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Weekly Religious Article
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Edward Proffitt, Th. D.
PROOF OF CHRISTIAN RELATIONSHIP
"He had given assurance unto all" Acts 17:31
Edward Proffitt, Th. D.
The seventh word from the cross begins like the first word on the cross. it begins with the word "FATHER" (Luke 23:46), was for the benefit of others. The seventh was a personal word of His own. It was to do with a personal relationship that Jesus Christ, the Son, had with His Father God. A relationship that "whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord" (Acts 2:21) can have.
God initially created mankind for fellowship with Himself. That fellowship was broken by the fall of humanity into sin, but "God so loved...that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish" (John 3:16). Jesus Christ came to pay our debt of sin and to restore us unto that fellowship that the Father wanted in the beginning.
As God's created being we are more than bodies and minds. We are "spirit and soul and body" (1 Thessalonians 5:23):
....By the body, we are world-conscious.
....By the soul, we are self-conscious.
....By the spirit, we are God-conscious.
However, at the fall all became spiritually dead, "of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17). Jesus died to restore fellowship with the Father, He died to give us new life through a spiritual rebirth. This personal relationship with the Father comes through childlike faith toward spiritual rebirth, "You hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sin" (Ephesians 2:1).
the Father. How simple and childlike that expressed is. Through receiving Christ by faith we become the children of God, As many as receive Him, in them gave He power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12). This new relationship makes us part of God's family. As a part of God's family all believers become sisters and brothers in the family of God. Bocuse of that new relationship the many promises of provision from the heavenly Father become ours. No religious act can bring about this new relationship, only faith in Christ can do that "through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved" (Acts 15:11).
As we come by faith to the One who died for us, we become a child of the heavenly Father. We will than experience His peace in the most trying of any and all life situations. There is no better ASSURANCE than that.
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