Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
05/19/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 241: Christ Bears Our Scars
Someday, Christ will have the legal right to go free, but instead He will bear our scars forever.
Our response in heaven will be everlasting gratitude and adoration. Rev.5:6, 9-13
His scars will remind us of the price He paid for us: the ransom price for our sins.
On the road to Emmaus, Luke 24:30-31,39, 2 disciples recognized Jesus when he broke bread and stretched out His arms to them. They saw His wrists.
Thomas saw His wrists. So did John, Matthew & Peter. They all did. John 20:27 Christ’s scars will also be how we recognize Him.
1 Pet.1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory
If this is our joy today, our joy will be unimaginable when we see Him face to face. But even beyond our joy when Christ returns, there is more, much more.
Our greatest joy is yet to come: We will worship our Christ, our Messiah – forever.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
