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We offended, yet He paid the price; When the Complainant becomes the arbitrator

Human by nature is a faulty device but by creation, human is a perfect being.
According to 1 John 2:1a, ‘My little children this thing I write to you, so that you sin not’. This just shows the very nature which God created in mankind (In his likeness).
However because mankind did not subject to the instruction given by God at creation, thus mankind erred. The perfect nature of man became snagged. God told Man ‘of the whole tree in the garden you can eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you must not eat (Genesis2:16b-17a, with my emphasis). Man defaulted and that was why God made provision for our nature (sinful attribute). And if anyone sins, we have an advocate the father, Jesus Christ the righteous (1 John 2:1b). God was the person that was offended and yet God was the person who sought for the solution for reconciliation. For anyone who is offended and goes out of the way to make peace, the person occupies the position of God. That was why Jesus Christ said in Matthew 5: 9, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God’. God took the bodily form of a man (Jesus), lost every right and privileges, and stooped so low and was fashioned as ordinary servant. That was not enough as he suffered and died like a common criminal to be able to regain what was rightfully his just because of you and I (Phil 2: 5-8). If you doubt Jesus losing his heavenly privileges check Luke 4:6-8. Satan offered Jesus the world in exchange for a bow. Jesus countered every temptation of the devil with the scripture (Luke 4; 4, 8, 12) but his response to the offer of the world was tempting and frustrating and it showed in His tone (Get behind me Satan!). He was being offered what was rightfully His but at that point all those right and privileges were not there until his death and resurrection when He could boastfully and boldly declared  that all power in heaven and on earth had been given to him (Matthew 28:18). We offended Him, yet He was the one who sought solution for reconciliation. He gave up His right and privileges to reconcile us back to Himself. He took a big risk because he had the nature of man and could actually succumb to sin... he was tempted in all Point (Hebrew 4:15b). God cannot be tempted only a human being can. He died a common criminal just to get us back to himself and empower us to overcome sin. The law of Moses only make us guilty and alert to sin but it is only the law of life written by Jesus Christ that can make us immune to sin
Prayer:
You are disconnected from the alternating power of partial belief and unbelief and you are connected to the Direct and unfailing power of God In Jesus Name.
The power of Jesus Christ that set free from the nature of man reside in you from henceforth.
The law of the spirit in Christ Jesus which set you free from the sinful nature of man is activated in your life in Jesus name.
NB: All bible quotation from NKJV

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