SERMON QUOTES FROM BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH

SERMON QUOTES FROM SERMON OF 11/16/2008

"ONLY JESUS ONLY HIM"

By Pastor Joe Santos

1, ON OUR BEHALF JESUS WENT TO THAT CROSS TO PAY THE DEBT WE OWED, AND ON HIS FATHER'S BEHALF HE ALSO UNDERTOOK THE JOB OF SEEING THAT WE, HIS ELECT ,WOULD BE BOTH SECURE AND SAFE. NO MAN, NO POWER, NO ONE, WILL EVER PLUCK US FROM HIS BLESSED NAIL SCARRED HANDS.

2, WE CAN TRULY SUM UP ALL THE SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS WE HAVE WITH THE WORDS FROM COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 11."CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL".

3, HIS POWER, CHRIST'S POWER, ARE YOURS. YOURS TO SUPPORT YOU, AND TO STRENGTHEN YOU, AND TO OVERCOME ALL OF YOUR ENEMIES NO MATTER WHAT FACE THEY TAKE ON. THEY ARE LIKE SHOOTING DUCKS ON THE STILL WATERS.

4, CHRIST JESUS WAS FULL OF FAVOR, AND ACCEPTED BY THE HEAVENLY FATHER, AND GOD'S ACCEPTANCE OF CHRIST JESUS IS YOUR ACCEPTANCE. THE SAME LOVE THE FATHER SET ON CHRIST IS NOW SET ON YOU. HE LOVES YOU IN THE VERY SAME WAY AS IF YOU ARE HIS.

5, THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE SOLITARY VIRTUE CHRIST EVER HAD THAT IS NOT YOURS; NOT ONE SINGLE HOLY ACTION, OR DEED THAT IS NOT YOURS. THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE SOLITARY PRAYER JESUS CHRIST EVER UTTERED TO HEAVEN THAT IS NOT YOURS. ALL HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS PERFECT, UNBLEMISHED, RIGHTEOUSNESS, ALL THE PERFECTION OF HIS CHARACTER HAS BEEN IMPUTED TO YOU, IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST.

6, TAKE CHRIST'S WORKS. HE DIED ON THAT CRUEL CROSS, AND SO DID YOU. WE ARE DEAD WITH CHRIST, AND JUST AS DEATH HAD NO HOLD ON OUR BELOVED LORD AND SAVIOR NEITHER DOES

 IT HAVE ANY HOLD ON US. CHRIST AROSE, THE TOMB COULD NOT HOLD HIM, AND JUST AS CHRIST DEATH IS OURS, SO ALSO IS HIS RESURRECTION OURS.

7, WE WHO ARE THE PEOPLE OF GOD DO NOT SIMPLY EXIST WITH CHRIST, BUT WE ARE IN CHRIST. ALL CHRIST PERFORMED, WE HIS PEOPLE PERFORMED, IN HIM. WE WERE IN CHRIST, AS HE HUNG ON THAT CROSS. WE WERE IN HIM AS HE LAY IN HIS TOMB, AND WE WERE IN HIM AS HE ASCENDED UP ON HIGH. IN CHRIST YOU AND I SIT IN HEAVENLY PLACES. IN HIM, IN HIS HUMILIATION, AND IN HIS EXALTATION. ALL THIS IS YOURS, IF YOU ARE HIS CHILD.

 8, ARE YOU EMPTY THIS DAY BECAUSE OF SOME EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL OR SPIRITUAL MALADY? WELL THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST IS YOURS IT IS THERE AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO RESTRAIN YOU, TO KEEP YOU, AND TO PRESERVE YOU, ALL, EVERY BIT OF IT OF HIS POWER, THE FULLNESS OF IT ALL, THE FULLNESS OF HIS LOVE, AND HIS PURITY WHICH IS STORED UP IN JESUS CHRIST IS YOURS TO GO TO WHEN THE DAY BECOME WEARY AND DARK.

9, IN ORDER FOR ANY POWER TO TAKE AWAY YOUR LIFE SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING WOULD ALSO HAVE TO BE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO TAKE CHRIST'S LIFE, AND THERE IS NO SUCH AND ANIMAL. THE BELIEVERS LIFE IS SO LINKED TO CHRIST THAT THEY ARE ONE. HE IS THE VINE AND YOU ARE THE BRANCHES .HE IS THE HEAD, AND ALL BELIEVERS MAKE UP HIS BODY

10, IF YOU KNOW THE SAVIOR, AND ARE KNOWN OF HIM. YOU LOVE HIS MERCIES, YOU LOVE HIS OFFICES, AND YOU LOVE HIS DEEDS. BUT YOU LOVE HIM, HIS PERSON BEST. IN THAT FACT LIES YOUR GREATEST AFFECTIONS.

11, CHRIST DOES NOT WANT TO BE TREATED AS AN IDOL, OR A FIGURE ON A GOLD CROSS AROUND ONES NECK. HE LOVES TO LABOR FOR HIS SHEEP. THE MORE BURDENS YOU GIVE HIM THE BETTER HE WILL LOVE YOU. HE DOES NOT WANT A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR BURDENS, HE WANTS ALL OF THEM. I PETER 3:7 TELLS IT ALL. "CAST ALL YOUR CARES UPON HIM." WHY? WELL AS THAT VERSE CONCLUDES." BECAUSE HE, JESUS CARES ABOUT YOU."