Orange Moon Tuesday, October 20, 2026 "Divinity. Humanity."

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

    

“Divinity.  Humanity”

     Because the Lord Jesus Christ was “crucified through weakness,” born again believers “shall live with Him by the power of God” (II Corinthians 13:4).

    First, how does a divine Being experience weakness?  The Apostle Paul answers…

    “Great is the mystery of godliness.  God was manifest in the flesh” (I Timothy 3:16).

    The Lord Jesus took upon Himself our humanity in order to identify with us, which ultimately led to His experience of a sacrificial death that would have been impossible had He not first fulfilled a sacrificial deference.  Our Savior had to become a man in order to die for us.  What would so great a “mystery of godliness” involve in the infinite being of One who had forever existed without limitation?  We will never know.  We can only realize He knew the sacrifice to the ultimate extreme, suffering the wrath of God against sin and the wrath of man against righteousness in an agony only possible because He became as one of us.  “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us” declared the Apostle John, who could have also added, “and died among us” (John 1:14).

   Because of so great a sacrifice of both being and dying, believers take upon ourselves the presence of divinity in the new birth, making possible our being “partakers of the divine nature” (II Peter 1:4).  We do not become God, but we do bear His presence within our spirits.  Thereby, we may live far beyond our human means.  We must, if we are to requite the price that made possible the power to walk in faith and faithfulness.  Yes, to the degree the Lord Jesus became human and “died in weakness,” Christians can and must avail ourselves to His divine presence whereby we live as “strong in the Lord and in the power of His might” (Ephesians 6:10).

   Our Lord became weak, that we might become strong.  Every act of our walk in faith and obedience is made possible by the feet - the human feet - of our Savior having been stilled by nails on the cross of Calvary.  We do well to think often of “so great salvation,” made possible and actual by so great sacrifice (Hebrews 12:3).  Our spirits teem with the power of God because the Lord Jesus experienced something that would seem to be impossible for a divine Being: “crucified through weakness.”  Great indeed is the mystery, and in this day and in our hearts, great is the power whereby His divinity empowers our humanity.

“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end, Amen.”

(Ephesians 3:20-21)

Weekly Memory Verse

    We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

(II Corinthians 4:7)

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Orange Moon Monday, October 19, 2026 "Witnesses of His Resurrection"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

    

“Witnesses of His Resurrection”

     In choosing who would take Judas’ place after his betrayal of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Apostle Peter describes a calling that applies to all born again believers:

    “Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that He was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of His resurrection” (Acts 1:22).

    We all share in the privileged responsibility of bearing witness and testimony that the Lord Jesus is risen from the dead.  We do so by our words, and also do so by the life we live, availing ourselves of the power that raised our Savior from the dead, that raised us from spiritual death when we believed, and that raises us up to a life infinitely beyond our natural abilities.

    “And you hath He quickened (enlivened) who were dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1).

    “If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.  But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you” (Romans 8:11).

    The Christian life involves a life of resurrection no less than our Lord’s own rising from the dead.  We bear no natural ability for even the smallest act of obedience to God.  We rather bear supernatural abilities that empower our faithfulness as we trust God to enliven our human capacities by Divine presence and enabling.  “Without Me, ye can do nothing… “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (John 15:5; Philippians 4:13).  Be it the most seemingly insignificant act of obedience unto martyrdom itself, believers require the risen Christ to lead, motivate, and enable all faithfulness to God.  This He does as we trust and submit to Him in the expectation that our lives can serve as the vibrant scene of His risen life. 

   The spirits of born again believers in the Lord Jesus teem with His Life beyond life.  Thereby the Holy Spirit enlivens our minds, faculties, and bodies to live far beyond our human agencies that bear no ability for even the first step of a life that meets God’s standards.  “Without Me… nothing… “All things though Christ.”  Our Lord lives in us, that we may live through Him.  We serve as “witnesses of His resurrection” as we walk with God by the Life that came forth from the tomb long ago, and that comes forth from us as we trust God to enable the faculties of our humanity by the presence of His divinity.  No other means exists whereby believers walk with God.  None other is required.

“We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”

(II Corinthians 4:7)

“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.  Amen.”

(Ephesians 3:20-21)

Weekly Memory Verse

    We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

(II Corinthians 4:7)

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