[Biblemat] A) SALVATION MADE CLEAR

[J5827Sasser at wmconnect.com]

Brethren and Friends, Jim Sasser here.  A very good Friday morn-
ing to each and everyone.  May God bless you and yours.  Here
is an article that recently came my way:

SALVATION MADE CLEAR

     It is thought that Abraham Lincoln said, "God must have
loved the common people, since He made so many of them."
Because us "common folk" are so numerous, we should like-
wise be thankful that God made the way of salvation plain
enough to be understood by all.

     There's no entrance exam or essay as a requirement for
salvation.  Salvation does not depend on a person's ability to
understand a complex philosophical formula of religious truth.  If that were 
necessary, only the educated elite could
every hope to be saved!  Such is not the case.

     "Brothers, think of what you were when you were called.
Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many
were influential; not many were of noble birth.  But God chose the foolish 
things of the world to shame the wise; God
chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.  He
chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things
-- and the things that are not -- to nulify the things that are,
so that no one may boast before Him" (1 Cor. 1:26-29 NIV).

     God doesn't require us to do something monumental.  Rather He sent Jesus 
Christ to pay for our sins through His
death on the cross.  When we believe in Jesus as the Son of
God, repent of our sins, confess our faith and are baptized
for the forgiveness of our sins, who can boast of their salvat-
ion??  These are foolish things to the world.  The are stumbl-
ing blocks to many, yet God chose the weak things to shame
the strong.  Anyone who can read the different accounts of
conversion can see the pattern they obeyed.

     Paul said that the gospel "is the power of God to salvation
for everyone who believes" (Rom. 1:16).  Whether educated
or uneducated, knowledgeable or ignorant, anyone can follow
the Lord.  No one will be able to stand before God and say, 
"The gospel was too difficult to understand."  He has made it
clear.    ------- Shane Williams in The Lilbourn Light, Vol. 7, No.
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