Road To, Through And Beyond The Cross: Last Lesson in series 29 4/30/2022
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisHebrews 12:1-4 KJV
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
The day of joy that was set before my Lord, despite the the shame that befell my Lord. How can we deal with shame that befell Christ, and not look at Job in his perfection did not sin in relationship with God. Where is the anger coming from in the writting of Hebrews, it coming from Christ. You ever get in trouble in school or even an officer and feel shame or remorse in a way that says I am wrong and I hate that I am wrong. Maybe to a friends or even a spouse, lets not forget parents who have to deal with error and admit to their own children(God forbid). Was Christ wrong in his actions? The hardest thing to ask was God wrong in having his Son go through the cross and not allowing perfection to be both by society and his laws. Though Job's friends blamed Job for his trouble and even blamed God for his trouble, Job did not blame God, only acknowledged his weakness to fail, to be with fault to a point to cause his misfortune. The blame game, who is at fault, man, God, or the devil(the one not man or God)? Who is God to bow to man's laws? Yet he did for our sake, and then he defeat the law of man through the resurrection. What is the difference in Job's cross and Christ cross. Christ in his perfect by God's law, but imperfect by man's law. Job recognized his cross of imperfection, his need of sacrifice, and his need to submit not to the thoughts of his friends but only the thoughts of God.
I think about these cultic leaders that claim they are doing what they do in the name of God, and Christ, yet can they admit fault or at least human fault. Not when they go into their homes, and shut the doors as if to keep evil out forgetting the evil within their own home, and soul. Christ was made perfect without spot or blemish, but to the world he had those spots and imperfections. To God he was righteous, blameless, holy, and so forth. He would be the Lamb sacrificed, for God seen Jesus holy even with the insurrection.
How quick is to blame God. I was talking to two business people this week and I realized I discovered the error made was my own and it happen twice in one week, but you were forgiven and the problem straighten out twice. Two different businesses. Yet what does the business do, they want to keep you, or in appearance they do and they work with your humanity. It called accident forgiveness. Yet they also use you for a learning curve of their own to help make their business better and profitable, in some cases they gain nothing, and other times they gain much knowledge of how to make it better. Did God fail at making his language better in conveying to humans that they are not left behind if they will be willing to receive Christ, to do it God's way, and leave the evil stuff alone. That though man must face consequences of sin by dying, they do not have to remain in the state of being dead. The world however crucified Jesus, they could not bring him back or make him live again. The world could not undo their actions. Just like I could not do my error with a business, only they could undo my error. God is the only one that can undo our error with him.
There is a lot of things man does, but there are lines in which no one should break with each other. God's forgiveness, mercy and grace when one has repented, been forgiven, and then look at the criminal as forgiven despite the harm to a lamb/sheep. Did God forgive Abel. Was there accident forgiveness and why not. Cain never admitted fault of any kind. Job seen his faults, acknowledge them and search to change those faults. Jesus ask God to forgive the world, and yet did Jesus ask for forgiveness, perhaps his actions demonstrated how he felt with his hatred(despise) the shame and face the punishment of sin against humanity. Hating the guilt of not being able to pervent trouble by his actions in regards to cause another to sin.
Two sins do not make a right, even if the first crime of humanity was turning the money tables over and then second causing another because of the first action to kill someone. Christ dealing with human laws like we deal with God's law. That why when the believer lives again, our life is in a new heaven and new earth with God in charge, we do not have to live in dictatorship of heaven? Living in a life of undestructibility but are we without the ability to sin against each other? Are we without correction from God in our incorruptibility? I guess you should ask Satan, who will remain in fiery pit for eternity one day, what is choice of disobedience in heaven cost him? It cost him eternal hope, peace, and joy with God.
Think hard on this, if you enjoy evil movies would you really want to wake into that nightmare for eternity? Would you rather wake up in the sweet by and by more. Are you stuck in your desire of corruption or your desire of hope, health and happiness? You want the hope, the joy, the peace, the life of good things, then you have to want something more then what our world is in the since it is consumed by the world of humanity and her faults that destroy, control and exist not for eternity unless that is your choice. God wants something better for us then our humanity as we know it and understand it. He wants us to stop blaming him for our problems, because of our choices, and recognize our own issues. We will die in our humanity, and yet through faith we will rise again because of the will of the Father(God). Not only to rise again, but to rise to a new life with him. If we desire not to live forever with him, he gives us that choice and turns that person over to the devils rule, the rule of tempter, which is the choice of man, the choice of the fiery pit being now the only option. We are forgiven when we repent, but the consequence of sin is still death. Yet our hope is eternal life with him, and through our confess of faith that he is able to raise us spiritually from that grave to spend eternity with him. Our time is not eternity in the grave but eternity with God and Christ.
Job's friends only blamed God and Job for his problem. Job's wife was no better. Can we forgive others the way Christ forgave us. Depends, what the action of another was justified or unjustified. Christ actions justified, but the results of his action unjustified. A struggle of forgiveness can be a heart ache. Yet forgiveness does not mean you have to socialize with that person either. The question occurs did the person recognize fault. Then to socialize should be a yes, for God socializes in heaven with us that admits fault of sin. Our ability to forgive and let something go has to do with admitting error. Can you receive Christ despite his actions in our world we live in, to live and reign in our hearts and world today? Can we trust Jesus to rule in our hearts today?
Dear Heavenly Father, help us to recognize to despise our sin against another is great, but to only recognize their fault and not own is equally evil. Help us to admit our imperfections. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: Romans 10:6-13 KJV
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Job 2:8-10 KJV
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Job 42:1-7 KJV
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Isaiah 53:1-12 KJV
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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