Saturday, January 16, 2010

WHY DID CHRIST COME ?

Ro 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law (10 COMMANDMENTS); rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.
Ro 3:21 But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
Ro 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
Ro 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Ro 3:24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Ro 3:25 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished
Ro 3:26 he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

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The Spirit of Christ is the fulfillment of the law that we have written on our hearts. This same Spirit convicts us if we are not living properly and guides us into living the life that God has meant for us to live. The deeper the connection with His Spirit, the deeper the conviction to a point where breaking the commandments(LAW) is something we will not want to do. It becomes a reverent fear of God coupled with the love of Christ, through the BELIEF of His promise of salvation that transforms our hearts/minds. We begin to come to a place in this transformation, of fulfilling the law from a sense of loving others rather than through obligation. These are the laws of Christ, To love the Lord your God will all your heart soul and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself. Loving the Lord your God must come first. We love Him by creating a relationship with Him and BELIEVING the promise He gave us through Christ. We cannot have a relationship with someone if we do not get to know who they are as a person. We get to know the Father's Word by reading it in our Bible. We cannot relate to God by reading mere words alone. He knew this so He sent his Son to show us the Word living and active. Jesus is the Living Word. Communication is essential to a relationship. Communication is tough because we are all coming from different backgrounds, we have learned that certain words mean certain things and we use some words in different contexts than another would. Words alone cannot cultivate communication. We need to observe some one's actions and mannerisms. We need to hear their tone of voice when they speak. We need to know who they are as a person. Have you ever noticed that someone can be speaking to you and they use a word that is out of context, but you knew what they meant to say because of the tone of their voice or mannerisms, or because you know who they are as person? Ever tried this reading a e-mail or text, or speaking with someone you don't know that well? Sometimes, we can figure it out but more often than not, we get confused and can read all kinds of things into what they meant. This is one of the reasons that Jesus took on the earthly form of man and kept daily fellowship with His apostles. To be an example of the Word lived out in flesh. So that the people that were sent to record His Word, had access to the physical attributes that came along with it in Jesus and knew Him as a person. This was done so that they would record the meanings of the Words properly. After this, He sent His Spirit to live in the hearts of HIS BELIEVERS(GAL2:20). This is why there are many people that have written the new Testament that were not initial Apostles, but were still writing the inspired Word of God. He lived in them. Be sure to read my story of Saul that I will be posting soon on this.

Jesus was divine however in the way that he never sinned. He is the only one that was or ever will be capable of that in all of history. There is not one person on Earth that will be perfect as Jesus is perfect. Everyone of us even after being saved will sin (ROM 3:23). We cannot be a part of His Kingdom as a sinner. They knew this therefore, He came to die on the Cross so that we could become perfect in the eyes of the Father, through the belief of His death on the Cross to provide a way of life with His Spirit living in us. We enter the Kingdom through the door of Christ's Spirit. We open this door when we BELIEVE. There is no other way to become righteous, fulfill the law, or gain salvation(JHN 14:6). There is not one of us that will be saved because we upheld the law. Jesus fulfills the law for us by the GRACE He gave us, through Christ taking the hit for all of our sin now and forever by dying on the cross. The wages of sin is death. Jesus experienced this death even though He was the perfect Lamb without blemish to justify our sins without the penalty of our deaths. When we make the choice to follow Christ and have a relationship with him, we partner with Him in this death. It is a statement that we want to die to things of this world and follow the ways of Christ through His Holy Spirit, that springs to life when we make this decision to BELIEVE, that Christ died for our sins and that in His death, we are promised salvation. Once we truly BELIEVE this GOOD NEWS, we are marked with the Seal of His Holy Spirit(EPH 1:13) and this Spirit lives in us and guides us down the narrow path towards the Kingdom He promises us. This seal of the Spirit is irrevocable. We are marked with the signet ring of God. We are His and no one can take us away from Him (ESTHER 8:8). -SELAH-(pause and reflect on this).

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