And the LORD said to Satan, "I, the LORD, reject your accusations,
Satan. Yes, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you. This man is
like a burning stick that has been snatched from the fire." Zechariah 3:2
The
Lord's rebuke paralyses hostile powers that seek to hurt His people.
When you, as a child of God, rebuke the devil in the name of Jesus, it
is just as if the Lord Himself did so.
Satan's
accusation may have been well founded, but it sprang from malice, and
was directed against the people whom God has received on the basis of
the meritorious work of His Son, therefore it was rejected and rendered
untenable in the court of divine Justice.
God's
elect will not to be abandoned to the consequences of her sins forgiven
because of the sacrificial death of Jesus, nor will God's gracious
purposes towards her to be frustrated. "God hath not cast away his
people, which he foreknew;" and, "Who shall lay anything to the charge
of God's elect?" (Romans 8:33; Romans 11:2, 29).
We are a people plucked out of the fire of God's judgment through Jesus Christ not to be judged again. Praise God!
Toni
