Raising the Horn of Salvation For You and I - Part 983

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (John 1:18) Indeed, He who knew no sin became sin for you and I, which means God Himself visited us. And, when He did, He raised up a horn of salvation.

Yes, Jesus was the only begotten of God. (John 1:18; I John 4:9; John 3:16) As it is written, He being the SEED of the Holy Spirit, and likewise, in the veins of Jesus did flow the very life of the humanity of God. Therefore, the blood in Jesus' veins was not like our blood. Why? Because in our blood flows the sinful nature of the devil acquired from our forefather Adam -- who was disobedient to the words of his Creator -- in the Garden of Eden. It is for this reason that we all have a prone to sin nature, which no man of himself can tame. 

But something else happened in the very beginning. That is, our Lord and Saviour decided that He would have to become our salvation. Why? Because He knew even then that there would be no other worthy of making such a sacrifice. It is within this framework that we learn how His plan of salvation for you and I became a reality.

You see, Jesus was not the natural seed of Abraham. JESUS was (and is) the promised SEED of the Holy Ghost. In this SEED alone, all the nations of the earth who confess and profess a believing faith in Jesus -- the same Jesus who is the promised Seed -- shall henceforth be blessed of Him [JESUS]. 

How do we know this? Because the blessing is found in both the turning and the expecting that believing faith can move forward, and, as a consequence, JESUS the SEED of promise will usher in the prosperity blessings!

Still, please note that Abraham's offspring are not the promised SEED of blessing. JESUS bore the visible features of Abraham's natural offspring. And yes, JESUS came forth from Mary in whose womb the promised SEED of the Holy Ghost was clothed in sin prone flesh. Mary became a willing surrogate as pertaining to the flesh but He who was inside that veil of flesh was none other than the SEED LIFE of the Holy Ghost. (Luke 1:15) Mary believed in the promised SEED of the Holy Spirit. She herself rejoiced to be the handmaid of the Lord, exclaiming that the Lord her God had become her Saviour. 

This is the point we similarly need to recognize. That God our Creator -- the same Lord God who created us in the beginning -- was willing to take on the form of man so that we might have salvation. "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." (I John 3:9)

This is not to suggest that Abraham believed God any less. Certainly that belief was accredited to him as if he were righteous. But of course he was not, for he also lived in a prone to sin natural body. Rather, it was the application of faith that brought upon him unforeseen blessings. God told Abraham that in his SEED would all the nations of the earth be blessed. We are not speaking here of Abraham‘s natural seed. In fact, most of Abraham’s natural seed even today do not believe in the promised SEED of the pure, holy, undefiled SEED of the Holy Ghost, which SEED is JESUS the CHRIST. (I John 3:9) 

"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, "And to seeds, as of many; but as of one" ... And to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise." (Galatians 3:16-18)

Still, from this message we need to understand that God is not the God of the Jews only. No sir. Peter also had that seated mindset in the early days but as the scriptures reveal, this mindset was soon removed and replaced with the pure thought that God is also the God of the Gentiles. And that God has poured out upon the Gentiles the very same gift of His Holy Ghost. 

In Acts chapters 2 and 10 we read that there was no difference between them - the Jewish and the Gentiles. In fact, God is building a nation. But within this nation, the only inhabitants in the Kingdom of God are those who have been born again (John 3:15-18). How does one enter? The door into God’s kingdom is through faith in the SEED of promise JESUS the Christ, and acknowledging that God Himself laid down His life as a Son for each and every one of us. He alone offers eternal life as a free gift. This is why we willingly can stand in the offering plate -- because our Lord God willingly became our Saviour. Stand in the offering plate.