There Remains

For the LORD will vindicate His people, and will have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their strength is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.

All of history has seen the wrack and ruin of sin, death, and the devil upon fallen flesh. To Moses it was given to see from afar the vindication of God as carried out in Christ Jesus. Even Moses had to depend on this vindication. He witnessed it first hand in this life, inasmuch as it was Joshua, not Moses, who crossed over into the Promised Land first. Yes, even Moses was told how, by the real, historic, flesh of a Man [Joshua] the Promised Land would be obtained.

Real land. Real history. Real flesh and blood. These are the things God the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ deals with as He brings His people out of the bondage of sin, death, and the devil. He has a method of vindicating you that reaches down to the uttermost parts of the earth, calling you by name just as He did Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, all the Prophets, all the Apostles, all the Evangelists, all the people of Israel, all the characters both obscure and well-known of whom we read in Holy Scripture.

Vindication means pay back. It means justice. It means taking what is horribly wrong and making it right. When it comes from God the Father Almighty who created the heavens and the earth, it comes in a way that transforms all of creation down to its last molecule. It is the Creator of Heaven and earth Who vindicates; not some political power, not even the mightiest of kings who have ever lived, but the King of the Jews who was crucified for you, and now lives to vindicate you.

He takes what you’ve done with your own flesh, and applies it to Himself. He takes what the world uses to ridicule you, and allows it to be heaped upon Himself. He takes all the works of the devil, including sin and death, and totally, completely vindicates you by defeating them in the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

It has been revealed throughout the ages, over and over again, how your flesh is in a state of rebellion. You see the example of how the people of Israel, despite having God’s Word, ran off to worship other gods. God is jealous. He loves you too much to sit by and watch you chase after things, people, ideas, that lead away from Him. It is His highest priority and object to win you away from those things; to set Himself in your midst as a way for you to grab hold of the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

The message has been told in countless ways every day, every hour, and is even demonstrated in the fact that all of creation to this day still provides much good in this body and life. How much more is this told as we witness the innocent suffering and death; the resurrection, of the Holy Son of God? You struggle with your flesh, the world and the devil and ask yourself, “Who is going to get me out of this?” It is Your Vindicator! He’s done it! Just when all was lost. Just when it seemed as if there was no possibly way because the problem was too great.

So, there remains this Almighty Vindicator Who has joined Himself to you in baptism, and continues to feed you over and over again. This would not be so if your flesh were already glorified in the resurrection. For now it is not. There is some fear and trembling still to endure, but He is by your side, upon the plain, being Your Shield in Battle.