Our Healing
Jesus wounds became your healing.
How wonderful the CROSS!
1 Peter 2: 24 He(Jesus) used his servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became your healing. 25 You were lost sheep with no idea who you were or where you were going. Now you’re named and kept for good by the Shepherd of your souls.
God sent Jesus to the Earth to show us who we’re supposed to be.
* He showed us how we are supposed to live, but more importantly
* Jesus came to Earth to take away the last remaining element that separated us from God. OUR SIN, and the inability for us to see past it is the one thing holding us back from Him, and from spending our lives with Him.
* Jesus took away all our excuses and gave us the ability to LIVE WITH GOD!!!
*When we lessen the seriousness of sin…we lower the value of God. Don’t look at Jesus to advance you. Look to Jesus to save you.
Romans 1: 5 Through him we received both the generous gift of his life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by entering into obedient trust in Jesus. 6 You are who you are through this gift and call of Jesus Christ!
What are you willing to suffer in order to fulfill the purpose on you. Remember you WILL OUTLIVE your misery!
We must learn not to occupy our minds with that which grasps onto us.
* Faith assures us that a thing is done. *Patience enables us to calmly wait for it to manifest.
* Faith removes the doubt, patience keeps it from coming back.
Jesus died to atone for our sins..He died so that we might die to sin..His death on the cross enables us to live the kind of life that glorifies Him..
Hebrews 5: 8 Though he was God’s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do.
Romans 5:8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
Job 33:28 God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’ 29 “Yes, God does these things again and again for people. 30 He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life.
1 Peter 3:18 That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all-was put to death and then made alive-to bring us to God.
1. Christ sets me free from my past sin-guilt.
2. Whats the secret of worry free living.
3. Christ sets me free from living without purpose today.
4. Christ sets me free from having to earn my way into heaven.
A good conscience is not dependent upon what we do or don’t do, but upon what Jesus did for us on the CROSS.
God was at work through the cross of Christ, demonstrating His love to a sinful world, acting to save sinners like you and me!
First we must seek to comprehend
God’s amazing Love for us. Only then
will we be able to fulfill His greatest
commandment:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…”Matthew 22:37
*The degree to which you perceive that you are forgiven, is the degree to which you will love God.
Do not settle for the gospel of salvation only.
Jesus came that we might experience the gospel of the Kingdom in its fullest sense. Our job is to look past our logical reasoning and see how God might want to solve our problem in a supernatural way.
“Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” – 1 Corinthians 15:58
When the apostle Paul tells us to fully work unto the Lord, he does not mean we must be working as missionaries in “full-time Christian effort.” He understands that ALL of life is holy and sacred to God.
*If our motive is to serve God where we ARE, then our labor “in the Lord is not in vain.”
As you begin your work today, ask God if you are working with the primary motive of reflecting His life and character through your work on this day.
Let nothing move you from this motive being central to your activity. The Lord will reflect His power and leading in and through your life when this becomes your primary motive.
Live freely, motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness.
These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day.
Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence? Galations 5:16-18
*The highest revelation of Christianity is Christ in you, living out His love in you.
Lord, Teach us to live in the ways of the Holy Spirit that we may overcome the trappings of the flesh each day. Father, thank you for bringing your great love into my life. Your love is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit and it drives me today to put in everything and do all that is required for the message of the Gospel to reach out to the ends of the earth, in Jesus’ name. Amen!