THE CROSS, THE
POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD – TO DELIVER UTTERLY AND PERFECTLY.
The power and
wisdom of God did the impossible – it created the whole universe with just
words and out of nothing!!
SELA!
And the Bible says
the WORD OF THE CROSS is God’s power and wisdom onto DELIVERANCE! ABP. Therefore,
God’s power through the word of the cross can do the unimaginable and
impossible in us and it can surely do all God said in the Scriptures. That is,
Jesus can truly crush the head of Satan as God promised in the Garden of Eden -
to save and deliver us out of the slavery and bondage to sin and Satan that we
no more eat of the forbidden fruit. The Scriptures, which Jesus said
can’t be broken, say: “grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our
enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him
all the days of our life” (Luk 1:75). Jesus came for this purpose to destroy the
works of the devil (1Joh 3:8), to cleanse us from all sin (1Joh 1:7), to free
us indeed from sin(Joh 8:36), to be perfect as the Father (as Jesus commanded
in Matt. 5:48), perfecting love in us and to make us in this world as Jesus is
(as 1John 4:17 says), to clothe us after God in true righteousness and holiness
(Eph 4:24), without spot or wrinkle or any such thing but holy and perfect
(Eph5:27), etc. – IF WE BELIEVE AND OBEY. Surely, if God’s power could
create the whole universe out of nothing, He can easily destroy Satan and sin
in minuscule little men, fill us with His almighty HOLY SPIRIT - that we may
live holy lives as He commanded. And, according to the Scriptures, He does it
ONLY through the power of the word of the cross of Jesus.
If you have not
found or experienced it or you do not believe it is possible, it is because you
do not believe in the true God and His Words, you do not know the Scriptures,
you do not know the power of God through the cross - and because of
disobedience. God promised the Jews the land of Canaan, but they did not enter
it and died under the wrath of God in the desert - because of unbelief and
disobedience. If you say it is impossible to live a holy life, you are like the
Jews in the desert. You then say God is too weak to overcome your weakness and
Satan. That is the pinnacle of unbelief – and you will also surely die in your
sins under the wrath of God.
What is the word of
the cross which is the power and wisdom of God that deliver us so fully from all
sin and makes us holy?
Jesus said over and
over He will be handed over into the hands of men, sinners and nations and will
suffer and be killed by them, i.e. He was handed into your and my hands, we
martyred and killed Him. 1Peter 2:24 says He bore OUR sins in His body on the
cross. OUR SINS made His wounds. David and Paul said OUR sins against God fell
on Jesus – and it pierced Him. John the Baptist said He is the Lamb of God who
bore the sin of the WHOLE WORLD – as the lamb in Lev. 16 that bore the sins of
the whole Israel into the desert where it died a terrible death. Zechariah
12:10 says the Holy Spirit of grace will plead us to look up to Him whom we
have pierced and ALL will mourn bitterly and deeply for Him – as one mourns for
an only child that died. John says in Rev. 1:7 EVERY EYE shall see Him when He
comes and ALL the tribes of the earth will mourn - because ALL have pierced
Him.
If we receive and
obey the Holy Spirit and we look up to Jesus who bore our sins on the cross
where it martyred, pierced, spilled His blood (i.e. life) and murdered Him, we
mourn bitterly for what we did to Him, we confess all those sins that pierced
Him - and we repent from it ALL, THEN GOD promised to forgive, deliver, wash,
cleanse and free us from ALL our sins and give us victory over Satan by the
blood of Jesus, fill us with His HOLY SPIRIT and make us truly righteous and
holy. Then you will truly experience the POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD ONTO DELIVERANCE FROM ALL YOUR SINS – BECAUSE YOU BELIEVED HIS WORDS.
Up to today,
through their substitution teaching, the chief priests, scribes, Pharisees,
learned and elders have indeed handed Jesus over into the hands of sinful men
and the nations– and ALL martyred and murdered Him with EVERY SIN and without
defence, sympathy or apology. It truly fulfilled what David said in Ps. 69 –
sins against God broke / pierced Jesus’ heart and NO ONE comforted Him or had
sympathy for Him. It is perfectly true what Jesus said: God has hidden his
wisdom from the wise, learned and prudent, and revealed it to babes, the lowly
and humble. The church leaders, without God’s wisdom, further went against
God’s commands in 1Cor 14 by ruling and speaking alone and by silencing the
lowly and despised, and so they kept God’s wisdom from the members. Greater
judgement is due to them as James said in 3:1.
AMEN
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