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Obedience
and Righteousness
“For
as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans
5:19)
The
first Adam, made in the likeness of our Lord, embodied
the Holy Spirit. He and Eve were ripe with the love of God. As
time progressed toward God’s planned end of time, The evil one
crept snake like into the Garden of love and polluted perfection.
Sin was simple in those days of antiquity. God’s
commandment, don’t
partake of this one treasure (fruit) in the garden. All things
were as God planned and desired and it was very good. But, when
Satan wedged himself Through
the hedge into the utopia
of Gods making, A
heart rendering and world shaking cosmoplastic occurred
a molding force and as an operative in the formation of the world
independently of God.
Though uninvited and unwelcome Lucifer slithered
in and
inserted
hylozoic
atheisms.
Satan
is sin and he placed himself in position to defile God’s perfect
creation. In
time to come, he would make live his plan. Being
morally and
religiously wrong; wicked; evil Satan
flavored the garden with sin. A little sin goes a long way. It
reached from the beginning to the cross as a controlling force.
All people walked according to their own way after loosing God’s
blessings. Satan ruled and God allowed him to rule. People
transgressed
against divine law. They
committing immoral acts. Our
Creator turned His back and walked out of the garden; love has
faded there. Adam lived and began the replenishing of the earth
but sin reigned exclusively until the Flood.
God’s
time clock ticked away centuries and eons of silence from its
designer. However God was not defeated. He simply watched his plan
in silence, for the most part. Then the day arrived that He would
select from the best of the best, a people He would mark as a
special treat to his love. Abrm was the selection and through him,
who God renamed Abraham, God built a line of people leading to His
return to walk on the soil from which he has created man. Abraham,
Issac and Jacob (called Israel by God) loved
God and eventually produced King David who sat the throne to be
Christs ancestor and build the throne for The Lord’s second
coming.
Thousand’s
of years slid past and Israel flourished into twelve tribes
according to the twelve tribes (sons) of Israel. Many covenants
had been made by God only to be defiled with self serving people.
He knew it was time for His final covenant. The second Adam was
born in a little town called Bethlehem. Joseph and Mary called His
name Jesus. He came to set the drifting population in a direction
back to their creator. A simple and easy way requiring only faith
in God and belief in the new covenant. There will not be a third
opportunity or covenant, or
Adam.
When Christ uttered from the cross “It is finished,’ he closed
the imperfect man made plans for heaven. Jesus
came to full fill all previous covenants and to save those
wandering out there in sin. He opened heaven’s gates to all who
would come repenting.
‘God
forgives repentant sinners’. ‘Paul stresses that the primary
purpose why Jesus came into the world was to save sinners.’ I
may be a sinner, but the sinner whom these prayers were describing
was not me. Know
God, know peace. 04-15-1920
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April
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Certainly
the focal point of all history and the climax of Christ’s
earthly ministry was His sacrificial death on the cross. Christ
knew from ages past what was in store for Him, and yet He was
“obedient unto death, even the death of the cross”
(Philippians
2:8).
However,
as we see in our text, Christ’s obedience included more than His
death, for He was perfectly obedient throughout His entire life.
Indeed, it is a good thing, for any act of disobedience would have
invalidated His sacrificial death. Animal sacrifices in the Old
Testament (which prefigured the final sacrifice of Christ) had to
be “without blemish” (Leviticus
22:19).
But even a perfect animal was not enough (Hebrews
10:4)
to satisfy God’s justice and take away sins. “Ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things. . . . But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot”
(1
Peter 1:18-19).
Christ’s
obedience, therefore, consisted not only of His obedience in
death, but in His entire earthly life—from His incarnation, “I
come . . . to do thy will, O God” (Hebrews
10:7)—to
His childhood, “[Know] ye not that I must be about my Father’s
business?” (Luke
2:49)—to
His healing and teaching ministry among the people, “I must work
the works of him that sent me” (John
9:4)—to
His preparation for death, “nevertheless not my will, but thine,
be done” (Luke
22:42).
Now,
in His obedience, Christ calls us to a life of similar obedience.
“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey him” (Hebrews
5:8-9).
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