Posted on 03/24/2022 12:32:38 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
Who Represents You?
Biblically speaking, salvation means one thing. It is Jesus Christ becoming a part of your life. Not just any part of your life, but the part of your life that does for you what you cannot ever do for yourself…stand before God, blameless, and no longer due the penalty you owe for sin. Are Christian people perfect? No, far from it. In fact, their sin is worse than most Christ less people since they know the truth, and choose to sin anyway. Whereas, for a person without Christ in their life, their spiritual nature IS to sin.
Furthermore, salvation does not come to everyone who chooses to let their life be led by Christ the same way. A sermon or Bible verse that turns the key to open one person’s heart to Christ may fall onto deaf ears of another person hearing the same message. But no one will receive Christ into their heart unless they first choose to allow Him into their life. Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock…”. But unless you open the door of your heart to Christ, the door will remain shut and salvation will elude you.
And what of “religion”? Does being “religious” somehow pay the price for your sin and get you into Heaven? If you think yourself more religious than another, does that make you think you have a better chance after death than they? Sorry, but religion doesn’t make you a Christian. Only a personal relationship with Christ can do that.
So who represents you? Who will you allow to represent you before God? That is, after all, the eternal question that will decide each of our eternal fates according to the Bible. When your turn comes to stand before the Lord and give account of your life, do you think you will stand alone, or will you have representation? Standing alone is certainly not an option, since Jesus pointed out that “…no one comes unto the Father, but by Me”.
Just as we go to the polls and vote for our favorite candidate, so too is each and every one of us represented in a spiritual sense and on a spiritual level. No, I did not vote for Bill Clinton or Barak Obama, but they were “appointed” to represent each and every one of us through election…so for better or worse, they each represented every one of us(even if we voted for him, against him, or didn’t vote at all) to the world during their time in office. So too it was with Adam in the Garden.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly never voted for Adam, in the Garden of Eden, to represent me either, but God appointed him to represent each of us, and all mankind. And just like the big “Red button” episode of Ren and Stimpy, where there is a big pretty red button that is NOT to be pushed under any circumstance, each and every one of us would indeed, eventually, “push the shiny red button” just to see what will happen…just like Stimpy did. Even though he tried and tried and tried as hard as he could not to do it, he eventually succumbed and pushed it anyway. And that’s what Adam did too. He was told not to eat of the fruit of a certain tree, but he willingly disobeyed God and did just that. The reason for this can be exampled in our children. We don’t have to teach children to lie or disobey, they just do it. Their minds reason that the easiest path is the one to take. They do it because it is their nature to do it. Some children are certainly better behaved than others, but eventually, all of them will do something which is exactly what they have been told not to do. Tell them not to jump on the bed, they will eventually do just that. In fact, catch them jumping on the bed, tell them not to, and turn your back, and many will do it again right then and there. Catch them doing something they are not supposed to be doing, and as soon as they recognize that there is punishment involved, they will more often than not tell a lie if possible to keep from being punished. Why do they do this, because they are evil?
No, it is simply because it is in their “nature” to disobey. We are all born the same, with the same spiritual nature to disobey. Just as Adam sinned against God by disobeying Him, we are all born with the same nature to disobey. The Bible reveals that we are born this way because we are all born sinners, not because we have sinned yet, but because we inherited the sin nature from Adam. We all have the spiritual nature to sin, and all our guilt is not only in and of ourselves, but was passed down to us through Adam. Now, contrary to some popular religious beliefs, we are not actually sinners before a just and righteous God in the spiritual sense of the word because we happen to sin on occasion, even though we do, but it is because we are simply born that way...a sinner, with the spiritual nature of a sinner. And while we can and do sin, even IF we were able to never sin ourselves, which is impossible, we would still be sinners in the eyes of God because of our inborn spiritual sin nature.
The Bible also reveals that through one man, Adam, our “representative”, all mankind is doomed to an eternal Hell because of sin. But is that really fair? Well, on the surface it may seem unlikely to our minds, because after all, we certainly never voted. But when we consider that God Himself appointed Adam to represent us all, and we consider that we too, eventually, would all “push the shiny red button” just like Stimpy did, because that is our inborn nature, then we have to admit that yes, it is a fair and just representation of us all. Adam sinned, and we too would have sinned against God in one way or another. So, when we are born, we are all born the same way…a sinner. Such a terrible realization! So what can be done about all this? After all, all religions on earth agree that we must either be perfect, or at least, our good deeds must outweigh our bad deeds, if we are to enter whatever their form of Heaven is. But is this what the Bible reveals to us?
Well, yes and no. Because the Bible reveals that yes, we must be perfect to enter Gods realm after physical death, but no, we can never be, or become, perfect, in and of ourselves. There is no action or deed that we can do that will ever begin to make up for our sin and disobedience before God. And even if there was, the sin nature we are all born with still keeps us from being perfect. So in and of ourselves we are simply doomed, according to scripture. But God had a plan, a plan that would satisfy both problems at the same time. And is has to do with who actually represents us. For God offers mankind a representative, Jesus Christ. And just as through one man, Adam, sin became our master, so too through one man, Jesus Christ, are we no longer bound by the yoke of sin to an eternal demise. When God sent Jesus to the world, He sent Him here for the purpose of redeeming us to Himself. Jesus, who knew no sin and was perfect, actually had to become sin FOR us on the Cross, die, and pay the penalty FOR us and in our place. In order to accomplish this, Jesus had to totally overcome the sin problem. And according to the Bible, the sin problem was once and for all dealt with on the Cross, where the sin debt of every person’s sin, past, present, and future, was nailed to the Cross with Him and was paid for in full by His blood. No, His sacrifice doesn’t make us perfect in and of ourselves. We still can and do sin. But those sins are already paid for, forgiven and forgotten by God, in and of Christ, who paid the price for them in our stead. And as for the sin nature we are born with, God reveals though scripture that “those who are in Christ Jesus are a new creature”. They are “born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible”. We were born physically of the seed of Adam…corruptible seed doomed for eternity, but in and through the conversion process of the Cross, we are reborn, spiritually speaking, by God, of the seed of Jesus Christ, incorruptible. Now, does that makes us good enough, or perfect, in the eyes of God? No, not in and of ourselves it doesn’t. For we can never be “good enough” to pay the price for our own sin, let alone attain the perfection necessary to enter into Heaven. So why does the process of salvation in and through Jesus Christ gain believers an eternity with God rather than one of punishment for sin?
It is because the wages of sin, which is eternal death, is paid for…or credited to our account as it were…by the Grace of God(which IS Jesus Christ) though faith. And since the Bible reveals that even the faith itself that is necessary for us TO believe, and receive, what Christ did for us and in our place is a gift from God Himself, “and not of ourselves lest any man boast”, it becomes the valid, and only avenue, by which man may be reconciled unto God. So it is by Grace, through faith, that Jesus Christ becomes He who is our new representative before God. When God looks upon us pre conversion, He sees a filthy sinner, truly deserving of His wrath and displeasure…yet when He looks upon us post conversion, He sees Jesus Christ…our new representative…and sees perfection. In the end, it isn’t about how good you try to be, or how much money or time you give to good works, or how sorry you are for being the sinner you are, or how religious you believe yourself to be, it is all about who represents you before God.
So, who represents you? Is it time you fell onto your knees and asked Jesus Christ into your heart? Is it time for you to be washed in the Blood of the Lamb of God, cleansed of your sins and reborn into a different spiritual nature, one where sin and the desire to sin is no longer your master? Jesus Christ promises you that if you open the door of your heart to Him, He will enter.
Why not take Him up on that offer, today.
I have no representation. I live in NM.
Brl
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i amnot here on the face of the Earth, for you to receive validation from me, by any further reply.
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I represent me... I trust none else.
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