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April 13, 2022

The Joy of Salvation (1)

Acts 10:43 To this One [Jesus] all the prophets testify that through His name everyone who believes into Him will receive forgiveness of sins Hab 3:18 Yet I will exult in Jehovah; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. Isa 12:3 Therefore you will draw water with rejoicing From the springs of salvation,

[Part 1 of 2]In the two cases recorded in 2:1-12 and 2:13-17--the incidents of forgiving the sins of the sick and feasting with sinners-- we see the best way to carry out the gospel service. This is to help people have their sins forgiven so that they may enter into the enjoyment with God. To feast with the Lord Jesus is to enjoy God with Him. All sinners have lost God and have also lost the enjoyment of God. Sinners have been taken captive away from God and from the enjoyment of God to be slaves of Satan. All sinners are slaves under the authority of Satan. Because they are such slaves, they have no enjoyment and no peace. In carrying out the service of the gospel, the Lord Jesus first forgives our sins and then brings us into the enjoyment of God. After you were saved, did you not experience an enjoyment that could be compared to a feast? If you were saved without having such a feast, this means that you did not have the joy of God's salvation. In this sense, your experience of salvation was not adequate, not complete. Complete salvation includes forgiveness of sins and a joy that is in God. This joy is the enjoyment of God, and this enjoyment is a feast. (c) Living Stream Ministry.

Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-study of Mark, pp. 75. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. Please visit us at www.emanna.com. Send comments to: [email protected].

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