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Big Jesus wins award for the ‘Best Community Entry’ in the parade.
We had a unique perspective on Jesus, His fame and renown. If the crowds were silenced even the stones would have cried out to Him.
This must be what it was like for Jesus to enter Jerusalem, re-enacted for the benefit of his LGBT people…What does this say for us and for Him?
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John Murray: “Union with Christ is the central truth of salvation; every blessing flows from it.”
Athanasius: “By joining Himself to us, Christ makes us partakers of His life.”
John Owen: “To be in Christ is to share His standing before the Father.”
Charles Spurgeon: “Union with Christ is the believer’s fortress; no enemy can break through to condemn.”
Jonathan Edwards: “Believers are mystically united to Christ, sharing in His fullness.”
Jim’s Preach ‘It is Finished’
Jesus prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do”.’
The first words spoken by Jesus in scripture are “I must be about My Father’s business”. The last words spoken by Jesus in scripture before dying on the cross were ‘It is finished’.
His Father’s work was finished. Nothing could be taken away, nothing could be added. He perfectly finished the Father’s business.
Jesus came to reconnect humanity with God. Restoring the relationship between humanity and God was ‘the Father’s business’.
The New Testament was originally written in Greek and the Greek word for finished was ‘teleo’ which also means ‘Paid in Full’. The price to reconnect this relationship had been paid in full by Jesus.
No one would think of taking a paint brush and trying to add to the Mona Lisa. Because we know it is a finished work of art. Finished by the artist who started it. You cannot add to a completed work. Adding to it just spoils it.
In the same way, that is how we are to look at Jesus’ life’s work. He finished it. Our salvation is won. Our sins are all forgiven. We are forever cleansed and made pure by His death on the cross. Christ paid completely and perfectly for our total forgiveness.
There are those who say that sin separates the Christian from God. This is just not true. In the Fall humanity was cursed by being cut off from God. Mankind lost that life giving connection with God. But scripture says about Christians in Ga 3:13 ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse by becoming a curse for us’.
Jesus cried out from the cross “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” He cried out in despair because for the first time the Son experienced separation from the Father.
By entering the darkness of death separated from His Father Jesus ended humanity’s separation from God.
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