THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 271

For the Son of God was manifested in the flesh in appearance as one of Adam’s prone to sin descendants. However, Jesus was not one of Adam’s prone to sin descendants. Indeed, JESUS is the Son that was to be born into the world as the Saviour of all men. As it is written in the scriptures, "Unto you there is born this day a Saviour, who is the Christ and Lord." Isaiah declared that JESUS' descriptive titles/names would be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace.

JESUS, being the One Holy Spirit who by His Wisdom/Word created all things. JESUS, the very same God who purposed by the counsel of His own will even before a visible creation existed. It was He who decided that He was now going to show Himself in form. And when viewed in form He was no less God than He was prior to showing Himself in form.

God did not all of a sudden become another person. For it is written that He being now in the form of God, He thought it not robbery to be equal with God. ONE GOD.

God created man of the earth, fashioned of earth, in the likeness of God’s spiritual form. Adam being declared as a Son of God in likeness only. God breathed into Adam and Adam became a living soul.

Adam sinned by disobedience, and so stunted God’s plan for man. The Holy Spirit of God provided of Himself two SEEDS of an entirely different blood line, and not that which was Adam’s seed blood line. In so doing God provided a means whereby fallen mankind could be reinstated by redemption to the exact place of Adam’s disobedience.

This is why man once again has to decide to obey God or to repeat Adam’s disobedience. It is in this perspective that
men and women are at the crossroads. DECISION time. Others upon hearing these redemptive words cried out to God’s messengers in Acts 2.

What must we do? the people asked. The messengers told them what they must do. As we read in the scriptures, 3000 people believed, repented of their sin and obediently were baptised in water, being buried symbolically into the grave with JESUS. They by the hand of God are cleansed from ALL sin,

They, upon rising up from out the watery grave have become new persons. Justified. Righteous. Sons and daughters of God. A new creation after the Image of the Second Adam JESUS, from henceforth the working plan of God progresses within them. The Holy Spirit now indwelling. The very same Holy Spirit that was in the man JESUS, is now given to us as a free gift. Our inheritance - for now we are the body of the Christ.

Yes, God as a son Fathered us in His death. We are all the children of God through the operation of faith in what God has done on our behalf when He as a Son laid down His life. For to all those who believe on the finished work of God upon the Cross there is no condemnation.

Here is how the scripture portrays God’s plan of redemption. That after JESUS died and rose from the grave, He JESUS ascended into Heaven and sat down. By the expression of JESUS sitting down, means, that the work of man’s redemption is complete. The completed work of redemption needs not that we must add something to this work, for the work of God is COMPLETE.

Salvation was fully accomplished by the right hand of God never to be repeated again. This is why our redemption is complete. PEACE BE!