Category: The Gospel of God’s Grace
God forgives sins that were done against Him—all of our sins.
The Incarnate Son of God suffered, bled, and died, on the cross, out of love, to provide that forgiveness and that release, not for His own sake, but for our benefit.
Then He was buried.
On the third day, He rose from the dead.
But there is more.
In addition to being completely loving and completely giving, God also, terrifyingly, is completely good.
Completely holy.
Having all power.
If you do not receive His grace in Christ, His forgiveness of your sins…
He will -justly- burn you in Hell’s torment for all eternity.
Jesus Himself will.
Simply believe in Jesus and receive the free gift of eternal life right now. John 6:47; 1st Corinthians 15:1-4.
If you do not, you will experience God’s justice against you for your sins, in Hell, forever, starting the minute you die.
God does not want you to be in Hell for all eternity, thirsty, and separate from His love and comfort.
That’s why He sent His Son Jesus for us.
God tells us to preach the Gospel, but also to warn all people of the endless pain and terror and darkness and fear and despair they face if they meet God, at the moment of death, in their self-centered pride and sins: Hell.
Is this fear and coercement?
Is this awful hatred and negativity and disrespect?
No, we all deserve God’s just wrath for our sins.
None of us deserves God’s grace and forgiveness.
But there it is, for the taking.
You can get God’s Everlasting Love, and Heaven—for nothing.
For now.
You are not guaranteed to be alive tomorrow morning.
Humble yourself to God and receive His permanent grace right now by simple faith in Jesus, if you have not already.
God bless you.
Curtis Smale
People search for knowledge and insight, and/or spiritual experience, or peace and holiness and righteousness, or assurance and clarity, as the greatest spiritual attainments.
People might seek for these things in many ways, in many different places.
But the best thing anyone can possibly receive is UNION WITH GOD through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
God is love.
Union with the God who is love is the greatest thing that can happen to anyone.
Union with God is joy unspeakable.
Union with God gives us the peace our souls crave.
The best possible thing for any human being is to live united with God our loving Father, in Christ our Savior, and the Holy Spirit, who indwells our spirit.
We receive EVERYTHING GOOD by God’s grace, through Jesus, by His death on the cross for all of our sins, through His burial, and through His resurrection.
We receive knowledge of the Gospel through the Scripture.
We receive salvation through believing in the Gospel of Jesus: 1st Corinthians 15:1-4.
We receive perfect sanctification through believing in Jesus’ Gospel.
Jesus Himself IS our sanctification.
We receive experience of God through his Holy Spirit in our the intuition of our conscience of our spirit, through Jesus’ Gospel, because we have been crucified with Christ, we have been buried, and we have been raised to eternal life through His resurrection.
Though we still sin, God daily forgives us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. God also tells us to confess our sins to one another. The forgiveness of God in the Lord’s Prayer is in the sense of daily practical fellowship, but we are forgiven for all our sins forever, past, present and future, in the moment of faith in Christ.
We are the holy children of God, through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God, indwelled by the Spirit of our Father.
When a person first comes to faith, he believes in Jesus, who died for all sins of everyone on the cross, was buried, and rose again on the third day.
And Paul the apostle tells us that Jesus, the Christ, did more than simply die for our sins.
Look deeper into what Jesus actually did for us.
The Bible tells us also that we were in Him in His death and resurrection, washing away all our sins past, present, and future, with His holy shed blood, and giving us a new life of eternal glory. (Galatians 2:20)
We receive this free gift forever and irrevocably in a moment of faith.
When we believe in Christ, in that moment, we repent or change our minds about unbelief about our sinfulness, and we change our minds in thinking that Jesus was just a man.
Repentance from sins and/or commitment and perseverance in holy living are not requirements ~for~ salvation. But they are the possible, but not required for salvation, natural outgrowth and working out of salvation. A holy life is God’s will for His children, made holy in Christ.
When we believe in Jesus, we are immediately spiritually baptized by the Holy Spirit into the death and resurrection of Christ. (This is not water baptism, but spiritual baptism.)
We are saved and preserved forever in Christ.
We are saved by sheer divine grace, there is no merit or worthiness in us.
The Bible says all of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.
Jesus is the infinite and eternal and unimaginable divine pinnacle of all spiritual desires, who dwells in glorious white light forever and ever.
Jesus is forever worshiped and glorified by the angels in Heaven and by the saints in Christ.
In Christ are ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Through Jesus we receive forgiveness of sins.
Through Jesus we receive union with God.
Through Jesus we are destined for Heaven.
Through Jesus we commune with God the Father, through His Holy Spirit in our spirits, forever loved and at peace.
EVERYTHING SPIRITUALLY GOOD is given to us in Jesus who is God incarnate in human flesh, who died for all of the sins of everyone on the cross, who was buried, and who rose again on the third day.
Curtis Smale
All to the glory of God my Savior. John 6:47.
