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Devotions with Pastor Dick

12/30/2020

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EYES OPENED

“I am sending you to them to open their eyes……that they may receive forgiveness of sins……” (Acts 26:17-18)

This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament.
God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words,
“…that they may receive forgiveness of sins….”
When a person fails in his personal Christian life, it is usually because
  • He has never received anything.
The only sign that a person is saved is that
  • He has received something from Jesus Christ.
Our job as workers for God is to open people’s eyes so that they may turn themselves from darkness to light.
  • But that is not salvation; it is conversion— only the effort of an awakened human being.
It seems to me that many of so-called Christians are like this.
Their eyes are open,
  • But they have received nothing.
Conversion is not regeneration.
  • This is often neglected in preaching today.
When a person is born again,
  • He knows that it is because he has received something as a gift from Almighty God.
  • Not because of his own decision.
People may make vows and promises, and may be determined to follow through,
  • But none of this is salvation.
Salvation means that we are brought to the place where
  • We are able to receive something from God on the authority of Jesus Christ,
  • namely, forgiveness of sins.
This is followed by God’s second mighty work of grace:
“…a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me….”
In sanctification, the one who has been born again, deliberately gives up his right to himself to Jesus Christ,
  • And identifies himself entirely with God’s ministry to others.

Pastor Dick
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