Heart to Heart Volume 1 by Kathryn Kuhlman

Author:Kathryn Kuhlman [Kuhlman, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion & Spirituality, Contemporary Women, Religious & Inspirational Fiction, Fiction, Single Author, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Religion/Faith, Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9781458796011
Amazon: B006U16LJM
Barnesnoble: B006U16LJM
Goodreads: 20426955
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Published: 2011-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

Salvation Is Somebody, Not Something

No one can ever dispute the fact that there is absolutely nothing so hopelessly still or quite so dead as a corpse. Nothing. No doctor, no scientist has yet been able to breathe life into a dead body. Even so, the sinner is just as hopeless without Christ. Without Christ, the sinner is spiritually dead—dead in trespasses and sins. The apostle Paul wrote, “They that are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:8), and Jesus emphasized this same truth when He said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). He also said, “He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation [shall not come under judgment], but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24).

Salvation is the miracle of receiving life. A miracle happened to you when the Lord Jesus Christ touched your life with His own nail-scarred hand and gave to you new life with His nature. That is exactly what we mean when we talk about being born again. Salvation is not something you do, it is something the Christ does when you receive Him. He is the one who does it.

To prove this statement I give you this Scripture: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12).

Therefore, salvation is something that Christ does when you receive him. It is not something that you do. Of course you must come to Him, demonstrating active faith on your part. You must be willing, but from there on out Christ does the rest. He is the One who gives you eternal life.

Listen to Andrew’s words to Simon Peter “We found the Messiah,” “which is being interpreted, the Christ” (John 1:41). Listen to Philip as he speaks to Nathanael regarding his experience of conversion: “We have found him [a person], of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph” (John 1:45). Then hear the words of the woman of Samaria: “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ?” (John 4:29). Finally, are there words more thrilling than Paul’s when he stood before King Agrippa? I can almost see the glory on is face as he speaks:

At midday, O king, I saw in he way a light from heaven ... I heard a voice speaking unto me ... and I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise and stand upon they feet; for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee (Acts 26:13-16).

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