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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
Lord, Your discipline is good, for
it leads to life and health. You restore my health and allow me to live! You
have rescued me from death
Isaiah 38:16-17a
(NLT)
This ends this
reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
These words of the Apostle Paul
proclaim the dire state of all men and women short of having someone to rescue
them from the grave:
What a wretched man I am! Who will
rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Romans 7:24
Indeed, it is a question we will
all come to face sooner or later because one certainty is that those who have
life will eventually lose it. Everyone is going to have to face the matter of
death, a death that is sure to come unless we have someone with the means to
deliver us from it. Someone like God.
Paul came to understand this in his
life. He realized he was a sinner, a wretched and wicked man who was without
hope from death unless some miraculous power rescued him, a power he came to
know through the gospel by the name of Jesus. He testifies as much when he
said:
Thanks be to God, who delivers me
through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:25a
For God so loved the world that He
gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but
have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they
have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son (John 3:16-18). Jesus
speaks these very words to Nicodemus as He teaches him about the need to be
born again, to start afresh in life making the life of Christ his own through
the leading of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was urging Nicodemus, and us as well, to
become new creations in Him, putting the past behind and advancing into a new
future where death no longer has any sting, a future where only eternal life
awaits (2 Corinthians 5:17). Paul had discovered this truth Jesus was conveying
and properly gave His praise to God for His deliverance from death.
We need to do likewise.
The scriptures are full of
confirmation regarding God’s death delivering power through Jesus, His Son, our
Savior. Look at these excerpts from His holy word:
Our God is a God who saves;
from the Sovereign Lord comes
escape from death. Psalm 68:20
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, He offered up prayers and
petitions with fervent cries and tears to the One (God) who could save Him from death, and He
was heard because of His reverent submission. Hebrews 5:7
I am under vows to You, my God; I will present my thank offerings to You.
For You have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may
walk before God in the light of life. Psalm 56:12-13
But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You
shall acknowledge no God but Me, no Savior except Me. I will deliver this
people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Hosea 13:4,
14
Very truly I tell you, whoever hears My (Jesus) word and believes Him (God)
who sent Me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from
death to life. John 5:24
Friends, we serve a God who
delivers us from trouble, sin, and illness as we have seen through the last
three devotions, helping us along through this thing we call life. But when
this earthly life is through, it’s such an awesome comfort and assurance to
know that death need not be the end but only the glorious beginning of living
eternally with God the Father and Jesus His Son, all because God loved us all
so much that He was willing to save us and deliver us from death.
My prayer today as you read this is
that you have accepted Jesus as Savior and in doing so have received His
salvation promise that elevates you from death to everlasting life. If you have
yet to do this, I ask that you make today the day to change your life now and
forever. Give your life to Jesus and allow God His Father to bring you
deliverance from death through Him. You’ll never regret your decision.
Amen.
In
Christ,
Mark
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