Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - #
348
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The devil is very smart, but not smarter than God,
Who is Omniscient. The devil is powerful, but not more powerful than God, Who
is Omnipotent. The devil may have gotten Adam and Eve to sin, but God has a
plan to remove sin.
The text for today’s writing by Michael lays the foundation
for The Eternal Life becoming available for those who are Truthful Believers.
DAY 136
He Who
Knew No Sin Became Sin
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin
on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. --II Corinthians 5:21
Spiritual glue is holding all things together (Colossians
1; Ephesians 4; Acts 17). Jesus is the invisible nuclear glue that is holding all
things together. He is the positive. Like opposing ends of magnets, God
is naturally attracted to man, and man is very drawn toward God. Think, though,
of trying to force together two positive sides of magnets; those repel one
another, and it is very difficult to bring them near to one another. Man is fine as long as he views
himself as the negative that he is when compared to all that is positive in
Christ. However, through pride and believing himself sufficiently positive not
to rely on God, man invites sin into his being, which causes the glue holding
him together to be repelled by the sin. The glue withdraws, and the man
is less and less a reflection of the image of God. If sin continues to be
invited in, the man will, in time, no longer resemble the image of God; in fact,
the sin makes him sick. God
did allow for a fix for all of this. The sin could be taken out of a man
and placed on an animal, though because an animal is not created in the image
of God, sin so distorts it that it must be killed. The animal was a good representation
of the loss caused by what man had done. For example, a dove represents
freedom, song, and peace, all things that man lost through sin and the dove
would lose by way of death. Sacrifice of a man was never required until the
fullness of time when the sins of the whole world (past, present, and future)
had reached their culmination. On
the cross God broke the divine umbilical cord that ran from Himself to
the Son and placed on the Son
the sins of the whole world. That sin was so great that it drove the
very life out of Him, at which point sin, Satan, the world, death, captivity,
and hell encased Him. He sank to the depths of hell but, to the surprise of
all, broke out! He conquered all that had encased His life, ripped open the
gates of hell, preached, and even took captivity captive to disable the free
exercise of its power. He then waited until God raised Him back into His slain
body, in which awaited the sins of the whole world. This time He entered back
into the body with the power of an indestructible life, met the sin, and
conquered sin in the body! His Life was so powerful that it even transformed
His earthly body. It is
one thing to accept that He has done all that in His body, but the next step is
for the believer to acknowledge the truth that Jesus can do it in his own body!
He can, He will, and He has.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Sinful mankind is not created in the image of
God, but rather in the image of Adam, the result of the Fall of Adam and Eve.
As Michael points out, God did allow for a fix for this. On the Cross of Christ
God placed on the Son the sins of the whole world.
Yet after His death, and three days in the
tomb, Christ arose in the power of his indestructible Life, providing The Life
whereby we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. Therein is The
Eternal Life.
To biblically believe or acknowledge Truth
is something we must do, to commit to the fact that is Truth, not just mentally
give assent. As Michael points out, it is one thing to accept all that Jesus
did, but quite another to believe or acknowledge that His death, burial,
resurrection (the Good News of the Gospel of Christ) can and will provide for
Unbelievers to become Born Again, Believers, the righteousness of God in
Christ. Well, amen.
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