No matter under what flag you were born or that you hail from nobility, regardless of the colour of your skin, irrespective of the language you speak, inconsequential of the denominational label on your religious jacket, despite all the political clout you have, a "Paid in Full" stamp will not appear on that receipt of your soul unless certain spiritual currency has been spent on your behalf. That this spiritual currency will ever have been spent on your behalf must be requested by you. What is this spiritual currency in the first place, you ask? It is blood. Freedom in this world as won through war cost blood; so too will freedom from Satan's grip as wll cost blood, the blood of the Lamb of God."which takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).
King or serf, prince or pauper, protestant or catholic, despite what anyone whispers in your ear or shouts from the rooftops, in Acts 10:34 Peter says, "God is no respecter of persons." He goes on to say that, "In every nation that fears him (God), and works righteousness, is accepted with him." That goes for individuals too. Hebrews 7:25 assures us that, Jesus "...is able to save completely those who come to God through him." Whenever you are told otherwise and whatever you are otherwise told, no man or thing created by man or religious organization, building or icon, can provide the spiritual currency necessary to purchase your soul. 1 Corinthians 7:23 says, "You are bought with a price..." and all are reminded in Hebrews 9:14, that the "blood of Christ through the eternal Spirit was offered without spot to God...to serve the living God." 1 Peter 1:18, says you "...were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." You need only believe.
To know that you have the "Paid in Full" indelibly printed across your soul, is to have responded to God's sacrifice on the cross. To keep us mindful of what God did, John 14:6 tells us that, "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life." Jesus said before he went to the cross that he was the way, the truth and the life and that no one could get to the Father but by him (John 14:6). To become without spot and blemish there must follow a washing of the soul. 1 John 1:7 tells us that, "the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin." That washing occurs when a person becomes the property of God and has that "Paid in Full" etched on the soul. How does it happen? 1 John 5:1says, "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God..." The hesitant, the balkers, the silver tongued, the argumentative, the self-righteous and all who are just too smart for heaven would do well to heed what Acts 4:12 has to say. It says, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
1 Corinthians 1:18 tells us that, "...the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." Ephesians 1:7 tells say that "we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins and... with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Romans 10:10) "and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). The request from you entails a call to receive Christ as Saviour and to serve him as Lord. The blood of Christ, that spiritual currency, will cleanse you from sin (given that you ask). Finally, once washed by the blood of the Lamb, you will be one more to live forever in the presence of the Lord having become one stamped with that "Paid in Full" across your soul. http://www. geocities. Com/ baba labean. Also on 106.9 fm on chrq Sundays at 8 a.m. Sponsored by CFP Concepts, Inc., C'ton, NB