When God has something to say
Today, I am ruminating on the gospel according to John, chapter 1 verse 17 . This verse says:
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Four main facts jump at me through this verse:
1. God has a specific assignment for each of his servants, whom he deploys. Moses' assignment was to give the law. The assignment of Jesus was to bring grace and truth. Do you know what your assignment is? What specific message has God given you for your generation?
2. God has a unique message for every generation. In Moses' generation, it was The Law. In Jesus' generation it was grace and truth. What is God's message for our time?
3. Revelation is progressive. This means that God builds on his messages. Every new message from God encapsulates a previous one and expands it. Grace and truth are not contradictory to the Law. They improve it. The Law lays out what people can and cannot do if they want to be acceptable to God. Grace and truth reveal that all God's requirement are fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. If we embrace Jesus Christ as Lord, we automatically fulfill the requirements of the Law.
4. The only message that blesses a generation is a message that has passed through a human vessel. A message from God, if it must gain currency and be acceptable, must be a message assimilated, lived and proved by the messenger. Or else he or she is a false prophet. Moses not only gave the Law, he lived the Law. He was the law-doer before he became the law-giver. The Lord Jesus was the epitome of grace and truth.
We live in the end of times when God is rapidly bringing his creation to account, to a sum, to an end. God's message for our generation is that a harvest of souls is at hand, and that each one of us must decide into which category he or she will be cropped. The company of wheat or the bunch of weeds. The choice is yours.
Be blessed today.
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Four main facts jump at me through this verse:
1. God has a specific assignment for each of his servants, whom he deploys. Moses' assignment was to give the law. The assignment of Jesus was to bring grace and truth. Do you know what your assignment is? What specific message has God given you for your generation?
2. God has a unique message for every generation. In Moses' generation, it was The Law. In Jesus' generation it was grace and truth. What is God's message for our time?
3. Revelation is progressive. This means that God builds on his messages. Every new message from God encapsulates a previous one and expands it. Grace and truth are not contradictory to the Law. They improve it. The Law lays out what people can and cannot do if they want to be acceptable to God. Grace and truth reveal that all God's requirement are fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. If we embrace Jesus Christ as Lord, we automatically fulfill the requirements of the Law.
4. The only message that blesses a generation is a message that has passed through a human vessel. A message from God, if it must gain currency and be acceptable, must be a message assimilated, lived and proved by the messenger. Or else he or she is a false prophet. Moses not only gave the Law, he lived the Law. He was the law-doer before he became the law-giver. The Lord Jesus was the epitome of grace and truth.
We live in the end of times when God is rapidly bringing his creation to account, to a sum, to an end. God's message for our generation is that a harvest of souls is at hand, and that each one of us must decide into which category he or she will be cropped. The company of wheat or the bunch of weeds. The choice is yours.
Be blessed today.
posted by Shegs at 1:30 AM
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