Archive for August, 2009
Belief
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God conscientiously prepared the sacrifice of Jesus to provide for our freedom from His rage and our expansion in His love. To redeem something means to provide payment for it – Jesus liberated us thru His sacrifice. He paid the penalty for all our sins, for all time, for all of humanity.At the cross, our guilt burden and our punishment were borne by Jesus Christ.
Our sinful nature makes us enemies of a Holy God, but because Jesus’ sacrifice brings us reason, we are reconciled to our Lord. As the Lord God in us works to “reprogram” our fleshly patterns of thinking, we become free from the presence of sin in our life. God polishes our jagged edges till we each become a shining jewel.
Before Jesus, only the High Clergyman could enter God’s presence in the Holy of Holies. But the Savior’s death tore the veil shielding the Holy of Holies in the church. With that symbolic gesture, God commented we are all free to enter His presence due to Jesus’ sacrifice. The more we understand about what was concerned in Christ’s sacrifice and the gift of deliverance, the more thankful we deserve to be.
The Sacrifice of Christ
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We use many names for Jesus – Messiah, the Christ, Pastor , Teacher, and King, amongst others. But one name, Lamb of God, stands out as comprehensively describing the Lord’s purpose. Most of the people consider something that they create or attain to be their best feat. His sacrifice was the guts of the Father’s plan for humankind. Since the start, God has dealt with the sins of His folks thru sacrifice. In the Garden of Eden,
He offered the 1st sacrifice when He snuffed out an animal to use its skin as coverings for Adam and Eve. The fig leaves they were wearing could cover their bodies but couldn’t cover their sin. Either a life must end as payment for sin, or a life must be given as payment for another’s evildoing.
Jesus came as the sin-bearer for the entire world – He presumed the full accountability for all our sin and guilt so that we are able to be free from punishment. By His injuries, we are made righteous and holy in the eyes of God. But thanks to the Savior’s sacrifice, we will be able to stand before God and say, “Thank You that I am able to call You my Father.”
The Trumpets of Heaven
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A group of believers wrote to the apostle Paul to express concern about family and friends who died before Jesus’ return. They questioned if these deceased saints would miss the joy and glory of His 2nd coming. All thru history, many have wrongly believed that on death, someone ceases to be.
So Paul wished to give a correct idea of what should be expected when Jesus returns. Naturally, what the apostle wrote wasn’t simply his very own opinion, but rather the truth that was revealed to him by God. First, we expect to hear some heavenly sounds – the shout of the Lord, the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God. Many folks believe that when we die, we enter a state of “soul sleep” till Jesus returns.
But it is not possible to be “absent from the body, present with the Lord” ( two Corinthians 5:8 ) if we are experiencing soul sleep. Put simply, we are going to be catapulted into the presence of almighty God in the twinkling of an eye.
The Love of Christ
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Due to God’s mercy, he didn’t give us the punishment our sin merited. Instead He satisfied His justice thru the sacrifice of His blameless Son Jesus Christ. This Saturday, we’re going to see that His knowledge is another aspect of His love. But God knew that man would sin against Him and so fail to earn a place in heaven.Subsequently , in His knowledge, God selected to save us, transform our life, and give us a new beginning based entirely on His love.
The follower is accepted, not due to anything he does to earn divine approval, but because God loves His creation. And we recognize the undeniable fact that Jesus Christ is His only begotten Son, who went to the cross to die in our place and pay our sin-debt in full. After this life has finished, all folk will have to give account for their life. ( Romans 14:10-12 ) there’ll be no condemnation for people that have received Jesus Christ, as he has paid their sin-debt totally.
But for anyone that has chosen to reject the Savior, the awful effect of that call is eternal separation from God. Have you made a decision to follow the knowledge of God or the fake knowledge of the world?