JESUS MOVED ONE STEP UP

JESUS MOVED ONE STEP UP: HE CONQUERED IT ALL FOR US. EVEN THAT WHICH WE HAVE MESSED UP!

Jesus, our Lord, and Saviour, had only but to move one step up from the man incarnate, sent by God to save our sin-sick souls; securing, with His saving mercy and grace, moving us toward His original design, and a place in eternity. With that step, He conquered all the things that are contrary to the will of God: those things that are borne through and of sin which we commit, knowingly and unknowingly, against YHWH, God, self, and our brothers and sisters every day. And we know that when Jesus steps up, sin has to sit down or flee.  If salvation is understood as a return to God’s original design for creation, then the scriptures (even from the very beginning, tell us how it will happen) tells us how we were the apple of God’s eye (Zechariah 2:8 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye).

The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground. Notice that in all God’s creations the contents are all come from the ground, fellows of the sum of the whole; the same. And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Jesus’ one step up (God saw that because of man’s sinful nature, He had to take His love, for us, just a little higher. So, He sent His only Son (wrapped in the flesh of a man; given all the characteristics as one, for us to be assured that man can understand YHWH, God’s Word (Jesus and what He did), Walk in His Way, and do His will. God sent Jesus and He suffered (moving one step up from His already majestic glory to the place we will not ever understand) to unify all that God has created with love for each other as He first loved us; an unconditional, peaceful, and spiritually productive love for the entire human race. (Genesis 2:2-10 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads).

Before He fashioned us in the womb, I truly believe, with all my heart, that YHWH, God, saw every one of our beginning, middle, and the end of our duration on earth, right through to eternity. And all that would determine the fate of this fallen world, and getting rid of all that is ungodly; destroying it as we know it. He set in motion, from the beginning; the moment the incident took place in the Garden of Eden, His plan of perfection. A plan that, as Yashuah set on His right-hand side waiting for the command to go one step higher; took our Lord through all the troubles, trials, and tribulations we would ever experience and some we would not, to get ready for the initiation and conclusion of God’s eternal plan for mankind. Which, by the way, cannot be altered or shaken by man. (Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Psalm 33:11 The plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations. Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps).

Let us not get it twisted, thinking God does it all because we are made in His image. That is not the case, He really and truly loves us. He created us to serve Him and then, called (still do but I don’t know why) us His masterpiece. And like an earthly father who loves, plan, provide, and protects his children, God does it so much better; He knows the ins and outs of our original design, so He works beyond well, with what He knows, His workmanship. With this knowledge that we are given by the examples, made possible from God through Jesus’ walk, while on earth, we should never consider ourselves self-sufficient (able to go at it alone) or beyond nor above reproach; the reach of YHWH, God. Because it is the duty of God’s chosen ones to walk in the good works as Jesus did, remembering that we did not always have this honor, freedom, and favor from our Father. But God, since we were a foreign object to the body of God, chose to call us out of the sinful flesh, not through the circumcision made by hand but the circumcision by way of the blood of Christ, made to the heart. Our hope is now sure because it is in God, through Christ. And we have become heirs of His promises: we have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. (Ephesians 2:9-13 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ).

It is a big contrast in what we lost in Adam and what we gain in Christ. What we lost in Adam was the right to the Tree of Life or life as God would have us to enjoy and life eternal. But what we found in Yashuah, Jesus was/is our Saviour, mediating and standing in the balance for us, as a guarantee (when we confess and accept Him as our Saviour) from the sins of our participation and the destruction of our soul, was and is eternal life.

God set high and look low and with Him is Jesus and the Holy Spirit. So, our Lord and Savior has always set high. But He chose to go up one step higher, in His love, for the Father, whose love for us is beyond our comprehension. Why would He concern Himself with such filthy things as we have shown ourselves to be. Why do you ask? Because of His unconditional love for us; one that does not have a beginning nor end it just is. And the fact that He sees, in us that which we cannot see, but through Jesus He does. Jesus, our Lord, and Saviour moved past Adam, (even through temptation) in His commitment to the Father, to allow us to come to the throne of grace with a boldness, obtaining the mercy, from The Father, and finding the much-needed grace for such a time as these. (Hebrews 4:14-16 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need).

So, the next time you start thinking about what could, should, or would have been think of the hell (that final step up toward His redemptive power) Jesus went through to give us the chance at God’s redeeming mercy and grace, our part is  through accepting Him and His way, word, and will, repenting, and loving. GODS GOT IT NO WORRY NO FEAR.