A DIFFERENT KIND OF JUDGMENT

 

Friday, January 17, 2025

 

A DIFFERENT KIND OF JUDGMENT

 

Eph 2:14-15

14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

 

          It didn’t take man vary long to make a mess of things and lose for himself and for us the blessings of the Garden and God. He was thrust out of paradise and things only grew worse from there. Six chapters after creation, God was thoroughly disappointed with man and so He decided to start over. Noah and his family were spared but the rest of creation was drowned in a global flood. This was judgement.

 

          Lot settled in Sodom, and it was an uncomfortable settlement. Ultimately God rescued him from a rain of fire and sulfur. This was judgement.

 

          Years later man was once again deserving of judgement, but God had a plan to both destroy man and to save him. It would require a God-Man. In Jesus God could both curse sin and cure it. All of God’s wrath would be exhausted upon Jesus as man’s representative and provide the believing man a way of escape. This was grace.

 

Free from the law, oh, happy condition!

Jesus has bled, and there is remission;

Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall,

Grace has redeemed us once for all.

(P.P. Bliss 1871)

 

Lord, you could not ignore your wrath and you could not ignore your mercy so Jesus received my judgement so that I might receive your grace. Thank you, Lord. AMEN