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God's
Divine Dilemma
Solved as Only He Could
by Pastor John Hamel
The Bible says that in
the beginning Almighty God created the Heavens and the Earth. (Genesis
1:1) At that time, He also created Adam and Eve, the parents of the
entire human race. (Genesis 2:7,20-23)
By the way, there is only one human “race” and we all
share the same blood, no matter what color our skin may happen to be. (Acts
17:26)
We all get our blood from Adam. A black man’s blood can save a white
man’s life and vice versa. The same is true with all the wonderful
skin colors within the one human race.
No animal’s blood can save a
human life. It takes human blood to save a human life. This
proves that there is only one “race” of man, the human race.
There went
that ignorant, irrelevant word "inter-racial" right
down the drain! Good riddance to it!
At
the time of Almighty God creating Adam and Eve, He placed a “Garden” in the
Earth as their home. He also gave them complete authority over the
Earth and all that was contained therein. (Genesis 2:8,15)
He
then placed two special trees in the Garden. One was called the “Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. The other was called the “Tree of
Life”.
God then gave them both one simple command, which they must obey if they wanted to be assured of His
continued protection and provision. He told them, “Do not eat from
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”
If they disobeyed Him, they would “die” spiritually. (Genesis
2:9,16,17)
This simply meant that they would become separated from
God’s protection and provision.
It
was up to them now to obey Him. He did not create them to be robots.
He created them to have “free will”, the power to make their own decisions,
just like Him. (Genesis 1:26) He wanted them to “choose” to love and
obey Him, as a conscious act of their own free wills. After all, who
wants to be loved by a robot?
Unfortunately, they disobeyed God and
became separated from His nature, His protection and His provision. They did indeed “die” spiritually.
(Genesis 3:1-24) What on Earth was Almighty God to do now?
Two
of God’s greatest attributes are His Justice and His Mercy. (Psalm
89:14,28)
The Justice of God said, “I must punish
their sin or they’ll never take Me seriously again.”
The Mercy of God said, “I must forgive their sin or they’ll run
from Me whenever they’re in trouble.”
What
was the God of Justice and Mercy to do? We call this “GOD’S DIVINE
DILEMMA”. This was indeed the Crisis of the Ages. Justice said,
“Punish.” Mercy said, “Forgive.”
It seemed as if even Almighty God Himself would never find a way out of
this complex and tangled predicament. However, the All-Wise God
always makes a way, even when there seems to be no way. Here’s what
happened ...
Although
the Justice of God and the Mercy of God are two of His greatest attributes,
thankfully, they are not His only attributes. He has many others of
which the greatest of them all is His Love.
God not only IS Love but He POSSESSES a love for the human race that is
beyond all human comprehension. (John 17:23; 1John 4:8)
Right
in the midst of the greatest crisis and jeopardy the human race will ever
know, God’s Justice and Mercy actually in conflict with one another, the Love
of God rose up from within Him.
God said, “I know exactly
what I’ll do. I’ll allow My Son, Jesus, per His own request, to become a flesh
and blood human being. (John 10:15-18) I’ll supernaturally
birth Him into the human race through the womb of a Virgin.
(Luke 1:26-37) He’ll grow, live and experience life
amongst them. Then as one
of them, He can personally pay the penalty for man’s
disobedience in the Garden. (2Corinthians 5:17-21)
That way, whenever any of them accept His punishment as their
own, My Justice will be satisfied. My Mercy will also be satisfied
because I can then simply forgive
all who accept His sacrifice on their behalf. My Justice and My Mercy
will both be satisfied by My Love.”
This
is exactly what the God of Justice, Mercy and Love has done. The
Bible says …
"This is how
much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this
is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can
have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending
his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it
was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is
acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been
under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that
person's failure to believe
in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”
(John 3:16-18 Message Bible)
Those
of you who are regular visitors to our website have no doubt made Jesus the
Lord of your lives. You can pass this study on to those with whom you've been sharing God's love.
All they'll need to do now to get right with God again is to accept His
miraculous solution to His Divine Dilemma. They can do this by simply
asking Jesus Christ to become the Master of their life as the following
Scripture clearly states.
"Say the
welcoming word to God -"Jesus is my Master"- embracing, body
and soul, God's work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the
dead. That's it. You're
not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to
God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being
you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has
set everything right between him and me!" (Romans
10:9,10 Message Bible)
They
simply pray this prayer aloud letting Heaven and Hell know they are changing allegiance and there’s nothing
anyone can do to stop it.
“Jesus,
I choose You as my Master. You alone are the solution to God’s Divine Dilemma. You
came to satisfy God’s Justice and Mercy with Love. I believe You died
in my place. I believe God raised You from the dead once He was
satisfied that sin’s penalty was paid. Father God, You have set
everything right between You and me. You allowed Jesus to willingly
come and pay the penalty for my sinful nature. Show me now the one
thing I can do for the rest of my life that will magnify You and I will do
it. I want to demonstrate my appreciation. Thank You, Father,
for all the trouble You went to in bailing me out of my crisis and Your
Divine Dilemma, in Jesus’ Name. ”
Whenever
anyone prays that prayer, all the Angels of Heaven throw a party. (Luke
15:10) The one who prayed becomes a member of God’s Forever Family. (Ephesians
3:14,15)
Then
it's time for them to hook up with a Pastor and a Church that believes God is still in
the miracle business. (Hebrews
13:8)
This is when things will stop happening TO them and start happening FOR them. Now that's something to CELEBRATE!
So
pass this on to someone who needs to hear about God’s Divine Dilemma and
how He solved it as only He could!
Be
Blessed ... John and Barbara Hamel
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