Wednesday, August 10, 2011

GPP 35: Peace With God

A wall between God and the human race
Stands impregnable, the result of sin;
All souls face spiritual death, but God’s grace
Bestowed, gave Jesus, victory to win!
God’s Son died, the one way to break the wall;
That whoever believed was born again,
Given new life through faith, the wall will fall—
God sees Christ in them, not their own sin’s stain!
None has peace with God, if unborn anew;
Belief in Jesus gives one that new life,
But reject Him—the wall blocks God’s view;
Those born but once are still in sin and strife!
Mister Non-believer! Tear down that wall!
Receive God’s Son Jesus! On His name call!

Promise made: Ephesians 2:14-15 (Paul writes)—
“For he [Jesus] himself is our peace, who has made the two [one person’s natural body and the same person’s ‘born again’ new body] one, and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law [Mosaic plus any man-made law for salvation] with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create for himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace.” [Brackets added]

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16]

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)

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