JESUS’ DEATH IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR MAN

JESUS’ DEATH IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR MAN

Every year, we celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. the resurrection of Jesus has so many meanings to us. Firstly, we must understand that without the death of Christ, there would have been no resurrection, so, why did he died? What is the significant to you and to me?

Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

The death of Christ is the only hope for man. He died to rescue man and to be able to present man to God. We must also understand that the death of Christ was of upmost important and that was why God allowed it.

MAN’S STATE AT CREATION

Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

Gen 2:8  And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 

Gen 2:12  And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Gen 2:15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Man was created as the crown of the creation of God. He gave man liberty, dominion, rulership and authority to rule over the affairs of the created world.

MAN’S STATE OF CARELESSNESS

Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 

Gen 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 

Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Man lost the glory through carelessness and today we are still suffering because of our carelessness.

MAN’S SEARCH FOR CREATOR

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

What are the common ways in which we are searching for the Creator?

• Being good
• Devotion in religion
• Self-torture and self-imposed fasting
• Trying other ways

MAN’S SOLUTION CREATED – God Himself Created The Way For Man

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

Jesus died the most shameful death for you and you cannot afford to keep Him at bay,  

1. He died to set you free from the slavery to sin, self and Satan.
2. He died to restore to us the lost glory.
3. He died to release the default as the creature of the Greatest Manufacturer.
4. He died to show us that until we died to sin, self, worldly fame, worldly glory, and to Satan we cannot resurrect and live with Christ.
5. True living is on the resurrection side

He Is Calling You Now Come And Enjoy The Finished Work Of Calvary.