My righteousness for His righteousness, make the exchange today.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
John Calvin

1 Pet 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. The transformation from the old person to the new person is called the born-again experience. Christ nature is lived through us. Paul the apostle said it this way not I but Christ who lives in me Gal 2:20
“Righteousness” is a legal term. It means to have right standing before God. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words defines righteousness as “that gracious gift of God to men whereby all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ are brought into right relationship with God.”

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon

Fidelity In Parlous Times

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Luk 9:57-62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
People respond in various ways to the call for discipleship. Jesus emphasizes that His followers must be willing to face hardships and make sacrifices. This call to discipleship takes a singular focus. If the closest relationships of a disciple’s life conflict with the claims of Jesus Christ, then our Lord requires instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person — our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause— He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. Oswald Chambers Luk 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Jesus encourages His followers—as well as those in the crowd to consider the great sacrifices involved in their decision to become His disciples.
“Only a disciple can make a disciple.” ― A. W. Tozer

Pastor Spada Devotional

My righteousness for His righteousness, make the exchange today.
1 Cor 1:30-31 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness. Charles Spurgeon
Jesus Christ is our righteousness; all other righteousness is filthy rages Isa 64:6. You cannot be saved by your good works, because no matter how hard you try, your “good” is not good enough for the perfectly holy and completely righteous God who alone grants salvation. Nor can you be saved by your moral perfection—no matter how moral or how perfect you are. God sent his Son to die on the cross, to hang there as our sin, to pay the just punishment for sin that we deserved. That is our only hope that Jesus became sin—our sin—and in so doing, he likewise became our righteousness.
2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

How can a man trust in his own righteousness? It is like seeking shelter under one's own shadow.
W. H. MEDHURST

Gen 3:1-7 The Power Of Compromise

Every sin starts with one seemingly small, harmless compromise. A decision to step barely over the line, telling ourselves we can handle it. The very first sin that separated us all from God, started with a tiny compromise. Eve didn’t immediately bite the apple when Satan brought it to her attention. She listened to him, she looked at the fruit, she touched it, then she ate it (Gen 3:4-6).
We weren’t made to be able to handle sin on our own. All sin leads to death (Rom 6:23), and since Jesus is the only one who has defeated death, He is the only one who can save us from our sin and the enemy who hungers for our pain (1 Pet 5:8).

Triggers to watch for
• Anyone who tries to convince us sin is better than obedience
• Anything that tells us God is not who He says He is
• Anything that tells us we will gain more by disobeying God than by obeying Him
• Promises that sin can lead to anything but death
It does not matter whether you are a good or bad example of a Christian, to the unsaved your life may be their only example. Anonymous

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you. Eli E. Stanley Jones

The Lord will not fail. He is the same yesterday today and forever, He knew us before we entered our mother's womb; if He takes care of the birds of the air, He will take care of us, If He arrays the Lilly of the valley, He will take care of us.

1 Pet 1:6-7 "In this, you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

Why I know God will take care of us - God’s nature cannot change. God cannot lie (Tit 1:2; Heb 6:18; Num 23:19).
God cannot change His mind (Numbers 23:19).
God cannot sin or do wrong (Deuteronomy 32:4).
God cannot change (Malachi 3:6).

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Abraham Lincoln

Running the Race

Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

This race represents contest and a conflict – Bringing our life into balance can be an agonizing process.
The Greek word for race is agon from which we get our word agony. The race is a conflict in that there is an internal struggle of the soul.

The Pain Of Moving Forward – It’s Like A Long-Distance Runner
What’s interesting about marathon runners is how in tune they are with their own abilities.

• They know their strengths and weaknesses – understanding your limitation
• They know how to pace themselves in order to conserve energy.
• They set small goals along the way.
• They do not focus on beating the person next to them –

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Make the Exchange Today

My righteousness for His righteousness, make the exchange today.
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own. - John Calvin

2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Through Christ’s death and resurrection, God demonstrated His righteousness. Here Paul refers to the idea of Christians becoming the righteousness of God.

God is none other than the Savior of our wretchedness. So, we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities... Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves. - Blaise Pascal

Make the excellent exchange today Jesus righteousness for our righteousness, Jesus I surrender save me.

What An Awesome God We Serve

1 Pet 4:1-13 “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.”

Serving the Lord is the most significant experience we will ever have in this life. We can learn about the Lord and ourselves during troubled times.

Trials – teach us this situation is more prominent than us, and we have to learn how to trust the Lord.
Trials – teach us we are not all-powerful, and we need the omnipotent Lord. Paul tells in II Cor 12 when I'm weak then I'm strong.
Trials – teach us sin brings pain, destruction, and deception. But Jesus came to save us from our sin.
Trials – teach us to take a look at our life, and our relationship with Jesus Christ. Rev 3:19 "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."
Trials – teach us that pride brings us down to shame.
Trials – teach us that evil exists and that we're in a spiritual war.
My prayer today is that the Lord would give us the grace to bring glory to Him in these uncertain days.

Jam 1:2-4 "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."

It is of no use to say to men, "Let not your heart be troubled," unless you finish the verse and say, "Believe in God, believe also in Christ." Alexander MacLaren

Another Gospel or the Gospel of Jesus Christ - 2 Cor 11:4

Paul is speaking to those who undermine the importance of Jesus’ sacrificial death, burial, and resurrection. Only the message of the cross can lead to the salvation of mankind.
The good news of God’s redemption of sinful humanity through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ.
Rom 1:16 Paul says, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation for those who believe, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”
Another Gospel – Good works gospel, permissive grace gospel, new age spirituality gospel, social justice gospel, my sexual preference gospel, self-help/self-esteem gospel, political gospel, all religions lead to heaven gospel, there is only one gospel: the gospel of Jesus Christ.
“There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.” Oswald Chambers

“The gospel is not ‘God loves us,’ but ‘God loves us at the cost of his Son.'” Derek Thomas

Which gospel will you share?

Jesus, King of Kings

Matt 2:13-15 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

The religious leaders, the Roman Government, and Herod tried to eliminate Jesus Christ and Christianity from the face of the earth, but the resurrection of Jesus Christ changed everything.

And here we go again, they will try to destroy Christianity, but they forgot one important thing: the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ. The antichrist cannot come into power until the Holy Spirit is taken out of this world, we call this the rapture. I just want to remind believers that Christ Jesus is King of Kings. 2 Thess 2:-1 - 17 Paul reminds us not to be soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word. V.7 Lawlessness and deception is already at work. V.8 The Lord shall destroy the wicked one, the antichrist, with the brightness of His coming. V. 6-7 This antichrist has no power until the Holy Spirit is taken from this world. So, believers in Christ, if there is ever a day to proclaim Jesus is Lord and Savior, this is that day.

While many try to ignore Jesus, when He returns in power and might, this will be impossible.
- Michael Youssef

Pastor Spada Faith In The Greatest Kingdom

Rev 13:18 666 the number of man, this system is incomplete; it’s no match for the Kingdom of God. This incomplete system 6 one economic system 6 one governmental system 6 one religious system is a demonic system that tries to dominate the world through manipulation and control can never compete with God’s Kingdom because Jesus Christ is the King of this Kingdom, so people of God pray with me Thy Kingdom Come, Church we may lose the battle. Still, we will win the war in Jesus' name. 1 Cron 29:1, Matt 6:33, Matt 4:17, Luk 12:32, 1 Tim 1:17. Church my prayer for this day Matt 6:9-10.

You don’t have to fear the control and manipulation of this world's kingdom. Jesus, our King, is the King of King's – B. Spada

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