Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God And All His Righteousness - Part 2501

"Sing, O barren, thou that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, that thou did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," saith the Lord. (Isaiah 54:1)

The Lord has just asked -- who has believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed -- prophesying forward of the soon coming of Jesus as both Lord and Christ. Moreover, informing us (in advance) how He will be wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities -- the chastisement of our peace being upon Him, when His stripes were sufficient for us to be healed. (Isaiah 53:1-5)

But in order to bring forth this current dispensation of grace, Jesus had to first endure being despised and rejected of men. Despised by His beloved creation (who were made in His image) and yet chose to esteem Him not. As the scriptures state, He was oppressed and afflicted -- yet He opened not His mouth. As the scriptures state, He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb -- and yet again He opened not His mouth.

Moreover, as the scriptures state, He was taken from prison and from judgment and yet, here He is asking -- who shall declare His generation? For He Himself was cut off off out of the land of the living -- the very same heavens and earth He created so that He could walk in the cool of the afternoon with His people (as the Lord God did with Adam).

Yes, the Lord God willingly became our Saviour, making His grave with the wicked and with the rich in His death -- even though He had done no violence and neither was any deceit in His mouth. 

But often we consider those who actually crucified Jesus on the cross as the guilty parties. The multitudes who condemned Jesus and likewise willing to overturn a murder conviction -- rather than see Jesus go free.

But aren't we just as guilty as them?  Haven't each and every one of us been observers in watching Jesus carry our sorrows -- to the cross, His precious, holy blood shed so that we might have abundant life in Him?

This is why the scriptures state that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Thankfully, the salvation message does not end there. Rather, the Lord God made a way for us to experience abundant life in Him -- when He became the Lamb of God sacrifice on the cross.

And for those who ask Jesus to become Lord in their life, and continue forward and are water baptized in the precious name of the Lord Jesus, we can be assured that there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made [us] free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own [begotten] Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us -- who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1-4)

And when you have been set free, you are free indeed -- to sing and rejoice and to give the Lord God Almighty who rescued us from our own sins -- the veil once and for all torn from heaven to earth -- all our praises forevermore.

Stand in the offering plate.