Ten Great Truths That Make God's Last Days Message Unique
NUMBER THREE: "It follows that it is actually easy to be saved and hard to be lost if one understands and believes the gospel that Paul said 'I am not ashamed of ...' That 'gospel’ is the power of God unto salvation (Rom. 1:16) for everyone who believes it. And of course you have to understand it before you can believe it!"
To try to hide that gospel from our view is totally contrary to the Lord's divine character. The Lord has not secreted it in some secure place far away from us; "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ..." What the Lord has done with His Good News is to open it all up wide for all the world to see.
He is not trying to find some reason to shut people out of His kingdom; rather, He is seeking some way to get us in, because that is His nature, "God is agape" (1 John 4:8), and agape is the kind of love that loves bad people, mean people, sinners. And His agape-love changes them.
And if there is in us the slightest desire to learn the truth, the Lord will go to any length to enlighten us. "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," He says (cf. John 8:32).
The purest, truest love we can imagine is that of a parent for his/her helpless child; but listen to this: "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up" (Psalm 27:10).
And when David wrote those words he adds, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living," that is, within my personal lifetime (vs. 13).
There is something for you to do, yes! And that is to believe that you will see the "goodness of the Lord."
Get on your knees, "shut thy door" to the world, as Jesus says (Matt. 6:6), beg Him for forgiveness and make your choice forever to "believe in the goodness of the Lord"!
Happiness is yours forever.
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