JUNE 3

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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John 10:17-18

“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

John 10:27-29

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.  I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.”

Colossians 1:13-17

“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,  in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”

Hebrews 10:11-12

“And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.  But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,”

Psalm 116:15

“Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints.”

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We will be reading from a book by Erwin Lutzer, President of Moody Bible Institute.  It’s a short book about Christ’s sacrifice for us.  It’s called simply, “For Us.”

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Luke 23:46

“And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, ‘Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ Having said this, He breathed His last.”

“Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.”

Jesus’ life wasn’t taken from Him.  He delivered it up at precisely the moment He chose; it was the moment He had suffered the full measure of wrath for our sins.  His work was done, and now He says, “Father” once again, as His spirit wings its way home.   (Remember previously He had said that the Father had to temporarily forsaken Him because of our sin on Him, but once the price for our sin was paid, and it was gone, He and the Father were again one.)

Hanging on the cross, in unimaginable suffering, beaten and bruised, Jesus was still in control.  If He was in control then, how can we imagine He’s not in control now, seated with the Father in the fullness of power?

Jesus knows when your last day will be.  God has decided how your end will come.  You may have time to gather your friends and family to say farewell.  Or, you may be gone in an instant. 

But if you are in Christ, you do not have to worry about that day.  It’s in the hands of the One who loves you best.  All you have to do is be ready to say, “Here I come, Lord!”

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