There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about our rights being stripped away.
Rights are an interesting concept. I don’t think we really understand that rights are something that are given to us. Unless you live in total isolation, I am convinced every time we exercise our right someone else has to yield their rights. When I learned to drive we were taught to yield the right of way in given situations. We were also taught not to simply claim the right of way, but wait for it to be yielded to you.
Years ago someone I know bought a piece of rural property in Texas to build a house on and they were surprised to find out if they wanted the cattle to stay off their property they had to build a fence. Ranchers are not responsible for where the cattle graze. In order for the property owner to exercise his right to be cow free he had to forcibly take away the cows right to enter his land.
When my wife says you can fix what you want for dinner she is yielding her right to me. I could claim that right but that means I am denying her that right.
This is the basic trait of humanity that Satan taps into in the Garden of Eden when he says to Adam and Eve can’t you see that fruit is good to eat, take it and enjoy it you have a right to it.
I cringe when Ads say things like, “indulge yourself you deserve it.” Unfortunately my friends we do not deserve it. We do not get the impact of God’s Word, “The wages of sin is death.” We do not even have the right to live.
This is what makes the Gospel so revolutionary. Jesus does not claim his right to be The Son of God, but yields it to us.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12)
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. (1 John 3)
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. (1 John 4)
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Phillipians 2)
Jesus does not claim His right as the son of God, but becomes sin on our behalf that we may be called the Sons of God.
Pastor Mark
Rights are an interesting concept. I don’t think we really understand that rights are something that are given to us. Unless you live in total isolation, I am convinced every time we exercise our right someone else has to yield their rights. When I learned to drive we were taught to yield the right of way in given situations. We were also taught not to simply claim the right of way, but wait for it to be yielded to you.
Years ago someone I know bought a piece of rural property in Texas to build a house on and they were surprised to find out if they wanted the cattle to stay off their property they had to build a fence. Ranchers are not responsible for where the cattle graze. In order for the property owner to exercise his right to be cow free he had to forcibly take away the cows right to enter his land.
When my wife says you can fix what you want for dinner she is yielding her right to me. I could claim that right but that means I am denying her that right.
This is the basic trait of humanity that Satan taps into in the Garden of Eden when he says to Adam and Eve can’t you see that fruit is good to eat, take it and enjoy it you have a right to it.
I cringe when Ads say things like, “indulge yourself you deserve it.” Unfortunately my friends we do not deserve it. We do not get the impact of God’s Word, “The wages of sin is death.” We do not even have the right to live.
This is what makes the Gospel so revolutionary. Jesus does not claim his right to be The Son of God, but yields it to us.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12)
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. (1 John 3)
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. (1 John 4)
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Phillipians 2)
Jesus does not claim His right as the son of God, but becomes sin on our behalf that we may be called the Sons of God.
Pastor Mark
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