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I agree…
Lord help me get this !
Sin is a crazy thing…Look at Peter. He walked around with Jesus, talked to Him first hand. Saw all the miracles, etc. Yet Peter still denied Jesus 3 times, the last denial being very emphatic and with a curse. Just because Peter was around Jesus on earth didn't make things any easier. Obviously God used this situation to do a radical work in Peter, but I think it illustrates for us that apart from His work in us, we would never follow Him and would just as quickly deny or mock him.
I've found myself at times thinking that it would have been so much easier to follow Jesus if I had been born at the same time as He was here on earth. But the reality of it is this…Only by His grace and the regenerating of my heart would I have followed Christ (at that time or now). Without that, I would have just been another one of the mockers.
CJ Mahaney goes on to say "Luther said that we all carry in our pocket His (Jesus Christ's) very nails. Are you aware of those nails in your posession?"
So, a mocker? Possibly. A nail-supplier? Definitely!
Check out the full lyrics to Matt Giles' Forever I'll Proclaim The Cross on http://www.honeycombmusic.co.uk/Scores.html
"His mercy like a crimson tide
Came flowing from His pierced side,
To cleanse me from my every sin,
Who selfishly abandoned Him.
I surely have no place for pride,
Like Peter, I could Him deny,
And in my hands I hold the nails,
Yet mercy sure,
Yet mercy sure,
Yet mercy sure,
Still bids me come within the veil."
(c) 2006 Honeycomb Music Publishing Ltd
or listen on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWi6mvVlTNw