The heart of the law is love,
so what is one of the main purposes of the law?
Here's what the Bible says. It says,
Did you catch it?
Let's say that I came here today and I said,
"Hi everybody. I'm Tom Cruise and I'm going to be giving the devotion today.
So just call me Pastor Tom."
First of all, I'd be delusional. I get it.
But what if I actually believe it and you need to convince me that I'm not Tom Cruise?
What would you do? Be kind.
You'd probably say, "Well, Dave, you are taller than Tom Cruise."
This is absolutely true. Thank you very much for being nice.
But you could show me a picture and I could go,
"Yep, that's me!" Or you could say,
"Can I see some ID?" or
"You don't sound like him."
And for all of it, I could just deny it.
But what is the way that you could absolutely convince me that I'm not Tom Cruise?
Well, you show me a mirror, right?
Then I'm forced to see myself for who I really am.
And that's one of the main purposes of the law,
to show my sin, to show that I'm a sinner who needs a Savior.
There's a story about two friends who went out to the lake.
And they were standing on the pier overlooking this beautiful lake.
And a little bit of ways away from them they, they heard this guy
who was screaming out for help.
And he was flailing around. It was very big man.
And the one friend, who couldn't swim, said to the one who could,
"Hey, listen, you got to go out there. You've got to go save him!"
And the friend who could swim just stood there.
And the man kept flailing around saying,
"I'm drowning! I'm drowning!" And the friend who couldn't swim said again,
"I can't go out there. You have to go and save him!"
And the friend said, "Just wait."
And finally, the guy who was drowning gave up fighting
and his head slipped beneath the surface of the water.
And just then, the friend who could swim jumped out,
swam out to him, grabbed him,
pulled him into shore.
The guy was fine.
Well, afterwards the, the friend who couldn't swim went up to his friend
and he said, "Well, what were you thinking?
Why didn't you go save him right away?"
And the friend who could swim said,
"Well, I couldn't. If I would have gone to save him while he was still flailing around,
I wouldn't have been able to save him. I had to wait until he gave up all hope of saving himself."
Do you see the point?
As long as we think that we can save ourselves,
then we don't need Jesus.
Well, that's one of the purposes of the law,
to lead us to the point to say, with the Apostle Paul,
"What a wretched person I am. Who will rescue me from this body of death?
And immediately Paul answers it.
He says, "Thanks be to God. Through Jesus Christ,
I have a Savior who is so much more capable than me.
A Savior who loved me to death on a cross."
Go with that thought today.
The Holy Spirit is equal with the Father, and the Son, and the Trinity.
But often times it feels like the Holy Spirit doesn't have and equal role in our lives.
Pastor Mike, who shares messages with us on 'Your Time of Grace,"
he wrote a book called "The Neglected Spirit."
And it's a book that explores the work and the person of the Holy Spirit
and just how important he is in our lives.
We would love to send a copy to you as a thank you for your donation.
Just click the link and we'll see you tomorrow.
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