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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Let me start by saying that eternal life was God’s plan for mankind from the very start there in the Garden of Eden. The Lord had provided everything that was needed for a full, satisfying life. There was only one codicil; disobedience to God’s word would result in death! {Gen.2:16-16}

Of course, as we know, that disobedience was exactly what happened. God then drove Adam and the woman, Eve, out of the Garden, they were separated from God. And that is the true definition of death! But it was not the end of the story!

The apostle Paul would write that the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. {Rom.6:23} Once again it comes down to the choices we make. That became beautifully clear when the Lord proclaimed that He had set before us life and death and instructed us to choose life. {Dt.30:19} He has made a way. It is called salvation! That also comes with a condition—blood had to be shed!

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.” {Lev.17:11} And yes, God has provided it.

The Father's love is the reason for salvation, however nothing we have ever done or could do would be able to accomplish that for ourselves. It would take the blood of an unblemished, sinless Lamb—the cross of Jesus was the means of salvation. There is nothing more important than that great truth.

That hill of Calvary is the first place that the world declared Him to be the King of the Jews! {Jn.19:19} That is surely why the apostle Paul would choose to say that he had 'determined to know nothing among us but Christ and Him crucified.' {1Cor.2:2} So when the Lord said from the cross, 'It is finished', indeed all things had been accomplished to fulfill the Scriptures. {Jn.19:28,30}

The only thing that is left for us to do is to accept that most glorious free gift from God—to believe with our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father! {Rom.10:9-10} To accept and to live it! Of course, the Word says that we are to have the mind of Christ, be imitators of Him and to take up our cross and follow Him {Mat.10:38} confirming His love and being witnesses to all the world.

“We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ... Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” (1 John 3:16, 4:11)
 
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