October 10

Colossians 2
I love a good mystery. It's fun to try to figure it out. What is the mystery of Christ? Throughout the Old Testament the holiness, righteousness and justice of God is revealed. The sin of man is laid bare in comparison to God's perfect justice. Over and over it is revealed. The overriding question is, "How is God going to deal justly with man without completely destroying Him?" Next to the justice of God, man's sin cries out for the justice to be executed by the death of all sinners, i.e. all men. The mystery of the O.T. is, "How can God be just and not destroy man?" The O.T. constantly hints and prophesies about Jesus but does not come right out in a western fashion and speak exactly what God would do.
The answer is simple but inexhaustible in its wisdom. God the Son would add the nature of a perfect man to His person. All the fullness of the Godhead would dwell in Him bodily. As perfect God and perfect man, He could be a perfect substitute. As an eternal being, He could bear in a point in time all the sins of all people and be punished with the eternal punishment due their sin. As a man He could die. He could pay the penalty due us.
Now that our penalty has been carried out in Him, we can be nourished and built up and brought back into a relationship with Holy God through Him. All of God's justice is met in Him. All of our needs are met in Him! Mystery solved! The philosophies and wisdoms of the world can't touch this! Indeed we serve a glorious King! Speak His glory to someone today!
--Pastor John