Thursday, February 23, 2006

A Benefit Of Salvation: An Abundant Life

"I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. The thief cometh, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:9-10

Plain and simple, Jesus came so that we might be saved and He came so that through Him we would have an abundant life! Jesus came so that we might be preserved and He came to deliver us from all danger. Jesus came so that we might be delivered from the power, pleasure, presence, and penalty of sin. Jesus came so that we might have health and so that we might be delivered from all earthly ills. And Jesus came so that we might be saved from all of the evils that would ever obstruct our reception of our Father's deliverance. Jesus came so that we might have all of these blessings in abundance!

The Truth is also that now is the time of our abundant salvation! Now we have life, now we have Jesus, and now we have the Holy Ghost dwelling within us, and we now have it all abundantly. Look throughout the Bible, Paul and Silas sang songs of praise while they were in Jail. Peter slept so soundly in jail, even though they had killed James the day before, that the Angel had to slap him to wake him up to deliver him. Stephen was being stoned and He still cried out for his killers’ forgiveness. You talk about abundant lives, these guys were filled with the fullness of God to live in such abundant peace. Jesus and Peter needed to pay their taxes, so they just caught a fish that had the exact amount of money in its mouth that they needed! You want to talk about abundance; Jesus had a thief in charge of His moneybag. Go ahead and steal Judas, our Father was supplying their needs according to His riches and glory! There is no one, including satan, that can steal from us fast enough to overcome our needs being met by our Father's riches in glory in Christ Jesus abundantly!

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