The Reason Why

God is love

Now I am face to face with my Saviour. I see Him suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane in anticipation of His death on the cross for me. I see Him in Pilate’s Judgement Hall; the soldiers have been striking Him in the face, saying “Prophesy! Who smote thee?” I see them crowning Him with a crown of thorns. They have taken Him bleeding and bruised from judgement to Calvary, where they are driving spikes through His hands and His feet. As He is then lifted up to die between two thieves, the people gather around to mock and revile Him, though He is pouring out His life to redeem them. Then I begin to understand what self-sacrificing love really means as I hear Him cry, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

But even if we could enter sympathetically into the physical sufferings of Christ until tears streamed down our cheeks, and that was all, we would still have failed miserably to comprehend the true significance of the cross.

We read in 2 Corinthians 5:21 that “He (God) hath made Him (Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin.” Come with me, I plead with you, with bowed head and humbled heart, and let us, if we may, enter into the soul-sufferings of Christ the Son, and of God the Father, as that Holy One, who loathed sin as we would loathe leprosy, is “made to be sin for us.”

Ponder in your heart God’s amazing love outpoured for rebels such as you and me. Recall the words of Isaac Watts:

See, from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

Thought: Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all!
Prayer: I come to You, O Lord, the Saviour of my soul. Thank You for Your great love for me.

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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.

Edited by Dr SH Tow

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31 : He was Made Sin for Us

July 30, 2024August 26, 2024by The Reason Why

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Jesus died for me

If the higher the development of the physical organism, the greater the capacity for pain, then the higher the development of the moral character, the greater the capacity for soul-suffering.

Have you ever heard of a venerable old gentleman, justly proud of his honoured name – a man who would sooner lose his right hand than use it to do a dishonourable deed? His son and heir go astray from the paths of virtue and in a drunken brawl murders someone. And the old man walks no more erect, his head is bowed in shame, and soon his soul-suffering brings his grey hairs in sorrow to the grave.

If that be possible (and it is possible even for us to feel the disgrace of a greater sin than we are used to), think what sin must be like in all its awfulness to an absolutely holy God! Now we understand why, in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ turns in loathing from sin and cries in agony of soul, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matthew 26:39). Yet in spite of that agonised plea from Gethsemane, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son” to be “made sin” for us – “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

Herein is the mystery of redemption, that God the Father made His only begotten Son “to be sin for us, who (Jesus Christ) knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” Look then to the Saviour bearing your sins on the cross, and in faith receive His perfect righteousness. “Nothing in my hands I bring. Simply to Thy cross I cling.”

Thought: Jesus loves me with His life, not just with words.
Prayer: Thank You, Lord, for Your garment of righteousness.

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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.

Edited by Dr SH Tow

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32 : Receiving Christ the Lord

July 30, 2024August 26, 2024by The Reason Why

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There’s not a Friend like the lowly Jesus!

Prayer: “O God, I cannot understand the mystery of it all. I cannot understand why You cared enough for me to send Jesus Christ to bear the penalty of my sins. But with all my lack of understanding, I am willing, and I do yield to You, absolutely. I trust in the fact of His death for me, and the promise that You have made in John 3;16, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Yield to Him now – He wants to come into your life. Say and mean it: “I am Yours, Lord Jesus; yielded to You, body, soul and spirit and You are mine.” Then seal it by signing the declaration below.

My Declaration
Before God, who knows the innermost secrets of my heart, I accept Jesus Christ into my life as my Saviour and Lord. I yield absolutely to Him, and Him alone. I know, on the authority of his own written Word in John 5:24, that I have everlasting life, for there he says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation (judgment); but is passed from death unto life.”

In coming into God’s family, I shall endeavour my utmost as a filial child, to read and meditate on God’s Word daily, and to speak to my Heavenly Father in daily communion. This is my sincere desire, so help me God.

Signed: _____________________ Date: _____________________

Thought: “Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.”
Prayer: Thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.

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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.

Edited by Dr SH Tow

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33 : A Soldier Led to the Cross

July 30, 2024August 26, 2024by The Reason Why

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Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, he is saved!

I was seeking to lead a young soldier to accept the Lord Jesus Christ, but, like most men, he tried to evade the essential issue with the promise “I’ll think it over.”

“Harry,” I said, “let me illustrate. You are out with the boys some night scouting an enemy post. And on the way back you get hit hard. Another soldier stops long enough to pick you up and carry you back to your own lines, and for his trouble gets 2 bullets in the back. You are both taken to the hospital and by tender care are won back from the very jaws of death.

Two months later the doctor brings in a poor fellow who limps badly and moves with evident pain. They stop at your bedside, and the doctor says, `Harry, I want to introduce you to Bill Smith, the man who risked his life to save you.’ You fold your arms and say, ` I’m not sure I want to meet him. I’ll think it over.’ Now, you wouldn’t say that, would you? You would grasp him by the hand and try to tell him something of the gratitude you feel.

I want to introduce you to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Man who not only risked His life, but sacrificed it, to save you. And you propose to turn your back on Him and say you’ll think it over?”

“No,” he said, “I’ll accept Him.” Together we knelt while he told the Lord that he, with his whole heart, accepted Him as his personal Saviour.

Reader, are you also “thinking it over”? Putting off this vital issue may mean shutting yourself out forever from the super abundance of God’s salvation grace. Do not put off to a “more convenient day” what you can, and should, do today. For we “know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14).

Thought: Come to Jesus today!
Prayer: Help my unbelief, O God. Let me come to You in repentance of my sins, to receive salvation.

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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.

Edited by Dr SH Tow

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34 : Go and Tell

July 30, 2024August 26, 2024by The Reason Why

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“Ye shall be My witnesses”

Now for the last point, a most important one. If you open your Bible to Romans 10:9-11, you will read; “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”

You say you have accepted Christ. Go and tell someone! Do not be ashamed to confess Him. Why should you be?

Suppose I had fallen off the wharf, injuring myself so that I could not swim, and a labourer working on a coal barge had plunged in and saved me. If a month later, you saw me walking down Main Street and the same labourer, all begrimed with coal dust, coming up from the opposite direction, and you saw that I noticed him first and deliberately turned to look into a store window so that I would not have to stop and greet him, what would you think of me?

You have declared that you believe the Lord Jesus Christ has given His life to save you. Occasions will arise when you will meet Him face to face in the presence of those who despise Him. Will you be ashamed and look the other way, or will you honour Him in both word and deed as your Lord and Saviour? Having really accepted Him, you must, and you will, acknowledge Him before others.

Telling others about the Saviour is one way of showing your gratitude!

“The Lord is good: tell it wherever you go,
The Lord is good: tell it that others may know;
Tell of His blessings and tell of His love,
Tell how He’s coming from heaven above;
The Lord is good: tell it wherever you go!”

– Al Smith

Thought: I must be His witness.
Prayer: Open my lips, O Lord, that I may share with others the Saviour who saved me from death.

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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.

Edited by Dr SH Tow

Please note that the last paragraph of some chapter texts may not be present in the audio tracks.

Bible passages on Salvation

July 30, 2024August 26, 2024by The Reason Why

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God loves you and has a wonderful salvation plan for you
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16

Because of sin, man was separated from God
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 3:23

The punishment for sin is death, but God gives everlasting life
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 6:23

Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:6

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we become His children and receives everlasting life
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”
John 1:12

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30 : Amazing Love

31 : He was Made Sin for Us

32 : Receiving Christ the Lord

33 : A Soldier Led to the Cross

34 : Go and Tell

Bible passages on Salvation

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