Eternal Intercession: Requires Faith

Behold what manner of love the Father

has bestowed on us, that we should be

called the children of God! Therefore the

world does not know us, because it did

not know Him. Beloved, now we are

children of “God; and it has not yet

been revealed what we shall be,

but we shall be like Him, for we

shall see Him as He is. And everyone

who has this hope in Him purifies himself,

just as He is pure.

1John 3:1–3

            Jesus Christ assumed flesh from the virgin Mary to free us from sin, to free the world from sin. It was sin that Satan thrust upon the world by making cause for both Eve and Adam to sin against their creator. God’s justice demands to be satisfied for He is Holy: Just. By Jesus assuming this fleshly body through the virgin Mary and eventually dying on the cross, and rising again in the new life. Immortal as according to His flesh, and rising by means of Himself for He is God, “Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (John 2:19), then ascending bodily into heaven to present to the Father the payment that God, the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit demanded. As Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God by means of His resurrection and ascension into heaven there too is where all of God’s children will be: “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1). All of God’s elected children are legally, now, in the present time, sitting at the right hand of God. That is, this right hand of God, which is to have the favor of God as this, is what it means to be on the right hand. Don’t we shake hands with our right hands? Yes! It is a sign of friendship, and favor towards that other person. Jesus Christ came, the Wisdom of God clothed in flesh to pay the debt and then to extend that payment to the sins of God’s chosen. Jesus fought and won the battle! It is done! Yet, we will not experience the fullness of this act by Jesus Christ because it has not been revealed,” yet all perversity and heresy has been accounted for, and sentence has been pronounced: death! The invisible Word became visible and became fully man and by this He met the payment, and was fully God, and by this He assured us that God was paying this debt and when completed: it was paid, final, not to be repeated. John the Apostle from the beginning of his book reveals to us this fact (John 1:1). Jesus is eternal, the Eternal One, not as Arius, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, and Apostolic Churches believe and teach that He was only a created being. Furthermore, the Mormons would have this bodily presentation by Jesus of His body killed for man, to God the Father to be two gods, and that God has a body. This is not what Scripture teaches. Yes, this bodily death was presented to the Father and this body is not the old body it once was for now it is immortal, it is different, it is God presenting to Himself that work He did and accepts this work by means of its new life as the eternal propitiation for sin. It is not some fleshly body. We as Christians await such a body as God as prepared for us when He comes again to take back with Him His children, the bride of Christ. This is a mystery inasmuch as we cannot fully understand God and all His purposes for if He has not revealed to us His purpose(s). We await until He does reveal that which He reveals according to His purpose: “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law” (Deuteronomy 29:31). Jesus Christ the Wisdom of God, forever God’s Wisdom and forever Man, the Word, the Word of God. It is by His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that God reveals to us Himself and what He as done: SAVED US! The Wisdom of god is truly inexpressible understanding, unalterable truth, the eternal reason: “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever” (Isaiah 40:8). It is right that the Wisdom of God be called the Word for He is the word of God, the rationality of God Who gave to us our rationality. We have the ability to form words, to speak from our minds. Does not the One who gave us this ability have this ability as well? Yes! We are to mature in Christ as we apply His Law in our lives, to become pure “Just as He is pure.” The Word of God is not framed by our words, is not shaped by our thoughts, for He is substantial in His own case. He is not of the air, lost in the ether, for He is God and He was the Creator, The Savior, and Intercessor for all of God’s children.

            These facts should drive us to strive in every way to be pure, pure in thought, pure in action. God is taking us into His purposes, therefore we should be in communication with Him. We are shaped by the Divinity and He shapes our ends therefore as a Christian it is not my purpose, for is so, our life in Him is destroyed, the simplicity which ought to characterize our lives. God is after us! We are to heed His call! That call is for us to live according to His law. Jesus Christ came to fulfill all that the law led too. Will you allow yourself to be led by the law of God?

I will stand my watch

            And set myself

On the rampart, and watch

            To see what He will

Say to me, and what I will

            Answer when I am

Corrected.

                        Habakkuk 2:1

God is Merciful: Live in that mercy

Richard L. Crumb