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The Cure for Sin—and the Wholeness Found in Christ
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denieth the Father and the Son.” – 1 John 2:22 (KJ21)
Thank you, J.D. Walt, for today’s powerfully clarifying Wake-Up Call. Your reflection invites us not only to understand the exclusive-inclusiveness of the Gospel, but also to humbly examine our own response to the cure for the deadliest diagnosis of all: sin.
Today’s passage struck something deep in me. You framed it perfectly: we’d never reject a 100% cure for cancer. So why do so many resist the only cure for sin?
For 62 years, I did.
Raised in a Jewish home, I had been told my whole life that Jesus was not our Savior. The name itself stirred up misunderstanding and separation. But then, in 2023, something changed. My heart broke open—and into that brokenness, Jesus walked. He didn’t come to condemn me. He came to claim me.
That moment, I didn’t just change my mind. I received a new heart. I accepted Jesus as my Savior—not only with words, but in spirit and truth. And from that day forward, I am whole again.
The truth of today’s scripture is not harsh. It’s healing. The Gospel is radically exclusive—Jesus is the only way. But it’s gloriously inclusive—He is the way for everyone.
J.D., your words today reminded me that the Gospel is not a philosophy. It’s not a lifestyle brand. It is the remedy—straight from Heaven. But every remedy needs a diagnosis first.
“Help me come to grips with and to own my diagnosis of sin cancer so you might apply the remedy of your grace.”
I did. And now I must share that prescription with anyone who will listen.
So I ask you, Sower Nation:
Have you accepted the full truth of your diagnosis?
Have you taken the cure—or are you trying to treat symptoms with worldly comfort?
And if you have received this miracle of grace… who are you sharing it with?
Let’s not sugarcoat the Gospel. Let’s sow it. Let’s shout it. Let’s walk it. Let’s love it.
Jesus saves. And not metaphorically—literally, eternally, completely.
For the Kingdom ❤️
Jeff in Christ
Every Moment, Every Day!
Founder, Jesus24365 Ministry
Jesus24365.org
Thanks for sharing your encouraging testimony. I especially loved how you said, “He didn’t come to condemn me. He came to claim me.”
Self-realization is the shocking awareness that I am insufficient. That I desperately need help. That I need to continually surrender my life to and align my life with the risen Jesus Christ.
The answer you need isn’t externally blowing in the wind. It’s aligning with Jesus Christ within. If you feel dead inside, there’s great hope. The living Jesus can give you internal life! Resist inner death and surrender to “Christ in you.”
Where is your heart? Is it indifferent toward Christ or intimate with Him? Is it receptive to Christ or resisting Him? Seek to be internally surrendered to Jesus, not externally religious.
Jesus said, “Deny yourself,” not “Rely on yourself.” Self-focused thoughts, feelings, and desires lead to self-consumed confusion, but self-denial paves the way for Christ’s inner peace. No amount of external security can produce deep peace in us until we allow the risen Jesus to continually heal and overcome our internal insecurity.
Jeff, I love your testimony. It is not unlike ones I have heard from my Jewish Christian friends, some of whose family refused to be in relation with them after they confessed Jesus as LORD and Savior. I enjoy your testimony daily. Thank you.
I loved the comment of JD of taking the whole prescription. I have shared wake up call with many people. Am blessed by it everyday. Even love singing the hymns as it is very rare to hear one in our church. Loving digging into First John.
We love you, too, JD, and are thankful for these morning moments that you provide. FYI – I began listening to the Wake-Up Call each day several years ago, when I was invited to join a “band.” My wife and I began listening together last fall, and what a joy that had been, and brought to our marriage (of 44 years and counting!). We just wanted to say “thank you,” and wish you a great Taco Tuesday.
Thank you for sharing Jeff and Cheryl…tho you Jeff have been in a band and listening to wake-up call for years(I as well); the testimony of BOTH of you now listening TOGETHER since last fall is sooo encouraging to me.
I pray it will be my testimony as well some day
I was convicted by scenario 1. Such is faith in Gods word. As we faith aka act in faith aka believe as commanded in 100s of scriptures, we will SEE glory’s glory unfold( John 11:40).
That is the good news worth telling and the answer to all of life’s dilemmas. It is also how we are healed, and saved, and delivered, and redeemed, and in a word, Blessed!
After Tuesday mornings word, the big question in my mind and maybe others is, Why do we not tend to share the Word? If we were to make a list I believe most if not all of the “reasons” would fall under the heading of Fear! Fear of rejection, fear of exclusion, fear of talking to strangers, fear of how to start the conversation, and fear of what to say and how to say it! Now in my personal opinion I believe only 2 of those fears are real items to be concerned with. How to start the conversation and what to say? Then I thought if Jesus were to talk to a stranger about new life in Christ, what would He say and how would He start the conversation? And then the story bout Jesus meeting the woman at the well came to mind! As I read and re-read the story, it seems to me that He first asked for her help, and then seemingly quoted one verse of the New Testament Scripture to her!!!! Now there has not been once in my life that I have met anyone at a well for me to ask for a drink, but the fact that a modern day question to ask could be, Can you help me, I would like to know how do you get to Heaven? Now they might say, they don’t know how, and then you could say well how do you think people would say that you get to heaven. The idea is to get them to agree that there is a list of things people say that yo have to do a to get to Heaven. Then one simple verse seems to sum up what Jesus said to the woman at the well, Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death and the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Pointing out that there two important words in that verse to focus on. First the word wages, what is a wage?
A wage is, simply put, something you DO something to get. And of curse our sins are what has brought us the wage of death. Now let’s look at the other end of the spectrum, the word Gift. What is a gift? It is in fact the opposite of wage, in that you cannot do anything for a gift, or in fact it becomes a wage! So in fact Heaven/Eternal life is not something you do something for but rather accept!!!!! And who doesn’t want a wonderful gift?????