This is a weekly series with things Iâm reading and pondering from Oswald Chambers. You can read the original seed thought here, or type âThursdays With Oswaldâ in the search box to read more entries.
It All Comes Down To Jesus
The atheist, or socialist, or Christianâall who look to the future and express a view of what ought to be, see the same vision. They see the brotherhood of man, a time of peace on earth when there will be no more war, but a state of goodwill and perfect liberty, at present inconceivable. There is nothing wrong with the vision, and there is no difference in the vision because its source is the Spirit of God; the difference is in the way it is to be reached. The vision is of the nature of a castle in the air. That is where a castle should be; who ever heard of a castle underground! The problem is how to put the foundation under your castle in the air so that it can stand upon the earth. The New Testament says that the only foundation is not Rationalism but the absolute efficacy of the Redemption of Jesus Christ. âŚ
There is only one thing as futile as the Roman Catholic Church and that is Protestantism. In Roman Catholicism the great dominating authority is Churchianity, the church is vested with all authority. In Protestantism it is what the Book says that is the supreme authority, and a man gets rest when he decides for either. âI am going to give up all the turmoil and let my Church do my thinking for me.â If you put your faith in a Church, it will solve your problems for you. Or you may stake your faith in Bibliolatry with the same result. âYe search the Scriptures, because ye think in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of Me, and ye will not come to Me that ye may have lifeâ (John 5:39-40). Jesus Christ says neither the Church nor the Bible is the authority, but âI am the Way, the Truth, and the Lifeâ; the Church and the Bible are secondary.
From The Shadow Of An Agony
Atheism, socialism, Christianism, Catholicism, Protestantismâall these –isms are manâs ideas.
Our priority should be a personal relationship to Jesus Christ! Stop fighting for an idea; but fight those ideas that want you to choose them over Jesus.
Only One is THE Way, Truth, and Life.
Craig T. Owens 
6 More Quotes From âLight & TruthâRevelationâ
October 27, 2016 — Craig T. OwensâWhat man needs, then, is Jesus; not mere knowledge or wisdom. What humanityâunconsciously and ignorantly, it may beâsighs for, is Jesus. What earth, ruined and accursed because of sin, groans for, is Jesusânothing less than this. No other prophet or priest or king can meet the exigencies of the race and its dwelling, the earth, but Jesus only.â
âWhat is your hope? What is judgment to do for you? What is resurrection to bring? Look at the following alternatives, and ask which is to be yours: Everlasting gladness, or everlasting sorrow? Everlasting glory; or everlasting shame? Everlasting songs, or everlasting wailing? The marriage supper of the Lamb, or the perpetual banishment from all that is good and holy? The new heavens and earth, or the eternal wilderness, with its parched and burning wastes? The heavenly Jerusalem, with the Lamb as its light, or the blackness of darkness? The fruit of the tree of life and the waters of the celestial river, or the eternal hunger and the unquenchable thirst? (Luke 16:24). The first resurrection, or the second death? These are the alternatives before you; and there is no middle room.â
âThe first book of Scripture and the last fit well into each other; the first two chapters of Genesis and the last two of Revelation fit together like the two halves of a golden clasp set in gems. Enclosed between the two is the history of six thousand years. And what a history! What a beginning, and what an ending! It began with the new, and it ended with the newâthe strange checkered âoldâ lying mysteriously between. âIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.â âI saw new heavens and a new earth.ââ
âSuch is the love of God. It is the love of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The Father chooses in His own sovereignty; the Son washes in His own blood; the Spirit purifies and prepares by His mighty power. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us! It is free love; sovereign love; eternal love; unchanging love; boundless love; love which not merely delivers from wrath, but which makes the delivered one an heir of God, nay, the bride, the Lambâs wife.â
âOur title to all this surpassing and eternal glory is simply the blood of the Lamb. He has bought it for His Church; and it is hers forever. The nightless day, the unsetting sun, the incorruptible life, the undefiled inheritance, the new name, the heavenly city, the everlasting kingdomâ all are hers; hers through âthe blood of the everlasting covenant.â She is to walk worthy of it hereâworthy of such a crown, such a heritage, such a city, such a Bridegroom, such a joy. âBe holy;â âbe perfect;â âwalk worthy of the Lord.ââ
âChristian parents! For which of the two worlds are you training your children? For this world, or that which is to come? Be assured that the same training will not do for both.â
If you havenât checked out my review of Light & TruthâRevelation, please click here. You can also read the first set of quotes I shared from this book by clicking here.
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