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For All have Sinned: Standing on Level Ground

On September 13, 2020

“Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.”– Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God Romans 3 verse 23

“For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God” – Romans 3:23

Brian Doerksen – The River – English & German Subtitles

The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
– Psalm 14:2-3
New King James Version (NKJV)

We are in a hopeless state. We all need to be forgiven. We need a Savior.

There is only one way: Jesus Christ – He is the way, the truth, and the life.

“We are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners.” The heart or mind of a person is already polluted with something that is opposed to the authority of God or the idea of surrender – something that sets itself up against the life of purity and discipline. This what the Apostle Paul meant when he said, “Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.” (Romans 8:5)

R.C. Sproul

The Way of Escape – God Has Provided A Way

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Ephesians 1:7 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”

John 5:24 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

TOMMY SCOTT Amazing Transformation Christian Testimony

By Thor

On December 19, 2018

In Headline

From Gangs to Soldier for Christ

Tommy Scott shares about his life of crime, drugs, gangs, and destruction. He lived a life full of hatred and anger. He ended up in seventeen different facilities different jails prisons juvenile facilities and camps and things as a result of his environment and whole lifestyle. His upbringing is in a community where about 2,500 gangs Los Angeles County where most of it is so much gang black-on-black crime gang wars. People dying all around him and as a young kids saw so much death, so much hatred for each other, and people outside of their community hated everybody!

But this is not the end of the Tommy’s story. This is just a beginning. He came to a turning point of his life that really changed his life starting from just passing by a Church he wanted to rob. Watch his testimony.

Tommy Scott Testimony

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Daily Devotional: Divine Forgiveness

By Thor

On December 8, 2015

In Devotional, Headline

Divine Forgiveness

By Dr. James R. Miller

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” – Luke 23:34

“This was the first word spoken by our Lord on his cross. It was uttered just when the soldiers were in the act of crucifying him — driving the terrible nails through his hands and feet. It was a moment of excruciating, inconceivable anguish. Yet he uttered no cry of pain, no word of execration upon those who were causing him such suffering, but calmly prayed for his brutal, pitiless murderers — “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

The moment the sacred blood began to flow the intercession for sinners began. The pleading was first for the ignorant heathen soldiers who were acting as executioners; but it was not for these alone. It certainly widened out, and took in all who had been concerned in the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus. It was for the Jewish rulers and people who had rejected their Messiah. May we not believe that many of those who on the day of Pentecost and afterward were brought to repentance were forgiven and saved because on his cross Jesus made intercession for them? Then the prayer went out beyond the people who had a direct part in the crucifixion. From his cross Jesus saw the lost world down to the end, and prayed for all men. We know, too, that that word of prayer was but the beginning of an intercession that is going on yet inside heaven, where Jesus pleads the merits of his own sacrifice for the salvation of sinners.

This word of Jesus teaches us a great lesson on Christian forgiveness. He prayed for his murderers. We should pray for those who injure us. There are some fragrant trees which bathe in perfume the axe that gashes them. So should it be with Christ’s people. Instead of resentment and injury for injury, we should show only sweet, tender love to those who harm us.”

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Christ Forgiveness: Are you Forgiven Forever?

By Thor

On October 29, 2013

In christian articles, Devotional, Headline

Christ Forgiveness

“As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”

Psalm 103:12

“When a debt had to be settled,” says Dr. A. J. Gordon, “either by full payment or forgiveness, it was the usage for the creditor to take the cancelled bond and nail it over the door of him who had owed it, that all passers-by might see that it was paid. Oh, blessed story or our remission! There is the cross, the door of grace, behind which a bankrupt world lies in hopeless debt to the law. See Jesus, our bondsman and brother, coming forth with the long list of our indebtedness in His hand. He lifts it up where God and angels and men may see it, and then, as the nail goes through His hand, it goes through the bond of our transgressions, to cancel it for ever, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. He took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.”

This is the wonderful act of remission that is portrayed for us with such vividness in the cup of the Lord’s Supper. The nail that went through those bonds and fastened them there on the cross went also through the body of the Lord Jesus. Blood flowed at the remitting or our sins – the blood of the Son of God. The cup that is so sweet to us was emptied of terrible bitterness by the Lord Himself, then filled with heaven’s choicest blessings and brought to us. While we rejoice at the remission, let us not forget what it cost our Redeemer; nor let us forget the wonderful grace that puts all our sins away “as far as the east is from the west.”

– Excerpted from Daily Readings In The Life of Christ By Dr. J. R. Miller
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Cardboard Testimony: Do You Have One?

By Thor

On June 1, 2011

In christian articles, Headline, Inspirational

This is a very inspiring video of people whose lives have been completely transformed by their faith in Jesus Christ. Their past have gone and the new lives have come. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, God’s word, the Bible says: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!” That’s the power of God at work. These are the greatest miracles that are happening in our world, in our families, and in ourselves. Praise the Lord!

Watch this video entitled Cardboard Testimonies at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley on Good Friday 2011. This is a powerful display of what Jesus Christ has done in the lives of these people. He can change anyone… and He can change you. Visit their website http://www.calvaryccv.org

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.

Stand firm, then,

and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

– Galatians 5:1 NIV

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