LUTHERMUIR GOSPEL HALL

WHAT SHOCKING DISCOVERIES some of the participants in the T.V. programme, “Who Do You Think You Are”, have made when they delved into their ancestral past; what “skeletons in the cupboard” were discovered!

 

The Bible can take you back along the ancestral road further than any genealogist - right back to your most remote ancestor, and he was not a frog or a monkey!  His name was Adam, the first man, made in the image and likeness of God; a perfect specimen, as was his wife, Eve.  We all come from the same parents - we are all of one blood, as the Bible says, God “has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” Acts 17:26; and again “For we are also His offspring” Acts 17:28.  So, that knocks racism on the head!

 

What or who then is the “skeleton in the cupboard?”  Simply, Adam is, for he willfully rebelled against His Maker - he disobeyed and therefore “sin entered into the world and death by sin.” Romans 5:12. Adam’s transgression had consequences for us all, for we inherit the same sinful nature which he had. “Who do you think you are?”  God says, “a sinner!”  “For there is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23.  The first man, Adam, head of the human race, brought in sin and death, but there is a second Man - a Man of another order - a sinless, perfect Man - the virgin born Son of God, Jesus Christ.  By His death and resurrection, He has become the Head of a new race, those who are born of God, believers on the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Word of God says, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things have passed away; behold all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17.

 

It does not really matter who you are or what you have done, God, in love, is reaching out to you, ready to forgive and welcome you into His family.

 

Receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord and you will be forgiven, born of God, a new creation in Christ.