Manifold Witness Podcast

Contradictions! Do We Have Everything We Need? Pt. 2

July 02, 2022 Oscar Lewis
Manifold Witness Podcast
Contradictions! Do We Have Everything We Need? Pt. 2
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CONTRADICTIONS! DO WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED? Pt. 2

If everything God can give us, has already been given to us in His Son, Jesus The Christ...then why are there so many contradictions in our lives? Let’s talk about it…

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CONTRADICTIONS! DO WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED? Pt. 2

Ø  If everything God can give you, has already been given to you in His Son, Jesus Christ, then why are there so many contradictions in our lives? Let’s talk about it…

Ø  The first question we must answer is not, “Why am I not experiencing God’s promises?” but “Which is the rule of faith…the Scriptures or our experiences and are these promises of God soundly offered in the Scriptures?” 

Ø  We have many contradictions to the promises of God in our lives. 

Ø  Let’s take a look at the biblical text of Hebrews 12:3 to see what we can extract from this narrative.

Ø  Hebrews 12:3 “For consider Him who endured such contradiction from sinners against Himself, unless you become weary and discouraged in your souls.”

Ø  So this scriptural text suggest that Jesus himself encountered contradictions during his time here on earth!!! However, he did not let it sway him to become weary or discouraged with life’s instabilities, because contradictions of our life experiences does not cancel the promises or provisions of the Word of God.

Ø  Therefore, we must hold up the authority of the Scriptures above the authority of our experiences. We must take great care not to explain away the promises of God in an effort to reconcile our human experience to His divine promise.

Ø  Experiences change daily, yet the Word of God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We must anchor our sense of trust and hope in the promises of God not in life’s ups and downs. We must let the Word of God dominate our life in our relationship with Christ. 

Ø  Psalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Ø  We must pray to Him in the context of a relationship of fidelity with Christ. The promise is to those “who walk (progress with steps) uprightly.”

Ø  How do we walk (progress with steps) uprightly before the Lord? In the Old Testament this meant someone who kept the Law of Moses. In the New Testament, however, righteousness is not based upon religious or moral performance but solely upon an active relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. You are upright before God if you believe and commit your life to His person, His purpose, and His Word.

Ø  God accepts us not on the basis of what we have done or who we are, but on the basis of who Jesus is and what He has done for us in His death, burial, and resurrection. In the book of

Ø  Corinthians 1:30 it states…”But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”

Ø  Consider the implications of this verse. Righteousness is not based on our actions (good or bad) but upon something God made Christ to become on our behalf. Our righteousness is a person (Jesus) and is activated in our relationship with Him. Our righteousness is not performance based (keeping a set of rules). God made Jesus to be our righteousness, and our righteousness is a person.

Ø  Nevertheless; the question that may arise is… “Doesn’t it matter how we live our lives?” Since Jesus is our righteousness, is it okay to live our lives in any way we please? This question has been asked since the beginning of the first century church. 

Ø  Here’s a question to that question, “Which came first, “Our obedience to God or the blessing of God in Christ?”

Ø  God gives us insight to this inquiry in the book of…

Ø  Rev 13:8…the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.” This scriptural text seems to suggest that God made provisions for us before we had a need.

Ø  Therefore, unless we receive the righteousness of God that is in Christ, our sense of morality will constantly be changing. Christ righteousness can only be produced in our life by virtue of the Spirit’s influence in our hearts, “for he will lead into all TRUTH.”

Ø  The work of Christ on the cross puts us in the position that God will answer our prayers not because of who we are or what we have done, but who Jesus is and what He has done. 

Ø  This is how the writers of the book of Romans puts it in… 

Ø  Romans 5:19 “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”

Ø  The entire human race was judged because of Adam’s sin. Some may argue…” That’s not fair!” Because our egalitarian society tells us in order for things to be right it must be fair, but God is not an egalitarian, or haven’t you notice, but God does fix things where they were broken. So although we were doomed by Adam’s disobedience. In like manner our deliverance from this condemnation was provided by Jesus in His obedience to God by dying for our sins. ~SELAH~

Ø  When did Jesus' obedience justify us? Our justification was secured when He obeyed His Father and agreed to give Himself on our behalf before coming to earth. 

Ø  Hebrew 10:5 reads…

Ø  Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

Ø  God made provision for your acceptance into the privileges of His Kingdom before we were born. 

Ø  As a result, we can do business with the Father now in the midst of our circumstance because Jesus did business with the Father 2000 years ago.

Ø  Prayer to God has nothing to do with religious striving or performance but in patient believing and resting in what Jesus has already accomplished on your behalf.

Ø  Some suggest that God's interest is only in your spiritual life. They insist you should not bother Him with life's everyday troubles. But the promises of the Scriptures is that He is committed to all of YOU…Spirit, Soul, & Body!!!

Ø  Jesus leaves his disciples with these words in… 

Ø  Matthew 6:8…” For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask, so when you pray. Pray in this manner…

Ø  Our Father in heaven,

Ø  Hallowed be Your name.

Ø  Your kingdom come.

Ø  Your will be done

Ø  On earth as it is in heaven.

Ø  Give us this day our daily bread.

Ø  And forgive us our debts,

Ø  As we forgive our debtors.

Ø  And lead us not into temptation,

Ø  But deliver us from evil.

Ø  For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.