Sin is a terrible thing! Disobedience to God has eternal consequences! A heart of humility readily receives this truth.
God, our Creator, had a plan to make man in His own image and likeness … and He lovingly did when He fashioned and shaped man with His hands from the clay of the earth (Genesis 1 – 3). The scripture states
Before He created man, He had always hated one thing, and one thing alone … SIN. He protects His creation from it; and instructs all about it – and His life is a testimony against it …
Sin entered the world through one man’s disobedience – the disobedience of Adam, our earthly Father – and because of this all men died – and that spiritual death, which also resulted in physical death, passed on to all men … in other words, we have all inherited sin and death from our earthly Father Adam … we’ve all been born, physically alive, but spiritually dead … we were born in sin, and shaped in iniquity … we lost that spiritual life, that wonderful relationship and communion with Him.
But He did not leave us (Adam & Eve) in the resulting death … He immediately promised the coming Redeemer, He took care of Adam & Eve’s sin, spelling out to man the consequences of His actions, made clothing for them and protected them form themselves by sending man out of the garden so he couldn’t eat of the tree of life and become eternally evil.
The coming Redeemer – Jesus, God’s only born Son ever lives to make intercession for me – for us – for all mankind! God’s promised Redeemer that would destroy the power of sin and death over our lives, by paying the price for our sin – that is death – and because He is the sinless One, death and sin did not have the power to hold Him in the grave, but He arose from the dead, paying the just penalty for sin, and ascended up into heaven, with His own wonderful life giving blood, presented it to our Maker, sprinkling the tabernacle of Heaven and washing away the sin of man forever, for whosoever would be willing to receive His great offering!
Jesus did something for me that I could never do – He rescued me.
He had this testimony before He went to the cross to bear the burden of my sin – “This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight” …
He’s the healer of my body
He’s the lover of my soul
He’s the life giving God
To my eternal soul
He’s the light giving God
Shining through to my soul
He’s the life giving God
Through His eternal blood
He’s the Father of my life
Through the Seed of His Word
Jesus is God’s provision for man’s sin – and his death. Because Jesus lives, we can live! Look to Jesus and live (Numbers 21 & John 3: 14)!