Higher Standard

By God's perfect standard of Love, there isn't anyone past, present, or future, who satisfies the standard God has for humans except Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, being God Himself, perfectly satisfies the design of God for mankind. Trying to satisfy the design of God for mankind by any other means would put us in direct competition with The Man, Christ Jesus. To choose ourselves over Him is to choose the Law over Grace. Scripture confirmed "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." For any man or woman to choose a life of qualifying themselves in life, entitling themselves to honor, glory, or power, is to be tasked with the burden of perfectly accomplishing the law of God, which is to be God Himself. 

 

Because everyone except God Himself equally fails at being God, the people embraced "gods" who were distorted versions of themselves, which are versions of themselves being given the honor, glory, and power not due them but meant only for Christ. Now other people, seeing this honor and glory on someone other than God, feel pressured to accept this person instead of God as a source of inspiration for their own honor or glory. Because the honor or glory is skin deep, they end up carbon-copies of counterfeits, which would never satisfy the heart. Therefore, Jesus, goes one on one with the idols of the carbon-copies, exposing the counterfeits, taking everyone that claims to be worthy of the honor, glory, and power due God (whether a mother, a woman, a man, a father, a president, etc) and proving them equally insufficient before the written law of God by embracing Jesus Christ. By embracing the fulfiller of the written law of God, we're qualified to receive the benefits of one who fulfills the written law of God! These benefits are huge.

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