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DB.072.VIKING BOER – A Diamond in the Sand – PART 2
A Diamond in the Sand PART 2What are some of the riches that he gives with his salvation? Here is a verse that speaks of them. Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. These are all qualities that in our impoverished state as sinners we are totally bereft of. But let a person take Christ as their Savior and all these qualities in their perfection and super-abundance will be theirs through the blessed Savior.
Wisdom: in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. All the efforts of this world’s philosophers never devised a way for a sinner to be cleansed from their sins and made fit for heaven, but God through Christ not only devised a plan but carried it out. Before the foundation of the earth was laid, God knew His Son would become a man and die for his creature’s sin, as the one way those sins could ever be put away. It was God in his supreme wisdom that made such a plan, while his perfect love carried it out. We can enjoy all the benefits of that wisdom when we make Jesus Christ ours through faith.
Righteousness: in our sinful condition, God describes even the best of us as having only filthy rags for righteousness. However let a person believe in Christ and the work he did on the cross, and they will be made the righteousness of God in him the moment they believe. For he hath made him to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Don’t think that you can be made righteous some other way such as by law-keeping, or religious observances. No matter how sincere you are in these things they will never make you righteous. They can’t do it. There is no power in them. Instead, they will only bring you into bondage to what the Bible calls weak and beggarly elements. Why go on in such abject poverty when God’s grace is so rich and free, and he is so willing to account you righteous the moment you believe in his Son? The only way to be justified or accounted righteous is through faith in Christ. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Sanctification: this word means to be set apart from God. The Lord Jesus is the light of the world, and without a real faith in him, people are set apart to sin, and darkness, and headed towards hell. But when a person turns to Jesus Christ for salvation, God will forgive their sins and set them apart for his special care for time and eternity. When the apostle Paul was converted on the road to Damascus the Lord Jesus spoke to him direct from glory and gave him a special commission to the Gentiles. He was to go to them to open their eyes and to turn them from the power of Satan unto God, that they might receive the forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. The forgiveness of sins and an inheritance in heaven only belong to those who are set apart by faith in Christ.Redemption: redemption means deliverance with power. Death had such an overwhelming power over us through sin that it was going to bring us all down into an everlasting hell. Jesus Christ went into death, and conquered it for us, rising out of the grave. In his victory over death, he became our great redeemer. Believe in his name and redemption will be yours. Death and hell will have no more claim on you. Then you can say Job of old, I know that my redeemer liveth. For the believer trusting in Christ, the powerful enemy of death has been completely destroyed forever.
When a person repents and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ they go from the utter poverty of being a sinner to possessing eternal life and all the riches that come through faith in Christ. They are riches that no thief, nor murderer, nor government of man can ever take from them. Every sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus has passed through a rags-to-riches transformation. Won’t you take him as your Savior so that you can leave the rags and ruin of sin behind, and possess the riches of salvation through Christ?
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
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