Reminders of our Loving Savior!

4.12.2010
The powerful message of the Cross.
Christ was the only acceptable sacrifice for our sins because He had not known sin; this would be impossible for an infinite all knowing, All powerful, Holy, and Righteous God. Man is in a terrible state of hopelessness without any way of redemption: a redemption that had to satisfiy a Holy, Just, Righteous, and totally perfect God, our Creator. The plan for man's redemption did not take God a long time to "figure out" what needed to be done; He knew from eternity past what needed done for man to rise up on of a fallen hell-borne state. The answer was so clear to the Son that He willing came; no He was not proded or insisted or even the chose out of a crown for there was no other worthy to be a perfect sacrifice for man kind. It was such a great event that even the angels sang when He came to be born. And such a manner of birth too...a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel, GOD WITH US. II Cor. 5:21 "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
Christ, who had been at the Father's righthand for eternity past saw the perfect time to fulfill the Father's plan for man and stood up and came to earth to live like a man, be treated as a man, to be ridiculed by the men He came for, to be accepted by the men who had their eyes opened to the truth. He felt all the emotions, and pain that can and would be felt in His journey to fulfill the Father's will. He gave Himself willingly to be the sacrifice for man. He came as our vicarious substitute, and as Isaac willingly allowed Himself to be put on the altar to be sacrificed; so Christ willingly allowed Himself to be put on the cross to suffer for us so that we might be redeemed. When Christ died on the cross the victory was won... It is finished...the victory cry was given and death and hell and Satan were defeated. The enemy was defeated and the spoils of war were gathered and given unto men. The vitory was so great that we ought to be more bold to brag about what our Savior did for us and the whole world; if they would but accept this gift of Salvation we all would fall in worship of the Only Wise and Benevolent God. When Christ died for us He suffered the full penalty for us and His sacrifice was accepted of God the Father; and because it was accepted so we are accepted of God through Christ Jesus. Be sure to give this message to a friend in need today and let them know that Jesus gives the victory because He was victorious over Satan and over the eternal punishment that all men deserve. May God Bless my dear friends...

Isaiah 53:7-10 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
We see here that it was not a little punishment or shame-bearing that our LORD took for us, no, it was His life for our life. His example of not opening His mouth is a virtue, if you please, that we seem not to have but when accused falsely or even fairly we tend to feel our hair stand on end because we feel a sense of wrong acted upon us. Our LORD Was falsely accused of all that He was accused of for He was God He had every right to say so as He did before Pilot; and yet even Pilot saw no wrong in Him. He took all of the sourging the mocking the shame that we should have rightfully bore on ourselves as He bore on that cross. He was forsaken of His own countrymen, rejected and reviled at though He did no reviling in return. He simply took the punishment that we were comdemned for and paid our penalty on the cross. The punishment Christ took for us on that cross was for us and as it says..."it pleased the LORD to bruise Him, He hath put Him to grief; that is our grief that He took and our sorrow that He bore. The sacrifice that Christ took for us pleased the Heavenly Father because of the seed of those who would recall what was done for them that without it they as well as the whole world would have had no hope for the redemption of their bodies from the past sins, the presence of sin or the power of sin: all was paid on the cross so that we might be a memeber of that seed whose days would no longer an existence of physical and eternal torment (death), but of eternal joy and peace and rest as the writer of Hebrews states it, "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." Heb. 4:1. Let us, as the Bible says many times, remember that we have the hope for all man kind and that it has been commited unto us as faithful sterwarts to proclaim and share the gospel of Jesus Christ with all the world. The pleasure of our LORD suffering was not focused on the suffering but the engrafting, the adopting of millions of those who would accept the suffering of Jesus Christ as payment for their sins; this is the pleasure that the LORD has in each and every sinner that has accepted Him as their personal Savior. May God bless your Resurrection Day as He Has prepared the way for Glory for us.