Today's Proclamation for 07-28-2025

  • Jul 28, 2025
  • Michael Blank
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls of ALL ages, there are several ways to present the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ. However, this one has a special place in my heart.

Without the preaching of the Cross – without preaching to ourselves ALL Day and EVERY Day about the Cross, we will very quickly revert to Faith plus works as the foundation of our Salvation. How do you answer this question?

IF you were to die tonight and you are getting entry into Heaven; what would you say as to WHY you should be allowed into the pearly gates?

IF you or I answer that question in the First Person by saying any phrase that starts – because “I” . . .   we have immediately gone wrong! We might say – because “I” believe or because “I” have Faith or because “I” am this . . .

Loved ones, the ONLY proper answer is IN the Third Person – Because HE – Because JESUS PAID IT ALL and ALL to Him I owe!

Think about the thief on the cross next to Jesus! He gets to the Pearly Gates and he gets the same question – WHY should you be allowed into Heaven?

The thief says – I don’t know!  What do you mean, you don’t know? Honest enough!

You’ve never been in a Bible Study – you never got baptized – you’ve never taught Sunday School – you’ve never sang in the choir – all your life, you have been a thief. And yet you are here – YOU MADE IT!  On what bases are you standing here?

Thief says – The MAN on the middle Cross - JESUS SAID I CAN COME!

THAT is the ONLY answer we can GIVE to the Angel at the Gate to Heaven or any person who might ask us the Eternal Question about where you will BE when you die for ALL of Eternity –

Because JESUS SAID I COULD!

Without the preaching of the Cross – without preaching to ourselves ALL Day and EVERY Day about the Cross, we will begin to trust myself, trust my experience, which is part of my fallenness as a man. IF I take my eyes off the CROSS or the empty tomb, I will then only give lip service to His Lordship – He died for me! Am I living as if my Salvation depends upon me? If we go there, it leads to abject despair or horrible kind arrogance. We become our own god!

IT is only The Cross of Christ that deals with both the dreadful depths of despair and the and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says – I can figure this out and I am doing wonderfully well.

We are NOT saved by Good Works! We are NOT saved as a result of our professions. We are SAVED as a result of what Christ has achieved – IT IS FINISHED!

AS IT IS WRITTEN IN   Ephesians 2:4-10

But God, who is rich in Mercy, because of His great LOVE with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us ALIVE together with Christ (by His Grace you have been Saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the Heavenly places IN Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His Grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by Grace you have been Saved through Faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the GIFT of God, not of any works, lest anyone should boast.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for Good Works, which God prepared beforehand that we should WALK in them.

Dear ones, these words are simply overwhelming as we consider His Great Grace! I don’t deserve His Grace – I didn’t earn His Grace – where would I BE without Your Grace?

Our Prayer this day is a SONG:  Blessed Assurance by Alan Jackson

VIDEO LINK = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vfqYwfTqlE

Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine, Oh what a foretaste of Glory Divine

Heir of Salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long

Perfect submission, perfect delight – Visions of rapture now burst on my sight

Angels descending bring from above, echoes of Mercy whispers of Love

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long

Perfect submission, ALL is at REST, I in my Savior am happy and Blessed

Watching and waiting, looking above, Filled with His Goodness, lost in His LOVE

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long

Music video by Alan Jackson performing Blessed Assurance. (C) 2017 ACR Records, LLC Under license to Spring House Productions, Inc.

Portions taken from Truth For Life – Alistair Begg

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HALLELUJAH!!!

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