Gospel of powerful Savior

Gospel is a great message of the hope given by God. It is a light in the darkness you should look to.  For those who believe it it is a power into salvation. For those who ignore it it is a stumbling stone. Gospel is a message  which can change  your future, if it is accepted it guaranties a great future with the Lord, if it is rejected it will testify against you as you are under God's wrath. We  sometimes do not fully realize  the significance of the great truth. If you are aware  of what are you saved from, you will appreciate the great message in which God gives you the way out. The fact about  God's coming wrath  is very often taken as a sort of dormant volcano. We ignore it, we put our feet on it, we may drop a stone into it, and the volcano is quiet.  We think God doesn't respond. When we look at the  world around  us in the news; facts filled with crimes, injustice and we think people just get away with everything and we wonder where is God in all that? The truth is if His justice came right away we ALL would be a subject to condemnation. Including the apparent' good " people as there is no one without sin.
( Romans 3;11)

In the world we live in the name of Jesus often causes offense- the only name by which people can be saved. We don't realize that postponed judgement that is to come from God is result of God's love and grace. He doesn't want you to be condemned! His patience is to give you time to escape into a safe place coming to the Savior of the world.
But there are many who are lost because they  do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as  their Lord.

They underestimate the  power of Christ as many remember him only  as a crucified man. Man of sorrows, betrayed and killed.  So we should be looking also at Christ glorified. He is not in the grave any longer  because He  is risen, He is not here because He has ascended and sits at the right hand of God and makes intercession for us. He is not coming as a judge now, because He is waiting for to come to Him to be saved.
We as believers would like Christ to come right away because for us it means seeing our Savior, but for the rest of the unbelieving world it means judgement. So if you want Christ to come quickly- share the gospel message with the lost world!

Coming to Jesus it is not coming to the dead image of a dead man, it is not coming to a little baby Jesus nursed by a woman. We must look to the Lord " that lives and was dead and is alive for evermore and has the keys  of hell and of death." Revelation 1;18
We have to look  to glorified Jesus who said: " All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." (Matthew 28;18)
After remembering Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane in His  bloody sweat then  dying on the cross, now  we find Him risen  in glory surrounded with  the omnipotence. He has received the privilege, honor, glory, fullness and power that lifted Hm far above the sons of men.
He is no longer the sufferer but a sovereign, no longer a victim but a victor, no longer a servant but a Monarch of heaven and earth.

"He went down into awful depths of unutterable agony  to save us and now  all power in heaven and earth  belongs to Him as our Redeemer and Covenant Head." Ch.Spurgeon.

As we think about the words " all power" we can see omnipotence given Him by his Father. That includes the power over creation, the power of sustaining that which has been made, the power of making alive, the power to pardon and to condemn, to give and withhold- all this has been placed in authority of Jesus Christ our Lord.
                                                           "All power in heaven"
Jesus has divine power. Whatever God can do, Jesus can do, whatever belongs to God, it belongs to Jesus. " All what the Father has, is mine." (John 16;15)
"If it were His will to immediately fold up creation like a worn out garment  ( Hebrew 1;10-12)  the elements would pass away ( 2 Peter 3;10) and the heavens would be shriveled like a scroll ( Isaiah 34;4). Angelic hosts are waiting in midair to obey the commands of Jesus. He who was despised and rejected by men ( Isaiah 53;3) now commands the homage of all heaven as the One who was given all the power in heaven and earth by the Father. "


" All power in heaven " relates to the providential skill and might with which God rules everything in the universe. He holds  the reins of all created forces  and impels or restrains them at His will giving force to law and and giving life to all existence. Jesus is Lord of all for the Father has committed all things into His hands.  ( Matthew 11;27)

                                                           "All power on earth"
If a man could rule over all his fellowmen, he still would not all power on earth, for there are other forces he has no control over.
Deadly diseases and natural disasters,  power of nature  laugh at the power of men. Even before being glorified Jesus demonstrated power over nature where wind and waves obeyed Him, when the fig tree withered at His spoken words.  ( Matthew 8;27)  ( Matthew 21;18-22)

He is the One whose power will raise all the  people who have ever lived  back to life, either to eternal life with Him or to the judgement.
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
 Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man."John 5;24-27

" By sickness, pain and death the proudest princes have been forced to recognize that, after all, they were only men."  Ch.Spurgeon.
All can understand in our weaknesses  that power belongs to God alone.  When He entrusts a little bit  of  it to the sons of men, some  usually tend to boast about it. But it ALL belongs to God and now given in the hands of Jesus. We keep waiting when His name will be honored by everyone.

At the present time Jesus Christ the Lord is indeed ruling over the earth (and indeed over the entire universe), however He is not yet reigning on the earth.
There is coming a day when everyone who has ever lived and everyone who ever will live will bow their knee to the name of Jesus.
Troubling events we hear in the news may distress us but there is coming a day when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians  2;9-11

"Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father."

One day all rebellious sinners may hear these words of Jesus Christ, “During that long day of grace, I was the Savior whom you were insulting and despising, and I would have forgiven you. But  you chose to ignore my grace. Today I am your Judge. Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire!”


Matthew 24;37-39 says that all who are ignoring the message of salvation, the second coming of Christ as a judge may take them by surprise;

"As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."

Rejecting God's grace  now will have its consequences in the future;
"(...)when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.  (2 Thessalonians 1;7-9)

Those who don't want to know Jesus now, they will have to know Him later at  His second coming in glory and power. But it will be already too late for salvation as the time of grace is now.( 2 Corinthians 6;2)

God's coming judgement is described in a powerful way;
"Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt, and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless. I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger." (Isaiah 13:6-13)

So now is the day of salvation.
Jesus  is living and accessible Savior and He  is able  to save anybody  that comes unto God by Him. Hebrew 7;25
The New Testament offers wonderful, complete forgiveness of all sin made possible by the death of God's own son, Jesus, on our behalf. The full power of his resurrection enables those who follow Jesus to live whole and godly lives. Furthermore, Christ promises that his bride, the true church, will escape from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:10)
Don't wait until it is eternally too late! Accept Him as your Savior and Lord today. Know that you will spend eternity in His presence.

How much do we care?

Do you know that most people who are perishing and going to hell are the ones who don't care?  Those who simply  don't care what will happen after they die.
Not  necessary the bad ones as lots of sinners in the time of Jesus repented and came to Him for forgiveness.  Also the  " apparently"  'good' ones are the most 'endangered'.  I say 'apparently' as they give all the impression of being good and  think  of themselves as good people.
Luke 18;11-14 talks about one example
"The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.  I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’  But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
The Bible says no one of us is good enough on our  own, and the 'righteous' to themselves need to see they also need a Savior. The other careless group of  people is the one  enjoying  only the present time and  for whom all the worldly things seem to take over. 
Happy as long as there is  a  good retirement plan, but what about the eternal plan of salvation ? Nobody said you will die at the age of 90 so you have time to wait, God can call you earlier at the age of 40 or 50  or any  other time. It might be  by surprise.
We read that those who don't know Christ will pay the price. A severe, terrible price. In referring to this price Jesus is talking in Matthew 24;38-20
"For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."
The parable is clear. A message of  judgement was proclaimed at the times of Noah as it is now. People didn't listen much at that time, people don't  care much in these days. People could be saved in Noah' s ark, people can be saved in Jesus now. There came  judgement of flood, next there will come the judgement of fire.
"In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." 2 Thessalonians 1;8-9

Whoever was to hide in the wooden ark was to be saved, whoever will hide in Jesus and His cross will be saved.
If God didn't give up  the judgement  in Noah's generation,  He is also  not going to give  it up at Christ's return. In both situations people had enough time to change and choose life with God Until Christ comes it is your time to get right with God. Don't put it off so you  wouldn't have to be taken by surprise.

"But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment." 2 Peter 3;10
The era of Noah was a sad one. People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.. Gen 6;11
Such rebellion was breaking God's heart. He even regretted creating it.
Only Noah and his family responded to His call and they and the animals were saved. Whoever responds to Christ's call will be saved also.
When the  door of the ark was closed and it started to rain- it was too late for anybody else. When Christ will come second time, the door will be closed as well.If you don't  know Him you will pay the severe price.

You would ask, why should I know Him? Are you sure there is such a place as hell? Isn't God love? How would He sent anybody there?
His justice and holiness requires the punishment of sin.
When Christ was teaching  thirteen percent of the  of His  teaching is about judgement and hell. More than half of His parables refer to God's  eternal judgement  of sinners. No one spoke of hell more than Christ did. He spoke about it so much to let you know where you don't  have to go if you put your trust in Him!
He is our high priest interceding for us. You need to be forgiven to be able to avoid God's eternal punishment. And that sin- forgiveness is only from Jesus.
God is giving everybody a chance, a chance to escape the horror of eternal hell, and if you choose to ignore it, there will be no mercy after Christ return.

We all celebrate Easter, we all know what happened before Easter, we know Jesus had to go through lots of pain, cross and experience of separation from God.  If   God's judgement wasn't real and wasn't  terrible, Christ wouldn't have to worry about saving us from that. We would die for our sin, God would resurrect us and say, " I forgive you" and that's it. If God's Son experienced the separation from God and pain, surely will those who will die without Him.
Don't choose  the worldly things  to captivate your minds so  much and become careless person.
You might know Jesus ' dead'  only on the cross and you don't know  how much your life depends on Him. Get to know the real resurrected Christ who has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

When John saw Jesus on the island of Patmos, he was amazed. John's encounter was far too different  from any in Galilee. The impression was so powerful that John was knocked out cold." When I saw Him I fell in a dead faint at his feet." Rev 1;17

John describes; "He was dressed in a long robe and had a gold band around His chest.". The significance of the robe  and band  is great. Jesus is wearing  the clothing of a priest who presents people to God and God to people. He is at the right hand of God interceding. Rom 8;34

He is the one who can wipe away your guilt. He is the one who doesn't want you to perish.

We also see absolute strength. "His feet were like bronze  that glows hot in a furnace" Rev 1;15 

He comes to you gentle.
"His voice like a noise of a flooding water." The sound of His voice soothes a soul.
 
"Coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword" Rev 1;16
The truth of His voice  pierces a soul.
He knows everything about you, He knows  your heart, every thought, every sin of yours and wants to wipe it away when you come to Him. "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Hebrew 4;12

 He doesn't want you to experience judgement;
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life." John 5;24





He wants to give you life;John 10;10
"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full"  John 10;10

He laid His life for you;
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep" John 10;11



He is alive and He is definitely coming again;
“Look, he is coming with the clouds,
    and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him;
    and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.
So shall it be! Amen." Rev 1;7