"Just Say That It's So"

"Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;"
(Psalms 107:2)

 This is really not all the complicated; it is a lot like that comment made on the Nutrisystem commercial: "You eat the food, you loose the weight." The problem that we have is not in our ability to praise Him, it is the sin in our lives that makes us feel unworthy. There is where we need to stop making this about us, and we need to make it about what He has done for us. We are not going to shake off this sinful nature, not like that! We are unworthy, and we will continue to be so until we are taken out of these bodies and removed from this fallen world. But in the mean time, we must give Him the praise that He deserves for redeeming us, and we must choose to live holy lives. Does that mean that we will be holy? I'm sorry, but we are holy already! He has made us holy by His holiness, it is not something that we work on doing for ourselves; it is something that He does in us. Before He saved us we did not have a choice, now we do; now we can choose life, because life has been given to us; now we can choose to be holy, because He has given us a right standing with the Father. So what do we do with that? We stand! We make known all that He has done, for all to see; and if there is anything contrary to our testimony that is hindering us from making what He has done clear to everyone, then we ask Him to take it from us. But one thing is for sure, we cannot allow our hangups to prevent us from praising the Lord; because He does not have any hangups at all! Written next to this verse, says, "Let those that are saved say so!" Have you been redeemed from the hand of the enemy? Then the first verse is for you to declare! "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever!" That is what it means to be saved, that we are free from judgment and condemnation. We are made white as snow by the blood of Jesus Christ, and His blood covers all of our sins, every last one...

"So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life." This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, "It is through obeying the law that a person has life." But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith." (Galatians 3:11-14) NLT