Only God's religion (as He has clearly written in the Scriptures) can correct this problem. Since the Savior himself said that failure to believe in Jesus leaves the sinner in his sins and on his way to Hell, there is therefore no other hope for salvation than to believe and trust in Christ. Every sinner, no matter how weak or powerful, no matter how vile or moral, not only may believe in Jesus, but must believe in Jesus! "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
~ Kirk
~ Charles Spurgeon
God's religion never leads us to trust in ourselves, but to trust in Jesus Christ. I know many who find it hard to believe that simple, child like faith in Jesus is enough to make them clean and right with God. Man's religion has done so much evil in training people to think that they, by their own hard work and religious service, may attempt to earn God's favor, erase their own sins, and find peace with the Judge of the Universe. Every false religion is based on this erroneous thinking. Thank God for the Bible! Only God's religion (as He has clearly written in the Scriptures) can correct this problem. Since the Savior himself said that failure to believe in Jesus leaves the sinner in his sins and on his way to Hell, there is therefore no other hope for salvation than to believe and trust in Christ. Every sinner, no matter how weak or powerful, no matter how vile or moral, not only may believe in Jesus, but must believe in Jesus! "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
~ Kirk