Gospel Exploration

“All the fitness He requireth is to feel your need of Him”

“Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy”

Joseph Hart, Traditional American Melody

It is not the healthy that need a doctor, it is the sick. The deluded that believe that they are healthy will never go to the doctor. All Christ asks us is to believe the truth that we are sick and in need of a Healer. He is the only one that can cure us.

We are not saved by any works that we have done, but by the sinless life and sacrificial death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our human nature inclines us to try and add to Christ’s work. The only equation that is valid in the gospel is Jesus + NOTHING = Everything. There is nothing we could do or should do in order to receive favor or forgiveness from our Lord.

Believer, do not think that you can serve the Father in some better way than He has ordained. Do not fall into the trap that salvation was a past event; Christ’s work is past, present, and future. The gospel is just as relevant to us now as it was when we first saw the light. We could not save ourselves and we cannot sanctify ourselves either.

Unbeliever, let nothing make you hesitate coming to Christ. There is none who is too sick for Christ to heal. “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

The gospel is not about being saved and trying to be better, or being good enough for Christ to be willing to save you. “For while we were yet still sinners, Christ died for us.” All He requires of us is to feel our need of Him, and to believe His promises that He is able to save to the uttermost (completely; at all times). Do or do not, there is no try. You either believe in the finished and perfect work of Christ, or you do not.

May the Holy Spirit work in us to believe the amazing grace of the gospel in a deeper way! Praise God that nothing is expected of us except to see that we are great sinners that need a great Savior, who loved us before the foundation of the world!