November 26, 2016
THE CROSS represents the tragedy of God. It is Himself clothed in flesh making the
Ultimate Sacrifice for His created beings; to put to death SIN! Taking on that which is the very thing that
is opposed to Him…that which is His ENEMY!
The Tragedy is that ALMIGHTY GOD desired a Being, if
given the choice to choose Him, would choose Him. In His foreknowledge, He created that Being
knowing that he would not choose Him, so that He could FREE them from the results
of their choice, and give those who did receive and believe THE TRUTH, a NEW
LIFE, Forever free of THE LIE and THE LIAR!
The Energy of God is released in The Cross because it was
the place of ATONEMENT – The Place where the penalty of SIN, which is Death
that separates from God, was PAID by GOD’S SON born into Flesh so that He could
buy us back! What made it tragic is that
God HAD to take on His own Creation so that He could have PURE HOLY BLOOD to
give! HE was the ONLY ONE who could do
that.
The sacrificial system of the shedding of blood in
remission of sin was set up so that mankind could have a means of living
without the guilt of sin and receive Grace …for forgiveness…until the PERFECT
SACRIFICIAL LAMB OF GOD was born and give HIS LIFE BLOOD in Remission of
Mankind’s SIN and give Mankind Freedom to choose again!
God made the first sacrifice by shedding the life blood
in killing animals and making clothes of skin to cover Adam & Eve’s shame,
for they saw that they were naked.
*Before sin they didn’t see that because they were innocent and pure;
now their eyes were opened and they saw each other differently; in the lust of
the flesh!
In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve (who represent all of
Mankind) made the initial choice by listening to the lies and deception of God’s
Enemy who initiated SIN, and brought SIN into God’s Perfect Creation. As a result Death began and they were
separated from the place God had made for them to commune with Him and have
life Forever; because in the middle of the Garden was the Tree of Life which
they could have freely eaten from and lived Forever in the Garden with
God. God had to send them out of the
Garden and protect them from eating of the Tree of Life and living Forever in
the fallen sinful life they had chosen.
When Adam, Eve and the Serpent received the Curse from
God for their decisions, God said that the seed of the Serpent and the Seed of
the woman would be in conflict. God gave
the Promise of a Redeemer to come Who would crush the head of the Serpent Satan.
The Cross was the crushing of the head of the Serpent
Satan… Mankind has been redeemed!
“For He hath made Him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin;
that we might be made
the righteousness of God
in Him.”
(2 Corinthians 5:21)
The Energy of God is released in The Cross because it was
the place of ATONEMENT – the Place where the penalty of SIN was PAID by GOD’S
SON. Once the debt was paid The Energy
of God surfaced in the RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ from the Dead!
