Hebrews
5:7 KJV
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him
from death, and was heard in that he feared;
When Christ came to this earth He came with the purpose
both to seek and to save them that are lost. He came knowing that such
salvation would require the Cross. He therefore never would have sought a
salvation from it. Christ knew that God was able to save Him from death but not
dying. Death was His whole purpose in becoming a man. His confidence was not
that He would escape dying but that death itself would be defeated in
resurrection.
We often want a salvation that is not that which God has
promised. We want
- A
salvation from hurt and pain
- A
salvation from responsibility and accountability
We want
- A
salvation that frees us from guilt and that liberates us from expectations
- A
salvation from fear of consequences but not from those acts that bring
consequences
Christ came to fulfill His purpose and not to be free of
it. So ought we who claim salvation. We have been saved, but not to liberty[1].
We have been saved to service having confidence that God is able to recompense
abundantly that service in glory.
[1] I know
that we have liberty in Christ, ,but not the kind so many of today's Christians
claim to enjoy. Theirs is license.
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