Divine Intervention

(Isaiah 25:1 KJV) O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

Is God intervening today?

The Divine intervention this study is referring to is  that of supernatural, identifiable intervention, such as the parting of the Red Sea, the flood of Noah's time. The intervention that study is going to be is that in which God enters into the stage of human history and the alters the the affairs of man. The result is a change in how we view God and how we serve Him.

With Moses, God entered into the affairs of man and forever altered how man views God, who He is and how He functions. With the Apostle Paul, God entered into the stage of human history and the details God gave to Paul has altered how we are to live our lives now in this dispensation of grace.

The divine intervention this study will be when God enters into the stage of human history and does something which alter the affairs of man, how we serve God and how we view Him.

In the verse in Isaiah 25:1, it ends with "thy counsels are faithfulness and truth." Two of the characteristics of God are faithfulness and truth. This means that whatever God says is true. God will always be faithful to what He has said, the truth.

If God has said He will do something then He will do it. Hence, if God did not say He would do something then we need to be careful not to say He did it if there is no record of Him saying that He would do whatever happened. If an event happens that is unexplainable, we need to be careful not to say that God did, especially if it is not in His Word that He would do such a thing.

God is faithful to the truth that He has revealed. Faithfulness is always doing what you say you will do and never going beyond that. Don't say God did something He has not revealed in His Word.

The question asked in this study is, "To what extent is God reaching down today in the stage of human history and altering the affairs of man in the dispensation of grace?" Or rather, should it be, "Is God reaching down in the stage of human history and altering the affairs of man in this dispensation of grace?"

If you say He is, then you will need to find a verse that says He is altering the affairs of man today?

What is that you want (or need) God to do?

God has already intervened, He has intervened two times already in the past and He will intervene one more time.

1.God has placed us in Christ

First of all, God has intervened in your life at the moment of your salvation.

Baptism

(1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

This baptism is an identification process that changes how we view God and how God views us. God took us out of Adam and placed us in Christ. It changes our identity. What an intervention!

It takes an instance of time to get saved and the rest of our lives to figure out what happened to us at that moment.

(Romans 6:3-6 KJV) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? {4} Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. {5} For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: {6} Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Paul begins to introduce to us the truth of our identification in Christ; we are baptized in His death, burial and resurrection so that all that we were in Adam, in sin died on the cross with Him. The life we now have is who we have been made in Christ. Because of God's intervention we have the opportunity to change who we are.

We are all sinners and in that sin there is no remedy except death. But if one dies then that one is no longer around. Through God's intervention, He has provided a way for us to die yet live.

Crucified with Christ

(Galatians 2:20 KJV) I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

We are crucified with Christ and the life we now live is the live of Christ.

(Romans 8:31-39 KJV) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? {32} He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? {33} Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. {34} Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. {35} Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? {36} As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. {37} Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. {38} For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, {39} Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What shall we say to these things? All the things Paul just wrote about, our identification with Christ, what can we conclude then. If God did all that for us, who can be against us?

God views us in Christ so completely that it is the same to say if we fail then Christ has failed. Our identity with Christ is so connected that we cannot be separated.

(Ephesians 2:11-22 KJV) Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; {12} That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: {13} But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. {14} For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; {15} Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; {16} And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: {17} And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. {18} For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. {19} Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; {20} And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; {21} In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: {22} In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Who were we in times past? We were without Christ, aliens, having no hope and without God in the world. In verse 13, Paul talks about a dispensational changed, BUT NOW... Verse 19, Paul starts to tell about who we are in Christ, a place of habitation for God. In this dispensation of grace God is making a temple for Himself to dwell in the land, that   temple is us who believe. We are where God inhabits today, where God dwells.

Talk about a change:

In verse 12, we see that we were without God in the world; then in verse 2, we see that are the habitation of God. That is the divine intervention of God today.