Patti, thank you, thank  you, thank you!!!  My sentiments exactly!  I weary of the debate over who is good enough, who watches enough, who prays enough, who works hard enough.  Is the born-again savage with a bone in his nose in the jungles of Brazil going to be left behind because he doesn’t watch Paul Crouch on TV and read of the latest news on the internet from his hut in a treetop?  Is our worthiness to be called up in the Rapture based on OUR works, or the works of the One Who died for us on the cross?????

 

ALL OF OUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AS FILTHY RAGS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD.  NONE OF US, NOT ONE, IS RIGHTEOUS ENOUGH TO EARN OUR OWN SALVATION.  Is OUR blood more precious than the blood of JESUS?

 

It just does not make sense that Jesus, the sinless Son of God, would die an agonizing, tortured death on the cross, out of His unfathomable love for us, and would set a bar that must be leaped over in order to “qualify” for His salvation.  He said a smoldering wick He will not quench, a bruised reed He will not crush, and a mustard seed of faith is all that is necessary.

 

Jesus said that ALL whom the Father gives to Him are His, and no one shall snatch them out of His hand.

 

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  (Romans 8:1)  End of discussion.

 

Amen and amen!

 

Diane Gilbert