2nd Mark of Salvation: Forgiven Souls Love Christ by J.C.Ryle

Forgiven souls LOVE CHRIST. This is that one thing they can say, if they dare say nothing else—they do love Christ. His person, His offices, His work, His name, His cross, His blood, His words, His example, His ordinances—all, all are precious to forgiven souls.

The ministry which exalts Him most, is that which they enjoy most. The books which are most full of Him, are most pleasant to their minds. The people on earth they feel most drawn to, are those in whom they see something of Christ. He is their Redeemer, their Shepherd, their Physician, their King, their strong Deliverer, their gracious Guide, their hope, their joy, their All. Were it not for Him they would be of all people most miserable.

Source: www.jcryle.info

Significance of the shank bone on the Passover Seder

Open Line program on 19 April 2025 Hour 1 @12:45

Reflection on the significance of the shank bone on the Passover Seder by Larry Feldman and Dr Michael Rydelnik:

https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=641094&hour=1

Summary of reflection:

There are many different elements on the Seder. Dr Michael Rydelnik personally finds that the most significant element on the Seder is the shank bone on the Lamb. Dr Michael Redelnik comes from a tradition in his family where they never ate lamb. Since the destruction of the Jewish temple, many Jewish people don't eat lamb at Passover. The Passover lamb is recorded in the commands in Exodus 12 and Deuteronomy 16 where Moses tell the Jewish people on certain days of the month, they should take the lamb and they should sacrifice it and they should eat the whole lamb. For Mr Larry Feldman, his family will go to the butcher and buy a shank bone and his father will have that on their plate and his father will hold that on their plate and he will say that they don't have the lamb today. "We don't have the sacrifice anymore". All we have of the ancient sacrifice is the shank bone. Symbolically, the shank bone symbolically represents the Lamb that was slain at Passover. So the shank bone represents the Messiah that is yet to come. John the baptist when baptizing Jesus says: "Behold the lamb of God takes away the sins of the world". Dr Michael Rydelnik says just as the angel of death pass over the firstborn of those households who has the blood of the lamb on their doorpost, so when we apply the blood of our Messiah on the doorpost of our heart, Jesus passes over judgement over us.

First mark of salvation: Forgiven souls hate sin

Forgiven souls HATE SIN. They can enter most fully into the words of our Communion Service, “The remembrance of sin is grievous unto them, and the burden of it is intolerable.” It is the serpent which bit them—how should they not shrink from it with horror?

It is the poison which brought them to the brink of eternal death—how should they not loathe it with a godly disgust? It is the Egyptian enemy which kept them in hard bondage—how should not the very memory of it be bitter to their hearts? It is the disease of which they carry the marks and scars about them, and from which they have scarcely recovered—well may they dread it, flee from it, and long to be delivered altogether from its power! If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled. You are not fit for heaven; for one main part of heaven’s excellence is the absence of all sin.