How is it that he saved you and me on the cross some two thousand years ago, before we were even born, and yet the salvation he brings is both present and future? How could His past crucifixion bring both a modern day rescue from this world and a future rescue from eternal damnation?
When He died on Calvary he gave me life that is out of this world! When His blood was spilled on Golgotha, he gave me liberty from the bondage of human thinking. When He rose from the dead, he gave me the power to rise in the wisdom of Godly council.
He is the Word in flesh appearing. We are so fixated on appearances that it was necessary for Him to show up. And when He did arrive, he showed the world the power of His word. Some people despise the laws of God as a burden and restriction on their live. When he came into this world, Christ released liberty, true freedom that flows from His Word. He spoke, and demons scattered. He said the word, and bodies were healed. He said the prayer, and the dead were brought back to life.
The ever present Savior is the power of the ever present Word. He is the Word Incarnate. The Word is not a burden; it is life! And not only life, but life to the fullest! By His stripes we are healed. Not only is His blood payment for our sin, but His perfect life is a substitute for ours. It is the freedom to be finished with the world's system, and to truly live in His system.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? - 1 John 5:1-5 ESV
“For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” - Deuteronomy 30:11-20 ESV
You have a choice. Choose life. Choose the commands of God. Choose the ever-present Savior.
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