16/05/2015 - DEATH FOR EVERYONE

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But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2.9

If you have a vision of who Jesus really is and has done for all humanity you will straighten your life forever. Christ was complete in the act of saving us. As He substituted us in the Calvary, He reconciled us with God (2 Co 5.18). Nowadays, it does not matter what sin or evil that someone might have committed; if this person listens to the Word and believes, God will not only forgive him, but also save him, and he will start to be a blessing (1 Jo 1.9).

And this is how the Scriptures portray Jesus. He himself said that we should examine them, for they testify about Him and about us. The moment when you understand what you represent for God and what you can do, make a mental picture and never erase it from your heart again. Before every temptation, you must only trust in what has been shown to you and determine it to be so, and you will be a blessing. 

The Master gave up His divine being and came as a man. While He was here, He was similar to us; He wept, was hungry, sleepy, joyful, and was used by the Father. Thus, Jesus showed that if we let the Lord use us, we will do the things that He did (Jo 14.12). When He returned to the Heavens, after completing His work, Christ received all power on Earth and in the Heavens. Now He is our intercessor (1 Tm 2.5).

Jesus came lower than the angels, because He became man like us (Heb 2.9). As he died on the Calvary, he paid our bills completely. Even not having in Him the seed of sin, he was the immaculate Lamb of God, ready to take away the sin of the world (Jo 1.29). Today, those who are saved have no stain or spot that came over all with the fall in Eden. For us, what happened in that garden is in the past.

Christ came as a man, coming through the door – maternal birth – so that He would prove death for our sake. If He had come simply as God, the work would not have been done. After all, the Most High never acts dishonestly. Then, so that He would provide salvation, He had to give His Son in the likeness of man (3.16). Jesus, after never falling in sin, suffered for our fault, and as he saw that everything was solved, he exclaimed: It is finished (Jo 19.30).

By the grace of God, Christ proved death for our sake. The same grace is now over all people, whether they are saved or not. It capacitates us to listen to the Gospel, believe in Him, and receive salvation. This must be taught to all the lost, so that they might be delivered from eternal condemnation. The death of the Master provided the conditions for all to be saved.

If everybody understood that the problem of sin was solved by the death of Christ, they would be immediately saved. This is why Jesus ordered us to go throughout the world preaching the Good News to all creatures (Mk 16.15). Unfortunately, there are other interests making many of the Lord’s heralds preach in a way that is different to the divine order.

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares