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Daily Devotionals
Purified By Faith
     
"So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith." Acts 15:8-9 (NKJ)
 
As the Gentile believers were being added to the Church, many Jews felt they need to be circumcised, and made to obey the Law of Moses, in order to be saved. The Apostle Peter refutes this belief, and assures everyone that when we are made right with God it is because He has purified our hearts, and this purification doesn't come by circumcision or by the keeping of rules and regulations, it comes completely through Jesus by faith! He goes even further when he says, "Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?"
 
I have often heard it said that we should spend some time each day, or before getting ready to pray, "Getting our hearts right with God". The error found in this statement is that we never made our hearts right with God in the first place, Jesus did that! A.W. Tozer once said, "Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God." Through Jesus Christ, by faith, our hearts are right, and that's how they stay apart from our actions and deeds! It is Jesus Christ that makes us right with God, and He alone has secured our place as joint heirs and children of God!
 
"For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, 'Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.'"  
Romans 10:10-11 (NKJ)

 
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Santa Fe Family Worship Center
13601 FM 1764
Santa Fe, Texas 77517