Post #13 - Grace in the Dark

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Hi Everyone! We are still in Chapter #2 which discusses why we can be such broken human beings even though we are a child of the King! So keep reading Chapter 2 in next week’s post…Bless you! Love, Sue

But God. Those famous two words that start so many Bible accounts. But God.

But God intervened. Grace happened. God Himself taking the form of a man to save Adam and Eve and all of their descendants, crashed the enemy’s lines as a wee baby. The Greatest Rescue Mission ever.

Old Testament prophets.

A virgin girl.

A star in the sky.

A manger in Bethlehem.

Jesus came to fallen earth to rescue His children and restore their relationship with the Father. Jesus, fully God became fully man, but divested of His royal prerogatives as God. Although He was – and is  - coequal, co-divine, co-existent, and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit – He came to walk the planet in like flesh and blood as His wayward children. Jesus did only what His Father told Him to do (John) and lived utterly dependent upon the Holy Spirit (verse). He was tempted like we are, and yet with not one failing or sin to His name Hebrews 4:15. He defeated the ruler of the earth with His sacrificial work on the cross (Hebrews) in our place, both satisfying the wrath of God and the penalty of death that was upon us Hebrews 9:12. He shred to pieces the indictment of sin against us and publicly disarmed the enemy’s demon hordes.

 

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,

He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. Colossians 2:13-15

And for those who receive His work on the cross and resurrection, Lord Jesus gives them the right to be the very children of God John 1:12. In the moment of belief and receiving Christ as Lord, the chasm between God and the individual is mended Ephesians 2: 14-18 and the once dead spirit of man and woman is raised from the dead by the Spirit of the Living God who indwells and seals them for eternity 2 Corinthians 1:22. Eternal CPR as they are born again of the Spirit, just as He said (John 3) Authority is reinstated, intimate fellowship with God restored, and eternal life secured for every believer by faith Luke 10:17-20, John 3:16.

Still, we get so messed up.

(To be continued next week! Thanks for hanging with me…)