--The All-Sufficiency of G-D ~~

----"For with God nothing shall be impossible."
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~~When God created the world, He did not run into any snag that made Him pause and say, "How are we going to make this work?" Creation did not add anything to His knowledge through the discovery of some new thing. Also, God's reason for resting on the seventh day was not because He was tired or did not know what else to create, but because He was finished with all that He had planned to do. The marvel is that God envisioned the redemption of mankind, and had the plan for it all in place, "before the world began" (2 Timothy 1:9).

The basic reason for Christ's crucifixion was not because the Jews hated Jesus and rejected God's plan to set up an earthly kingdom under Him. Jesus' words "My kingdom is not of this world" are still as true today as when He spoke them to Pilate.

God's real plan was that Christ would die as the ultimate sacrifice for sin; His precious blood would provide cleansing from sin; and the church of God would be made up of born-again (twice born/John 3:3,5,6) believers out of every nation, kindred, and tongue. These would be the kingdom of God upon earth, with Christ reigning over them and His subjects reigning over sin. "That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 5:21).

All this was planned before the world was created. Jesus' cry of "It is finished" announced that the entire plan had been brought to completion by the all-sufficiency of God! Through His great work of redemption, Christ restored to every soul the potential of living with God forever in His kingdom -- an opportunity which Satan had stolen away ages before. ~

'Abundant mercy and grace is extended to all, for where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.' ~~
---'Beside Still Waters'/DS~

--"All Hail King Jesus"/ (lyrics) Jeremy Riddle //<https://youtu.be/FTporlyY8rY>
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