ONE HEARTBEAT AWAYPART 69
(Mark Cahill's Book)
The Good News
"Eureka! I have found it!"
Archimedes, 287- 212 B.C.
"Eureka" is what Archimedes, the great Greek engineer, was said to have shouted when he solved a very difficult problem involving the density of the King's crown; the King wanted to know whether the crown was pure gold or mixed with silver.
Archimedes sat down in his bathtub to ponder the problem, noticed that the water overflowed on the floor, and realized that the volume of water pushed out of tub was the same as his body's volume.
That is, when an object is submerged in water, the level of the water rises because the object has moved some of the water out of the way, to make room for itself, "Eureka!" He'd found a way to determine the volume of the crown: since he knew the weight of gold, he could now answer the king's question by calculating weight of that volume of gold.
Similarly, we all have a question of great importance that we find difficult to solve: How can we get on the good side of God and avoid hell? You may shout "Eureka!" When you read the answer in this chapter .
Just before actor, W. C. Fields died, a friend visited Field's hospital room and was surprised to find him thumbing through a Bible. Asked what he was doing with a Bible, Fields replied, "I am looking for loopholes."
Now that we know the
Bible to be true, - and
that there aren't any
loopholes -some
interesting things begin to happen.
God says : "Look unto Me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth for I am God, and
there is none else."
(Isaiah 45: 22)
God says that He is the only God out there .
There is no other. But how can I be right with Him? What is that pathway? God says:
"There is one Savior?"
"Neither is there salvation in any other, for
there is none other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
(Acts 4:12)
What is the One Name of the One Person
Who can save us all.
God says:
"For there is one God, and there is one
mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus.
(1 Timothy 2:5)
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath
not the Father: (but) he that acknowledges
the Son, hath the father also
( 1st John 2:23)
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in His son. He that hath the Son hath life
and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life. (1st John 5: 11-12)
He that believeth on Him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the Only Begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)
...if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins. (John 8:24)
Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth and the light, no man cometh to the Father , but by Me."
......and there are many other verses that say Jesus is the only way to make peace and find friendship with God.
next post 18th December
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