THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 306

God who is Spirit has glorified His Son JESUS declaring to one and all that it is He who is both Lord and the Christ! JESUS was murdered by man. JESUS was put to death, being nailed upon a cruel Roman cross. Prior to JESUS crucifixion, He had endured excruciating pain at the hands of a religious mob. JESUS, being the Lord of glory came from His Heaven humiliating Himself and robing Himself in a veil of flesh. JESUS descended into this very world which He had created earlier, intending to seek and to save His lost creation. JESUS who is ‘God Himself with Us’ demonstrated His Love toward all mankind in that He laid down His life so that we could be saved. In so doing, He enabled mankind - who were now through the deceitfulness of the devil complete strangers and foreigners - toward the knowledge of the true loving merciful God!

In Genesis, we read that Adam, the first man created sinned against God. As a consequence, Adam was cast out of the garden of Eden, entering into a world that was unbeknownst to Him. A world where sin was the norm. A world that worshipped the devil because in this world, the idea of right and wrong did not exist. The same devil who had through deception enticed Adam and his wife Eve to disobey God was now running to and fro in Adam's new world. Because of Adam and Eve's transgression in the Garden, we inherit the punishment of sin. We also know that the wages of sin is death. Yes, from the moment of our birth we are led on a downward path of rebellion against the very God who had created mankind in His own image.

Still, JESUS exposed the devil and his demonic followers displaying the work of a loving God. This is the message we read in the New Testament. For God was in the man JESUS the Christ. JESUS went about doing good and healing all manner of sickness, and disease. As well, JESUS cast out demons who had enthroned themselves in the bodies of many people. Yes, Satan had met his match within his last stronghold - earth. How? Because earth was now being invaded by the Spirit of God in Christ!

Even thought the devil was firmly seated among men and many men and women blindly embraced his deceptive evil ways, JESUS was busy setting men and women, boys and girls free from the captivity and vices of Satan! This message has not changed through the ages. God is the same today, as He was yesterday! God is God and with God there is nothing impossible.

Still, without faith in one's heart God cannot do anything. For it is our faith in God that moves God to do exceedingly more than we could ever ask or think. God is for man. Nothing shall separate GOD from His love toward His creation! God made a way - even though that way cost God His life as a Son. And as a result, God has taken all of man’s sin upon Himself! JESUS was the only sacrifice for sin.

This is why the scriptures state that JESUS is the door into the Kingdom of God. This is why we have a God who loves us even in a world where sin is rampant everywhere. This is why we have a God who loves us even when the knowledge of God is consistently rejected by the powers that be. While Satan has become the god of this world system - the system of error - we can remain confident that the same God who created us became one of us so that we might have life abundant. The motto in God we trust came about because JESUS is the corner stone of God fearing nations. The candle stick of the Laodicean church has been removed. This is why Christians fear not - for JESUS stands at our heart door knocking. Stand in the Offering Plate! Ask God into your life today!