Daily Manna – January 4, 2016
Topic: From the beginning it was not so 52
Scripture: He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. (Matt 19:8)
Note: Man’s alienation from God through sin, necessitated the need for a mediator. In a legal dispute, the role of the mediator is to help the two sides come to a satisfactory agreement. Christ being divine and man fitted the only perfect person who knew the absolute holiness of God and what it meant to be human.
1 Tim 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” He is the mediator of the new covenant. Christ knew the depth of man’s sin, having lived as man under the conditions of the human flesh but committing no sin. By offering himself as the price of redemption, having lived fully both as a man and satisfying God’s holy standards for justice, he was able to bring the two sides together.
It is only faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ that completes the reconciliation process for the redemption of mankind. There is no other way.
Food for thought: The shed blood of Jesus Christ at Golgotha, met the requirements of God for the forgiveness of sins; past, present and future.
Declaration: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation. (2Cor 5:18)
© Author: Rev Fred Aboe
