Meditations

“ Till I come .”  Revelation 2:25   As believers in Jesus Christ, what do we have in our grasp?  We have the confession of our faith .  Let us hold onto our confession.  Our confession of our salvation:    “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”  “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10: 9, 10   “But as many as receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His Name.”  John 1:12. Our confession to the world:   “….That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures,”  1 Corinthians 15:3-4  Jesus is the Christ – the Sent One, who came to redeem the world unto His Father .   We have to ...

The Lord Jesus when He was here on earth on one occasion asked His disciples “….. who do you say that I am?”  “Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  Jesus said to Peter   “……On this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it”.  Matthew 16:15-18 Who is this Rock?   The Rock is Christ Jesus. 1Corinthians 10:4  The Lord Jesus was referring to Himself when He answered Peter – “On this rock I will build My church”. The Church universal is the body of Jesus Christ and it is comprised of all born again believers in Jesus Christ – irrespective of our name tags.  All of us who have been awoken by the Holy Spirit of God, of our sinfulness and of our need of the Savior and has responded by faith to that call, is a member of the church.  “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”    We needed...