God called Abraham to Canaan to prepare the world for Monotheism. God sent Jesus from Heaven to proclaim forgiveness of sin to all who accepted him as the Only Son of the Only God. As Messiah of the Jews Jesus offered himself as the ENMITY in whom God personalized his love for sinners and hatred of sin. Though the nation rejected his offer, God honored Jesus as both Messiah and His Son (remember that the Jews had him crucified for claiming to be God’s Son John 19:7.)
The essential point: the ENMITY—God-in-the-flesh—began his work as Jewish Messiah to prove himself Moses’ successor and fulfilled it as the Son of God dying to forgive human sin. As we cannot consider Jesus a good man while denying his Deity, we can’t say he fulfilled his purpose as the son of David while denying his sacrificial death for sinners. For the Christ came as God’s Son to be God’s powerful, universal, forceful and spiritually-violent presence against all the universal sin corrupting all humanity. However, it’s Christ as God’s final, universal, avenging Authority in human form that diverse America cannot accept. In that role he remains an unceasing irritant to unbelievers and comforting anodyne to believers. He constantly depresses unbelievers as he stimulates believers. Diversity—the voice of 21st America—shouts its rejection, “How can one Person, founding ONE religious Faith, have answers for ALL people, different as they are?” Well...Christians know...while the argument seems logical, IT ISN’T! While it makes sense to many, it’s nonsense to God. For the whole idea of human diversity demanding multiple ways to God collapses on a BASIC FACT: since all humans descended from one couple—a MAN and a WOMAN, humans are naturally and viscerally afflicted by their EGOTISM against God. It’s the single, continuing SIN against God’s will. For example, what was Eve’s sin against God? Eyesight? “When she saw....?” Genesis 3:6. No...she exalted her EGO over God’s prohibition, “You must not eat....” Genesis 2:17. For example, what was the Sin of Shinar? Ambition? “Let us...build...?” Genesis 11:4. No...they exalted their EGO over God’s express command, “Be fruitful and...fill the earth” Genesis 11:8. For example, what was Nebuchadnezzar’s sin against God? Pride? “Is not this great Babylon I have built?....” Daniel 4:30. No...he exalted his EGO over God’s SOLE AUTHORITY, “Your royal authority has been taken from you...until you acknowledge...the Most High” Daniel 4:28-32. Every person, in every culture, in every generation, continues to flaunt his EGO over God’s word. Which is why, when Jesus spoke of discipleship, instead of publishing a long catalogue of transgressions, he condemned the SOURCE of all sin—the EGO. And he eliminated the ego by commanding our DENIAL of it as the decision-maker of life. Denial of it, death of it, crucifixion of it—not fulfillment of it, or gratification of it or aggrandizement of it Matthew 17:34-37. Humanity’s sins are multiplied, for sure, but are simply MULTIPLES of ONE—the Original Sin of exalting human opinion over God’s revealed word. Which has shamed, disgraced, humiliated and cursed every generation since Adam and Eve began the torturous trail from God’s Presence into depravity! Now...to show how Jesus demonstrated in his own life what he demands of every disciple, remember Philippians 2:9-11. The Glory of having every knee bowing to him came AFTER denying himself. That being true, God’s blessings never come to us by living our EGO; by wanting something he said we can’t have; by not acquiring what God says we must have. End Part VIII
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