(Discipleship) Revealing The Father In The Son (1 Kings 19:11 12; John 1:18) (Identity)
Where does God reveal what He is really like? The text from 1 Kings gives us the answer that insurance companies liked. An act of God was something destructive. But Jesus’ birth was an act of God. So was His death. And so was His resurrection from the dead. From the beginning in Genesis, God is One who creates not destroys. If anything has to be destroyed, it is destroyed to make life eternal possible for you and for me. As John puts it in his first letter (chap 3:8) “the Son of God appeared to destroy the works of the devil.” And then Paul writes in 1 Cor 15:26, “the last enemy to be destroyed is death.” So the insurance companies are correct, an act of God does destroy. But not what they think. For God will destroy everything that keeps you and me from knowing Him and loving Him forever which includes the devil and death. That’s why God sent His only begotten Son. They are in this together. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit all want us to come home to live with them forever.
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