EXPLORE GOD’S HIGH PURPOSES IN SALVATION
“Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ….” (HEBREWS 13:21)
There seems to be a great throng of professing Christians in our churches today whose total and amazing testimony sounds like this: “I am thankful for God’s plan in sending Christ to the cross to save me from hell.”

I am convinced that it is a cheap, low-grade and misleading kind of Christianity that impels people to rise and state: “Because of sin I was deeply in debt—and God sent His Son, who came and paid all my debts.”

Of course believing Christian men and women are saved from the judgment of hell and it is a reality that Christ our Redeemer has paid the whole slate of debt and sin that was against us. But what does God say about His purposes in allowing Jesus to go to the cross and to the grave? What does God say about the meaning of death and resurrection for the Christian believer?

Surely we know the Bible well enough to be able to answer that: God’s highest purpose in the redemption of sinful humanity was based in His hope that we would allow Him to reproduce the likeness of Jesus Christ in our once-sinful lives!
So, acknowledging this, we are able to humbly testify with the Apostle Paul: “I have been crucified with Christ—and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God!”

A. W. Tozer