05- 09- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (John 15:13)
GOD’S GREATEST PROMISED IN THE BIBLE
13- “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
In this world, we have what we called the greatest athlete, the greatest man, the greatest singer and we can go on and on… But the question is; until when and what’s the assurance that that man’s greatness will last forever and will never change. In the Bible, Paul talked about the greatest love of God and this love of God is forever. (I Corinthians 13:13) “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” In the Scriptures, Apostle Paul also talked about the greatest promised of God. And Paul was talking about the promised of salvation. (Romans 10:9- 13) 9- “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10- For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11- For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12- For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13- For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” The good thing about this salvation is; we can be sure of this great promised of God from the Bible about our salvation. The good thing about the salvation that God has promised us is that; we can be sure of it too. There are those who preached about salvation by good works, through religious rituals and other means. And they tell the world that no one can be sure of it, but the Bible said we can be sure of it. In (I John 5:10- 13) Apostle John gave us his very clear points about salvation and the reasons why we can be sure of it: 1- We believed and we have a witness, in verse 10- “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.” 2- God has given us the record and that record is in His Son. In verse 11- “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” 3- We have the Son of God in our heart. He dwells in our heart when we received Him as our Lord and Savior. In verse 12- “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 4- The Bible said so, in verse 13- “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” So, not only that God has the greatest promised for us which would be our salvation and it was given to us through the death of His Son for free to anyone who wants to accept Him in their heart. And we can be sure of this salvation by grace through faith and repentance. The best thing for us to know is that, we are secured and that salvation is secured in the hands of Christ our Savior and in the hands of God the Father. In (John 10:27- 30) 27- “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28- And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29- My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30- I and my Father are one.”
