Amish Voice, January 2017

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things, the devil has lost you, and you

have passed from death to life.

John 5:24:

Verily, verily, I say unto

you, He that heareth my word, and

believeth on him that sent me, hath

everlasting life, and shall not come

into condemnation; but is passed

from death unto life.

But there is more:

Romans 8:31

What shall we then say

to these things? If God be for us,

who can be against us?

He that spared not his own Son, but

delivered him up for us all, how

shall he not with him also freely

give us all things?

Who shall lay any thing to the charge

of God’s elect? It is God that

justifieth.

Who is he that condemneth? It is

Christ that died, yea rather, that is

risen again, who is even at the right

hand of God, who also maketh

intercession for us.

Is there anyone greater than God? If God

has forever proven that He is for you by

not sparing His own Son, who or what

has the power to condemn you? Your

sins can’t; they have been buried in the

death of Christ. The law can’t; it has been

cleared by the righteous blood of Christ.

Your conscience cannot, because the sins

that made it miserable are not to be found

anymore. Even God Himself cannot

condemn you, because He cannot

condemn His Son.

There is still more:

Hebrews 6:17

Wherein God,

willing more abundantly to shew

unto the heirs of promise the

immutability of his counsel,

confirmed it by an oath:

That by two immutable things, in

which it was impossible for God

to lie, we might have a strong

consolation, who have fled for

refuge to lay hold upon the hope

set before us:

Which hope we have as an anchor

of the soul, both sure and stedfast,

and which entereth into that within

the veil.

Do you know why God can offer

salvation to you that is certain and

guaranteed to work? It is because God

Himself has sworn with an oath that He is

satisfied with that which Christ has done

on your behalf. Christ entered into the

place where sinful man was not allowed

to enter—the Holy place behind the veil,

into the very presence of God, where He

reconciled you to God with His righteous

blood. He now offers this hope as an

anchor for your soul, a sure and steadfast

stronghold of promise that will keep your

soul safely secured to Christ; you must

only lay hold of it and make it your

refuge.

Consider this prophecy of the Lord Jesus:

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and

rejected of men; a man of sorrows,

and acquainted with grief: and we

hid as it were our faces from him;

he was despised, and we esteemed

him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and

carried our sorrows: yet we did

esteem him stricken, smitten of God,

and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our

transgressions, he was bruised for

our iniquities: the chastisement of

our peace was upon him; and with

his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned everyone to his own

way; and the LORD hath laid on

him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was

afflicted, yet he opened not his

mouth: he is brought as a lamb to

the slaughter, and as a sheep

before her shearers is dumb, so he

openeth not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from

judgment: and who shall declare

his generation? for he was cut off

out of the land of the living: for the

transgression of my people was he

stricken.

And he made his grave with the

wicked, and with the rich in his

death; because he had done no

violence, neither was any deceit in

his mouth.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise

him; he hath put him to grief: when

thou shalt make his soul an offering

for sin, he shall see his seed, he

shall prolong his days, and the

pleasure of the LORD shall prosper

in his hand.

Do you see it now? Do you see that

surely He has borne your sins; that

literally, He made your sins His very

own, and He bore the shame, the guilt,

and the punishment of them on a lonely

cross? Do you understand that when the

Bible says Christ was

stricken of God

, it

means that God struck Him down,

because in that moment, Christ became

what you are: a sinner condemned to die?

Do you see that the body of Jesus was

wounded and bruised to a bloody mess,

so that the sins you committed in your

body could be forgiven to the

uttermost?

You see, the whole purpose from the

very beginning—the baby in the

manger who was God in human flesh;

the Man, who was perfect in everything

that He did; the Man who was the first

not to obey sin and

temptation,

but

always obey His Father

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