Friday, July 12, 2013

Only Jesus paid it all for the sins of those who come to God, through Him.

Jeremiah 48: 29, 30 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud ) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it. Thus far is the Judgment of Moab. Jeremiah was the spiritual accountant, as it were. The cultural sins and manefest and calculated to cost this much. He lays it out deliberately and clearly. No one is exempt. We can see that our paganism costs. The image of God is in the nations as well as the individuals that God has made. I always imagine Daniel reading this passage and wondering why are the people of God enduring the judgment that is meant for Moab? His prayers never seemed to reflect a comparison of the endurance that God’s people were enduring through that period of history. I find it amazing that Daniel didn’t say, Lord, these people are not even considering Your law and You are afflicting Your people? Their judgment was eternal and Daniel was very aware of that. God’s presence in the suffering was enough for Him. The ultimate judgment for the sins of Moab was coming in Christ. He who knew no sin, became sin on our behalf. The judgment of Moab is purchased in Christ. His blood has satisfied our corporate sin and our personal sins. We don’t have that which to pay for the image of God that was marred in us and our cultures. We have only to search for the robe of righteousness from our Savior and the image of God in the intentions of the cultures as He saves them. God has a greater intention for us individually than we can know. God in Ruth’s redemption showed us that He is not so repudiated with the nations that, if we reach out for Him, we cannot be redeemed. He saves to the utmost. But, we must know that we deserved to drink that cup of wrath of Moab and all of the nations’ cups in our melting pot. We deserved every dreg of wrath that was purchased by our Savior. He has redeemed us from that wrath. Daniel knew every word of Jeremiah, would be seen true, even if it seemed reversed, in his day. The heathen were empowered and standing above God’s people. God is greater. Christ is the fulfillment of God’s mercy to us and the completion of our redemption, that we should live in gratitude and solace that we deserved that wrath and we, in Christ are a new creation. Halleluia, what a Savior!

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