THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 267

For God had so much love for the world that He gave His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that WHOSOEVER believes and trusts in and upon Him should not be lost, but that they shall have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to judge, condemn or pass judgement upon the world but rather that the world through Him might find in Him salvation! This paraphrased version of the scriptures taken from John 3.

The section we will focus on here is the part that states, He who believes upon Him is not condemned, but they that do not believe in Him, through their unbelief are already condemned of God. Why? Because they have not believed in the Name of the Only Begotten Son of God (JESUS the Christ).

The grounds for their condemnation is this. The Light of God’s way has come into the world, but men loved and preferred darkness rather than God's light. Often it is because their deeds or works are evil and wicked. Indeed, every willing or intentional wrongdoer hates the light. They will not come to the light lest their actions and deeds be exposed. So instead they steer clear of the light lest their deeds should be reproved.

Conversely, those that love the truth respond positively to the light and as a consequence, their works may be seen. The best part is that their deeds and similar good works are solely motivated through believing faith with expectancy in God.

Now we continue from 266 .. . Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, for God and form are the same One God. They are not two persons. Man was created in the earthly image of this one God and in earthy fashion presented God’s spiritual form. Man had God's breath within, for God had breathed into man the breath of Life, resulting in man becoming a living soul. (For the body without the spirit is dead )

Further, God is the "I AM" of all things. The Father of all. The source. It is in Him that we live and move and have our being. In other words, we are the magnificent works of God’s hands, a created masterpiece. God having set man over the works of His own hands, caused men to say, "What is man that you Lord have set him over the very works of Your hands crowning him with glory and honour?"

Sounds too good to be true? Nevertheless, in this case it is true and likewise salvation is still God’s ultimate plan for man. Even though admittedly, that plan was OOPED when satan entered into the Garden and Adam and Eve were trumped. Remember Genesis? When God asked, “Adam what have you done?”

Mankind could not reverse his downgraded situation. The consequence of becoming spiritually exiled from God, as a result of Adam's fall in the garden. But God is Love and God love is! More to come. PEACE BE.