Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. God is always right because
He is God. There are no parameters within
which He must work, nor can men in any way dictate, determine,
or sit in judgment of anything which He is pleased to do in
the earth or the heavens. His creation of this world was
for His own purpose, which He has shown to be the setting of
a stage whereon He would demonstrate the glory of His grace in the
redemption of a people which He loved in Christ before the
foundation of the world. But God who is rich in mercy
for his great love wherewith he loved us even when we were
dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by grace
you're saved and hath raised us up together and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages
to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus for by grace are you saved through
faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of
works lest any man should boast The Lord could have demonstrated
His love for His chosen people in any fashion which pleased
Him. He determined to do it by sending His only begotten Son
into the world to die for their sins and make an atonement for
them, forever purging them of all guilt and condemnation associated
therein. He did not do this out of any
necessity, except that which originated in His own purpose
and desire. In order for Christ to die for
sinners, it was necessary that sin occur. The sin of Adam and
Eve was not by chance, nor did it in any wise run contrary to
that which God had ordained to fulfill His own purpose. The
scheme of redemption was not a move by God to remedy an unforeseen
problem. Rather, He created the world
to demonstrate the glory of His grace and the redemption of sinners. So sin was a necessity in order
to fulfill that purpose. At this point, some are surely
gasping for breath, bringing out the tar and feathers and
making the hangman's noose ready. Some are saying he's making God
to be the author of sin. It is beyond the scope of this
broadcast to discuss such an inane subject. But suffice it
to say that God has ordained that sin fulfill His purpose
as much as He has any other occurrence which must take place according
to His decree. Let the moralists rant as if
God is susceptible to the baseless accusations of men. God is God,
and we must fall at his feet in adoring wonder and say, even
so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. The scripture
plainly says that God hates sin and is angry with the wicked
every day. He will not look upon it, nor clear the guilty. If
anyone should doubt the awfulness of sin, let him never forget
that sin was the very reason that the Father judged his own
son as worthy of death. It was sin that brought about
his betrayal, sin that drove him to agony in the garden of
Gethsemane, caused his pain at the hands of his captors, and
ultimately put him upon the cross where he died for his elect bride.
His precious pure and holy blood was poured out upon the ground,
cursed for sin's sake. So never, never doubt the reprehensible
nature of sin which caused our blessed Redeemer's pain. Yet
we must never fall prey to the mindset that views his death
for sin as some unplanned inevitability, which was a stopgap remedy designed
at the last moment to solve an unforeseen problem, much like
our present government's stupid attempts to stave off economic
catastrophe. Nor can we embrace a view which
makes what he did prone to fail because some men will not believe
in him. God has ordained sin to occur to fulfill His own purpose,
and every last one of those sins must be committed for that purpose
to stand. We have no doubt that it will,
nor do we doubt that every sin for which He atoned is forever
removed. If Christ died for the sins of His people before those
sins were committed, and we are certain that He did, then it
is necessary for those sins to occur unless He died in vain.
Here is the glory of that which he has accomplished. It was not
in vain. Everyone for whom he shed his
precious blood is forever set free from the condemnation, guilt,
and destruction which they rightly deserve. Those who are reconciled
to God through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ manifest that
they have been born again by the Spirit of God, who has written
his law upon their hearts. They can no more delight and
love the way of sin without reservation, nor despise the law of God, than
the wicked can embrace the truth of God. In this the children
of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever
doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth
not his brother. Sin must occur, and the greatest
heartbreak and lament of the sons of God is that they commit
such heinous acts which cause their beloved Savior to bleed.
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