Q: What does God require of me?
A: All that He provided in His Son. If God required that Christ should bear our sins and satisfy the justice of God to the fulfillment of His righteousness, then that is what God requires. Nothing less and nothing more than Christ crucified pleases God. Anything done to add to Christ only makes light of Him. God requires all that His eternal Son was made to be. He requires all that He gave Christ to do to the glory of God in the eternal salvation of His people. Since Christ died to do all that God requires of us, therefore, if anyone attempts by any other way to meet what God requires, that person opposes God against His expressly revealed will and work and glory. Such a person despises the wisdom and power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18, 24; Colossians 2:3). Such a person despises the offering of Christ. Such a person opposes the glory of God. Such a person is a worker of iniquity, and shall be commanded to depart from Christ forever (Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 2:21).
Q: How can you or I meet what God requires of us?
A: If we have learned of God, we have learned that only Christ can and has met what God requires. As no man or angel could do one part of all that God requires, God therefore laid help on One who alone is mighty (Psalm 89:19). We have no strength. We fail at everything. More than that, we think sinfully when we think we can do what only Christ could do and did. Such a sinful mind denies God’s truth, opposes God’s will, despises God’s work, and seeks for itself glory that must be God’s alone. Though we can never meet what God requires, God has provided all that He requires in Christ alone, and has provided all in full in Him (Colossians 2:9-10; Romans 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30). Christ is all. Christ did everything. All that God requires is in Him, and in Him alone. You must believe Him whom God has sent (John 6:29). Believing Christ is the only way to agree with God about myself and about Himself. Believing Christ alone is the only way to give all credit and honor to Christ. All credit and honor is due to Christ. God is glorified in His Son. Therefore, believe in Christ. Do not trust your worth or labor or merit. Trust Christ’s work as all that God requires or ever could require. God has given His Son. Christ offered Himself to God for the sins of His people. That is all God requires. We can’t provide one part of it. Only believe.
Q: How does the blood of Jesus wash us from our sins?
A: Christ’s blood washes us from our sins by making us clean in the sight of God. We are only clean if God says we are clean. We are only clean when we are holy in the sight of holiness above: holy in the sight of God. We are clean when God sees us without sin and as beautiful to Him as the holy obedience of His Son. Beauty to God is all that Christ did when He finished the work God gave Him to do by His love to God for sinners that compelled Him to bear their sins and offer Himself to God for them in fulfillment of God’s own righteousness (Romans 4:25; 5:9-10; 8:3-4, 33-34; Galatians 2:21; 3:21). We are clean before God when Christ puts His beauty on us, and God sees Christ’s obedience of love as our clothing by His free grace. We are clean before God when we are made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). We are clean before God only by God’s will and by His work. And Christ alone has fulfilled that will and accomplished that work.
“Thy beauty…was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel 16:14).
Christ washed us from our sins by upholding God’s truth, saving us from our sins in righteousness (Daniel 9:16; Psalm 51:14). Christ washed us from our sins by bearing our sins as His own, by standing before God with them, by compensating God’s justice for them, by receiving us and forgiving us to the glory of God (Romans 15:7; Ephesians 4:32; 5:2). Christ makes us clean by removing any basis for every claim of any guilt on us in God’s own holy eye of truth and righteousness and justice. Christ makes us clean by removing every charge for God’s justice to condemn us. Christ makes us clean by taking away every reason why God would punish us for our rebellion and our failure to fulfill His holy law. Christ makes us clean by making us holy and without blame in the presence of God in all of His glory, and to His exceeding joy, in Himself, in love (Ephesians 1:4; Jude 1:24; Luke 15:18-24).
A: All that He provided in His Son. If God required that Christ should bear our sins and satisfy the justice of God to the fulfillment of His righteousness, then that is what God requires. Nothing less and nothing more than Christ crucified pleases God. Anything done to add to Christ only makes light of Him. God requires all that His eternal Son was made to be. He requires all that He gave Christ to do to the glory of God in the eternal salvation of His people. Since Christ died to do all that God requires of us, therefore, if anyone attempts by any other way to meet what God requires, that person opposes God against His expressly revealed will and work and glory. Such a person despises the wisdom and power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18, 24; Colossians 2:3). Such a person despises the offering of Christ. Such a person opposes the glory of God. Such a person is a worker of iniquity, and shall be commanded to depart from Christ forever (Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 2:21).
Q: How can you or I meet what God requires of us?
A: If we have learned of God, we have learned that only Christ can and has met what God requires. As no man or angel could do one part of all that God requires, God therefore laid help on One who alone is mighty (Psalm 89:19). We have no strength. We fail at everything. More than that, we think sinfully when we think we can do what only Christ could do and did. Such a sinful mind denies God’s truth, opposes God’s will, despises God’s work, and seeks for itself glory that must be God’s alone. Though we can never meet what God requires, God has provided all that He requires in Christ alone, and has provided all in full in Him (Colossians 2:9-10; Romans 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30). Christ is all. Christ did everything. All that God requires is in Him, and in Him alone. You must believe Him whom God has sent (John 6:29). Believing Christ is the only way to agree with God about myself and about Himself. Believing Christ alone is the only way to give all credit and honor to Christ. All credit and honor is due to Christ. God is glorified in His Son. Therefore, believe in Christ. Do not trust your worth or labor or merit. Trust Christ’s work as all that God requires or ever could require. God has given His Son. Christ offered Himself to God for the sins of His people. That is all God requires. We can’t provide one part of it. Only believe.
Q: How does the blood of Jesus wash us from our sins?
A: Christ’s blood washes us from our sins by making us clean in the sight of God. We are only clean if God says we are clean. We are only clean when we are holy in the sight of holiness above: holy in the sight of God. We are clean when God sees us without sin and as beautiful to Him as the holy obedience of His Son. Beauty to God is all that Christ did when He finished the work God gave Him to do by His love to God for sinners that compelled Him to bear their sins and offer Himself to God for them in fulfillment of God’s own righteousness (Romans 4:25; 5:9-10; 8:3-4, 33-34; Galatians 2:21; 3:21). We are clean before God when Christ puts His beauty on us, and God sees Christ’s obedience of love as our clothing by His free grace. We are clean before God when we are made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). We are clean before God only by God’s will and by His work. And Christ alone has fulfilled that will and accomplished that work.
“Thy beauty…was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel 16:14).
Christ washed us from our sins by upholding God’s truth, saving us from our sins in righteousness (Daniel 9:16; Psalm 51:14). Christ washed us from our sins by bearing our sins as His own, by standing before God with them, by compensating God’s justice for them, by receiving us and forgiving us to the glory of God (Romans 15:7; Ephesians 4:32; 5:2). Christ makes us clean by removing any basis for every claim of any guilt on us in God’s own holy eye of truth and righteousness and justice. Christ makes us clean by removing every charge for God’s justice to condemn us. Christ makes us clean by taking away every reason why God would punish us for our rebellion and our failure to fulfill His holy law. Christ makes us clean by making us holy and without blame in the presence of God in all of His glory, and to His exceeding joy, in Himself, in love (Ephesians 1:4; Jude 1:24; Luke 15:18-24).
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