No Jesus, No God, No Exceptions.
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 pm (Uncategorized)
This “guest blog” is brought to you tonight by Ron Uebel.
Being that our lives, our souls, our eternal state, our affections, our thoughts, and everything else about us has been made beautiful by Jesus Christ, we benefit our souls and the souls we attempt to minister to, by often auditing or constraining our hearts toward HIM. DELIBERATELY!
In other words, deliberately thinking on Him and His Work for our souls is the chief food for our new man. Some saints from the past called this purposeful thinking or on-purpose thinking, “meditation”.
One of the chief truths we can think on to the uplifting and sanctification of our soul is summarized well in a quote from Stephen Charnock. He is the author of a fruitful book called The Existence and Attributes of God. His faith has been made sight by the way.
Before you read the quote, let me preface it quickly. All believers know that there is no God for us outside of Jesus…no God who is for us outside of Jesus Christ. Sometimes that thought is not as near to us as it needs to be and we need to again, in a fresh way, think on it again: That God is not available for us without Jesus. GOD WILL NOT HAVE IT. He will not have us, even His ELECT without us being in Christ. He will not PERMIT us approaching HIM without approaching Him in His Son. He is thunder, smoke, and an untouchable Sinai of which was said “even if a beast TOUCHES it, He will be destroyed”. Even if we think we mean well and “innocently” reach out to “steady the ark” as Uzzah, we will be consumed.
So… No Jesus, No God, No Exceptions.
Quote–“God, apart from Christ, is an angry, offended sovereign. Unless we behold Him in and through Christ, the Mediator, the terrors of His majesty would overwhelm us. We dare not approach the Father except in Christ because of our sins. We first fasten our eyes upon Christ, THEN upon the Father. If Christ does not bear our guilt or and reconcile us to God, WE PERISH! Before any man can think to stand before the face of God’s justice and fury against sin or be admitted to the secret chamber of God’s mercy or partake of the riches of His grace, He must look to and be found in the Mediator, Christ Jesus.” - Stephen Charnock
Aaron said,
January 3, 2007 at 8:27 pm
The information was great. It shows that God is really the same God in the New Testament as in the old. I believe that if we remember that more often the grace of Christ will become much more real to us.
Ron said,
January 4, 2007 at 12:03 pm
|Our attempts at worshipping God outside of Jesus are antichrist|