THE LORD’S TIMING OF OUR SALVATION

The Bible says: “Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes” (Ephesians 1:4). “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” (John 3:16).

OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD AT GOD’S SET TIME.

The biblical word of God tells us: “the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel” (Isiah 7:14) “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”(Isiah 9:6).

God knew when conditions of the world was favorable for the coming of the promised Savior: God had made it known by the law that people needed a better atonement for sin (Hebrews 9:11-15). Alexander the Great had made it feasible for much of the world to communicate with one another by making Greek an almost universal language. Rome, by its widespread roads, had made it possible to traveling and communication the good news of God’s promised Savior to much of the world.  

“Therefore, when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, ⁵ to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons” (Galatians 4:4-5; Matthew 1:20-22).). 

And “know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. (Galatians 2:16).

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.^a 2For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. (Romans 8:3-4).

JESUS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE ON A CROSS FOR THE SINS OF MANKIND AT GOD’S CHOSEN TIME. 

Pilate, a Roman authority, told Jesus: “Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?” 11Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin” (John 19:10-11).

“No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.” (John 19:17-18).

“Though [Jesus] was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,^[b] 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,^[c] being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ⁹ Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:6-11).

JESUS WAS RESURRECTED ACCORDING TO THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD.

After Jesus was crucified and resurrected, Then he said to his disciples: “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶ and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, ⁴⁷ and that repentance for^[a] the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things” (Luke 24:44-48),

GOD HAS APPOINTED A TIME TO SAVE AND RESURRECT US THROUGH HIS SON.

The biblical word of God says: “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthian 6:2).

“Just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, 28so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him” (Hebrews 9:27-28).