Christ
shed his blood for all people. He bled and died for the whole world.
None were righteous, no not one. Still yet He loved us and gave himself
for us. Christ died for no righteous man for none in Gods eyes existed
on earth. It is written, there is none righteous, there is none flawless
or without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, no not even one.
Christ
knowingly died for the spotted. Christ died for
the wrinkled. Christ died for the blemished. Christ died for the
ungodly. Christ died for his enemies. Christ died for the sinful and the
most wicked. Christ died for those he himself called evil....And in his
death God released His very own redeeming saving power. When Christ
died the gospel/the good news says that he reconciled all these unto
God (Romans 5:8-10). For all these mentioned above, Christ made peace with God. FOR THEM
thru the peace offering of the blood of HIS CROSS. He absorbed into
himself the wrath they deserved. We all were and are those people.
Being the above written is true we
confess; We confess by faith the word of reconciliation as preached in 2
Corinthians 5:18-21, that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world
back unto Himself NOT HOLDING AGAINST THEM their trespasses and sins. (What a scripture.) If
God did hold against us our trespasses and sins then He himself would
be a transgressor of His own word of reconciliation that He Himself committed
unto Paul and the apostles to preach as revealed in 2 Corinthians
5:18-20. This does not mean that we are exempt from believing or from
obeying God or from the call to repentance for without repentance and
holiness no man shall see God (SO SAITH THE SCRIPTURES). No it does not
mean that we are exempt from His Fatherhood over us in Christ which He
being our Dad gives him every right to rebuke and spank us, out of His great love for us, for the times
we are disobedient to him. No it does not mean that.
Not holding against us our trespasses and
sins is a redemption, saving, covenant term of agreement between the Father and Jesus on the
terms of his blood, and agonies, and sacrifice. It means God who led His
Son to the cross with great purpose, to suffer tremendously for our sins, will never belittle any part of the pains, those suffering of the sacrifice or reason why His Son died such a horrible death. It in
part means that he will not dishonor His Son's precious blood and
sufferings, his sacrifice and death by saying it was not enough, they to
must pay FOREVER for their sins. If so then Christ was a weak Savior of little power to redeem and save his people from their sins. Some actually think of Christ in that weak measure, but Jesus is far above that in his redeeming power and reconciling saving might. He and His Cross is the power of Almighty God to redeem and save us to the unttermost and even the whole world if they would repent and believe the gospel with the obedience of faith. If we believe it then let us live it. Let us live what we profess and believe in Christ.
No, God would never break the covenant
of peace that He wrote with the ink of His Sons own blood (Isaiah
54:7-10). It is written , for the transgressions of His people and for
the sin of all the world Christ was stricken...God laid on him the
iniquity of US ALL. WHY? So that they would not be laid upon us in the
end in the time of the wrath of God. Our sins have been ALL PUNISHED once and for all in the agonizing sufferings of Christ at the Cross.
So let us with grateful hearts of thanksgiving more and more live a life worthy of Christ. A life that shows forth true repentance and the fruits thereof. Let us yield forth more and more the fruits of the fellowship of Christ sufferings with love and forgiveness at the front lines of our marching in Christ everyday. For without Christ love and forgiveness none else matters. It is wasted labor. Let us more and more love one another and bring forth the fruit of those things that accompany salvation. Let us receive Christ. Trust Christ. Love Christ. Believe Christ. Obey His Will and Words. Honor Christ. Live for Christ. Let us call upon His Great Name in the great assembly of the family of those redeemed and reconciled unto God by Christ blood. Let us all CLEAVE to Christ like our life and eternity depend on it. IT DOES......In His Love & Mercy In Christ......deno.
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