Simple as A, B, C....

This weekend, our pastor

preached on the

most important verse in the Bible.

Some might think it to be

John 3:16.

  ¹⁶"For God so loved the world, 

that he gave his only Son, 

that whoever believes in him should not 

perish but have eternal life.

Some others perhaps

I Corintians 13.

 ¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, 
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 
²And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries 
and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, 
but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and
if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
    ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; 
it is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; 
it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, 
but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, 
believes all things, hopes all things endures all things.
    ⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; 
as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 
⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 
¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 
¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, 
I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 
¹²For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. 
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, 
even as I have been fully known.
    ¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; 
but the greatest of these is love.

He preached on

2 Corinthians 5:21.

²¹ For our sake he made him to be sin

who knew no sin, 

so that in him we might become 

the righteousness of God.

Our pastor called this the 

Penal Substitutionary Nature of the Atonement.

He broke it down this way:

For our sake

 Jesus willingly gave his life for us.

God is not a vengeful Father on us.

he made him to be sin

God treated His Son as if He'd committed

every.single.sin.on.earth.

Which is the punishment that is absolutely

necessary for us.

who knew no sin

The impeccable nature of Jesus -

He had to be perfect or else

he couldn't carry the burden for all of us.

And He IS perfect.

so that in him we might become 

the righteousness of God.

This is the only way that we my life

forever in Heaven.

He paid for our sins in one single, 

horrific act - on the cross.

He is undeserving - but He is willing.

So - our pastor asked us this question:

Do you know that Jesus died in YOUR place?

Its as simple as A, B, C.

A: Accept the fact that we are sinners.

B: Believe Jesus is my substitute.

C: Confess Jesus to be your savior.

This is my prayer as we enter this Holy Week.

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