Psalm 40:2

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

Psalm 32:1

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Insurance policies reimburses you for loss but does not replace the loss. Money cannot replace what we have lost.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Try telling that to anyone who has not repented of their sins. They don’t get it. Granted it does take a little explaining, but trust me, it is worth it.

Life insurance only provides funds to our beneficiaries. We don’t buy it for ourselves. What kind of coverage are we looking for in this life with Christ?

I am going to be frankly honest with everyone based on my personal experience. When I placed my faith in Christ I had no idea what I was doing. I was only concerned about the life I was leading. If someone is drowning do they reject the first lifeguard that comes along? I don’t think so.

We who were on the road to destruction just wanted to get off and find a different path. It is a different path but where does it lead? The only thing I cared about at that moment was getting off the path to destruction. I was grateful but in those early moments I didn’t care where I was going. I felt safe for the first time in my life. What should come next was no longer a matter of me making those choices. I needed to explore this rock that provided firm footing.

Galatians 4:19

my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

I heard this but I had no idea how Dhrist could be formed in me. Then it dawned on me that Paul was speaking about being born again. How was it that reading one passage led me to seek understanding from another passage? Was there some agent of change at work in me that I was not aware of yet? This is not how I lived my life before, this was new.

John 3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

John 5:28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

Wow, I was spiritually dead and now I am alive and I can hear Him.

Matthew 5:17

Christ Came to Fulfill the Law

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

The primary definition of fulfill is to bring to completion or reality.

We must receive this Word with a proper understanding of how He fulfilled the Law and the Prophets. The Law was given with purpose. The prophets were sent words to share with mankind to help us understand God’s purpose.

I sometimes wonder why God allowed mankind so many years of doing things they thought were right in their own minds before bringing them the law through Moses. It wasn’t like men had not heard God before Moses. Enoch walked with God and pleased God. God took him out of the world before the flood. Why isn’t Enoch our example of how to please God? The bible doesn’t tell us anything about how Enoch pleased God.

I understand now that while some men pleased God none of them were perfect, not perfect like Jesus. We would have not known about the need for the perfect sacrifice if it had not been for the practices of the priesthood that involved forgiveness of sin annually for the nation and daily for individuals.

We would have not known what God considered sin without the law.

Romans 7:7

The Law and Sin

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 7:13

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

It became apparent from the choices mankind made that they could not save themselves from the consequence of sin, death. So God had Isaiah tell us we needed someone to intercede on our behalf. While He bore the sins of many, His sacrifice did not cover everyone.