Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Living Right By Walking In The Light

My Utmost For His Highest
 
I now send you, to open their eyes…that they may receive forgiveness of sins… —Acts 26:17-18
 
{CHAMBERS} “This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament. God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words, “…that they may receive forgiveness of sins….” […] When a person is born again, he knows that it is because he has received something as a gift from Almighty God and not because of his own decision. […] Salvation means that we are brought to the place where we are able to receive something from God on the authority of Jesus Christ, namely, forgiveness of sins. This is followed by God’s second mighty work of grace: “…an inheritance among those who are sanctified….” In sanctification, the one who has been born again deliberately gives up his right to himself to Jesus Christ, and identifies himself entirely with God’s ministry to others.”
 
{ELGIN} Giving up my right to myself.  My right to decide what is right and wrong.  To live according to the Truth ordained by God and enlivened in me by the power of the Gospel.  The is the “new” that is referred to in 2 Corinthians 5:17.  That is the “new” that is referred to in Romans 6:4.  That is the “way” that the Spirit referred to in Isaiah 30:21.  The Christian life is more than acknowledging  that “Jesus loves me this I know”.  It is walking in Light. (1 John 1:5-7) “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” What a promise .. What a Savior … What a life is ours Christians!

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