The Wonder Cure
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Most of us remember the drugstore
product which swept the country like wildfire years ago and netted one man more
than $3,000,000.00 in one year. It was called Hadacol. Whatever was wrong with
you, Hadacol could cure it! Radio commercials and newspaper advertisements
acclaimed its healing powers. Some small drugstores displayed signs over their
doors reading, “MAIN ENTRANCE FOR HADACOL.”
One humorous story was told at
that time about a woman who was supposed to have testified over the radio:
“Before I began taking Hadacol I couldn’t read nor write; now I’m teaching high
school!”
Some people seem to think that
Christianity is like Hadacol was supposed to be. In fact, some evangelists give
the erroneous impression that if one accepts Christ everything will suddenly go
right. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Christian life is a battle,
and we cannot win this battle without much diligent, earnest Bible study and
prayer. In fact, it is this battle that makes the Christian life rewarding.
Formerly we were “taken captive by [the devil] at his will” (II Tim. 2:26), but
now God provides us with complete armor, including “the sword of the Spirit”
and “the shield of faith” (Eph. 6:16,17), and says, “Stand fast.” Indeed, James
4:7 says: “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
God has enlisted every true
believer in His “armed forces,” as it were, and He encourages us each one to be
“a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (II Tim. 2:3). Indeed, He expects this of each
corporate assembly of believers as well, for Paul, by divine inspiration, wrote
to the Philippian saints:
“Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel” (Phil.
How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
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Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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