Monday, April 08, 2013

Philippians 2:9-11


9 Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name,

Jesus has been given authority over all flesh. He has The Name. He has The Power. He has The Authority.

We also know that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages). Hebrews 13:8

So the question is: did Jesus come to be sacrificed for just a few of us or was He sacrificed for all of us? 

But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many. Romans 5:15

OK, so we are shown in Romans that Jesus came so that many could have His free gift of righteousness, but just how many?

10 That in (at) the name of Jesus every knee should (must) bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 And every tongue frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus came so that every person would be set free and saved from the Lake of Fire, which is Hell. Jesus wasn't sacrificed for just a couple of us or even for just most of us, what type of sacrifice would that be? Jesus is God, so the sacrifice had to be huge. God came and made Himself a sacrifice, you think that it didn’t far outweigh Adam's sin? Jesus allowed Himself to be sacrificed so that all flesh could have eternal life with right along with Him. 

When Jesus was here on the earth 2000 years ago He forgave people who did not ask for forgiveness and He healed people who did not ask to be healed. He feed people who would later kill Him. So on Judgment Day do you really believe that Jesus will change and now begin to damn people? Do you really believe that Jesus would condemn those who He just had bow down to Him? Do you believe that He will begin to act like modern day dictators who kill people for disobeying them?  Think of it, millions of people will all be bowing down confessing Jesus as Lord on Judgment Day, which is what we are told that we must do to be saved, and then Jesus tells them to go to Hell? No, His sacrifice was far more successful then that and that is not what Grace does! 

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