Tag: Bible verses about God’s redemption plan

John 19:30 (NKJV) 30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

Yesterday we discussed the creation, and the ensuing fall, of man.

With a single action, mankind disobeyed God, and their relationship with God was shattered.

It would appear that man was destined to be eternally separated from God, forever banished from His presence.

The future surely looked bleak.

But God had a redemption plan already in place.

Many may wonder why God allowed this to happen. Why didn’t He create man to be sinless and perfect?

But God wanted man to comprehend His great love for humanity. He needed us to see our own hearts and then see His great love through the incredible actions He took to redeem us.

Approximately 4,000 years after Adam and Eve fell, a child was born; a child from an obscure city (Nazareth), born with no fanfare and little human recognition.

But this was no ordinary infant. This baby was the Son of God; God incarnate, born of a woman.

The name of this child was Jesus (or Yeshua).

Matthew 1:21 (LSB) 21 And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

It is important to note that the word, “He”, in the verse above literally means, He Himself.

Jesus needed no help. He needed no one else, as we referenced in another devotional recently. He alone was enough!

And so it was that Jesus came, God in the flesh (Immanuel, God with us), lived and walked among mankind, demonstrating God’s love for us in everything He did, even unto death on a brutal cross, shedding His holy blood to atone for our sins.

God was not yet finished with humanity.

And the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ was proof of this as Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after His burial, shedding the grave clothes and walking among men for another forty days before ascending to sit at the right hand of the Father for eternity.

His resurrection destroyed the grip that death had on humanity, giving us hope for life beyond the grave.

So, despite what had transpired in the garden centuries before, with man falling to temptation, God offers redemption to man through the blood of Christ. And to those who choose to embrace this offer, He gives the right to be called a child of God.

John 1:11-12 (NKJV) 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

Amen!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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