Weekly Devotional 1-27-25 God’s Unchanging Message

Weekly Devotional 1-27-25 God’s Unchanging Message

It is interesting that many people of our day cling to a religious persuasion that was engendered in their youth, even though many beliefs (doctrines) within that persuasion have changed over the years, but these beliefs most often reject the unchanging Word of God, the Bible. Why is this? Various reasons are given. Some have said it is because it was the religion of their family and if it was good enough for their family, it is good enough for them. Others hold to these persuasions because of friends or societal circles. Still others have come to believe there are no absolutes to which one can cling. Even the message of the Bible, they claim, needs to be adapted to an ever-changing world.

The above-mentioned people should understand that God does not change nor has His message changed. It does not say one thing to some and something else to others. The Bible is His revelation of Himself, a record of man’s separation from Him, and His work of restoration. Reject the truths of the Bible and a person will be eternally separated from Him. Accept its truths, and reconciliation and restoration are sure. The claim of the Bible in days gone by and presently is that salvation (reconciliation and restoration) is found only in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Peter speaking of the risen Lord said to the Jewish Sanhedrin (and indirectly to us), 12Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).  Jesus, Himself said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). The writer of Hebrews wrote, 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:      “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6    In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin     You had no pleasure.  7    Then I said, behold, I have come—   In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’” Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”

 How clearer can it be? The message of the Bible is the unveiling of Holy God working on behalf of fallen man in restoring them to a righteous state, a state that qualifies them for heaven, the forgiving and cleansing them of sin.  Thank you, Lord, for your clear and precise message.

 

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