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Contentment: God’s Will or My Will (Part II)

Shellie May 24, 2019 Bible Leave a Comment

I love Elizabeth Elliot. A wonderful straightforward woman of God said -Contentment is a command. My mother used to say “Behave yourselves.” Contentment is really taking yourself by the scruff of the neck and behaving yourself when you are feeling discontent about anything. It’s being still.” Contentment is the heart of a woman content and at peace with her Savior, …

Contentment. God’s Will or My Will? (Part 1)

Shellie May 24, 2019 Bible Leave a Comment

I see around me a world that seeks happiness and contentment in things, feelings, people and even self. Their god, as ours once was, was our selves. Seeking to satisfy our souls with empty minutes of what we thought was happiness. In reality, it was merely distractions for our insatiable appetite for sin. It was all about me. There is …

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The gospel is the good news about what Jesus Christ has done to reconcile sinners to God. Here’s the whole story:

The one and only God, who is holy, made us in his image to know him (Gen. 1:26-28).
But we sinned and cut ourselves off from him (Gen. 3; Rom. 3:23).
In his great love, God sent his Son Jesus to come as king and rescue his people from their enemies—most significantly their own sin (Ps. 2; Luke 1:67-79).
Jesus established his kingdom by acting as both a mediating priest and a priestly sacrifice—he lived a perfect life and died on the cross, thus fulfilling the law himself and taking on himself the punishment for the sins of many (Mark 10:45; John 1:14; Heb. 7:26; Rom. 3:21-26, 5:12-21); then he rose again from the dead, showing that God accepted his sacrifice and that God’s wrath against us had been exhausted (Acts 2:24, Rom. 4:25).
He now calls us to repent of our sins and trust in Christ alone for our forgiveness (Acts 17:30, John 1:12). If we repent of our sins and trust in Christ, we are born again into a new life, an eternal life with God (John 3:16).