Ponder "THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE“ God is holy. Because He is holy, He hates sin and cannot let it go unpunished. We’ve sinned. We must be punished. God is also love. In love, God allowed the death of His perfect Son to be the substitute for the punishment we deserve. All of God’s love for sinners led to all of His wrath being poured out on Jesus on the cross. All we have to do is put our faith in and commit our lives to Jesus as our Savior and God takes all the sins we’ve committed and all the punishment we deserve and transfers it to Jesus on the cross. Once He does, He looks at us as holy, as having clean hands and a pure heart. That means we have access to God. We can have relationship with God. We have the promise of eternity in Heaven with God. |