“This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…
Is it too bold to state all humanity is included in the relationship Christ has with HIS Father? Didn’t HE teach HIS disciples when they prayed to address God as “OUR Father”?
Is it safe to say God will judge all humans through Jesus Christ as those who belong to God through Him? If so then, are not all humans, in spite of themselves, loved, forgiven, and included in Jesus Christ, who is their Lord and Savior?
Isn’t it also true, God’s love will never cease or diminish even for those who, denying the reality of who they are in him, refuse his love and consign themselves to hell?
If they choose not to enjoy the fruit of his salvation, will they not experience his love as wrath?
Doesn’t God discipline those he loves so that they will return to him and live? Isn’t HE portrayed in the Book of Revelations as standing at the door and knocking, urging people to open the door to his everlasting love?
In the end, doesn’t God’s judgment in Christ mean the ultimate end of evil and the renewal of the earth and all creation?
As the prophesied Savior of humanity, did he not suffer and die for all human sin, was raised bodily from the dead, and ascended to heaven?
At the time, didn’t HE take on our broken and alienated humanity and included the entire human race in his right relationship with the Father?
At the time, didn’t his regeneration of our humanity allow us to share in his son-ship, being adopted as God’s own children in the Power of the Spirit?
Today as our representative and substitute, doesn’t HE stand in for all humanity before the Father, providing the perfect human response to God on our behalf and reconciling humanity to the Father?
Will HE not come again in glory as King of kings and Lord of lords over all nations?
When I read scripture, I read how inclusive Jesus Christ’s life and message pertains to all humanity. How we respond though is what separates us from HIM, not HIM from us. He died for all, but not all have accepted HIS reality. Have you?
Rooting For You in Christ!
Dr. Mike
Encourager & Founder of
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