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The Final Sacrifice for Sin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is one thing to offer your own life for something you really believe in, but it is quite another to offer your only child.\u00a0 An earthly father would rather give his own life for his children than to see one of them suffer and die.\u00a0 The pain is too great to lose a child!\u00a0 When the Word says that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that is a love more powerful than any of us could ever know.<\/p>\n

A sacrifice had to be offered that would once and for all deal with the problem of sin\u2014sin that stood in the way of God and the people He loved.\u00a0 This sacrifice had to be sinless, perfect, holy, and eternal.\u00a0 Why eternal?\u00a0 Because the sacrifice had to span all time and space and cover all peoples, past, present, and future.\u00a0 There was no other choice.\u00a0 The Father had to send His Son in human form to reconcile mankind back to Himself.\u00a0 No one or nothing else would work.<\/p>\n

The appointed time came for the Son of God to become the son of man.\u00a0 The Son had to take on the form of a man with flesh and blood.\u00a0 He had to be like us in every way, yet without sin.\u00a0 An infinite sacrifice had to be made for finite man.<\/p>\n

When the time came, Jesus, the Son of God\u2026the son of man, in sheer terror came to the Father and asked that this cup could pass from Him.\u00a0 The agony was great in the garden that night.\u00a0 His sweat was as blood dripping from His brow.\u00a0 Yet Jesus told His Father, \u201cYour will be done.\u201d\u00a0 What love was this!<\/p>\n

Then they came, the very men He was to die for; they came and took Him to kill Him.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t just kill Him, they wanted Him to suffer!\u00a0 Suffer He did.\u00a0 They smacked Him around, mocked Him, beat Him, made fun of Him, lied about Him, and then finally the unimaginable happened\u2026they scourged Him.\u00a0 The whip was made of leather straps with pieces of metal and bone on the end.\u00a0 As they scourged Jesus, they ripped pieces of flesh off of Him, down to the bone!\u00a0 Every strike tore flesh and flung it into the air.\u00a0 Blood gushed from His shoulders, back, legs and chest as they struck Jesus over and over.\u00a0 They scourged Him beyond recognition.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t even resemble a man when they were done with Him.\u00a0 Flesh and muscle hung off His bones.<\/p>\n

That was not enough.\u00a0 They put Jesus on a cross, the cruelest way to die.\u00a0 They pounded spikes into Jesus\u2019 hands and feet.\u00a0 Oh, the pain as they pounded those spikes!\u00a0 Each blow was excruciating.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then they picked up that cross and put it into a hole.\u00a0 The pain as the bottom of the cross hit the bottom of that hole was breathtaking!<\/p>\n

There He hung, an innocent man in place of the guilty.\u00a0 He was being punished for the sin of others, the sin of all mankind, your sin and my sin.\u00a0 He was there agonizing just to breathe.\u00a0 His human body wanted to live as He tried to push himself up so He could breath.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 wounded back rubbed against the rugged cross and caused even more pain.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t just die, folks; Jesus suffered!\u00a0 He was the final sacrifice ever again to be made for sin.\u00a0 He had the body of a man, but not just any man\u2026a God-man.\u00a0 Jesus, through the eternal Spirit offered Himself and died that day when He said, \u201cIt is finished.\u201d\u00a0 What was finished?\u00a0 The final debt of all mankind was paid in full for eternity.\u00a0 Man could now be reconciled to God once and for all!<\/p>\n

There is no greater love than God offering His Only Son for our sin.\u00a0 Jesus didn\u2019t have to do it.\u00a0 He willingly did it for the joy set before Him.\u00a0 What joy?\u00a0 You, me, and all mankind!\u00a0 He saw us on the other side of the cross and did it out of pure love.<\/p>\n

Then, on the third day Jesus was raised from the dead as a sign of God\u2019s complete satisfaction and acceptance of the sacrifice made.\u00a0 Jesus was raised for our justification and ever lives as a testament, as a proof of God\u2019s acceptance of His sacrifice for us.<\/p>\n

The only thing left to do is for all mankind to receive this gift.\u00a0 How do we receive?\u00a0 We receive by faith.\u00a0 By faith in God\u2019s Word we say, \u201cGod, I receive your gift of eternal life through Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 When we say this out of a sincere heart something wonderful happens!\u00a0 The Holy Spirit comes with the Father and Son to live in the believer.\u00a0 Not just live, but make a home in our hearts.\u00a0 Now God has what He always wanted, an intimate relationship with us!\u00a0 He can finally have fellowship with you and me.\u00a0 He can finally bless us with every spiritual blessing and display His goodness in and through us.\u00a0 How wonderful this is!<\/p>\n

On June 17, 1973, I accepted Jesus.\u00a0 I accepted the free gift of God that brought me into an eternal relationship with Him.\u00a0 It\u2019s been quite a life and the best is yet to come.\u00a0 I was 17 years old then and now I am 62.\u00a0 He is real and I will never deny Him, His love, His power, His goodness, or His grace.\u00a0 I will ever live to honor and glorify Him.\u00a0 How about you?\u00a0 Are you a believer?\u00a0 Have you received God\u2019s gift of eternal life?\u00a0 Maybe you are a professing Christian, but have grown lukewarm and backslidden.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s time to come back to Father and confess your sin.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to come home.<\/p>\n

Whatever your condition, God is waiting for you to say, \u201cYes!\u201d\u00a0 Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved in your body, soul, and spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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