GOD DEALS JUSTLY
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What Jesus Did
a) There are three words that we can easily commit to memory: perfection, punishment, price; which outline the wonderful things that Jesus did by dying on the cross. These are necessary things which we could not possibly have done for ourselves.
2. God Deals Justly
a) God will not fight injustice with injustice. God will not steal from Satan what belongs to Satan, no matter how deceptively Satan engineered that ownership. We can be transferred from Satan's ownership to God's ownership only upon payment of the proper price.
b) We sold ourselves for a price -- the pleasures of sin for a season (Hebrews 11:25). But we cannot buy back our freedom, There is no realistic answer to the question, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26).
c) That is our predicament: We sold ourselves for a fool's price. To buy ourselves back requires an impossible price. We cannot blame God for this mess. We are the offenders, and God is the offended.
The End ...
1. What Jesus Dida) There are three words that we can easily commit to memory: perfection, punishment, price; which outline the wonderful things that Jesus did by dying on the cross. These are necessary things which we could not possibly have done for ourselves.
2. God Deals Justly
a) God will not fight injustice with injustice. God will not steal from Satan what belongs to Satan, no matter how deceptively Satan engineered that ownership. We can be transferred from Satan's ownership to God's ownership only upon payment of the proper price.
b) We sold ourselves for a price -- the pleasures of sin for a season (Hebrews 11:25). But we cannot buy back our freedom, There is no realistic answer to the question, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26).
c) That is our predicament: We sold ourselves for a fool's price. To buy ourselves back requires an impossible price. We cannot blame God for this mess. We are the offenders, and God is the offended.
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