That’s faith: Abraham is all alone, he has nothing, he is nothing, but dust, he is like naked BEFORE God, His Creator, like an open book before God, here he is standing before the greatness of God counting in that beautiful night the stars, and release that this it will be your followers… Abraham understands that HE IS NOTHING AND that God is EVERYTHING, HE IS SO GREAT!!! and he is overwhelmed by his nothingness, by his smallness,…
And, if you allow me to, let me ask you, When you come before Cross? What do you think? IT’S ALL God’s LOVE AND MERCY…it is all about God…this has nothing to do with men, nothing about the men, no merits, no worthy works, but a sinful and hateful of God nature…
When He died, when Jesus Christ died want to ask you, was there a choir organized to sing? No…not at all…because it is all about God…and His love… It was all God, when Jesus died on the cross, everyone betrayed HIM, only God was there for Jesus. And my job as a future pastor is to bring people to that moment, to understand the love and the mission and the character of Jesus Christ, and to release the profound experience that Abraham had…
Is either through yourself and your “good works”, or all of God, what do we choose?
If you want to do it by works, then God said, ok, then this is your problem, but I am just telling you that this is impossible...
There are some today, in Theology, who even think this way: “Getting in” , being saved, is by Grace, ONLY, but you stay in by works, and finally you are saved by Grace plus your own works, this is called the “Covenant Nomism”,
Our job, as pastors, is to escape this model…and to make people release how is and how does it work, …the true model of Christ.
Because , if you go following this model, there is no faith…
This is an illusion,…this never works.
Bargaining: ” Small from me,lots of you ” ?
Instead of bargaining with God, he must just say : ”thank you God”, because after all the faith is all FROM GOD…!! it is a free gift, from Him…”HAVE MERCY ON ME, IF IT IS GOING for me,TO BE SAVED IS ALL FROM YOU ”.
I have done nothing, I am nothing, YOU ARE ALL…”
Did you ever think seriously about …The Zeroness of your sinful heart ?
and the other way of the coin, the greatness of His Love ?
Justification means that the sins are forgiven…
You are happy after you were forgiven…
David says:” Restore unto me The Joy of Thy Salvation…”
Is there possible for us to became some sort of , spiritual thinking, “Works-aholics”?
…we the Seventh-day Adventist believers ?
When through the Spirit of Christ You understand the profound sinfulness of yourself…and the gift HE HAS OFFERED TO YOU…
That man is happy because he understands the futility of his mind, the ugliness of the sin and of his own selfishness, and the deepest state of his own sinfulness, and so when he comes to God and God makes him righteous, he asks himself in humbleness, “a person like me, could even be considered righteous?” it is too much for me God, this is too much for me…
He is amazed…This is the Amazing grace… !!!
And then YOU COME TO EN END where you ask yourself, “how can God consider me? a righteous man?”…
Grace in our hearts and minds actually creates this profound sense of nothingness, the sense of sinfulness in us…
But they felt, The Jews, of the Old Testament and even in the time of Jesus, they were thinking that they had some kind of special privilege, they felt they were the most special, and that that have the right to some kind of special treatment, they had an illusion of acceptance before God…
Most people nowadays even Christians, in churches, they all think that they are ok,!!! and never comes to their knees and seek Jesus with all their heart, mind and body… But in Christ, we have forgiveness…
But…Coming to Christ is the ONLY WAY…TO SALVATION.
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