SALVATION

Why is there this need for salvation... and from what?

The greatest danger we face in life is the holy wrath of God against our sin. But the glory of the gospel is that the One from whom we need to be saved is the very One who saves us.
   ~ R. C. Sproul 

For a great many people, this “concept” of needing salvation is very alien and inconceivable because they perceive nothing wrong or dangerous in their lives and have limited awareness, if any, of eternity or spiritual matters.
But as an example of impending danger... if a jet taking off from the airport were losing altitude and heading straight for you in your house, you would need to be saved, but you wouldn't know it unless someone came running in there and shouted what was about to happen. So one can see that "feeling" safe is no proof that one is safe at all.
Man desperately needs salvation but does not feel the danger at all.

TRUTH

John 18:37... Jesus is brought before Pilate and interrogated to some extent, then Pilate said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the TRUTH. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.

Knowing God – Learn of Jesus

John 6:51, 53-58...
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
Verse 60... This was a hard saying for many who heard Him.

Our Only and All-Sufficient Portion!

"Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind; and there was nothing to be gained under the sun!" Ecclesiastes 2:11

Our Creator God

Shared July 9, 2023 at Breaking of Bread Service, Wellspring Bible Fellowship

I read Psalm 104 - again. It is an amazing psalm to read and meditate on again and again, as well as all of the Word of God.
 
We worship the Creator God of Psalm 104. The world does not know the God of Psalm 104. Their god is the creature and not the Creator.
 
We are literally surrounded with the work of His Will, by His Word and His Hands; ...a glorious picture of God as Creator and a sweeping view of the world God made. Nothing anywhere is untouched by His creation and wisdom. Because He wants us to see and take pleasure in Him, He not only creates, but He speaks through His creation.
Rom. 1:19-20 says, What may be known of God is clearly seen, for God has made it evident. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are seen and understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

Without the Shedding of Blood

1 Kings 8
I have read this chapter many times... with AWE!
Solomon had finished building the temple after 7 years. And after some additional time, they were sacrificing sheep and oxen while bringing the ark up to the temple....verse 5 says...
King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

Persistent Friend

Luke 11:5-9

5 And He (Jesus) said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves.
6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him.
7 And he will answer from within and say, Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you.
8 But I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
9 And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”