With this issue of Dial Daily Bread we begin a series of "Ten Great Truths That Make God's Last Days Message Unique."
NUMBER ONE: "When the Lord Jesus Christ Gave His Life on His Cross, He did not die in vain: HE TRULY SAVED THE WORLD."
The despised Samaritans were right when they declared of Him that He is "the Saviour of the world" (John 4:42, KJV). But how can that be when the great majority of humans on earth do not thus acknowledge Him?
(a) Many do not know it because they have never been told, clearly; and many refuse to believe it when they are told.
(b) But that does not lessen the truth that by means of His sacrifice, Christ has bought them, thus guaranteeing their salvation if they do not resist and reject Him. The entire world belongs to Him by virtue of His sacrifice of His blood on His cross.
(c) This does not mean that the Father will save people into His eternal kingdom while they resist and reject the Savior whom He has given them; He will never force anyone to be in His eternal kingdom against his/her will. But many who may not know it will come to learn it, for the Book of Revelation says that a fourth great angel will come down from heaven, "having great power, and the earth [is] lightened with his glory" (Rev. 18:1-4).
(d) The Lord Jesus Christ by His sacrifice on His cross not only loves the world with every individual person in it; He has also redeemed and saved each one of us.
(e) He is our Creator; but He is also our Redeemer and Purchaser--by His blood.
(f) No matter who you are, or how befuddled you may have been by the problems of life, you are in no sense an "orphan." Ephesians declares that you have been "adopted" into the family of God, unworthy as you may feel yourself to be: "He hath chosen us in Him ... that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will" (1:4, 5). You may not feel that you are thus "adopted," but that does not lessen the fact. Your orphan days are over; well, they were over even before you were born but you did not know it.
(g) The realization of this truth, your believing it, will transform you into one of the happiest people on earth.
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