For Love Of God: The Cross

Saturday, October 25, 2008

The Cross

The Cross: The Basis For Reconciliation Pt.1

The Cross: The Basis For Reconciliation Pt.2

The Cross: The Basis For Reconciliation Pt.3

The Cross: The Basis For Reconciliation Pt.4

The Cross: The Basis For Morality Pt.1

The Cross: The Basis For Morality Pt.2

The Cross: The Basis For Morality Pt.3

The Cross: The Basis For Morality Pt.4

8 comments:

David Wyatt said...: Amen!

So bro. Brian, you're back at this blog. Is the "Only Look" one closed out? God Bless.; November 17, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Bhedr said...: Hey brother David! I don't blog much anymore. My wife and I have a facebook site under the name Sandra Brian Hedrick. We spend time on it together and really enjoy it as we laugh together. It is much fun. She got me into it. Come see us if you ever have the time, but I have felt the Lord calling me away from the blogging world for the most part. This is an old blog that I may sort of bulletin post every now and then.

Grace upon grace,

Brian; November 18, 2008 at 1:45 PM
David Wyatt said...: Great!! We are on Facebook too! I'll see ya there!! God Bless my brother!

We've found good thangs in our wives! Mine got me into Facebook as well!; November 26, 2008 at 7:12 AM
Bhedr said...: See ya there and Happy Thanksgiving!

Grace upon grace,

Brian; November 26, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Mattityahu said...: I am praying for you and your family, Brian.

David, I caught your program on BBN yesterday. I really enjoyed it. Also enjoyed the prayer. A great way to take a few minutes and talk with Jesus.; December 6, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Bhedr said...: I treasure your prayers brother. Even today...God provided a need for my family and I. Doing all I can right now. Incidently we are busy running lumber from the Shelby NC plant that they shut down. Those guys are out of work now. God is all we need though in these uncertain times and I am so glad to have Him in my life and be surrendered to Him. Thanks again for your prayers. You are a blessing Matthew.

Grace upon grace,

Brian; December 9, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Mattityahu said...: My big brother, Brian...You amazing son of God. Thank you for everything. You are such a blessing to me, you'll never know. May the peace and love and grace of our Lord Jesus be over you and your family forever and ever.; December 24, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Bhedr said...: Thank you brother....Merry Christmas!; December 25, 2008 at 8:15 AM

Nothing Is Impossible With God!!!

In the book, Life and Works of Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon gives the account of his conversion. This hope is there for anyone who would ONLY LOOK TO CHRIST:It pleased God in my childhood to convince me of sin.… My heart was broken in pieces. Six months did I pray—prayed agonizingly with all my heart, and never had an answer. I resolved that, in the town where I lived, I would visit every place of worship in order to find out the way of salvation. I felt I was willing to do anything and be anything if God would only forgive me.I set off, determined to go round to all the chapels; and I went to all the places of worship; and though I dearly venerate the men that occupy those pulpits now, and did so then, I am bound to say that I never heard them once fully preach the Gospel. I mean by that, they preached truth, great truths, many good truths that were fitting to many of their congregation—spiritually-minded people; but what I wanted to know was, How can I get my sins forgiven? And they never once told me that. I wanted to hear how a poor sinner, under a sense of sin, might find peace with God; and when I went I heard a sermon on "Be not deceived: God is not mocked," which cut me up worse, but did not say how I might escape. I went again another day, and the text was something about the glories of the righteous: nothing for poor me.…At last, one snowy day—it snowed so much I could not go to the place I had determined to go to, and I was obliged to stop on the road, and it was a blessed stop to me—I found rather an obscure street, and turned down a court, and there was a little chapel.…I wanted to know how I might be saved.…At last a very thin-looking man came into the pulpit and opened his Bible and read these words: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." Just setting his eyes upon me, as if he knew me all by heart, he said, "Young man, you are in trouble." Well, I was, sure enough. Says he, "You will never get out of it unless you look to Christ."And then, lifting up his hands, he cried out…, "Look, look, look! It is only look!" I saw at once the way of salvation. Oh, how I did leap for joy at that moment! I know not what else he said; I did not take much notice of it—I was so possessed with that one thought. Like as when the brazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked and were healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things, but when I heard this word "Look!" what a charming word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away! And in Heaven I will look on still in my joy unutterable.

After the Sermon On The Mount, Jesus came down from the Mount and a leper was the first person to meet Him knowing that the Lord was oh so willing to heal him, and then a centurion with a tormented servant knew that all God had to do was just say the word and he would be healed. It is almost the same with salvation. I say almost because God has already spoken the word:

"IT IS FINISHED!"

Believe that He has already spoken and your salvation will be finished as well. Do you hear him from your graves calling out to you and saying,

"IT IS FINISHED!"?

Hear Him now.

Only Look To Christ!!!