Back in the day my mom had a collection of records. For the younger generation, I’m speaking of records that are played on a record player, not the kind that are in the Guinness Book of World Records. I think every record she owned was either country and western or gospel. She also bought a lot of albums from the old K-Tel commercials that were so popular back then.
One of her albums was a collection of gospel songs from various artists. One song, in particular, I’ve remembered all these years. After twenty-five years as a Pastor and being in church services from various denominations, reading countless hymnbooks and just being actively involved in church for nearly four decades; I’ve never heard this song anywhere else besides that album.
The song is doctrinally wrong. After all these years the album is long gone and I’m not sure what the name of the song was but as I remember it, the song wanted God to look at the works an individual did when it comes to judgeing them for salvation. The song spoke of all that a person’s hands do and when it comes time to judge, God should look at the person’s hands.
We are not saved by our works, or our feelings, or the religious rituals that we may participate in. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me (John 14:6).”
We are all sinners, every one of us. Some people think that they are not that bad of a sinner. They have the opinion that what they have done, everyone else has done, and
Others point out that you cannot get into heaven based upon good works alone; if you could, then Christ’s sacrifice would have been meaningless. To gain salvation, you must receive God’s grace,
• Titus 3:5- Teaches that hter is no possible way to obtain salvation by our good thoughts or good deeds, “ Not by workds of righeiusness which we have done bu according to His mercy He saved us throught the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Salvation is defined as the deliverance from sin and its consequences. In a Christianity sense, salvation is when a person accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior, and they believe the fact that he died for the sins of Christians. The term of salvation is often referred to as being “saved”. Salvation is when one delivers not only their body in a physical to the church and God, but it is also a committee to Jesus mentally and spiritually. Getting saved can be a very pressuring and life changing decision. That is sometimes forced upon young adolescents. Ultimately it can cause one to question their spiritually sometimes even damaging their belief in Jesus. In Langston Hughes’
Smaller 48 RPM’s were a huge one. These allowed kids to have their owns personal records in their room instead of having to use the one that was typically left in the living room for 75 RPM’s. Transistor radios were also a big thing at this time. Kids could go anywhere and listen to what they wanted to. Another way people heard music outside of their homes and records were from the jukeboxes at local clubs and hangout spots.
There is another Patsy Cline Museum in Nashville that has items belonging related to her musical career. This house focuses and features exhibits relating to Patsy’s personal life and her items such as clothing, photos, and furniture.
As was discussed during our first post for the week, Capon (2002) stated, “You judge yourself by taking your stand on the law’s demands rather than on my righteousness which is yours for the believing” (p.368). The Gospel demonstrates that God has provided everything for our salvation including the death of His son. The only thing we need to do is to believe. Kinnaman, S. & Lane, L. (2010) stated, “While other religions teach that something must be done to earn God’s favor and salvation, Christianity teaches that Jesus has already secured our salvation. God reaches out to people in Christ, rather than people reaching out to God” (p.37). It is critical to comprehend that to stand on the law means to try to justify oneself before God on account of our own actions. The truth is, that we cannot follow God’s law to perfection, and can never accomplish what it demands.
Her hand slapped time against her thigh as the final notes of the Bishop Brothers Gospel Quartet’s rendition of I’ll Fly Away rang through the air. Sarah was barley cognizant of the shouts of praise filling the auditorium. Lee Green, the song leader, had worked the overflowing assembly to fervor with his selection of hymns and the Bishop Brothers had the rapturous crowd on its feet, rhythmically clapping their hands to the music, ready to receive Sister Sarah’s message. As she waited for Brother Green to call her to the stage, she silently prayed for Divine inspiration; her long slender fingers tenderly caressed the tiny gold cross hanging
Though the old testament of the bible states these are sins, the bible also says that Christians are to love one another no matter what. Along with this, the bible states, “When they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said ‘He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone”’ ("John"). Often one sees these people shunning those of faiths and preferences contradictory to those of the church. Believers have become intolerant of anyone who does not fit into their Christian subculture, breaking one of the coveted rules of their
At the end of the day we all sin and God knows because he is watching down on
This paper on Salvation is defining both objectively and subjectively from the two required reading text. The first text is written by Alistair McGrath’s “Theology: The Basics and the second is written by Dr. Yung Chul Han’s “Transforming Power: Dimension of the Gospel. I will describe how the both texts are in association as well as seeking observations, and other conclusions to gain a better understanding of salvation from both perspectives. According to (Mc.Grath, p.78), the word salvation is referred to as something that has already happened in the past, to something that will happen in the future. Spiritual transformation requires of us what is called dependent responsibility. All the moral commands and exhortations of scripture assume our responsibility. Salvation is deliverance from danger or suffering. The word salvation carries the idea of victory, health, or preservation (www.biblia.com). Salvation can be viewed as a spiritual transformation which the dependency of the Holy Spirit assist in the change of a believers past, self to a vessel of God in the present lives which exemplifies life, deliverance, peace, and a victory won through personal conviction. The victory is one that only Jesus Christ has authority save us which gives believers complete approval to have possession to enter the kingdom of heaven.
When he sacrifices himself, he is achieving salvation because he is on the
but when we look outside the bible we can see many people accepting Christ but still sinning. Salvation is the act of saving someone but in this case, salvation appears as an everlasting spiritual life. People with the different religion believe that salvation is possible in their religion through their own gods. Nevertheless, the truth is that Jesus is the only way to get eternal life. Therefore being a Christian is important in order to get salvation.
We as the elected one can not lose our salvation, Because God has elected and Jesus has redeemed, and Holy Spirit haas applied salvation for us, and thus saved are eternally secure. Simply it said , “Once saved, always saved.”.
Although we were not saved by works, we are called to respond to God by doing the works he prepared for
Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. The Scriptures are clear that there is no other name by which man can be saved but by Christ alone (Acts 4:12). One can only be delivered by the power of sin through the Lord Jesus Christ. In John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” The same exclusive statement is made in John 10:7-8 when Jesus said, “Truly, Truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers.”