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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 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
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There was a man named Nicodemus, a Pharisee, a religious (very religious) ruler of the Jews who came to Jesus one night to question Him. Jesus spoke with him and said you cannot see the kingdom of God unless you are born again, born of the Spirit. {Jn.3:1-7} That is indeed an enduring truth; all who would come to Jesus and receive the gift of eternal life must be born again!
 
When the Lord—who is the Word of God made flesh {Jn.1:14}—was speaking to His disciples on the Mount of Olives about the last days and the coming end of all things, He said: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.” {Matt.24:35}

What He spoke to Nicodemus so long ago is as true today as it was back then. Peter certainly brought us a great and mighty truth in today's Scripture verse: It is a living and enduring word! No work of man, nothing that we do, can make us right with God. Just as Paul wrote, we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God {Rom.3:23} and long ago the Lord spoke though the prophet Isaiah and said that all of our righteous deeds are as 'filthy rags'. {Is.64:6}

In Psalm 49:7-8 it is made clear that we cannot redeem ourselves or anybody else because 'the redemption of his soul is costly’. How costly? It took the death and shed blood of the only sinless man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God to pay the price on the cross to redeem you and I, and all who will receive that free gift! Going to church a lot, tithing a lot, feeding the poor and hungry, clothing the naked...any other good thing that you or I might do—good things that we should do—but are not anything that will redeem us from the stain of sin. It is ONLY the mercy and the great love of God the Father and His gift of kindness toward us in Jesus Christ that has made it possible for us to have eternal life.

So now it should be absolutely clear to us why when the disciples asked Jesus what they should do to do the work of God, He responded, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” {Jn.6:29} Jesus is the door to the kingdom {Jn.10:9} and our faith is the key that unlocks it for us to enter.
 
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
 
THE LORD HAS GIVEN US THE PLAN FOR A FUTURE AND A HOPE