AMEN!
Em qui, 18 de mar de 2021 23:09, mike mcinnis <ratmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
escreveu:
Greetings sis Reis, et al;
Oh how often do we through neglect of HIS WORD, find ourselves in such
a state as Job describes. Yet our only HOPE ever remains that CHRIST has
died and there is remission. This is an "argument" which will never be
turned aside. "*What shall we then say to these things? If God be for
us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God
that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day
long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded,
that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rom 8:31-39*) The JOY of the LORD is our
STRENGTH.
Blessings, mike
On 3/18/2021 2:00 PM, Soraya Reis wrote:
*"Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his
seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put
strength in me." Job 23:3,4,6 *
*My soul, are these thy breathings? Dost thou really long, and, like
David, even pant, to come before the throne of grace? Art thou at a loss
how to come, how to draw nigh? Wouldest thou fill thy mouth with arguments,
and have thy cause so ordered as to be sure not to fail? Look to Jesus!
Seek from him the leadings of the Spirit; and while thine eye is steadily
fixed on thy great High Priest within the vail, still wearing a vesture
dipped in blood, see to it that thy one great plea is, for a perfect and
complete justification before God and thy Father, upon the sole footing of
righteousness. Yes, my soul, plead earnestly, heartily, steadily; and, like
Jacob, wrestling with God, upon the sole footing of righteousness: Wouldest
thou fear on this ground? Yes, thou wouldest have cause enough to fear and
tremble, if thy plea was with the least reference to any righteousness of
thine. *
*But, my soul, remember it is Jesus's righteousness, and his only, with
which, like Job, thy mouth must be filled with arguments. This is the
strength thy God and Father will put in thee: and it is a strength of
Jehovah's founded in his justice. As a poor guilty sinner, thou couldest
have nothing to plead but free grace and rich mercy. But when thou comest
in Jesus, thy Surety's righteousness, thou mayest appeal, and art expected
so to do, to God's holiness and his justice also. Oh, how sweet the
assurance, how unanswerable the plea, how secure the event! Jesus hath
fulfilled the law - Jesus hath paid the penalty of justice; and God hath
promised to pardon and bless his seed, his redeemed in him. Hence, the
apostle Paul, in the contemplation of death and judgment, while looking at
his everlasting security in Jesus, cries out, "Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall
give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them that love his
appearing. " *
*Behold then, my soul, thy vast privilege; and when, like Job, thou art
desiring to approach a throne of grace now, or looking forward to a throne
of judgment hereafter-never, never for a moment forget that this is the
way, and the only way, (for a blessed sure way it is,) maintaining
communion with God in Christ. Thy God, thy Father, will not plead against a
righteousness of his own appointing; but he will put Jesus, his strength,
in thee. Hallelujah! *
*Robert Hawker (1753-1827) *
