Bob Cassell, Messenger

Psalm 68:11, The lord gave the word.

2 Peter 1:4, Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.

Revelation 1:3, Blessed is he that reads (His infallible word).

Matthew 4:4, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

2 Timothy 3:15, From a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16, All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be mature thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Luke 11:28, Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.  

Psalm 119:9, Where shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to your word.

Psalm 119:11, Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:105, Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my pathway.

Proverbs 30:5, Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

John 17:17, Your word is truth.

Hebrews 4:12, The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit and is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  

 2 Timothy 2:15, Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.     

John 8:31, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed.

Psalm 138:2, For you have magnified your word above all your name.

Christ the only Savior

I Timothy 2:5, For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

I Timothy 1:15, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me.

Proverbs 14:12, There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 

Man’s tragic future without Christ

Hebrews 9:27, It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

Luke 12:15, A man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

Mark 8:36, For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You can know you have eternal life

I John 5:11-13, And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.

John 20:31, But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life through his name.

What must you do?

John 17:3, And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 3:36, He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.

John 6:47, Truly I say unto you, he that believes on me has everlasting life.

John 6:28-29, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he hath sent.

Isaiah 1:18, Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Ephesians 2:8,9, For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.

Hebrews 11:6, But without faith it is impossible to please him.

Matthew 11:28, Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

John 6:37, And him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. 

John 5:24, Truly I say unto you, he that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 3:3,7, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. You must be born again.

John 11:25,26, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.  

John 3:16,17,18, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Vs 17, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Vs 18, He that believes on him is not condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  

Mark 16:16, But he that believes not shall be damned.

There will be an accounting

2 Timothy 2:19, Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal the Lord knows them that are his.

2 Corinthians 5:10, For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; (believers) that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad. (this occurs in Heaven)

Romans 14:12, So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Galatians 6:7, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

What he did for us

Romans 5:8, But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Peter 2:24, Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.

1 Corinthians 15:3, Christ died for our sins.

Acts 4:12, Neither is there Salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Do not neglect or delay

Hebrews 2:3, How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?

2 Corinthians 6:2, Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Romans 2:23, For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Your doings, his done

Acts 16:30, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Acts 16:31, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.

1 John 5:13, These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Romans 5:1, Therefore being (having been) justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 14:27, My peace I give unto you, let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Philippians 4:7, And the peace of God that passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 5:7, Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.

1 John 1:7, But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son keeps on cleansing us from all sin.  

Matthew 22:37, YOU shall Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

1 Corinthians 2:9, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

The necessity to express

Jeremiah 20:9, But, if I say I will no longer speak in his name, his word is in my heart like a fire burning, a fire shut up in my bones, I am weary of holding it in, indeed I cannot.

Amos 3:8, The lion has roared, who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken, who can but prophesy? (Tell forth)

Job 32:18-22, For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me; inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst. I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and reply. I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter any man; for If I were skilled in flattery, my God would soon take me away.

We marvel and are awestruck

Amos 4:13, He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, he who turns dawn to darkness, and treads the high places of the earth, the Lord God Almighty is his name.

Amos 5:8, He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land, the Lord is His name.

Listen to learn

Deuteronomy 32:1-4, Listen O heavens and I will speak; hear O earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. I will proclaim the name of the Lord.  Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

Isaiah 45:6-8, From the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create disaster; I the Lord, do all these things. You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I the Lord, have created it.

Isaiah 48: 12-13, 16-19, I am the first and I am the last. My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, my right hand spread out the heavens. When I summon them, they all stand up together. Come near me and listen to this, from the first announcement I have not spoken in secret, at the time it happens I am there. I am the Lord your God who teaches you what is best for you and who directs you in the way you should go. If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness, like the waves of the sea. Your descends would have been like the sand and your children like its numberless grains; their names would never be cut off nor destroyed before me.

FEAR

Psalm 27: 1-2, The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall, I fear? The Lord, is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell.

When it is clearly declared, in the word of God (and it is) that fear has no place in a believer’s life, there is sound spiritual, psychological and physiological reason for this strong admonition. When fear dominates the life rather than trust or faith in the person of Christ or when there is ignorance or neglect in claiming the abundant promises in the word of God, the individual becomes neutralized and can no longer live a victorious Christian life. There is no advancement on the spiritual battlefield of life and Satan is please to stop us in our tracks.

A believer in Jesus Christ is never to surrender but is to advance and realize that the prize is already won.

To the extent we surrender to our fears, to that same degree we perpetuate the fear. When we perpetuate the fears, we expand our capacity to fear even more. When our capacity to fear is expanded, the power of fear is increased. When the power of fear is increased, we tend to live by fear, when we live by fear we become intimated by life itself. What a pitiful and defeated way of life for believer in Christ to live!

A statement from my Dad from many years ago still rings in my ears… “a quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”

The prize that is already won is eternal life through Jesus Christ; therefore, we are not only conquerors but more than conquerors through HIM that loved us. It is his love for us and not our human love for him… see Romans 8:37, “Nay, in all these things (vs 35, tribulation, distress, persecution peril, etc.) we are MORE than conquerors through HIM that LOVED us.”

Notice it is his love for us that is the compelling force! Aren’t you glad it is not your love for him that compels? Why? Because his love for us is complete and absolutely perfect. Our Love for him is weak, vacillating and far from perfect. Therefore, rest in his abounding and perfect love for divine operating assets that are more than sufficient to enable your forward and effective advancement in Cosmos Diabolicus. 

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Eph.6:10-11).

To fear is failing to trust. To trust is to stand in his mighty power and not your weak human flesh. I commend you to one of the most assuring and powerful scriptures in the word of God…

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness (Isaiah 41:10).