JESUS
– THE ONLY SOUL SAVER – THE ONLY SOUL SATISFIER
BREAD
23 for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23 (NIV)
23 For
the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
Romans 6:23 (NIV)
77 “to
give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their
sins, 78 because
of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from
heaven 79 to
shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet
into the path of peace.”
Luke 1:77-79 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16-17 (NIV)
30 He
then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 They replied, “Believe in the
Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household.”
Acts 16:30-31 (NIV)
2 Why
spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the
richest of fare. 3 Give
ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live.
Isaiah 55:2-3 (NIV)
16 You
open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.
Psalms 145:16 (NIV)
You
anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Psalms 23:5 (NIV)
BUTTER
“It is well to be
poor, when the knowledge of our poverty serves but to unfold to us the
exhaustless riches of divine grace. That grace can never suffer any one to go
away empty. It can never tell anyone that he is too poor. It can meet the very
deepest human need; and not only so, but it is glorified in meeting it. This
holds good in every case. It is true of every individual sinner…Grace is the
grand and only resource for us all. It
is the basis of our salvation; the basis of a life of practical godliness; and
the basis of those imperishable hopes which animate us amid the trials and
conflicts of this sin-stricken world. May we cherish a deeper sense of grace,
and more ardent desire for glory!” C H
MacIntosh
“Salvation by
grace - salvation by free grace - salvation not of works, but according to the
mercy of God - salvation on such a footing is not more indispensable to the
deliverance of our persons from the hand of justice, than it is to the
deliverance of our hearts from the chill and the weight of ungodliness. Retain
a single shred or fragment of legality with the Gospel, and we raise a topic of
distrust between man and God. We take away from the power of the Gospel to melt
and to conciliate. For this purpose, the freer it is, the better it is.” Thomas
Chalmers
“There are such difficulties in the way of our salvation as
could never be overcome but by that grace of God which is almighty. ‘What is impossible with men is possible with
God.’ His grace can work on the soul, so as to alter the bent and bias of it,
and give it a contrary leaning.” Matthew Henry
“You will always
give effortlessly to that which is your salvation.” Tim Keller
“The gift of
Christ reveals the Father’s heart. It
testifies that the thoughts of God toward us are ‘thoughts of peace and not of
evil’ (Jeremiah 29:11). It declares that
while God’s hatred of sin is as strong as death, His love for the sinner is
stronger than death. Having undertaken
our redemption, He will spare nothing, however dear, which is necessary to the
completion of His work. No truth
essential to our salvation is withheld, no miracle of mercy is neglected, no
divine agency is left unemployed. Favor is heaped upon favor, gift upon
gift. The whole treasury of heaven is
open to those He seeks to save. Having
collected the riches of the universe, and laid open the resources of infinite
power, He gives them all into the hands of Christ, and says, all these are for
man. Use these gifts to convince him
that there is no love greater than Mine in earth or heaven. His greatest happiness will be found in
loving Me.” The Desire of Ages
“Is it not
wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?” Martin Luther
“Do not give your
heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.” Abba
Poemen
“He who is a
believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content
him for evermore. The believer is not
the man whose days are weary for want of comfort, and whose nights are long
from absence of heart-cheering thought, for he finds in Christ such a spring of
joy, such a fountain of consolation, that he is content and happy. Put him in a dungeon and he will find good
company; place him in a barren wilderness, he will eat the bread of heaven;
drive him away from friendship, he will meet the ‘friend that sticketh closer
than a brother.’ Blast all his gourds,
and he will find shadow beneath the Rock of Ages; sap the foundation of his
earthly hopes, but his heart will still be fixed, trusting in the Lord. The heart is as insatiable as the grave till
Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing. There is such a fullness in Christ that He
alone is the believer’s all. The true
saint is so completely satisfied with the all-sufficiency of Jesus that he
thirsts no more – except it be for deeper draughts of the living fountain.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
·
Jesus
saves me.
·
Jesus strengthens
me.
·
Jesus
satisfies me. He overflows my cup.
