Jesus Christ, Space Invader Series

The Law of God or the Ten Commandments is the moral law of God telling us what is right and what is wrong.

And just in case you don’t know the Ten Commandments, God lets us know in the Bible that He has already written His law on your heart (Romans 2:15). Nobody had to tell you that stealing was wrong—you just “feel” that it is wrong, especially when someone steals from you. No one will be able to stand before God at His judgement throne and tell Him they didn’t know.

The Law is a constant reminder to us that we are sinners. Idolizing people and possessions is sin. Dissing our parents is sin. Having sex outside of marriage is sin. Stealing is sin. Wanting what belongs to another is sin. Murdering someone in our thoughts or in real life is sin. Lying is a sin.

Because we have disobeyed God’s laws we place ourselves under His wrath and His judgment.

But Jesus comes to the rescue and invades our time and out space in order to redeem from the law.

How did He do this? Just like a murdered has to go the execution chamber for committing the crime, we are guilty and under the judgment of God because of our sin.

Jesus comes into the courtroom as it were and gives His life in exchange for our sentence and is executed in our place. This is what His death on the Cross was all about. The Bible says that “God made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be made a sin offering for us, that we might be made righteous in Him.”

Jesus died for our sins, according to the Scriptures (1 Cor. 15:1-3) but he didn’t stay dead for the proof that God accepted His sacrifice for our sins was that He raised Jesus from the dead.

This is why we are celebrating today the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Because He lives; we live!

Galatians 4:4-5 says, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law…”

But it doesn’t stop there. It goes on to say, “that we might receive the adoption as sons.”

God doesn't just set us free from the prison of sin and releases us out to the street to fend for ourselves.

Many of us have heard of how prisoners do their time and are then released into society. The judge grants their freedom, the warden givens them a suit of clothes and a few dollars to get them started and what starts out as celebration turns into dread and fear and eventually (for many) re-incarceration.

In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, there is a scene where a prisoner who’s been in jail since he was a teenager is released after spending 50 or 60 years in prison. He tries desperately to make it on his own on the outsider by working odd jobs. Though he succeeds in providing for his own needs, life outside the "big house" is not the same. One night he carves his name on the wooden beam in the ceiling of the pre-release apartment where he lived and then hangs himself.

God wants us to know from this passage of Scripture that He doesn't deliver us from the bondage of sin just to set us out on the streets. Paul tells us in verse five of our text that God redeems us from the bondage of sin and then adopts us as His sons.