The Story of Christ’s Redemption

by | Posted March 28th at 12:09pm

“Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshippers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.”  (Hb 10:1 HCSB)

A metaphor allows us to perceive a reality by use of a symbol. It also was used by God to help us understand the story of the redemption of Jesus. Jesus became the true sacrificial Lamb of God expressed in the very first Passover. The Jews experienced God’s mercy in Egypt before the exodus led by Moses. In the life of Christ, we see a lived-out expansion of this metaphor to express His self-sacrifice, in reality, to produce a strong visual. The Gospel story presents the real live story of the expression of this symbol – the actual redemption — the salvation of the human race.

Why God uses Living Symbols Metaphors are the highest form of language, used to join many combined elements of truth over time, unifying them into a conscious whole – a visual that many minds might otherwise misunderstand. For example, in physics, via math, symbols (atomic simples), when unified present logical truths such as Einstein’s E=MC2.

Metaphoric symbols were used in the old testament depicting lambs being slain by the Jewish priesthood. These were symbolic types of the future sacrifice Christ would offer on the cross. These present pictorial imagery by linking metaphoric components to rationally help us understand the larger sweep of the story of redemption.

Christ dying on the cross was no accident. It was planned since post-creation to redeem failing humans from the complexities of evil. We must see evil as destroying life by denying God’s moral laws — His love maxims. Through the cross of Christ God brings man into a consciousness of sin versus pure living via the assistance of the Spirit, and his need to be saved by God’s indwelling empowerment of sanctifying the will, to reject the selfishness of sin. Love is the binding axiom of the entire story of our need to appreciate this initiating love which flows from the heart of God and forms moral law and binds justice, though transgressed by our failures, from which we can be redeemed.

A covenant is a Biblical term for an agreement. Currently, we are in the New Covenant (NC) period of redemption and are called to come into union with God. Most Christians can know that Jesus is unified to God at least from the teaching of the Trinity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit as One. Some view the Triune God as a metaphor used for man to understand the unities of the Character of God. The Father gives us the beautiful picture of the control and stability of a unified household running smoothly in love; the Son gives us the view of God as the creator of man, as One with us in brotherhood, to the degree that He would die in our stead; the Spirit is the invisible God that operates in all spheres creating and rearranging all atomic and mental unities of consciousness and continues to renew minds which are spiritually born again.

Life is a journey in God’s reality or our own delusion. When I had my vision of Christ in my mid-twenties I did not foresee that I would be baptised as a believer,  eventfully be called to work for a Christian publishing enterprise, would own a financial publishing house, continue to teach the New Covenant of Christ, preach, write and publish advice about faith in our Lord. Looking back my life had many ups and downs, serious challenges, and continues to daily drive me to me knees in prayer for my children and grandchildren.

We all have freedom of choice to determine our destiny. God allows us to operate in life in our free will. Hence, you can even choose to reject salvation. No man is pressured to accept Jesus Christ as Sovereign. He never forces His agenda though He does act to make us aware of His grace and love extending to us.

Living life can be seen as a progressive metaphoric journey. God may even warn you through discipline that he gave you ears to spiritually listen to Him, even though you may have closed them to avoid awareness of His mercy. (see Christ’s use of ears as a metaphor).

A prodigal may fall into a metaphoric real-life pit of sin, as God teaches consequential lessons about the danger of self-dependency without Him. Others may ruin a marriage through adultery. We all have eyes to see, but we can blind our mental awareness by an addiction such as drinking alcohol daily. But God can lift anyone who surrenders his or her life to Him, up out of self-induced delusion. (see christ’s use of eyes as a spiritual metaphor)


Article posted by Glen R. Jackman, founder of GraceProclaimed.org

Glen has optimized his eldership role to teach the full scope of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ without boundaries.
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