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.