Psalm 72:18-19.
Good morning, born again subject of King Jesus
Christ! Once you, like the author, were a subject of ‘the god of this world’, Satan, who had ‘…blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, Who is the
image of God, should shine unto them…’; and we were aliens, outside of God’s
Kingdom and reign. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)
However, that wondrous day came when, the Lord God,
in His Sovereign grace and mercy, caused us to hear the glorious Gospel of
Christ, and Him Crucified for to bear away our vile sins – and faith was
granted us by the hearing, and we were plucked as brands from the burning, and
saved by God’s grace to serve the risen Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!
We are saved!
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17)
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should
boast. For we are His workmanship,
CREATED in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:8-10)
By the power of God Almighty – Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost – we were redeemed from our sins by the precious, sinless, Blood of
Christ Jesus, shed for us, God’s elect people, at Calvary’s Cross – to make the
full Atonement for our sins, and wash us spotlessly clean.
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation
(entire lifestyle) received by tradition from your fathers; but with the
precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.” (1 Peter 1:18-19)
From that glorious day, we have been created ‘…new
creatures in Christ…’; all our vile catalogue of sins and lawlessness, and
deceit, and filth and dirt and worldliness, has been washed white as snow – and
we have become full subjects of King Jesus Christ. Wow!
Born again Christians live not under man’s laws,
but under Almighty God’s grace!
Being born again, Spiritually regenerated, by God
the Holy Spirit: for the first time since we were born guilty of Adam’s sin,
and all the sins we committed, and shall commit, as natural born sinners – we
are NOW, made Spiritually alive (quickened) by the miracle of Spiritual
regeneration (born again) to serve our true Master, Lord, God, and King – Jesus
Christ.
“And you hath He quickened (made Spiritually
alive), who were DEAD (Spiritually dead) in trespasses and sins; wherein in
time past ye walked according to the prince of the power of the air (Satan),
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we
ALL had our conversation (entire lifestyle) in times past in the lusts of the
flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others…Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ (by grace are ye saved;)” (Ephesians 2:1-7) (See The Valley of Dried Bones, Ezekiel 37:1-10)
Today, true Bible-believing, Spiritually
regenerated Christians must fully obey the laws laid down by temporal
Governments in the nations/lands in which we live – BUT, only if those laws and
mandates reflect the righteous laws and mandates of Almighty Lord God Jehovah,
as written in His Ten Commandments, and in the law of His revealed will, i.e.
His Word.
“Thou shalt have no other gods (rulers) before
Me…Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and forth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy
unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My Commandments.” (Exodus 20:1-6)
“Then Peter and the other apostles (eye-witnesses
of the risen Christ Jesus) answered and said, We ought to obey God rather
than men.” (Acts 5:29)
Verse 14. “He shall redeem their souls. And this is exactly what the Lord
Jesus, the true Messiah, has done. He
has redeemed our sinful souls, by the shedding of His sinless Blood for us, and
has washed us Eternally clean from all our sins. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Verse 14. “And precious shall be their blood in His
sight. “…Christ prefers the soul of one
of His servants to the whole world, since He died that it might be made more
capable of entering into Eternal felicity (happiness).” (Thomas Le Blanc,1869)
Verse 15. “He shall live.” “Alexander the Great acknowledged
at death that he was a frail and feeble man. ‘Lo! I’, said he, ‘Am dying, whom
you falsely called a god.’ But Christ
proved that He was God when, by His own death, He overcame, and, as I may say,
slew death.” (Thomas Le Blanc, 1869)
“…Death is swallowed up in Victory (Christ’s
Victory). O Death, where is thy sting? O
grave, where is thy victory? The sting of Death is sin; and the strength of sin
is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth (gives, and continues to give)
us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
(1 Corinthians 15:55-57)
Verse 16. “An handful of corn. …Now, let me beg of every one of
you to carry a small bag with the precious corn of the Gospel. When you write a letter (email/text?), drop
in a word for Christ; it may be a seed that will take root…Speak a word for
Christ wherever you go; it may be seed productive of a great deal of fruit. Drop a tract on the counter, or in a house;
it may be a seed productive of a plenteous harvest…” (James Sherman, 1862)
By God’s grace, each time my wife Wendy and I are
privileged to have a holiday abroad, we take some of my Gospel Tracts with us,
and when we walk around a holiday resort, we place these Gospel tracts in
strategic places, and in open letter-boxes in the streets – and pray that those
little Gospel seeds may take miraculous root to the saving of precious souls.
“Cast thy bread upon the waters (nations): for thou
shalt find it after many days.”
(Ecclesiastes 11:1) God’s Word shall never return unto Him void (empty)
of results.
Thought: And blessed be His glorious Name for ever:
and let the whole earth (every nation) be filled with His glory; Amen`, and
Amen`.” Thus ends the 2nd Book of Psalms.
Dr Cornelius K. McClinton (C Copyright strictly
reserved, 12th December 2021)
Ulster Christians
www.ulsterchristians.org
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