But God!

[Coconut]

BUT GOD!

"But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)."

"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins" BUT GOD!

"In which you formerly walked according to the course of this world" BUT GOD!!

"According to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience" BUT GOD!

"Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh" BUT GOD!

"Indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind" BUT GOD!

"And were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest" BUT GOD!

Our hearts were hard (Ez 36:26) BUT GOD!

We were in the domain of darkness (Co 1:13) BUT GOD!

We were enemies of God (Ro 5:10) BUT GOD!

We were slaves to sin (Ro 6) BUT GOD!

We bore fruit for death (Ro 7) BUT GOD!

Our minds were blinded (2Co 4:4) BUT GOD!

This is the heart of the gospel. BUT GOD!

Its all about Jesus, not us. BUT GOD!

Its about His power, not ours. BUT GOD!

Its about Him choosing us, not us choosing Him. BUT GOD!

Its about His glory, its about His fame. Its all about Him!

"BUT GOD being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)."

That's what grace means. When you were dead in sin, unable to do anything and totally unworthy of anything other than condemnation.

BUT GOD!

Do you see why the gospel is so beautiful?

Does your heart sing forth with praise?

Or are you indifferent?

Are you dead in your sins?

Do you need the Holy Spirit to make you alive?

Do you need God to rip out your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh?

These are hard questions, but oh, they're so important. Don't dismiss them just because you always go to church, you have a belief in God, or you do good things. As we've seen, none of those things will help you when you stand before the throne of God on judgement day. If you don't have Christ, all He'll see is a corpse, dead in their sins.


-THE SUPREMACY OF GOD IN THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN
By Dustin Shramek

THE SUPREMACY OF GOD IN THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN

 

[Trishann]

It amaze me that people will bring up the thought, "Well I am just as good as a Christian," I am a good person and do good things.

The bible tells us no man is rightous before God. We can not stand alone before God and be righteous.

All have sinned and came short of the Glory of God. Jesus is the only way for us.

That is the different from being a believer and an unbeliever.

Thanks for sharing, Trish

 

[jiggyfly]

*But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so very much,*that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s special favor that you have been saved!)

Hallelujah, oh hallelujah! But God, but God, but God is so rich in mercy!

Paul continued....

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,**the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.*And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages. Amen.

 

[Coconut]

Hallelujah, oh hallelujah! But God, but God, but God is so rich in mercy! ~ amen!

ALL Glory to God!