April 12th 2026
You Are A Special Creation, There Is No One Else In This World Exactly Like You!
Ephesians 1:7-8 (NIV)
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
God knows how we think, as He created us as we are. Many people do not believe this as they have been misled to believe we came about through some cosmic accidents over billions of years. If we are just the highest animal in the food chain, then we are not a special creation of an all-knowing God. God gave us our Bible to explain this wonderful account of how everything we see in this world came about, and when Adam committed that first or original sin to bring on the curse from God. God knew we need a Savior, as we cannot be good enough to save our immortal soul, as we inherited a sinful nature from Adam’s sin.
So, God sent His Son into this world to supply the perfect sacrifice God required to allow God to offer a salvation plan that humans could understand and thus come to believe. When Jesus shed His blood and died on that cross for you, God then opened the Way to heaven for anyone who believed this plan and became a follower of His Son! Thus, as the selected verses state, “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.”
One triune God offered this one plan by which all of mankind can believe and therefore be placed on the narrow path that leads them to heaven, when they die and leave this temporary cursed world.
This is God’s will for mankind to come to believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and to seek to understand how Jesus conducted Himself as a human being living in this cursed world.
Paul wrote about this to the church in Rome and for us. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2). You are to be,” transformed by the renewing of your mind.” So, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Jesus came into this cursed world to transform us to obey God’s commands. We now see some churches instead of believing and teaching their members to be transformed to follow God’s commands, they are instead teaching their members to conform to the acceptable lifestyles that this cursed world approves, instead of believing and teaching what God’s Word plainly teaches! Loving people and accepting the lifestyle they choose is not what true followers of Jesus Christ are expected to teach.
Acceptance of salvation through God grace must cause a change in your thinking about this world we live in. As Paul has written we are to be born again by believing in Jesus Christ and changed to now perceive earthly situations as Jesus did when He lived here. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20). Have you been crucified with Christ? Do you now seek to follow Jesus Christ in this world, and to seek to do what Jesus would in this world.
Are you trying to live in this world as Jesus did, and thus becoming His follower seeking to be open to changing our receptive nature to sin? We are expected to be working on becoming more Christ-like every day. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:10).
Matthew recorded for us how Jesus told His earthly disciples what God’s salvation plan and for His fulfillment of that plan. Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!” (Matthew 20: 17-19). As we can see Jesus knew exactly how He was to become that perfect sacrifice needed to allow forgiveness of all of man’s sins.
Last Sunday we celebrated Jesus resurrection from the dead, and then on a Sunday Jesus arose from the dead and came back into this cursed world to prove He arose. Of course, many people today believe this story and have become avid followers of Jesus Christ. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2).
I believe that Jesus Christ is the creator of everything we see, and continues to sustain this universe, there was no accidental processes that resulted in you being here today. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. (Hebrews 1:3). Living on this earth as the Son of Man He gave us a pattern to follow as we live in this cursed world. Your immortal soul was created by God and made in His image and likeness, you are a special creation, there is no one else in this world exactly like you! You are a special creation, and when your soul meets Jesus Christ, you will look like Him!
In this cursed world ask only, “What Would Jesus Do!” Are you trying to always know the answer to this question?
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak
Ephesians 1:7-8 (NIV)
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
God knows how we think, as He created us as we are. Many people do not believe this as they have been misled to believe we came about through some cosmic accidents over billions of years. If we are just the highest animal in the food chain, then we are not a special creation of an all-knowing God. God gave us our Bible to explain this wonderful account of how everything we see in this world came about, and when Adam committed that first or original sin to bring on the curse from God. God knew we need a Savior, as we cannot be good enough to save our immortal soul, as we inherited a sinful nature from Adam’s sin.
So, God sent His Son into this world to supply the perfect sacrifice God required to allow God to offer a salvation plan that humans could understand and thus come to believe. When Jesus shed His blood and died on that cross for you, God then opened the Way to heaven for anyone who believed this plan and became a follower of His Son! Thus, as the selected verses state, “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.”
One triune God offered this one plan by which all of mankind can believe and therefore be placed on the narrow path that leads them to heaven, when they die and leave this temporary cursed world.
This is God’s will for mankind to come to believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and to seek to understand how Jesus conducted Himself as a human being living in this cursed world.
Paul wrote about this to the church in Rome and for us. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2). You are to be,” transformed by the renewing of your mind.” So, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Jesus came into this cursed world to transform us to obey God’s commands. We now see some churches instead of believing and teaching their members to be transformed to follow God’s commands, they are instead teaching their members to conform to the acceptable lifestyles that this cursed world approves, instead of believing and teaching what God’s Word plainly teaches! Loving people and accepting the lifestyle they choose is not what true followers of Jesus Christ are expected to teach.
Acceptance of salvation through God grace must cause a change in your thinking about this world we live in. As Paul has written we are to be born again by believing in Jesus Christ and changed to now perceive earthly situations as Jesus did when He lived here. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20). Have you been crucified with Christ? Do you now seek to follow Jesus Christ in this world, and to seek to do what Jesus would in this world.
Are you trying to live in this world as Jesus did, and thus becoming His follower seeking to be open to changing our receptive nature to sin? We are expected to be working on becoming more Christ-like every day. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:10).
Matthew recorded for us how Jesus told His earthly disciples what God’s salvation plan and for His fulfillment of that plan. Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!” (Matthew 20: 17-19). As we can see Jesus knew exactly how He was to become that perfect sacrifice needed to allow forgiveness of all of man’s sins.
Last Sunday we celebrated Jesus resurrection from the dead, and then on a Sunday Jesus arose from the dead and came back into this cursed world to prove He arose. Of course, many people today believe this story and have become avid followers of Jesus Christ. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2).
I believe that Jesus Christ is the creator of everything we see, and continues to sustain this universe, there was no accidental processes that resulted in you being here today. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. (Hebrews 1:3). Living on this earth as the Son of Man He gave us a pattern to follow as we live in this cursed world. Your immortal soul was created by God and made in His image and likeness, you are a special creation, there is no one else in this world exactly like you! You are a special creation, and when your soul meets Jesus Christ, you will look like Him!
In this cursed world ask only, “What Would Jesus Do!” Are you trying to always know the answer to this question?
Your brother in life through Adam, your brother in eternity through Jesus,
Bob Moak