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Monday, July 2, 2012

Jesus Christ - Everything we got and Everything we'll get

One of the great realities of life is that basically everything that culture desires or esteems is completely backward to what God requires and reveals in Christianity. Confessing and following Christ means that we no longer seek the world's wisdom, we no longer try to become prominent or popular or powerful in the eyes of society. By ourselves, because of our wretchedness, our sinful desires, all we are is ignorant, impure, immoral, and imprisoned. What is our reason to boast in anything we have done on our own? Instead, we know that it is in Jesus we find everything.
 
There is a great verse in the Bible that reminds us of the all-encompassing nature of who Jesus is and what he means for us. Here is Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 1:30:

He is made of God to us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (v. 30): all we need, or can desire.
We are foolishness, ignorant and blind in the things of God, with all our boasted knowledge; and he is made wisdom to us. We are guilty, obnoxious to justice; and he is made righteousness, our great atonement and sacrifice. We are depraved and corrupt; and he is made sanctification, the spring of our spiritual life; from him, the head, it is communicated to all the members of his mystical body by his Holy Spirit. We are in bonds, and he is made redemption to us, our Saviour and deliverer.
Observe, Where Christ is made righteousness to any soul, he is also made sanctification. He never discharges from the guilt of sin, without delivering from the power of it; and he is made righteousness and sanctification, that he may in the end be made complete redemption, may free the soul from the very being of sin, and loose the body from the bonds of the grave: and what is designed in all is that all flesh may glory in the Lord