Why the Mission Matters !
God created us to be know Him, in perfect love, so we might bring heaven on earth. We sinned, forfeited the purpose, passion, privilege and power to accomplish our reason for being.
Christ's perfect love never failed. His perfect love will never fail. Therefore, He revealed Himself as Savior. He desired to forgive, with all His being. He rejoiced to pay the price for our redemption.
Christ was "pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5).
His rejection, brokenness and death bought us His freedom to love... bought us His eternal, divine acceptance, wholeness, righteousness, peace and joy... His righteous life.
We fellowship in His suffering, through the wine and bread of remembrance, the covenant of His holy blood and body, so that we might always consider His sacrificial covenant with us; an eternal contract to fulfill His promises, by which we are certain that in all things God works for the perfect good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose" (Roman 8:28).
God revealed His love in the broken wholeness of His divine humanity. His brokenness on the cross perfected His oneness with us through mortality. His wholeness in resurrection perfected His oneness with God through immortality, as a new creation.
He revealed His redemptive power in His broken wholeness mission as He hung on the cross, when He cried out with in unspeakable anguish:
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34).
How many times does He forgive?
Seventy times seven and more (Matthew 18:22).
Seven is the number of infinite, perfect completion. God purchased our eternal salvation by His blood, so we might become one with Him in infinite, perfect completion, divinely glorified.
He declared, "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you" (John 15:7). God's word is His will. If His word remains in us, His will remains us, so that we might pray, "not my will, but thy will be done" (Luke 22:42).
When we pray as Christ prayed during His travail, we will be one with God, who sacrificed Himself for our sins, so we might be transformed into His divine image.
Therefore, let us also rejoice in our wounds in this world, persevering by His grace, knowing He is able to work within us the perfect image of His divine Holy Spirit, if we abide to the end.
When he does, we will once again bring heaven to this earthly realm.