Tag: eternal life

Jesus, We Look to You!

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Not on this world, Lord,
May our eyes rest,
But on Your Son,
In Whom, we are truly blessed.

Saved, redeemed,
Loved, and set free,
Because holy blood
Was shed on Calvary.

He, lifted up,
Now, new life we live,
All our sins, vanquished,
‘Cause He now, forgives.

In the Sea, they’re forgotten,
With pierced hands He throws,
No longer to remember,
Or cause our hearts woes.

Why would we look
To the heart of another,
When Jesus is better,
Than father, mother, lover.

Dear eyes, follow the heart,
To Him, let them be raised,
In adoration to the One,
In Whom, we are saved.

“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” John 12:32

“ He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” Micah 7:19

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The Confidence of the Cross

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“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

I hope this great truth never escapes our attention or is put on the back burner of familiarity, dimming the bold message coming from it: for us to gain life, Jesus had to lose His.

But life is now the promise of today and all days, and that day that is to come because of the precious gift our Lord secured for us.

His love for you and me would not settle with allowing brokenness, sin, and destruction to continue to litter the pathway for our existence here on this earth.  No, when He laid down life it was to regain life – when He gave up everything, it was that we may gain even more.

Imagine a love that is so on fire for you that He will go to extreme measures so that you will get to heaven, so that you will get to be with the Father.  He already knew what this was like, and nothing would stop His pursuit to make a way for you and me to experience it too.

Life is the confidence of the cross.  The enemy’s purpose is to destroy life, but Jesus’ purpose is to give everything heaven has to offer, everything the enemy is working so hard to prohibit: LIFE.

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:” John 11:25

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” John 1:4

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 1 John 5:12

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“Our Upward Focus”

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“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” 1 Timothy 6:12

Fighting the good fight of faith is not about putting your dukes up.  It is all about putting your faith up.  It is more about taking a stand than taking a punch.  It’s ordering one’s life and steps according to the will of God for our lives (Psalms 119:133).  It is running the race of this Christian life and competing in this spiritual contest, pushing toward the finish line with every ounce of effort one possesses because there is a wonderful goal up ahead.

While we are pushing forth in the defense and protection and adherence of what we believe, we are doing it with the intent of laying hold of a prize.  Our prize is “eternal life” that we are living for.  At the end of any contest or struggle, there is something wonderful in our view, something magnificent that we are looking forward to.  Our stand through all we are facing today is in light of the victory we are promised to gain at the end, which is “eternal life.”

Heaven belongs to the believers!  Get that in your spirit today.  Life eternal is the ultimate prize for the one who refuses to give in or give up; to the one who does not get entangled by the things of this world others are chasing after (compare 2 Timothy 2:4).  That’s why Jesus taught, “Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life…” (John 6:27).  We have something better than money; we have something better than the materialistic things and social status’ to lay hold of down here.

Our purpose in being “called” and of having this “profession” of faith is to pursue the things of God.  To be God-focused and heaven-focused, not world-focused and getting caught up in the things we presently see.  It is pushing past every contention here while keeping an upward focus for our future.

(Revised excerpt taken from my previously published article Pursuing the Good Fight of Faith Sunday School Lesson)

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Nobody wants to believe the worst . . .

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of any situation.  Think in terms of dangerous weather phenomena.  The warnings go out.  Sirens blast.  News reports are issued.  Every opportunity presented has been used to let the populace know that something serious is about to happen, and people need to get out of the way and avoid it by any means necessary.

Alas, the hope that this or that will not come to pass can almost keep one in a state of denial, refusing the facts, refusing the evidence presented before them, refusing the warnings. This analogy can give us a peek into how this can affect us physically. But what about when spiritual warnings go unheeded?

Reading in the book of Jeremiah this morning, around the 27-29th chapters, and we see where God used Jeremiah as his mouthpiece.  There was impending devastation headed the people’s way.  Because of their sin and rebellion against God, God was sending His people into captivity, and the people didn’t want to believe it.  They didn’t want to believe that the worst thing possible was about to come upon them, and they simply refused that there would be judgment by the hand of God for all their wrongs.

False prophets even went so far as to come up with fanciful ideas to combat the true word of God, convincing the people they would not be in captivity for the prescribed seventy years, as Jeremiah had predicted.

If you read your Bible history, you will see that everything played out according to His holy word; nothing failed of all that He said He would bring to pass.

If I may, there is an even more dangerous situation than this.  Warnings have been blared, and people have been urged to take shelter in Jesus Christ.  Why?  Because eternity is real, and where we spend eternity is real.

The Bible tells us God is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).  I have said this before, and I’ll say it again: God is your biggest advocate.  He wants you in heaven more than anybody else you could ever think of.  He wants to see you in glory.  He wants to bless you with all the spiritual riches laid up for you in eternity. God wants us where He is that He might enjoy that long-awaited, uninterrupted fellowship He has been desiring.

Although God has been patient with us, tomorrow is never promised.  If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior today, I urge you to take shelter in Him, for there is a far greater and more dangerous storm coming.  It speaks of eternal devastation in hell.  Hell is real, and Jesus spoke of it often (see Matthew 10:28; 13:42; 25:41 and Luke 16:24, just to name a few).

The false prophets of Jeremiah’s day tried to speak against the reality of God’s word coming to pass.  It didn’t work then, and it won’t work today.  They tried to talk people out of where God designed them to be in that season of their life.  Where God wants us to be in the season of eternity is in heaven with Him.  Don’t let anybody talk you out of it.  Heed the warnings.  Listen to the spiritual sirens.  Find shelter in Jesus Christ today.  Let your eternal future be found in Him.

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