“I have no chance.”

“I’m not good enough”

“I’ve made too many mistakes.”

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And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:15 

 

 

 

Yesterday we discussed how sin leads one to spiritual death. We noticed the sin of Eve and how her pride led her to–for a time–be spiritually separated from God. And yet the promise God made involved “death” to the one who ate from the forbidden tree. Not spriritual death, or even “old-age die in the twilight years of your 900’s” death. No, the word describes “capital punishment” or “execution;” God said: “if you eat from the tree I will drop you dead.”

And yet…Adam and Eve ate…and did not die. Why? Did God go back on His word?

The same promise is for all people everywhere; each of us should have dropped dead the moment we sinned for the first time against God. Why didn’t we? The answer is obvious; it’s a phrase we have used so much we may have forgotten it’s meaning.

Jesus died for me.

Jesus died because of me. Jesus died in order to obtain me. And Jesus died instead of me.

God promised, mere moments after the sin of Adam and Eve that a Savior would come. He spoke the promise to Satan in fact, and described this One to come as an “enmity” (a dividing line). Jesus would be the great dividing line between sinners and saints. He would do that by taking the punishment I deserved for my sin–physical death–and carrying it on his shoulders up Golgotha’s hill to be nailed to it for hour after agonizing hour. And then, when His suffering was through, He died…instead of me, because of me, and in order to obtain me.

So now I, the sinner who was given life by God and then threw it away by sinning against Him, have the opportunity to live again. To be born again, and walk with God just-if-I’d never sinned in the first place.

Aren’t you thankful for life again? If you haven’t yet touched the shed-blood of Christ in obedience to His commands (Mark 16:16), why not? Wash your sins away (Acts 22:16) and live again…not physically but spiritually, and when this physical life is over, you can dwell in His eternal presence forever and ever.

Have a great day!