Random Thoughts on the Really Good News

“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says...I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!" (Ezekiel 14:21) DEATH by various natural phenomenon are God's four dreadful judgments. Note that there was not even a hint of eternal conscious torment after death.God has and will continue to send those four judgments ending in death during this present evil again which we live. At the Cross, however, God through Christ Jesus revealed His plan to save all from the DEATH caused by His judgments. This salvation is the result of the LOVE of God for the "ungodly" , all of whom are "powerless" to save themselves from His "wrath" - DEATH. ”You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly…God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much mo...

“And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith… if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost…But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” (1 Corinthians 15:14-20) The cross did not save us from death, it reconciled us to God and revealed the depth of what God would do to demonstrate His love for us. It is His resurrection to immortal LIFE that guarantees our salvation from death… “Christ died for the ungodly… God demonstrates his own love for us in this - while we were still sinners, Christ died for us…For since, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be SAVED through HIS LIFE!” (Romans 5:6-10) The resurrection of Jesus is the good news that the early followers of Christ shared… “This Jesus God has raised up, of...

"For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly...God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us...having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation." (Romans 5:6-11) The Bible teaches that the wrath of God is death and that finishes it. And from death we will be saved by Christ Jesus. It is men who extend death to some morbid place of eternal torment.  One of the strangest things to me are Christians who reason that God does not send people to hell but people choose to go to hell. Assuming there was a "hell" in the traditional sense of eternal conscious torment (whic...

Think about your worst enemy, or the most evil person you can think of. If it was in your power to torture them without their dying for as long as you want, how long would that be? Truth is I am for killing all the low life, rotten excuses for men who prey upon others, especially children. I am for Capital Punishment.  And if there was a hell, I would cast my vote for throwing them into it to be tortured for a while....but maybe not forever. But enough about me, what about God...He actually has the power to do what He wants with wicked, sinful mankind.... “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we wer...