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Show When you buy a used car marked "as is" it usually mans the seller will take no , responsibility, will make no warranty, will make no repairs. It means buyer beware. Check out the tires, the brakes, the struts, the paint, and yes, the engine. It means do not spend all your money on the purchase. You will likely need some for repairs. When you see a house for sale listed "As is', the seller is ready to leave. He is unwilling to invest any more in the place. It is likely a fixer-up. The buyer should inspect the roof, the pipes and the foundation like nothing else. In both cases, "As Is" the equivalent unable or 1 saying, "Look out! problems. Significant may be required." to There may be further investment Well, God knows the full story about us and still sent His Only Begotten Son to purchase us "As Is." He knows us from the start, inside and out. He made us and knows what we have become along the way. He paid the premium price to get us. The prophet Isaiah said, HAnd they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." (Isaiah 58: 12) For when God is done with us, we can claim, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what 2 we shall be: but we know that when he shall shall be like him; for we shall he is. (1 John 3: 2) Only the appear, we see as him " Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of worthy and able to open the sealed book. Only He can rescue and David" is save us. are He alone is able to take and make ought to be. us as we what He wants, what we "For you were slain, and us have redeemed us God to of every by Your blood tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on out the earth. " hymn write (Revelation 9-10) The "Jesus paid it all, 5: it up, All to Him lowe. Sin had left stain, sums He washed it white Jesus will take the old the new. as a snow." man and make He knows what He is 3 crimson purchasing with His own blood. He buys are-faults, warts, defects, shortcomings, needing repairs, requiring remodeling. He took Eve, a rib out of Adam, and us as we made her the mother of the whole world. He took Abram and made him Abraham, the father of the faithful. He took Sarai in her old age, passed the child bearing years and gave her a son named Isaac. He took him Israel. He took Jacob, the trickster, and made a ruddy boy, smooth stones and giant. cause He robe Jesus in gave him five him to slay a flesh, sent him to dwell among us, and made Him the Savior of the world. Praise God for 4 one who is not a respecter of persons, who loves all of us, and who will make new us creatures. He found Saul carrying his chains and warrants and made him Saul the church planter. great He will take you and me just as we are and make us to be His children. 5 |
