Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
07/23/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 306: Desperate for a Cure
Imagine that your child has a life-threatening illness. You see the danger, and pray for a cure.
You recognize that you are helpless, and you seek the best doctor who is able to help. You put all your trust in the hands of someone else who can bring healing.
When the life of your child is saved, you are filled with joy. Your friends rejoice with you.
Sin attacks the soul of each person; sin is just as real as any disease attacking our flesh.
Once we understand this, it is clear that we need to seek God’s help, and respond with joy to God’s cure. God’s holiness exposes our sin as a terrible disease that we are helpless to cure.
Each person has a desperate need for salvation and daily grace; Christ is the only cure.
Luke 5:31 Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
Jesus came to save people; this implies that people are lost.
Luke 19:10 the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
We cry out to Him, because God alone is able to help us. When God is merciful to cure us, we are filled to overflowing with joy.
The more we recognize the depth of our sinfulness, and the magnitude of the rescue that God performed, the greater our joy will be.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
