Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 255
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Chris Tomlin singing … At the Cross … poignantly singing of how it is at the cross that we surrender our lives and receive God’s saving grace.
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Highlight Passage : Romans 5:18 [NLT] …
18 Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone.
… God, thru Paul, declares how Christ on act of obedience on the cross undos all the enormous damage of Adam’s one act of disobedience in the garden.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Romans 5:12-19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul contrasts the vast impact of Adam’s sin with the even greater impact of Christ’s finished work on the cross.
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Reference Passage: … Romans 5:1 [NLT] …
1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
… We make eternal peace with God when we overcome our sin by believing in Christ’s finished work on the cross.
Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 6:9-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… All those shackled by our sin nature are made tight when we surrender to receive God’s saving grace from His finished work on the cross.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul hammers home the truth that we can only be saved from our sin debt by our repentance in faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross.
Reference Passage: … Titus 3:7 [NLT] …
7 Because of His grace He made us right in His sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.
… We have confidence of our eternal hope of salvation by His work of grace on the cross.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Marvin Williams, AT THIS LINK … uses the destructive power of the honey fungus (see photo) in the forests of Oregon to illustrate how this innocently looking fungus can kill many trees by sending its fungal tendrils down into the tree roots to shut off the nourishment needed for the tree to grow.
And likewise, our sin nature, inherited from the one innocent looking sin of Adam in the garden, can kill off the grace we need to be saved from our sin when we’re unwilling to repent of our sin and believe in and receive the saving grace provided for us by our faith in Christ’s finished work on the cross. And that is the message of truth which the Apostle Paul hammered home strongly and repetitively (see Scriptures above) to those whom he preached God’s truth about the cross.
Like the honey fungus, our sinfulness can seem so innocent on the surface; but our sin nature, inherited from Adam’s sin, is eternally deadly; and the only way we can cut off sin’s death grip, and our hope of eternal life, is to repent of our sin with our belief in the finished work of Jesus on the cross. And oh how I pray that all who read here have done what Paul calls us to do, In faith, and to receive God’s saving grace … maybe even today.
And so, … if any reader here needs help with this, email me - billb13@bellsouth.net - and I’d love to have the honor of helping you seek the redeeming, restoring, and renewing grace which Christ has made available to us thru His death on the cross and our belief in His resurrection.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for showing me the only way to receive Your saving grace as I do so declare my faith in Your finished work on the cross.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to reach out and receive and thrive in Your saving grace, Lord. … Amen
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