Thank You Jesus for Pastor Tullian.
Billy Graham did a great work in bringing the son, and then a grandson who came into the world to make it very clear.
We do not need help.
We do not need assistance.
We need life.
We need grace.
We need God.
God does not need us.
However, despite the fact that man is nothing of himself, churches still present this idea that we can do many things, but we need God's help for the big things.
What does the Bible say?
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15: 5)
We have to rest in the truth that in ourselves, we have nothing. This revelation enabled Abraham to receive all things from God:
"16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be." (Romans 4: 16-18)
Abraham saw the good that God is doing in our lives. He did not consider his own dead body, but considered rather the living Word and the testimony of the Lord Jesus.
Abraham tried in his own efforts to get a child, and the result was a weak and sickly child, and he had to be cast out so that when the child born of grace, based on promise had come, there was no more place for man's efforts.
We take no credit for anything that we do. None.
We do not need help. We need life. We do not need self-help, or tips on how to use God for our ends. We need divine help, and in every aspect of our lives, because He is our life (Colossians 3:4)
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