FP 40 Cause & Effect

Getting it Straight

I can’t believe 40 days have gone by already. What a blessing FIREPROOF the movie has been and will continue to be to literally hundreds of thousands of people who have turned their lives around, solidified their marriages and relationships, and set them on a path toward God as never before.

What I hope you’ve gained out of all of this is how passionate your personal relationships can be as a result of a passionate, loving, giving God who calls each one of us up higher, and causes us to realize that He alone can fireproof our hearts, our homes, and our lives.

I have had so many who’ve responded to this email series with positive strides in their Christian journey that I’m considering continuing in some format with a daily, quick scripture teaching or summary of some type. If you’d like to receive these mailings, I’m going to set up a new mailing list for it. I don’t want to assume that everyone wants them in their inbox in whatever frequency we decide to send them out so if you’d like to be included on the mailing list for this, CLICK HERE and you can send us an email to that effect. Our regular mailing list will remain as is and will go back to being used for special or weekly announcements and time sensitive communications for TVCC’s family of supporters.

For today’s FP 40, let’s pick up where we left off yesterday. The key to living a life of faith through the power of the Spirit is not being confused about what is the cause and what is the effect of our salvation.

For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. Romans 5:10 (NLT)

We are saved one way and one way only: Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We have absolutely nothing to do with what He accomplished; it was His sacrifice alone – not ours. Jesus caused us to have the availability of this new relationship as He opened the pathway to the Father for us. Jesus caused sin to have no more power over us as He broke the chains of darkness and death that were held by Satan and his minions. Jesus caused unbroken fellowship for each one who will accept the gift of eternal life, which begins at conversion and last forever.

So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:21 (NLT)

What did we have to do with that? Nothing! As the old song says, Jesus paid it all! So what’s our part and how do we get it? The best thought process to describe our part is to surrender, submit, or yield.

But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT)

As Oswald Chambers said in My Utmost for His Highest, “I am not saved by believing – I simply realize I am saved by believing. And it is not repentance that saves me – repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.” (October 28th, My Utmost for His Highest)

So today, don’t be defeated by trying to do what only Jesus could and can do – namely, save us. No amount of belief or repentance or any other “works” can gain you eternal life. If it could then every moment of doubt and every episode of sin, no matter how minor or major, would remove us from His all encompassing love and salvation.

For further study read Ephesians 2:8-10 to see the cause in verses 8 and 9 as well as the effect in verse 10.


Till Next Time,


Pastor Steve


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