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Changes in political leadership will never solve the problem of corruption.
December 31, 2024 - In this series of News Updates, we have been examining the problem of corruption that is all around us in this present world. Mankind is corrupt by nature. He corrupts everything he touches.
Often people hope that changes in political leadership will solve the problem of corruption. There may be partial, temporary improvements. But they are just that - temporary. In the long term we are always disappointed. Corruption returns, and usually it is worse than before. Mankind continues in rebellion against the incorruptible God and His incorruptible Word, which declares, "Be holy, because I am holy."
What is the answer? It is not in the heart of man, which the Bible says is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." The answer is that the incorruptible God has provided the incorruptible Savior - God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
In First Timothy chapter 1 verse 17 we read that Jesus is "the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God," who alone is deserving of "honor and glory for ever and ever." The word that is translated "immortal" in that verse is the same word that is translated "incorruptible" in other places. Jesus Christ is "the King, eternal, incorruptible, invisible, God who alone is wise," to whom is due all the "honor and glory forever and ever."
Jesus Christ existed from all eternity, incorruptible. He came into this world in a human body and remained, incorruptible and not subject to compromise. He could not and He did not sin. And even when He died for our sins and was buried, His flesh did not see corruption. He rose again from the dead. Jesus is the incorruptible Savior.
First Peter chapter one tells us that
His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
In First Corinthians chapter 15 the Apostle Paul tells us that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
Dear friends, Jesus Christ has purchased the only escape from the corruption that we see all around us - and the corruption that we see, if we are honest, within ourselves. How did Jesus purchase the escape from corruption for us? He did it by paying the price of His own incorruptible blood.
Hold that thought - because that is where we will continue in our next update.
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