So, what does the scripture mean when it
says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse
of the law?
As it's written, curse it is everyone that
hangeth on a tree.
We were under the curse, he became a
curse for us, he went down into the
grave, and now he has risen again in
triumph, and he's able to save from the
uttermost those who come unto God by him.
Have you trusted him?
Have you ever acknowledged the fact that you're
a sinner?
Have you ever come to God confessing your
guilt?
This, you know, is really repentance, and God
commanded all men everywhere to repent as they
come to the knowledge of the truth.
When I take my place before God as
a self-confessed sinner, when I cease trying
to hide or to cover my guilt, when
I acknowledge that I'm just what God says
I am, lost and undone, that's repentance.
And now, as a repentance sinner, I put
my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ who
died for me, who shed his precious blood
that I might be cleansed from all my
sins.
And the moment I do that, the moment
I thus receive him, the blessing of Abraham
comes to me.
Do you remember what the blessing of Abraham
was?
God said to Abraham, in thee and in
thy seed shall all nations of the earth
be blessed.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the seed of
Abraham after the flesh, and he's the one
through whom all blessings come.
What blessing is it that I receive when
I trust in him?
Well, I receive the blessing of salvation, and
that includes regeneration, a new heart, a new
life, a new birth, and also forgiveness of
sins and justification from all things.
So, I'm blessed with all spiritual blessings and
heavenly places in Christ when I trust his
blessed Savior.
You know, even if I could be justified
by works of my own, I wouldn't want
it now because I found such a wonderful
Savior in Jesus.
I would rather owe everything for eternity to
him, and be able to give him alone
the glory for saving my soul, than enter
heaven and give myself the credit for it.
Because it means so much more to think
that God's own blessed Son thought enough of
me to come all the way from the
glory that he had with the Father before
ever the world was, and to lay down
his precious life, a ransom for my guilty
soul.
This little hymn I love to sing, O
Jesus, O Jesus, how vast thy love to
me!
I'll bathe in its full ocean to all
eternity, and wending on to glory this all
my song shall be.
I was a guilty sinner, but Jesus died
for me.
O Calvary, O Calvary, the thorn crown in
his ear, is there thy love, Lord Jesus,
in flowing wounds of fear.
O depth of grace and mercy to those
dear wounds I flee.
I was a guilty sinner, but Jesus died
for me.
I'm coming, I'm coming, Lord Jesus, to thy
throne.
A few more fleeting hours and I shall
be at home.
And when I reach those pearly gates, then
I'll put in this plea, admit a ransom
sinner, for Jesus died for me.
That's the ground on which I'm going to
heaven.
Let me give my personal testimony.
Fifty-three years ago, I came to the
Lord Jesus Christ as a sinner.
I knew I'd broken God's law many times.
I knew that I was under condemnation.
I knew that that law was to me
a ministry of death, a curse.
But I found that Christ had given himself
a ransom for my soul.
I trusted him, and oh, the joy and
the blessing that came to my heart when
I realized that because of what Christ had
done, God had delivered me from the curse
of the law, and that blessing of Abraham,
free unmerited grace, was mine through faith in
the blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
And you know, I've spent the years since
trying, as well as I knew how, to
point other people to Christ.
It's been such a joy down through the
years to see oh so many turn to
him and give the same testimony when they
came to him, when they trusted him.
He was more to them than they ever
thought he would be.
And now I just press this upon you.
If you don't know him, if you've never
yet trusted him, turn to him today.
Receive him now as your own savior, and
you will know the joy of the blessing
of Abraham.