If Jesus is called Lord in this supreme sense it is not surprising that He occasionally is called God in the New Testament. Apostle Thomas, convinced that the risen Christ stood before him, abandoned his doubts with the confession, "MY Lord and My God!" - John 20:28 -

In Gospel John 1:1 - John declared that the Word existed not only "in the beginning" where He was "with God" but also actually "was God". This is the Word that became incarnate as real man in the Lord Jesus Christ without ceasing to be what He had been from eternity. The Word was God in the sense that the Father shared with Him the fullness of His own nature. The Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible thus presents Christ as altogether God and altogether man - the perfect mediator between God and mankind because He partakes fully of the nature of both.

Since Christ partakes in the nature of both God and humanity. He occupies a unique status with regard to them. He represents God to humanity and He also represents humanity to God. God is both Lawgiver and Judge; Christ represents Him. The human family has put itself in the position of the lawbreaker; Christ has voluntarily undertaken to represent us. The Judge has made Himself one with the guilty in order to bear our guilt. It is ordinarily out of the question for one person to bear the guilt of others. But when the one person is the representative man, Jesus Christ, bearing the guilt of those whom He represents, the case is different.

In the hour of His death Christ offered His life to God on behalf of mankind. The perfect life which He offered was acceptable to God. The salvation secured through the giving up of that life is God's free gift to mankind in Christ.

In the New Testament, apostle Paul goes on to the limit of daring in speaking of God as "Him who justifies the ungodly" - Rom.4:5 - God can be so described because "Christ died for the ungodly" - Rom. 5:6 - Those who are united by love and faith to Him are "justified" in Him. As Paul explained elsewhere, "For our sake God made the sinless one into sin so that in him we might become the goodness of God. - 2Cor. 5:21 -

The reason therefore why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. God has done what the Law because of our unspiritual nature, was unable to do. God dealt with sin by sending his own Son in a body as physical as any sinful body, God condemned sin. He did this in order that the Law's just demands might be satisfied in us who behave not as our unspiritual nature but as the spirit dictates. - Rom. 8:1-4 - The work of Christ is to set humanity in a right relationship with God.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -