"I am only one, but I am
one. I can't do everything,
but I can do something. What
I can do, I ought to do. And
what I ought to do, by the Grace of God. I will do." Anon.
Dear Friends,
The picture of the
sunflower among the mum is a picture I took one summer. It
reminded me of the verse above. We as Christians cannot do
everything but we can do something. God will help us do what we
ought to do for Him. I have been trying for most of my life to
do whatever I could to give out God's Word. Many times when we
do that we stand alone. But like the sunflower we should stand
straight and tall for the Lord no matter what. His grace is
sufficient!
I have taught the Bible for
over 40 years and have been a Discussion Leader in Bible Study
Fellowship for 18 years. I have written many articles and
curriculums for Union Gospel Press and other articles for
Christian magazines. I also am presently teaching Bible
studies at my church. My goal has always been to give out the Word
of God in all its truth.
No matter what phase in
life I am in, God has always given me something to do in a way of
ministering to others. Today I am writing the Tender Talks for
my family, friends, shut-ins, the elderly and any one who wants
a tender talk of encouragement. So browse into the Tender
Talks for your encouragement today. And don't forget to browse
the Extra Tender Talks each month and the Kids Tender
Talks.
Sincerely in Christ,
Joyce Felske
Do You
Know?
1. WHO JESUS
IS.
He is God, the Son.
John
1:1,2 – “In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with
God.”
John
1:14a –
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among
us.
2. HOW HE WAS
BORN.
Of a
virgin, as prophesied in the Old
Testament
Isaiah
7:14 – “Therefore the Lord
Himself will give you a sign; Behold the virgin shall conceive and
bear a Son, and shall call His name
Immanuel.
Luke
1:30,31 - “Then the angel said to
her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with
God. And behold, you
will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His
name JESUS”.
3. WHY HE WAS BORN
Because of our sin and God’s love for
us
Isaiah 59:2 – “But your iniquities have separated you
from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, So that
He will not hear.”
Habakkuk
1:13a
- “You are of purer
eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on
wickedness.”
Isaiah
64:6 –
“But we are all as an unclean things, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away.”
Jeremiah
17:9 –
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked who
can know it?”
4. WHY WE HAVE
A SINFUL NATURE.
Because of man’s first disobedience to God’s
command.
Genesis
2:16,17 – “And the
Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘of every tree of the garden you
may freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely
die.”
Romans
5:12 – “Wherefore, as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned.”
5. THE RESULT OF OUR
SIN
We will die physically and
spiritually.
Isaiah
13:11 – “And I
will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.”
James
1:15 – “Then when lust has
conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings
forth death.”
Romans
6:23a – “For the
wages of sin is death.”
Ezekiel 18:20a
- “The soul that
sinneth, it shall die.”
6. THE GREAT
LOVE GOD HAS FOR THE WORLD
He sent His
Son to take the punishment for our sin.
John
3:16 –
“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, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world, but that the world through him might be
saved.”
Romans
5:9 –
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were
still sinners, Christ died for us.”
7. WHAT CHRIST’S
DEATH MEANS
Jesus, the sinless Son of God, was the only one qualified to
die for us.
God’s wrath toward sinners is satisfied through the death of
Jesus = PROPITIATION
Jesus redeems us from sin, setting us free from its bondage
by His death = REDEMPTION
God declares us righteous before Him and He sees our sins no
more = JUSTIFICATION
Saved from the
penalty of sin = Past
Romans
3:24,25a –
“Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus: whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood.
Saved from the
power of sin = Present
Romans
8:1a –
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus.”
Saved from
the presence of sin = Future
Romans
6:22 –
“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you
have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting
life.
HOW TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD AND HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE
Believe that Jesus is God’s Son
and that He came into the world to save you from sin’s penalty of
death by taking the penalty upon Himself. Accept it by faith
(believing it to be true in your life) and your sins will be
forgiven and God will put Jesus’ righteousness upon you and will see
you as righteous. You
can only gain eternal life if you have on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans
8:1 –
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.”
John 3:37 – “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.”
©
Joyce Felske, 2000
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