Wonderful News - by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

Wonderful News

by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

 The newspapers are filled with sensational news these days, but the divine extension of this present age of grace is the most sensational news of all, yet most newspapers rarely, if ever, mention it.

We are prone to take the blessings of our times too much for granted. We forget too easily that for more than 1900 years the world has been ripe for God’s judgment — ever since His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, was crucified and sent from this world a royal Exile.

All through the Old Testament Psalms and prophets it is clear that the world’s rejection of Christ was to be visited with awful judgment. The Second Psalm, describing the world’s rejection of “the Lord and His Anointed,” goes on to say: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath and vex them in His sore displeasure.” In Psalm 110:1, too, we have the Father sayingo His rejected Son: “Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”

Yet, when all seemed ready for the divine judgment to fall, God interrupted the prophetic program and saved Saul of Tarsus, the “chief of sinners,” the leader of the world’s rebellion against Christ. More: He appointed this Saul, as the Apostle Paul, to proclaim “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24), the wonderful news that because Christ suffered, the Just for the unjust, at Calvary, any sinner may be saved by grace through faith, apart from religious or other works.

“The wages of sin is death,but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). And therefore: “To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness” (Rom. 4:5).

Judgment will come, but thank God, He has in grace delayed it until now.

“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (II Cor. 6:2).

 Thank You Lord For Saving My Soul   

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THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM - By Robert E. Hanna

THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM

By Robert E. Hanna

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 1:15-23

William R Newell has written, "Paul is God's messenger  and apostle to the Gentiles. Therefore, he who knows not  Paul's Gospel is ignorant of what God has to say in these times  of the Gentiles. Paul's letters constitute an INDEPENDENT  and COMPLETE body of doctrine. They reveal not only God's  method of salvation in this age, but also the true character,  calling and destiny of the Church. Paul has spoken with  authority from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ  those great facts which concern Christ and the purposes of  God in Him, which pertain to THIS PRESENT AGE."

Thus Paul is our apostle-we who are today saved by the  grace of God in this present dispensation of His grace. As our  apostle, he prays for us, "That the God of our Lord Jesus  Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of  wisdom and revelation in THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM: the  eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may  know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of  the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the  exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe,  according to the mighty working of His power, which He  wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set  Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places."

Sadly, most professing Christian believers have been  reared in tradition, "churchianity," moral philosophies, and  humanism. Accordingly, they have never really been exposed  the pure truth of God's Word, Scripture. Those who are  sincere believers, though ~ey are saved, have not the full joy  in their hearts that God has provided.

The simplicity of the Gospel
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