It was so good to see you and your beautiful family! What a great game! The word for this week is "obtain". We see it in these two verses:
2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. KJV
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: KJV
Both of these are the Greek word "tugchano". Strong's Concordance says "to hit or light upon (as a mark to be reached), to attain or secure an object or end, to happen. Thayer's Greek Lexicon adds: to hit the mark, to reach, attain, obtain, get, become master of. The Theological Dictionary says: The fact that man, even though very high demands are made on him, cannot "achieve" salvation on the basis of his own attainments, is unobtrusively brought out. The best message of the new birth is that there is NO possiblity that any one of us could ever 'obtain' eternal salvation on our own! This is not something that can be earned or it would not be God's FREE Gift of Salvation! His plan was for us to receive His Good News, believe it in our hearts and then speak it over our lives. With all of the freedom that we have as New Testament believers, there are still those who keep trying to BE good enough. Our acting right will NEVER be 'good enough' for us to become righteous by our own works. It takes the miracle of the New Birth for us to have access to the throne of our Father! But once we DO obtain this glorious salvation through FAITH in JESUS and all that He has done for us, we must keep increasing our faith to believe so that we can continue to walk in the TRUTH and see people set free! Here is Hillsong with "Search My Heart":
Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!
