“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might
become the righteousness of God in Him.” —2 Corinthians 5:21
“Sin is a fundamental relationship— it is not wrong doing,
but wrong being— it is deliberate and determined independence from God. The Christian
faith bases everything on the extreme, self-confident nature of sin. Other
faiths deal with sins— the Bible alone deals with sin. […] The revealed truth
of the Bible is not that Jesus Christ took on Himself our fleshly sins, but
that He took on Himself the heredity of sin that no man can even touch. […] He
deliberately took on His own shoulders, and endured in His own body, the
complete, cumulative sin of the human race. “He made Him who knew no sin to be
sin for us…” and by so doing He placed salvation for the entire human race
solely on the basis of redemption. Jesus Christ reconciled the human race,
putting it back to where God designed it to be. […] A man cannot redeem
himself— redemption is the work of God, and is absolutely finished and
complete.” CHAMBERS
Does that make sense to you?
I hope so. You see, Sin is the
source of sins. Jesus had to deal with
the root cause, not just the symptom. Otherwise,
it’s like a doctor giving you an aspirin for your headache when you have brain
cancer. You have to give the root the
boot, and the only way you can do that is Jesus. When you are saved . .born again .. you are
saved from the penalty associated with Sin … eternal separation from the One
who intended for you to spend eternity with Him. We struggle with the sins that spawn from Sin
and our flesh. Now saved from the penalty
of Sin, we are sanctified and made holy.
Not perfect .. that won’t happen until heaven .. not satisfied with the
sins we commit .. that would be an insult to Jesus, but we press on toward the
mark of our high calling, letting the Spirit and the Word . Don’t be satisfied with anything less. Don’t be content with anything less than full
devotion to God. Think about it. ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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