Tuesday, July 26, 2011

"SALVATION... ACCORDING TO JESUS" 1


GodThoughtsWired!                   Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Evangelizing the Church in the Age of Delusion
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"SALVATION...
ACCORDING TO JESUS"

1
SOME OF MY NOTES:

"Then Jesus said to His disciples,
'If anyone wishes to come after Me,
he must deny himself, and take up
his cross
 and follow Me. For whoever
wishes to save his life will lose it
;
but whoever loses his life for My sake
 will find it
.  For what will it profit
a man if he gains the whole world
and forfeits his soul? Or what will
a man give in exchange for his soul?"

-Matthew 16:24-26 (bold mine,
see also Mark 8:34-37;
Luk
9:23-25 & John 12:24-26).
-Wow!  One of the very few statements of Jesus that is recorded in all four gospels.  Must be extremely important stuff!
-Here we have the definiton of what it means to be a Christian from Jesus Himelf...and it's so clear and concise.  And not only that, but it's what Jesus  taught and modeled...in every single case!  From Nicodemus(see John 3:1-8), to the rich young ruler (see Luke 18:18-30), to the woman at the well (see John 4:7-26), to the lawyer (see Luke 10:25-37), to the thief on the cross (see Luke 23:39-43).
-Jesus never gave the same answer twice and yet the principle of followership, the way of salvation, the prerequisite of discipleship...
is the same for everybody.
-And the false religion of "Popular Christianity" is no better (or no different for that matter) than any other cult that the "angel of light" has created for this 21st century's "age of delusion."
Today's GodThoughts come to you from Redondo Beach at Half Moon Bay, California. My other most favorite devotional place in the whole world. Last night in the gym somebody asked me why I felt the need to write GodThoughtsWired! on my vacation.  My response was, "I don't have to...I get to!  When your soul is FULL, it's simply the nature of the Holy Spirit within to want to share."  And she went away perplexed.


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