“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21
I want to
use this time to Thank God, while I have so much to thank God for, my thanks
must start His gift of Jesus my Glorious Saviour. God chose before the
foundation of the world to send His only begotten Son to this world just to
redeem me and those that will be saved. God said, “…for he shall save his
people from their sins.” I thank God I am one of “…his people…” and
my Father elected to send Jesus His Son as The Christ and our Saviour. It is
often hard to understand why God would do this most merciful and gracious act for
me and other. I must ask, how could God have ever loved a sinner like me? Our
sins wile many started with Satan, he caused with his subtleness Eve to eat of
the forbidden fruit and she caused Adam to eat of the fruit and because they
did, we also ate of the forbidden fruit. God said, “Wherefore, as by one man
sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned:” Romans 5:12 What most people do
not understand is, our sins are not our condemnation, our condemnation was
Adams sin. What did sin do to man, it caused mankind to be eternally separated
from God. “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in
the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence
of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.” Genesis 3:8 While
this sin can be accredited to Satan, Adam and Eve were guilty of their weakness
in the flesh to resist Satan over fearing God. We must realize our sins are our
sins and we are accountable, and we should not blame them on others. Adam and
Eve both blamed others for their sins, but it was them that sinned. And the man
said, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree,
and I did eat. (13) And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that
thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did
eat.” Genesis 3:12 – 13 While sin was the work of Satan, we are to
blame, and thank God that He sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to
rescue us from the power of Satan and sin. “He that committeth sin is of the
devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John
3:8 It was Satan that God created to bring evil and it was Satan that
sinned first, before man was ever created. “And the angels which kept not
their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” Jude
1:6 These angels fell with Satan, I must conclude that Satan must have been a
leader of angels and when Satan fell, they followed. Then Satan brought his
sinfulness to Eve, then Adam, then to us, everyone eternally separated from our
creator and God. Lost people are under the power of Satan, drinking sin like
water. “How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
iniquity like water?” Job 15:16 God even went farther in
the damnation of man, “What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning
like water?” Job 34:7 This is not some of mankind, but all of
mankind, we are the worst of Gods creation in this flesh. Look at the word
“scorning” it means – derision but is also means to speak
unintelligibly and falls under the definition of laughter. – We not only as
mankind drink sin like water, we laugh and mock God as irrelevant and follow
Satan in this world. This is how awful mankind is, our choice is Satan and sin
over God. The more we learn about the filth of mankind, the more we thank God
that He sent Jesus to save us. Jesus came to save lost sinners, even as
disobedient as we were, as sinful and filthy are we were, even though we never
wanted God’s salvation, God in His grace and mercy sent Jesus His Son to redeem
us through His death, burial and resurrection. God counted His blood as a
sufficient payment for our sins, what love is this! It is mankind that not only
laughs at God, laughs at Jesus’s salvation, but renders Gods salvation as
useless. “For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should
delight himself with God.” Job 34:9 Look at what God says about
mankind, “Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the
knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and
what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?” Job 21:14 – 15 and "Your
words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we
spoken so much against thee? (14) Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and
what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked
mournfully before the LORD of hosts? (15) And now we call the proud happy; yea,
they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered." Malachi 3:13 – 15 Here is a question for you, can you
now see what a blessing it is to call God our Father, thank you Jesus for
saving our souls!
