GOOD NEWS!
Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (13-15MAR20)
Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -God's unmerited favor- from our sins and from Hell:
LIVE
UNTO CHRIST
This natural body is a dying body, subject to afflictions, diseases, infirmities, and eventually DEATH! But if the Spirit of God dwells in us (by grace through faith), death is not the end; for He that raised Christ from the dead shall also, in His appointed time, raise our bodies from the grave (1 Cor. 15:12-22; 42-44). This body shall not always be in corruption and ruin but shall be raised in the image of Christ (1 John 3:1-3).
Therefore, since our primary interest is not the flesh, materialism, and things of the world, but the kingdom of God and His righteousness – since to be fleshly minded is a sign of absence of the Spirit of Christ, and since our flesh and all pertaining thereunto shall die and we shall be raised in His likeness – we are not obligated to live for the flesh and this world, but to live unto Christ, who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Men and women who are freed from condemnation and death are not freed from obedience to Christ – nor do they want to be! To whom much is given and forgiven, he will love much. We are motivated to holiness by His love for us and our love for Him (2 Cor. 5:14-15).
This natural body is a dying body, subject to afflictions, diseases, infirmities, and eventually DEATH! But if the Spirit of God dwells in us (by grace through faith), death is not the end; for He that raised Christ from the dead shall also, in His appointed time, raise our bodies from the grave (1 Cor. 15:12-22; 42-44). This body shall not always be in corruption and ruin but shall be raised in the image of Christ (1 John 3:1-3).
Therefore, since our primary interest is not the flesh, materialism, and things of the world, but the kingdom of God and His righteousness – since to be fleshly minded is a sign of absence of the Spirit of Christ, and since our flesh and all pertaining thereunto shall die and we shall be raised in His likeness – we are not obligated to live for the flesh and this world, but to live unto Christ, who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Men and women who are freed from condemnation and death are not freed from obedience to Christ – nor do they want to be! To whom much is given and forgiven, he will love much. We are motivated to holiness by His love for us and our love for Him (2 Cor. 5:14-15).
-Gospel
report by Henry T. Mahan
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