Be imitators of God, therefore,
as dearly loved children and live
a life of love, just as Christ loved
us and gave Himself up for us as
a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
(Ephesians 5. 1 & 2).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming- not the
realities themselves.
For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly
year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers
would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty
for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it
is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for Me;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
You were not pleased.
Then I said,’Here I am- it is
written about Me in the scroll-
I have come to do Your will,
O God.’”
First He said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You
did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (although the law required
them to be made). Then He said, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.”
He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been
made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
(Hebrews 10.1-10).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
(I. John 4.10).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
SUPERABUNDANT FAVOR
But then Law came in
to expand the trespass
and make it apparent.
But where sin increased
God’s unmerited favor
superabounded.
So that as sin reigned
in death,
even so grace ( unearned
favor) might reign through
righteousness to eternal life
through Jesus Christ or Lord.
( Romans 5.20 and 21).
OUR RESPONSE TO
GOD’S SUPERABUDANT
FAVOR
is to yield ourselves as a
living sacrifice to God
as we shall see in the
following verses.
(Those of us who were
baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into His death.
We were buried therefore
with Him through baptism into
death, so that just as Christ was
raised from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness
of life.
( Romans 6.1-3).
Meditate and pray on the immense
significance and impact of this
new birth and new life.
LIFE AND DEATH
Therefore My Father loves Me, because
I lay down My life that I may take it again.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down
of Myself. I have power to lay it down and
I have power to take it again.
This command I received from My father.
( John 10.17 and 18).
Jesus Christ the Best Shepherd willingly took on
the sin, suffering and death of humanity.
He who knew no sin became the ultimate sin
sacrifice.
He took on humanity by becoming a human.
He gave us salvation and eternal life.
Please meditate and pray on these points.