Today, we are looking at diagram 6, called Breaking the Line. We began the coference with a look at the Ultimate Coach shown in the triangle, and saw how our relationships are at best limited because of our prejudices, biases, agendas and distractions that we bring into every relationship. We lack trust, compassion, love and loyalty.
Then we looked at the circle diagram and realized how we operate in the world outside the will of God. We inflate ourselves with the things of this world trying to meet our divine needs of love, security, acceptance, worth/value, and affirmation. We repeat these things but always want more because they never satisfy us. They are unable to ever satisfy us. We experience deflation which can lead to depression and other things all of which can lead us to death. We are continuously seeking to meet our needs through the world but always come up short because the world is insufficient to meet divine needs. We are lost.
Then we looked at the pitch demonstrated with a rectangle, and we talked about living life “below the line”, and how the line represents the law we created of our own sin and flesh. We are in prison, trapped with no way of escape.
How is this line of law broken? Jesus is the ONLY way out of living below the line. You see God is perfect justice. There must be punishment for your crime – you are guilty of sin. Jesus was and is the only PERFECT sacrifice that saved the entire world (John 3:16). Jesus‘ death and resurrection broke through the line and opened the way for you to receive Him, and to experience the true life above the line that God designed for you and for me. John 17:3 says, “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” God loves you beyond our ability to comprehend, so much that He sent His only son to die for YOU, to take on all your sin, so that you would be reunited with Him who is perfectly holy, perfectly rigthteousness and perfectly faithful. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For our sake, He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him, we might become the righteousness of God." Jesus died with our sin so that it satisfied God’s just requirement while also providing the extreme Grace of reconciliation between us and God. We as believers have so much to be thankful for. All we had to do was believe. Jesus did all the hard work in obedience to God’s plan.
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