This passage discusses the song "Just as I Am" and its impact on the author's decision to accept Christ. It encourages the reader to come to Christ without any plea or offering besides Christ's sacrifice on the cross. It references several Bible verses about Christ opening the door to salvation for all people, regardless of their circumstances, and invites the reader to come to Christ for healing, deliverance, and salvation.
2. ‘ Just as I am without one plea but that your blood was shed for me, And that you bid me come to you; oh Lamb of God I come’
3. This was the song that finally broke me the night I gave my life to Christ; and perhaps you to need to hear these words and to digest them ;
4. When you came to Christ what did you bring as an offering for your sin? Did you have another plea to make?
5. Could there be some other offering to give greater or more precious than the blood of Christ? Of course not…
6. Did not Christ himself say 'come unto me all you that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest? (Matthew 11:28) How foolish then to attempt to carry the load yourself…
7. You came because the Father drew you to himself through the shed blood of Calvary's lamb, 'no man comes to the Father except through Christ’ John 14:6
8. Just as you were before you accepted Christ so you are today, nothing to offer God that would serve you better than the blood of Christ, no other plea for health, for freedom, or for victory.
9. Child of God, see and hear the truth that this song brings to you, see and hear and say; 'Lord just as I am, broken and wounded I come to you, save me and heal me Lord…
10. Just as you are, in confusion come, in pain come, in turmoil come and let the blood of the resurrected Lamb of God set you free. Just as you are, in confusion come, in pain come, in turmoil come, and let the blood of the resurrected Lamb of God set you free.
11. Once more repeat the words that saved your soul 'Just as I am Lord messed up with nothing to offer you, Lord Jesus I come' 'heal me and I shall be healed' ‘save me and I shall be saved’ Jeremiah 17:14 for in you Lord do I put my trust.
12. Listen you are a man or woman with a destiny as yet unfulfilled, Fight on in the Lord, don’t let go of his word for his word that will never let go of you;
13. There is an open door for all, the ‘whosoever who will call upon the name of the Lord’ Romans 10:13
14. There is an open door to ‘children, for such is the kingdom of God;’ Matthew 19:14 Its an open door to the poor for ‘the rich surely find it difficult to enter in’ Mark 10:23
15. Christ has promised an open door for all; ‘If any man come unto me I will in no way cast him out’ John 6:37 ‘a place where he will give rest to all who labour and are heavy laden’ Matt: 11:28
16. There is an open door for Self-deniers and ‘cross carriers’ Mark 8:24 an open door ‘to those that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled’ Matthew 5:6
17. Its an open door to ‘the broken hearted, the captives, the blind, the downtrodden and the bruised’ …Luke 4:18
18. Its an open door to ‘the wounded, the lame, the deaf and the dumb. An entrance for the sick , the leper and the depressed’ Luke 7:22
19. You have an invitation from the God of heaven to enter in… the key is on your side of the door, a door which enables ‘the dead to pass unto eternal life’ John 5:24
20. Its an open door with an open invitation so, ‘Knock and the door will be opened unto you, seek and you shall find, ask and it shall be given unto you’ Matthew 7:7