JESUS, GOD'S SALVATION

History of man's fall

The Lord is restoring the creation back to its actual condition before the fall of man (Col 1:17).  It was a glorious creation when it was formed out of nothing by the Word of God.  In the beginning, after giving His final touches each day, God took a step back and admired it.  He saw that it was good (Gen 1:10, 1:12).  For the perfect God, to see something as good, meant that it was good indeed.  God’s good would be man’s unimaginable high standard (1 Chron 29:11-13).  At this peak, Satan, entered the scene (Gen 3:1).  He corrupted the rich and glorious creation.  He didn't do this alone, but by partnering with man’s self (Gen 3:1-7).  As for the mankind, they are yet to know to what depths this corruption had destroyed them, with no realization of man's pre-fall glorious state.  This sinful alliance of Satan and man has robbed the entire human generations of many blessings.  A few aftereffects of this mischief was that man lost God’s presence (Gen 3:24), riches, rest(Gen 3:17), and brought upon him pain(Gen 3:16), sicknesses and ‘death’ (Gen 3:19).  Not just man but the entire creation was dragged into the curse.  Today the creation is in bondage.  One life is just meat to another (Rom 8:19-22).  For the first time soon after the glorious creation, thorns started to grow out of the land (Gen 3:18).  Oh, what a fall! 

Man’s present condition

Adam fell in disobedience and in him all died (1 Cor 15:22).  Now all are constituted in sin (Rom 5:19). 

God’s plan after man’s fall

God saw Adam’s disobedience (Gen 3:1-7).  He didn't just wipe-out the disobedient man and create a new one in the his place as it was just the beginning, but instead the Almighty God chose to demonstrate His love and victory by trying to uplift the fallen man (Gen 3:21).  He sent the Spirit of the Son Jesus Christ (Gal 4:6) in the likeness of flesh to make sons (Heb 2:10) out of the fallen man.  For the righteous God, it was the grandest thing to do.  He as revealed in the Bible chose to make the serpent realize what its position is before Him, prior to His great judgment reserved for all evilness.  In His exceeding love for man, He first gave a promise to Adam, “you have brought upon yourselves ‘death’, but I will give you a Seed who will crush the serpent’s head.  The evil one will bruise this Seed a little, but that will be the price for your disobedience, which will be paid in full.   It is a part of my grand plan for your sake” (Gen 3:15).

When man fell, he brought upon himself the wrath of God and Sin entered the world through him and death ruled over him (Rom 5:12).  As the result, the mighty Adam was reduced to a perishable man.  Even before a person's death, the knowledge of his death killed him already by instigating fear in him.  Now death ruled in this manner.  The entrance of sin into the world brought a constitutional change inside all creatures.  The basic constituent of man became sin (Rom 5:19).  We are sinners not because we sinned but we sinned because we are born sinners (Psalms 51:5).  We are a building made of bricks and mortar of sin. 

Why God hates outwardly-ness?

The utmost need of man is to address this grave issue of the corrupted inward constitution.  God now has to recover man and reconstitute him back to his old self in righteousness.  We most often pray and proclaim the need to be in Spirit and walking in the spirit.  Every second of our actually being in the spirit gives room and time to the work of God in our inward parts.  Sin is a sickness which had captivated man and is leading him to death (Rom 6:14).  If a sick person puts a lot of makeup and outward adornments, it will not make him any better but instead he is deceiving himself.  This is what the Lord hates, the pretension and ignorance of Man of his actual sinful state.  Religion, Nicolaitans (Rev 2:6), teachings of Balaam (Rev 2:14), Judaizers (Rev 2:9, Mat 12:34) are all the fruits of this pretension and hypocrisy of the partnership of flesh and Satan. 

The Lord’s focus

The Lord is focused to enter us and reconstitute us that we may not only be rescued, but also reign in life (Rome 5:17).  This is a reward reserved for the overcomers in New Jerusalem- being kings and priests of God (Rev 1:6, 5:10). 

In short

Those who believe in the Lord will not perish but shall have eternal life (John 3:16) irrespective of their works (Ro 11:6 Eph 2:8).  The good works are not securing salvation for  the believers and hence by their works, they will not be condemned either (Joh 10:27-28).   But there is an issue of the inward constitution.  

                  "If you happen to visit a rich and beautiful bungalow, what will you do if your shoes and feet were covered with mud and dirt?  Will you not ask the master of the rich mansion to provide some water to clean up, or will not the master help you out in your cleaning up process?  Yes, Brothers and Sisters we are welcome to the mansion of the Lord irrespective of our filth and sin  by our faith in Him alone, but before entering the mansion there is a cleaning process which are the dealings of the Lord in our lives to transform us today."

The Lord is very clear about this that no unclean thing will enter heaven again (Rev 21:8). Today by the Lord’s mercy our constitution work is carried out by Him like a Shepherd in love and patience (Psalms 23:1, Joh 10:3, 1Pe 2:25).  But if we are not transformed, then this work will continue in the outer darkness (Mt 22:13, Mt 25:30), by the hurting of the second death (Re 2:11, Re 20:14 ) and in the fervent fire (1 Cor 3:15).  There is not much description about this outer darkness in the scriptures except that it will be a place and period of extreme tribulation and grief, a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth.  The Bible  says that the transformation work of the sons of the kingdom (Mat 8:12), Christians without the wedding garment (Mat 22:13), unprofitable servants (Mat 25:30), wicked servants (Mat 18:34), will continue to take place during the millennium age in the outer darkness when the Lord in His second coming, will draw the curtain over this present age of grace.  He will judge the believers and the ones worthy will receive reward from Him(Rev 22:12, Rev 1:7, 1:11, 1:17, 1:26, 2:5, 2:12, 2:21).  He will enter the new glorious millennial age with the saints who were watchful with full of oil in their lamps (Mat 25:1-13). 

No man who believes in the Lord will perish forever (Joh 10:27-28), but if he needs more dealings from the Lord to reconstitute him in the image of God, then he will be cast out prior to the millennial age as part of the believers’ judgment.  The Lord will begin His reign over the earth with his overcomers (Rev 1:6, 5:10) for a thousand years.  The careless believers who were thus punished by the true Judge of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ, will not leave the outer darkness until they pay the last farthing (Mat 5:26); until they are fully transformed.  After the millennial age, the old heaven and earth will pass away (2 Pet 3:10) and every one will enter the eternal life as promised by the Lord.  Hallelujah.

What we can do today

Let us cooperate with the Lord in truth and spirit.  This cooperation with Him is the confession of all our sins and repenting for it.  The Lord is merciful and His love is abundant.  Live, worship, fellowship, converse, pray, praise and walk with Him while He transforms you into His image today.  Have a fresh start with the Lord.  Blessings be upon you.  Hallelujah, Christ is the way.    

Have you experienced such a salvation?

If you have not experienced such a salvation yet, then do understand that the all inclusive and Almighty God is trying to enter you as the overcoming Seed who will crush the sin in you and add joy to your life.  Everything (Col 3:11) is for the Lord and in the Lord and hence He in His sovereignty has arranged everything around us for this sole purpose of entering you and gather you into His household (Joh 10:1-13). 

Let us Pray

Lord Jesus, I love you because you loved me first.  Even when I was an enemy you died for me and reconciled me to You.  Thank You for dying on the cross in my place.  Now Lord I repent for my sins.  I pray unto the Mighty and loving Holy Spirit to bring to my mind all the un-confessed sins of my life that I may confess and repent for it.  Lord I don’t know how to follow You or how to pray or how to read the Bible.  Please guide me and equip me that I may have this joy of Your presence inside me as the overcoming Seed.  Praise You Lord.  Amen.

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May the Lord’s name be glorified, Amen.