30th October 2022
TOPIC: GOD IS WITH US.
1 JOHN 3:1
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
Behold what manner of Love that God will come and dwell among us.
Matthew 1:23 “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" which means, "God with us."
In what sense is Christ GOD WITH US? In His Incarnation He is united to our nature -- God with man -- God in man. He is God with us to comfort, enlighten, protect, and defend us in times of temptation and trials and in the hour of death, and God with us, and in us, and we with and in Him to all eternity.
Christ AS GOD WITH MAN; to live with man, to die for him; to rise from the dead for him, to ascend and intercede for him.
GOD IS WITH HIS PEOPLE. He is with them in their lives, in their labors, in their trials and afflictions, in their worship, in death and in glory.
A story was told of a missionary who went to preach to the slaves. He found it impossible for him to carry out his design so long as he bore to them the relation of a mere missionary. They were driven into the field very early in the morning, and returned late at night with scarcely strength to roll themselves into their rooms, and in no condition to listen to instructions. He determined to reach the slaves by becoming himself a slave. He was sold, that he might have the privilege of working by their side, and preaching to them as he worked with them. Do you suppose the master or the pastor could have touched the hearts of those miserable slaves as did that man who placed himself in their condition, and went among them, and lived as they lived, suffered as they suffered, toiled as they toiled, that he might carry the gospel to them? This missionary was but following the example of the Lord Jesus Christ, who took on Him the nature of men, came among them, and lived as they lived, that He might save them from their sins.
Behold what manner of love. Let us in love willingly lay down all we have to reflect His lifestyle and be useful in His project of Salvation.
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