Obedience and Rightousness

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 BLL TUESDAY...THE REST OF THE Story! April 16 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).