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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Romans 1:16-17, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
Here Paul presents the truth about the source of faith.
He declares that in the preaching of the gospel, “the power of God” is operating unto salvation to everyone who believes.
Tell Me The Old Old Story
Of Unseen Things Above
Of Jesus And His Glory
Of Jesus And His Love
Tell Me The Story Simply
As To A Little Child
For I Am Weak And Weary
And Helpless And Defiled
The author of this song knew what being under “the hearing” does.
Tell me the good news.
Tell me about the scenery.
When you tell me about the scenery, a mysterious power is operating over me.
It is the power of God unto salvation.
Because in it–in the gospel–God’s righteousness is revealed.
Everyone’s mouth is shut.
The whole earth has to stop.
Man’s vain thoughts have to cease.
Let us all stop and look at God’s righteousness.
There it is–on Calvary.
None of us are righteous.
Christ became our sin and we become His righteousness! (2 Cor. 5:21).
When we speak and sing about God’s righteousness at Calvary, faith springs out of that message.
This is the meaning of “out of faith into faith.”
It is a matter of looking and believing.
The believing in John 3:16 is connected with the looking in John 3:14-15: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes into Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
The immediate context of John 3:16 includes verse 14, which summarizes the Old Testament account of the children of Israel being bitten by serpents due to their murmuring (Num. 21:6-9).
At that time Moses prayed for the people, and the Lord told him to put a serpent on a pole, saying, “It shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at the pole, shall live.”
Just look and live.
The ones bitten by the serpent did not do anything; they did not cure themselves.
They just turned from one direction to another to gaze at the brass serpent on the pole.
The moment they looked, they lived.
That is how fast deliverance came to them.
In the same way, if you are not saved, just look at Christ and you will receive eternal life, not only initially, but continuously.
It is all in the look at the scenery of Calvary that faith comes to us.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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