The God who created all things beautiful and wonderful made man in a very unique way, in which man was created to represent the invisible God more fully than any other creation. God and man belonged together in love and relationship in a rank that is unparallel with all other creation!
{Gen.1:1-31; Psalm 8:1-9}
Man was designed by God to be a very special creature, not just in looks but in walk and in the way he functions! Unlike other creatures, man was made in the image and in the likeness of God, intricately designed by God to be spirit and soul and body – indwelt and activated by God Himself. Thus presenting Adam and Eve on earth as the most complete visible representatives of the invisible God! However, this fulfillment and the celebration were short lived for both God and man and of course for the whole creation because of the sin of man which he committed against God in the garden of Eden.
{Gen.2:1-25; 1 Thess. 5:23; Rom. 1: 18-32}
Adam and Eve sinned and they died. The God Who indwelt them and activated their lives and function was forsaken by the first couple and they lost their most esteemed earthly occupation of visibly representing the invisible God. Since then the whole human race has contracted the curse of sin and death.
{Gen.3:1-24; Rom. 3: 10-23; 5:12-14}
God is God; He is holy, loving and Just! He is God and there is none besides Him... and there is no other Savior to restore man to his God ordained rank and function. This is SALVATION for mankind which God prepared through His Son, the LORD JESUS CHRIST! God loves His creation and especially He loves man! To save the sinful mankind, God sent His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ Who is God Himself, came to this world as the Son of man to die on the cross as the only sufficient Sacrifice for the sin of man. He lived, died and rose from the dead and satisfied the Holy God on behalf of the fallen human race!
{Isa. 43:10-13; Acts 4:12; Jn. 1:1-14, 29; 3:16; 1 Jn. 1:7, 9; 2:1, 2}
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The LORD JESUS CHRIST forgives and saves the believing mankind from sin and death and brings His own Divine life into man in order to occupy man for his proper function on earth!
{Isa. 43:25; Jn.1:12, 13; 3:3-7; Rom. 5:8-10}
This is Gods work and it is good news to all! We who have personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and experienced this salvation have been called to be His servants in this mission.
To this end, “We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ” (Col.1:28)
1. We proclaim Jesus Christ to every man:
By proclaiming through word and deed the excellencies of Jesus who brought us out of darkness into His marvelous light. The excellence of His character, the glory and the light of His life is proclaimed not only through words but also through excellent behavior! (1Cor.1:23, 24; 1Pet.2:9-12)
2. We admonish every man in Christ:
By communicating the life of Jesus as displayed by Him during His earthly life, that Jesus, though God, in His humanity He could not and did not live apart from His Father (Jn.5:17, 19, 30; 6:57; 8:28, 29;10:37 and 38)
3. We teach to impart the wisdom of God to every man in the Lord Jesus Christ:
By training to listen and to learn from Jesus. To know Him and to do well in all that Jesus taught us to do. To preach and to practice the principles of the word of Christ in order to introduce His life to the unbelieving world (Matt.11:28-30; Jn.13:16, 17, 34, and 35)
4. We serve to present every man complete in Christ:
By serving one another in love through the gifts of the Holy Spirit given in the Body of Christ to make complete that which is lacking among the followers of Christ. To this end we serve people knowing that the Holy Spirit transforms the lives into the likeness of Jesus (Eph. 4:4-13; 2Cor.3:17 and 18)
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