A New beginning

 

Dear Gentle Reader,

 Marti has been sick for some time now I have had some time to consider what we can speak about next! I thought it was time to bring to your attention the needs of the poor (I am speaking to about 3/4 of you now! But before I do you need to understand that I am with you. each day that goes by we see more of our needs being striped away. Food, medical, gas and trying to struggle to pay a wee bit on our mounting bills. So what I write below gives me comfort. For God does not charge rent for the land you use, or the air you breathe.  God Gives to each of us His Children all that he had and even now gives what he knows we need.

The following questions are preceded by a quotation, viz :

"It is sufficient that you know you are a sinner, lost and helpless; that Jesus Christ is a Saviour, able and willing to save you, and that faith is the condition on which God will save."

THE QUESTIONS:

1—When a child takes this attitude and prays to be forgiven for sins, is that child saved immediately? (without applying Christ's death or blood personally).

2—Would a grown person be saved under these conditions?

3—If a person knows that God is God (Jesus), and that He died for sinners, and that person prays to Him daily for forgiveness of sins, do you think be is saved?

4—Do all people know when they are saved? At what time in life?

5—If a person is in doubt as to whether he is saved, how would you help that one?

THE ANSWER:

In this present Dispensation of God's Sovereign Grace it is not necessary for anyone, child or adult, to "pray for forgiveness of sins." In Eph. 1:7 we read: "In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. Cp. Col. 1:14.

The order is further explained in Eph. 1:13, viz: "In Whom ye also, after that ye HEARD the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that ye BELIEVED, ye were SEALED with The Holy Spirit of promise." The three essentials are: The HEARING, The BELIEVING, The SEALING.

1—The HEARING. Cp. Rom. 10:17. Faith cometh by HEARING, and HEARING by The Word of God.

2—The BELIEVING, Cp. Eph. 2:8. It is thru the faith that cometh by HEARING that Grace saves; and, that not any of it is of ourselves, but "the gift of God." When one HEARS with open mind and heart, then necessary faith is given. One does not believe by any process of reasoning. Faith cometh by HEARING The Word of God. One does not need to try to believe. Just let God, thru His Word, by the ministry of The Holy Spirit bring about FAITH.

3—The SEALING. Cp. Eph. 4:30. The SEALING is God's mark of security. It is the gift of The Holy Spirit. This forever settles the question of the permanency of-one's salvation. Who can break that SEAL?

NOTE: All such Scripture texts where repentance, prayer for forgiveness, etc., are required, take one back on Kingdom ground. On the ground of pure Sovereign Grace one has nothing to DO to be saved, but to BELIEVE, what has been done in and by The Person of our Lord Jesus Christ. To receive The Lord Jesus Christ as one's personal Saviour is to receive The One Who has perfectly met all the requirements of God in dealing with the sin question.

One must accept The Testimony of God's Word that without Christ he is lost; one must accept The Testimony of God's Word that with and in Christ he is saved. This is the sure way to assurance.

The very moment one believes the record that God has given concerning the sinner, he KNOWS he is a sinner; the very moment one believes the record that God has given concerning the saved, he KNOWS he is saved.

Get it Gentle Reader?

Love, Denis