The Lord Is Our Saviour: Memoir

By Kal Czotter

This is an exciting book for anyone who may have confusion about how the Lord Jesus Christ is actually our saviour. Most people do not know why they even need a saviour. Well through hours and hours of studying, and sermon after sermon the same results come back over and over we as humanity need a saviour. I hope you read this book with the expectations of having Christ revealed to you and the purpose of His coming change your heart into faith and believe for Him.

We are in the land of decision as a people we are indecisive and in complete confusion of who God is and what His call for us is.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491839010

Kal Czotter

Hello, my name is Kal Czotter. My walk down this path all started seven years ago. I truly and sincerely wanted to have a purpose in my life. I was confused and frustrated in my spiritual Christian walk, not knowing what I was to do and standing idle. So I prayed and prayed hard that I could bring hope to the helpless and encouragement to the one who is in despair. As I read God’s Word, I found out that there is such a person that does this already throughout the whole Earth: his name is Jesus. So I prayed that I could have the chance to colabor in his ministry of seeking and saving the lost scattered sheep of his fold. I could not read or write. I was a grade 9 dropout, so the Lord instructed me to go back to school and get to grade 12. It took three years, and I did this at age 29. In the midst of those three years, I wrote some biblical papers, and my teacher encouraged me to proceed in my writing—he liked my papers. So I wrote my first book, A Relationship Is Christ (2012). Then after I graduated and finished my first book, I went to work but became ill and had to go on disability. But this was a true blessing because I submerged myself in my writing for the next five years and wrote several books, yet to be published. The next step was to get the papers out for all the people to see. So I worked on the publishing of my next book, The Lord Is Our Saviour, and this is my third book, Characteristics of a Christian.

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Contents

The Lord is our Saviour

1.   God brings hope to the helpless

•   Pray, pray hard

•   Suffering in Sin

•   Justice or mercy

•   Lost sheep

•   Self-reliance

2.   God’s law

•   The purpose of the law

•   Law and grace

3.   God is immutably faithful

•   Faith has no boundaries

•   Faith in the Promise

•   School of faith

•   Faith in trials

•   Faith that God provides

4.   Act in faith

•   How Jesus’ ministry is our ministry.

•   What do we do?

5.   God saved in the OT

•   In the Old Testament God, promised deliverance for His people through the blood of a lamb, and in the New Testament God offers salvation to His people through the blood of Jesus Christ.

•   God’s wrath

6.   God saves in the NT

•   Is man’s offering acceptable?

•   Exemplary offering

•   Jesus saved us

•   Payment Is Needed

•   Justice

•   All guilt requires forgiveness

•   Forgiveness

7.   God justifies

•   How Christ’s salvation protects us from the condemnation of God’s law

•   How Christ’s salvation protects us from the condemnation of God’s law Part 2

8.   God draws us to heaven

•   Heaven needs to be a reality for the believer

•   Heaven bound

9.   Study papers

•   Death and Resurrection

•   The spirit of truth

•   The Holy Spirit will help

•   Focus on love

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God brings hope to the helpless

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God brings hope to the helpless

Pray, pray hard

First, there needs to be a desire to ascend in one’s life, especially when one is at life’s depths. Because this is a place of despair, anguish, and sorrow for any person. One may be lost, even helpless, or in a place of spiritual darkness in their life. When we are in this place, we just want to know that some one hears us, that someone cares about us, and that someone loves us. However, God hears us, God loves us, and God cares about us. He is listening to our pleas when we are sad, weak, and lonely, or when we have hardships, grief, and pain. If we have faith, we are His children He hears us.

In addition, when we have feelings of desperation, fear, or uncertainty that sweep over us, or when we feel like we are on our own in these times, as human beings our nature is to react the best way we know how. We either cry out or plead with God, or we do what the majority of people do: we remain quiet and keep it in, we withdraw, we isolate ourselves, and we become closed off to people, and sadly, closed off to God as well.

However, even though we are in the depths, somehow we need to struggle to keep our heads above water, and sometimes we even need to fight for air. This is sad and a sad place to be in. If you are in this place, my prayers go out to you as I have been there in that place myself and I felt helpless. My life was as low as you could get, believe me. If you ask any one that really knows me they will tell you. It looks bleak sometimes in our lives; it’s as if there is no exit for our pain and suffering, but God is always there. He is omnipresent as well as omnipotent. God is almighty, all-powerful, and divine, having supreme authority, and having infinite power to fill any amount of darkness with light.

It’s times like this when we need to call on the Lord and to fall at His feet; we need to ask God to draw us in close. I tell you that in this place of doom and gloom are where we become the closest to God. We need to let Him carry the weight of the pain and allow God to share the burdens of our suffering. We need to let His strength be our strength.

Therefore, it is plain to see that every one of us will suffer in one way or another. It may be because of an unjust act against you or someone you care about; your suffering could be from a calamity that has happened; or it might come from disease, sickness, and death. However, life is not perfect, and in life we all suffer. We need to pray and pray hard for God’s mercy.

I know it seems easy to the one who is in a good place in his life, but it is very hard to have hope, almost impossible sometimes, for the one who is living in pain. However, we just have to rely on the Lord and call out to God that He hears us and comes and picks us up and carries us. Sometimes we are drastically in need of help even to the degree that we realize we are in utter helplessness. These are the times that we truly need to rely and depend on God for His help to pick us up out of life’s depths.

NIV®.) Romans 5:1-6 New International Version (NIV)

Peace and Hope

5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ⁶ You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

Foot prints There is a poem and a picture of two sets of footprints in the sand and both sets are walking in the sand side by side. Both of them represent the Lord and us on the path of life. Then when suffering, despair, and sorrow arise in one’s life in the picture, one set of footprints in the sand just disappears. This raises the question, when all our hardship happens does that mean that the Lord just abandons us? The answer is no; in these hard times the Lord’s footprints did not go anywhere, but ours did because He was carrying us through the hard part of our life.

Dark place In our places of trial we are weakened, less hopeful, and have less power to stand on our own, so we need to be carried until we become stronger so that we can hold our own weight until our burdens or suffering become less painful. Our faith might even be under attack in the depths; this is the devil’s influence upon us, and when he tries to penetrate our defenses, we become victims of our own pain or suffering. The devil may even try to entice us into drug abuse, substance abuse, suicide, harlotry, or even self-infliction.

The depths can overtake a person, but all we need to do is pray out in faith with the hope that God will deliver us. The Lord can save, and He hears those that come to Him with a humble heart. He hears those who seek after righteousness because the Lord wants to see us succeed in righteousness.

When we are in this dark place, we want to tell everyone our pain, but we do not want anyone to know it exists, so we hide it and it becomes somehow more real. Like a person who is fasting on the inside, he feels the suffering and hunger but no matter how many people the person tells, not very many people will ever feel the suffering even if the person explains it in detail. Somehow, we cannot understand or begin to know how that person feels unless we have or are going through the same degree of pain or suffering, and if not there is no connection to the pain that is hidden within us.

The Lord knows and understands However, I tell you that the Lord does know and understand sorrow, He knows despair, and He has been fully exhausted with anguish. Jesus lived through the worst of it, worse than anyone could ever imagine. Jesus had great times of sorrow and anguish, many despised Him, He endured humility like no other, He was mocked and spit upon, and He was reviled; people sought to take His very life. He knew He was going to be put to death, even before the creation of the world. He was beaten, flogged, and then crucified; He died a shameful death on the cross. He died in humility and for everyone that the Father Had given Him. Apart from His own suffering, Jesus was interacting and connecting with people in the depths every day. He has great compassion and empathy for us all and I mean those in all walks of life, the righteous and the unrighteous. Jesus would pray to His Father all the time with tears of supplication; I call this praying hard.

Pray hard sometimes, we need to pray hard, we just need to cry out in distress. We just have to cry out when we need a life raft because we are drowning. We cannot hold it back, and when we are broken before God and tears are streaming down our face, this is when we declare to the Lord that we absolutely need Him, and that we are fully dependant on Him. It is when we are weak that He is strong. It is in such times that your prayers are the most heartfelt, sincere, honest, and real. When you are eventually carried out of the depths, this is when you get to see the splendour of God’s workmanship fulfilled in your life personally, and it will be unmistakable that the love the Lord fully displays to you is awesome and very, very real, Halleluiah!

(NIV®.)Mark 8:31 New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Predicts His Death

³¹ He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again

God want the best for us God is good; He builds us up and strengthens us. We can succeed in righteousness and grow in our sanctification through the living word of God. Our hope is in God’s promise to have us conformed into the image and likeness of His Son. He is the giver of our hope; God is righteous and merciful. When we suffer, He suffers. Just ask any father that has a child. Wouldn’t he do anything for his child to stop the child’s suffering? How much more would our Father in heaven hear us and heal our pain? We need to realize that God is good and that He gives only good; there is not one impurity in Him; His heart is Holy and pure.

The way we pray When we pray to the Lord in our dark place, we exalt God. When we pray in these times, we are not to ask God to do things our way, however. We are to ask God to hear us, and that is all, just hear us. Then we are called to wait patiently for His response. Nevertheless, most of the time we pray to God and just want God to do things our way rather than trusting that He is a completely holy, sovereign, and omnipotent God. Ultimately, we are called to surrender to God in our prayers. That means we are to have faith and trust in Him for His plan for our lives and let Him do what He deems best, whatever He desires to do, and whatever He feels will accomplish His purpose and will through our lives. For this is a good place to be in your prayer life with God

The way not to pray Therefore, instead of telling God, or speaking at Him, we should remember that He is the creator. We need to speak humbly with Him. This is the way a real relationship should be. When you talk to someone, you just want him to listen to you, to hear you, and to understand you, unless you are commanding him to act or telling him to do something, such as, You go here, you do this, and you do that. With God, we pray to Him, He hears us, and then we are called to wait patiently upon the Lord.

The Lord knows what we need Do not be mistaken, He knows what you need even before you ask because God is omnipresent; He is in all places at all times. There is nothing hidden from Him that will not be revealed. He knows each of our hearts and souls one by one and on a personal level.

(NIV®.) 1 Peter 5:10 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

God wants the best for you Trust that God is love and that He is compassionate, full of mercy and grace. Most importantly, know in your heart that when you are waiting for your prayers to be answered that God wants the best for you. And no matter