God Did the Impossible: God Died!

God Did the Impossible: God Died!

We praise God that the glory of each person hearing is found in the unity of the Godhead. And may we each go further in the truth. To be God’s people in this last time we must look beyond human causes. A most holy question – who determined that Jesus must die? A staggering answer - God did! God’s love was shown to us by pouring His wrath upon His Son. We might worship the terrible wonder of the love of God! It is not sentimental. It is not simple. For our sake God did the impossible: God died. It was this most holiest of events that

revealed the death of death in the death of Christ. A dying to the power which death exercises over most of us, in fear. Jesus’ life, then was the living of truly human, truly creaturely life. But he lives and dies without the fear of death. He lives in such a way as to deny death’s power over him, a power which robs the rest of us of our true freedom and our true humanity. Jesus lived reconciled to his humanity, seeing God and not his impending death as the thing to be feared. The way he lived, and so the way he died, denied

death its fearful hold on us. In him, then, we have seen a perfected human life. ‘Perfection’ is now not ‘doing the right thing’ – in the sense of moralist achievement. Rather, perfection is living to the very end under God’s reign – which blesses our mortality – and not under the shadow of death, which curses it. Our being perfected is in the purpose of God’s calling. It is

achieving our highest potential and aligning our every motive with a divine purpose.