"Our God is Greater" -3

"And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD." (Psalms 40:3) In case I forgot to mention this, we are already lifted up into the highest heaven; that is the greatest part of this magnificent story, God has already performed all He needed to do for our salvation, therefore it has been finished; which is what Jesus said just before He died on the cross. Don't you think we need to start walking in the victory that has already been won? We seem to struggle from day to day dealing with defeat, when defeat is something that has already been taken care of at the cross. Every since man was created, man has been defeated by sin and death; but God put an end to that by sending His Son to set things straight, and to give us the victory over sin, by taking sin out of the picture altogether. What an amazing God we serve, that the thing which caused man to fall, could actually be the thing that brings him to be delivered. In showing this fact in another light, we could see the illustration of the "Serpent lifted up in the wilderness"; how that it was God's judgement on sin that brought the serpents into the camp to bite the rebellious children of Israel in the first place; the same thing that was inflecting them was also that which would save them, if they would only look upon it and believe. It was sin that had inflicted man from the beginning, and it was sin that was placed upon Jesus Christ as He hung upon the cross; He became sin for us, that we should be delivered from the bondage and the affliction of sin for ever. It is also rather interesting that God should use a serpent as a sign of His judgement and His redemption; after all, if your going to deal with an issue such as sin, then you might as well "crush it's head" while you are at it... "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:1-5)