Treated Like You Lived Like Jesus

Treated Like You Lived Like Jesus

 

Dear Champions,

Colossians 1:15  He (Jesus Christ) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

 

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is the first born of all creation, the first born from the dead, and the only begotten Son of the Father.  Jesus Christ lived through all eternity in a state of first-born blessing, but He left that first born blessing and comes to Earth and dies on a cross. 

 

The way of salvation by your own effort where you dress up before God saying, "I'm really a pretty good person.  I sin here and there, but honestly I'm pretty good."  It'll never work to dress up for God and hope that God will somehow bless you. 

 

The way of the gospel is that Jesus Christ dressed up as you and me and got the curse that we deserved so that when you believe in Him, God now accepts you as if you had done everything that Jesus had done.  After all, Jesus Christ had just been treated as if He had done everything that you had done.  When you believe in Him you are treated as if you get the first-born blessing.  In Hebrews 12:22-23 it says the city of God, the new Jerusalem-it's a vision of heaven, is the church of the first-born.  What kind of family in it has nothing but first born?  How can you have 10 kids and every one of them be first born?  It's absolutely impossible. 

 

What that is telling us is that the love that you experience from the Father when you stand in the works and righteousness of Jesus Christ  makes you feel like you are the only one in the world.  He says, "There is no one like you."

 

Champions, have a great week!-David Vining