THE CHRISTIAN’S
VICTORY CRY:
WE
ARE SECURE IN JESUS!
By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.
Jesus said, "Go
ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved." (Mark 16:15). Our Lord declared, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.
No man cometh unto the Father but by Me."(John 14: 6).
Jesus invites us, "Come unto Me all ye who labour and
are heavy laden and I will give you rest." (Matt.11: 28). He assures us, "Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no
wise cast out."(John 6:47):"
And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of my Father's hand." (Matt.10:28,
29).
St. Paul declared, "If ye then be risen with
Christ seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the
right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." (Col 3: 1-3).
YOU ARE SECURE
IN JESUS!
The
Word of God states: "And lo, I
am with you alway, even unto the end of the age." (Matt.28:20); "He hath said, I will
never leave thee nor forsake thee." (Heb.13:5). The original text is even
stronger. Jesus used a double imperative.
He actually said: "I will never, No never leave thee. I will never, No never forsake
thee..." The word always is a measure of time while
the word alway is a measure of distance. He said: “I will go the distance with you,
all the way until you arrive at Home in Heaven!”
My dear friend, you are SECURE in Jesus Christ. You can TRUST Him and DEPEND upon Him to lead and guide you by the Blessed Holy Spirit.
He cannot and will not force you to love Him, but He still loves you with an
unconditional Love.
No
one else will ever care for you like Jesus. He loved us so much that He
left Heaven's glory to come down to this sin-cursed earth to purchase your soul
from damnation and Hell through His sacrifice on the ‘Old Rugged Cross’ and His glorious resurrection from the dead!
The Bible says, "For when we were yet without strength (hopeless), in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely
for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would
even dare to die.
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His BLOOD, we shall
be saved from wrath through him.
"For if, when we were
enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (Rom.5: 5-10)
That’s why St. John exclaimed: "We love Him because He first loved
us." (1 John 4: 8-19). An old Gospel song says: Take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there. If you trust and
never doubt, He will surely bring you out. Take your burdens to the Lord and
leave them there!
SECURE
FOR TIME & ETERNITY!
My friend: “Receive Jesus Christ into your heart and life today and He will be the
best friend you will ever have. He will forgive all your sins and give you joy
and peace within. And you will know that you are secure in JESUS for time
and Eternity!
If sickness is seeking to rob your health and strength, remember that Jesus Christ
has purchased your total salvation which includes forgiveness of all your sins, peace in your soul and divine healing for
your tired and sick body!
We were created in the image
and likeness of God. He is triune: Father, Son and Holy Spirit and we are also
triune: spirit, soul and body! We are His special creation and unlike the plant
and animal kingdoms, we were made in God’s LIKENESS with an ability to commune
with our Heavenly Father through the Holy Spirit in prayer and His Word. We
enter into the Holy of Holies through the shed blood of our Substitute and
Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord
The Holy Bible declares: “Christ hath
REDEEMED us from the CURSE of the law, being made a curse for us.” (Gal.3: 13)
You may say, “What was the curse of the
law?”
Moses, the great Jewish prophet and lawgiver
gave us the answer in Deuteronomy 28. The blessing of keeping the Covenant with
Almighty God meant that the Israelites would blessed, above all the peoples of
the earth in everything including peace, victory over enemies, prosperity and
good health!
JESUS BROKE
THE CURSE!
If they broke the Covenant, however, a
curse would fall upon them which meant unrest, defeat in battle, famine,
sickness, disease, poverty and slavery! The CURSE of the law included, “all diseases, every sickness and every
plague” ever known or still unknown to man! (Deut. 28: 60, 61)
When God had finished His Masterwork of
Creation He was well pleased: “And God
saw everything that He had made and behold, it was very good.” (Gen.1: 31)
There was no sin, fear, pain, sickness, disease and death in the Garden of Eden
until the fallen archangel Lucifer whom we call Satan, Devil and Evil One
tempted our first parents and they sinned. With
sin came fear, guilt, pain sickness, disease and death.
Our Heavenly Father, however, KNEW before
the foundations of the earth were laid of the High Treason that would be committed
by His archangel (Isa.14: 12-17; Ezek.28: 12-17; Rev.12: 7-9) and had a plan in
place. After God had brought down His judgment upon Adam and Eve and the earth
because of their sin, He judged Lucifer with these words:
“And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her SEED: It shall bruise thy HEAD, and thou
shalt bruise His heel.” (Gen.3: 15) In theology, we call this ‘The
Law of the First Mention’.
THE
SEED OF THE WOMAN!
In Jewish gynecological records, the names of the fathers are always listed.
In this great prophetic statement which announces the coming of the Messiah Who
would crush Satan’s head, He would be born of a virgin without the aid of male
sperm. Four thousand years before Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary, God gave Satan a “heads up”.
Paraphrasing, He said: “You
think you have won by turning My own special creation against Me, but you will
not win. Be on the lookout, because I am going to do a new thing. A virgin will
conceive in her womb and bring forth the Deliverer who will do battle with you
for the souls of men and although you will bruise His heel, He will crush your
head and destroy you eternally, Satan.”
The Word of God states: “For when the fullness of time was come,
God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law to REDEEM them that
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Gal.4:4,5)
For our Saviour Jesus Christ to fulfill
this prophecy, He had to suffer, bleed and die upon a rugged cross in order to
meet the demands of Divine Justice and pay the penalty of all SINS, past,
present and future, of all transgressors who would repent and receive His mercy.
The Bible says that Jesus “was delivered
for our offences (sins) and was
raised again for our justifications.” (Rom. 4: 25)
Through His shed blood on Calvary’s Cross,
Jesus took our place and paid the penalty for our sins. As our Substitute, He
died in our stead. The penalty for SIN was death, physical and spiritual. God
had warned Adam: “Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of Good and
Evil thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou
shalt surely die.” (Gen.2: 16, 17)
IN
DYING THOU SHALT DIE!
The literal Hebrew says, “In dying thou shalt die”. In other
words, ‘You will begin to die in that day and eventually die.’ Since
that day, every baby has been born with death in its mortal body! Many years later a prophet stated: “The soul
that sinneth it shall surely die.” (Ezek 18:4)
The Holy Bible records the great transaction
of Adam’s Sin being imputed to the human race, making us all guilty in God’s sight.
When Jesus Christ paid the ransom for us, our sins were laid upon Him and
imputed to Him.
He took the punishment for our sins and
gave us His righteousness in return through His death and resurrection, making
us His sons and daughters.
Thank God Almighty, we are free, totally Free
for time and Eternity! Now, you know why, those who receive Jesus Christ and Saviour
and Lord are SECURE in Him! Amen.
