Thursday, July 05, 2007

• Some thoughts that God has given through sermons, friends or experience...

  -God is very merciful and gracious and His salvation is free without us having to pay for it by works. We don't serve or do works for the Lord "to be" forgiven or saved, we serve the Lord because we "are" forgiven and saved.

  -True worship is to agree with and repeat back to God (and others) every glorious truth He says about Himself and His Son and every humbling truth about ourselves and our sinful condition.

  -Only God is Good (Mat19:17). Did my goodness get me saved?. No. It was the goodness of God that lead me to repentance ( Rom 2:4).

  -Those who trust in their own "good works" for salvation believe that God owes them something. They think that their salvation is dependant upon their works and they do not want God's grace. They see God as debtor and not as a merciful Savior. They may use God's name and do works but He does not know them (Mat 7:21-23).

  Some quotes I like....

  "You don't come to Christ through doctrine. You come to your doctrine through Christ." (From Henry Mahan. a Pastor I like.)

  “God empties those whom He delights to fill”

  Some more thoughts....

  -Many know God as the creator and call Him God but few know Him as Savior. Many know about the works of God but believers also know the ways of God.

  -The gospel is not about what man does for God but what God has done by the Lord Jesus Christ in glorify Himself in saving His people.

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