HOLD THE FORT!
Memorise: Holding forth
the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run
in vain, neither laboured in vain. Philippians 2:16
Read: Philippians 2:12-16,
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is
God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all
things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That ye
may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of
a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding
forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have
not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Bible in one year: Leviticus 23:9-25:7, 1st
Corinthians 14:6-25
MESSAGE!
Without controversy, the salvation that Jesus Christ has brought to
mankind is free and for anyone who will receive Him. The way to receive this
salvation is revealed to us in Romans 10:9:
“That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Have you confessed Jesus Christ as your Lord? Do you believe in your
heart that God raised Him from the dead? Have you asked that your sins might be
washed away by His blood? If you have done these, congratulations, you have
received the free gift of salvation. However, you need to know that the
salvation you have received is the beginning of a process that will culminate in
your living eternally with God in Heaven, with a transformed body which death
and sin have no power over (1st Corinthians
15:50-56). This is the same type of body our Lord Jesus Christ
resurrected with and has right now in glory (1st
John 3:2). It is at the event where this transformation will take place,
referred to as the rapture, that the ultimate experience of the salvation in
Christ Jesus will be revealed and received by you. Apostle Paul speaks of this
in Hebrews 9:28, while Apostle Peter further expounds
on it in 1st Peter 1:5:
“Who are kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
While awaiting the revelation of the ultimate experience of salvation,
the devil, the world and the flesh will work to derail the salvation experience
you have received by trying to lead you back to sins you have been saved from.
That is why Jesus in Matthew 24:13 says:
“But he that shall endure
unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
You therefore need to endure and not give in to them. You need to
continue living in the reality of the salvation from sin which you have
received by enforcing your victory over sin. If you return to your former sins,
you will not partake of the ultimate salvation experience which shall be revealed
and received at the appearing of Christ. Enforcing your victory over sin
everyday involves a lot of work. It involves the use of God’s word against
temptations, the renewing of your mind, praying for grace and fasting to keep
the cravings of your body under check. Apostle Paul refers to this work in Philippians 2:12. The Lord will sustain you as you
work at it to the end in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Point
Father, grant me grace to
keep at the work required to sustain my salvation in Jesus’ Name.
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