Going to Jesus

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  07-01 Making Jesus Lord 07-02 Exceeding the Righteousness of the Pharisees 07-03 You Will Not Die 07-04 "Taking the �Woe' Off" 07-05 The Most Essential Thing 07-06 "Which No Man Could Gainsay" 07-07 The Strong Delusion 07-08 Wasted Zeal 07-09 Empty Vines 07-10 If Christianity is Not the Family of God, Then What is It? 07-11 Tithes and Offerings, Part One - Tipping God 07-12 Tithes and Offerings, Part Two - Thievery 07-13 Tithes and Offerings, Part Three - The Difference Between Tithes and Offerings 07-14 Tithes and Offerings, Part Four - Where to Bring God's Tithes 07-15 Tithes and Offerings, Part Five - Part of a Holy Life 07-16 Tithes and Offerings, Part Six - "Here, men that die receive them" 07-17 Tithes and Offerings, Part Seven - Two Evils 07-18 Tithes and Offerings, Part Eight - Giving 07-19 Tithes and Offerings, Part Nine - Final Thoughts 07-20 The Attitude of a Servant, Part One 07-21 The Attitude of a Servant, Part Two 07-22 Two Choices 07-23 How Jesus Looked 07-24 Knowing God vs. Knowing the Bible 07-25 Was Having Slaves Sin? 07-26 Your Greatest Trouble 07-27 Voting 07-28 The Only Difference 07-29 Pleasing Everybody 07-30 Liberty 07-31 Hidden with Christ in God

 

Thought for Today
Jul. 05

THE MOST ESSENTIAL THING

We will not be saved without God. Paul said that before we came to Christ Jesus, we were "without God and without hope in the world." To be without God is to be without hope. Contact with God is absolutely essential for anyone who would be saved. How do we have contact with God? He is in heaven, and we are on earth. Paul taught that we have access to God by the Spirit (Eph. 2:18). To be without the holy Ghost is to be without God. Paul made this point clear when he bluntly wrote, "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his" (Rom. 8).

We must repent and receive the Spirit of God in order to be saved in the end because we must have God in order to be saved in the end. Having God in our hearts is the most essential of all that is required of those who would be saved, and anyone who refuses the holy Ghost has refused Him.