Our testimony before the LORD



“And, behold, there was a certain man before Him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And He took him, and healed him, and let him go.” -LUKE 14:2-4 [KJV]


Our testimony before the Lord is not what we have done for Him but rather what the Lord has done for us in infinite love, sovereign mercy and in saving grace [II TIMOTHY 1:9; TITUS 3:5-7]. Every believer can identify with this diseased and dying man, the Lord in amazing grace took us to Himself, chose us in the eternal covenant of grace and made us His own [JOHN 6:37; EPHESIANS 1:3-6; II THESSALONIANS 2:13].

Not only is that true, but the Lord Jesus Christ also healed us, by taking all our spiritual diseases of our sin to Himself [PSALM 40:12; MATTHEW 8:16-17], bearing our sin in His own body upon the tree [ISAIAH 53:4-6; I PETER 2:24] and “With His stripes we are healed” [ISAIAH 53:4-6]. Christ put away our sin by the sacrifice of His blood [HEBREWS 9:26; I JOHN 4:10].

And then one day the Lord found us in our dying condition lost, ruined in sin and as sheep going astray, without God without Christ and without hope [EPHESIANS 2:12]. He crossed our path and told us what He had already accomplished for us by His sacrifice [I PETER 1:18-20] and by His mighty power set us free from the bondage of sin and the holy law of God [JOHN 8:32; GALATIANS 3:13 & 5:1-4]. Christ Jesus our Lord has made us new creatures in Christ [II CORINTHIANS 5:17-21] and set us free to serve Him out of love and gratitude [II CORINTHIANS 5:14].

This is our testimony before God and men what Christ has done for us and in us. We say with the Apostle Paul, “But by the grace of God I am what I am” [I CORINTHIANS 15:10]. I pray and hope that this is your testimony too!

“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh” [PHILIPPIANS 3:3].


-Gospel report by preacher Tom Harding

Zebulon Grace church of Pikeville, Kentucky USA

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