Part 5 of Chapter 6 from Magnify The Lord (Pages 147-148)

Magnify the Lord

Chapter 6 (Part 5)

He's Come to Deliver

HIS LAW

His law condemned all sinners to death. God's law is the means by which He reveals we are condemned sinners and deserve to be put to death and separated from God for all eternity. The law of God is designed so it cannot convert or pardon the sinner under any circumstances. God's law is forever impartial to its purpose. Every soul that sins is confined to death under the law. This law applies until the sinner dies. "Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4). We were bound by the law until death: "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). (Rom. 7:1-6) We were also promised a just hearing after death: "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27).

JUST AS HE

The only way we could be free from this problem, as a sinner who is bent on sinning, is in the heart and hands of God. How deep the Father's love is for us! How rich is His work of grace! He accomplished more than we will ever know upon the cross. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places through Christ Jesus. It is all just as He planned before time ever began. He made us a new creature in Christ Jesus. He put us to death in Him upon the cross and raised us up with Him to sit in the heavenly places together forever. This is entirely His work and we must praise Him because He has dealt with the problem, US!

IT'S A FACT

We were our biggest problem. But thank God for Jesus, who fulfilled God's law and dealt with it for God's glory on a tree called Calvary. God dealt with the problem when He birthed us into His kingdom, and in His own sovereign way He put us to death in Christ: "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3). Praise God! He's come to deliver us from our worst enemy: OURSELVES.