So, I've been studying the covenants recently, and my thoughts turned to the following.
Our Creator God is a God of infinite, unfailing, unwavering, uncompromising love. It always has been and always will be that He would have His erring, sinful, proud and unbelieving creatures to know this love, and therefore, to know Him. It has always been His heartfelt yearning that God and man should be on the most intimate of terms and that both may know the joy and peace that would come from a loving relationship with one another. The entire Government of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the laws by which it is governed, is based on this love. And everything God purposes to do, promises, accomplishes, says and does, has as its motivating principle God’s perfect love. (Deut. 7:7,8; Isa. 63:7-9; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-4)
That is why, when Adam sinned, God still sought him out. (Gen. 3:9) Love was the motivating factor behind God’s promise (Genesis 3:15; Nahum 1:9) that the damage to the relationship caused by sin (Isaiah 59:2)would ultimately be undone; that the power of Satan over our lives(John 8:34; Romans 6:16,20; 2 Peter 2:19) would be reversed: and the power of death (Ezek. 18:4,20; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23).would be overcome. How was God to accomplish all this while at the same time honouring justice, love and mercy? Through Jesus Christ. At the cross.
The plan of redemtpion was not an afterthought, an emergency crisis plan developed after the fall of Adam. It was a “revelation of the mystery kept secret through times eternal” (Romans 16:25 RV). Forseeing the apostasy of Satan and his deception of Adam and Eve causing their fall, God had already prepared to meet the crisis. So great was His love for man that He covenanted to give “His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life).
Now think about this. Before Satan's rebellion in heaven; even before creation; before mankind even existed, God loved man so much that even then,the Father and God of all glory covenanted between Himself and His Son that the Son would die to give man life, and to restore the severed relationship due to sin. That kind of love my friends is staggering.
Our Creator God is a God of infinite, unfailing, unwavering, uncompromising love. It always has been and always will be that He would have His erring, sinful, proud and unbelieving creatures to know this love, and therefore, to know Him. It has always been His heartfelt yearning that God and man should be on the most intimate of terms and that both may know the joy and peace that would come from a loving relationship with one another. The entire Government of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the laws by which it is governed, is based on this love. And everything God purposes to do, promises, accomplishes, says and does, has as its motivating principle God’s perfect love. (Deut. 7:7,8; Isa. 63:7-9; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-4)
That is why, when Adam sinned, God still sought him out. (Gen. 3:9) Love was the motivating factor behind God’s promise (Genesis 3:15; Nahum 1:9) that the damage to the relationship caused by sin (Isaiah 59:2)would ultimately be undone; that the power of Satan over our lives(John 8:34; Romans 6:16,20; 2 Peter 2:19) would be reversed: and the power of death (Ezek. 18:4,20; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23).would be overcome. How was God to accomplish all this while at the same time honouring justice, love and mercy? Through Jesus Christ. At the cross.
The plan of redemtpion was not an afterthought, an emergency crisis plan developed after the fall of Adam. It was a “revelation of the mystery kept secret through times eternal” (Romans 16:25 RV). Forseeing the apostasy of Satan and his deception of Adam and Eve causing their fall, God had already prepared to meet the crisis. So great was His love for man that He covenanted to give “His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life).
Now think about this. Before Satan's rebellion in heaven; even before creation; before mankind even existed, God loved man so much that even then,the Father and God of all glory covenanted between Himself and His Son that the Son would die to give man life, and to restore the severed relationship due to sin. That kind of love my friends is staggering.
