Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Jesus says: "Come unto Me, and I will give you rest."




As I watched this video, and listened to the song, I thought all sinners,-(no matter where they are in their sinful life)- need to see their sin is an offense to God. Surely the Gospel is good news for the sinner, and Jesus will receive any sinner. But every sinner must come to Him in "repentance" and faith.

When Peter was with Jesus on the boat fishing, and Jesus tells him to cast your net on the other side, and Peter brings in an incredible catch, Peter's heart is broken, and Simon Peter says, "Depart from me Lord. I am unworthy of You."

This is the heart every sinner needs, and then God will welcome this once soul that was under His great wrath into His arms and life forever and ever. Amen.

My point here is that Satan is subtle, and he comes as an angel of light. The devil has schemed and lied and developed a culture in our day of:

 "You don't need to repent, Jesus loves you, and He begs you to come to Him and make Him stop weeping."

That's not the Lord of Scripture, and not our Lord who is in heaven, and who rules with righteousness and power, and demands sinners to repent.

Repentance is essential, and we need to know that.

4 comments:

Craver Vii said...

Right. The call is not that a consumer is offered to Jesus' benefits. It is the call for sinners to come to Jesus... to receive Jesus. And I like that you chose that particular interaction with Peter to show what it looks like when an honest sinner comes to the realization of his position before a holy God. When we see those encounters in Scripture, we see people falling prostrate or crying out, "I am undone!"

donsands said...

Good words Craver. Thanks brother.

Paul G said...


"This is the heart every sinner needs, and then God will welcome this once soul that was under His great wroth into His arms and life forever and ever."

"This is the heart every sinner needs,"
Yes brother Don, but the sinner does not have that kind of a heart. His heart is desperately wicked, beyond cure, and only the Lord Jesus can give the sinner that new heart, if He wills, and he doesn't get a new heart by repenting,and only with the new heart the sinner is able to repent.

"and then God will welcome this once soul that was under His great wroth into His arms and life forever and ever."

Don, this s absolutely NOT true! And you should know better than that.
That is not in the Bible, you have made that up, out of your emotional interpretation of the Scriptures.

I thought that you believed in the doctrine of predestination, but I surely was wrong.
The Lord Jesus does not need a repentant heart from a sinner, or anything else favorable from the sinner in order to welcome him into His arms.

And the sinner doesn't need to repent in order for Jesus to love them. The Lords love is unconditional and does NOT depend on repentance or any other condition.

Brother, you ought to preach the doctrine of the Apostles and not the doctrine of your Church.
Kind regards
Paul

donsands said...

Paul,
The Word is the truth, not what you think or what I think.

And he [Jesus] answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."-Luke 13

I thank my Lord that I repented. Yet, as Paul the Apostle said, "...by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me". So I say the same: By His grace I was able to repent and believe in His death and ressurection, and so God the Father's wrath has been laid upon Christ, and Jesus drank the cup of His Father's wrath for my sins, and not for mine alone, but for all who will repent and believe the Gospel. Amen.