DB.072.VIKING BOER – A Diamond in the Sand – PART 2

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DB.072.VIKING BOER – A Diamond in the Sand – PART 2
A Diamond in the Sand PART 2

What are some of the riches that he gives with his salvation? Here is a verse ‎that speaks of them. Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us, wisdom, righteousness, ‎sanctification, and redemption. These are all qualities that in our impoverished state as ‎sinners we are totally bereft of. But let a person take Christ as their Savior and all these ‎qualities in their perfection and super-abundance will be theirs through the blessed ‎Savior.

Wisdom: in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. All the ‎efforts of this world’s philosophers never devised a way for a sinner to be cleansed from ‎their sins and made fit for heaven, but God through Christ not only devised a plan but ‎carried it out. Before the foundation of the earth was laid, God knew His Son would ‎become a man and die for his creature’s sin, as the one way those sins could ever be put ‎away. It was God in his supreme wisdom that made such a plan, while his perfect love ‎carried it out. We can enjoy all the benefits of that wisdom when we make Jesus Christ ‎ours through faith.

Righteousness: in our sinful condition, God describes even the best of us as having only ‎‎filthy rags for righteousness. However let a person believe in Christ and the work he ‎did on the cross, and they will be made the righteousness of God in him the moment they ‎believe. For he hath made him to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness ‎of God in Him. Don’t think that you can be made righteous some other way such as by ‎law-keeping, or religious observances. No matter how sincere you are in these things ‎they will never make you righteous. They can’t do it. There is no power in them. Instead, ‎they will only bring you into bondage to what the Bible calls weak and beggarly ‎elements. Why go on in such abject poverty when God’s grace is so rich and free, and ‎he is so willing to account you righteous the moment you believe in his Son? The ‎only way to be justified or accounted righteous is through faith in Christ. But to him that ‎worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for ‎righteousness.‎
Sanctification: this word means to be set apart from God. The Lord Jesus is the ‎light of the world, and without a real faith in him, people are set apart to sin, and darkness, ‎and headed towards hell. But when a person turns to Jesus Christ for salvation, God will ‎forgive their sins and set them apart for his special care for time and eternity. When the ‎apostle Paul was converted on the road to Damascus the Lord Jesus spoke to him direct ‎from glory and gave him a special commission to the Gentiles. He was to go to them to open their eyes and to turn them from the power of Satan unto God, that they ‎might receive the forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified ‎by faith in me. The forgiveness of sins and an inheritance in heaven only belong to ‎those who are set apart by faith in Christ.‎

Redemption: redemption means deliverance with power. Death had such an ‎overwhelming power over us through sin that it was going to bring us all down into an ‎everlasting hell. Jesus Christ went into death, and conquered it for us, rising out of the ‎grave. In his victory over death, he became our great redeemer. Believe in his name and ‎redemption will be yours. Death and hell will have no more claim on you. Then you can ‎say Job of old, I know that my redeemer liveth. For the believer trusting in Christ, ‎the powerful enemy of death has been completely destroyed forever. ‎

When a person repents and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ they go from the ‎utter poverty of being a sinner to possessing eternal life and all the riches that come ‎through faith in Christ. They are riches that no thief, nor murderer, nor government of ‎man can ever take from them. Every sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus has passed ‎through a rags-to-riches transformation. Won’t you take him as your Savior so that you ‎can leave the rags and ruin of sin behind, and possess the riches of salvation through ‎Christ?‎

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.‎
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