Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The Lord gave the children
of Israel the Passover feast, not in order that they might
remember their former captivity, but rather that they might remember
the deliverance which was brought to them through the death of
the firstborn and their march through the Red Sea. For in these
events, ordained by Him who would deliver the same one whom He
had brought into bondage, He would show His purpose in bringing
glory to His name through their liberation. Apart from their
sojourn into bondage, their subsequent deliverance could not have been
made manifest and seen in its rightful place of glory. For
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed
in us, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children
of God. Thus we see illustrated for us
the glorious hope of the children of God, set against the backdrop
of their own foray into darkness, and their subsequent bondage
inherited from their father in the land of their nativity. Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through
the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God and
the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many. For if by one man's offense death
reign by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ. Our delight is not in a continual
visitation of this place of bondage, but rather in a consideration
of our deliverer from it. The first man is of the earth,
earthy. The second man is the Lord from heaven. And as we have
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image
of the heavenly. As the deliverance of the nation
of Israel from Egypt's grasp was complete, so too is that
deliverance wrought for the sons of God by Christ. But of him
are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God has made unto us wisdom and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according
as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Nothing
is yet to be accomplished which is not already made fast and
sure in the redemptive work of Christ our Lord. The deliverance
of God's people is brought about by a willing Redeemer, who gave
Himself for our sins, who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at
the right hand of the throne of God. His redemptive work was
not in response to our dilemma, but was according to the ordained
purpose of God to manifest His glory in that redemption. Him
being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of
God, before there was ever a sinner, there was a Savior. The deliverance
of God's people was brought about by an able Redeemer, that He
might deliver us. He alone could have redeemed
us, there was none other. But this man, because he continued
with ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able
also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest
became us, that is, was suited to our need, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
The Lord's people have not been simply delivered from the future
penalty of sin, but from its power and dominion now, that
he might deliver us from this present evil world. This is exactly
what he told his disciples, ye are not of the world, but I have
chosen you out of the world. and is that which he prayed for
them in the garden. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world." The deliverance of God's people is
brought about by a triumphant Redeemer. according to the will
of God and our Father. The Lord Jesus said, I came down
from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that
sent me. And this is the Father's will
which has sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which
seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life,
and I will raise him up at the last day. Those who are given
to the Son are made willing in the day of His power, for He
is their Savior in fact and not hypothetically. He shall lose
none, but shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. Do you rejoice
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