" And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation. So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him, though He is not far from each one of us. (Acts 17:26-27)
God made Human beings from one mans blood and multiplied them upon the face of the earth in His pre appointed times and earmarked their places of habitation such that they might seek Him as He is not far from any one. The following verses tells us the root cause for sin and death.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. (1 John 3:8)
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)
" For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God" (Romans 3:23)
" For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23)
" If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us".( 1 John 1:8)
" Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law".(1 John 3:4)
"For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners: ..........".(Romans 5:19)
As the above verse suggests, when sin came into the first man it found expression in an act of disobedience to God. Therefore Sin enters as disobedience, to create first of all a separation between God and man whereby man is put away from God. God can no longer have fellowship with him,for there is something now which hinders, and it is that which is known throughout Scripture as `sin'. Thus it is first of all God who says, "They are all under sin" as stated in Romans 3:9
Our ways
"All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way," (Isaiah 53:6)
"There is a way which seems right to a man. But its end is the way of death" (Proverbs 14:12)
The above verses tell us that we have found our own ways which we claim to be right and are lost and it will lead us to eternal death
Is it possible to reach God with sin
"But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. (Isaiah 59:2)
Our ways that we have found have separated us from God and our sins have hidden His face from us and will make Him not hear our pleas and prayers
Gods Provision
Jesus died for our sins. What is sin? It is a human will colliding with the divine will - the ego bent on rebellion, hatred and suspicion. The ego, in the place where God wants to be. sin took the Holy God, incarnate here on earth, (who never harmed a single person) to be stripped, spat, laughed at, hands hammered with nail, and subjected Him to die the most agonising death.
To surrender to God is not comfortable for the ego, and therefore many try every way they can to skirt around the necessity. They will allow rules of religion, try to do good, give liberally, in fact, they will do everything except the one thing that is of prme importance: the surrender of self. The law of self surrender is the first law in the kingdom of God. One should know, in self surrender the self ceases its own rule and takes God's rule, gives up their throne and kneels before the throne of God.
I am the Way, The Truth, and The Life. These could not be just a way of words: It had to be the Word became flesh. It needed to be more than to be spoken, it needed to be embodied. The life could not be uttered only- It had to be lived. Salvation could never have come to us if God had just laid it before us as a preposition; salavation comes in and through a person - The incarnate Son of God.
The first human pair could not go back to the garden of Eden, they could only go forward. And the way forward was difficult and painful - accompanied by thorns, weeds and frustrating situations. We really cannot go back to Eden without going forward through a world that has been upset and tainted by sin. We need Jesus to fortify us for the journey through this painful world and to enter eternity. The following verses tells us clearly. How did Jesus open the way?
For the life of flesh is in the blood, and I have given it unto you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar. It is blood that makes atonement for ones life (Leviticus 17:11)
And according to the law almost all things are purged with blood and without shedding of blood there is no remission.(Hebrews 9:22)
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. (Hebrews 9:12)
This is the blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins (Mathew 26:26-27)
Shedding of Blood is the essence of sacrifice. This is fulfilled in Jesus Christ only when He was nailed on the cross. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but entered the most Holy place once for all by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.(1 John 3:5)
"And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all," (Isaiah 53:6)
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.(Romans 6:20)
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.(1 John 1:7)
Let us turn to the next post to see what is Salvation ?
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