For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus
3:3-7
Utmost” is the
greatest description of great...it is the greatest to the most extreme extent...to the highest degree. Jesus is God’s utmost gift to mankind, or you can say, Jesus is God, and He gave His utmost.
BEST
POSSIBLE GIFT
He is the BEST POSSIBLE GIFT which includes the RICHEST POSSIBLE
MERCY at the HIGHEST POSSBLE PRICE
and brings the LARGEST POSSIBLE
BLESSLING to the GREATEST POSSIBLE
NUMBER for the LONGEST POSSIBLE TIME by the EASIEST POSSIBLE METHOD.
RICHEST
POSSIBLE MERCY
His mercy is a product
of His Grace!
Undeserving sinners is what we
are. Grace produced mercy for the undeserving. The scriptures say “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to
everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;” Ps 103:17
Undeniably separated. No man can reach God except through Jesus Christ. That is an undeniable truth.The Bible shows us that apart from His mercy that we are separated from God.
truth. Eternally separated from God by our sin.
Our righteousness is woefully inadequate.
Unbelievably stricken! “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” 2 Cor. 9:8
For our sakes He forsook
heaven and took upon Himself the form of a man, He bare our sins in His Body.
Unparalleled salvation. Nothing even close to what God’s rich mercy and grace
has provided for us in Christ.
HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRICE
God’s ONLY SON took our awful sin. His
best for our worst. Think about the most despicable sin you ever committed. Think, just momentarily how ugly and how low you
felt before receiving His forgiveness.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the
righteousness of God in HimI 2 Cor. 5:21
Jesus who knew NO sin
became the sin sacrifice for us that we might obtain His righteousness...without which no man will see God.
Our Holy God demanded
a just sacrifice. “For Christ
also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit:” I Peter 3:18
Look what is included
in the price He paid...
A Substitute 1 Peter 2:24 "Who
his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed.”
A Volunteer “No
one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command
I have received from My Father.” John
10:18
A Redeemer “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming
a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
Galatians
3:13
He purchased us by the work of the cross. His
utmost provided a Redeemer. Thru His death, burial and resurrection He also became...
A
Reconciler “And
you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh
through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight”
Col.
1:21,22
God paid the Highest Possible Price for us!
A Justifier Jesus brought us justification…”whom
God set forth as a propitiation by His blood,
through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously
committed,” Romans 3:25
The highest possible price. He gave me His Best
when I was at my worst!
LARGEST
POSSIBLE BLESSING
a. Eternal life guaranteed Heb. 6:13-16
b. Eternal Presence a Surety
II Cor 5:5
c. Eternal Righteousness
Attained 1 John 2:1
d. Eternal dominion realized
Eph 2:6-7
GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER
LONGEST
POSSIBLE TIME
EASIEST POSSIBLE METHOD
John 3:16, 17 "For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send
His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved".
Just for Jesus,
Don
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