Study Desk

Thanks to God that the answer is Jesus Christ. In summary, I want to follow God's code, but because of my human nature I am a slave to sin.

No one could follow the code of Moses. The Code couldn't save us because we are sinners by nature and unable to follow the Code no matter how hard we try. God did for us what the Code could not. He sent his son to live a perfect life for us and then be sacrificed as the last and final sin offering.

Our sinful nature is an enemy of God.

An enemy of God can never please him.

But that can't be you. You are not controlled by sin any longer. You are controlled by the Spirit of God. Those who are not controlled by the Spirit of Christ do not ride for him.

When you ride for Jesus, your body will die, but your spirit will live because you've been made right with God.

Those who ride for God are children of God.

Everything on earth burns with anticipation when God will open the book and read the names written in it.

God has a tight rein on all of creation as everything waits for that hopeful day.

We who ride for God also suffer in pain as we wait for the future glory that is to come. We wait to be freed from sin and suffering.

We long to be given our inheritance as children of God. We will have new bodies and a new life free of pain and suffering. Those who ride for him hold onto this hope since it was given to us when we saddled up for him. We need this hope because we don't have what God promised us yet.

We may not understand it, but God does, and he likes it.

We have no doubt God will take the reins and lead all us cowboys and cowgirls who have answered his call to green pastures.

God knows who will ride for him. He chose them to ride for his Son and become like him. Jesus would be the firstborn of God's line of kids.

Since he chose them, he calls them by name to come to him. When they answer, he made them right with himself. Since they have been made right with God, he gave them his glory.

So, what can we say about all of this good news? If God rides with us, who do we need to fear?

If God were willing to give his son as a sacrifice for you, do you think he would hold other things from us?

Jesus died for us and will raise us to life. He sits at the right hand of God pleading for us.

I'm plumb certain that neither livin' nor dyin', neither the angels from heaven nor the boogers from brush, neither the right now's nor the will be's, nor any force on earth or heaven can get in the way of God lovin' us.

There ain't no fence, no gate, nor any mountain or problem that will be able to keep us from the love of God that is found in his only Son.