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The Wednesday Word​

D G Miles McKee
One of the reasons God became a man was to destroy Satan and open the way to eternal life. No one but God was qualified for this task because no one but the Almighty was strong or wise enough to accomplish such a feat.



The Mighty God, our Redeemer, came to undo and destroy the shocking distress that Satan had exacted upon us … and did so by becoming human.



Why human? Why did He not become a super angel?



He became human because it was the human race that Satan had destroyed in the Fall. It was then, as a true human, the eternal Word was born. In His doing and dying, He received the full onslaught of Satan and put him away by His great sacrifice at the cross. (Colossians 2:15).



To paraphrase Anselm (AD 1033-1109),



“And so also was it proper that the devil, who was man’s tempter, and had conquered him when he ate of the tree, should be conquered by another man as he suffered on the tree.”

Anselm: Cur Deus Homo: Chapter 3



May we always be thrilled with the boundless Gospel truth of the incarnation.

“He left His heavenly crown,
His glory laid aside.
On wings of love came down,
And wept, and bled, and died.
What He endured no tongue can tell,
To save our souls from death and hell'.

Watts.



As true believers we hold, defend and propagate the truth of the revelation of the Almighty God in Christ alone.



From all eternity the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternally, self-existent One who was and is and is to come. He is Yahweh, the great I Am, the Alpha and the Omega, the Word made flesh. He was and is God. His divine nature was unborrowed, underived, and unconferred. You say, “Explain that please.” I reply, “I can´t, However I thank the Lord I have been sent to preach the Gospel, not to explain it!”



It is Jesus, the Lord from heaven, who is above all (John 3:31).

He has the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9).

He has and is both the wisdom and the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:24).

In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:3).



As Gospel-centered believers, it is our privilege to propagate the message that the Lord Jesus possesses all that God is. If we want to know how God acts, then we study Jesus and see what He has done. Jesus is the unabridged version of God: He is the very mystery of God! Jesus is the full and accurate interpretation of the mind of God. To meet Him is to meet God. To be saved by Him is to be saved by God. He is the final word from God to man (Hebrews 1:1-3).



It should be of no surprise, therefore, that Christ is still despised and rejected by men.

The radical Muslims, as they vie for world domination, witness against His deity.

The radical Hindus think nothing of attacking Christ’s followers in India, Nepal and other places.

The Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses deny that He is the Mighty God.

Even, in many Christian circles, Christ’s identity has become blurred.



Who then will stand up for Jesus in this generation?

Will we?

Will you?



As for me and my household we intend to make more than much of Jesus. We appreciate what John Newton stated when He said,



"I am well satisfied it will not be a burden to me at the hour of death, nor be laid to my charge at the day of judgment, that I have thought too highly of Jesus, expected too much from him myself, or labored too much in commending and setting him forth to others, as the Alpha and Omega, the true God and eternal life.



John Newton (1725-1807), Author of the hymn, “Amazing Grace”



And that’s the Gospel Truth!






Sons and Heirs


by Richard Sherrer
06/30/25
The Law and the Promise

Galatians 3:23-29

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We were held captive by the Law,
Till the coming of faith revealed;
Punished and banished for each flaw,
Nothing allows us to be healed.

The Law was our defender,
Until faith in Christ justified;
To fight against the offender,
Confessing has been testified.

But since now that faith has arrived,
We’re no longer under its shield;
So, by faith we now have survived.
The past debts can now be repealed.

Through faith, you are children of God,
Since you have faith in Jesus Christ;
In return you honor and laud,
Because Jesus was sacrificed,

Many of you had been baptized,
Into Christ and putting Him on;
No more need to be circumcised,
The foreskin cut to be gone.

Because there is a Jew and Greek,
As well as a slave or as free;
That can go to the Lord to seek,
For you are all as one in He.

And if you are in Jesus Christ,
Then you are Abraham’s offspring;
Promised as heirs that has enticed,
What the inheritance will bring.

Copyright © 2025 Richard Newton Sherrer