Salvation comes solely through faith in Christ's atoning sacrifice, not through human-made rules or self-effort. The sermon emphasizes that while a lifetime of sin cannot be undone by a deathbed repentance, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin, as stated in 1 John 1:7. It contrasts the futility of human prohibitions and ascetic practices, as seen in Colossians 2:20-23, with the sufficiency of Christ's work on the cross. The core message is that Jesus is the substitute for everything, but nothing can substitute for Him, offering true freedom and peace.
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That's our wake-up theme song reminding you it's time again for moments of melody. A minister talking about deathbed conversion said to a Christian woman, Do you think that deathbed repentance does away with a whole life of sin? No, she answered quietly, but Calvary does. Could ceaseless prayers ascend, could tears forever flow? The soul were still unblessed, unsaved, and peace would never know.
But faith's one look at Christ, expiring on the tree, one heart-believing glance at him, can set the sinner free. We read in I John one, verse seven. The blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth us from all sin. Notice those last words. Cleanseth us from all sin. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wreck like me.
I once was lost, but Now am found, was mine, but now I see. Was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed.
To many dangers, trials and sleds, I had Now here's God's word for your day. We hope you can pause for a few moments as we read. St. Paul's letter to the Colossians. So if through your faith in Christ you are dead to the principles of this world's life, why as if you were still part and parcel of this world's system, do you take the slightest notice of these purely human prohibitions?
Don't touch this, don't taste that, don't handle the other. This, that, and the other will all pass away after use. I know that these regulations look wise with their self-inspired efforts at worship, their policy of self-humbling, and their studied neglect of the body. But in actual practice, they do honor not to God, but to man's own pride. We are saved by the Lord Jesus' death on the cross.
He's the one who cleanses from all sin. We're not saved by doing or not doing things. Remember, the Lord is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for the Lord.