My name is Dennis Lackie.

       When I was saved some 30 plus years ago, I did not receive this message (or anything that would lead me to this understanding). I was saved in a small Assembly of God Church and the Pastor and his wife were truly wonderful people. They did their best to help me in uncountable ways. I don't believe however that they realized that I did not understand that I needed to keep the Cross of Christ before me every day.
      I tried the best I knew how to serve the Lord through studying the Bible, regular Church attendance, playing a little music in church, and basically did whatever the Pastor suggested.

However, when the pastor was called to another church, I went on to attend Rhema Bible Training Center. Looking back on what I garnered from the time I spent there; it seems like I felt more impressed to have faith in myself rather than faith in Christ. I am not speaking ill of this training institution for it may very well be that I just was not receiving what they were trying to teach.

       Improper thinking led me to improper believing, improper prayer, improper study,(which was inevitable because without Christ as the object of my faith, the Holy Spirit would not help me to understand what I was trying to study) and ultimately improper living. I became a backslidden wreck within a few years. I tried to find my way back to the Lord but I believe the misconceptions which I had developed concerning how to live for God, hindered my efforts to again live for the Lord.
       I prayed, I sought God by trying to read the Bible. It seemed that the Bible was in another language almost, and it just put my thinking between a rock and a hard spot as the saying goes. Though I had repented and asked forgiveness in the name of Jesus Christ I still had all the conscience of past sin and knew inside that I was still not right with God. After years of failure in regards to getting right with God and having any kind of sense of being right with God, I was gripped by fear that I was going to Hell and there was nothing I could do about it. I finally, one day just gave up trying. I recall walking around in my driveway aimlessly, and had been trying to pray. (Which was like talking to a wall) Finally, I said to myself, “okay, I guess I'm not going to make it to Heaven. Maybe I have committed the unpardonable sin or something, I just didn't know,” and now I felt I was obviously on my way to Hell like a locomotive, steaming its way down a hill without an Engineer.
   Finally, I told myself, “right now I am right here, on this beautiful world that God has created; I am a free moral agent, and I can do what I want and I can say what I want. Even though I know the day is coming when I will be burning in Hell and I probably will not be free to Praise God, right now I can Praise God if I want to. And I do want to and I am going to because I know he is worthy of all Praise.” I started praising God and thanking Jesus for the wonderful sacrifice which he had made on the Cross. In all of about three seconds, the Holy Spirit fell upon me and I knew God still cared. He took my sins and gave me His Righteousness. He took my death and gave me His Life. He took the Curse of the Law and gave me Liberty. The peace and rest which the Lord gave me is indescribable. God has forgiven me for Jesus Christ’s sake and I have come to realize that all I need; is in the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary.

   However, I went through a short period of time following this experience that I begin to be worried that I could again backslide. After all, I had been sincere in my efforts to live for the Lord before, but I still had found it impossible to live for the Lord as I knew I should.

   I prayed and asked the Lord, “if in your all knowing ways can see that I will backslide again at some point, then please just take me now. I don’t want to live just to find myself again in a backslidden condition. I do not want to go to hell. Please help me.”

   Well, He didn’t kill me, but He did show me something which would prevent me from ever backsliding. At the time, I thought this to be something which I had came up with on my own in order to just keep me close to the Lord until I found the answer to my dilemma. But now I know it was actually the Lord showing me how to have continuous victory, every day of my life.

   I started thanking Jesus every morning for shedding His Blood to atone for my sin (and I do mean verbally). I also thanked Jesus Christ at the same time for providing Righteousness and Redemption for me, which I know I could in no wise afford. I did this not only in the morning, but in the evening also. Most of the time I would thank Him at various times during the day also.

   I did this in a desperate attempt to stay close to the Lord, so as not to in any way fall away from the Lord.

   The Bible started making more sense to me than I could have imagined. I could read almost anywhere and it just seem to jump off the pages into my understanding.

   I began having a desire to pray and commune with the Lord. And the prayer was no longer like a job but was enjoyable.(Praise God)

   The Lord begin to reveal things to me from His Word, which I had never known.

   I now realize that thanking the Lord Jesus (from the heart-sincerely) for what He accomplished at Calvary, on a continual basis (1 Cor. 15:2), keeps us standing on the platform which the Holy Spirit uses to perform every good, and powerful work in our lives. In fact we are sanctified only by continually trusting in what Christ accomplished on our behalf at Calvary.

        I believe the Lord is leading me to let as many people know as is possible; that it’s all in Christ and what he did on the Cross. This is the very foundation which the Holy Spirit stands upon, whenever he is moving in someone’s life. Whether it is for victorious living, understanding the Word of God, Healing, or anything else that I could name. If we are to receive ANYTHING from God, it WILL BE done by the Holy Spirit ONLY because of what Jesus Christ has done via his sacrifice of Himself on the Cross.

It’s all in Christ, it’s all in Christ, it’s all in Christ. Praise God .

        I have not sent this message to you because I believe you to be lacking in some way but because I pray that you are dedicated to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May the Merciful Lord of all Blessings, Bless you always

Dennis Lackie         

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