Today is a good day! It is the anniversary celebration of the death of The Lord and Master Jesus Christ. It is Good Friday. As I was meditating on this day, the cause of Christ's death rushed to the forefront of my mind -- sin. Perhaps sin is not the ultimate cause for The Crucifixion. God's glory is the ultimate end and the reason God sent His Son to become sin for us.
Yet sin is part of the reason Christ died. He is the atoning sacrifice for all who believe. The unbeliever has no sacrifice with which to satisfy God's unrelenting wrath. Without proper propitiation, the condemned unbeliever will pay for his or her sins in hell for eternity. Yet the very Son of God became our sacrifice, assuaging the wrath and condemnation of The Father, providing righteousness leading to eternal life for all who believe.
I was struck this morning with the simplicity of the sin. Simply put, the greatest command in Scripture is love the Lord your God with all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength. If you have ever failed to obey this command, you have sinned against The Creator! Such an offense has eternal consequences. One sin, the sin of Adam, was enough to provide eternal, spiritual death to all of humanity! Because Adam's sin plagued his posterity, each of us are born sinful. We do not have to wrestle with the question of whether or not we have ever sinned against God. We were offensive to Him when we were conceived. Since then, every succeeding moment of our lives has provided God with the stench of sin in His nostrils.
Just as sin is simple, so is The Solution. God ordained that His Son, incarnated in human flesh, would die as the perfect, perspicuous, and perpetual sacrifice, atoning for all the sins of all who would ever believe! Today is the day we celebrate that death. Today is the day we thank God for His Grace in the salvific work of His Son.
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