ASSURANCE OF OUR CHRISTIAN RELATIONSHIP

                                    "He hath given assurance to all men" Acts 17:31

                                                        Edward Proffitt, Th. D.

 

The seventh word from the cross begins like the first word on the cross. It begins with the word "Father". The first word from the cross, "Father" (Luke 23:34), was for the benefits of others. The seventh was a personal word of His own. It has to do with a personal relationship that Jesus Christ, the Son, had with His Father God. A relationship that "whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord" (Acts 2:21) can have. 

 

God initially created mankind for fellowship with Himself. That fellowship was broken by the fall of humanity into sin, but "God so loved...that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish" (John 3:16). Jesus Christ came to pay our debt of sin and to restore us unto that fellowship that the Father wanted in the beginning.

 

As God's created being we are more than bodies and minds. We are "spirit, soul and body". (1 Thessalonians 5:23):

   ***By the BODY, we are world conscious.

   ***By the SOUL, we are self-conscious.

   ***By the SPIRIT, we are God conscious.

However, at the fall all became spiritually dead, "of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:17). Jesus died to restore fellowship with the Father, He died to give us new life through a spiritual rebirth, "you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sin" (Ephesians 2:1).

 

This personal relationship with the Father comes through childlike faith. "Father"! How simple and childlike that expression is. Through receiving Christ by faith, we become the children of God, "As many as receive Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12). This new relationship makes.us part of God's family. As a part of God's family all believers become sisters and brother in the family of God. Because of that new relationship the many promises of provision from the heavenly Father become ours. No religious act can bring about this relationship, only faith in Christ can do that, "through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved" (Acts 15:11).

 

After the faith changing experience we can have absolute assurance of life after physical death. When Jesus Christ said "Father into thy hands I commend my spirit" (Luke 23:46) are many lessons:

   ***Jesus was in full command in His last moments.

   ***He was in perfect relationship with His Father.

   ***He had perfect reliance on His Father for everything beyond earth. 

   ***He was completely submitted to the Father's will.

   ***He triumphed over death.

   ***His death was entirely voluntary.

   ***He expressed His human spirit the assurance of its destination.

   ***He came to die, not just as a moral example.

   ***He was the substitute for sinners.

   ***He fulfilled His mission as called for by the prophetic Scriptures.

As we come by faith to the one who died for us, we become a child of the heavenly Father. We will than experience His peace in the most trying of any and all of life's situations. There is no better ASSURANCE than that.

                                 HOW IS YOUR CHRISTIAN ASSURANCE!!!!

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