Wednesday April 5, 2017
“Total obedience to God”
"But when the fullness of the time had
come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons."
- Galatians 4:4-5
"For such a High Priest was fitting for
us, who
is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become
higher than the heavens;" - Hebrews
7:26
Justification
What is
Justification?
The power of
Justification
How can God
Justify? - continued
As we have
seen from our last lesson, there justification is based on the work of Christ.
This leads to the question; how and why in the work of Christ bring
justification for the ungodly? How does it resolve the great issue of the early
chapters of Romans? How can God, King just in all his ways, justify the
ungodly? We can send out the answer in three basic stages. The first to
indicate what Christ has done, the third indicates the relationship which
Christ sustains to his people so that his accomplishments become theirs, and “by the one man’s (Christ’s) obedience, the
many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).
1) Christ
lived a life of total obedience to God.
This is sometimes described as his ‘active
obedience’. He was born under the law (Galatians 4:4) and lived the
whole of his life in the form of a servant of the law. Unlike all those whose
nature he came to share by his incarnation, it was not necessary for Christ to
receive the wages of sin and death. He was ‘holy, innocent, unstained,
separated from sinners’ (Hebrews 7:26), and therefore free from the penalties
of a broken law.
2) Christ,
despite his personal innocence, was treated as a guilty man. In one chapter of Luke’s account of the
passion of Jesus, there are five confessions that Jesus was poorly innocent
(Luke 23:4, 14, 22, 41, 47). Yet he was crucified as a criminal. The early
church sought not only the hands of wicked men involved in this, but primarily
the hand of God. The word which is used to regularly about the Lord’s death is
that he was ‘delivered up’, or ‘handed over’(Matthew 20:19; 26:15; 27:2, 18,
26). It is the same word Paul employs when he says – God did not spare his own
son, but delivered him up (Romans 8:32 NIV). It is the same basic perspective
on the cross as the ancient inside of Isaiah, that he would please the Lord to
bruise his servant and put him to grief (Isaiah 53:10). This experience of
suffering as though he were guilty of a breach of divine law is sometimes
spoken office Christ ‘passive
obedience’, not that he did not actively obey God through it all, but
because his obedience to the form of the willing acceptance of the will of the
Lord.
Challenge:
Christ “active”
and “passive” acts obedience were in total submission to the will of the
Father. We praise you Jesus, for living out the perfect life of obedience to
fulfill the requirements of God.
Memory Verse:
"KO ia,
tau tuku ke fakatonuhia‘i kitautolu ‘i he tui, ka tau ma‘u melino ai mo e ‘Otua
‘i hotau ‘Eiki ko Sīsū Kalaisi;" - Loma
5:1
"Therefore,
having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ" - Romans 5:1
Bible
Reading Plan: (52 weeks; 5
days a week)
Week 14
– Judges 1-3; Psalm 16; Luke 20
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