The Need For A Redeemer

Men and women who try to follow the voice of their own conscience to seek to do better, also find a force in themselves that brings defeat. They need a Redeemer.

God provided our Redeemer by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world. God foresaw the need for a Redeemer even before He created the cosmos and all its biological diversity and placed man in it. Jesus was slain (in the plan of God) from the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:18- 20). Jesus came in the fullness of time and was `born of a woman': Gal.4:4.

Until that time in the midst of history, an approach for man to God was found in the Old Testament through his obedience to ordinances and sacrificial work. A Hymn- writer wrote: `Not all the blood of beasts, on Jewish altars slain, could give the guilty conscience peace, or take away the stain.' But Christ, the heavenly Lamb, takes away our sin by opening up a way of salvation.

It is up to you and me to choose to think, live and work in harmony with God's purpose for our lives, that we should be to the praise of His glory. Eph.1:11-12: `In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.'

Bro. Henderson M. Sosola, (Mtenthela Ecclesia, Malawi.)