“Jesus Christ Has Freed Us From The Power Of Death!”

“Jesus Christ Has Freed Us From The Power Of Death!”(Heb.2:10-14).
Life is good to all humanity, but life is best to those who have become children of God through their belief in Jesus Christ.
To make us his children God caused his Son to become human and share in the suffering of humanity. By this, Jesus Christ the author of our salvation was made perfect.
Together with Jesus the Christ we have become one family. What this means is that believers are specially privileged.
Jesus makes us holy just as he is holy.
These days many dissenting voices are on the rise asking who cursed Africa with too much religion? Mbiti opened his book, “African Traditional Religion and Philosophy” with the words, “Africans are notoriously religious.”
The geometric rise in Christian population on the continent only confirms what Harold Turner wrote that when the gospel meets with traditional religion, the people seems to say, “This is what we had been waiting for!”
Karl Marx is quoted out of context to have said “religion is an opium of the poor.” Marx decried that religion is used as an opium of the poor. Of course, it is not only the poor who are very religious.
The challenge of the gospel is some religious leaders who do just what Marx decried. They deceive the innocent followers that they can get by prayer what they should get through hard work. We have to pray as if work does not matter and work as if prayer is not relevant!
Like we said yesterday, when you ask for bread, God gives you flour. When you ask for flour he gives you a piece of fertile land. We cannot get by prayer what we must of necessity work for.
Jesus became man to share in our humanity “so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death – that is, the devil.”
This is the reason for the incarnation! Christmas is a painful reminder that the man who came down at Christmas is the man who gave his life on the cross to redeem us and make us his brothers in the kingdom of his Father.
This year let us allow God through the son to work in us what is pleasing to him. He has equiped us for good works. When we engage in good works, strife will cease and love will lead.
Sunday prayer: Thank you Lord Jesus Christ because from the fullness of your grace we have all received one blessing after another. Amen!
Have a blessed day! Peace be with you! Merry Christmas and happy New year!
Rev. Babila Fochang.