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Date Posted: 08:48:30 05/31/11 Tue
I missed this last post from late last year. It represents the mockery and challenge that Jesus Himself was exposed to by the unbelievers in His own day. They said, "Save yourself, Jesus, come down off the cross." They taunted Him saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God." (Luke 23:35)
Can God save? Can he heal? Can he prosper and bless those he chooses? yes! I know it, I've seen it and I believe it! And how does one become one of those chosen of God for salvation; for healing or for deliverance from every evil, cursed thing? (sickness, disease, poverty, you name it!) The same way He has done it in every generation since His arrival! Before He came to the earth, He had chosen the Jews to be the nation that would fulfill His purpose on earth. Through the Jewish people and their rich history he would show His great love of His creation by sending Jesus of Nazareth to be an example to the rest of the world. His coming was what separated the old and new covenants. The old covenant applied only to the Jews, but now, because of Jesus, the rest of us are also able to enter in and receive the benefits of His covenant as well!
By his birth, life, death and resurrection, He showed the world the Way that leads to eternal Life! The Way, the Truth, and the Life that was in Christ, who came to earth and manifested himself to the world, as it had been spoken of by the prophets before He came and was now available to all who would simply enter in by faith.
By simply choosing to believe in the One who came to save us, to heal us and to deliver and bless us, everyone, including even that convicted felon that hung with Him on the cross that day and would, because he too believed, go to be with Him in paradise!
Just as there were those who did not (would not) believe him when He came to the earth, we are surrounded by those now in our own day who need to see something miraculous in order to believe. It is for them and for all who would be transformed by the amazing grace of God that I continue this forum and am an ambassador for Christ.
Like the disciple Thomas and everyone today who still needs to see a miracle in order to believe and follow, God can and will show you a miracle, but you must first ask.
Ask and it shall be given; Seek and ye shall find; knock and the door shall be opened to you! If there is first a willing mind, it is accepted...are you willing to believe?
Repent ye and believe the gospel!
T.O. - 5/31/2011
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