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Jesus,
The Way To God
By His death on the cross, Jesus made possible the forgiveness of our
sins. When sins are forgiven we are no longer objects of God's wrath.
ROMANS 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we
shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
But we need more than this. We need the kind of close friendship that existed between
God and Adam before the fall of man.
Requirements of A Close Relationship
If a close relationship is to exist between God and man, we must understand God and
feel comfortable in approaching Him. This is not easy.
God has unlimited power, unlimited wisdom and unlimited holiness. He is the creator of
all things, the sustainer of all things and He knows all things. He is eternal, immortal
and invisible. He is a Spirit (John 4:24) and as spirit, He has no flesh and bones (Luke
24:39). How can a mortal, finite man ever hope to comprehend such a God? Contemplating His
nature, the Psalmist wrote:
- PSALM 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to
it.
But if we should succeed in comprehending Him, how could we ever approach Him? We feel
the need of a lawyer to represent us before a human court; how much more before God! Job
expressed this need in one of the earliest books of the Bible:
- JOB 9:32 "For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to
court together.
9:33 "There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.
Jesus is this daysman, this umpire.
- 1 TIMOTHY 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus,
He is qualified to "lay His hand upon us both" because He is the Son
of God (John 5:25), and also the Son of Man (John 5:27).
Jesus Reveals God To Man
JOHN 1:18 No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is
in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
Paul wrote of Jesus:
COLLOSSIANS 2:9 For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily
form,
Jesus is:
- HEBREWS 1:3 "... the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His
nature, ..."
Jesus Represents Man To God
By becoming a man, the Son of God not only revealed
Deity in tangible form, but He also became our brother so that He can represent us to God.
HEBREWS 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with
our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
4:16 Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may
receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.
Our Relationship With God In Christ
Through the good offices of Jesus we are god's
temple and priesthood.
1 PETER 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a
spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ.
We are God's children in Christ.
- GALATIANS 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
When Christ is in us, God is in us. Jesus prayed:
- JOHN 17:23 I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the
world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me.
When we are in Christ we are in God.
- COLOSSIANS 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
God's Blessings For Us Are In Christ
EPHESIANS 1:3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
EPHESIANS 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love
EPHESIANS 1:6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely
bestowed on us in the Beloved.
EPHESIANS 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
EPHESIANS 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of
truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with
the Holy Spirit of promise,
1:14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's
own possession, to the praise of His glory.
It is only in and through Jesus that we have access to God in prayer. He said to
His disciples:
- JOHN 15:16 "You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you
should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the
Father in My name, He may give to you.
In Christ, God grants eternal life.
- 1 JOHN 5:11 And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life
is in His Son.
Jesus Is The Only Way
1 JOHN 5:12 He who has the Son has the life; he
who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
Jesus did not hesitate to claim that He was the only way to God:
- JOHN 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one
comes to the Father, but through Me.
This makes it essential that each of us be in Christ. Are you in Christ?
- GALATIANS 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with
Christ.
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- 2 JOHN 1:9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does
not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
May we assist you in being united with Christ?
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