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Each week a new verse-by-verse Bible study podcast given in expository style. Join us and see the Bible come alive as we study the truths that God‘s Word has for us.
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Friday Feb 27, 2015
Friday Feb 27, 2015
Are you a born again, regenerated, adopted child of God?
Romans 8:9
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
KJV
That is the real test. Paul states very clearly if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. The true mark of a born again believer and a genuine Christian is that he is indwelt by the Spirit of God. A believer is a new creation. Paul is telling us that if you are truly saved you will answer yes to these questions. Do you love God? Do you want to serve Him? Are these things uppermost in your mind and heart?
If you are a true believer then you will have the indwelling Spirit of God empowering you to want the things of God. A believer has been granted a new law which liberates him from sin. He has been granted a new Lord who is none other than the third Person of the Triune Godhead.
It is a basic truth of the gospel that a person must be born again before he can be viewed as a child of God.
John 1:11-13
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
KJV
Paul tells us that it is the Holy Spirit that places the believer as an adult son, with all of the privileges of an adult son, into the family of God.
Romans 8:14
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
KJV
One evidence of the believer’s sonship in the divine family of God is the cooperation of the believer with the guiding and leading ministry of the Spirit of God. Those that are led by God’s Spirit are the sons of God. The phrase, sons of God, appears in the New Testament as a name for people who are in a covenant relationship with God. The process is described as one of adoption, by which the believer becomes a child of God, and thus an heir of God, a joint-heir with Christ. Listen to this podcast to learn what it means to know that you are a child of God.
Friday Nov 28, 2014
Friday Nov 28, 2014
Each day that I live I am grateful for the gift of God and the grace of God. It is by the gift of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, that I can have eternal life in Heaven, and it is the grace of God that makes it all possible.
Nothing can stand in the way of God’s grace. It is absolutely sovereign. Eternal life through Jesus Christ is assured. God’s abundant grace will reign through the righteousness of Jesus Christ, for all who believe on Him, unto everlasting life. That is our security as a believer. It was God’s gift and God’s grace that allowed us to have salvation, and nothing can stand in the way of God’s grace. Absolutely nothing. We are secure in God’s grace.
This whole concept of sin and death, and of God’s gift and grace, is so amazing that it is hard to believe. Yet, it is also so simple and direct that it truly brings out the divine nature of God, His omniscience and omnipotence, and most of all His love for each of us. His desire that none should perish but that all should have everlasting life is one of the great promises of the Bible. I know that God loves me because the Bible has told me so.
On this week of thanksgiving, I praise God that:
John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
KJV
Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
We live in a society where everything changes, where nothing is permanent. A majority of people in our state can define marriage as being between one man and one woman, and yet a set of activist judges, with no regard for the constitution of the U.S., can overrule the will of the people.
We can live in this nation for hundreds of years with clearly defined morals about what is right and wrong based on the absolute truths established by God, and then suddenly anything that God says must be disregarded. Where man is involved, everything changes, nothing is secure.
So it is easy to understand why people have a hard time accepting God’s gift of salvation as permanent. Surely there must be things that we can do to take that salvation away, or perhaps God will change His mind as He looks at the depravity of man in our current world.
This is the way man acts, right? Our love towards others is generally dictated by how that other person treats us. It is easy to love someone who loves us back. It is much harder to love someone who intentionally harms us. So this is man’s concept of love, do unto others as they have done unto me.
However, God’s concept of love is very different from ours. In our lesson today, Paul will tell us that God loves even the ungodly. He loves us even if we have rejected Him. He loves us even if we have done things that He has established as evil and wrong. God loves us in spite of what we do, say, or even if we do not love Him back. Paul will go on to say that it is because God’s love for us does not change that our salvation, once accepted, is unchangeable. Once we have become a reborn, sanctified, justified, and adopted child of God, we cannot be unborn, nor can our adoption to the family of God be revoked. Once we are in the hand of our Lord, nothing can remove us. Our salvation is secure, because God’s love for us is secure.
It is the love of God that guarantees our eternal security. That same love that planned our redemption at the foundation of the universe, that sent His own beloved Son to die on a cross, will be the same love that will fling wide open the gates of glory to welcome us home.