All Things Forever Changed

The law was given to Moses on Mount Sinai in 1490 B.C. to cover sin through the sacrifice system until the redeemer promised in Genesis 3:15 arrived to remit sin by faith alone, in Him alone.

For 1500 years the Jews were taught that their salvation was secured by the blood of Abraham in their veins. Sons and daughters of God were secured by blood, but only through the blood of Christ, not of Abraham.

John’s gospel corrected this misunderstanding in 1:13:

“Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Jesus’ own holy words confirmed this truth in John 8:58:

“… Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”

The good news that the coming of the redeemer brought forever changed all things. It rests on a major fact that man is a depraved creature by natural birth, a lost sinner, unable on his own to overcome that lostness.

Man cannot be saved by perfect obedience for he cannot give it. Neither can he be saved by imperfect obedience, because God will not have it. Compliant efforts to obey the law never provided salvation because man’s depravity always overwhelms his efforts. Paul reflects the best understanding of that truth in

Romans 3:20: “Therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified.”

Peter confirmed this truth in Acts 5, describing the law as a yoke on the neck.

Therefore, the only solution is the gospel of the grace of God which reaches down and saves the sinner on the basis of the death and resurrection of Christ, our only redeemer, who was sent to bring the lost into the Kingdom. Brothers and sisters in Christ are created only by the new birth in which the Kingdom door to eternal life is opened by faith without works (John 3:3 & Ephesians 2:8-10).

We were spiritually dead in our trespasses and sin (Ephesians 2:1) but are forever changed, quickened & made eternally alive, as we are called by God to Himself (Ephesians 2:5). Only then are we recreated into new creatures who may stand before His Holiness, not in any righteousness of our own, for we have none, but as creatures who may share a portion of His divine nature given us at the moment of the change of our hearts from broken to not (II Corinthians 5:17-21).

THIS WE CALL FOREVER CHANGE