My Third Birthday - Part 3
- Bible Prophet
- 2 days ago
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For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you [Deuteronomy 11:22-23].
The bottom line is this, dear friends. The Israelites—as is true of every son of Adam the First—were and are incapable of being perfect, especially as perfect as their Father in heaven is perfect (cf., Matthew 5:48). This is because Father Adam disobeyed the Word of God in the garden and ate fruit from the kogae tree. This turned Father Adam into a sinner.
In keeping with God’s laws of creation, each species reproduces after its own kind. So an apple tree bears more apples, not bananas. A monkey gives birth to monkeys, not humans. And sinners give birth to sinners, not saints. So every last human being (past, present, and future) is born a sinner. It is a fact of life that sinners by nature sin, they don’t obey the Word of God perfectly.
Ergo, no man alive (Jesus Christ the God-Man excepted) can perfectly live a holy life and thus rightly represent the Lord to the world. Every last human being is in the same boat. All are sinners and fall short of the glory of God. This was the end result which the Covenant of Law was meant to demonstrate to the Israelites, and vicariously through them to the world.
This being the case, every last human being is in need of a Savior, someone who can pay his penalty for sinning and then provide him with a new life which can perfectly represent the Lord to the world. Entrer the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world!
The Law was given to Israel as their legal code while they inhabited the Promised Land. Their King was the Lord and He legislated the law of the land. The Law’s function was that of a pedagogue, a school marm to teach them that they were sinners and in need of a Savior.
As willful teenagers, the Israelites were intractable. They were problem children with disciplinary issues. They wouldn’t learn by means of polite and gentle words. They would rebel because they already knew it all! What they needed was precisely what the Lord gave them, i.e., the Law.
The Israelites brashly blurted out, “We will do everything the Lord tells us to do!” And they were sincere too. So the Lord gave them the Law, as if to say, “Put your money where your mouth is, O Israelites. Obey the Law perfectly 24/7/365 and prove you are good enough to represent me to the world in your own power.”
When they failed—and every last one surely did incessantly—then they could recognize their sinfulness and realize their need for a Savior. They could know not to depend on themselves and instead turn to the Lord in dependence on Him.
Such was the purpose of the Law. It was in effect until the fullness of the time arrived (cf., Galatians 4:4). That time did arrive when the eternal Son of God took upon real humanity, becoming one of us and dying for our sins. Then He rose out of death in new life, which He freely bestows upon us who turn to Him in faith and request it.
So what will it be for you? Will you put yourself under the Law and depend on yourself? Or will you forsake the self-made man mentality and place your trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation? I trust you will choose the second option. Good. Welcome to the family of God. You are now an adopted son of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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