Good morning good men-
This coming week we will study the perfect work of our king, the God-man Jesus Christ. We have looked at how salvation is from, through, and to God so now we will consider that He freely chose to subject Himself to the limitations of humanity, in order that He could suffer and die for us.
Our great God was not satisfied in glorifying His name by destroying all of us for our treasonous hostility and decision to doubt His goodness and to deny Him in preference of self-exaltation. However, it is critical that we understand and believe that this wrath against us would have been good and right and completely just for God to have exercised.
But to the praise of His glorious grace, He instead made a way that He could not only be our righteous God, but also our Savior. This would be accomplished in the work of His only begotten Son, who would take on flesh for our sake.
“21 ...And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.” (Isaiah 45:21b, ESV)
“5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:5–8, ESV)
“5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.” (Ephesians 1:5–6, ESV)
The chapters we look at this week are below-
Chapter 2: To Please His Heavenly Father
Chapter 3: To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected
Chapter 4: To Achieve His Own Resurrection From the Dead
Chapter 43: To Unleash the Power of God in The Gospel
Prayer for one another-
Almighty God and redeemer of our souls,
Teach us this week of the excellencies of Jesus that are revealed in His work of obedience and righteousness. Help us to be lifted up in our affections and to see His beauty. Unleash your gospel power in us and though us that we can be lights and that we can be joyful and satisfied in you O Lord. We ask this for the sake of your name, amen.
Soli Deo Gloria!
