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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Divine Program, #3
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. (John 8:34-36)
When God decided to make man in His image, and then to assign to him authority and power over all the works of God's hands, He had to provide for the eventuality that man would turn against God.
For God to have created man in His image, to have given him authority over all the works of God's hands, and then not to have provided for the problems of sin and self-will would have been foolish indeed. God is not foolish.
A human being who is in slavery to Satan and who is unwilling to forsake his independence and enter union with God through Christ (submission to and union with Christ are the main issues), cannot be assigned authority and power over all the works of God's hands. He or she would be a monster. Do we not behold monstrous behavior on every hand today, within and outside the churches?
Therefore God allowed Adam and Eve to sin. God did not tempt them to sin or cause them to sin. God made it possible for them to sin and then permitted them to do so.
Why?
In order to make God's royal heirs immune to sin.
There is only one immunity to sin and self-will. The immunity is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dying physically does not provide immunity to sin and self-will. Dying physically brings us into the spirit realm, where we are judged and placed with spirits like ourselves.
Going to Heaven does not provide immunity to sin and self-will. Sin and self-will were born in Heaven around the Throne of God.
Where, then, can we find immunity to sin and self-will? We can find such immunity in the Personality of the Lord Jesus Christ. Complete union with Christ makes us eligible to be a living stone in the Temple of God. There is no immunity to sin and self-will other than by receiving the Person of Christ into ourselves.
We may think of God's dealing with mankind, from the time of Eden to the present hour, as a school. Eden was the kindergarten. The first lesson was,"The soul that sins shall die." God has given us six thousand years in which to reflect on the truth and wisdom of the first lesson.
Then the flood of Noah provided the heirs of the Kingdom, the sons of God, with a lesson concerning the sternness of God's Character. God was willing to slay every person on the earth, leaving the one human being (and his family) whom God had found to be righteous, to repopulate the earth.
The world of today needs to meditate on the flood of Noah because the Lord Jesus warned us that His return to earth would be "as it was in the days of Noah."
To be continued.