Tag: stringing pearls of heaven

Revelation 7:9 ” After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb.”

Imagine it.  Someday we too will join the countless throng in heaven.  We will be shoulder to shoulder with people from every corner of the world…all from different races, languages, and customs. Yet we will have one thing in common…one thing that joins us together forever…one thing that wipes away every diversity.  His name is Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

Ephesians 2:6-7 ” And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”

God didn’t have to do it.  He didn’t have to send His one and only Son to suffer unspeakable torture and death on a cross.  But God did.  Titus 3:4-5 tells us, “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.”  It is only because of God’s immeasurable grace and mercy…and His incomprehensible benevolence towards us that we are able to call ourselves sons and daughters of the Most High King.    God didn’t have to do it…but He did.

Acts 8:35 ” Then Phillip began with the very passage of Scripture and told him the Good News about Jesus.”

The Ethiopian eunuch had been reading Isaiah 53:7-8 when Phillip came up to his chariot and started telling him about Jesus.  Phillip started with the verses the eunuch was reading but then added related verses…threading them together into the Gospel Message.  This “stringing pearls of heaven” is an excellent way of telling others about Jesus, and one I have used for a long time.  In the front of my Bible I have written the starting point of this 10 point Road to Salvation – Revelation 3:20.   Next to each verse is written then the subsequent verse to go to –  Romans 3:23,  Romans 6:23,  Romans:5:8,   John 3:16-18,  John 3:36,  Ephesians 2:8-9,  Romans 10:9-10,  John 1:12,  II Corinthians 6:2.  The result is a beautifully told story of need, salvation, and redemption and one you can easily use to share the Good News with others.