The Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible therefore, presents the Lord Jesus Christ as altogether God and altogether man/human. The perfect mediator between God and mankind because the Lord Jesus Christ partakes fully of the nature of both.

The work of atonement or redemption for the human race which the Lord Jesus Christ completed by His death on the Cross, refers to the 'finished' work, or 'accomplished' or 'fulfilled' in accordance with the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible. This work is so perfect in itself that it requires neither repetition nor addition, and because of this work, the Lord Jesus Christ is called "Savior of the world."

The next day, seeing Jesus coming towards John, John the Baptist said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. This is the One I spoke of when I said: A man is coming after me who ranks before me because He existed before me. - John 1:29-30 -

When Jesus heard that the Pharisees........... 'What? You are a Jew and you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?' - Jews, in fact, do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus replied:

'If you only knew what God is offering
and who it is that is saying to you:
Give me a drink,
you would have been the one to ask,
and He would have given you living water.'

'You have no bucket, sir,' she answered 'and the well is deep: how could you get this living water? Are you a greater man than our father Jacob/Israel who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?' Jesus replied:

'Whoever drinks this water
will get thirsty again;
but anyone who drinks the water that I shall give
will never be thirsty again:
the water that I give
will turn into a spring inside him/her, welling up to eternal life.'

'Sir,' said the woman 'give me some of that water, so that I may never get thirsty............ Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, 'Rabbi, do have something to eat'; but He said, 'I have food to eat that you do not know about.' So the disciples asked one another, 'Has someone been bringing Jesus food?' But Jesus said:

'My food
is to do the will of the one Who sent Me,
and to complete His work.
Have you not got a saying:
Four months and then the harvest?

Well, I tell you:
Look around you, look at the fields;
already they are white, ready for harvest!
Already the reaper is being paid his/her wages,
already he/she is bringing in the grain for eternal life,
and thus sower and reaper rejoice together.

For here the proverb holds good:
one sows, another reaps;
I sent you to reap
a harvest you had not worked for.
Others worked for it;
and you have come into the rewards of their trouble.'

Many Samaritans of that town had believed in Jesus on the strength of the woman's testimony....... Now we no longer believe because of what you told us; we have heard Him ourselves and we know that the Lord Jesus Christ really is the "Saviour of the world." - John 4:1-42 - John chapter 6 - John 7:37-39 -

Since Jesus Christ partakes in the nature of both God and humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ occupies a unique status with regard to them. The Lord Jesus Christ represents humanity to God, the Father. Thus, God is both 'Lawgiver' and 'Judge'; the Lord Jesus Christ represents Him. The human family has put itself in the position of the lawbreaker.; and Christ Jesus 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, the Lord Jesus Christ, bearing the guilt of those whom He represents, the case and phenomenon is totally different.

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

When the situation is viewed in terms of a law court, one might speak of the accused party as being acquitted. But the term preferred in the New Testament, especially in the Apostle/Saint Paul's epistles or writings, is the more positive word 'Justified.' Apostle Paul goes on to the limit of daring in speaking of God as "Him who justifies the sinners or ungodly." God can be so described because "Jesus Christ died for the ungodly and sinners,"

So far then we have seen that, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God's glory. But that is not all we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings.

These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. We were still helpless when at His appointed moment the Lord Jesus Christ died for sinful men/women.

It is not easy to die even for a good man/woman - though of course for someone really worthy, a man/woman might be prepared to die - but what proves that God loves us is that Jesus Christ died for us while we were still sinners. Having died to make us righteous, is it likely that He would now fail to save us from God's anger?

When we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, we were still enemies; now that we have been reconciled, surely we may count on being saved by the life of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ? Not merely because we have been reconciled but because we are filled with joyful trust in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have already gained our reconciliation. - Romans 5:1-11 -

Let me put this another way: an heir, even if he/she has actually inherited everything, is no different from a slave for as long as he/she remains a child. He/She is under the control of guardians and administrators until he/she reaches the age fixed by his/her father.

Now before we came of age we were as good as slaves to the elementary principles of this world, but when the appointed time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born of a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted sons and daughters. The proof that you are sons and daughters is that God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries, 'Abba, Father', and it is this that makes you a son and daughter, then He has made you heir.

Once you were ignorant of God, and enslaved to 'gods' who are not really gods at all; but now that you have come to acknowledge God - or rather, now that God acknowledged you - how can you want to go back to elemental things like these, that can do nothing, and be their slaves? You and your special days and months and seasons and years! You make me feel I have wasted my time with you. - Galatians 4:1-11 -

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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 -