God freely justifies the persons whom he effectually calls. He does this, not by infusing righteousness into them but by pardoning their sins and by accounting them, and accepting them as righteous. This He does for Christ's sake alone and not for anything wrought in them or done by them. The righteousness which is imputed to them, that is, reckoned to their account, is neither their faith nor the act of believing nor any obedience to the gospel which they have rendered, but Christ's obedience alone. Christ’s one obedience is twofold – His active obedience rendered to the entire divine law, and His passive obedience rendered in his death.
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#1 · September 28, 2005, 11:28 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Word for Today, Wed, 28 Sep 2005: Go
Dear friends,

When God tells us what to do or where to go, it is a really good
idea to listen to Him -- the FIRST time.

Yours in Christ,
Brian
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September 27, 2005

THE "GO" OF RENUNCIATION

Lord, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest.

Luke 9:57
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=lu+9:57&sr=1

Our Lord's attitude to this man is one of severe discouragement
because He knew what was in man. We would have said - "Fancy
losing the opportunity of winning that man!" Fancy bringing about
him a north wind that froze him and "turned him away
discouraged!" Never apologize for your Lord. The words of the
Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to hurt or
offend. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything
that is ultimately going to ruin a man in the service of God. Our
Lord's answers are based not on caprice, but on a knowledge of
what is in man. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word
of the Lord that hurts you, you may be sure that there is
something He wants to hurt to death.

V. 58. These words knock the heart out of serving Jesus Christ
because it is pleasing to me. The rigour of rejection leaves
nothing but my Lord, and myself, and a forlorn hope. "Let the
hundredfold come or go, your lodestar must be your relationship
to Me, and I have nowhere to lay My head."

v. 59. This man did not want to disappoint Jesus, nor to hurt his
father. We put sensitive loyalty to relatives in place of loyalty
to Jesus Christ and Jesus has to take the last place. In a
conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus Christ at all costs.

V. 61. The one who says - "Yes, Lord, but ..." is the one who is
fiercely ready, but never goes. This man had one or two
reservations. The exacting call of Jesus Christ has no margin of
good-byes, because good-bye, as it is often used, is pagan, not
Christian. When once the call of God comes, begin to go and never
stop going.

MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers //
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http://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/my_utmost /

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