His Grace is Sufficient - Part 502

The line between this world and the next is drawn by God's grace. Each and every one of us has fallen short of God's grace. Short of His expectations. Short of His love. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Indeed, the Word states that we have all fallen short of His glory and are in need of salvation. (Romans 3:23) But God did not leave us there to perish.

Rather, God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Jesus the prophesied Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) Jesus said in John 14:6 - I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. In other words, the Law and the prophets -- that so many religious institutions present in their message week in and week out - were only until Jesus appeared. After that, the Kingdom of Heaven is preached. 

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Christ brought not more law that would bind us but liberty. Jesus came to set the captives -- you and I -- free. Jesus preached a message of deliverance. And when ordinary people heard Him, they received His Word gladly. Why? Because Jesus did not speak as the scribes and pharisees did. 

Instead, Jesus healed the sick. He cast out devils that were impoverishing the people. Never before had anyone seen these kinds of miracles. At the time, we read in the scriptures that the religions/religious of the day were still unaware that God Almighty was walking among the people. Jesus - God in the flesh. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 

Neither were the religious aware that they had broken the covenant, wanting to get rid of Jesus. As we have learned, the New Testament is not interpreted by the Old. It is the opposite. Any prophesies spoken in the old were revealed in the New Testament. The early believers went everywhere preaching Jesus. Today, there are still those who run from the revelation of God in the New Testament. That is, the name given of God to His humanity is Jesus. It is He alone who shall save His people from their sin. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Jesus is the only name whereby we can be saved. The only mediator between God and man is Jesus. I and my Father are one. When Thomas said, Show me the Father, Jesus said, Have I been so long time with you. I and my Father are one. Jesus is God Himself with us as a Son  - a Son only for the time that He was begotten on earth. Yes, God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16) One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 

“I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8) And He loves us more than we will ever know. Stand in the offering plate.