Things New and Old: For he shall save his people from their sins.

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

For he shall save his people from their sins.

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Matthew 1
20 ... Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Some observations:

1. That which is conceived:

- That which is conceived DID NOT EXIST before the conception; conception brings into existence that which is conceived; this is plain and obvious; only some somersaults can obfuscate the obvious.

- what is that which is conceived in Mary by the Holy Spirit? It is the Son of God. Before the eternal Word was made flesh (John 1:1,14), there was no Son of God (the dual-natured Divine-human Being), there was the eternal Word (the one-natured Divine Being.)

2. Thou shalt call his name JESUS:

- that specific name is divinely given, aptly descriptive of the office and works of the person named.

- "Jesus" means "Jehovah is salvation." Jesus, the Son of God, the promised Saviour of His people, the God incarnate, the Word made flesh, the God-man, the only Mediator between God and man.

3. He shall save His people:

- His people are those that belong to Him, they are His possession; they were chosen and given to Him by the Father, entrusted to Him to save them.

- His people needed to be saved; they can't save themselves; He shall save all them to the uttermost, all by Himself, without the aid of those needed to be saved; they are completely impotent, and worst, they are in enmity against God.

4. From their sins

- From their sins... not from their poverty, sickness, etc; nevertheless, Christ's religion is capable of elevating the social wellbeing of believers wherever it takes root. Christ's religion inspires industry that delivers His people from poverty, and healthy living that inevitably improve that health.

- the wages of sin is death, the eternal separation from God, the very fountain of all blessings, temporal and eternal.

- To save them from their sins, Jesus stood in their place as their perfect substitute, living the sinless life of perfect obedience to God, and dying in their stead to suffer the wrath of God due to ALL their sins.

- By His righteousness (life of perfect obedience) and blood (atoning death), His people are made accepted in Christ.

- He saves His people to the uttermost, all by Himself; the salvation He has secured, all by Himself, is freely applied to each of His people when they are still dead in trespasses and sins, completely incapable of aiding or assisting in their own salvation.

5. Only after the eternal salvation has been freely applied to them when they were still dead in trespasses and sins, they are capable of obeying the call to believe the gospel of their salvation in Christ Jesus.