Meet My Friend - Part 1
Many of you may consider yourself a good person because you give money to your church or you may go to church on Sundays. You consider yourself a good person, maybe because you have not murdered anyone or maybe because you have not stolen anything from anyone, but these things alone do not make you a "good person". God's commandment says, you must love God and your neighbor.John 13:34 (CJSB) says:
"I am giving you a new command: that you keep on loving each other. In the same way that I have loved you, you are
also to keep on loving each other."
1 John 4:21
"...this commandment have we from him. Tat he who loveth
god love his brother also."
Some of you do not love God and you certainly do not love others and it shows in your actions and words.
Christ died for you and I. No he just wasn't placed on the tree called "The Cross". He was beatned with a whip that had several strands and each strand had chards of glass, nails, maybe even pieces of bone intwined in the straps. Imagine, being beaten with something like this. You wouldn't have skin left on your body and most people living today would have died during the beating. Nontheless, He went through this for us.
Romans 5:12-21 (KJV) says:
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but
sin is not imputed when there is no law. Neverthless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not
sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is
the figure of Him that was to come. But not as the offense,
so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one
many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift
by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath
abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned,
so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation,
but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. For
if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.)
Therefore, as by sth offense of one judgment came upon
all men to condemnation: even so by the righteousness
of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification
of life. For a by one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made
righteous. Moreover, the law entered, that the offense
might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much
more abound. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even
so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord."
You see, Christ died for us while we were ungodly, sinners and enemies of God. Jesus (Yeshua) saved us by His death. The
consequences of Jesus' obedience extends as far as Adam's disobedience. Since we are Gentiles and descendants of Adam, we partook of his sin and its consequences, so we also are free to partake of the redemption of Christ. From Adam all men derived their beings.
Acts 17:26 (CJSB),
"From one man He made every nation living on the
entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits
of their territories and the period when they would
flourish."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
