Remember your Creator
Ecclesiastes 12:6 NKJV
Dear Reader, As a result of sin, it is inevitable and true, that this earthly body will end up in the grave. The heart will stop beating, blood will no longer flow through your veins, and your lungs will no not supply oxygen to your body. You cannot escape this. Solomon speaks concerning this, “Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the well. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.”
God’s grace ensures us that even though all of humanity will physically die, there is hope. And this hope that we all seek is only found in the person of Jesus Christ. I say this because when Adam fell in the garden, his spirit broke fellowship with his creator and his soul became dominated by his flesh. Sin and rebellion entered into his heart and he became an enemy of God. Just as the scripture records, “just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.”
Although Adam was governed by moral laws, nevertheless, he was “filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. ” He “exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man. Instead of obeying the truth he fell captive to his own deceitfulness. He worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
Reader, you must pay closer attention to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is the only message that reveals to you the love of God. You see, God took to Himself flesh in the person of Jesus Christ, enabling Jesus, Who was fully God, to mediate between God’s divine anger against His broken law, which necessitates perfection, which all have violated. So the law of God has condemned everyone, and not only that, but it works as a mirror to reflect the impurities of the fallen nature, pointing us to a savior.
You see, Jesus had to be a man in order to redeem us by fulfilling the righteous demands of God’s law. The Bible tells us, “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us.” But he also had to be divine, because no mortal man, apart from being God, can live a life of perfection, internally and externally.
Yet this is exactly what the Bible teaches us about Jesus saying, “He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.” “For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.”
The reason death could not hold Him was because Jesus never sinned. So He alone is the way to heaven. All of this was accomplished through His incarnation, His death, His resurrection, and His ascension. If you make an error at this point, you will spend your eternal destiny paying the consequences of what you already know, because sin is continually manifesting itself in your heart, so you are without excuse.
Again, understand, it is the blood of Christ that satisfies justice and meets all the demands of the law. It is the blood of Christ that purchases salvation and brings down every blessing into the soul. It is the blood of Christ that gives you boldness to approach the throne of grace. Once again reader, How can a poor sinner dare to approach God and present himself before His perfect righteousness? The answer, “Only through the blood of Jesus Christ.” Come to Jesus today!