“Thomas said to (Jesus), Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way? 6. Jesus answered, I am the way the truth and life. No one comes to the Father but by me.”
We are going to be repeating some things in this article, but they answer the question given in the title: What do we have in Jesus? We have the salvation from sin that only Jesus can provide. Jesus said, explicitly, “No one comes to the Father but by me.” Jesus is the only One who died on the cross to save us from sin, and it is by faith in Him that we are saved. We have God’s grace that is only provided through Jesus – God the Son. His coming announced God’s grace to the world, and His coming fulfilled God’s grace in the world. Grace means that we get what we do not deserve. God pronounced that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) Romans 3:10 tells us that “there is none righteous, no, not one.” Through Jesus we “have been justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." We have God’s love that has been revealed to us through Jesus Christ. Well, we will just have to go to John 3:16 again: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 1 John 4:19 tells us, “We love (God) because He first loved us.” That love was fulfilled through the coming of Jesus Christ into the world. We have God’s power to overcome the world through Jesus Christ. “Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:5) As Paul came to the end of his great chapter in 1 Corinthians 15, he wrote: “But thanks be to God that He gives us the victory through Jesus Christ.” Overcoming the world is not a “do it yourself project.” Only Jesus can help us overcome Satan. We have God’s guidance by the Holy Spirit through Jesus.. Jesus promised that when He ascended to the Father, He would send the Holy Spirit. “Howbeit, when He the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.” It is by the Spirit’s power that we are convicted of our sins, and it is through the Spirit’s power that we are enabled to follow in the steps of Jesus. Well, these are a few of the things that we have in Jesus. Pause now and give Him thanks. Bro. Joe
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