HOW SWEET IT IS!

5-1-2009. . . .How Sweet It Is! (REPOSTED)

“Life now is sweet and my joy is complete cause I’m saved, saved, I’m saved.” This wonderful refrain of an old hymn expresses the state of every believer! We are saved Immediately. . . .we are being saved Continuously. . . . and we will be saved Ultimately! From what are we saved? ‘Immediately’ from the penalty of sin! For the wages of sin is death;… (Rom 6:23a KJV) (Justification) We are being saved ‘Continuously’ from the power of sin! But now you are free from the power of sin and are slaves of God…. (Rom 6:22a TLB)) (Sanctification) We will be saved ‘Ultimately’ from the presence of sin! (Glorification) For all creation is waiting patiently and hopefully for that future day when God will resurrect his children. For on that day thorns and thistles, sin, death, and decay --the things that overcame the world against its will at God's command-will all disappear, and the world around us will share in the glorious freedom from sin which God's children enjoy. (Rom 8:19-20 TLB) Hallelujah! The old television star Jackie Gleason had a saying whenever he received or felt vindication for something that turned out his way. He’d smile and say, “How Sweet It Is!” When we think of our salvation, we can smile and happily exclaim the same! HOW SWEET IT IS!

Prayer: Thank Lord, for saving me and giving me eternal life! How wonderful it is to be your child and to one day come and live with you forever. I can never thank you enough! Bless your holy name. Amen!

Eph 2:8-13. . . .For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. KJV