The Prophetic Word - Day 30: There was a chasm we could not cross.
- May 17, 2023
- 2 min read
“Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.”
Isaiah 53:4-5, 10-11 NKJV
It seems that it’s become popular these days to promote a many-ways-to-God approach in terms of faith.
However, anyone who embraces this approach doesn’t believe what Jesus said about Himself.
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.””
John 14:6 NKJV
Not grasping that Jesus is the only way to God also indicates an ignorance of the true nature of sin.
Whereas, most people are aware of the story of Adam and Eve and their hard Fall, many do not understand that this event brought a cosmic change.
Indeed, that rebellion separated man’s will from that of the Father. And as such, he now had afforded the enemy of our souls an access point through which to inject evil into our being.
That costly rebellion—and the resulting sin nature—separated us from the never-ending life of God.
“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.”
Genesis 3:8
Sin caused man to want to hide from God because of the shame of what he had done. He somehow knew the profound change that came with their sin. Being disconnected from the light of God’s life, we were plunged into darkness.
“This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”
Ephesians 4:17-19 NKJV
The state of being the apostle Paul was referencing to the Ephesians, was the state of being of all mankind after the Fall. Our sin created a chasm between us and the life of God, a chasm for which their was no bridge.
In our opening scripture we see a prophetic vision reaching forward in time and seeing a suffering Servant, suffering—not for His own sin—but for the sin of others. Could He be the bridge connecting us back to the never-ending life of God?
Indeed, we will hear more about this over the next few days.
Peace to you.
Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!
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