The youth have Been bought with an infinite price, even the blood of the Son of God. MYP intro. Par 5
1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
… Consider what Christ gave up when He left the courts of heaven and the royal throne, to give His life a sacrifice for men. MYP intro. Par 5
… Consider His sufferings on the cross,— the nails driven into His hands and feet, MYP intro. Par 5
Christ came to this world to give his life, so that we can be recipients of Salvation.
The Lord has a special work for us to do individually. As we see the wickedness of the world brought to light in the courts of justice and published in the daily papers, let us draw near to God, and by living faith lay hold of His promises, that the grace of Christ may be manifest in us. MYP pg 26 par 1
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
He who accepts Christ as his personal Saviour, will love Jesus, and all for whom Christ has died, for Christ will be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. He will surrender himself without reservation to the rule of Christ. MYP pg 29 par 1.
If we come to Christ he will for give are sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled him self, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. SoC pg 1 par1
The first step is when you see your need of christ, so then you repent of your sins, and confess the things you did wrong, then you are consecrated and give your self to christ, and then faith puts us into action, and then to accept the power of Christ through his promises, the next step is the test of being a disciple, and then we grow in christ, and then live like him and have the knowledge of God, pray without ceasing, and then rejoice in the Lord.
The son of god consented to die in the sinners stead, that man might, by a life of obedience, escape the penalty of the law of God.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Adam saw that Christ was the only door of hope through which he could enter and have life. SoC pg 2 par 2
