Hi Pastor John,
I really enjoyed Damien’s knowledge transfer of what Jesus showed him about the sacrifice on the Day of Atonements. (See related links below.)
As I was thinking about some questions related to it, I was listening to our music play in the background this morning. I realized our recent song lyrics are all about Jesus. The Spirit started showing me the type of humility God had in order to watch His own Son Jesus suffer and die. If he had been an earthly father, he would done everything to stop what Jesus was going through. He was showing us what a heavenly Father would do! But also, when God accepted Jesus’ sacrifice, God was entrusting Jesus with His kind of power. Jesus had paid the price and was rewarded by God with that position in heaven, to be our High Priest, because he had proven he could be entrusted with it by overcoming the world with God’s kind of life.
By design, and from the beginning of all things, Jesus’ plan all along was to transfer that trust to us as his children through the Spirit. If we feel that trust, the love and fear of God can flow freely through us to actively live and respect this kind of heavenly life we’ve been given. It’s like Aunt Sue said, “We are the chosen of the chosen!” Jesus is very serious (and seriously, deeply happy to the heavenliest degree) when we live that truth through walking in the Spirit he died for us to have!
Wendy