Mechanic's Gospel

I’m sure you have all had one of those weird dreams where you wake up and say "Where did that come from?" Last night I had a dream that put me in a mechanic’s shop (those who know me realize how weird that is.) In the middle of the dream, a mechanic came up to me and asked me about God. I started to share the gospel with him, but found myself trying to relate the good news to him using mechanic’s frame of reference. It started of pretty well, but of course I woke up and spent about an hour trying to come up with the rest of the message in my head at 2:00 in the morning. So I am going to try it here. Bear with me…..
When God created the world, he created everything in standard measurement (holy) and saw that it was good, just like him. God is perfect and God is love. Perfect love has free will and God made man from desire to love them. Man had the standard measurement also and also free will. Man (Adam) chose not to honor God by living according to his standard measure, but used his free will and changed his measurement to metric (sin.) Once he did this, he realized that he did not fit in God’s holy standard measurement world. God was forced to put man into a metric (sinful) world because of his choice. God could not interact with man as perfectly as before. Man’s choice separated him from God, because their natures did not match anymore. Standard (Holy) and Metric (Sinful) do not work together. Metric men and women multiplied across the earth until it was well populated with metric people, yet God desired to have a relationship with them.
One day, God revealed himself to a man who strived to live by the (Holy) standard measurements even though he was a metric man and could never achieve the measurements. Abraham showed his desire to live by God’s standards so closely, that he was willing to give up his most precious possession, his son, in an act of love. When God saw the man’s willingness to love Him above all else, God in His love reached out to Him and made a promise. God’s love and power was able to overcome the difference in their natures, but only through a supreme act of love, a blood sacrifice,… the giving of the most precious thing in the metric earth.… life. Abraham and his descendants were able to relate to God through this promise, but they had to offer animal sacrifices of the best of their flock to make up for the difference in their natures. A continuous renewing of the ultimate sacrifice which demonstrated love for God. Free will choice of selfishness had torn them apart, a free will choice of love had brought them together. Through this covenant or promise, God continued to reveal his Holy nature to those who chose to live according to His standard measure and lovingly sacrifice to make up for the difference in their natures.
Still, there were many things God could not reveal to man because man’s heart did not fully understand God’s heart. God wanted to restore the fellowship they had in the beginning. Man needed a total sacrifice to bridge the gap between them. Man needed a perfectly Holy sacrifice. Man did not possess the Holy standard and therefore could not give a totally Holy sacrifice in a sinful metric world. Man was condemned to separation from God. Having revealed all of this to man through prophets, God set in motion a plan to provide the sacrifice that man could not provide. God sent Jesus to earth. Jesus was fully Holy standard yet could also exist in the metric world, although he was not born into the metric inheritance of sin and its consequences.
Jesus was sinless and was therefore not condemned to require a blood sacrifice. His holy standard meant that if he made the sacrifice anyway, it would be the ultimate act of love… giving everything to someone else when there was no requirement to do so. This perfect sacrifice and act of perfect love would bridge the gap between the two natures.
When Jesus made that sacrifice, a new promise or covenant was set in place between God and man. By giving in love our life to Jesus, our lives fall under the holy sacrifice given in a sinful world. God has promised to apply that sacrifice to our lives, so that when we leave this sinful metric world, we will be able to be re-united with Him in his Holy standard world. We will be re-forged with the holy standard measurement in our heavenly bodies and fit in with God’s world in order to perfectly relate to Him.
As we continue to live in this world of sinful measurements, in our hearts, the Holy Spirit, reveals the holy standards to us and we strive as Abraham did to draw close to God and learn his ways until the day that we are re-united in love with Him.