The gospel is simple yet profoundly deep, and it is the most unifying message in history. The offer is extended to every human and it’s simply beautiful. Jesus Christ is sufficient!!
My parents migrated to Australia and met a group of christians who showed them love and gave them support. They were impressed, they decided that they too should be Christians, but how to do it? They decided that they would try; they went to church, they bought a bible, they sent us kids to Sunday School, but nothing seemed to work for them, until one day my mother read a leaflet that a man had put in my fathers top pocket. Whats this she asked? And then she read it - It was entitled "are you trying too hard?" basically it said that the work has all been done - we just need to accept his gift of salvation - just trust him that it's all been sorted. My mother asked my father is this really true? "Have you not been listening" he replied. Right then she prayed the suggested prayer in the leaflet, later that night my father did too. My mother woke my brother an I up and insisted we too pray the prayer and accept Gods gift. And from that moment our lives took quite a turn but that is another story. As you said Max it wasn't through work it was just through trusting and believing that Jesus had done it all.
Please pray for Linda Rhea Thompson , my best friend's wife. Linda has recently been dyagnosed with thyroid cancer and reacurring breast cancer. She has a renewed faith in Christ in the last 4 or 5 years and need His healing powers. I love listening to you. God bless you Max Lucado.
Thank you so much for these words of encouragement. A timely reminder for us all. Prayers for my unchurched son who believes in Christ as his Savior, so he says.
Max you make trusting God real simple , we really only have to trust and believe God it’s simple really it’s that simple .Thanks again God Bless you and your family .
Pastor Max good morning 🌞 I thank GOD for the beautiful sunny ☀️ cool morning breeze here in Elkford 🇨🇦 it is 8:20 am here, and also I thanked GOD for your daily checking - in with the beautiful messages that feed my spiritual aspect of life, messages of reminder to trust in GOD always, thank you Pastor Max 🙏😇🌺 GOD bless you and your family 🌻🌞💐🌺🙏😇
Pray for my son Mike He was unable to get unemployment benefits and is struggling financially and spiritually. He is recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. He is discouraged.
Trust in GOD my daughter has been drug and alcohol addiction free for 5 years now , she started drugs at 17 just turned 44. Found GOD 3 years ago. HE will bring him through the other side. It’s HIS promise for us . 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
PRAYING, keep pressing into Jesus Christ, HE will not fail you, nor your son. BELIEVE Jesus Christ will come through, without doubting, even when it's hard. JESUS CHRIST never fails.
Great message. Need continued salvation prayers for my husband David, healing of Barrett's esophagus, depression, brain injury, and deliverance from alcoholism and smoking. Thank you and God bless♥️
yes, we can hold fast to His truth...thank you for pastoring us on-line...we honor you and thank God for the spirit you share the good news of Jesus. please pray for me and my family to love, know and serve Christ with a whole-hearted devotion. He is coming soon.
Still praying for healing health and relief from pain for you. At one point,you mentioned a Dr. appointment. I don't know the outcome of that,but if your health is declining or the breathing issues and pain become unbearable, seek medical attention. 🙏🙌🕊
Me too praying for you Lynn and Kimberly that the Peace that God gives in time of the storm will keep and sustain you from the attack of the enemy in Jesus name Amen
Father I pray for your provision and wisdom for Chad for his finacial situation and your peace throughout this time and miracles for your glory from his story. In Jesus name I pray Amen!
I just love you pastor Max, your voice and how you speak God’s words calm and help heal my brokenness. I sincerely thank you for answering your call to arms for Him. You make life a better place for me waiting for His return. I pray God’s Blessing on you and yours, and I also Praise God for calling YOU. God is so smart! Thank you Papa for Mr. Max, between Him and you, I am grateful!!!!
I would appreciate prayer. Got two bad report phone calls from the dr. Consults and additional testing in a few days. Am scared but holding onto my faith. Thank you.
Prayers for you and yours.... been there, it is scary but know that many of us have included you into our prayers daily! God bless and may you be blessed with a good report and follow up
Your messages are most certainly a life line in these times for me. I look forward to them each day for my hope 💕. Thank you and may God bless you. Pray please for healing for my jaw pain issues.
Thank you for this reassuring message. Please pray for me for anxiety and persistent health problems. Not sure where to turn except Jesus. Trying to hold on.
Wonderful message Pastor Max. Thank you. Please pray for my husband and I to find some good help as we care for my 95 year old Mother. We have been doing it for 4 years. Because of the Covid crisis we are down to I other caregiver for 16 hrs a week. The rest of the time it is just us. We are tired and need an answer on how to best care for her.
It has been harder than I ever imagined to step back and let God fight my battles ! My flesh wants to argue with my husband when I know I shouldn't . I manage to keep quiet most times but I feel like a door mate . God says over and over "will you believe I'm working in your favor even though you can't see it ?" This has been my hardest trial in life so far .
Pastor Lucado, I love getting encouraged by your messages, Please would you please add my son Allen to your prayer list, He has been coughing a lot and will get tested tomorrow. Thank you Pastor Lucado for your prayers for my son.
So you did bungee jumping😱I can t believe it !!! You are so 💪Great message as always I am looking forward to watch your lifting videos every morning with my cup of coffee. God bless you🙌
Lol!!😂🤣....great story...”trust me!”....all kidding aside...the Lord bless the message. Loving this John 3:16 series...We most certainly can “trust” in Jesus!💪🏼☝🏻🙏🤗❣️❤️Blessings!
Love your story!!! You made me really laugh!!! You have such a wonderful way of delivering God’s message, I love it, thank you so very much! You always make me feel better while I am really trying to stay home and stay safe as we been told!!!! Diane
Praying for your son Karen the lord has a plan for his life and it is good to prosper him he has not left him he is the on time God stay faithful and in the word of God every day in Jesus name Amen
Thanx for the message today. It's 72° in Colorado today. You were video bomb by small lizard...lol. Prayers for CO. Our gov'r is putting more restrictions on us beside the name calling to us.
Please pray for our family. The enemy is sowing discord between my son and daughter. Words exchanged are very hurtful and even violent. Please pray for our peace and enlightenment.
My son, granddaughter and daughter in law are all lost Courtney, Chan and Bree, and have other family members. I am so sad they won't talk to me and I am lonely even though I am married.
karen cradic broken family relations are so hard. I am going through this as well. I am the only believer (also my husband). My daughter and her husband aren’t either. Don’t lose hope. Keep on praying for your family. Take comfort that God is walking with you through this difficult time.
Karen, I will be in agreement with you. We are in a dark world...they (our loved ones, neighbor's, family member's, gas station attendant, EVERYONE) are looking for some good, some light, inspiration, peace, etc from us. It's not easy. But through prayer & supplication, God can help us along, right? God's promises are TRUE!!!! And many. Pray. Lean in. Cry out. Humble yourself. Trust Him.
So simple but needed!! I love this message!!! By the way....definitely with you on the chair lol. I'm not sure I would be brave enough to repel....coming from farmland Indiana lol. God bless you 👐🤲
Please pray for me as I learn to trust God during my separation. My husband left me a couple months ago and refuses to uphold his responsibility of taking care of me. I'm a dependent spouse trying to learn to be independent since I can't afford a caregiver.
What about “Faith without works is dead.” What about “go into all the world and peach the gospel.” If I love Him I do because I love Him. It’s not working to prove I’m good enough to be your bride. It’s working because I love you and I love my neighbor and want to tell everyone that Jesus is beautiful, He’s powerful, He satisfies, that He is the King and in charge of everything. I’ll never be able to give Him enough. I’ll never be able to do enough drugs, drink enough alcohol, buy a good enough car, have a big enough house, earn enough money, have enough followers, or get enough likes to enter His peace. I can to my best to reach out to other people to tell them about Him though.
It's easier to ask strangers for this prayer request. I can not share with friends. I'm seeing a guy for six months now. It has been a turbulent relationship. Now he tells me I must start having sex with him or I will ruin the relationship. I feel he's already ruined it by this insistence. I have stated several times I'm a Christian and don't want this. He says I need to separate my beliefs and my relationship. I know this is not scriptural. I think I will lose this friendship but I need to obey My God.
Never let a man pull you away from God....your integrity and morals. You will regret it and you may pay for it in many ways the rest of your life! Speaking from experience.
Jesus told His disciples to preach "repentance and remission of sins." He did not tell them to preach "just trust Jesus": ⚫ "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that *repentance and remission of sins* should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." (Luke 24:45-47) True believers - like Abraham - are those who act on their faith and obey God. For his "works," his obedience, he was deemed to be a believer and was justified to God . . . "and not by faith only": ⚫ "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, *and not by faith only."* (James 2:20-24) So we see that believing goes beyond "faith alone." How do we obey God today? ⚫ "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Paul, Acts 17:30) If we'll obey, we'll enter His mercy and grace, as promised: ⚫ "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13) ⚫ "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him . . . " (Isaiah 55:7) Outside of repentance, we are without His mercy. We will perish, un-redeemed: we'll pay our own death penalty for sin. Jesus warned: ⚫ "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Jesus, in Luke 13:5) Peter makes it clear: come to repentance, or else perish: ⚫ "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9) Nothing there about "faith alone" or "just trust Jesus."
I don’t understand that “God gave his one and only son”..... how is Jesus his “one and only”? Didn’t we all were with God before our life here? I know Jesus was also a creator with God.... ( another concept ) Sorry, just need a bit more understanding....
This is a great misconception in Christianity. God Gave us Commandments to be Obeyed and with His Help..WE Need to do the Work. We are tested too. Jesus Said..”If you Love me..Keep my Commandments.” Most Christians do not even know what they are.
The gospel is simple yet profoundly deep, and it is the most unifying message in history. The offer is extended to every human and it’s simply beautiful. Jesus Christ is sufficient!!
Yes prayer is my answer. Never gave up. Thanks to the Lord.
My parents migrated to Australia and met a group of christians who showed them love and gave them support. They were impressed, they decided that they too should be Christians, but how to do it? They decided that they would try; they went to church, they bought a bible, they sent us kids to Sunday School, but nothing seemed to work for them, until one day my mother read a leaflet that a man had put in my fathers top pocket. Whats this she asked? And then she read it - It was entitled "are you trying too hard?" basically it said that the work has all been done - we just need to accept his gift of salvation - just trust him that it's all been sorted. My mother asked my father is this really true? "Have you not been listening" he replied. Right then she prayed the suggested prayer in the leaflet, later that night my father did too. My mother woke my brother an I up and insisted we too pray the prayer and accept Gods gift. And from that moment our lives took quite a turn but that is another story. As you said Max it wasn't through work it was just through trusting and believing that Jesus had done it all.
Whosoever means even me......Thank you Pastor.
Please pray for Linda Rhea Thompson , my best friend's wife. Linda has recently been dyagnosed with thyroid cancer and reacurring breast cancer. She has a renewed faith in Christ in the last 4 or 5 years and need His healing powers. I love listening to you. God bless you Max Lucado.
Please Pray for restoring of relationships in my family !🙏🙏🙏🤗
Thank you Jesus for healing this Family Amen!
Thank you for this message, it is so helpful to hear. Jesus is our hope,help and life. I am so thankful He saved me.
Thank you so much for these words of encouragement. A timely reminder for us all. Prayers for my unchurched son who believes in Christ as his Savior, so he says.
Praying for your son
Again, Thank You for encouraging teaching Max.
Max you make trusting God real simple , we really only have to trust and believe God it’s simple really it’s that simple .Thanks again God Bless you and your family .
Pastor Max good morning 🌞 I thank GOD for the beautiful sunny ☀️ cool morning breeze here in Elkford 🇨🇦 it is 8:20 am here, and also I thanked GOD for your daily checking - in with the beautiful messages that feed my spiritual aspect of life, messages of reminder to trust in GOD always, thank you Pastor Max 🙏😇🌺 GOD bless you and your family 🌻🌞💐🌺🙏😇
Love your encouraging messages. They make the current craziness much more tolerable.
The word "whoever" is so inclusive - gives hope for all - blessings
Pray for my son Mike He was unable to get unemployment benefits and is struggling financially and spiritually. He is recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. He is discouraged.
Praying for Mike
Just prayed for Mike. Tell him not to give up!
Trust in GOD my daughter has been drug and alcohol addiction free for 5 years now , she started drugs at 17 just turned 44. Found GOD 3 years ago. HE will bring him through the other side. It’s HIS promise for us . 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
PRAYING, keep pressing into Jesus Christ, HE will not fail you, nor your son. BELIEVE Jesus Christ will come through, without doubting, even when it's hard. JESUS CHRIST never fails.
0u my friends, it is not what we do, it's what He did. We accept His offer. He DID THE WORK!!. PRAISE God.
Please pray for my family
Praying 🙏🙌😘
Oh, Young Life, how that brings back fond memories😊. Oh, how our faith in Christ keeps us going🙏🏻👍‼️
Love you Max. I look forward to your videos every day. They give me such hope, such guidance. I just love the Lord.
What a wonderful message to listen to as I have my first break here at work. Thank you 🤍
AMEN.Fix your eyes on Him the author and finished of our faith. God bless you and your family. And see you soon OUR KING IS COMING!!!!!💖
Great message.
Need continued salvation prayers for my husband David, healing of Barrett's esophagus, depression, brain injury, and deliverance from alcoholism and smoking. Thank you and God bless♥️
Will keep praying
Praying for him
@@vandelay2112 Thank you very much I appreciate that ♥️
@@sandraross1038 Thank you very much I appreciate that ♥️
yes, we can hold fast to His truth...thank you for pastoring us on-line...we honor you and thank God for the spirit you share the good news of Jesus. please pray for me and my family to love, know and serve Christ with a whole-hearted devotion. He is coming soon.
Praying
Pray for healing health for breathing issues and congestion and back pain and help in sleeping at night I need your prayers.
Still praying for healing health and relief from pain for you. At one point,you mentioned a Dr. appointment. I don't know the outcome of that,but if your health is declining or the breathing issues and pain become unbearable, seek medical attention. 🙏🙌🕊
Listening to these check ins/conversations.. makes me feel better. God bless you Pastor Max
FROM MY HEART TO YOU DEAR MAX: GOD BLESS YOU 💓 IN THE MOST POWERFUL PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS 💓 AMEN 💓 HALLELUJAH 💓
Amen and thank you and God bless you Pastor Max!
I am trusting Christ, looking UP and holding tightly to the rope or lifeline of Jesus!
Me too!
Suffering from anxiety and fear right now. Please say a prayer. Bless you for giving us a few minutes of your day. It means so much😊
Lynne Harris I also suffer from anxiety. I think of it as my thorn in the flesh.
Me too praying for you Lynn and Kimberly that the Peace that God gives in time of the storm will keep and sustain you from the attack of the enemy in Jesus name Amen
Prayer for spiritual strength
Praying
Thank you Pastor for another wonderful message! God Bless you and your family!
Amen! Thank you for doing your informal chats, you are so sincere and kind hearted and the Lord is certainly using you ! God bless you!💕🇨🇦
Need prayer for finances.
Father I pray for your provision and wisdom for Chad for his finacial situation and your peace throughout this time and miracles for your glory from his story. In Jesus name I pray Amen!
Thank you!God bless!
I just love you pastor Max, your voice and how you speak God’s words calm and help heal my brokenness. I sincerely thank you for answering your call to arms for Him. You make life a better place for me waiting for His return. I pray God’s Blessing on you and yours, and I also Praise God for calling YOU. God is so smart! Thank you Papa for Mr. Max, between Him and you, I am grateful!!!!
Amen,Amen!!
Thank you Pastor Max for this beautiful message. Praise be to the Lord. Please pray for my 3 sons in this difficult time
Praying for your sons
It’s freezing cold and raining here in the UK
Thanks Max.
Praise Jesus
I would appreciate prayer. Got two bad report phone calls from the dr. Consults and additional testing in a few days. Am scared but holding onto my faith. Thank you.
Thank You Father we can trust You and I pray you give Cindy your wisdom in this situation. I pray for complete healing in Jesus name amen!
@@godsewn1 Amen
I've added you to my prayer list!!!
By his stripes we are healed receive your healing dear sister he is able and healing has been paid for on the cross be healed💖
Prayers for you and yours.... been there, it is scary but know that many of us have included you into our prayers daily! God bless and may you be blessed with a good report and follow up
God's light shines in and through you.
Your messages are most certainly a life line in these times for me. I look forward to them each day for my hope 💕. Thank you and may God bless you.
Pray please for healing for my jaw pain issues.
Praying for you
Thank you so much for this encouraging message, I really needed it. God bless all 🙏
..from South Africa..thank you so much uncle Max
Thank you for this reassuring message. Please pray for me for anxiety and persistent health problems. Not sure where to turn except Jesus. Trying to hold on.
Continuing prayers for you .Blessings, in JESUS HOLY name. 🙏🙌🕊
@@kathylam5936 thank you Kathy.
What a wonderful message to to us now and to share with unbelievers to explain that they must just trust.
Good morning from Mn. Jesus Blessings✝️💟📖🕊🙏🏼
Thank you. Really, really needed to hear this today.
Hot, hot, hot in Columbus, GA! Thanks again for a blessed message..
Wonderful message Pastor Max. Thank you. Please pray for my husband and I to find some good help as we care for my 95 year old Mother. We have been doing it for 4 years. Because of the Covid crisis we are down to I other caregiver for 16 hrs a week. The rest of the time it is just us. We are tired and need an answer on how to best care for her.
I pray that the Lord will give you strength and send you help from the sanctuary.Blessings to you both.🙏🏼
Thank you for the beautiful message.
It has been harder than I ever imagined to step back and let God fight my battles ! My flesh wants to argue with my husband when I know I shouldn't . I manage to keep quiet most times but I feel like a door mate . God says over and over "will you believe I'm working in your favor even though you can't see it ?" This has been my hardest trial in life so far .
Pastor Lucado, I love getting encouraged by your messages, Please would you please add my son Allen to your prayer list, He has been coughing a lot and will get tested tomorrow. Thank you Pastor Lucado for your prayers for my son.
Praying for him
Amen. God bless!
So you did bungee jumping😱I can t believe it !!! You are so 💪Great message as always I am looking forward to watch your lifting videos every morning with my cup of coffee. God bless you🙌
Thanks for the message Pastor Max, please pray for me, that I can get some stability and encouragement in my Life. Thank you.
Lol!!😂🤣....great story...”trust me!”....all kidding aside...the Lord bless the message. Loving this John 3:16 series...We most certainly can “trust” in Jesus!💪🏼☝🏻🙏🤗❣️❤️Blessings!
Healing for our marriage and family been going on since 2019
Amen!
Thank you, Max. Great metaphor!
Amén!! 🙏🙏
;) ;) Let Christ Do the Work and just Trust. Who ever Believe.... Yes Lord I will Believe in You !...
It’s hot here in Phoenix, Az. God bless you Max!
Your voice is so comforting, just like it was for Hermie. 😊
Love your story!!! You made me really laugh!!! You have such a wonderful way of delivering God’s message, I love it, thank you so very much! You always make me feel better while I am really trying to stay home and stay safe as we been told!!!! Diane
AMEN
God Bless you too!, I needed to hear this today 😄
Pastor Max if it's hot why are you outside? 🤣🤣 LOL. Be safe in the heat Pastor, love you. God bless you.
THANK YOU!
Praying for your son Karen the lord has a plan for his life and it is good to prosper him he has not left him he is the on time God stay faithful and in the word of God every day in Jesus name Amen
Please pray for me. I lost my job due to corona and haven't been able to find a new one and I have three young children to feed.
Will be praying that The Lord Will provide the job for you. Dont lose Hope.
Thanx for the message today. It's 72° in Colorado today. You were video bomb by small lizard...lol. Prayers for CO. Our gov'r is putting more restrictions on us beside the name calling to us.
Please pray for our family. The enemy is sowing discord between my son and daughter. Words exchanged are very hurtful and even violent. Please pray for our peace and enlightenment.
Praying for peace for.your family
I am catholic and not a consistent church-goer. I am worried about going to hell. I do pray and ask for the Lord's forgiveness. Please pray for me.
My son, granddaughter and daughter in law are all lost Courtney, Chan and Bree, and have other family members. I am so sad they won't talk to me and I am lonely even though I am married.
karen cradic broken family relations are so hard. I am going through this as well. I am the only believer (also my husband). My daughter and her husband aren’t either. Don’t lose hope. Keep on praying for your family. Take comfort that God is walking with you through this difficult time.
Kimberly Kuster thank you, I will remember you and your family in my prayers
I will pray for them🙏🙏🙏
Father thank you for helping in this situation. You can do things we can not and we will trust You in Jesus name Amen!
Karen, I will be in agreement with you. We are in a dark world...they (our loved ones, neighbor's, family member's, gas station attendant, EVERYONE) are looking for some good, some light, inspiration, peace, etc from us. It's not easy. But through prayer & supplication, God can help us along, right? God's promises are TRUE!!!! And many. Pray. Lean in. Cry out. Humble yourself. Trust Him.
Amen
HALELLUYAH
So simple but needed!! I love this message!!! By the way....definitely with you on the chair lol. I'm not sure I would be brave enough to repel....coming from farmland Indiana lol. God bless you 👐🤲
Need strength and Help. Rough times.
*Max Lucado:* "Let Christ Do the Work"
*Paul, to the church at Philippi:* "WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING"
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤
Please pray for me as I learn to trust God during my separation. My husband left me a couple months ago and refuses to uphold his responsibility of taking care of me. I'm a dependent spouse trying to learn to be independent since I can't afford a caregiver.
🌼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
EXCELLENT
You struck a nerve at “ Whosoever satisfies Him will not perish”........
Matthew 6:24
What about “Faith without works is dead.” What about “go into all the world and peach the gospel.” If I love Him I do because I love Him. It’s not working to prove I’m good enough to be your bride. It’s working because I love you and I love my neighbor and want to tell everyone that Jesus is beautiful, He’s powerful, He satisfies, that He is the King and in charge of everything.
I’ll never be able to give Him enough. I’ll never be able to do enough drugs, drink enough alcohol, buy a good enough car, have a big enough house, earn enough money, have enough followers, or get enough likes to enter His peace. I can to my best to reach out to other people to tell them about Him though.
It's easier to ask strangers for this prayer request. I can not share with friends. I'm seeing a guy for six months now. It has been a turbulent relationship. Now he tells me I must start having sex with him or I will ruin the relationship. I feel he's already ruined it by this insistence. I have stated several times I'm a Christian and don't want this. He says I need to separate my beliefs and my relationship. I know this is not scriptural. I think I will lose this friendship but I need to obey My God.
Never let a man pull you away from God....your integrity and morals. You will regret it and you may pay for it in many ways the rest of your life! Speaking from experience.
Ithaca Comments thank you!!!!!
It’s not. 110 today
Jesus told His disciples to preach "repentance and remission of sins." He did not tell them to preach "just trust Jesus":
⚫ "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And that *repentance and remission of sins* should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." (Luke 24:45-47)
True believers - like Abraham - are those who act on their faith and obey God. For his "works," his obedience, he was deemed to be a believer and was justified to God . . . "and not by faith only":
⚫ "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, *and not by faith only."* (James 2:20-24)
So we see that believing goes beyond "faith alone."
How do we obey God today?
⚫ "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Paul, Acts 17:30)
If we'll obey, we'll enter His mercy and grace, as promised:
⚫ "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)
⚫ "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him . . . " (Isaiah 55:7)
Outside of repentance, we are without His mercy. We will perish, un-redeemed: we'll pay our own death penalty for sin. Jesus warned:
⚫ "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Jesus, in Luke 13:5)
Peter makes it clear: come to repentance, or else perish:
⚫ "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
Nothing there about "faith alone" or "just trust Jesus."
Whoever
I don’t understand that “God gave his one and only son”..... how is Jesus his “one and only”? Didn’t we all were with God before our life here? I know Jesus was also a creator with God.... ( another concept ) Sorry, just need a bit more understanding....
I'm afraid that the lizard on the wall behind you, upstaged you for a few minutes!!
This is a great misconception in Christianity. God Gave us Commandments to be Obeyed and with His Help..WE Need to do the Work. We are tested too. Jesus Said..”If you Love me..Keep my Commandments.” Most Christians do not even know what they are.
Amen!!