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I came across this request email when going through eBiblefellowship's requests:
Dear EBible Fellowship,
Thanks a lot. I got the bible I requested for this morning along with some tracts. I pray that the good Lord will bless you abundantly. Your efforts in making one to be worthy on the last day will not be in vain in Jesus' name. I will appreciate it if you can please send me books that can be read to nourish my spiritual soul.
Thanks once again.
Yours in the Lord,
Olorunfemi
It's good to see that Olorunfemi is so happy to receive the Bible, but it seemed almost as if he meant that Christians can make themselves worthy of salvation or praise from God. We know this can never be. Isaiah 64:6 says "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Genesis 32:10 "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands."
Psalm 31:1 "<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness."
Psalm 143:7-12 "Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant."
We surely are beset with enemies to our soul's good, but the greatest of them is ourselves. We are sinners, so steeped in sin that we cannot stop: Romans 3:10 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:". Well does four day dead Lazarus symbolize our condition (see John 11, [John 11:39 "Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?" ).
As time passes without God's intervention, we only rot worse and worse in sin. While a believer should pray unceasingly for sanctification, that he might more and more have the mind of Christ and forsake sin, it is only by the power of God that he does so. All the praise and all the glory goes to God.
Ephesians 1:6, "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. "
Philippians 1:11, "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God."
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