The very purpose of Christ was to make God available to man that we might be witness to the Glory of God. The life of Christ gives us back-stage-passes to the theatre room of intimacy. Our studies this week will journey us into and through the 6th chapter of John’s Gospel.
Here’s a little snack: It’s hard to imagine that a holy God desires a relationship with sinful man. The two natures collide with more force than the punch of a prize fighter. The world and all its galaxies have never witnessed such contradiction.
In one corner, clothed in righteousness, sits Holiness, with Love standing at the right hand of Glory. In the other corner, draped in filthy rags, sits vanity, and sin as its only claim to fame.
Jesus was and is God’s plan to reunite sinful man with the holiness of God. The two were separated in the garden many years ago. The desire, on the part of man, to be autonomous was the sword which severed the perfect relationship between God and Adam. Since then, God has had but one singular premise- to create for Himself beauty from ashes; glory from corruption; for His good pleasure.
What was the Father’s plan to reunite Himself with His chief creation? To pardon man from certain fatality by the resurrection of His Son from the dead. The Gospel would be the power of the relationship and love would be its sustaining bond.
The 6th chapter of John’s gospel will take us through 3 stages of God’s effort to reconnect man to Himself. We will examine these 3 stages as we snack together.
Pastor Mike Carmody
Calvary Missionary Baptist Church
Calvary Missionary Baptist Church
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