50 Days of Wisdom

The first section of Romans 3 says that the need of every sinner has been satisfied because the righteousness of God is made available to the sinner through faith and that righteousness has been made available to every sinner because of the sacrifice of Christ. When Christ died on the cross, He paid the ransom for all sinners who believe in what He did. But who was it that received the ransom? Was it Satan? No, the ransom was paid to God. Why? Because God is the Judge. God has been offended. God's Law has been violated. Therefore, the sinner's culpability is related to God. God's justice has to be satisfied, and Christ offers the sacrifice that satisfies the justice of God. Thus, the sinner's need is satisfied in the sacrifice of Christ, which becomes the redemption price or the ransom price paid to God so that His justice is satisfied and the righteousness of God can come down from heaven to the sinner. So, the sinner's need is satisfied by the fact that Christ died for sinners. But Christ also died for God. Ultimately, salvation is for the glory of God, the honor of God, and the exaltation of God. The reason for salvation is not primarily for your benefit; it's for the glory of God. We are a means to an end. We are not the end. God does not save sinners because they're so lovable. God isn't overwhelmed with unconditional love for wretched sinners. He's overwhelmed with His own glory, and He has found in His saving of sinners a means to His eternal glory before the holy angels and before all the redeemed. The whole purpose of salvation is to accrue to the glory of God. And the Father, in an expression of love to the Son, determined that He would create a world, that He would allow that world to fall into sin, that He would recover from that world a redeemed humanity, and that He would give that redeemed humanity as a bride to His Son so that that redeemed humanity forever and ever could glorify His Son. And after that, according to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, the Son will then take the redeemed humanity along with Himself and give Himself and the redeemed humanity back to the Father in a reciprocal act of love. You are, in some sense, an incidental part of a great act of love that is within the Trinity. Everything is to the glory of God; absolutely everything ultimately redounds to the glory of God. Everything resolves into the final major chord of glory to God. So, in a general sense, the whole purpose of salvation is for the glory of God. The whole redemptive plan is about divine glory. That means, every person who is ever converted is a love gift from the Father to the Son. And Jesus says in John 6 that it's eternal: "All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me, and I will lose none of them." Your salvation cannot be lost. Why? Because the Father chooses, the Father gives, the Son receives, the Son keeps, and the Son raises. And the glorified humanity then becomes the eternal hallelujah chorus that offers praise to God forever and ever and ever. We will be forever lost in wonder, love, and praise. David Brainerd, the great missionary to the American Indians, wrote, "I do not go to heaven to be advanced, but to give glory to God. It is no matter where I shall be stationed in heaven; it is no matter whether I have a higher or lower seat there, only to live and please and glorify God. My heaven is to please God, glorify Him, and be wholly devoted to His glory forever." And when Brainerd died, he realized the fulfillment of that. The eternal purpose of salvation is to make us capable of glorifying God forever and ever. Therefore, the sacrifice of Christ not only satisfies the sinner's need, but it also satisfies God's glory. Repent and believe! GTY.org (TM11-3) – The Gospel Satisfies God's Demands

Today's Wisdom

Day: 999

August 13, 2026

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