What Are You Looking For In Jesus?
Written by Sparky Pritchard Friday, 22 January 2010 16:18
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I read this recently in the magazine, Revive, published by Life Actions Ministries. It offers us a unique perspective of what Jesus provides.
Jesus is the true and better Adam who passed the test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us.
Jesus is the true and better Abel who, though innocently slain, has blood that cries out, not for our condemnation but for acquittal.
Jesus is the true and better Abraham who answered the call of God to leave all the comfortable and familiar and go out into the void to create a new people of God.
Jesus is the true and better Isaac who was not just offered up by His Father on the mount, but was truly sacrificed for us.
Jesus is the true and better Joseph who, at the right hand of the King, forgives those who betrayed and sold Him, and uses His new power to save them.
Jesus is the true and better Moses who stands in the gap between the people and God, and who mediates a new covenant.
Jesus is the true and better Rock of Moses who, struck with the rod of God’s justice, now gives us water in the desert.
Jesus is the true and better Job, the truly innocent sufferer, who then intercedes for and saves His foolish friends.
Jesus is the true and better David whose victory becomes His people’s victory, though they never lifted a stone to accomplish it themselves.
Jesus is the true and better Esther who left His ultimate and heavenly palace, and who didn’t just risk His life but gave it to save His people.
Jesus is the true and better Jonah who was cast out into the storm so that we could be brought in.
Jesus is the real Passover Lamb, innocent, perfect, helpless, slain so the angel of death will pass over us.
Jesus is the true temple, the true prophet, the true priest, the true king, the true sacrifice, the true lamb, the true light, the true bread. (Revive, Winter 2010, Volume 40, Issue 4)
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