Don't Confuse The Sign, As What Is Necessary.

 

Today's verse is Genesis 17:25

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 

    It has been shown me, and now I declare it to you, many confuse the ordinance which testifies of the work God has done for them as a necessary act on their part for that work to be fulfilled. But as Paul had said of Stewardship, yet am I not hereby justified. For even before Ishmael was conceived, it was said of Abram, now Abraham, that he believed God, and that was counted unto him for righteousness, making it clear that the circumcision was not what saved Abraham, but as we are told later, that circumcision was a sign as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised. All of these things are important, being baptized, testifying of the work Christ has done in you, yea, even being a good steward, even to the point of that if they are absent, a reason for serious concern, but none of them are what saves, but a sign of what Jesus Christ has done in you when you believed, Confessed that he is Lord, and believed in thy heart that God has raised him from the dead, that your sins might (will) be forgiven. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Genesis 16-18, Mark 6

Tomorrow’s reading will be Genesis 19-20, Psalm 1, Mark 7