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6/8 Reading Portions: Deuteronomy 12; Psalms 97-98; Isaiah 40; Revelation 10
“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.” Deuteronomy 12:32
IMPECCABLE
Each time the Holy Spirit reveals our exalted Lord in the pages of Scripture, we are humbled by His excellence; and this also provokes in us repentance because of our imperfections. Yet at the same time, we must also rejoice with joy unspeakable because it was Jesus Christ’s care and perfect obedience to every command of the heavenly Father that made His willing, substitutionary sacrifice the most glorious deed and supreme work the universe will ever know.
We could not keep everything God commanded us in thought, word, and deed because we cannot keep any command God has given us with Christ’s true perfection. The best of our prayers and worship to God contain enough corruptions in our mortal, yet-to-be-glorified bodies that we still require all of God’s grace in everything we think, say, and do. This doesn’t mean we are free to do any silly thing we like; or as the apostle Paul puts it…
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:1-2
Christ’s life was so thoroughly perfect and His work at the cross was so supremely impeccable that it reached back to cleanse all those who, by faith, waited upon the promise of God for the precious Messiah to arrive. Now, since Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension, His work of the cross reaches forward to all those who believed in days past, who believe today, and who will believe until Jesus comes again. So powerful was Christ’s impeccable work at the cross that anyone who does sin, ignorantly, accidentally, or in a moment of fleshly weakness, has an almighty Advocate with the Father, “Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 Jn 2:1). Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Christ Jesus kept all God’s commands,
He falter’d not one step;
His perfect work through nail-pierc’d hands
Paid all our sinful debt.
