The people couldn't live a righteous life no matter how much they tried,the have the law with them but they were like kids asked not to touch the fire but out of their curiosity,they will go ahead to touch it.The laws were so many that it contained four books,even the new born babies grew up learning these laws.Moses brought the laws to the people and they started their self righteousness journey which was forever impossible but do you know we are talking about God's people,the Isrealite here,can you believe we the gentiles weren't even part of these self righteousness plan.The Israelites could live righteous by sacrificing animals but we the gentiles didn't even have any hope of salvation but guess what.......A loving God had everything all planned out.
His desire is to see that this impossible acts of self righteousness stops,He had it all planned out even before He created man because He is an all knowing God,He knew that a point will come in a man's life that he will loose touch of reality and he will need a mediator to recouncile him back to his creator and align him to the original plans of God and God's unconditional loved pushed Him to use Himself as the sacrifice to propitiate for the soul of man....Oh how He loved man,that He held a meeting with the hosts of Heaven for a man that He hasn't created nor committed a sin yet but God already knew what will happen and had it all figured out.He gave Himself because no one else was worthy to redeem man,no blood was pure enough to wash away the sins of men
Even God's own people tried to call Him Father but couldn't,He was their Lord and King but they couldn't enter into that realm of sonship but after He died on the cross,all the "Thou shall not" changed to "I will promises".....
The focus shift from man to God,man was not the source of his own righteousness anymore,man doesn't have to struggle to live righteously,all eyes became focused on the cross,just like the snake statue Moses made for the Israelites to look up to,so they will not die. Many times we forget about the finish work of Christ and focus on ourselves.We think we can do good by our own will. We are not righteous simply because we obey the commandments.We fall from grace when we try to be righteous through our own will power and performance.You don't earn righteousness,it is free
Many of us are familiar with the message of Grace but you must know that after the cross,sin became a choice.The price has already been paid for your sins,a priceless price was paid for your soul but you must be intentional about working out your salvation. We love to hear about Grace and all it has done for us but we must know that Grace has opened us to the truth,Grace tore the veil off our eyes,therefore we are no longer in our days of ignorance where God overlooked.We must walk by the Spirit deliberately and put off the old man.Remember we now have a Helper who is the promise of the father,He teaches us all things and bring all things to our remembrance.
He is ever ready to help you run this race to the finish line.I know that there are some things we don't want to do but we find ourselves doing but do you also know that,God has promised not to let any temptation that is above us come to us,therefore when we fall into temptation,we must know that at that point we had what it takes to overcome such temptation but we choose to fall for it.
After the cross,we choose to sin.....Yes,we choose to fall for temptation because Christ has given us a life that is above sin.This revelation is hard to believe because we live daily facing situations that we just don't have a choice but to lie to save ourselves,we face situations that we just have to cheat not to be called failure and do alot of things that will cause the cloud of witnesses in heaven to be sad but we must know that after the cross,the Spirit of Holiness has been placed in us,causing us to truimph over sins.
We must not preach grace only,we must make use of the power of grace that causes us to live above sin....
We can live above sin,we can live the ZOE life without trying too hard because it is in us.Christ died that we can have the God life in us.
After the cross there is so much possibilities
Possibility to live above sin
Possibility to live in good health
Possibility to enjoy all that God has promised us
After the cross,there was a beautiful change,an exchange to take all the sins,curses and condemnation for you to enjoy all that is in God
2 comments:
nice article
Freedom from slavery was given, now we can cry out Abba Father
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