For many years I had understood that Jesus died for our sins – our lying, our stealing, our murder our everything that went against God in any sense. About 10 years ago now, I came to understand that those things or doings that I thought were the reason He died, were actually the outcome or result of our wrong being with God.
We behave the way we do because of being so far away from and independent of the Almighty, Holy God who created us in the beginning to have a most wonderful close and Holy relationship. Sin and pride bring us to a place where we say, “I neither need nor want God to have any say or sway over my life”. In effect it is telling God to “Get Lost” and reject His offer of righting a wrong relationship. That is independence and rebellion and we are born into it, with that attitude in full control of our lives until He brings us to a place where we are able to see it. Then we can either respond and receive this precious and miraculous gift of salvation through His grace and as in Revelation 3:20 above where we open the Door, He will come in and share our lives. Should we leave the door shut, the consequences are far more devastating than just an empty stomach.
There is only one way back to our Father and that is through the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ and His atonement. There truly is only one Saviour.
The Lord bless you
Reconciliation
For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Cor. 5:21.
Sin is a fundamental relationship; it is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. The Christian religion bases everything on the positive, radical nature of sin. Other religions deal with sins; the Bible alone deals with sin. The first thing Jesus Christ faced in men was the heredity of sin, and it is because we have ignored this in our presentation of the Gospel that the message of the Gospel has lost its sting and its blasting power.
The revelation of the Bible is not that Jesus Christ took upon Himself our fleshly sins, but that He took upon Himself the heredity of sin which no man can touch. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint. All through the Bible it is revealed that Our Lord bore the sin of the world by identification, not by sympathy. He deliberately took upon His own shoulders, and bore in His own Person, the whole massed sin of the human race— “He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin,” and by so doing He put the whole human race on the basis of Redemption. Jesus Christ rehabilitated the human race; He put it back to where God designed it to be, and anyone can enter into union with God on the ground of what Our Lord has done on the Cross.
A man cannot redeem himself; Redemption is God’s ‘bit,’ it is absolutely finished and complete; its reference to individual men is a question of their individual action. A distinction must always be made between the revelation of Redemption and the conscious experience of salvation in a man’s life.
Oswald Chambers
When I was a child, I thought that sin was something that a person does. Later, I discovered that sin was the nature of the person, which led to sinful deeds. Still later, I came to an even broader conclusion, that sin entered the whole world at the Fall of Man, as it says in the Bible. Sin, death, the food chain, entropy and everything associated with the curse is tied into the whole world, and probably the whole universe. I committed a sin because my nature was sinful, which was a natural product of living in a world married to sin and death. Adam and Eve were given over to a world that suited their nature of choice.
Naturally, escape from sin is humanly impossible. It is not the occasional error that makes me imperfect, but that error does evince my imperfect nature, which cannot aspire on its own to anything better than the world into which it was born.
Have a nice day,
HI Mark
Good to hear from you again- trust you are well.
So glad you have had this revealed to you on all points….The Lord’s mercy is unspeakable at times. This is just the most wonderful thing to grasp and know that the Lord has taken care of the sin problem through the finished work on Calvary…
Bless you bro