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NASB | Luke 13:3 "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 13:3 "I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish. |
Subject: Jesus taught "absolutes" re- eternity |
Bible Note: Our Lord Jesus Christ made some statements which are "absolutes" in light of eternity. # 1 "...unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."( Luke 13:3) Jesus was discussing the Galileans who were murdered by Pilate and also eighteen people who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them. The question was "were these people greater sinners and as a result died an untimely death" Jesus made it absolutely clear, NO! and then gives this solumn warning: "except you repent you shall likewise perish" What is repentance? Repentance is not simply feeling sorry for our sins. It is a change of mind and will which is brought about from within our hearts as the Spirit of God reveals to us our lost and sinful condition through his word. When I repent, I bow to the God's view of me as "ungodly and without strength" (Romans 5:6) it is at this point I am made aware of my great need of a Savior which is found in Christ alone. These wonderous words say it all "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." (Romans 5:6) #2 "...Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."(John 3:3) This message to Nicodemus would show to us that in our natural condition we cannot see or enter the kingdom of God. To this man a teacher of the teachers was a humbling statement, since he was a man of integrity and very religious, to find out that unless he is born from above he cannot enter God's kingdom. Nicodemus is confused, but Jesus unfolds the truth to him by discussing old testament events which pictured the coming Saviour and his work on the cross. In John 3:14 Jesus makes this imperative: "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up" Why must he be lifted up? "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:15) This does not refer to believing about him, accepting his historicity, but is an act of faith whereby the lost sinner who has repented, rests "his all" upon the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. As a result of placing faith in the finished work of Christ we "have eternal life"v15.(present possession) Jesus summerizes "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath no believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God" (John 3:18) Is it any wonder that Peter makes this statement? "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) Robert |
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